Friday, September 10, 1982
Co-sponsored/co-presented by:
Just Buffalo Literary Center
Presented at:
Allentown Community Center
Jayne Anne Phillips, Jane Creighton, and Anne Pluto read from their own works.
ARCHIVAL NOTE, 5/7/24: Almost 42 years later, it was announced on May 6, 2024 that Jayne Anne Phillips (age 71, age 30 at the time of her Hallwalls reading) was awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Night Watch (Knopf, September 19, 2023).
By September 1982, Phillips had published five volumes of short stories—Sweethearts (1976), Counting (1978), the celebrated Black Tickets (1979), How Mickey Made It (1981), & The Secret Country (1982)—but not yet her first novel, Machine Dreams (1984).