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In 2014, Hebda presented a paper on Mailer's cosmology compared to that of Ralph Waldo Emerson titled, "Clashing Cosmologies: Mailer's An American Dream as a Romantic Nightmare." In 2016, Hebda presented a paper on John Milton's influence on Norman Mailer titled, "The Mailerian Ego and the Problem of Evil in the Modern World: A View of the Russian Section of The Castle in the Forest through the Authorial Ego of D. T." In 2017, Hebda presented a paper on the characteristics of the epic tradition evident in Mailer's Ancient Evenings titled, "A Novel of Epic Proportions: Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings and the Epic Tradition." Hebda earned his B.A. in English from Misericordia University in 2014, and his M.A. in English from the State University of New York at New Paltz in 2017. Danie Watson is a freelance writer based in Scranton, PA. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in fiction from Wilkes University, where she serves as a graduate assistant. WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO START RESEARCHING s THE WORK OF NORMAN MAILER? WHAT GOES INTO WRITING A PAPER FOR THE s NORMAN MAILER SOCIETY CONFERENCE, AND WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF THE PROCESS? WHAT ARE YOUR RESEARCH INTERESTS IN s NORMAN MAILER, AND HOW HAVE THEY EVOLVED OVER TIME? HOW DID YOUR EXPERIENCES WITH THE s NORMAN MAILER SOCIETY BRING YOU TO THE MASLOW FAMILY GRADUATE PROGRAM IN CREATIVE WRITING? WHICH MAILER WORK WOULD YOU RECOMMEND s �FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO JUMP INTO THE WORLD OF NORMAN MAILER? WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR THOSE WHO s ARE INTERESTED IN PRESENTING AT THE NORMAN MAILER SOCIETY CONFERENCE? From PA to FL: Wilkes at Mailer Wilkes faculty, alums, and students participated in panels and From left to right: Jan Quackenbush, Carol Lavelle, Matthew Hinton, Patricia Florio, Dale Louise Mervine, Richard Priebe, and Nicole DePolo attended the 13th Annual Norman Mailer Conference, which was held in Provincetown, MA in 2015. presentations at the 15th Norman Mailer Society Conference held October 26 to 28 in Sarasota, Florida, sponsored by the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee campus. The annual Wilkes University Readers Theatre reading featured Dr. Bonnie Culver and Matthew Hinton (M.F.A. '10) in a performance and discussion titled "Remembering Norman." Program co-founder and founding faculty member Dr. J. Michael Lennon presided as president of the Norman Mailer Society and stepped down during the conference. Maggie McKinley was elected in his stead. Current M.A. student Jacob Hebda presented a paper on the characteristics of the epic tradition evident in Mailer's Ancient Evenings titled "A Novel of Epic Proportions: Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings and the Epic Tradition." Winter Reminders PAY IT FORWARD INITIATIVE Alumni and �faculty may nominate one incoming student in each cohort for the Pay It Forward scholarship, which applies $2,500 against his or her first semester's tuition. Lisa Greim was a recipient of the Pay It Forward scholarship from faculty member Kaylie Jones. If you know a writer who would be a great asset to our program, you have the power to pass along a $2,500 program award. This one-time payment is used to offset tuition— an incredible benefit when you consider that most creative writing students pay tuition out of their own pockets. The deadline for applications is December 15, 2017 for the next January residency. To Pay It Forward, share our program's successes with a prospective student. Send me their contact information and we'll track them through the admissions process. Or, simply ask them to reference your name when completing their application. The Pay It Forward award will be applied to their first bill once they are accepted into the program and begin their studies. ETRUSCAN PRIZE Students: The annual Etruscan Prize for the best single page in any genre will be judged this year by Etruscan author Bruce Bond. Winner receives a $100 honorarium, a complimentary subscription of Etruscan titles, and a limited edition Etruscan Press Executive Director Dr. Phil Brady(left) and Executive Editor Dr. Bob Mooney (right) awarded Ronnie K. Stephens (M.A. '17) the 2017 Etruscan Prize for his poem "What I Know Now. broadside of the winning piece. �"Send us one page: your best page, in any genre. It can be beginning, middle or end. It can be prose, script, or poetry. Send us a page that sings." Deadline is April 15, 2018 | Please submit entries to: etruscanpress.submittable.com Beat the winter blues with a creative writing workshop! Nonfiction Places and Spaces Place plays an important role in both fiction and nonfiction writing, often assuming the role of another character in novels, short stories, memoir, essays and literary journalism. In this adult workshop, we'll consider writers who have made place and location central to to their writing. Participants will write about personal and public landscapes from a variety of perspectives, from memories of home to capturing places visited. Exercises will include incorporating multi-sensory detail, the role of research, and using place to support character description. Fiction writers who are setting their work in real-life places also will benefit from this workshop. Meetings: Mondays – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – Kirby Hall, Room 108 January 29, February 5, 12, 19, 26, and March 5 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Vicki Mayk   Social Media for Beginners Social Media isn't just for liking photos of your second-cousin's lobster dinner or watching hilarious cat videos -- you can learn to wield the social sphere to your professional and creative advantage! This six-week adult workshop introduces you to the various social media platforms that are popular today, and will teach you how to market yourself and your writing in unique and exciting ways. In this class, your instructor will work with you to build your online persona and show you how to reach out to new communities and new readers. Classes are divided into lecture and activity sessions, and each class will have a take-home assignment. Meetings: Tuesdays – 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. – Breiseth Hall, Room 108 January 23, 30, February 6, 13, 20, and 27 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Angela Greco   �Preparing You and Your Manuscript for Publication This five-week workshop is designed for adult learners over the age of 18. Participants will be provided an overview of how to prepare completed literary projects for submission to publishers. Through a variety of lectures, workshop exercises, and group discussions, participants will discover what it takes to prepare themselves – and their work – for consideration. A comprehensive look at industry standards and best practices include crafting a project synopsis, drafting a query letter, understanding the author questionnaire process, creating a thumbnail, keynote, and writing the book description. Meetings: Wednesdays – 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – Breiseth Hall, Room 106 January 31, February 7, 14, 21, and 28 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Bill Schneider   Creative Nonfiction: Memories and Memoir Writing memoir requires transformation of complex, often incomprehensible emotions into clear words with which a reader could empathize. Learning from our memories comes from allowing ourselves to explore the gray areas and know that feelings – good or bad – are important. Understanding memories and perceptions is essential to this process. The writer needs to be sensitive to the idea that others involved in these may have different perceptions and memories and may not want to share their personal matters with the world. Open to adults of any age. Meetings: Thursdays – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – Breiseth Hall, Room 106 February 1, 8, 15, 22, March 1 and March 15 (No meeting on March 8) Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Joyce Victor   Realistic Fiction: Employing Reality and Real Imagery into Fiction Writing This adult workshop will focus on using real environments to cultivate scenes in realistic fiction writing. During the six-week workshop series, participants will focus on imagery, dialogue, character, timeline, and studying the "greats" (imbuing inspiration from great writers). Each workshop will include exercises, free writing, discussion, and takeaways for continued writing. �Meetings: Saturdays – 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. - Karambelas Media Center, Room 135 February 3, 10, 17, 24, March 3 and 10 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Rachael J. Hughes Faculty, Alumni, and Student News FACULTY NEWS: Lenore Hart and David Poyer taught at the Ossabaw Writers Workshop on Ossabaw Island, GA from 27-30 October. Lenore Hart's The Night Bazaar sets up its tents at KGB Bar on December 13. Six anthology authors will present individual and group dramatic readings (some in costume, of course) selected from stories in the anthology. The reading will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Red Room. Readers include Wilkes faculty, alums, and NHP authors Gregory Fletcher, Mau VanDuren, Naia Poyer, Frances Williams, Corinne Nulton, and Lenore Hart. The Night Bazaar is nominated for the 2017 James Tiptree Award, specifically for the story "The Kindly Ones" by Naia Poyer. The James Tiptree Jr. Award, since 1993, has sought to promote and recognize works of speculative fiction that 'explore and expand our understanding of gender. Chapter one of Troublesome Creek, Lenore's novel currently in-progress, will appear in the Spring 2018 issue of The Virginia �Literary Journal. Lenore's poem "Struck By Light" was named the winner of the 2017 Connecticut River Review Poetry Prize. The judge was Benjamin Grossberg. The prize was $400, and the poem will be published in the spring edition of the Connecticut River Review. J. Michael Lennon has edited The 1960's Collection--a boxed set containing the works of Norman Mailer to be published by the Library of America. Volume one Four Books of the 1960's, will contain four Mailer works from the 1960s: An American Dream, Why Are We In Vietnam?The Armies Of The Night and Miami and The Siege Of Chicago (all four won, or were nominated for, the National Book Award). Volume two, Collected Essays of the 1960s, will contain 36 of Mailer's essays from the 60's, beginning with "Superman Comes to the Supermarket" and gathers for the first time all the essential essays from the classic collections The Presidential Papers, Cannibals and Christians, and Existential Errands. Publication date for the boxed set is February 27, 2018. Associate Program Director Bill Schneider (M.F.A. '14) was invited to be a reader of United Airlines employee entries for the anthology Farewell to the 747: Queen of the Skies. He attended a farewell event held aboard a United 747 at Newark Liberty International Airport on October 24, where �many of the entries selected for the anthology were presented. ALUMNI AND STUDENT NEWS: J.C. Alonso Jr. (M.F.A. '14) had his poem published in Haiku Journal Issue 52. His novel Murderer's Wake, a sea story of a merchant marine was published by Northampton House Press (print date Jan 1, 2018.) Alonso was also hired as Adjunct Professor at Nova Southeastern University, and hired as Writing Lab Instructor at Broward Colle. Molly Barari (M.F.A. '17) led two book discussions on the South Dakota One Book, Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal, as a South Dakota Humanities Council Scholar this fall. Barari was selected by the Humanities Council earlier in the year to receive the scholar honor. Maxwell Bauman (M.F.A. '15) had his collection of Jewishthemed short stories The Anarchist Kosher Cookbook published by CLASH Books. The book is available for preorder via Amazon and B&N, and will officially be for sale on Dec 5th. D Ferrara's (M.A. '14) short story "The Bookkeeper" has been accepted for publication by Duct, a journal of stories. Cheryl Bazzoui (M.A. '14) had her new novelPressure Cooker Christmas come out in November. It is a satisfyingly realistic contrast from the usual sugarcoated Christmas novels. It is told through the voice of Marlene O'Malley, wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, nurse, friend, etc., as she and her husband, Bob, close in on their most unforgettable Christmas. Marlene insists she loves Christmas. Bob hates Christmas. He wants to cancel their annual Swearing in of the Christmas Tree party, but it's become a Willow Lane tradition. Their far less than perfect family is irresistibly �lovable, despite their many foibles. This story will help even the most Scrooge-like reader find a generous helping of Christmas spirit. Bazzoui writes under the penname of Ann McCauley. Learn more about her at www.annmccauley.com Patricia Florio (M.F.A. '11) co-founder of the Jersey Shore Writers (2001) was asked by the Bradley Beach library, Fourth Avenue Branch, to form a monthly writing group on Thursday, November 9 at 6:30 pm. This comes on the heels of her library readings to children from her current children's book, Puppy in My Pocket. Rachael J. Hughes's (M.F.A. '12) Memoir Us Girls is slated for publication this fall with Big Table Publishing. Maureen Hooker (M.F.A. '09) will be the keynote speaker for a state conference of Vidant Hospitals' Information Technology Systems Managers on January 18, 2018 at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, NC. (Book signing too). Jennifer Jenkins (M.F.A. '17) had her story "Ambulance" printed in Parentheses Journal in October 2017. Her book reviews have appeared in Hippocampus Magazine in April, July, and October 2017. She was also awarded an honorable mention for Glimmertrain's Very Short Fiction Award in September 2017. Mark Levy (M.A. '08) joined Messner Reeves LLP, a Denver law firm, in October as Intellectual Property Counsel. That's a rare situation in which being 68 years old is an advantage. Lori A. May (M.F.A. '13) has an essay, "This is What it Sounds Like," in the latest issue of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. Nisha Sharma (M.F.A. '13) sold at auction The Singh Family Trilogy, in which three Sikh-Punjabi brothers bound by tradition and love pursue the ultimate act of revenge by taking down an empire in the name of honor to Avon Impulse, a Harper Collins Imprint. Christy White (M.A. '17) had three poems from her thesis, Unexpected Comfort, chosen to be published in the Fall 2017 online zine, The Blue Guitar Magazine. The poems are: "Blessing," "Reading a Used Paperback at Midnight" and "On This Earth We Call Home."The Blue Guitar Arts and Literary Magazine is a project of The Arizona Consortium for the Arts. �Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. Farley Library Human Resources Jobs at Wilkes Online Nursing Offices & Administration Accessibility Statement Financial Aid Adobe Acrobat® Reader Registrar's Office Finance Office Investor Relations Student Work Study Jobs Veterans Services Visit Quick Links Schedule a Visit Parking Information Virtual Tour Campus Map Make A Gift �84 West South Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 1-800-WILKES-U Contact Us Wilkes University © e © d c f � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Revise This! Winter 2017 - Wilkes University.pdf https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/9585dfb46580101d1c5b743ff260a27e.pdf a4e6e8a2507a952ad529922945a15dae PDF Text Text About Wilkes Home n Graduate Academics Academics n Graduate Admission & Aid Graduate Programs n Graduate Life Master's Degree Programs About Our Students n n The Arts Creative Writing MA/MFA Revise This! n Archives Revise This! Summer 2019 Maslow Foundation Salon Reading Series at Wilkes University Scheduled for June 16-20, 2019 All events are free and open to the public Programs at the door include biographies. A book fair, sponsored by Barnes & Noble, features books for purchase by the authors. All readings Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 are free and open to the public except Sunday, June 16. Sunday, June 16, 2019: RC Theaters 14, 24 E Northampton Street 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. FILM NIGHT Michael Mailer Films presents: The Second Sun With producer, Michael Mailer; star, John Buffalo Mailer; and director Jennifer Gelfer as guests. Followed by Q & A  Revise This! Archives n 2018 n n �Monday, June 17, 2019: Dorothy Dickson Darte Center 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Maslow Foundation Evening Reading Series  POETRY, FICTION AND NONFICTION SAMPLER Bill Schneider, Lenore Hart, Kevin Oderman, Donna Talarico, David Poyer, Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr, Jeff Talarigo, Mike Lennon  Tuesday, June 18, 2019: Dorothy Dickson Darte Center 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Maslow Foundation Salon Reading Series  POETRY, FICTION AND NONFICTION SAMPLER Laurie Loewenstein, Christine Gelineau, Kaylie Jones, Taylor Polites, Beverly Donofrio, Robert Mooney, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Phil Brady, H. L. Hix  Wednesday, June 19, 2019: Dorothy Dickson Darte Center 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.  PLAYWRIGHTS NIGHT Group S.O.S. by Bonnie Culver Readers: TBA  PLAYWRITING FACULTY Bonnie Culver, Gregory Fletcher, Jean Klein, Jan Quackenbush, Juanita Rockwell  Thursday, June 20, 2019: Dorothy Dickson Darte Center 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Maslow Foundation Evening Reading Series Special Reading of alums, faculty, and special guests Alums: Richard Fellinger and Leah Vernon Faculty: Nancy McKinley, Ross Klavan, Gregory Fletcher Special Guest: Maureen Corrigan  M.A. and M.F.A. Creative Writing Graduates Don their Caps in Spring Commencement �Left to right: Janine Dubik, Patricia Naumann, Sarah Bedford and Danielle Watson Congratulations to the graduates of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing who were awarded their diplomas at the May 18, 2019 spring commencement ceremony at Wilkes University: MA Sarah Bedford – Fiction Todd Conatser – Screenwriting Patricia Naumann – Creative Nonfiction Lindsey Wotanis – Creative Nonfiction MFA Jeremiah Blue Janine Dubik Camika Spencer Karley Stasko Danielle Watson Congratulations to each of these members of our Wilkes writing community, and welcome to the newest members of the Wilkes Alumni Association! Summer Community Workshops Be sure to check out the two non-credit community workshops offered this summer on the Wilkes University campus for adult learners of any �age. Advance registration for these community workshops is available at wilkes.augusoft.net Character Development:Plumping Up Flat Stanley or Stella Flat Stanley may be perfect for traveling along in your suitcase; however, a protagonist who is flat is not one who readers will spend their free time with. To help keep the reader's interest, we'll explore ways to take Stanley or Stella from flat to rounded. We'll review five ways writers can plump up their characters—through image, voice, action, thought, and author's interpretation. We'll spend the six-week workshop for adults of all ages creating a new character or developing a character who's been in the back of our heads waiting to come alive. Meetings: Tuesdays – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Dates: July 9, 16, 23, 30, August 6 and 13 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Janine Dubik Writing for Social Media: How to Plan, Market and Earn In this six-week non-credit course, adults of all ages will learn the language of social media, how to market their own work/selves and how to earn money working as a social media marketer. Participants will leave the class with an assessment of their own social media habits, understanding of blog writing, website copy and how to use Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for marketing purposes. Meetings: Wednesdays – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Dates: July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7 and 14 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Danielle Watson Mailer Conference Returning in October The 17thAnnual Norman Mailer Society Conference returns to Wilkes University October 10-12, 2019 with the theme:Mailer on Politics, Public Life, and Pop Culture. The Norman Mailer Society call for papers that address any of the above categories plus those that help celebrate the 40-year anniversary ofThe Executioner’s Song,the 50-year anniversary ofOf a Fire on the Moon,and the 60-year anniversary ofAdvertisements of Myself. Conference highlights include: Keynote speaker Maggie Mailer, youngest daughter of Norman Mailer �A reception to celebrate the opening of the Norman Mailer Room and Collection. This room, housed in the Farley Library, is a research/Mailer scholar’s dream. It is a replica of Mailer’s last studio in Provincetown that includes his private library, manuscripts and revisions, dating from 1984, and his studio furniture A reading from The Time of Our Time Screening of the film The Executioner’s Song And more… To be part of the reading of The Time of Our Time, contact Dr. Culver. To submit a proposal for the conference, please email the following toMaggie McKinley andMike Lennonby June 1, 2019: 50-word biographical statement 150-200 word abstract of the proposed presentation Indication of A/V Requirements Graduate students are also welcome to submit proposals. Students who present at the conference will receive a $100 travel grant. Hotel accommodations will be at Genetti’s Best Western, Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, PA at $89 per night (from October 9 through October 13). The hotel offers free shuttle service from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton airport, hot buffet breakfast, parking, and is a two-block walk to campus. The Norman Mailer Society Graduate Writing Award The Norman Mailer Society invites submissions for its first annual Graduate Writing Award, which recognizes high-quality graduate student work about or inspired by the work of Norman Mailer. Eligible entries include academic papers or creative pieces composed by current graduate students. Submissions should be 10-15 pages, doublespaced, in 12 point Times New Roman font, and should be sent to:Maggie McKinley, President of the Norman Mailer Society. The deadline is June 1, 2019 The winner of the Norman Mailer Society Graduate Writing Award receives: a $500 cash award a complimentary one-year membership in the Mailer Society, which includes that year’s issue of The Mailer Review �an opportunity to work with the editor of The Mailer Review to publish a revised version of the essay or creative piece Executive board members of the Norman Mailer Society will evaluate all entries and notify entrants of their decision. FACULTY NEWS Gregory Fletcheris pleased to announce the publication of his first YA novel, Other People’s Crazy (Overdue Books, an imprint of Northampton House Press), and Tom and Huck—Breakin’ the Law (Blue Moon Plays), a full-length play. Jean Klein will present a fully staged reading of the first act of her latest play, Generous Rivals, June 13and 14 at Zeider’s American Dream Theater, Virginia Beach, VA. Blue Moon Plays recently publishedN, by Adrienne Pender (M.F.A. ‘11), a full-length explosive drama about Charles Gilpin, in which the noted African-American actor clashes with Eugene O’Neill. Check out Mike Lennon’s review of Philip Brady’s new book, Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2019) for the May/June 2019 Issue of Hippocampus Magazine (#94) and of John O’Hara: Four Novels of the 1930s, edited by Steven Goldleaf. David Poyer is pleased to announce the April 2019 publication of Robert P. Arthur, Selected Works (Northampton House Press). Poet of national renown and former Wilkes Creative Writing faculty member, Robert P. Arthur is a virtuoso practitioner of a wide variety of forms. His work displays an acute feel for drama and a vivid sense of place. This collection includes the best of hundreds of poems written by Arthur over a forty-year career, including “The Arrow,” “The Poetess of Blue Streak Grill,” and more. In addition, Poyer’s upcoming novel, Heroes of Annapolis is due for release July 2019.Over the last ten years, Poyer has spent thousands of hours researching for Shipmate, the U.S. Naval Academy’s magazine. The extraordinary personal stories of adventure and courage he’s collected span American history from the Civil War to the War on Terror.Heroes of Annapolis shines light into corners of history that still affect us today. STUDENTS/ALUMNI NEWS Amye Archer's (M.F.A. ’11) anthology: If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings will be released September 3, 2019 from Skyhorse Publishing. Amye's co-editor on this project was Loren Kleinman. Jeffrey Alves (M.A. ’18) was recently recognized by The International Council of Small Business (ICSB) as Professor Emeritus Jeffrey R. Alves, a Global Leader, and named editor of the Journal of the International Council for Small Business (JICSB). JICSB will focus �on policies and practices that will help micro, small and medium sized enterprises elevate their communities to a better standard of living. Austin Grant Bennett (MFA ’15) reviewed What Does Not Return by poet Tami Haaland for Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts (Volume 21, Issues 1 & 2, Spring 2019), with a reprint at www.losthorsepress.org/catalog/what-does-not-return/. In addition, he served on the judging panel for the Poetry Out Loud Regional Final held at Montana State University Billings in February. Cindy Dlugolecki, (M.A. ’11), was a semi-finalist with her play The Bombcatchers in a contest sponsored by the Theatre on the Lake in Deep Creek, MD. Her play Royal Tea was produced by students in St. Peter the Apostle Catholic High School, Alberta, Canada, in an April one-act-play festival. Cindy's short play, Birthday Surprise, will have a staged reading in Oyster Mill Playhouse, Camp Hill, PA, as part of the "Not-Run-of-the Mill Plays" Festival during Father's Day Weekend. Patricia Florio (M.F.A. ’11) is in the thick of proofing the Summer 2019 issue of American Writers Review. She is sending galleys to the writers from the UK, Scotland, Australia, and across the USA, incorporating a dynamic mix of seasoned Wilkes writers and others whose work will be published for the first time. The anthology shows off Pat’s photography as well as that of Jeff Talarigo. Christine Gelineau, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, and Alyssa Waugh(M.F.A. ’14) are the judges for the summer issue. She looks forward to introducing this edition in the month of June and is hopeful to have a reading at Words Bookstore in Brooklyn. She has also taken on two new editorial staff members: Kristin Florio and Dale Louise Mervine (M.A ’16). On Friday, June 14 several alums will read from the latest issue to open the June 2019 residency. Tara Lynn Marta (M.A. ’18) is pleased to announce that her first novel, Look Back to Yesterday, will be published by Adelaide Books in May of 2020. Ann Lee Miller (M.F.A. ’18) was chosen English Adjunct of the Year 2018-19 at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, AZ where she teaches English Composition I & II. Dawn Leas (M.F.A. ’09) and Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. ‘13) are partnering to offer Words in the Sand, a writing retreat September 13-15 in Ocean Grove, NJ It is the second year that they are offering the retreat, which this year will include a session on creating a hybrid work combining creative non-fiction and poetry and another using hands-on materials, such as Legos, Play-Doh and colored pencils, to stimulate the writing process. Dawn's website is www.thehammockwriter.com and you can catch up with Vicki at www.vickimayk.com. Patti Naumann (M.A. ’19) was accepted into the Trinity College Dublin Sancho Panza Society Literary Conference Summer Workshop to be held June 4 - 14 and the Kettle Pond Creative NonFiction Manuscript Workshop held at Paul Smith's College in the �Adirondacks June 22 - 29. Suzanne Ohlmann’s (M.F.A. ’17) essay, “Hallelujah,” will be published in the Spring 2019 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, a literary journal produced by Columbia University. Sara Pisak (M.A. Student) was promoted to Visual Poetry Editor at Helen: A Literary Magazine. Sara's review of Jennifer Patterson’s debut poetry collection, A Beautiful Unraveling, appeared online April 22 at Mookychick in the U.K. Two of Sara's erasure poems, “Spark of Existence” and, “Wafted the Sound of Voices” are slated to be published this summer in the fifth issue of Moonchild Magazine. Joseph Schwartzburt (M.F.A. ’13) will emcee the Second Annual Muster of Peacocks reading at the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home in Savannah, GA on May 19, 2019. The reading will feature eight members of the Peacock Guild Writers' Salon, a bi-monthly writers' group. Joseph has been a member of the group since 2010 and has led the salon sessions for the last 3 years. In August the Salon celebrates its 10th year and will be toasting it's most esteemed alum, Zach Powers, as his first novel, First Cosmic Velocity, is released by G.P. Putnam and Sons (imprint of Penguin). Melanie Simms (M.A. Student) was featured in an April 29 interview with Mindy Cronk on WVIA Public Media. A reading from her book, Life Signs & Fortune Cookies: Stories & Poems of a Strange but Beautiful Life (Brown Posey//Sunbury Press) is included with the interview. Danie Watson (M.F.A. ’19) recently accepted a job at Volunteers of America as an Employment Instructor where she is assisting members of the Wilkes-Barre community with their resumes, cover letters and applications. Watson is also integrating creative writing prompts into her class. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. Farley Library Human Resources Jobs at Wilkes Online Nursing Offices & Administration Accessibility Statement Financial Aid Adobe Acrobat® Reader Make A Gift �Registrar's Office Finance Office Investor Relations Student Work Study Jobs Veterans Services Visit Quick Links Schedule a Visit Parking Information Virtual Tour Campus Map 84 West South Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 1-800-WILKES-U Contact Us Wilkes University © e © d c f � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Congratulations to the graduates of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, who were awarded their diplomas at the spring commencement ceremony at Wilkes University: M.A. Jeffrey Alves – Creative nonfiction Rodney Annis – Fiction Jeremiah Blue – Creative nonfiction n 2018 n n �Margaret Hall – Creative nonfiction Crista Mallecoccio – Playwriting Tara Marta – Fiction Kathleen Rosa – Fiction Camika Spencer – Playwriting Karley Stasko – Screenwriting Danielle Watson - Fiction M.F.A. Joseph Bryan Michelle Byrnes Deborah Canon Donald Granza Jennifer Judge Maura Maros Robert Peck Ronnie Stephens (diploma awarded during the 2018 winter commencement ceremony) Congratulations to each of these members of our Wilkes writing community, and welcome to the newest members of the Wilkes Alumni Association! Wilkes Ranked Third Best Online Creative Writing Program �In April of 2018, BestColleges.com released the "Best Online Master's in Creative Writing Programs" and we're proud to announce that the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University was ranked number three. The rankings were based on academic quality, affordability and online programming. Academic quality made up 50% of the score, while both affordability and online programming made up 25% of the score respectively. Wilkes and Etruscan Books Take Flight In March of 2018, Wilkes University and program partner Etruscan Press entered into a �partnership with United Airlines with their initiative Books on the Fly--an outreach partnership based at Boston Logan International Airport where passengers on long-distance flights can chose a free book before they board. Books on the Fly was created by two United Airlines employees, Jen Ruffini and Bob Di Rice, who noticed books piling up in their break room —going unread. Ruffini and Di Rice had the idea to load these books onto a cart and hand them out to passengers at the gate before their plane boarded. The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University and Etruscan were the first outside partners to donate books to the initiative. Each book donated by Wilkes and Etruscan comes with a bookmark highlighting the program and the press, as well as QR codes for passengers to scan and learn more about Etruscan and the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. "This innovative partnership provides a wonderful opportunity to share the talents of the Maslow Family program's faculty, alumni and publishing �partners with a new literary audience," says Dr. Bonnie Culver, cofounder and program director. To date, Di Rice estimates that United Airlines has given away over 1,500 books to passengers. "I think there's a psychological aspect to having a book, something tangible, when you travel," Di Rice said. "It can be comforting. And when you watch the customers talk with each other about the books they've read, you see their faces soften. It's like the stress disappears." Books on the Fly carts are popping up at United Airlines gates around the country with more and more books making the trip across the country. AWP Provides Special Discount for Recent Grads Photo credit: AWP Now through June 30, 2018, recent graduates of AWP affiliated creative writing programs are eligible to continue their membership with AWP at the deeply discounted student rate of just $49 for the first post-graduate year—a 35% savings. AWP's extraordinary benefits include: • Access to all of AWP's online benefits, including the AWP Job List and Writer's Calendar • Eligibility to apply for the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program • Deep discounts on registration for #AWP19 in Portland, Oregon • A one-year subscription to the AWP magazine, The Writer's Chronicle • Access to AWP online webinars, including the new Writer to Agent Web Series • Discounts off the Award Series entry fees �Join online today, and AWP will begin your individual membership from the date your personal or school membership expires. Simply enter the code MFA18 + The Name of Your School. (i.e., MFA18 Wilkes University) and select the $49 student rate at checkout. This offer is only valid through June 30, 2018. While making your purchase, as a recent or prospective graduate you can also opt in to AWP's special monthly email series on "Life after the Degree." Each month, starting in late April, AWP will be discussing a different topic from the writing life, guiding you to resources that can help, and presenting advice from respected teachers about those "critical next steps" to becoming the writer you want to be. Take advantage of this great discounted rate today! Faculty News The second edition (revised and expanded) of Gregory Fletcher's Shorts And Briefs (a handbook on how to write short plays) will be published by Northampton House Press in June 2018.           Faculty member Jean Klein (owner) announces the merger of two dramatic publishing companies: the new site of Blue Moon Plays and HaveScripts is officially live as of February 2018. The Blue Moon Plays imprint publishes new, original, and provocative comedies and dramas for contemporary community, regional, and professional theater. HaveScripts serves the educational and community �theater marketplace: scripts that educate and inspire schools, senior, populations, spiritual communities, and community theaters. The press is at about 90 scripts right now—including some Wilkes faculty members and alums—and are continuing to grow at www.havescripts.com). In January 2018, Refraction of Light by Jean Klein was read on Playwright's Night at the Maslow Foundation Salon Reading Series. A reading in NYC by the Transcendence Theatre Collective on March 14, 2018 followed the Wilkes reading. A play based on William Heyen's Holocaust poetry— Distant Survivors by June Prager— and published by Blue Moon Plays was featured at a book fair on April 14, 2018, at Barnes & Noble in Poughkeepsie, NY, with readings and music to launch the publication of this stage adaptation. J. Michael Lennon's essay on the library of Norman Mailer, "The Naked and the Read," was published in the March 7 issue of the (London) Times Literary Supplement.It will eventually appear in his memoir-inprogress about Mailer's last days in Provincetown, MA. Nancy McKinley read from her short story "After All Danger of Frost" at a celebration event for the This Land is My Land exhibit, Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO. Audio rights to David Poyer's Deep War have sold to Dreamscape (same publisher that bought Hunter Killer last year). The publication date will be December 2018, to coincide with the hardcover publication. Alumni and Student News Molly Barari (M.F.A. '17) has been accepted into the Doctor of Education program at the University of South Dakota for the summer 2018 semester. She will focus on Adult and Higher Educational Leadership in her doctoral studies. Jennifer D. Bokal (M.A. '10) is now writing a series for Harlequin Romantic Suspense. The first book in the Rocky Mountain Justice series, Her Rocky Mountain Hero, was released in November 2107. The second book, Her Rocky Mountain Defender, was an April 2018 release. Rocky Mountain Valor, the third book in the series, will be released in September 2018. Aside from writing, Jen keeps busy teaching online classes and is the President of the Southern Tier Authors of Romance (a �chapter of Romance Writers of America). Aurora D. Bonner (M.A. '17) has been invited to attend the Summer Workshop at Tin House this July for creative nonfiction. At Tin House she'll have the opportunity to hear and learn from Dorothy Allison, Camille Dungy, Melissa Febos, Tayari Jones, Lidia Yuknovitch, and others. Aurora's review of In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees by Jeff Talarigo will appear in the Colorado Review. She has been asked to become a regular reviewer there. Sam Chiarelli (M.F.A. '16) had his essay "When the Leaves Forget to Be Green" published by Longridge Review. Richard Fellinger (M.F.A. '10) published an op-ed on banning assault weapons in the Lancaster paper. Rachael J. Hughes's (M.F.A. '12) memoir of Us Girls: My Life without a Uterus will be published by Big Table Publishing in May 2018. Us Girls: My Life without a Uterus is a project that Hughes worked on at Wilkes with Dr. J. Michael Lennon. Lori A. May (M.F.A.'13) has new writing in Canadian Traveller, Explore Magazine, and Seattle Post. This spring, she is participating in a few conferences on the west coast and conducting local workshops in Seattle. Tara Marta (M.A. '18) had her short story "Strangers No More" published in Adelaide Literary Magazine. Dana Miller (M.F.A. '13) has been signed by Northampton House Press for her new romantic novel, tentatively titled Twisted Fate. Jonathan Pierce's (M.F.A. '16) publication "PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly," an Army technical bulletin, won the Most Improved Publication of 2018 for switching from a printed format to a mobile app format and adding videos and other interactive content to our publication The Secretary of the Army which annually holds a competition among all of its official publications and their editors. In June, Pierce will be recognized as the Editor of the Year for leading the effort. Sara Pisak (M.A. student) will be featured in Glass Poetry Press' Journal. Her review of Valerie Fox's news chapbook Insomniatic [poems] was published online March 25th as well as in their April issue. Sara's work can also be found in the upcoming issue of Moonchild Magazine for a poetry/art collaborative feature. �Dania Ramos's (M.A. '10) play Hielo placed third in the Henley Rose Playwright Competition and was selected for Teatro Vivo's Austin Latino New Play Festival. Her one-act play Silent Aurora was one of six works in Continuing the Conversation: An Evening of Short Plays Inspired by Current Events produced by Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre. Nisha Sharma (M.F.A. '13) received a Kirkus starred review for her YA romcom My So-Called Bollywood Life, as well as mentions in Buzzfeed, Teen Vogue, Paste Magazine, NYPL, Publisher's Lunch Spring Buzz Books, Hypable and more. She went on tour from May 15-20 and her final stop was on May 20 in Wilkes Barre, at the Barnes & Noble Arena Hub Plaza. The event included a discussion of her book with mentor Cecilia Galante.           Ronnie K. Stephens (M.F.A. '18) has recently joined At the Inkwell as a staff book reviewer, and he has already published reviews in non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. Working with Edelweiss and NetGalley, Stephens is working to establish himself as a steady reviewer of recent and forthcoming titles. On the creative front, Stephens finalized the cover of his debut novel, The Kaleidoscope Sisters, and set a publication date of August 21, 2018 with his publisher, Oddities KJB. Pamela Turchin (M.A. '17) presented a portion of her MFA thesis "Cut the Ending, Revise the Script, The Man of Her Dreams is a Girl: The Evolution of Lesbians in Literature From 1886-2018" at the 2018 �Women's and Gender Studies Conference at Wilkes University on April 10. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Featuring a 4-day class on memoir taught by Judy Mandel, and a 2-day conference filled with over 20 panels, craft classes, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey. workshops, PWC17 was a hit. Friday morning kicked off with a 9 a.m. plenary session by four-time National Slam Finalist and 2007 Legend of the Slam Jason Carney (M.F.A. '13) and the first day ended with an Open Mic/Poetry Slam held hosted by Carney, with seven hours of conference activities in between. Saturday morning began with a plenary session featuring book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan and ended with a keynote address by Pulitzer-winning poet and the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States, Natasha Trethewey. Wilkes alums and students were well-represented in both the Open Mic/Poetry Slam on Friday night, hosted by Carney, and over 20 craft classes, workshops, panels and discussions throughout the conference. Save the date for PWC18, which will be held from July 29, 2017 to August 4, 2018. We hope to see you there! Characters at the Conference: PWC By C. P. Gorelick (M.A. '17) Anna Karenina. Captain Ahab. Blanche DuBois. Hamlet. Norma Desmond. Ebenezer Scrooge. A Left to right: Jeff Minton, Vito Gulla, and Tyler Grimm presented a team-taught session on viewing Characters as Objects at PWC17. disparate group at first glance, am I right? They are all fictional characters, but they are from such varying backgrounds. They all have problems, but who doesn't? �The unifying trait of these characters is that they remain in readers' (or, in the case of Blanche, Hamlet, and Norma, viewers') memories long after their stories are done. So, how do authors create such vivid figures? Such achievements are, perhaps, lofty goals when writing, but why not aim high? As a writer of plot-driven farce, character work is something I have always needed improve in my work. So, at the 3rd Annual Pennsylvania Writers Conference, I attended Wilkes Alumus Jennifer Bokal's (M.A. '10) class on writing Goal Statements and the team-taught session on viewing Characters as Objects, led by Tyler Grimm (M.F.A. '10) , Vito Gulla (M.F.A. '13), and Jeff Minton (M.F.A. '13). After the latter had ended, I realized how well the two discussions complimented one another. Each dissected one aspect of character. Bokal focused on the technique of clarifying goals of the people within stories, whether it be protagonists, antagonists, secondary characters, etc. as well as the necessity of writers doing this for themselves. Grimm, Gulla, and Minton took a more clinical approach by examining and analyzing the various types of characters and their various functions in relation to the protagonist and his/her goal, and they emphasized that this technique helped maintain efficiency within a story by pinpointing repetitious or superfluous elements. While the craft classes provided seemingly divergent perspectives on character, all four writers emphasized that each character's actions must be rooted in goals. Moreover, their views on figures within stories can be utilized from early stages of writing to late-in-the-game revisions. Needless to say, I will be using these lessons in my writing. Local business man and philanthropist Richard Maslow, of Dallas, PA. and Naples, Fla. gave a significant financial support to benefit the graduate creative writing program. In Maslow's honor, the program was renamed to the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing on June 23, �2017. Graduate Creative Writing Program Renamed "My family has a deep appreciation for the arts," said Melanie Maslow-Kern, daughter of Richard Maslow and board of trustee member at Wilkes University. "We know that the Wilkes creative writing program is like no other, and we're excited to see how this gift provides new opportunities for students to realize their writing dreams." During the June 2017 Residency, something huge was announced: the Wilkes University Graduate Creative Writing was shedding its name. On June 23, 2017, the program was renamed the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing in honor of Richard Maslow, who gave a seven-figure gift to the graduate creative writing program. Maslow's donation will be used to enhance the creative writing program through innovative classes and workshops, student scholarships, faculty development, and extended programming for the community at large. "Wilkes University thanks Dick Maslow for his vision in giving this gift to the graduate creative writing program, which now will bear the Maslow name," said University President Patrick F. Leahy. "This investment continues his lifelong commitment to the arts and reflects his enthusiasm for a program that has generated incredible student success. His generosity is a vote of confidence in the future of this program and arts education at Wilkes University." Maslow is the former CEO of InterMetro and the founder of the Maslow Family Foundation, which funds programs in the arts, education, special needs education and other charitable giving. The creative writing program is no stranger to the Maslow Family Foundation, which financially supports the Maslow Foundation Salon Reading Series, held �during the residencies in January and June. Creative writing program director Bonnie Culver said the gift provides valuable programmatic support to aspiring writers who come to Wilkes to develop their craft, learn the business of writing, and earn their master of arts and master of fine arts degrees. "The entire creative writing community joins me in thanking the Maslow family for their support. With their dedication to the arts, represented in this generous gift, we can open up more opportunities for students to hone their craft, provide resources for faculty passion projects, and continue our mission of becoming one of the best creative writing programs in the country." Mailer Conference to be held in October  The 15th annual Norman Mailer Society Conference will be held at the Sarasota Lido Hotel, in cooperation with the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee in Sarasota, FL from Oct. 2628, 2017. Mailer was the first founding advisory board member of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, and students and faculty from the CW program have read During the 2016 Mailer Conference, held in Long Branch, NJ, the annual Wilkes reading featured Mailer's unpublished first novel, No Percentage. Alumni Hillary Transue (M.F.A. '17) and Caleb Sizemore (M.F.A. '17), Matt Hinton (M.F.A '10) read along with program director Dr. Bonnie Culver and faculty member Ken Vose. and performed his work for the last 14 years as part of the Wilkes U Readers Theatre. This year faculty, alums and students will read from various writers who eulogized Mailer after his death in 2007. The 2017 conference will celebrate and remember Mailer following the 10th anniversary of his death. Fall Creative Writing Workshops Course Name: First Steps in Fiction An introductory workshop in fiction writing. Students of all experience levels and genres are welcome. You may bring a project you already have in the works, or develop one in class. The focus will be on �description and detail, character and dialogue, setting and place, and voice and point of view. The class will consist of topic discussions, a short writing segment, constructive feedback, and revision. Meetings: Saturdays 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Kirby 108 September 16, 23, 30, October 7, 14, 21 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Jennifer Jenkins  Course Name: Beginner's Blogging Workshop The internet and the blogosphere have given everyone the option to selfpublish their writings, thoughts, ideas, and opinions for the world to see. Blogging can connect you with your audience, with fellow writers, and with your creative spirit. In this course, we will learn the basics of blogging, set up your first personal blog, and learn about the many ways you can create engaging content to build and maintain an audience. Each six-week session begins with a lecture on the topic at hand, followed by a guided activity session with the instructor and your fellow classmates. Some social media experience suggested but not required.  