Saint Leo Hosts St. Pete Times Editor & Pulitzer Prize Winning Writer on Wednesday, January 27, 7:30 p.m.

SAINT LEO UNIVERSITY
invites you to
An Evening with Professional Writers
Mike Wilson & Lane DeGregory
of the St. Petersburg Times

Mike Wilson, Times managing editor, and Lane DeGregory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, will discuss Composing First-Person Narratives

Wednesday, January 27, at 7:30 p.m.
Cannon Memorial Library, Saint Leo University, in Pasco County

The writers will also announce a creative non-fiction contest for the Sunday Journal section, co-sponsored by The Times and Saint Leo University’s English Department. After they speak, Mr. Wilson and Ms. DeGregory will answer audience questions. 

A reception will follow.

Mike Wilson, one of three editors in charge of the Times, was formerly a writer and editor for the Miami Herald.  He has authored two books, Right on the Edge of Crazy and The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison.  In addition, Mike has won several national and regional awards for feature writing.

Lane DeGregory, who was editor-in-chief of The University of Virginia’s student newspaper, later earned an M.A. in Rhetoric and Communications.  She has written features for The Times since 2000.  One of her stories, The Girl in the Window, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009.  In 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2008, her stories appeared in The Best Newspaper Writing.

For information contact:
Kurt Wilt (kurt.wilt@saintleo.edu)
Patrick Crerand (patrick.crerand@saintleo.edu)
B.L. Hobbs (burgsbee.hobbs@saintleo.edu)