Calendar of Events
Monday, April 7, 2025
UT Creative Writing Program: Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Category: Free event, Lecture, panel and Literature, spoken word, writing
The UT Creative Writing Program is excited to present a reading by debut novelist Chukwuebuka Ibeh, named one of the “Most Promising New Voices of Nigerian Fiction” in Electric Literature. The reading will take place Monday, April 7 at 7pm in the Lindsey Young Auditorium of John C. Hodges Library on the UT Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Chukwuebuka Ibeh is a novelist and Tedx speaker from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. His writing has appeared in McSweeneys, New England Review of Books and Lolwe. A 2023 Spruceton Inn Artist Resident, he was runner-up winner of the 2021 J.F. Powers Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the Gerald Kraak Award and Morland Foundation Scholarship. His debut novel, Blessings, named highly anticipated in USA Today, Cosmopolitan, The Gentleman's Journal, The Irish News, and Esquire, was sold in eight territories, available in five languages and was shortlisted for the 2024 Wilbur Smith Prize. He is currently a teaching fellow in Fiction at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Information: chebert3@utk.edu
Union Ave Books: April Events
Category: Free event, Lecture, panel, Literature, spoken word, writing and Meetup
First Fridays Poetry Night - This event will take place on April 4th at 6:00pm at the bookstore.
Rachel Coffman - This event will take place on April 12th from 11:00am to 1:00pm at the bookstore.
Heather White - This event will take place on April 15th at 6:00pm at the bookstore.
Bill Haltom - This event will take place on April 25th from 4:00pm to 6:00pm at the bookstore.
Our next book club will take place on the last Monday of the month at Knox Brew Hub starting at 6:30 pm.
Everyone is welcome.
These are free events. Please RSVP so we know to expect you!
Union Ave Books, 517 Union Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-951-2180, www.unionavebooks.com
