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Aspen, CO (March 22, 2017) – Stephanie Danler, Anna Noyes, and Molly Prentiss will return to Aspen as breakout literary stars to discuss their debut novels on April 4th at Paepcke Auditorium, the final event in the 20th Anniversary Winter Words author series. All three authors are alumni of the Summer Words writing conference, and all published breakout debuts to great critical and popular acclaim in 2016. Danler’s Sweetbitter, Noyes’ Goodnight, Beautiful Women, and Prentiss’s Tuesday Nights in 1980 are all female coming-of-age tales, and all three authors are under the age of 35.
Stephanie Danler attended the Aspen Summer Words writing conference in June 2014, where she was a scholarship recipient in the Novel Editing workshop. While in Aspen, she worked on her novel, Sweetbitter, which she had just completed while a student at The New School’s MFA program in New York City. Sweetbitter is the story of Tess, a twenty-two-year-old woman who moves from a small town to work as a “backwaiter” at an esteemed Manhattan restaurant. The story is loosely based on Danler’s own experience working as a server at Danny Meyer’s famed Union Square Café in New York. Following its publication in May 2016, Sweetbitter became an instant national bestseller, making waves in both the foodie and literary circles.
Anna Noyes is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and received an Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellowship to attend Summer Words in 2015. She worked with author Akhil Sharma in a fiction workshop, where she received feedback on a story that was later included in her published collection, Goodnight, Beautiful Women. The collection contains eleven distinct stories of New England women and girls, and was a finalist for the prestigious Story Prize, an annual book award for story collections.
Molly Prentiss attended the Summer Words conference as an Emerging Writer Fellow in 2014, where she worked on a chapter of Tuesday Nights in 1980 in Meg Wolitzer’s fiction workshop. She has been a Writer in Residence at The Blue Mountain Center, Vermont Studio Center, and at the Workspace program at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her novel is set in the pre-gentrified, SoHo art scene as three main characters navigate their creative worlds and overlapping personal lives. The novel was nominated for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize in 2016 and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction.
Tickets are available at aspenshowtix.com or at the Wheeler Opera House Box Office. Free tickets are available for students, and school groups are encouraged to contact [email protected] to reserve seats.
EVENT DETAILS
Tuesday, April 4th at 6pm | Doors open at 5:30pm
Book signings to follow
Paepcke Auditorium on the campus of the Aspen Institute
1000 N. 3rd Street, Aspen, CO 81611
General admission tickets: $25 in advance at aspenshowtix.com or at the door.
More information at aspenwords.org.
PRESS CONTACT
Caroline Tory
Senior Program Associate - Communications
Aspen Words | The Aspen Institute
[email protected]
Phone: 970-925-3122 ext 3#
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