April 3, 2001 SELINSGROVE, Pa. - C. Michael Curtis, senior fiction editor at The Atlantic Monthly, will end this semester's Visiting Writers Series at Susquehanna University with a reading Monday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Greta Ray Lounge of Weber Chapel. Sponsored by The Writer's Institute, Curtis' reading will be preceded by a reading by students who contributed to this year's Susquehanna Review, a student magazine featuring primarily fiction and poetry. Curtis is also responsible for selecting poetry and prose award winners. At Atlantic Monthly, Curtis is responsible for editing most of the fiction submissions to the magazine as well as screening book-length, first serial submissions and most of the 12,000 unsolicited story manuscripts each year. Under his direction, the magazine's fiction has been nominated for numerous National Magazine Awards. Curtis has also served as editor for five anthologies, including American Stories: Fiction from the Atlantic Monthly, volumes I and II, Contemporary New England Stories, Contemporary West Coast Short Stories, and God: Stories. Curtis has had his own essays, articles, reviews, and poems published in The Atlantic, The New Republic, National Review, and Sport. In addition, Curtis has taught creative writing, ethics, and grammar for more than 30 years at several schools, including Harvard and Boston universities. This reading is sponsored in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. For more information, contact Dr. Gary Fincke, professor of English and director of Susquehanna University's Writer's Institute, at (570) 372-4164 or gfincke@susqu.edu. Contact: Sam Alcorn 570-372-4119 #sa/2232#