Free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first serve.

One MFA student of fiction and one of poetry, each introduced by a peer, will read their work. The Mark Webster Reading Series presents emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. We encourage you to bring your friends - a Webster reading makes for an enjoyable and enlightening Friday evening.

This week's reading features Clarisse Baleja Saïdi (Introduced by Kristen Roupenian) & Courtney Faye Taylor (Introduced by Young Eun Yook)
Clarisse Baleja Saïdi is from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was born and raised in Côte d’Ivoire and writes of home(s) and faithfulness, of the personal and the political.

Courtney Faye Taylor was a finalist in the 2015 Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival Contest and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work appears in Witness. She lives in North Carolina.