Wichita State's Creative Writing Program returns for the 2015-16 school year with four award-winning authors scheduled to present for the "Writing Now, Reading Now" series. All events in the series are free and open to the public.

Andrew Sean Greer, author of “The Path of Minor Planets” and “The Story of a Marriage,” will open the series at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, at the Ulrich Museum of Art. Greer has received the O. Henry Short Story Prize, the California Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award.

Other authors in the series include:

• Nick Lantz, winner of the 2010 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry – 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, in the Ulrich Museum.
• Dana Roeser, author of “Beautiful Motion” and “In the Truth Room” – 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in the Ulrich Museum.
• Michele Battiste, winner of grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts – 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, in the Ulrich Museum.
• Wichita State Master of Fine Arts graduates, 2-4 p.m. Sunday, April 24, in Ablah Library.

For more details on the authors go to www.wichita.edu/writing-now-reading-now.