Public lecture

Writing Waterline: Patterns in Contemporary Armenian Diaspora Narratives

Center for Armenian Studies, University of Michigan

Online event

3 déc. 2025 4:00 PM

Weiser Hall 555
500 Church St, Ann Arbor MI 48109

Michigan - United States

A talk by Aram Mrjoian exploring the process of writing about the diasporan Armenian experience in literary fiction and nonfiction today, and his intentionality in disrupting traditional narrative patterns in the publishing industry.

Aram Mrjoian is the managing editor of Michigan Quarterly Review and a 2022 Creative Armenia-AGBU Fellow. He is the author of the novel Waterline and the editor of the anthology We Are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Runner's World, Literary Hub, Catapult, West Branch, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Boulevard, Joyland, Longreads, and many other publications.

Cosponsored by:

• National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)

Online event