Plenary Address: Thrity Umrigar and Shyam Selvadurai

Join us for a plenary session featuring celebrated writers Thrity Umrigar and Shyam Selvadurai as they contemplate the ways in which trust—and its absence—have figured into their work. Umrigar will explore the faith and trust that are required between reader and writer for a novel to be successful. Selvadurai will talk about Write to Reconcile, a creative writing project that he has pioneered, which uniquely combines creative writing and reconciliation in post-war Sri Lanka.