fall 2026 Events
WCU Creative Writing Presents: Clinton Crockett Peters ft. JL Jackola
Monday, November 2nd, 7pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
Reading and Book Signing
Philips Autograph Library
700 S. High St.
Clinton Crockett Peters is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Berry College, the largest college
campus in the world. He is the author of Pandora's Garden (2018), a finalist for the ASLE Book Award and Forward Book Award, and Mountain Madness (2021), both from the University of Georgia Press. His writing appears in Best American Essays 2020, Orion, Southern Review, Utne Reader, Hotel Amerika, Oxford
American, Fourth Genre, Catapult, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He has won awards from Iowa Review, Shenandoah, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Columbia Journal,
and the Society for Professional Journalists. He holds an MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa where he was an Iowa Arts
Fellow, and a PhD in English and creative writing at the University of North Texas,
where he was a Dissertation-Year Fellow. In previous lives, he was an English teacher
in Kosuge Village, Japan (population 900), an outdoor wilderness guide, and a radio
DJ. Stephen Graham Jones, the coolest guy in the world, was his first creative writing
teacher.
JL Jackola is an award-winning fantasy and romance author. Her novels Orlania, Severed Kingdom, Of Giants and Vengeance, Ascension, and Paper Flowers have all garnered awards from the Delaware Press Association. In 2025, the Delaware
Division of Arts recognized her as an honorarium Artist. After a small press published
her first book in 2018, she began the self-publishing journey and has since written
and published over 30 novels under her publishing house. She is currently working
toward her MA in Creative Writing at West Chester University. When she’s not weaving
tales, snacking on sweets, or downing her morning cup of tea, you can find her logging
miles in her running shoes, watching movies with her family, or curled up with a book.