Visiting Authors

Upcoming Visiting Authors

The Department of English and World Languages sponsors visiting authors, who give public readings from their work and visit Tech classes.

We are excited to announce our Fall 2025 Visiting Author!

William Boyle is the author of eight books set in and around the southern Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend, where he was born and raised. His most recent novel is Saint of the Narrows Street, available now from Soho Crime. His books have been nominated for the Hammett Prize, the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award in the UK, and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France, and they have been included on best-of lists in Washington Post, CrimeReads, and more. He currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

William Boyle will be visiting Arkansas Tech on October 2, 2025 to perform a reading from his most recent novel, Saint of the Narrows Street  and a question and answer time in RPL 300AB. 

Image of Saint of the Narrows novel by William Boyle, featuring black and white images of a magnetic knife strip with knives attached, a young woman contemplating, and an antique car outside of a brownstone door stoop between the title and author in orange text

Past Visiting Authors

  Samyak Shertok S.A. Cosby   
 Juliet Grames Ramona Emerson Jen Fawkes
Emily Skaja Matt Bell Renée Branum

 

Contact English & World Languages

Witherspoon Hall 142
407 West Q Street
Russellville, AR 72801
Phone: (479) 968-0484
Email: engl@atu.edu

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