The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing is proud to announce the publication of its first book, Word of Mouth: Conversations with Visiting Writers on Their Craft. The inaugural volume of this new annual series features over 200 pages of hard-won insight, advice,  and personal anecdotes from some of the finest writers in this country and abroad.

The Piper Center’s Distinguished Visiting Writers Series brings a diverse group of exceptionally accomplished writers to ASU every year. Those writers give public readings and meet with students. But often the most magical moments come when each visitor sits in the Fireside Room of the historic Piper Writers House, open to questions from students, other writers, and members of the community. These engaging, candid, intimate conversations focus on all aspects of the writer’s life and work.

Word of Mouth makes the highlights of those conversations available to everyone. The first volume includes poets Kimiko Hahn,  Bob Hicok, and Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright; fiction writers Charles D’Ambrosio, Francine Prose, and Etgar Keret; true-crime writer Harold Schechter, and memoirist and winner of the NAACP Image Award Reginald Dwayne Betts.

Volume One of Word of Mouth is available for $10 from the Piper Center for Creative Writing. Call the Center at 480-965-6018 to order your copy.

For more information, go to http://www.asu.edu/piper/publications/word%20of%20mouth/index.html