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Past Readings

2019	Brad Watson
2018	Ron Rash (canceled)	Jeffrey Eugenides
2017	Johnston & Harrigan	Elinor Lipman
2016	Meg Wolitzer	Jill McCorkle
2015	Antonya Nelson	Andre Dubus III
2014	Bret Anthony Johnston	Ben Fountain
2013	Colum McCann	Elizabeth McCracken
2012	Justin Cronin	Charles Baxter
2011	Joshua Ferris	Jim Shepard
2010	Naomi Shihab Nye	Elizabeth Strout
2009	Amy Hempel	George Saunders
2008	Mary Gaitskill	Sarah Bird
2007	David Liss	Ethan Canin
2006	Lorrie Moore	Robert Olen Butler
2005	Horton Foote	Cancelled due to hurricane evacuation
2004	T. Coraghessan Boyle	Barry Hannah
2003	Paulette Jiles	Oscar Casares
2002	Jane Hamilton	Junot Diaz
2001	Tracy Kidder	Sue Miller
2000	Russell Banks	Abraham Verghese
1999	Denise Chavez	George Plimpton
1998	Ron Hansen	Stephen Harrigan
1997	Tim O’ Brien	Ana Castillo
1996	Allan Gurganus	Rosellen Brown
1995	Sandra Cisneros	John Updike
1994	Robert Stone	Rudolfo Anaya
1993	Ellen Gilchrist	Andre Dubus
1992	Ann Beattie	Tobias Wolff
1991	Clyde Edgerton	Jim Lehrer
1990	Alberto Rios	Lee Smith
1989	Alice Adams	Elizabeth Spencer
1988	Mary Gordon	Richard Ford
1987	Larry McMurtry	Grace Paley