Beginning the summer of 2014, the Modern Hotel and Radio Boise will host Modern Campfire Stories, produced by Christian Winn. On Monday nights throughout the summer and fall, hear the best writers Idaho has to offer.
September 8, 2014 features Martin Corless-Smith and Christian Winn
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Christian Winn is a fiction writer, poet, journalist, and teacher of creative writing. His fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal, Hayden's Ferry Review, Greensboro Review, Chattahoochee Review, Gulf Coast, Bat City Review, Every Day Fiction, The Pinch, Santa Monica Review, Handful of Dust, The Strip, and Revolver. His collection of short stories, NAKED ME, is out from Dock Street Press. He has written for The Boise Weekly, Thrive, The Idaho Statesman, and Idaho Magazine. He is the founder of the Writers Write fiction workshop series, co-founder and committee member of Storyfort, and curator of Modern Campfire Stories. He teaches fiction writing at Boise State University, and though Writers In The Schools and the Cabin's summer camps.
Christian Winn will be reading from NAKED ME, his collection of short stories, released August 1st from Dock Street Press.
Martin Corless-Smith is the author of English Fragments: A Brief History of the Soul; Swallows; Nota; Complete Travels; and Of Piscator. A limited edition chapbook, Roman and Moscow Poems, was published in 2011. Born and raised in Worcestershire, England, he has studied painting and poetry, with degrees from the University of Reading, Southern Methodist University, the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. He is currently a professor of creative writing in the Boise State University MFA program.