Meetings: Tuesdays 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. – Breiseth 108 September 12, 19, 26, October 3, 10, 17 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Angela Greco Course Name: Playwriting – Playwriting in Two Parts This two part playwriting workshop will teach students how to write a play, with an assignment to write a short one-act or 10-minute play (part one) and return the following week for a read through and critique of their work (part two). Meetings: Saturdays 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Kirby 103 and Kirby Salon September 16 and 23 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Jan Quackenbush Course Name: Elements of Narration Narration frames the reader's experience and forms the foundation of your story, yet many writers give narrative structure little thought. Through examples and exercises, this workshop will teach you how to choose and better employ narrative techniques (such as point of view and voice) to engage the reader with your fiction. Meetings: Wednesdays 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. – Kirby 108 September 13, 20, �27, October 4, 11, 18 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Dr. Anthony Kapolka Master Class If You Know What I Mean: Writing Young Adult and Middle Grade Fiction The workshop will focus on both genres fairy-tale and mythical underpinnings, their characters and plots and settings, and the qualities editors tend to look for in historical or contemporary work. Also, we'll discuss crucial craft issues such as point of view and mixing genres, and what themes are allowed -- or not -- in the contemporary publishing marketplace. Participants will submit a 15 to 20-page writing sample – a short story or opening chapter – by September 7. During the workshops, we will engage in readings, discussion, critique, revisions, and planning for post-workshop manuscript completion and submission. Meetings: Evenings (Oct 2-5) – 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. – Kirby 103 *Note: Class will meet in Breiseth Hall, Room 316 on Oct. 2 ONLY from 6:00 –  8:00 p.m.Saturday (Oct. 7) – 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Kirby 103 October 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 Cost: $125.00 for the entire series Instructor: Lenore Hart AWP18 Schedule Filled with Wilkes CW Names The 2018 AWP Conference & Bookfair will be held at the Tampa Convention Center & Marriott Tampa Waterside from March 7-10, 2018. Current students are invited to apply for an AWP17 Laurie Sojourn Jean of Cannady a Hungry (Crave: Soul) discussed her writing process and signed books at the Wilkes and Etruscan booth at AWP17. registration waiver, which covers the cost of conference registration; housing will be provided for graduate assistants, interns, and staff working at AWP. Transportation will be at your expense. Contact Associate Director Bill Schneider at bill.schneider@wilkes.edu for more information. In exchange for your conference waiver, students �are required to spend a minimum of two hours each day working at the Wilkes/Etruscan booth. Working the booth is a great way to network with authors, publishers, and other graduate students from around the country while promoting the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Remica Bingham-Risher (What We Ask of Flesh) signed books at AWP17. Creative Writing to potential students. The full AWP18 schedule will be released in October, and more information can be found at www.awpwriter.org. While you're in Tampa, swing by these sessions and support the Wilkes CW family, including program partners Akashic Books, Etruscan Press, and Kaylie Jones Books: Wilkes: Jason Carney Old School Slam and Open Mic Susan Cartsonis Adapting Your Work for TV, Digital and Feature Film Mediums The Hollywood Equation: Building Your Screenwriting Career and Finding Your Writer's Voice through Peer, Mentor and Comm Kaylie Jones Tearing Down Societal & Family Myths in Creative Writing Program Partners: AKASHIC BOOKS: Ibrahim Ahmad (Editorial Director)  Collaboration on Creative Publishing: Supporting New and Diverse Voices  TECHNO BLACK: Connecting the Mobile Reader to Globally Diverse Writers �Johnny Temple (Publisher and Editor-in-Chief) Getting the Word Out: How to Approach Book Promotion to Actually Reach Readers Political Pivoting: Literary Publishing at the Pace of Politics ETRUSCAN PRESS: Kazim Ali (The Disappearance of Seth) Muslim Writers Speak Out Two-countries. U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents. An Anthology of Flash Memoir, Personal Essays and Poetry The Future of Forms Wesleyan University Press Poetry Reading Nin Andrews (Advisory Board Member) • Hair as Myth and Metaphor: Five Women Poets on Cultural Transgression Remica Bingham-Risher (What We Ask of Flesh) Stay In Your Lane Or... Bruce Bond (Choir of the Wells, Cinder, The Other Sky, and Peal) 30 Years of Influence Across Genres in Indigenous Literature: Tribute for Diane Glancy Laurie Jean Cannady (Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul) Tearing Down Societal & Family Myths in Creative Writing David Lazar (Who's Afraid of Helen of Troy: An Essay on Love) More and Different: Literary Nonfiction and the University Press Paul Lisicky (The Burning House) How to Hit the Ground Running: Strategies for Building Better Workshops Fierce Muses: Inspiration During Times of Social Unrest J. D. Schraffenberger (Saint Joe's Passion) �Stealing from STEM: Applying Pedagogies From Other Disciplines in the Creative Writing Classroom  Tim Seibles (Fast Animal and One Turn Around the Sun)  Stay In Your Lane Or... What We Really Tell When We Tell of Home: The Resonant Poetics of Narrative KAYLIE JONES BOOKS: Patricia Smith (The Year of Needy Girls) If You Haven't Lived It, Can You Write It? J. Patrick Redmond (Some Go Hungry) Tearing Down Societal & Family Myths in Creative Writing Faculty, Student, and Alumni News Faculty News: Blue Moon Plays recently published Bonnie Culver's play Sniper. Sniper has been produced at college, community theatres, and professional companies since 1995 when it opened in Los Angeles. In 2005, it was produced in NYC at Center Stage when it was a play of the week by The Star-Ledger. Visit nytheater.com for more information. J. Michael Lennon is editing the first two of several volumes of the works of Norman Mailer to be published by the Library of America, the non-profit publisher of major American authors such as Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Susan Sontag and other canonical writers. Volume one will contain four Mailer works from the 1960s: An American Dream, Why Are J. Michael Lennon's Norman We In Vietnam? The Armies Mailer: The 1960's Collection. Of The Night And Miami and �The Siege Of Chicago (all four won, or were nominated for, the National Book Award). Volume two will contain 36 of Mailer's essays from the 60's, beginning with "Superman Comes to the Supermarket." Publication date for the boxed set is February 27. Order your copy here. Lenore Hart Poyer had two poems ("The Well-Shooter's Wake" and "On Visiting the Castle of My Drawn and Quartered Ancestor") accepted for publication in Alternating Current, and so are also finalists for this year's Charter Oak Prize for a historical poem. Another poem, "Cthulhu, Call Your Mother," will appear in the annual Horror Writers Association HWA Poetry Anthology, later this year. Lenore's short story Thirteen Ways of Living With a Wolf" (read at the June Residency) is a semi-finalist for the David Poyer's Hinter Killer. Florida Review's 2017 Editor's Award in Fiction. David Poyer's newest novel in the Dan Lenson series Hunter Killer is set to release on November 28, 2017, but has already received praise from Publisher's Weekly. "Each book moves the story forward and primes readers for the thrills that are sure to come in future entries." Read the full review here. Student and Alumni News: Molly Barari (M.F.A. '17) has been selected to teach a memoir writing workshop for the 2017 South Dakota Festival of Books in Deadwood, S.D., in September.   Cheryl Bazzoui (M.A. '14) had two reviews posted in Story Circle at storycirclebookreviews.org in June. Bazzoui is featured in Jewels of San Fedele, edited by Donna Ferraro and Roads by Marina Antropow Cramer. Lauren Carey (M.F.A. '11) has accepted a position as part of the writing faculty at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, FL. �Cindy Dlugolecki (M.A. '11) was invited to stage Violet Oakley Unveiled, her full-length one-woman play, at Drexel University, Philadelphia, for a sold-out audience on May 20 for Alumni Weekend. Cindy also had a staged reading of her new ten-minute play, Blocked, during Mt. Gretna's August Cicada Festival.   Brian Fanelli (M.F.A. '10) has been awarded the 2017 Devil's Kitchen Poetry Prize for his latest collection of poems, Waiting for the Dead to Speak (NYQ Books). He will receive a cash prize and give a reading and serve on a panel at the Devil's Kitchen Literary Festival at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale in late October. Patricia Florio (M.F.A. '11) : The Coaster, a Jersey Shore weekly, ran pictures and shared an interview by reporter Denise Herschel focused on Florio's involvement in creating the Brian Fanelli's Waiting for the Dead to Speak. Jersey Shore Writers back in 2001 with Alum Carol MacAllister and Gayle Aanensen. Florio's children's book entitled Puppy in My Pocket, published by Alum Wendy Decker at Serenity Books Publishing and illustrated by AnnMarie Freda was also featured in the article. Lori A. May (M.F.A. '13) has an essay on whale spotting in an upcoming issue of Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. She was also recently contracted for a story on Oregon surfing. Lori has recently returned from a trip to the Canadian Maritimes, where she was aboard a whale research vessel, attended a shark autopsy, and fit in a little bit of teaching, too. Oliver Reilly (M.F.A. '13) read and performed in Basement Poetry's OUT on August 25th and 26th. OUT is a performance art production featuring original poetry that delves into the vast experiences of members of the LGBTQ+ community.  Anthony Dolan Scott, (M.F.A. '14) started a brand-new full-time faculty position teaching composition and literature classes at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics this fall. It's an award-winning magnet high �school with some of the most talented students and faculty in the state of Maine, named the #1 high school in the state, #19 high school in the nation, #6 magnet school in the nation, and #10 STEM school in the nation. Joseph Schwartzburt (M.F.A. '13) serves on the board of the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home, which was proud to present the 2017 Ursrey Memorial Lecture with author Ann Hood on Friday September 1st, 2017. The lecture was the 8th iteration of a series whose past presenters have been Roxane Gay, Jaimy Gordon, Luis Urrea, and Robert Olen Butler. Ronnie K. Stephens (M.A. '17) completed a 22-week poetry curriculum for Young DFW Writers, a non-profit bringing weekly writing workshops to 20 schools in the Dallas area. Ahrend Torrey (M.F.A. '16) is currently working on a collection of poems titled City Monk, which is scheduled to be complete by the end of this year. Over the last month his poems have appeared in Sweet Tree Review, Beneath The Rainbow, and Edify Fiction. In August, he launched Colloquial, which is a poetry review that exalts the ordinary and every day. To find out more MA Student Kristen Weller. about Colloquial visit: www.colloquialpoetry.org. Kristen Weller (MA Student) was featured in Hippocampus Literary Journal with her essay entitled What Writer and Teacher Can Tell You About Craft in the Craft column. The piece explores the inner conflict most of us experience who have a passion for honing our craft while managing so many demands from others. Included in the essay is an exploration of Annie Dillard's The Writing Life.  On June 14, 2017, Weller was awarded the Mortimer S. Schiff Award for Reducing Hatred and Prejudice in Northampton, PA. Weller wrote a comprehensive, Holocaust education program for middle school students in my district called "Learn, Listen, Lead: Honoring the Survivors Among Us." The one-day student conference offers nearly 500 eighth graders the chance to see the play, Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, a literary �drama they had all read and studied as part of their English classes, meet first, second, and third generation Holocaust survivors, and participate in several, art, writing, and discussion activities in small groups. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Playwright and novelist Jim Craig M.A. '10 passes away by Lisa Greim A familiar presence at almost every residency, James Craig, M.A. '10, died unexpectedly July 30. He was 69. A self-described "recovering advertising man," Jim Craig spent 14 years teaching middle school English and social studies in the Ephrata School District after leaving the advertising world. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Sandra of Lancaster, Pa.; sons Ryan of Lancaster and Jared of Millersville, Pa.; his sister Karen Craig of Cleveland, Ohio; and one granddaughter. "Jim had the soul of a writer, a teacher, and a friend," said Todd McClimans, M.A. '12. "He always had an encouraging word for others and loved to share his gifts with the world." "Jim came to the Wilkes Creative Writing Program to write plays," said Program Director Bonnie Culver, and several of his plays were produced while he attended Wilkes, but he chose to major in fiction instead. He came back each January and June, to catch up with members of his cohort, other alums, staff and faculty. Faculty member Jean Klein �said Jim was "one of the brightest lights in the playwriting foundations course." Klein said she waved to him across the cafeteria in June, but he didn't see her. "I thought, 'Okay, catch you later, Jim,'" Klein said. "But somehow I didn't. Not that time. I look forward to it one day and hearing the new stories [he will] have to tell." Jennifer Bokal, M.F.A. '10, recalls catching up over lunch at the program's 10th anniversary celebration. Blue Lines Up in Arms (Sunbury Press, 2015) "Every few minutes our conversation ceased. It wasn't that we lacked something to say. It was because someone new had stopped by to say hi to Jim. To each and every person, Jim had a smile, a handshake or a hug. He was as excited to learn of the successes of others as he was to share his own." His mystery novel, Blue Lines Up in Arms (Sunbury Press, 2015), launched last fall at Barnes & Noble in Wilkes-Barre, in cooperation with the Penguins hockey team—its protagonist is an ex-hockey player from Wilkes-Barre. Lawrence Knorr, Sunbury's president and CEO, described Jim as "completely in as an author," traveling to minor-league hockey rinks, street fairs and bookstores around Pennsylvania to promote his work. Funeral services were held Aug. 3 in Millersville. Memorial contributions may be made to the children's ministries at Grace Community Church, 212 Peach Bottom Rd., Willow Street PA 17584. Online condolences may be left at the Charles F. Snyder Funeral Home's website. Lisa Greim is working on her M.A. degree in creative writing from Wilkes University. She is a journalist in Denver. Art, craft and love of writing celebrated at PWC16   The annual �Lenore Hart (left) and Dania Ramos (right) listen to Todd McClimans during the PWC panel "The World of Between: Writing for Middle Grade Readers in the 21st Century" Pennsylvania Writers Conference Aug 5-6 attracted 124 attendees to the Open Mic, Poetry Slam and all-day conference. Maureen Corrigan, from NPR's Fresh Air, delivered the opening plenary session, noting how dedicated folks were to the literary world. "Why else would you be in the Darte on a Saturday morning?" Corrigan asked the crowd. Wilkes Provost Anne Skleder opened the evening event by affirming the University's and President Leahy's commitment to the arts to a round of applause. Jay Parini closed the conference with a heartfelt keynote that expanded on his life, writing career, dual citizenship, invitation to a dinner at the White House, and the pride he continues to feel as "a Pennsylvania writer."  Wilkes alums and students   were wellrepresented among the winners of both the Open Mic/Poetry Slam on Friday night, hosted by alum and Barbara Taylor (left) and Chris Campion (right) listen to Cheryl Bazzoui (center) during the Pennsylvania Fiction writers panel at PWC former slam star Laura Moran, and the three-genre Writing Competition announced on Saturday. PWC Open Mic/Poetry Slam Host: Laura Moran (M.F.A. '12)   �OPEN MIC First Place – $150 Award: Gale Martin (M.F.A. '10) (Left to right) Lenore Hart, J. Michael Lennon, and Kaylie Jones during the PWC "Publishing Pathways" panel Second Place – $100 Award:   Robert Fillman Third Place – $50 Award: Ginger Laura Moran hosts the PWC Open Mic and Poetry Slam Marcinkowski (M.F.A. '11) POETRY SLAM First Place – $150 Award: Lauren Gonsalves Second Place – $100 Award: Stephen Taren Third Place – $50 Award: Richard Aston PWC Writing Competition: Creative Nonfction Judge: Dr. J. Michael Lennon of the Wilkes faculty, who said, "All show talent and narrative sophistication." First Place – $150 Award - "Last Supper" – Aurora Bonner (M.A. student) Second Place – $100 Award: "American Buffalo" – W. Y. Fellenberg Third Place – $50 Award: "Their Man" – Anne Henry (M.F.A. '11) Poetry Judge: Dr. Phil Brady (Wilkes faculty, Etruscan Press Executive �Editor) First Place – $150 Award: Robert Fillman Second Place – $100 Award: W. Y. Fellenberg Third Place – $50 Award: Eric Chiles Fiction Judge: Barbara J. Taylor (M.F.A.'15) First Place – $150 Award: "Automation" – Olivia Smialek Second Place – $100 Award: "An End to War" – Anne Henry (M.F.A. '11) Third Place – $50 Award: "Redemption" – Janine Dubik (M.A. student) Save the date for PWC17: Aug. 4-6, 2017 at Wilkes University. 2016 PA Writers Conference Winners: PWC panel on community programs sparks new ideas by Pamela Turchin �As a Wilkes creative writing student and a teacher, I feel not just the the tight-knit sense of community among faculty and students, but also how alums return this gift by promoting writing and reading in their own communities. I have been thinking about asking my old high school if they will let me volunteer to teach an after-school creative writing program. I remember how much I wished we had an opportunity like that when I was a student there. This idea led me to the PWC panel "Beyond Putting Words on the Page: Hosting a Reading Series and Teaching in Community Spaces" with Wilkes faculty member Christine Gelineau and M.F.A. graduates Dawn Leas ('09), Brian Fanelli ('10) and Patricia Florio ('11). Fanelli and Leas host opportunities for writers to participate in open mic events through the Writer's Showcase at the Old Brick Theatre in Scranton. Florio co-founded the Jersey Shore Writers, and organizes writing events at the Jersey Shore Arts Center, both in Ocean Grove, N.J. The panel members shared their experiences, while offering valuable practical advice: Establish ties with community members who are vested in supporting the arts, which can lead to finding affordable, and sometimes even free, local venues for a reading series or writing workshop. Start small. Once you have formed a steady group that meets on a regular basis, begin thinking about inviting outside published writers to read their work at your events. Don't be afraid to approach your local library about teaching a writing workshop. Most libraries are thrilled to hear from writers seeking this kind of opportunity. Workshops that are open to the public give people a chance to write their stories and share them. Teaching a three- to five-week workshop is the norm. Although it is important to be a good literary citizen, be careful not to over-commit to giving back to your community, so much that you begin to neglect your own writing. These writers inspired me by creating their own writing spaces to share with others. They convinced me that someday I can do the same. Pamela Turchin, a Northeastern Pennsylvania native, is a graduate assistant  pursuing her M.A. degree in Creative Writing from Wilkes University. �Norman Mailer Society conference meets Sept. 28-Oct. 2 The 14th annual Norman Mailer Society Conference will be held at Monmouth University, Long Branch, N.J. from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2. Mailer was the first founding advisory board member of the Wilkes University Creative Writing Program, and students and faculty from the CW program have read and performed his work for the last 13 years as part of the Wilkes U Readers Theatre. This year faculty, alums and students will read from his unpublished novel No Percentages. The conference will open Thursday evening with a workshop production of Norris: A Ticket to the Circus, a one-woman show written by Bonnie Culver, based on Norris Church Mailer's memoir. K.C. Lieber, a New York City-based actress, will read the role. The performance will be in the Wilson Hall auditorium on the Monmouth University campus, beginning at 8 p.m. The reading is open to the public. Faculty, alums, and current students participating in either the readers theatre or giving papers this year include: Bonnie Culver, Nicole DePolo, Matthew Hinton, Kaylie Jones, Michael Mailer, Caleb Sizemore, Hillary Transue, and Ken Vose. Dr. J. Michael Lennon is the organizer of the conference and the current president of the Norman Mailer Society. Register now for Fall Community Workshops Once again this fall, seven non-credit community workshops will be offered on the Wilkes University campus, taught by Wilkes faculty and M.F.A. alums. The cost of each workshop is $65. Advance registration for all of the fall workshops is available at wilkes.augusoft.net. We welcome your help to support and stimulate interest in our writing community. Word of mouth is our best referral source, so please share the news with anyone interested in the writer's craft.  Screenwriting – Basics and Format Throughout this six-week workshop, participants will learn the proper format for a screenplay and why that format is used. They will engage in exercises designed to progressively develop a more succinct writing style for the movie script page. Participants will develop a story idea, and transform that idea into a beat sheet that will aid in completing five to 10 pages of a first draft. Meetings: Mondays 6 – 8 p.m. – Breiseth 108 Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, 10, 17 �Cost: $65 for the entire series Instructor: Draper Brown Playwriting 101 Learn the basic elements of writing a play while learning the formatting rules and conventions of theatre. Each student will complete a 10- to 15minute play. All plays will have formal staged readings in the last week of class, where playwrights will be guided through the entire process of writing a play and hearing their play read by actors. Meetings: Tuesdays 6 – 8 p.m. – Kirby 108 (except on Oct. 4, which will be held in Dr. Harold Cox Hall – 245 S. River St.) Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25 Cost: $65 for the entire series Instructor: Dr. Bonnie Culver Creative Nonfction – Writing Memoir The late author William Zinsser said, "Writers are the custodians of memory." In this non-credit workshop, participants will learn the basics of crafting memoir. Through in-class exercises and weekly assignments, students will learn the foundations of memoir—one of today's most popular forms of non-fiction writing. Ways to structure and approach a book-length work also will be explored. Issues of truth-telling and the challenges of memory also will be discussed. The instructor will address attendees' individual projects, allowing both beginning and more advanced writers to participate at their own level. Meetings: Wednesdays 6 – 8 p.m. – Kirby 108 Sept. 21, 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26 Cost: $65 for the entire series Instructor: Vicki Mayk Poetry This workshop will focus on two main elements of creating a poem: crafting the poem and reading poets. There will be a balance between writing new poems, critiquing old poems in a workshop format and discussing poets, their poems, as ways of enhancing individual skills and information. Our goal is to have a completed collection of poems that may be the beginning of a future chapbook and further studies. Meetings: Wednesdays 6 – 8 p.m. – Kirby 103 Sept. 21, 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26 Cost: $65 for the entire series Instructor: Dr. Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr �Intro to Screenwriting (Tools and Techniques) This six-week workshop will explore writing for the big screen. We'll examine the tools and techniques screenwriters use to tell effective stories. We'll cover screenplay genre, formatting and structure. Students will write a short or begin a feature-length screenplay. We'll work on pieces together during class and have table reads of each work during the final session. Meetings: Thursdays 6 – 8 p.m. – Kirby 108 Sept. 