Salisbury University students on campus

Writers on the Shore

Each year the Salisbury University English Department hosts Writers on the Shore, a series of readings by contemporary writers. Writers on the Shore offers readings by fiction writers, poets, playwrights, memoirists, and a number of other writers. The series includes established voices and fresh new voices who are emerging in the national writing milieu. Find out more about this year's events and featured writers below:

Writers on the Shore:

Salisbury University presents its spring Writers on the Shore series 8 p.m. select Wednesdays during the semester in the Worcester Room of the Commons.

Upcoming authors and events include:

  • 9/16 Creative Writing Festival, 8PM GAC Assembly Hall, Free and Open to the Public
    Salisbury University students will read selections from their work and welcome new students. Hosted by senior creative writing student, Haley King.
  • 10/7 Kristina Ten, 8PM Worcester Room
    Kristina Ten is the author of the story collection Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Queer Speculative Fiction, Best Weird Fiction of Year, and has won the McSweeney’s Stephen Dixon Award and F(r)iction Writing Contest. A graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, Ten has been awarded fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and Martha’s Vineyard Institute.
  • 10/28 Caroline Chavatel, 8PM Worcester Room
    Caroline Chavatel is a teacher, poet and editor. She is the author of Consume Her (Ghost Peach Press, 2026) and White Noises (Greentower Press, 2019). Her work has appeared in journals such as The Missouri Review, AGNI, Sixth Finch, Smartish Pace, and Poetry Northwest, and she has won prizes from Blue Earth Review and The Cossack Review. She received a B.A. from Salisbury University, an M.F.A. in Poetry from New Mexico State University and a Ph.D. in Poetry from Georgia State University. She is a co-founding editor of The Shore and currently teaches First Year Seminar and Poetry Workshop at Bard High School Early College in Baltimore, MD.
  • 11/11 Jeannie Vanasco, 8PM Worcester Room
    Jeannie Vanasco is the author of A Silent Treatment, which was named a best book of 2025 by NPR, Electric Literature, Largehearted Boy, and elsewhere. Her other memoirs include Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl—a New York Times Editors' Choice and a best book of 2019 by TIME, Esquire, Kirkus, among others—and The Glass Eye, which Poets & Writers called one of the five best literary nonfiction debuts of 2017. Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she lives in Baltimore and is an associate professor of English at Towson University. Her fourth book is under contract with Tin House, publisher of her other memoirs.

Admission is free and the public is invited. Those planning to park on campus must register in advance for   a free parking pass.

For more information call 410-543-6445.