The Writers Guild Presents First Sunday Prose
Featuring Joan Hawkins and Wendy Teller
First Sunday Prose Reading – Open Mic to follow!
The Juniper Art Gallery and Cafe 615 W. Kirkwood Avenue
Joan Hawkins is an Emerita Professor of Cinema and Media Studies.
Academically, she is best known for her book, Cutting Edge:Art Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde.
As a creative writer, she works mainly in creative memoir.
Her books include School and Suicide and The Burroughs Hour, and she has one CD with Kyle Quass, Pragis. She co-edited Trigger Warnings, a book about escape and survival, with Kalynn Brower.
Wendy Teller writes fiction, memoir, and history.
Her books include Becoming Mia, a 1960s-coming-of-age story and Hungarian Rhapsody, which follows a young woman struggling to follow her dreams despite the repressive culture of 1905 Hungary.
Wendy and her husband live in the woods near Bloomington, Indiana.
First Sunday Prose – December 2025