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6, 20, 27 (No meeting Oct. 13) Cost: $65 for the entire series Instructor: Kelly Clisham Fiction The workshop will cover the foundations of fiction writing and include inclass writing exercises and group workshops to give both beginning and established writers opportunities to expand their knowledge of the writing craft and enhance their skills. In-class workshops of students' writing are designed to provide honest feedback in a casual, supportive, and respectful environment. Participants will be expected to share their work aloud and offer insightful comments on how to improve their peers' work. Meetings: Fridays 6 – 8 p.m. – Kirby 108 (except on September 30, held in Farley Library LL-002) Sept. 16, 23, 30, Oct. 7, 21, 28 (No meeting Oct. 14) Cost: $65 for the entire series Instructors: Alyssa Waugh and Robert Antinozzi Writing the YA Novel In this intensive five-week workshop, students will learn the components of a YA novel while building an outline. Class will include a combination of lecture, discussion and critiquing. To conclude the class, students will receive a brief overview of publishing opportunities available for those interested in shopping their novel after it's completed. Meetings: Saturdays 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Kirby 108 (except Oct. 1: Farley Library LL-002) Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8, 15 Cost: $65 for the entire series Instructor: Nisha Sharma AWP17 schedule includes many Wilkes CW names �Wilkes and Etruscan Press will have a robust list of presenters at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs' 50th annual conference, which takes place Feb. 8-11, 2017, at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center and Washington Marriott Marquis Hotel. Current students are invited to apply for an AWP17 registration waiver, which covers the cost of conference registration; housing will be provided for graduate assistants, interns, and staff working at AWP. Transportation will be at your expense. Contact Associate Director Bill Schneider at bill.schneider@wilkes.edu before Thursday, Sept. 15 to reserve a registration waiver. In exchange for your waiver, you   will be required to spend a minimum of two hours each day on the convention floor, working in (Left - right) Tim Seibles and Laurie Jean Cannady the   Susan Cartsonis Wilkes/Etruscan booth. The Bookfair is a great opportunity to meet �authors and publishers, and network with other graduate students, writers and industry professionals from all over the world. You will promote the Wilkes Creative Writing Program to potential students and faculty, host Etruscan Press book signings, and provide a positive presence to the literary community. Your registration gives you access to the full schedule of workshops, readings, keynotes and social events. Wilkes alums and faculty appearing at AWP17 include: Laurie Jean Cannady (faculty, Etruscan author): Two sessions, But That's Not How It Was: Memoir Writers on Pushing Back Against Expected Narratives and Celebrating the Hurston/Wright Foundation: Twenty-Seven Years of Literary Legacy Jason Carney (M.F.A. '13): Hosting the Old School Slam on both Thursday and Friday, Feb. 9 and 10 Morowa Yejidé (M.F.A. '12): Two sessions, Come Firewalk With Me: The Black Mind and A Reading and Conversation from Paycock Press Viannah Duncan (M.F.A. '10): Gender and Genre: How Do Our Prejudices Affect Our Preferences? Donna Talarico (M.F.A. '10): Starting Small: Grassroots Workshops and Conferences Susan Cartsonis (faculty): The Hollywood Equation: Combining Community and Mentorship to Take Control of Your Screenwriting Career Jim Warner (M.F.A. '09): Variations on Audionarrative: The Next Wave of Literary Podcasting Jean Klein, Gregory Fletcher (faculty), Lori Myers (M.A. '09): Why Every Writer Should Construct at Least One Play Nisha Sharma (M.F.A. '14): Writing the South Asian Diaspora in Young Adult Fiction Kaylie Jones (faculty), Barb Taylor (M.F.A. '15), Laurie Loewenstein (faculty): Kaylie Jones Books: A Reading Dr. Bonnie Culver, as chair of the AWP Board of Trustees, will be a conference host. Etruscan Press authors and contributors at AWP17 include: Remica Bingham-Risher, Tim Seibles (advisory board): Beyond Sex: The Poetics of Desire Paul Lisicky: Looking Outward: Avoiding the Conventional Memoir Jeremy Schraffenberger: Old Journals, New Writing: Editors on History and Discovery Julie R. Enszer: Recovering Out of Print Queer Literature Diane Thiel: The Influence of Introductory Creative Writing Textbooks Bonnie Friedman: Tips and Tricks from the Trenches: Lit Mag Editors Share Funding, Staffing, and Operational Strategies for �Survival and Compassion Fatigue: Avoiding Vicarious Traumatization in the CNF Classroom Kazim Ali: Two sessions, Translating Contemporary African Poetry and Dance and Movement and Meditation as Part of the Writing Process Shara McCallum: Women and their Bodies Faculty News Carrie Pilby, produced by Susan   Cartsonis, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Directed by Susan Johnson, the film stars Bel Powley, Nathan Lane, Vanessa Bayer and Gabriel Byrne. On Aug. 8, Cartsonis completed Beverly Donofrio appears in the anthology, "How Does That Make You Feel?" production on Deidra and Laney Rob a Train in Salt Lake City. Directed by Sydney Freeland, it will be released as a Netflix Original Movie in spring 2017. Cartsonis also produced Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, which opens in theaters Oct. 7. Directed by Steve Carr, the film stars Lauren Graham. Bonnie Culver's one-woman show, Norris: A Ticket to the Circus, was given an invitation-only staged reading at the Drama Book Shop's Arthur Seelen Theatre on June 14. A workshop production of the play will be given at the Mailer Conference Sept. 29 at Monmouth University. �"My Serial Therapists," an essay by Beverly Donofrio, appears in the anthology, How Does That Make You Feel?, a shockingly honest look at the therapeutic experience from both sides of the couch. It will be released in September by Seal Press, with readings in New York City and vicinity in September and October, listed on the book's website and Facebook page. Gregory Fletcher published an essay, manhood / ˈmanˌho͝od / noun, in Longridge Review, Creative Nonfiction #4, edited by Elizabeth Gaucher. He interviewed Arthur Kopit for A Conversation Between Two Playwrights, which appeared in the Jerome Robbins Foundation newsletter (volume 3, no. 1), edited by Gregory Victor. Faculty member Sara Pritchard's "Bell Bottom Blues" was published in the Spring 2016 issue of Crossborder Journal. "Notes on Rudolph Nureyev's Hat" is forthcoming in The Cossack Review. Sara was the judge for the recent Leapfrog Press book prize and The Cossack Review story prize. She will be reading in Richmond, Va., on Sept. 17, at the launch of At the Inkwell's newest venue. Student and Alumni/ae News Amye Archer (M.F.A. '12) had a craft article, "Writing the Truth in Memoir," published in Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. Amye was also the guest speaker for the National Association of Memoir Writers' Public Roundtable Series in June.  M.F.A. student Molly Barari has developed a new creative writing course for senior citizens in collaboration with Agape Spiritual Center of the Black Hills in Rapid City, S.D. The course, titled Thus Far, focuses on obituary writing as seniors make end-of-life preparations. M.A. student Melody Breyer-Grell published a review of Dr. Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr's Autobiography of the Lower East Side in the Huffington Post. Chris Campion (M.A '13) recently published an article titled "Don't Chase Belts, Chase Experiences" on JiuJitsuTimes.com and spoke at the Pennsylvania Writers Conference on the challenges of writing a novel based in Pennsylvania. Jason Carney's (M.F.A. '13) nonprofit, Young DFW Writers, starts its third year with 16 high schools participating in Louder than a Bomb DFW. Its civic engagement focus for this year will be domestic violence and other forms of violence, partnering with the North Texas Food Bank and �the Genesis Women's Shelter to give students space to turn the poet into an activist and their art into activism. Young DFW Writers will hold the largest youth poetry festival in Texas this year. Carney will be lecturing at the University of Arkansas Sept. 20 and Drake University Oct. 5. M.F.A. student Gabrielle D'Amico had her screenplay, Plan B, selected as a semifinalist for the 2016 CineStory Feature & Fellowship Competition, earning her an invitation to the CineStory retreat in Idyllwild, Calif., this October.  Brian Fanelli's (M.F.A. '10) new collection of poems, Waiting for the Dead to Speak, will be published in September with NYQ Books. A personal essay by D Ferrara (M.A. '13) will appear in The Storyteller Magazine's anthology.  The essay, "The Tyranny of Memory," is a whimsical look at how our memory tricks and traps us. Patricia Florio (M.F.A. '11) introduced the Jersey Shore Writers to a new open mic series at Danny's Steak House in Red Bank, N.J., reading from her first memoir, My Two Mothers. On Sept. 25, alums Barb Taylor and Brian Fanelli will read from their new books at the Jersey Shore Arts Center.  In June, M.A. student   Lisa Greim's story, "Charley Says Good Morning," was among 10 prose pieces selected for a juried workshop taught by Steve Almond at Lighthouse (Left - right) London Co-hosts Patricia Foster, Gemma Weekes and Rachel Rigby and founder Monique Antonette Lewis Writers Workshop's annual LitFest conference   �in Denver. Tara Lynn Marta Monique Antonette Lewis (M.F.A. '12) launched her reading series, At The Inkwell, in London on July 21. The reading, "A Tribute to Prince and David Bowie," attracted a standing crowd. The London series will be held every third Thursday at Counter Albion. She also formed a partnership with the Visual Arts Center of Richmond to host quarterly fiction and poetry readings and writing workshops, launching Saturday, Sept. 17. Ginger Marcinkowski (M.F.A. '12) presented a writing workshop Aug. 6 at the Pennsylvania Writers Conference and will teach three classes about writing for the Christian market at the Hampton Roads Writers Conference in Norfolk, Va., Sept. 15-17. M.A. student Tara Lynn Marta's short story, "Beyond the Gates," was published last March in The Gorge, online publication in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Another short story, "A Writer's Life" will be published by Aaduna in August. Lori A. May (M.F.A. '13) has accepted a position on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs (CCWWP). She will present a session at the first annual Creative Writing Studies Organization conference this fall at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. Lori was recently a guest speaker at the Pacific Northwest Writers Association conference, and will speak this fall at a number of writing festivals, including the Surrey International Writers' �Conference in British Columbia, and BinderCon in New York City. Lori is currently finalizing edits on a new book, with more details to come soon. Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. '13) published "Writing Grief: A Memoir Workshop in a Hospice Bereavement Program" in Chrysalis, a journal of transformative language arts, published by Goddard University. The article discusses the workshop she developed as part of her M.F.A. teaching project. Danielle Poupore (M.F.A. '13) has accepted a new job at Coker College as director of institutional identity. The literary non-profit Seersucker Live: A Literary Performance, of which Joseph Schwartzburt (M.F.A.'13) is a board member, will present The Tin Curtain Episode, featuring Tin House managing editor, Rob Spillman, author of the new memoir All Tomorrow's Parties. The event will also feature authors Julia Elliott (The New and Improved Romie Futch) and Regina Bradley (Armstrong State professor and 2016 Harvard Hiphop Fellow). The event takes place Aug. 31 in Savannah, Ga. Douglas Troxell's (M.A. '14) story "Snow Day" was the featured story in Flash Fiction Magazine July 29. His short story "Epidemic" will appear in the short story collection Infected in the fall. You can visit his new website at douglasjamestroxell.com.   Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Archives Related Links Gale Martin Ranks #1 | Wilkes Panels, Readings, and More at AWP Boston 2013 Announcements | Faculty/Staff Notes | Student/Alumni Notes | Program Notes Calendars & Schedules Campus Map Centers for Excellence Faculty Publications Graduate Bulletin (.pdf) Graduate Bulletin Online   Graduate Student Handbook Gale Martin Ranks #1 Recent graduate Gale Martin has been enjoying incredible success for not one, but two recent book releases. Her debut with Don Juan in Hankey, PA (Booktrope 2011) keeps climbing the sales ranks, but it’s her latest book Grace Unexpected that has drawn even more attention, recently rising to #1 on Amazon’s list of Movers and Shakers. “Movers & Shakers allows readers to keep track of what books are popular on Library Office of the Registrar Online Learning Professional Pharmacy Application School of Nursing - Graduate Program Student Handbook Schools, Departments, Divisions n n �Amazon,” Martin explains. “It measures books that obtain the biggest gains in Amazon sales ranks over the past 24 hours.”   Grace Unexpected by Gale Martin As part of a marketing strategy, Grace Unexpected was offered for free Kindle download for a limited three day period. Martin’s publisher aimed for the freebie to attract readers and everything fell into place as planned. “It received loads more visibility,” Martin says. In fact, during those three days not only was Grace Unexpected downloaded more than 38,000 times, the book sold more than 400 copies in the following 36 hours when the book returned to its retail price. In turn, buyers have been adding Don Juan in Hankey, PA to their online shopping cart as well. Martin credits the Wilkes writing program for steering her in the right direction. The author states that Wilkes helps “prepare authors to present their writing,” both through public reading experience and preparing for the publication market. This hands-on ‘training’ has helped Martin across the board. She says, “I would say my Wilkes preparation was invaluable to my feeling confident and projecting a professional writer’s image.” Riding high on her past two releases, Martin is already at work on her next book.   Wilkes Panels, Readings, and More at AWP Boston 2013 If you plan on attending the annual AWP Conference and Bookfair, taking place in Boston MA, March 6-9, 2013, you’ll find ample Wilkes representation. Also, Jim Warner, alum and former assistant program director, will once again host the All-Collegiate Poetry Slam and Open Mic every night of the Boston conference. Bonnie Culver, program director, is on the AWP national Board of Trustees and was a member of the Boston Conference committee. She noted, “There are more presentations this year than any other year in AWP history. It promises to be another fantastic conference.” Next year’s conference will be held in Seattle, Washington. Proposals for the Seattle conference are due no later than May 1, 2013. Watch the AWP website for more information. �The following panel discussions include members from the Wilkes community: “The Ten-Minute Play: the Essential Ingredients” Panelists: Gregory Fletcher, Jean Klein, and L. Elizabeth Powers For both playwrights and non-playwrights who may want to try their hand at a shorter genre, the ingredients of the ten-minute play will be compared and contrasted to the full-length play and sketch writing. Also, exploration will be given to finding the right size of a story and cast, as well as to the art of economy, how it looks on paper, and the production and publishing opportunities that could follow. “Second Sex, Second Shelf? Women, Writing, and the Literary Marketplace” Panelists: Christine Gelineau, Erin Belieu, Julia Glass, Tayari Jones, and Meg Wolitzer Statistics suggest a gap still exits but is there a problem and if there is, what is its nature? What changes/ remedies/ metamorphoses can/ should be imagined? Do you think about this issue differently in terms of your writing vs. in terms of your career? Accomplished writers, who happen to be women, theorize and report out of their own experiences and analysis of the current literary scene. “International Women’s Day Reading from Becoming: What Makes a Woman” Panelists: Jill McCabe Johnson, Dinah Lenney, Nancy McKinley, Bibi Wein, Nadine Pinede Authors read from what Dinty W. Moore describes as an astonishing array of gifted writers who explore intimacy, doubt, love, joy, and sorrow to form this exhilarating anthology. Edited by Jill McCabe Johnson, Becoming: What Makes a Woman (University of Nebraska Gender Programs, 2012) features essays of pivotal life experience. For more information about AWP and the conference schedule, visit www.awpwriter.org. And, don’t forget to stop by Wilkes/ Etruscan Press booth in the Bookfair!     Announcements   Bonnie Culver, program director, is on a special job in Mesa, AZ for Wilkes that is starting a branch campus at the invitation of the city of �Mesa. In mid-August, she drove the Winnebago and da boyz—Elkhounds Brody and Bernie—across country. She remains the program director and will return each residency and continue recruiting and advising. She leaves the program in the capable hands of Dawn Leas, Joyce Anzalone, Graduate assistants Dawn Zera and Erin Miele, and Etruscan Press editor Starr Troup. Of Mesa so far? “It’s hot!” On the creative writing front in the west? Students wishing to take CW 501 and begin the west in January should call Dr. Culver 570.408.4527. The M.A./M.F.A. Wilkes programs are once again sponsors for the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) national conference to be held in Boston MA, March 6-9, 2013. That means Wilkes will have 45 FREE registrations for students and faculty wishing to attend the conference. As in years past, Wilkes will have a booth shared with Etruscan Press in the Book Fair. We need a handful of student volunteers to work the booth during the conference. Please call Dawn Leas to claim a registration and/or volunteer! The 10th annual International Conference of the Norman Mailer Society takes place in Provincetown MA this October 10-13, 2012. From the Wilkes community, Michael Mailer is participating on a roundtable discussion, “Mailer and Boxing,” and J. Michael Lennon is moderating a discussion on “Mailer and Women.” And as in years past, the Wilkes M.A./M.F.A. program will present the Wilkes University Reader’s Theatre that is comprised of students and faculty. This year’s readers include Ross Klavan, Ken Vose, Bonnie Culver, and Dawn Zera. Other Wilkes alums and faculty presenters include Nicole DePolo. You must be a member of The Norman Mailer Society to attend the conference; however, student memberships are only $20. To attend or find out more about the society, visit www.normanmailersociety.com. The M.A./M.F.A. Wilkes programs are currently working through the approval process to add a publishing track. Please check out this New York Times video about small presses that highlights Akashic Books and its founder and publisher, Johnny Temple, who is one of our publishing faculty members.     Faculty/Staff Notes   Gregory Fletcher’s play, Uploaded, was included in the Whitley-Mosier Foundation Summer Readings 2012 series in New York City. The lead roles were read by Michael Learned and June Gable. In September, Greg began a new job with CUNY - Kingsborough Community College as Director of Theatre Arts.   �Cecilia Galante’s sixth book, about a girl who unknowingly gets involved with an exorcism, was recently acquired by Random House. It is scheduled to be released in fall 2013. Dawn Leas will have two poems, “Hibernia” and “East West” included in the anthology, Forever Families, being published by Mandinam Press in late 2012. J. Michael Lennon reports that a book he edited was recently published by Taschen Books:Norman Mailer/Bert Stern: Marilyn Monroe. He edited and condensed the text of Mailer’s 1973 biography to accompany a new selection of photographs by fashion photographer Bert Stern. He is now working on a new edition of Mailer’s The Fight (1975), with new photographs of the Ali-Foreman 1974 championship bout in Zaire, also to be published by Taschen Books. He has also just submitted the manuscript of the authorized Mailer biography to be published next year by Simon and Schuster. Kevin Oderman will have a new novel, White Vespa, available in November from Etruscan Press. Neil Shepard has a new poetry chapbook, Vermont Exit Ramps, available from Big Table Publishing.   Student/Alumni Notes   M.F.A. alum Amye Archer’s first play is being produced as part of Dyonisia ‘12: Apocalypse.  This is a series of short plays written by local playwrights and is produced by the Jason Miller Playwright Project. M.F.A. alum Tara Caimi’s short story “Chicken Divan” was published in Fire & Knives and her memoir excerpt “Sled Team” was published in Oh Comely magazine. M.F.A. alum Craig Czury was featured in Reading Eagle recently, discussing his role as Berks County poet laureate. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli recently signed a contract with the publisher Unbound Content to release his first full-length book of poems. M.A. student Donna Ferrara has had an essay, “Wrestling with Rain Barrels,” accepted for publication by Green Prints. This is the second piece Donna has sold to the magazine. �M.F.A. student Tyler Grimm has signed with Union Literary Agency, won the 2012 Norris Church-Mailer Scholarship, and has just begun teaching undergraduate writing courses at Elizabethtown College.  M.F.A. alumni Ginger Marcinkowski had her thesis, Run, River Currents (women’s fiction) published by Booktrope in August 2012. It was a semi-finalist in the ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writer’s) Genesis Contest as well. She is also a new adjunct professor for Ashland University. M.A. student Lori A. May will be reading from her poetry collection at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids MI. She will also be a panel guest at the Michigan College English Association this fall and a guest presenter at the Rochester Writers’ Conference at Oakland University. In addition to three new poetry journal acceptances, Lori has new reviews published in Los Angeles Review. M.F.A. alum William Prystauk’s critical paper he worked on for his degree, “Home Is Where the Horror Is,” will be published by the end of this year, and will appear in the academic journal Studies in Gothic Fiction. Also, his short story “Food” will be published by Fantastic Horror in the fall. M.F.A. alum MorowaYejidé’s novel manuscript, Time of the Locust, was a 2012 finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize and also received First Honorable mention in the 2011 Dana Awards. M.A. alum and current M.F.A. student Dawn Zera’s one-act play, Contemporary Saints, was staged in September as part of the Second Annual Jason Miller Playwrights’ Invitational in Scranton PA.   Program Notes   The Write Life blog welcomes guest posts from faculty, students, and alumni. Email lori.may1@wilkes.edu for details. Weekly interviews, literary news, and calls for submissions are shared online at http://wilkeswritelife.wordpress.com. Quick Links �Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. Farley Library Human Resources Jobs at Wilkes Make A Gift Online Nursing Offices & Administration Accessibility Statement Financial Aid Adobe Acrobat® Reader Registrar's Office Finance Office Investor Relations Student Work Study Jobs Veterans Services Visit Quick Links Schedule a Visit Parking Information Virtual Tour Campus Map 84 West South Street �Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 1-800-WILKES-U Contact Us Wilkes University © e © d c f � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Revise This! September 2012 - Wilkes University.pdf https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/cdfb34c3ab18836e51a7313e38218987.pdf 367af7b59a04e4278c3d7c8c68bbf6f3 PDF Text Text About Wilkes Home n Graduate Academics Academics n Graduate Admission & Aid Graduate Programs n Graduate Life Master's Degree Programs About Our Students n n The Arts Creative Writing MA/MFA Revise This! n Archives Revise This - September 2011 Revise This! Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 Revise This Archives SenArt Films Partners with Wilkes Creative Writing | International Win for Advisory Board Member Colum McCann | Announcements | Faculty/Staff Notes | Student Alumni Notes | Program Notes SenArt Films Partners with Wilkes Creative Writing New York-based SenArt Films has found a new home in the Wilkes University Creative Writing building. The independent production company was founded by producer Robert May, who is also an advisory board member for the low-residency creative writing program In 2004, SenArt Films received an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary for The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. In 2003, The Station Agent won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for Best Original Screenplay. Revise This! Archives n 2011 n n �SenArt Films is providing student internships inclusive of research and production assistance. Students in the master’s in screenwriting have immediate access to producers and SenArt’s staff, providing an enhanced academic—and practical—experience.  “Having worked with Wilkes for several years now, I’ve been impressed with the creative writing program, and we’re excited to give qualified students the chance to get actively, creatively involved with our ongoing film projects. It’s hard work, but for students with the right attitude, we offer the opportunity to experience what the film business is all about,” said producer and founder Robert May. “We are delighted to host SenArt Films on campus and offer our students the opportunity to work with a top shelf independent film company,” offered program director, Bonnie Culver. “This partnership underscores the Wilkes mission of real life learning.” Other acclaimed SenArt Film projects include The War Tapes, winner of Best Documentary at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival and Best International Documentary at BritDoc 2006, and the feature film Bonneville, starring Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and Joan Allen. International Win for Advisory Board Member Colum McCann Wilkes creative writing program advisory board member Colum McCann has received international recognition for his novel, Let The Great World Spin (Random House). The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is the largest and most international prize of its kind. McCann’s was selected from a shortlist of ten nominees and brings home a literary prize worth 100,000 euro (approx $139,000 USD). More than 160 titles were nominated by 166 libraries worldwide. Let The Great World Spin opens with a true-to-life historical event, when Philippe Petit walks a tightrope nestled between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. It is the life happening beneath the tightrope that McCann explores, using the shared experience to branch out into an homage to the city and its people within it. In The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Jonathan Mahler credits Let The Great World Spin as “one of the most electric, profound novels” he has read in years. USA Today praised McCann’s novel, calling it “Stunning… [an] elegiac glimpse of hope…It’s a novel rooted firmly in time and place. It vividly captures New York at its worst and best. But it �transcends all that. In the end, it’s a novel about families – the ones we’re born into and the ones we make for ourselves.”   McCann is a contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Paris Review. His short film Everything in This Country Must, directed by Gary McKendry, was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. McCann’s other works include the bestsellers Zoli, This Side of Brightness, and Dancer.   Announcements In January, 2012, the Wilkes University Graduate Creative Writing program hopes to launch a pilot program for a certificate in publishing. The certificate will be available as a four credit course or a non-credit course. It is designed to introduce perspective editors, agents, or publishers to the business, life, and world of publishing from the traditional to the e-world. Currently, the proposal is under consideration by Wilkes University faculty committees. Look for an announcement in October! The M.A./M.F.A. Wilkes programs are once again major sponsors for AWP’s (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) national conference to be held in Chicago, IL February 29-March 3, 2012! That means Wilkes will have 45 FREE registrations for students and faculty wishing to attend the conference.   As in years past, Wilkes will have a booth shared with Etruscan Press in the Book Fair.   We need a handful of student volunteers to work the booth during the conference; those students attending will receive transportation, a shared room, and registration. Please call Dr. Culver to volunteer no later than October 1! November, 9-12, 2011, the James Jones and Norman Mailer Societies will host a joint conference at the Harry Ransom Center on the University of Texas campus. A wide variety of events from paper presentations to readings to roundtable discussions are planned. Several Wilkes faculty and students will be involved—Kaylie Jones, J. Michael Lennon, Ross Klavan, Ken Vose, Laura Moran, Michael Mailer, Larry Heinemann, Matthew Wilkie, Nina Solomon, James Warner, Laurie Moyer thus far will be attending and participating in this event. To attend or to know more about either society, go to www.normanmailersociety.com or www.jamesjonesliterarysociety.org. Faculty/Staff Notes �Bonnie Culver's play SNIPER ran for a month at the Villagers Playhouse, Somerset NJ. The production has been nominated for 7 New Jersey Perry Awards. Thde ceremony announcing winners is September 18th in NJ. In July, Gregory Fletcher left his job of four years as director of theatre at Niagara University and, once again, became a full time resident of NYC. In August, he directed the new musical Destinations by Dawn Eaton and RS Rodkin for the New York International Fringe Festival, and in September, he directed a staged reading of The Fairy Hoax by Tom Diggs and Jay D’Amico for WorkShop Theater Company. Christine Gelineau has been invited to read at Oberlin College in October. She will be reading with Lee Upton. David Poyer’s 13th Dan Lenson novel The Towers was published this August by St. Martin’s Press. Sara Pritchard’s story “A Forever Home” (the one with the cats named Helvetica and Times) was published in the premier issue of Spittoon. “A Forever Home” is part of Sara’s story collection Help Wanted: Female, which will be published next year by Etruscan Press. In July, Sara gave a reading at the West Virginia Wesleyan Literary Festival in Buckhannon, West Virginia, and in September she gave a reading at the TustenCochecton Branch of the Western Sullivan Library in Narrowsburg, New York, as part of the First Fridays series run by MFA/Poetry candidate Laura Moran. Neil Shepard has two new books this fall: a full book (TRAVEL/UNTRAVEL, Mid-List Press) and a chapbook (VERMONT EXIT RAMPS, Pudding House Press). New poems are due in three literary magazines, North American Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Chautauqua Literary Review, as well as in two anthologies, Nature Writing: The Wildness Beyond; and 40th Anniversary Anthology for the Virginia Center for thde Creative Arts. His commendation on John Keats’ poem “To Autumn” will appear in Poetry East, and his interview on editing Green Mountains Review for a quarter-century recently appeared in the online journal Portal del Sol. Jeff Talarigo has a Gaza story, “The Night Guardian of the Goat,” in the fall issue of Agni. James Warner’s poem “cue” was just accepted by the North American Review for an upcoming issue. Thom Ward’s new poetry book, Etcetera’s Mistress, has been published by Accents Publishing. �Student/Alumni Notes M.F.A. alum Amye Archer’s chapbook, A Shotgun Life, has been published by Big Table Publishing Company. She has also been made the Reviews Editor at PANK Magazine. M.A. studentRandee Bretherick came in second in the Spring/Summer 2011 East Meets West, American Writers Review Contest for her personal essay, “Plum Creek.” M.A studentKait Burrier’s 10-minute play “The Fire” received a reading as part of Scranton’s Vintage Theater’s ‘Early Stages’ play reading series. Kait’s poem “Buzzing” was selected as a finalist in Ruminate magazine’s Janet McCabe Poetry Prize. M.F.A. alumTara Caimi’s short story “Chicken Divan” was accepted for publication in Fire & Knives. Her craft article “Privileged Perspective in Memoir: Building the Bridge of Trust by Trusting the Reader” was accepted for publication in The Writer’s Chronicle. “My Rare Disease,” an excerpt from Tara’s memoir, was published on The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness website in honor of celiac disease awareness month in May. M.A. alumCindy Dlugolecki had a 10-minute play, All Hands on Deck, included in Sonnet Inspirations, a Harrisburg production at Gamut Theatre that featured three other original plays, music, and dance all based on the sonnets of William Shakespeare. All Hands on Deck began as an assignment for Ross Klavan’s Screenwriting Foundation and became a play in Jean Klein’s Playwriting Foundation. Cindy had another 10-minute comedy, Here Comes the Bride’s Mother, performed at Mt. Gretna in August. M.A. alumBrian Fanelli’s poem “How She Hides Her Age” is forthcoming in the fall issue of San Pedo River Review. He also has three other poems, “Remembering Names,” “Late Night Stop,” and “What They Forgot by Morning,” forthcoming in the October issue of Yes, Poetry. M.F.A. alum Patricia Florio had three short stories published by Phyllis Scott Publishing: “All in the Game,” “In the Secret Service,” and “Chosen.” Her memoir-thesis, My Two Mothers, will also soon be published by Phyllis Scott Publishing. M.A. alum Gale Martin's opera novel will be released by Booktrope Publishing in December. M.A. student Lori A. May’s poem “Hindsight” will be published in the forthcoming Accents Publishing anthology of short poems. Lori will also �be speaking this October at the Rochester Writers Conference hosted at Oakland University. M.F.A. alum William D. Prystaukwas the Producer and Still Photographer for the short-film, STABLE directed by Paul Williams. His dramatic horror, Ravencraft, was the Third Place Winner in the AWS Screenwriting Contest. Crime Class Review will be publishing his short story, “Mara,” later this year. William was also interviewed by Lindsey Michelle at Screenplay Scribes for his conversion of his screenplay “Bloodletting” to a novel. His award-winning screenplay, Risen, was recently reviewed by Horrorphilia.com. PANK published his review of the novel “Pittsburgh Noir.” M.F.A. student Joseph Schwartzburt’s poem “Climbing Tree” was published in the summer issue of the Seersucker Rag: A Quarterly Zine. He will also be reading at a Seersucker Live event in September, in front of a few hundred people because Seersucker has been asked to open for a charity jazz concert. Joseph was also recently named to the Seersucker Live board of directors. Hippocampus Magazine, a literary journal published by M.F.A alumDonna Talarico, was featured in the September issue of Poets & Writers. M.F.A. student Sandee Gertz Umbach had a poem, “History of Epilepsy; 500 B.C. to the Renaissance” accepted for the summer 2012 issue of Gargoyle Magazine.     Program Note The Write Life blog welcomes guest posts from faculty, students, and alumni. Email lori.may1@live.wilkes.edu for details. Weekly interviews and literary news are shared online at http://wilkeswritelife.wordpress.com. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs E.S. Farley Library Online Nursing Programs Make A Gift �Human Resources Jobs at Wilkes Offices & Administration Accessibility Statement Financial Aid Adobe Acrobat® Reader Registrar's Office Finance Office Investor Relations Student Work Study Jobs Veterans Services Visit Quick Links Schedule a Visit Parking Information Virtual Tour Campus Map 84 West South Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 1-800-WILKES-U Contact Us Wilkes University © e d c f �© � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Revise This! 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Archives n 2008 n n �sponsored by the Creative Writing Department of Wilkes University and the James Jones Literary Society. Landry was awarded $10,000. Her novel, which competed with about 520 other submissions, follows the story of a single mother and her son, who bring a lively, troubled foster child into their home. Landry, who earned a Ph.D. in Victorian Literature from Columbia University, was inspired to craft the story after a boy on the street asked her where she was going. She told him she was going to teach at a college down the street, but the boy didn’t even know what a college was. “I fell in love with the boy,” Landry said. “He was so vulnerable.” Throughout the years, Landry has had a variety of writing jobs, including editing math books and ghost writing self-help books. She currently is an associate professor of English/Professional Writing at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts.  Now that her novel is award-winning, Landry plans to make some final revisions and try to get it published. She also has short stories slated to be released in Pisgah Review and The Bellingham Review. The runner-up winners were Matthew Dillon, of Port Townsend, WA, for his manuscript tilted Restoration, and Nicholas Gerogiannis, of Birmingham, AL, for his manuscript titled SERE. They were each awarded $750.  The James Jones Fellowship was established in 1992 to “honor the spirit of unblinking honesty, determination, and insight into modern culture as exemplified by (the writings of) James Jones.” Requests for guidelines should be sent, along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope, to James Jones First Novel Fellowship, c/o Creative Writing Department, Wilkes University, 84 West South Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766, or via e-mail to jamesjonesfirstnovel@wilkes.edu   The submission deadline for entries is March 1 of each year. Award-winning Novelist Jef Talarigo Joins Faculty �Jeff Talarigo Award-winning author Jeff Talarigo is the newest addition to the faculty of the Graduate Creative writing Program. Talarigo is the author of The Pearl Diver, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award. His latest book is The Ginseng Hunter. He was born in Pennsylvania and educated at Slippery Rock University. He currently lives in Boston with his wife and son. When doing a book tour over the summer, Talarigo was encouraged by advisory board member and novelist Colum McCann to join the program’s faculty. What Talarigo plans to stress to fiction students is to write what you don’t know. “I like the idea of stepping outside of who you are and writing about what you’re not familiar with,” Talarigo said. “I also find that it’s a challenge, and it forces me to improve my writing with each book and to go in different directions.” Currently, Talarigo is working on a novel about Palestine, influenced by his trips to the region in 1990 and 1993 and plans to complete a solid draft of the novel by the summer. He is also doing research for a novel about Chechnya.    Etruscan Press Managing Editor Joins Poetry Faculty Doris Umbers Doris Umbers, the current managing editor for Etruscan Press, has joined the Graduate Creative Writing Program as a poetry faculty member. Umbers currently teaches at Empire State College and received her PhD in English from Binghamton University, where she edited the literary journal Harpur Palate. Umbers also worked as an editorial assistant to �Binghamton’s Creative Writing Program and as an assistant to the director of the Poetry Center in Patterson, NJ. Her poems have appeared in various anthologies and journals, including Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art and the Paterson Literary Review. She also authored, What Persists, which was a finalist for the BkMk Press John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. Umbers had her first experience as a faculty member in January when she stayed on campus to experience the 8-day residency. “Having heard of the residency before joining Etruscan Press, I was delighted to be able to experience it not only as a managing editor, as I did the previous year, but also as a member of the creative writing faculty,” she said. She adds that she noticed a real sense of community among the faculty members and writers and looks forward to working with students who are “self-motivated, who can work outside the classroom and bring that living to their writing.” Students working with Umbers can expect to learn about linguistics and nature and how they influence poetry. “The endangerment of our biological environment is in part caused by language. I bring that learning to my own poetry as well as my teaching,” Umbers said. She also wants to stress to students the importance of revision and patience in the writing process, which she learned from working on her manuscript and trying to get it published. “One of the more important things I can bring to the program is the idea of a poet’s work as a lifetime of work, a continuum, and the patience such a view requires—not just patience but the resolve to work tirelessly despite the ever changing world of publishing,” Umbers said. Students will also be able to approach her about opportunities with Etruscan Press, which is housed in the creative writing office of Wilkes University. The press offers internships in all aspects of the publishing world. Umbers would also like to share with students the work of the poets the press publishes, including William Heyen and H.L. Hix, both National Book Award finalists.    Student Profle: Rev. Raphael Ezeh �Rev. Raphael Ezeh M.A. student Rev. Raphael Ezeh is proof that the low-residency Graduate Creative Writing Program of Wilkes University extends beyond the borders of the United States.  Ezeh was born in Umodioka Village, located in southeast Nigeria, and moved to the United States nine years ago as part of a missionary congregation called the Missionary Society of St. Paul of Nigeria. He worked in a regional headquarters in Houston for a year, before being reassigned to New Orleans and later Chicago, where he currently resides and works as the pastor of Corpus Christi Church in the city’s  south side.   “Mostly, I do what every pastor in a Catholic parish does – minister to parishioners, celebrate the sacraments, work with various ministries in the parish and work with the administration of the parish and parish facilities,” Ezeh said.   When searching for creative writing programs, Ezeh did a simple Internet search and discovered the program at Wilkes. He found it appealing not only because of its low-residency aspect, but also because it was one of the few programs he found that offered poetry, fiction and screenwriting as areas of study.   Ezeh’s faith and experience of two cultures have had a direct influence on his creative thesis, a screenplay and novel he’s working on about a boy named Jamar who struggles to overcome poverty. The screenplay and novel are set in a Nigerian village and also Chicago, tracing Jamar’s journey.   “I believe that people in Africa and the Western World can learn a lot from each other,” Ezeh said. “I wanted to bring aspects of Nigerian and American cultures and lifestyles together.”   The family theme that runs through Ezeh’s thesis is also a reflection of his home culture. “In my culture, immediate and extended family relationships and communal spirit run very deep and play vital roles in everyone’s lives,” he said. “I see a lot of individualism here in America.”   Ezeh is uncertain how long he will be living in the United States, but he does know any transfer to another country by his missionary organization �would not happen until a few years, allowing him to complete the graduate program.     Faculty Notes Marlon James Marlon James’ second novel, The Book of Night Women, will be published in February by Riverhead Press. The book focuses on the story of Lilith, a Jamaican slave who works on a sugar plantation at the end of the 18th Century, and The Night Women, a group of slaves plotting a revolt. Michael Mailer The Lodger, a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 film produced by Michael Mailer, will be released on DVD on February 10. The movie stars Simon Baker, Rachel Leigh Cook and Hope Davis and follows the story of a modern serial killer emulating Jack the Ripper. David Poyer David Poyer’s latest novel, The Weapon, was published in November by St. Martin’s Press. The book is the 11th in his Dan Lenson series.    Student Notes Chris Bullard M.A. student Chris Bullard had two poems, “Million Dollar Movie” and “Godzilla Agonistes” published in the Popular Culture section of the winter 2008-2009 issue of the journal Umbrella. Richard Fellinger M.F.A. student Richard Fellinger had a short story, “A Completely New Life,” accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of The Potomac Review. It will be the fourth story published from his rust-belt short story collection. Carol MacAllister M.A. student Carol MacAllister’s short story, “Red Light,” was short-listed in the 2008 Christmas Chiller contest in the U.K. �Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. Farley Library Human Resources Jobs at Wilkes Online Nursing Offices & Administration Accessibility Statement Financial Aid Adobe Acrobat® Reader Registrar's Office Finance Office Investor Relations Student Work Study Jobs Veterans Services Visit Quick Links Schedule a Visit Parking Information Virtual Tour Campus Map Make A Gift �84 West South Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 1-800-WILKES-U Contact Us Wilkes University © e © d c f � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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November 2019 Left to right: Anthony Kapolka, Pamela Turchin, Janine Dubik, Sean Egan, Patrick Kelley, Travis Shick n 2017 n n �Summer Commencement We congratulate the graduates of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, who were awarded their diplomas at the summer commencement ceremony on Sunday afternoon, September 10, 2017, at Wilkes University: M.A. Aurora Bonner (Creative nonfiction) Andre Carter (Fiction) Janine Dubik (Fiction) Sean Egan (Screenwriting) Patricia Florio (Fiction) Patrick Kelley (Fiction) Cooper Gorelick (Screenwriting) Lisa Greim (Creative nonfiction) Bibiana Krall (Fiction) Ann Miller (Creative nonfiction) Toni Muma (Creative nonfiction) Travis Shick (Fiction) Pamela Turchin (Fiction) Carol (Christy) White (Poetry) M.F.A. Draper Brown Jennifer Jenkins Anthony Kapolka Thomas Simko   Congratulations to each of these members of our Wilkes writing community, and welcome to the newest members of the Wilkes Alumni Association!  James Jones First Novel Fellowship Awarded for Quantum Girl Theory Erin Kate Ryan, Minneapolis, MN, has been awarded the 2017 James Jones First Novel Fellowship for her manuscript Quantum Girl Theory. Runners-up Glori Simmons, Oakland, CA is the first runner up with her manuscript Restell. Second runner-up Jennie Li, is from San Bruno, CA, and was honored for her manuscript The Unpassing. The James Jones First Novel Fellowship is given annually for a novel-inprogress by a U.S. writer who has not published a novel. Winners receive �$10,000. Runners-up will receive $1,000. A selection from the winning work is published in Provincetown Arts. The 2017 James Jones First Novel Fellowship was judged by Laurie Lowenstein, James Jones Society president, novelist and author of Unmentionables; Greg Hrbek, novelist, author and past James Jones First Novel Fellowship winner with his novel, The Hindenburg; and Lisa Greim, journalist and author. The 27th Annual James Jones First Novel Fellowship will be awarded to an American author of a first novel-in-progress, in 2018, by the James Jones Literary Society. Eligible writers have never published a novel, are U.S. citizens, and may have published other types of work including nonfiction and short stories. Big   . Picture? The Little Things: HippoCamp 2017 Wrap-up By Aurora Bonner (M.A. '17) The man in front of me squealed, "Oh my goodness, what are these?!" Not waiting for an answer, he grabbed two of the desserts, one, a cupcake with a whipped chocolate topping and the other, a slim slice of cake so dense it was almost black. "Oh! Tiramisu cupcakes and flourless cake," I heard the event organizer say. Donna Talarico Beerman (M.F.A. '13) seemed to be everywhere throughout the weekend, and always smiling, as if hosting Hippocamp 2017: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers is her favorite way to spend the weekend. I turned to say hello, but she was already off, carrying a load of conference materials through the crowd. �There were crowds, but they're manageable. Unlike the annual AWP conference, faces of presenters and attendees became familiar, prompting everyone to geek out. "Bev Donofrio sat right next to me in the last session. I was only a foot away from her!" gushed one attendee, as we made heaping lunch plates. When I told her I attended the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University, she shot me rapid-fire questions. "One of the things I like best about the program at Wilkes is the writing community. It doesn't matter where you are from or what you write, you are immediately absorbed into this giant, cable-knit sweater of a community. Everyone is approachable and accessible," I said. "Like Hippocamp?" "Yes, I guess you could say that." "Nice! So you're with your tribe." "What's that?" I asked. "You're with your tribe. This is your community!" "Oh, yes! Yes, exactly!" Later, I joined my tribe at the Wilkes booth. Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. '13) and M.A. student Danie Watson were congratulating Sam Chiarelli (M.F.A. '16) on his upcoming book, Dig: A Personal Prehistoric Journey, due out from the Hippocampus Books Division in Fall of 2018. �"Vicki, you're blowing up on Twitter," Danie said, turning her phone for Vicki to see. Vicki presented one of the first sessions early Saturday morning, examining the use of speculation in creative nonfiction. As conversation shifted into Twitterland, my thoughts drifted to the work I had at home. Not only did I owe my mentor work, I also had papers to grade. I'm in the 612 cohort of students, working on my M.F.A., while juggling a bunch of adjunct classes and momming it at home. Distracted, I floated into the next session. The woman presenting was ageless, somewhere between twenty and fifty, soft-spoken and a self-proclaimed bookworm. In a room full of bookworms, not surprising. But what was surprising was the passion that erupted from her when she began presenting. Her excitement about the topic—and her enthusiasm to share her revelations with us—was infectious. She explained how she applied the lesson to her own work, and then gave us a copy of her notes so we could see exactly what she'd done. Seeing this helped me imagine how I could apply her lesson to my current the project at Wilkes. I skipped through the rest of the conference, with a grin perhaps only Donna surpassed. �My biggest take-away from Hippocamp? The little things. Mashtini bars, tiramisu cupcakes (okay, the food is really good), the blending of voices and experiences, the sharable moments, and the extraordinary buzz of community. The ageless presenter with a soft voice and a craft lesson that knocked me into a permanent smile was not the only person sharing. The entire community, attendees, presenters, keynotes, volunteers, and organizers, shared. As a student, I was sitting in awe of greats like Beverly Donofrio and Tobias Wolff, but I was also learning applicable lessons on craft and insight into the post-writing world. The whole conference screams community. Even the tweets. Aurora D. Bonner (M.A. '17) is a writer and artist who teaches in the Endless Mountains. She is currently working on a memoir that follows her through several National Parks in the American West. Bonner is an M.F.A. candidate at Wilkes University. Follow her @aurora_bonner.    5 �From June 23 to 25, 2017, alum Vicki Mayk hosted her first writing retreat "Healing Through Our Stories" in Bangor, PA. Eleven writers joined Mayk at the Kirkridge Retreat Center for the writing and storytelling retreat. Questions for Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. '13): On Hosting a Writing Retreat Mayk is a memoirist, nonfiction writer and magazine editor whose work has appeared in print and online publications including Ms. Magazine, Hippocampus Magazine, Literary Mama, and the Manifest-Station. She created and teaches a memoir workshop for the bereaved at St. Luke's Hospice in Bethlehem, PA, and teaches writing workshops for those dealing with loss under the umbrella of her business, Write To Heal. She is the editor of Wilkes, the University Magazine at Wilkes University, where she also teaches adult creative nonfiction workshops and a class about the power of story for first year students. We asked her a few questions about hosting a writing retreat, and how her M.F.A. internship blossomed into a full-fledged retreat. 1. What was the catalyst that made you want to host a writing retreat? After participating in a writing residency at the Mailer Center in Provincetown in summer 2013 and a second residency in summer 2015 at the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, I realized how valuable it is for a writer to be able to "get away" for some focused writing time. A year later, in August 2017, I attended a session on starting a writing retreat given by Joanne Lozar Glenn at HippoCamp, the nonfiction conference started by Wilkes creative writing alumna Donna Talarico-Beerman. Those experiences showed me how hosting a retreat could be a natural extension of one of the things I like to do best – teach – while providing that "away time" for fellow writers similar to what I �enjoyed in my residency. 2. What benefits do you think a retreat has for a writer? There are two benefits for writers: it gives them some time away from home and their daily routine to dedicate to writing and it also offers an opportunity to interact with other writers. It's kind of a yin/yang type of thing: time alone and time with like-minded people. 3. What are the logistics of planning a retreat? Well, it can be a bit daunting because there are a lot of logistics! The session I attended at HippoCamp was helpful because the presenter provided a sample timeline and summarized the steps. You have to find a venue and reserve the date. Then there is planning the program for the weekend (since my retreat is a weekend), which includes a mix of workshops and prompts and down time for people to do their own work. As organizer, I have to also coordinate food and refreshments, advertise and promote the retreat, take registrations and answer the 1,000 questions that your attendees may have. And you have to pay attention to all kinds of things like whether attendees have food allergies, if one of them has to leave early (or arrive late), and bring along all the materials you will need for the weekend. 4. How/Why did you pick your venue?  I teach a memoir workshop for St. Luke's Hospice in Bethlehem, PA, and a social worker there, hearing that I was planning to offer a retreat, suggested Kirkridge Retreat Center. I also had found a retreat center in New York state that I considered. But Kirkridge ended up being a great choice: it's in a lovely country setting that allows writers to get away from it all. They also can provide all the food, and the cost is relatively reasonable for attendees. It's not as luxurious as a hotel, but people were willing to have more modest accommodations for a more reasonable price. However, I'm also experimenting with using a bed and breakfast for �an upcoming retreat. There are a lot of options – and there's no single "right fit." One of the biggest challenges is that almost everyplace requires you to guarantee a certain minimum number of people staying at the location in order for you to use the facility. 5. What is the return on your investment? Well – you asked why I do this in addition to everything else I'm involved with, including having a day job. So the first answer that came to my mind was that I'm crazy! But all joking aside: it gives me great satisfaction to put together an event for a group of writers. It allows me to expand the community of writers that I am a part of and it also allows me to expand my teaching. I also should note that my first retreat was designed for both writers and non-writers and was aimed at helping people use writing as a way to heal from grief, trauma and other challenges. It's part of an initiative of mine that I call Write to Heal, which focuses on using writing as a way to process our experiences. It grew out of my hospice workshop – which I created as part of my M.F.A. teaching experiences. Talk about coming full circle! If anyone in my Wilkes family is interested in receiving information about my upcoming retreats in June and September 2018, they can email me at vicki.mayk@gmail.com. For more information, visit Vicki's website. Danie Watson is a freelance writer based in Scranton, PA. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in fiction from Wilkes University, where she serves as a graduate assistant. Faculty, Student, and Alumni News Faculty News: �Gregory Fletcher directed the play Image by Jack Rushen for the Broadway Laurie Bound Theatre Festival in Sojourn Jean NYC in August. discussed her writing process and of Cannady a Hungry (Crave: Soul) signed books at the Wilkes and Lenore Hart's short story Etruscan booth at AWP17 "Thirteen Ways of Living" was a finalist for The Florida Review's 2017 Editors' Awards. Ross Klavan wrote "Act Two: A Craft Essay" that was recently published in the magazine for Down and Out Books. J. Michael Lennon moderated an event focusing on "fake news" at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on October 1. The event was organized by Laura Moran (M.F.A. '12). Lennon will speak at an event in Washington, D.C. commemorating the 1967 March on the Pentagon, sponsored by the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee, along with Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Yarrow (of "Peter, Paul and Mary), and Vietnam War vets. The event will be at the Western Presbyterian Church in Washington on Saturday, October 21st. The Norman Mailer Society is co-sponsoring the event, which will conclude with a March to the Pentagon, and a gathering at the Vietnam Memorial. David Poyer will be republished in Hungarian in Galaktika this fall. Student and Alumni News: Jennifer D. Bokal's (M.A. '10) newest book, Her Rocky Mountain Hero, will be released by Harlequin Romantic Suspense in November, 2017. HRMH is the first book in the Rocky Mountain Justice series. The second book in the series, Her Rocky Mountain Defender, will be released in April, 2018. Craig Czury's (M.F.A. '08) new book Fifteen Stones has been published by NYQ Books.  Cindy Dlugolecki (M.A. '11) will have her "Ghosts of Mechanicsburg" produced at the Little Theatre of Mechanicsburg the last two weekends in October and her "ANGELs INC. produced at the same community theater �the first two weekends in December. ANGELs INC. is published by Blue Moon Plays. Richard Fellinger (M.F.A. '10) published an op-ed on responding to racial hatred in the Lancaster paper after the events in Charlottesville.  Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. '13) presented the writing retreat "Healing Through Our Stories" from June 23-25 at Kirkridge Retreat Center in Bangor, Pa. In 2018, she will be offering retreats once again at Kirkridge in June, and in September at the New Jersey shore. Vicki also presented "Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly,... Using Speculation In Creative Nonfiction" at the HippoCamp Creative Nonfiction Conference from Sept. 8-10 in Lancaster, Pa. She is teaching "Life Stories: A Memoir Workshop" at Union United Church of Christ in Neffs, Pa., in October.  Lori A. May (M.F.A.'13) has an essay included in an upcoming book, Writing Creative Writing: Essays from the Field, scheduled for 2018 publication with Dundurn Press. Margaret McCaffrey (M.A. '14) had two memoir pieces read on Vision Australia Radio in celebration of Father's Day: 'Poultry Farm' and 'Leaving for London'.  Donna Talarico (M.F.A. '10) has the cover story in the November 2017 issue of The Writer (available in October), which focuses on technology and the writing life. She'll also have a story in the same magazine in the December 2018 issue, on literary magazines and website accessibility. She continues to write a monthly marketing column for Wiley's higher education newsletter, "Recruiting and Retaining Adult Learners." She presented "Interview Like a Journalist, Write Like a Marketer" at two higher education marketing conferences: WPCampus in June and HighEdWeb in October. Donna was the featured guest on two creativenonfiction themed podcasts in August, the Brevity Magazine podcast with Allison K. Williams and #CNFpod with Brendan O'Meara.  Patti Taylor (M.A. '15) had two books published over the summer. Making Miracles: 1st I Cured My IN-Curable Blindness, So Why the HELL Am I Still Fat? and Slip Away: 11 Escape Stories under her entire name:  Dr. Patti Novotny Taylor. Taylor also delivered a keynote speech July at an event for Courage to Change Enrichment Leadership & Mentoring, LLC and received an award for the speech. She also received the Stephen Shank award for teaching for the third time this summer. Taylor is also being included in Who's Who in the World for the second time. Danie Watson (M.A. student) had her book review of Stranger In the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit featured in the �Fall 2017 edition of Tailor Made Magazine. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. Farley Library Human Resources Jobs at Wilkes Online Nursing Offices & Administration Accessibility Statement Financial Aid Adobe Acrobat® Reader Registrar's Office Finance Office Investor Relations Student Work Study Jobs Veterans Services Visit Quick Links Schedule a Visit Parking Information Virtual Tour Campus Map Make A Gift �84 West South Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 1-800-WILKES-U Contact Us Wilkes University © e © d c f � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Revise This! 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Pay It Jan Quackenbush and Kaylie Jones display the James Jones Literary Society's donation to the new Faculty/Alum Scholarship fund. Forward puts scholarship money in the hands of every Wilkes Creative Writing faculty member and alum, who can nominate one student per term for the award. The $2,500 defrays a portion of tuition in a student's first semester in the program. Another scholarship initiative now in development got a boost in June with a $5,000 donation from the James Jones Literary Society. The Faculty/Alum Scholarship Fund, organized by Dr. J. Michael Lennon and Jan Quackenbush, will be added to the merit awards given each June to continuing students. Those scholarships are based on faculty nominations, and include the Beverly Hiscox, Norris Church Mailer, and Jennifer Diskin Scholarships, and the Bergman Family Foundation Award. In its first semester, 10 students in the Jan. 2016 cohort received Pay It Forward awards, including seven in the low-residency cohort (faculty and alums who referred them are in parentheses): Cooper Gorelick (referred by Anne Henry) Lisa Greim (Kaylie Jones) Patrick Kelley (Rachel Strayer) Bibiana Krall (David Poyer) Christopher Owens (Bill Schneider) Mark Rivera (Danielle Poupore) �Pamela Turchin (Nichole Kanney) Janine Dubik of the new Wilkes-Barre weekender program (referred by Sam Chiarelli) and Mesa weekenders Toni Muma (referred by Austin Bennett) and Christy White (referred by Bonnie Culver) also received $2,500 scholarships. In June, four more low-residency students and one Wilkes-Barre weekender received Pay It Forward scholarships: Todd Conaster (Phil Brady) Christa Mallecoccio (Rachel Strayer) Camika Spencer (Lori A. May) Lindsey Wotanis (J. Michael Lennon) Amanda Cino (Rick Priebe) Know someone who would benefit from the program? Let them know about the $2,500 scholarship, and pass along their names and contact information to Program Director Dr. Bonnie Culver. Tim Seibles named Poet Laureate of Virginia Etruscan Press author and Wilkes Creative Writing Advisory Board member Tim Seibles was named Poet Laureate of Virginia July 15 by Gov. Terry McAuliffe. Seibles read from his National Book Award-nominated collection, Fast Animal (Etruscan Press, 2012), at the June residency, and spoke at the closing banquet. Here's a video of him reading "Ode to My Hands" from Fast Animal at the National Book Awards Finalists Reading in 2012. A dedicated ambassador for poetry, Seibles has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. He received his bachelor's degree from Southern Methodist University and his MFA in creative writing from Norwich University/Vermont College of Fine Arts. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. Sheri Reynolds, a colleague at Old Dominion, called Seibles "a visionary writer and teacher ... a generous mentor to his students and a much-loved colleague." �Five and a half questions for Brian Fanelli (M.F.A. '10) by Lisa Greim A literal shout-out to a Wilkes poet happened Sept. 20 when The Writer's Almanac, a daily update produced by American Public Media and sponsored by the Poetry Foundation, featured work from Brian Fanelli's new book. Click this link to hear "Raking Leaves," read by a familiar voice, A Prairie Home Companion's retired host, Garrison Keillor. Brian Fanelli's Waiting for the Dead to Speak. Waiting for the Dead to Speak is Fanelli's second full-length book of poetry, published Sept. 12 by the New York Quarterly Foundation's imprint, NYQ Books. Reviewer Maria Mazziotti Gillan calls Fanelli's work "vibrant, muscular, carefully crafted poems rooted in working-class rural Pennsylvania." Links to order from your favorite bookseller may be found at New York �Quarterly's website. You can also find both the book and its author at a launch party Oct. 7 at the Olde Brick Theater in Scranton, or at readings in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York this fall. The full schedule is on his website: brianfanelli.com/events/ Fanelli holds a Ph.D. from Binghamton University, along with his Wilkes M.F.A., and is Professor of English at Lackawanna College. We asked him a few questions about the pieces in Waiting for the Dead to Speak and the life of a poet. Has your writing process changed since you started your M.A.? My schedule is vastly different now than when I enrolled in the Wilkes program and even different from when I finished the M.F.A. in 2010. I have a full-time teaching load and committee responsibilities that come with the job. So, I tend to write around my teaching schedule, often in the morning and then later at night. When I was in the program, I worked a few part-time jobs and had more time for writing. That said, I still follow a routine of writing first thing in the morning, before I do anything else. Often, my thoughts are most fluid in the morning. How has your poetry changed? My poetry has changed drastically since I enrolled in the Wilkes Creative Writing Program. I have deepened my knowledge of the poetic tradition, for one, thanks to the reading lists that my mentors gave me while in the program. It has also deepened because of my experience finishing my doctorate at Binghamton University. I had to take a variety of courses and read poets that I may not have read if not for the program. I have always written narrative poetry. I like poetry that is accessible in its language and democratic. I also like poetry that tells a story in whatever form that may take. I think, however, that I am getting more comfortable writing longer, meditative poems. I used to write far shorter narrative poems, but now I try to push deeper. I'm also more comfortable trying different forms. I thought the most evocative line was, "The worst thing to do is to forget." Is that why you write? That line comes from the book's title poem, "Waiting for the Dead to Speak," and it was about my father, specifically how I never dreamt about him after he died, unlike my other family members. I had this fear that I would forget certain memories of him, and I felt this frustration because I didn't dream about him. This book, more than anything else I've written, is about the past, about the different ways that the dead speak to us, either through dreams or through memories. It is also about the idea of not forgetting, which is what that line is all about. �The personas in your poetry are so representative of the diferent selves we try on as we go through life: punk rocker and homeowner, working-class kid and overworked adjunct. Was this a conscious choice as you wrote, to set up these parallels? I wrote the poems over a span of five or six years, through different workshops, including some of the workshops I completed in the Wilkes program. I don't think I intentionally meant to represent the different ideas of self, since the poems were written over a longer period of time. However, when I started organizing the collection, which was a long process, I was conscious of how the poems interacted and spoke to each other, even worked against each other at times. To paraphrase Frost, the order of a book of poems should act like the final poem. Who and what are you reading now? I have always been interested in issues of class and labor, so I just finished two books that got a lot of buzz within the last year, Nancy Isenberg's book White Trash: A 400 Year History of Class in America and JD Vance's book Hillbilly Elegy. I liked them both. I was drawn to Isenberg's historical lens of class issues, which was a nice contrast to Vance's personal account of growing up poor in rural Ohio. I think both books are so important now, in the context of this election cycle and the rise of Trumpism, more specifically the anger of the white working-class. I also just read and plan to re-read Ross Gay's Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. It is a wonderful, moving collection of poems. The poems are about gardening, but they're about more than that. They are these long narratives that use gardening as an entry point to talk about memories of the poet's family or friends long gone. I'm going through an anthology called The Fire This Time, which was just released and deals with matters of race in America. Other than that, I've been reading in preparation of what I'm teaching this semester, so a lot of American literature, going back to the Puritans, to Anne Bradstreet's poems, to Phyllis Wheatley, to Native American accounts of the American experience. It's been helpful when trying to figure out where we've been as a country and where we may be headed. Is there a moment or an experience from your Wilkes program that has stuck with you? I remember sitting down with my poetry mentors during some of my first residencies. I remember Christine Gelineau and Neil Shepard handing me lists of books that I needed to read. I realized how much I didn't know and how much I wanted to learn. All of us are always learning. There are writers we haven't read yet. The Wilkes program is really great at pushing you, expanding your knowledge, and pulling you out of your comfort zone as a writer and reader. I am forever grateful for that. �Lisa Greim, a freelance journalist and content marketing writer in Denver, is a graduate assistant  pursuing her M.A. degree in Creative Writing from Wilkes University. Summer Commencement includes 21 creative writing degree recipients   Three cheers for the following members of the Wilkes writing community, who completed their work at the June residency and received degrees Sept. 11 at Wilkes' summer graduation ceremony. Master of Arts Anna Laurene Arnett (Creative Nonfiction) Spencer Aubrey (Poetry) Michelle Byrnes (Screenwriting) Wendy Decker (Fiction) Kayleigh DeMace (Fiction) Brianna Eller (Fiction) Joshua Horwitz (Creative Nonfiction) Jennifer Jenkins (Fiction) M. Anthony Kapolka (Fiction) Nathalie O'Brien (Fiction) Dale Louise Mervine (Fiction) Kerri Miller (Poetry) Michael Mortimer (Screenwriting) Donna Talarico (Publishing) Kristin Vath (Fiction) Master of Fine Arts Caryn Devincenti Megan Haikes Corinne Nulton Vanessa Taylor-O'Connor Ezzel Thomas John Winston Faculty News Screenwriting faculty member Ross Klavan is one of three authors, along with Charles Salzberg and Tim O'Mara, in Triple Shot, a new compilation of three novellas just published by Down and Out Books. His �noir-ish story of cops who go bad, and then worse, is called "Thump Gun Hitched." Fiction faculty member Lenore Hart's narrative poem "Crazy Quilt 1918" was selected for inclusion in the upcoming anthology Forgotten Women, forthcoming later this year from Grayson Books. A novel manuscript, The Alchemy of Light (formerly Dead Light), which Hart has read from several times at residencies, was a semifinalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Novel Award.  Galleys are completed for faculty member Nancy McKinley's short story "The Dog" in the canine-themed anthology To Unsnare Time's Warp. She promises, "The collection of dog stories and poems will make you howl with literary delight." You can get a pre-publication discount at Main Street Rag Publishing's online bookstore.  Playwriting faculty member Juanita Rockwell was awarded the 20162017 Marion International Fellowship to write a play with songs set on the day of the bombing of Hiroshima, from the perspective of various women whose work led to its detonation. She just returned from "Scientific Delirium Madness 3.0," the third annual July residency at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, with a dozen scientists and artists working on projects that bridge the (imaginary) gap between science and art.  Student and Alumni News Cheryl Bazzoui (M.A. '14) has been busy writing book reviews on the Story Circle Network's website: Hope You Guess My Name by Heather Harlen; Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant: Undercover & Overwhelmed as a CIA Wife and Mother by Lillian McCloy; and In Robin's Nest by Elizabeth Sumner Wafler. Her review of Tipping Point by fiction faculty member David Poyer aired on WPSU's BookMark.  