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Carr Visiting Author Series: Alumni Reading featuring Weston Morrow and Chris Vanjonack

Nov 5, 2026   4:30 pm  
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Join us for a reading by Illinois Alumni, Chris Vanjonack and Weston Morrow!

Chris Vanjonack is a writer and educator from Denver, Colorado. A recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award, his fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in One Story, Book of the Month Club's Volume 0, Barrelhouse, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, DIAGRAM, CRAFT Literary, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and teaches creative writing at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.

His debut short story collection, Out of Body, is forthcoming from William Morrow on 9/22/2026.

Weston Morrow is the author of Cloud Builder, winner of the 2025 National Poetry Series, forthcoming Sept. 1, 2026, from University of Georgia Press. His recent poems have appeared in Boulevard, The Adroit Journal, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. His essays, criticism, and other prose have appeared in venues such as Ninth Letter, Blackbird, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency.


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