This Sunday’s Word Up! program will feature four speakers who express themselves quite well on paper.

Kel Munger, a graduate student in English and current Hogrefe Fellow, will read from her in-progress thesis, The Significance of Memory.

This fellowship, which offers the writer a one-year living stipend and a year’s paid graduate tuition at Iowa State, was established several years ago at the behest of Dr. Pearl Hogrefe, a long-time ISUEnglish professor who left a substantial financial gift to the university to fund the fellowship.

The intent of the fellowship was to attract better applicants to the ISU creative writing program.

Also reading will be three graduating creative writers: Brennen Brunner, who will read fiction; Adrienne Lamberti, who will read nonfiction; and Aimee Houser, who will read poems and monologues from her thesis, The Strangely Beautiful Interior.

The scheduled reading will be followed by an open mic, sign-up for which begins at 6:30 p.m. Anyone wishing to participate in the open mic must be signed up before the 7 p.m. reading begins.

Word Up! takes place at the Maintenance Shop at 7 p.m. on Sunday, and it is free and open to the public.