Jennifer D. Bokal (M.A. '10) gave a presentation on character development at the Lilac City Fiction Writers August meeting. In early September she presented on writing love scenes at the Connecticut Fiction Fest. Jen also signed a three-book contract with Harlequin's Romantic Suspense line, with the first one released for the holidays in 2017. Jen is represented by Chris Tomasino of the Tomasino Agency. M.A. �Todd Conner appears this fall in Metamorphoses. student Todd Conatser, whose stage name is Todd Conner, will present three performances of Metamorphoses Sept. 27, Oct. 25 and Nov. 15 at the Players Club,16 Gramercy Park South, New York City. Seats are available by guest RSVP only at mayasphereproject@gmail.com. A $15 cash admission will be asked at the club, whose dress code is business casual. Conner premiered his solo storytelling version of Ovid's epic mythology in 2000 at the S. Mark Taper Foundation Amphitheatre in Beverly Hills, Calif. Entertainment Today in L.A. called it a "grand combination of art and entertainment." Conner learned to play the harp for this production, and composed new music to accompany his live storytelling. Wendy Decker (M.A. '16) will teach a young adult workshop at Neptune Public Library in Neptune, N.J., 6-8 p.m. on Sept. 29. Cindy Dlugolecki (M.A. '11) had her 10-minute play, A Matter Of Taste, produced in August at Hershey Area Playhouse. The Bombcatchers, another 10-minute work, had two staged readings, at Mt. Gretna Playhouse in August and Hershey Area Playhouse in September. Cindy also signed a contract with Once-in-a-Blue Moon Plays to publish her one-act Christmas comedy, A.N.G.E.L.s Inc. Gale �Gale Martin's Don Juan in Hankey, Pa. Martin's (M.F.A. '10) novel Don Juan in Hankey, Pa., has been reissued in a newly revised edition by Northampton House Press. Editor Lenore Hart says: "Peek beneath the surface of an extraordinary small-town opera company, and get to know a fabulous cast of characters: determined flirts, a lusty singing gaucho, ingenious manipulators, a bipolar ketchup heiress, devious lovers, and some very determined ghosts. Delve into high society in Hankey, Pa.—a world of simmering seductions, convoluted mysteries and entertaining intrigues. Don Juan in Hankey, Pa., will delight readers everywhere, opera lovers or not!" Janine P. Dubik (M.A. student) is among 16 writers whose poems were selected for the 2016 Poetry in Transit program with the Luzerne County Transportation Authority in Wilkes-Barre. In its 10th year, Poetry in Transit displays the poems in each LCTA bus route from September through August. The 2016 program launched Aug. 19. Richard Fellinger (M.F.A. '10) published a pair of op-eds on the presidential race in July and August in the Lancaster paper, lancasteronline.com.  M.A. student Cooper Gorelick is now working for the Theater �Department at Rutgers University Camden as a production stage manager and event staff crew, starting with their production of Little Shop of Horrors, which runs Oct. 26-30. He adds: "It's what I'll be contending with while I write an M.A. screenplay about putting on a play." Heather Harlen (M.A. '08) participated in the Collingswood Book Festival Oct. 1 in Collingswood, N.J., showcasing her novel Hope You Guess My Name: A Thriller, from Northampton House Press. Heather also wrote an essay for Yoganonymous called "Closer To Quiet: How Meditation Helped Me Heal My Grief." Scenes from Lit Crawl Sept. 2 in Denver, organized by Monique Antonette Lewis M.F.A. student Jennifer Jenkins is teaching "Thinking and Writing" at King's College for the fall 2016 semester, while she continues to write for the marketing/communications department at Wilkes as a graduate assistant. Monique Antonette Lewis (M.F.A. '12) was the lead organizer for the first annual Lit Crawl Denver, a project of the Litquake Foundation. The Sept. 2 event featured more than 30 local writers holding readings across six venues in northwest Denver. Her organization, At The Inkwell, also held a reading which included Aurora, Colo., poet laureate Jovan Mays. Lori A. May (M.F.A.'13) has new writing in the Seattle Post Intelligencer and Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. She will be at AWP 2017, speaking on the panel "Don't forget the day job: preparing creative writing graduates for lifelong careers." In October, Lori is presenting at �three writers' conferences: Write on the Sound, Surrey International Writers' Conference, and BinderCon NYC. She is also a featured reader at the WordsWest Literary Series in Seattle, taking place October 19. Josh Penzone's (M.A. '13) short story "After Zion" appears in the October issue of FICTION Silicon Valley. His short story "The Scratch" will appear in an upcoming issue of Chantwood Magazine. Jim Scheers (M.A. '08) showcased his novel This Is What You Want, This What You Get (Northampton House Press) at the Collingswood Book Festival Oct. 1 in Collingswood, N.J. M.A. student Karley Stasko has been appointed a graduate assistant to Dean Paul Riggs in the Wilkes University College of Arts, Humanities and Social Services. M.A. student Ronnie K. Stephens reports: "I've had numerous posts from my blog picked up by various outlets over the last couple of months, including Scary Mommy and The Good Men Project. The topics range from the dreaded sex talk and parenting through divorce to Pokemon Go and mental health. I even had my son's birth story circulated by the You Share Project!" Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Archives Cecilia Galante’s Work Is All Grown Up Related Links Calendars & Schedules Campus Map Centers for Excellence Faculty Publications Graduate Bulletin (.pdf) Graduate Bulletin Online 2014 n n �Graduate Student Handbook Library Office of the Registrar Online Learning Professional Pharmacy Application School of Nursing - Graduate Program Student Handbook Schools, Departments, Though Cecilia Galante has made a name for herself in the YA genre, her novels aimed at young adult and middle-level readers are anything but child’s play.  Her first book, The Patron Saint of Butterflies (2008), deals with teenage best friends growing up on a religious commune, and the violence the girls experience at the hands of the group’s leader.  Galante’s Hershey Herself (2008) features a teenage protagonist spending time in a shelter for battered women.  The Sweetness of Salt (2011) introduces readers to a high-school valedictorian who veers off her chosen path after discovering a family secret. During the next year, Galante will venture into another section of the bookstore with the publication of The Invisibles, her first novel aimed at the adult market.  The Invisibles tells the story of four high school best friends who’ve gone their separate ways.  The women reunite in their thirties following a suicide attempt by Grace, who tries to hang herself. The friends take a road trip that causes them to delve into the past, reopen old wounds, and alter their lives forever.  “Secrets come out that shatter the image they have of each other,” says Galante. While The Invisibles may be aimed at a different target audience, Galante’s approach to the work was the same.  “The difference between young adult and adult is very, very slim,” Galante explains.  “I never set out to write a YA novel or an adult novel.  I really set out to write the best novel that I can.  You have to write three-dimensional characters who are going to take you on the ride of your life.  That’s the bottom line.” Galante expects a summer 2015 release for The Invisibles.  In addition, she’s hoping to see the story on screen with talks of a film adaptation underway.  “All I can say is, it’s in the works.” Still, Galante’s not ready to abandon her teenage roots.  Random House is set to release her next YA book, Be Not Afraid, this coming spring.  This tale may have readers sleeping with the lights on as it crosses the threshold into the supernatural via young heroine, Marin, and her unusual Divisions �perceptive abilities.  “It’s like The Exorcist for YA readers,” says Galante. Even with two novels slated to hit the shelves and a potential film shoot in the near future, Galante isn’t ready to sit back and relax.  “I’m in the throws of working on another novel,” she says. “It’s something I haven’t been able to let go of.”  And though her storylines often take a dark turn, Galante has a bright outlook when it comes to her writing career’s hectic pace.  “It will be kind of crazy having back-to-back releases, but it will be fun, too.” All the World’s a Stage for Jean Klein & Wilkes Playwrights Jean Klein is not playing around, but she sure is having a good time.  Though playwriting tends to have fewer students than other genres in the Wilkes M.A./M.F.A. programs, what Klein’s students and alums lack in quantity, they’ve been making up in quality, as well as staged readings and full productions.  “I’m kind of proud,” Klein says. "We don’t have big numbers of people who take playwriting.”  Here are just a few Wilkes playwrights who’ve recently produced:  Cindy Dlugolecki’s ten-minute comedies  At The End Of Her Rope, Real Housewives Of The Bible, Here Comes The Bride’s Mother, All Hands on Deck, and Royal Tea have all spent time in the spotlight on Pennsylvania stages, as has her full-length drama SNAP! Rachel Strayer’s full-length play, her M.A. capstone Drowning Ophelia, received its world premiere production at the Mojo Theatre Space by Repurposed Theatre in San Francisco. A staged reading is planned for New York City’s Ensemble Atria, with a potential full production in the future.  Strayer has also seen productions of her shorter works including A Clean Bathroom and Empathy, the monologue Tooth Fairy From Hell, and the one-minute play Balconies.  Lori Myers’s plays 91366, which she started in CW 505, Magnificent Healing, Cinderella and the Lone Prince, Glee-ful Rapunzel, Sight Unseen, Miss Information, No Way, The Serpent's Egg, Rock Around the Castle, Eleanor and the Christmas Carol, Mirror, Mirror, and Talk, the �Musical have all hit the stage. Alum Dania Ramos’s play Hielo, developed through the New Jersey Emerging Women’s Playwrights Project, was selected as a finalist in Repertorio Español’s 2013 MetLife Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition and the 2013 Liberty Live Playwriting Contest through Premiere Stages at Kean University. Ramos also co-wrote Mi Casa Tu Casa and reworked the script for an educational touring version.  In addition, several other alums from the playwriting program have seen their work come to life on stage. Alum Michael Soloway had his play, I Love You, Lynn Swann! produced by The Pittsburgh New Works Festival in the Summer of 2013. Meanwhile, alum Adrienne Pender is making inroads with her thesis play Somewhere In Between, which was scheduled for a reading by WordSmyth Theater in Houston, Texas and for a main stage production at Theatre in the Park in Raleigh in September 2014. Alum James Craig has had two of his short plays from CW 505 produced as readings at Theater of the Seven Sisters. Alum Laura Moran’s Last Words was produced as a staged reading at NACL Theatre in Highand Lake, New York. Moreover, former M.A. student, Laurie Elizabeth Powers had her short script, “The Importance of Sex Education” selected as the overall winner for the 2014 Sidewrite competition. With all of this student success, Klein could easily play the role of diva, but instead she credits the Wilkes Creative Writing program with encouraging students to get their work in front of an audience. She lauds the program for teaching students that their work is not simply an academic assignment, but an artistic product that’s meant for public consumption. “I don’t know of another program that stresses, ‘Get your stuff out there!’”  Klein also acknowledges her students’ tenacity when it comes to getting their plays from page to stage.  “I’ve been given students who have a measurable amount of talent, but even more so, persistence,” she says. “I really think it’s diligence first, then talent.  In my mind, diligence produces talented playwrights.”  While Klein is thrilled to oversee all this student success, she still has plenty of her own work to attend to.  She’s in the process of revising two old scripts, and she has three new ones in progress.  In addition, Klein oversees HaveSCRIPTS, a small dramatic publishing company. This abundance of activity makes it quite clear to Klein that the live theatre’s demise has been greatly exaggerated.  “All kinds of theatres are popping up around the country in terms of opportunities for new plays and new playwrights.  Theatre is not dead, it’s just looking different,” she �explains. “When I was a graduate student, there was only New York and California.  The regional theatre system did not exist.  There’s a whole huge, fertile field out there for people who want to take advantage of it.” Mailer On and Off Campus Though Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer passed away in 2007, the founding advisory board member’s literary presence is never far from the Wilkes Creative Writing Program.  This year, the vibe is particularly strong, with four Wilkes writers offering summer workshops at the Norman Mailer Center and the University bringing the Norman Mailer Society Conference to campus. According to their web site, the Norman Mailer Center “encourages and supports writers who take on the issues of their day with the same fearless honesty and dedication to craft that Mailer himself did for over six decades; writers who seek artful ways to explore and present the complexities of historical and contemporary reality.”  Wilkes Creative Writing faculty members Kaylie Jones, J. Michael Lennon, and Beverly Donofrio, supported the Center’s mission by spending a week, sharing their talents with workshop students in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Kevin Oderman, another Wilkes faculty member, facilitated the month-long fellowship session in July for the creative nonfiction fellows. So why the mass migration to the Beehive State?  “We’ve always been involved with the Center,” Culver says.  “They [the faculty] teach things Norman would have appreciated.  It’s a combination of an understanding of who Norman was, and what our program teachers and creative writers offer in their own right.”  In the fall, the Wilkes campus paid tribute to the late novelist by hosting the annual Norman Mailer Society Conference.  The weekend-long conference provided an opportunity to introduce a new generation of students to Mailer’s work through presentations, workshops, and a marathon reading of the author’s 1965 novel An American Dream. In 1996, Mailer received an honorary doctorate from Wilkes.  He was the Max Rosen lecturer on campus in 2000 and also spoke at the opening of the Mailer Room in the library.  So it seems only fitting that the University plays host to this celebration of Mailer’s talent and legacy.  “It seemed to be a good opportunity,” Culver says.  “Norman’s always had a connection to Wilkes.  He had a special affection for this place and this program.”  �Part of the group of Wilkes faculty, students and alums, who participated in the reading of An American Dream. This section was led by John Buffalo Mailer (center) reading Rojack. Photo taken by Matt Hinton.  Hail to the Chief In the entertainment business, a hyphen can be a sign of a multifaceted career.  Actordirector.  Singersongwriter.  Socialitespokeswoman-fashion designer.  If the same holds true for writers, Bonnie Culver has facets to spare.  Culver, director and co-founder of the Wilkes Creative Writing program, is a playwright-screenwriter-professor-director, and now, the title of chair can be added to the list.  Culver was recently named Chair of the board of trustees of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).  AWP is a non-profit organization founded in 1967 by 15 writers from 13 different writing programs.  In 40 years, AWP has grown to provide support for more than 500 college and university writing programs, over 100 writing conferences, and thousands of individual writers.  The organization’s mission is to “foster literary achievement, advance the art of writing as essential to a good education, and serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing.” Wilkes has been a member of AWP since 2005.  Culver has served on the Board on the executive committee for three years, as vice-president �and treasurer and now chair.  She’ll serve at least one year in that position, possibly more.  “It’s a great opportunity,” Culver says of her appointment.  During her term, AWP will be reorganizing their governance structure and revising the by-laws.  As chair, Culver will be responsible for working closely with the executive director, on all aspects of the organization. She says, “It’s pretty all-encompassing.  It’s quite a challenge.”  Culver expects her duties to add 25 hours a week to her already jampacked schedule.  Still, she didn’t hesitate to accept the nod and is ready to work with the executive team.  “This is not a job to do alone.  It’s a tremendously talented and responsible board of trustees.  They’re all folks at the top of their games.”  While it’s clear that Culver believes in the AWP support system, she also believes in the organization’s value to the writing community.  “I think that the work AWP does is important for writers and especially writing programs.  It’s the only organization dealing with writers and academics,” she says. Wilkes Takes Over the Brooklyn Book Festival! Wilkes goes to New York! This year several members of the Wilkes Creative Writing Community played important roles at The Brooklyn Book Festival. Faculty member Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr was featured on the panel "Politics, War, Love and Streetlife,” and she discussed the social issues of the Lower East Side before the Vietnam War in 1950.  On the panel “Catch a Fire: Social Collapse in Multiple Voices,” Marlon James discussed his book A Brief History of Seven Killings, which features a variety of voices that witness the violence of Jamaica in the 1970s. He then related his work to how both internal and external forces can cause society to crumble. Another alum, Morowa Yejide, spoke on the panel “Autism Portraits” explaining the role that autism played her novel Time of the Locust. In addition, Barb Taylor talked about her new novel, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night on the panel “Where I'm Writing From: Hometown Fiction” A part from the panels, Johnny Temple moderated a special event held by Brooklyn Historical Society Library for librarians that discussed the writing life, education, and inspiration of the authors Jonathan Lethem and Carmen Fariña. No B.A.? That’s Okay!  Czury’s Story �“Becoming a poet and wanting to be a poet are antithetical quantums. Being language obsessed...thought=words, communication=words, dreams=words,” says Wilkes M.F.A. alum Craig Czury, an internationally recognized poet.  Czury talks about how he became fascinated with his craft saying, “it was the torment of language, rather than a love, that led me to my first shrieks.” Prior to attending Wilkes, Czury had traveled internationally for a good 67 years with books translated into Spanish, Russian, Italian, Lithuanian, and Albanian. Czury was also a poet-in-the-schools for 25 years through various state and regional arts councils before he found himself with no work. Penn State offered him a full scholarship along with an apartment and teaching assignments until they realized he did not have a B.A.  Likewise, the University of New Orleans initially arranged for an M.F.A. program in Spain, but they backed out for the same reason. Fortunately, friends affiliated with the Wilkes M.F.A. knew of the struggles he was facing and recommended he apply to the program. Norman Mailer, one of the founding fathers of the program, wanted Wilkes to be unique by letting writers without bachelor’s degrees into the program when they can demonstrate a storied publishing record, as Craig did. Moreover, Wilkes’s Creative Writing Program is one of the few in the country that does not require a GRE. Czury says that his acceptance was empowering, since he had little to no success in all other academic programs since eighth grade.  He not only enjoyed the curriculum at Wilkes, but the low-residency format allowed him to continue traveling to places like Rome. When asked about his cohort he reminisces saying, “We had great camaraderie, hilarity, and brilliance together.” In the program, he studied creative non-fiction with Chris Busa as well as with Juanita Rockwell, a Buddhist playwright. He graduated with a cross-genre thesis defended as creative non-poetry. Since graduating he has continued to work with John Koloski and Jan Quackenbush while conducting interviews in the “fracking” region. As a writer, Czury says that his biggest success thus far was being invited as a featured poet to international poetry festivals in Colombia, �Argentina, Lithuania, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Ireland. Moreover, he is honored to have been named Poet Laureate of the International Albanian Festival in Macedonia. When asked about future project Cruzy explained, “I’ve just returned from Chile, where I helped launch an anthology of poets from Tarapacá (Chile’s northern desert region) and poets from Pennsylvania, for which I had chosen. More importantly, I wrote a future book while there, poetic journal prose with photographs.” Czury is also known for creating poetry performance spaces not only in schools and community centers but also in shelters, prisons and mental hospitals. When asked why he explained, “my mother and I have a running argument (even though she’s been dead for decades) about the amount of times I ran away from home when I was a kid vs. the amount of times she threw me out. I spent 15 years hitchhiking North America. My sister spent a year in the state hospital in Danville after a suicide attempt. Spending a few nights in jail comes with the road, homeless shelters, soup kitchens… I just naturally gravitated toward the places and the people I was familiar with the hope I could get the right words written from them I never got when I was there.” Finally, when asked about his writing process, Czury proceeded to send the image of a blank page, but recommended that all writers change their name and run away from home. Family Matters: From the Kitchen to the Courtroom “My writing world reaches a great range these days,” says Patricia Florio, a Wilkes M.F.A . alumna. Florio has just returned from the Norman Mailer workshop in Utah where Wilkes instructor Kaylie Jones impressed upon her the importance of structure and encouraged the other attendees to keep an open dialogue through email. However, Florio is familiar with the topic of structure and studied it while “weaving” a series of family short stories, which eventually became her book, My Two Mothers.  Later, she returned to the idea of family stories and added family recipes, family history, Sicilian and Neapolitan traditions, and other stories, which then became Cucina Amelia, her second novel.  �Recently, however, she has been reflecting on the 17 years she spent as a court reporter. In this project, she talks about the individual cases as well as the loss of her father. Unlike her first two, this book is “structured in flashbacks and present day cases in the courtroom.” She adds, “I found this technique to work best for this book.”  Florio says she is blessed to be part of The Jersey Shore Writers at the Jersey Shore Arts Center.  Once called Tri-Muse, this group was cofounded by Carol MacAllister (another Wilkes alumna), Gayle Aanensen and Florio in 2001. Florio explains, “We have grown into a strong cohesive group of published writers taking on readings, workshopping, critiquing, and having our own writings workshopped as well. I urge new writers to join a community of writers locally or via Facebook. The encouragement keeps us writing on a daily basis.”  A History of At the Inkwell Monique Antonette Lewis initially created At the Inkwell in January, 2013, because she missed writing human-interest articles. Lewis began her writing career as a financial news reporter in Manhattan and at the time, she used to be a newspaper reporter covering everything from festivals to local housing issues.   However, she decided to focus on interviewing authors after completing her M.F.A. in creative writing at Wilkes University because she missed her writing community and hoped to recreate it.  The project became an outlet for her to write the kinds of articles she loved while helping authors promote their books. Thus, At the Inkwell became a promotional service for published authors to market their writing through feature articles, book reviews and public readings. Lewis and her mother developed the name. Her mother was the one who added “At” in the name, which made it unique. She says, “The greatest struggle was designing my website. I created it by myself in one weekend on very little sleep. It was a lot of trial and error.” Lewis then asked the owner of Manhattan-based KGB Bar if she could host readings on an ongoing basis. She had a pre-existing relationship with the bar since she hosted one-off readings in the summers (20112012) under the name The Writer’s Corner, while studying at Wilkes. �KGB accepted her proposal for At the Inkwell’s reading series and gave her a trial period. Then came her second challenge--finding authors who could read well and pull in a good crowd. She began reaching out to authors she knew and word-of-mouth alone launched her into business. Her first hosted reading was Romance Night on March 8, 2013, and there was standing room only.  