Oswald Writers Series

English and Writing

Oswald Distinguished Writers Series

Oswald Writer Series featuring Clair Bateman

7:30 pm, October 6, 2026 at the Etherredge Center

Free book/poetry reading for the public by Claire Bateman. This is an ACE Event.

Claire Bateman is the author of the hybrid collection The Pillow Museum (Fiction Collective 2/University of Alabama Press) and nine other collections: Wonders of the Invisible World (42 Miles Press), Scape (New Issues Poetry & Prose), Locals (Serving House Books), Coronology and Other Poems (Etruscan Press), Leap (New Issues), Clumsy (New Issues), Friction (winner of the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize), At the Funeral of the Ether (Ninety-Six Press, Furman University), and The Bicycle Slow Race (University Press of New England). She has been awarded Individual Artist Fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission Foundation, as well as two Pushcart Prizes and the New Millennium Poetry Prize (also twice). She lives in Greenville, SC, and is poetry editor of Hubris. She has taught at Clemson University and the Greenville Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina.

For more information on the series, contact Dr. Andrew Geyer with the Department of English at (803) 648-3239 or e-mail [email protected].