Reading with Matt Bell
Join New England College for a reading by Matt Bell, the 2026 Elizabeth Yates McGreal Writer-in-Residence for NEC’s MFA in Creative Writing.
Date: Friday, July 17
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Rosamond Page Putnam Center for the Performing Arts, 10 Weare Road, Henniker, NH
Admission: FREE and open to the public
Matt Bell is the author most recently of the novel Appleseed (a New York Times Notable Book) and the craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur’s Gate II, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Tin House, Fairy Tale Review, American Short Fiction, Orion, and many other publications. A native of Michigan, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University, where he directs the ASU Worldbuilding Initiative.
