The Exhibit X Fiction Series showcases experimental and innovative fictions: from new novels to anti-novels, from criti-fictions to cross-genre writing, from hypermedia to the avant-pop…to whatever comes next, whatever that may be—fictions that, as yet, have no name.
Event schedule at Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue)
5:30 p.m. Conversation
7 p.m. Reading
About Deb Olin Unferth
Deb Olin Unferth is the author of seven books, including the novels Earth 7 and Barn 8. Her stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, the Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney's, and the New York Times Magazine. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Creative Capital Foundations, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. A professor at the University of Texas in Austin, she teaches for the Michener Center for Writers and the New Writers’ Project.
Event schedule at Hallwalls
5:30 p.m. Salon Conversation at Hallwalls Gallery
7 p.m. Reading at Hallwalls Cinema
Transportation
Free transportation is provided at the CFA Circle at 4:50pm. Please plan for the bus to leave at 5 p.m. and to return at 8 p.m.
About Allegra Hyde
Allegra Hyde is the author of the story collection The Last Catastrophe, an Editors’ Choice selection at The New York Times and a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award. Her debut novel Eleutheria was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize, and featured on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Her first story collection, Of This New World, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Hyde has also received four Pushcart Prizes and the O. Henry Prize. Her work has been selected for anthologies including The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Travel Writing, and Best of the Net. She has received fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Artist Residency, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, The Elizabeth George Foundation, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Smith College.
Short stories
Fall 2025
Brock Clarke
Author of Short Story Collection: Special Election
THURS., NOV. 6
5 pm Salon Conversation, 6 pm Reading
UB Center for the Arts Gallery
Spring 2025
Julia Elliot
Tuesday April 22
5:30pm: Salon Hallwalls Gallery
7:00pm Reading Hallwalls Cinema
Transportation, Pizza and Pop provided
Julia Elliott has been described by Jeff VanderMeer as the “Angela Carter for our time,” and her new collection Hellions (April 2025) is featured on LitHub as one of the “Most Anticipated Books of 2025.”Elliott is also the author of the story collection The Wilds, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and the novel The New and Improved Romie Futch (both from Tin House). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Tin House, Conjunctions, Granta (online), and the New York Times. She has won a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, and her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. She teaches English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina and lives in Columbia with her husband, daughter, and five hens.
Fall 2024
Percival Everett (9/20, 7pm, Asbury Hall) Co-Sponsored with the Humanities Institute.
Ed Park (10/8, 7pm, Hallwalls Cinema)
Percival Everett (9/20, 7pm, Asbury Hall) Co-Sponsored with the Humanities Institute.
Percival Everett is one of the most inventive and incisive writers in contemporary American literature. Hailed as a "literary icon" (Oprah Daily), he has written more than thirty books and won numerous prizes, among them a Pen/Jean Stein Award for Fiction, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and the Los Angeles Review of Books Lifetime Achievement Award. A Pulitzer Prize finalist (Telephone, 2022), his latest novel James—a reframing of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from “Jim’s” point of view—is currently a finalist for the Booker Prize. He is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California.
Ed Park was born in Buffalo in 1970. Same Bed Different Dreams (2023), his second novel, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His debut novel, Personal Days (2008), was a finalist for the PEN Hemingway Award and other prizes. He was the editor of the Voice Literary Supplement, a founding editor of The Believer, and a book editor at Penguin Press. His reviews and essays appear in The New York Review of Books, Harper's, Bookforum, and many other places. A collection of his short fiction, published in The New Yorker and elsewhere, will appear next year. A co-editor of the anthology Buffalo Noir (2015), he lives in Manhattan and teaches at Princeton.
Fall 2022
When: Thursday Nov 3, 2022
Time: 7pm
Where: Hallwalls Cinema
Danielle Dutton is the author of Margaret the First, SPRAWL, Attempts at a Life, and the illustrated nonfiction chapbook A Picture Held Us Captive. Her fiction has appeared in such venues as The Paris Review, Harper's, BOMB, The White Review, and online at The New Yorker and Granta. She is an associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis and co-founder and editor of the award-winning feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project.
Morris Collins’s first novel, Horse Latitudes, was published in 2013 and was reissued by Dzanc Books in 2019. NPR described Horse Latitudes as “gripping and wildly entertaining …A hybrid narrative that's part thriller, part surreal noir, and part tropical gothic, it reads like a collaboration between William Faulkner, Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Hunter S. Thompson, as directed by David Lynch.” Other fiction and poetry has recently appeared in Pleiades, Gulf Coast, The Chattahoochee Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Nimrod among others. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.
Joanna Scott is the author of twelve books, including the novels Arrogance, Tourmaline, and Careers for Women, and two collections of short fiction, Various Antidotes and Everybody Loves Somebody. Her many awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her novel, The Manikin, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her stories have been included in Pushcart Prize anthologies and Best American Stories. She is the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English and the Director of the Literary Arts Programs at the University at Rochester.
A Shuttle to the events will be provided:
Exhibit X Shuttle Schedule:
4:45pm: from Flint Loop to Salon
6:00pm: from Flint Loop to Hallwalls
8:00pm: Hallwalls to North campus
