Michael Wright

Magic City Books is proud to welcome back internationally renowned teacher, playwright, poet, fiction writer, performance artist and stage director, Michael Wright for a reading of his latest collection of stories, Purely Gone and Other Departures. This free event will take place in the Algonquin Room at Magic City Books on Wednesday, January 24 at 7:00pm.

Michael is the author of The Baltimore Trilogy (Down the Ocean: Summer of ’64, The Chessmen and Up in the Air) as well as a longtime theater professor at the University of Tulsa. His books on providing writers with scripting inspiration and insight (rather than “how to”) include Playwriting in Process, Playwriting Master Class and Sensory Writing for Stage and Screen.

Purely Gone by Michael Wright is available now at Magic City Books or you can purchase online at: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/purely-gone/1916.

About Purely Gone

When fate is kicking your butt, do you deal with it like Floppo the cynical carnival clown, or like Cooper, with hands trapped in perpetual motion? And what about the man who discovers a growth on his leg that would baffle modern medicine? The people in these nine stories are “purely gone” from mainstream society, each longing to exist on their own terms.

Michael Wright is an internationally renowned teacher, playwright, poet, fiction writer, performance artist and stage director. He has conducted writing workshops in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Poland, Greece, Sweden, and Hungary, among other locales, and for numerous national and regional programs in the United States, including the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

His books on providing writers with scripting inspiration and insight (rather than “how to”) include Playwriting in Process, Playwriting Master Class and Sensory Writing for Stage and Screen.

His novels include Down the Ocean: Summer of ’64, The Chessmen, In the Air, and the short story collection, Purely Gone and Other Departures.