Scott Russell Sanders to Give Westminster School Reading Oct. 5

Award-winning writer Scott Russell Sanders will give a reading at Westminster School Oct. 5 to kick off this year’s Friday Nights at Westminster series. The student reader will be senior Adena Ajike, the winner of the school’s Brian Ford Writing Prize as the most outstanding writer of last year’s junior class.

Sanders is the author of more than 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, including “Hunting for Hope” and “A Conservationist Manifesto.” His most recent books are “Earth Works: Selected Essays,” “Divine Animal: A Novel” and a collection of his eco-science fiction stories titled “Dancing in Dreamtime.” He is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University.

Among Sander’s honors are the Lannan Literary Award, the John Burroughs Essay Award, the Mark Twain Award, the Cecil Woods Award for Nonfiction and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2012, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sander’s Westminster School reading is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of the school’s Armour Academic Center. The school is located at 995 Hopmeadow St. in Simsbury. Ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to Armour Academic Center.

The event is made possible by generous grants from the Ford-Goldfarb English Department Enrichment Fund and the Marina Rust Connor Fund.