American visitors.AMERICAN writers are visiting Coventry as part of a partnership between Warwick University and the Virginia Piper Centre for Creative Writing at Arizona State University Arizona State University, at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted in 1958. . Writers at the Virginia Piper Centre chose Warwick University, in Gibbet Hill Road, as a major European partner. The two institutions have organised a four-day writing festival which sees four American writers visiting the university. They are novelist Ron Carlson, writer Jay Boyer, Virginia Piper Centre director Jewell Parker Rhodes and novelist and short-story writer Melissa Pritchard. They will give readings at Warwick Arts Centre Warwick Arts Centre is a multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry is the largest arts centre in the Midlands, attracting around 280,000 visitors a year to over 2,000 individual events embracing music, drama, , at the university, today at 5pm and 7.30pm. |
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