Allan Gurganus will be a guest teacher at the University of Texas at Austin in 2012. During his three weeks of seminars with MFA students, he will do a reading from his novel in progress “The Erotic History of a Country Baptist Church” on February ninth.

The Summer of 2012 will find Gurganus returning to teach at the New York Writers’ Institute at Skidmore College. The schedule will include a public reading as yet unscheduled.

Publications:

“On Immortality”, from a speech given at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop seventy-fifth reunion, will appear in the next issue of “The Iowa Review.”

“About ‘Sherman’s March’” is found in the current “Southern Cultures”. In it, Gurganus praises Ross McIlwee’s first documentary as the quintessential southern movie made by an actual southerner.

Gurganus’s extended essay “The Mystery of Arrival, Reynolds Price’s First Book” will appear in the January edition of the “Oxford American”. It then serves as the Afterword in Scribner’s fiftieth anniversary of Price’s debut novel “A Long and Happy Life” forthcoming in May of 2012.

“We Wanted to Be Writers, Life, Love and Literature at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop” includes three days’ of interviews with Allan Gurganus. By Eric Olsen and Glenn Schaeffer, the work is a compendium of memoirs, lists and informal histories of this influential program. www.wewantedtobewriters.com

Essay about Gurganus’s fiction:

William Giraldi (“Busy Monsters”) will offer his essay, “The Searing: On the Fiction of Allan Gurganus” in the March 2012 issue of `Salmagundi’.

Radio and Film:

The author recently wrote and narrated the documentary “A House Divided: American Poetry of the Civil War” for BBC 4. The program coincides with the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the American Civil War.

Gurganus appears in a prize-winning documentary dedicated to the life’s work of his first writing teacher: “Grace Paley, Collected Stories”, newly-released and highly recommended, by Lilly Rivlin.

“Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’” is a documentary film celebrating the renowned novel upon its fiftieth anniversary. Gurganus is among the writers interviewed.