The owner was impressed with turnouts, but she still had not earned a permanent spot, which meant readings were irregular. At the Inkwell finally became the 13th permanent reading series at KGB Bar in October, 2013, and it has since been held every 2nd Wednesday of the month. Lewis says that one of the biggest lessons she learned was how to curate the series. Initially, she used to mix genres, giving readers a taste of poetry, fiction and non-fiction all in one night. However, this turned off readers who might not be interested in one of the genres, and it didn’t help attract the right crowd for each author equally. Lewis says, “I quickly learned that I needed to stick to a theme for each event, which ensured that each reader was going to read to an audience that was interested in their genre.” Thus far, At the Inkwell has helped 106 individual writers either through feature articles, book reviews and readings, or a combination of all. Lewis says, “Other than having a chance to sell your books at the reading, the networking opportunity alone is beneficial. You never know who will be in the audience, a publisher, editor or agent.” Alums and current students could help ensure the success of At the Inkwell by recommending writers to feature on their site as well as books that are no less than a year old to review, and by spreading the word about their readings. You can also share At the Inkwell on your Twitter and Facebook feeds or join the mailing list to stay updated on the readings. Subscribe via the website or email attheinkwell@gmail.com.  Lewis’s long term goal is to create monthly At the Inkwell readings in other cities. She’d like to begin with Philadelphia followed by Boston and D.C.  She adds, “My biggest project is to take At the Inkwell on the road and host readings at various cities including an open mic session. I’d like to do a livestream of the readings as well as video documentary of my trip on the road meeting writers.” Currently, she is seeking a videographer and a video editor to continue to develop At the Inkwell. She envisions it to be a two-week deal ending in Phoenix or San Francisco, and anyone who is interested may contact her at attheinkwell@gmail.com.   �Upcoming Readings At The Inkwell 85 E. 4th St., 2nd Fl, NYC (between Bowery and 2nd Ave.) Oct. 8, 2014 (Poetry Mixer night): Featuring Wilkes Alum, Amye Barrese Archer Dec. 10, 2014 (Anthology night): Featuring Wilkes Faculty Member, Gregory Fletcher  Jan. 14, 2015 (Fiction night): Featuring Wilkes Alum, Lori May March 11, 2015 (Poetry night): Featuring Wilkes Faculty Member, Neil Shepard April 8, 2015 (National Poetry Month): Featuring Wilkes Alums, Kait Burrier, Stanton Hancock and     Andrea Talarico June 10, 2015 (Memoir night):  Featuring Bonnie Friedman, a new Etruscan author Etruscan News Several Wilkes creative writing students have joined Etruscan press for the June-November 2014 semester. M.F.A. student April Line is completing her publishing internship with Etruscan. She has been instrumental in researching and developing community outreach and grant opportunities. M.A. student Johanna James is developing a comprehensive marketing plan for a memoir to be published by Etruscan in the Fall of 2015. M.A. graduate assistant Hillary Transue is working on various promotional campaigns for the press, while M.F.A. graduate assistant Nathan Summerlin is working on numerous production aspects for Etruscan. He has also designed a quarterly e-newsletter. Internships of Current M.F.A. Students Mike Avishai will launch a free online screenwriting foundations workshop. Maxwell Bauman is interning for Kaylie Jones Books. He has researched material to locally promote KJB authors including but not limited to bookstores, libraries, newspapers, TV news, radio programs and book clubs. He is also in the process of researching possible demographics for one author, and looking up contests and finding writing contests where their authors can submit. Mckenzie Cassidy is interning for Kaylie Jones Books and reading manuscripts while performing other administrative duties. Paul Jackson is teaching a remedial English class as well as Composition 101 and 10 at Miller-Motte Technical College. �Sheree Lewis is interning as a tutor at the Kumon Learning Center. She is also a private tutor for high school students. Andrea Ruiz is interning with Etruscan Press and is working on an anthology about writing and tailoring children's books to match the common core standards. Faculty/Staff Notes Faculty member Gregory Fletcher’s short play Robert Mapplethorpe's Flowers has been published in Wilde Magazine, Erotica Issue 1, Summer 2014. His other short play The Moon Alone was read was included in Playwrights' Night at KGB Bar's At The Inkwell, July 2014. Faculty member Jean Klein’s Refraction of Light, a full-length play, received a staged reading at The American Theater in Hampton, Virginia on September 7 as part of a Lighthouse Reading Series, a combined effort between the theater and the Virginia Playwrights Forum. Snapshots, her one-act play which was a winner in the Kernodle one-act competition, was produced as one of three short plays on the main stage of the American Theater, August 8 and 9. Staff member Dawn Leas’s review of Maria Terrone’s Eye to Eye is included in the fall issue of Poets’ Quarterly. She is also now a contributing editor at TheThePoetry and a poetry editor at CityLitRag, an online literary journal co-founded by alumna Monique Lewis. Faculty member Michael Lennon’s edition of Selected Letters of Norman Mailer will be published by Random House on December 2, 2014. The paperback edition of his biography, Norman Mailer: A Double Life, will be released on October 28, 2014. Lennon also edited and wrote the introduction for both the Taschen edition of Mailer's essay on John F. Kennedy, Superman Comes to the Supermarket, which will be published in September and The Fight, Mailer's account of the 1974 championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, which will be published in November of this year. Faculty member David Poyer’s novel The Cruiser: A Dan Lenson Novel received a praising review from Publisher’s Weekly. Faculty member Juanita Rockwell's site-specific audio play, The Circle, was directed by Carmen Wong and produced by banished? productions as part of the 2014 Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, DC. �Faculty member Neil Shepard was a fellow at the MacDowell Arts Colony in April and at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in May; he will be in-residence at the Center for the Arts in Mornay, France, in October. New poems are appearing in The Cimarron Review, The Common (Amherst College), and The Louisville Review. His new book, Hominid Up, is due out in January 2015 from Salmon Poetry Press of Ireland. Student/Alum Notes M.F.A. alum J. C. Alonso Jr.'s  poem "Yoga Music" was published by Poetry Quarterly in the Summer 2014 issue.  M.F.A. alum Amye Archer’s  full-length poetry collection, Bangs, was recently released by Big Table Publishing. M.A. alum Catherine Arne's  feature-length sci-fi script, THE DECIMATION (working title), was optioned by Voyage Media, where she has also begun assignment work as an independent contractor, doing script treatments, action plans, and book-to-screen projects. She has also acquired a literary manager for her master's thesis, Animals, Inc. He will be representing both the novel and script. M.A. alum Cheryl Bazzoui  will have her chapter “A Writer's Marketing Recommendations” published in the anthology Writing After Retirement under her penname, Ann McCauley. M.F.A. alum Kim Loomis Bennett  had her poem, “The Talker,”  accepted for publication in Fall 2014 of issue seven of The Floating Bridge Review: Help Wanted: The Poetry of Work. M.F.A. alum Randee Bretherick  recently signed with BookEnds, LLC of Gillette, NJ. She also had a short story, "Plum Creek: A Pilgrimage to the Little House on the Prairie," published in the April edition of Red Fez. M.F.A. alum Tom Borthwick  will have his short story, Welcome to the Singularity, anthologized in Altered States. M.A. alum Rennee Butts  published her novel Siren Slave through Wild Rose Publishing. M.F.A. alum Tara Caimi's  essay and memoir excerpt "Kayenta” was published, and her essay "Lucky Teeth" is forthcoming in Oh Comely magazine. On September 9, she moderated an online book club discussion of Near to the Wild Heart for Oh Comely magazine. Tara's memoir, Mush: from sled dogs to celiac, the scenic detour of my life, �which she drafted as part of her M.A. thesis requirements, is forthcoming with Plain View Press. M.A. alum Chris Campion  is now a guest columnist for Giuporshutup.com. M.F.A. alum Craig Czury  received a faculty development grant from Albright College to go to Iquique, Chile in June to speak and read poems at the launch of SO FAR... SO CLOSE, anthology of Contemporary Writers of Tarapacá and Pennsylvania, for which he selected PA poets. Craig's chapbook of poems, BECAUSE ALTHOUGH DESPITE, from his Marcellus shale hitchhiking project, was published in August by FootHills Publishing. In September, Craig was a featured poet at the international Södermalms Poesifestival in Sweden. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli's  poem, "Trying to Catch the Culprits," received an Honorable Mention for the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize. The poem will also appear in a future issue of Paterson Literary Review, along with his other poem, "For Jimmy, Who Bruised My Ribs and Busted My Nose." In addition, his essay, "He Too Sings America: Jazz, Laughter, and Sound as Protest in Langston Hughes's Harlem," was published in August by TheThePoetry. Brian also read for the New York Quarterly reading series in August at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City, and two of his poems are forthcoming in the journal. M.A. alum Salena Fehnel's  novel, Nesting Dolls, was published through Northampton House Press with a release date of July 1, 2014. Nesting Dolls was nominated for the America Library Association's Stonewall Book Award and for the 2014 GLCA New Writers Award. M.A. alum Donna Ferrara’s  screenplay Arvin Lindemeyer Takes Canarsie was a top Finalist in the ASU screenplay competition. She alsohad her short story, “Whirlpool,” accepted for publication in Crossing Lines, an anthology by Main Street Rag that will be published in Spring of 2015. She also had her short stories “Then and Now,” “Scrap” and “Payback is a Lady” accepted for publication in The Law Studies Forum. M.F.A. alum Wendy C. Garfinkle's  debut novel, Serpent on a Cross, was released in print and re-released in ebook format by Booktrope in August. This edition contains new material. (SOAC was originally released as ebook only in 2012 by Northampton House Press.) M.F.A. alum Kasian Klute’s  The Ambush, the First Novel in the Series Entitled Walter's War for Kasian Klute,  has been published through Amazon and is now available on Kindle as well. M.F.A. student April Line  is teaching two literature courses at �Misericordia and was offered two more for next semester. She is a parttime  proofreader for a marketing firm, and a #CNFtweet  she wrote appeared in issue #53 of Creative Nonfiction. M.F.A. alum Ginger Marcinkowski  published The Button Legacy: E Miley's Inheritance through Vox Dei, the Christian imprint of Booktrope Publishing. She is also a columnist for Book Fun Magazine, with a readership of 400,000. In addition, she spoke at the Hampton Roads Writers Conference in Virginia Beach, VA, September 18-20, and is a finalist judge for The Carol Awards for the American Christian Fiction Writers this year. M.A. student Corinne Nulton  had her play, 14 Symptoms, premiere at the The Brick Theater as part of The Game Play Festival. Her short story “Signed” also was published in Cactus Heart. M.A. alum Christoph Paul published his short story, “Gay Zombie Sluts of Key West” on ThatLitSite.com M.F.A. alum Adrienne Pender’s  thesis play, Somewhere In Between is having a premiere at Theatre in the Park in Raleigh.  M.A. alum Josh Penzone  had his short story “The Whitings” published by ELJ Publications as part of their "Afternoon Shorts" series.  The story will be available as a paperback and as an ebook this coming January.    M.F.A. alum Danielle Poupore  has been hired for the role of Communications & Marketing Specialist for Student Affairs at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Danielle also had a flash fiction piece, "Touch," published by SweatpantsAndCoffee.com in May under the pseudonym Danielle E. Curtis. M.A. alum Art Posocco  has had three essays published at The Artifice: "Apollonian and Dionysian Artistic Impulses in The Lego Movie," "In Defense of Hannibal and Its Use of Gore," and "Station to Station: Reflections on Manakamana." M.F.A. alum Laurie Elizabeth Powers  had her "The Importance of Sex Education" place in the top six finalist in the DC Shorts Screenplay Competition. In addition, both "The Importance of Sex Education" and her feature length screenplay entitled "Related" have just been announced as quarter-finalists in the Screencraft Comedy Screenplay Competition. M.A. alum Dania Ramos  had two plays, Reason and Cars, staged at Passage Theatre for the 2014 New Jersey 1-Minute Play Festival. Reason was also featured in Luna Stage's 2014 Short Play Festival. Her co-creation Mi Casa Tu Casa received a workshop �production as part of New Jersey Theatre Alliance's 2014 Stages Festival. M.F.A. alum Dane Rooney  wrote an essay that was featured on Howard Sherman’s website. M.F.A. alum Nisha Sharma  sold her M.A. thesis project My So-Called Bollywood Life and one additional untitled YA romance in a pre-empt deal to Crown Books for limited world rights. My So-Called Bollywood Life is slated for publication in Spring 2016. Her thesis project My So-Called Bollywood Life has been optioned by Producer Susan Cartsonis for filmmakers Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda-Berges to adapt. Cartsonis, Chadha and Mayeda-Berges will produce together through their companies Storefront Pictures and Bend it Films. M.F.A. alum Rachel Luann Strayer  has accepted a full-time position as Assistant Professor in the Communication Arts and Humanities department at Keystone College. M.F.A. alum Donna Talarico  had a featured editor interview in The Review Review in August, and another interview with The Triangle, (http://thetrianglepa.com/2014/09/16/interview-with-donna-talarico/), a lit organization in Lancaster, PA. She also works with Hippocampus Magazine, planning a creative nonfiction conference for August 2015. In addition she completed her M.B.A. from Elizabethtown College in May as part of the 2014 Core Class of Leadership Lancaster, and she was the class graduation speaker. M.F.A. alum Heather Ann Taylor has  been named an Assistant Professor in English at Bethany College in Bethany, WV. M.A. student Hillary Transue  published three articles this past summer. One of which, “Confessions of a Former Prankster” was posted to the Kids for Cash movie’s blog. “(Former) Judge Mark Ciavarella” was published by Vitamin W. Her Op-Ed article “Children Deserve our Honesty and Compassion” was published by the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. Because of her involvement with the movie Kids for Cash, produced by SenArt films, she has appeared on myriad television shows and news programs across the country such as The Katie Couric Show and Politics Nation with Reverend Al Sharpton. M.A. alum Autumn Whiltshire  placed first in the sci-fi feature category of the Indie Gathering for her screenplay “Gaia.”  �Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. Farley Library Human Resources Jobs at Wilkes Online Nursing Offices & Administration Accessibility Statement Financial Aid Adobe Acrobat® Reader Registrar's Office Finance Office Investor Relations Student Work Study Jobs Veterans Services Visit Quick Links Schedule a Visit Parking Information Virtual Tour Campus Map Make A Gift �84 West South Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 1-800-WILKES-U Contact Us Wilkes University © e © d c f � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Revise This! 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Michael Lennon offers a definitive portrait of literary legend Norman Mailer in his highly anticipated biography, Norman Mailer: A Double Life (Simon & Schuster). As Mailer’s archivist, executor, and family friend, Lennon had unlimited access to the late author’s Related Links Calendars & Schedules Campus Map Centers for Excellence Faculty Publications Graduate Bulletin (.pdf) Graduate Bulletin Online Graduate Student Handbook Library Office of the Registrar Online Learning Professional Pharmacy Application School of Nursing - Graduate Program Student Handbook Schools, Departments, Divisions n n �papers, letters, and other personal documents. Lennon also interviewed more than eighty individuals and the result is a 947page biography. While Mailer is a literary legend and model for many, he was also a complicated and controversial figure. In a recent interview, Lennon touched on Mailer’s multiple identities: “Mailer could see reality only as a series of oppositions. Everybody and everything, all phenomena, is twinned. All of his own identities—rifleman, novelist, filmmaker, political activist, family man, womanizer, journalist, and so on—had a double. Doubleness was his tool for understanding people, politics, nature, the universe even,” Lennon said. “What makes it more fascinating is that each twin has a minority within. Monsters have an enclave of virtue, and the converse is true for saints.” To prepare for this biography, Lennon conducted daily interviews during the last year of Mailer’s life. He also culled information from more than 45,000 letters, and spent time with Mailer’s family, friends, and colleagues. The final book reveals Mailer’s sources and influences for each of his major works, as well as his state of mind at every critical point in his life and career.   Alum Laura Moran Makes National Strides M.F.A alum Laura Moran was invited to attend the Kennedy Center National Seminar for Teaching Artists in August, 2013. Laura was one of thirty artists invited to participate, thanks to her interest in designing extended residencies in schools.“It was an honor to attend,” Moran said. “The Kennedy Center teaching artist materials have evolved my practices and are crucial to securing new residencies and integrating arts into the new common core curriculum.” Moran’s experiences at the Kennedy Center prompted her and Thomas �Bosket, a professor at Parsons School of Design Arts, to found a new business, B-Trads: Teaching Artists Alliance. B-Trads, or Beautiful Traditions, “sprouted from our awareness of a need to balance tradition and innovation through creative interaction; to connect disciplined learning to heart-based needs in support of Balance; to allow discovery and expression of all that makes us human—without censure— in order to find that Balance. True teaching provides opportunity for epiphany. Effective teachers provide those opportunities, but we also intentionally notice them, actively acknowledge them, and consciously engage students in reflection and celebration of their discoveries.” With a select corps of teaching artists, Moran and Bosket will offer workshops and residencies to K-12 schools, adult learners, businesses, organizations, and communities. “Our first teaching opportunity was a partnership with the Upper Delaware River National Park Service in Lackawaxen, PA this past summer. We offered three workshops for adults and two for children—a huge success—which has resulted in plans for the 2014 season. We will also be working with the Delaware Highlands Conservancy to develop eco-arts educational materials.” Lauran Moran graduated with an M.F.A. in 2012. She received the 2011 Beverly Hiscox Scholarship and gratefully acknowledges the support and encouragement she received during her time at Wilkes. Michael Mailer Film at Cannes Faculty member Michael Mailer, producer of more than twenty feature films, recently returned from the Cannes Film Festival where his film Seduced and Abandoned premiered. “It was an exciting time walking the red carpet,” Mailer said. The film stars Alec Baldwin and James Toback. “Seduced and Abandoned is a nonfiction film, part mediation on film and the filmmaking process consisting of interviews of film legends such as Polanski, Bertolucci, Scorcese, Copola, and part adventure tale following the ups and downs of Alec Baldwin and James Toback as they attempt to set up a remake of Last Tango in Paris (but this one is set in Iraq called Last Tango in Tikrit) at the Cannes Film Festival,” Mailer said. HBO bought the film for US distribution and will be airing it this fall. Mailer is currently working on a new picture in Louisiana. San Francisco Production for Playwriting Alum �Drowning Ophelia , a play by M.F.A. alum Rachel Strayer, will be onstage October and November at Repurposed Theatre in San Francisco. The full-length play explores the nature of abuse and forgiveness. “I’ve been really blessed by how much the director, Ellery Schaar, has included me in this process,” Strayer says. “Since the production is happening in San Francisco and I live in Pennsylvania, I have not had the privilege to attend a rehearsal. However, Ellery has kept me involved all the way. During the auditions she emailed me the headshots and resumes of the actors she called back, calling me once to discuss who she was looking at and then again to discuss who she was planning to cast and why.” Strayer says she stays in touch with Ellery on a regular basis. “She often sends me pictures through text or email, showing me the theatre space, costumes, the very important bathtub set piece, and even candids from a promotional photo shoot. While Ellery has final say in all the decisions, she has made it abundantly clear that my input is very important to her. Even with the show happening across the country, I feel as though I am an integral part of the production. I could not have asked for a better experience.” The Wilkes alum and her husband, Jonathon, will attend all three of the opening weekend productions. She has also been invited to do a “playwright talkback” after each performance. Strayer graduated in 2012 and worked with mentor Juanita Rockwell.       Announcements New Program Tracks and Updates: Ever thought you wanted to start your own press, e-zine, or literary journal? Thanks to the initiative of Akashic Books editor Johnny Temple and Etruscan’s founding editor Phil Brady, alums and current students now have the option of pursuing a Master of Arts in Publishing! This new track opened at the June 2013 residency. Wilkes alums need only take only an additional 18 credits to earn the M.A. in publishing. �Have you found the world of documentary film fascinating? We have also added a Master of Arts in documentary film, which will begin in 2014. Like the new publishing degree, alums need only take an additional 18 credits to earn this degree. The curriculum is being developed now with Robert May, SenArt Films, and others. Due to student requests, all M.A. graduates will have their area of study on their diploma, beginning with the fall graduation. For example, if you complete a screenplay for your thesis, your diploma will now read: “Master of Arts in Creative Writing specializing in screenwriting.” Beforehand, all diplomas simply read, “Master of Arts in Creative Writing.” Should you wish to return to Wilkes and specialize in another area of study, you need only take the last 18 credit hours to earn a second M.A. For more information on any of these new possibilities or to apply to any of the newly revised program tracks, please email or call Dr. Culver or Ms. Dawn Leas. Etruscan Press has great news. Diane Raptosh’s American Amnesia is one of ten poetry books on the long list for the 2013 National Book Awards. This is the fourth Etruscan book to make the long list. Akashic Books has made Flavorwire’s list of “25 Independent Presses That Prove This is the Golden age of Indie Publishing.” In its description of why the press deserved such recognition, Flavorwire says Akashic is “the ultimate indie.” River & South Review , our new student-run literary journal, has launched. The editorial team is derived of current students in the M.A. and M.F.A. Wilkes writing programs. The launch issue debuted in Summer 2013 and the Winter issue is scheduled for publication in December. Each issue features poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—as selected by student editors—and special theme issues will include additional genres. The journal website is hosted at http://riverandsouth.blogspot.com.   Awards Awards were presented during the recent summer residency. Joshua Horwitz received the Beverly Hiscox Scholarship and Lori A. May received the Norris Church Mailer Fellowship. Horwitz was featured in the Wesleyan University newsletter with a quote from his mentor Beverly �Donofrio, a fellow Wesleyan alum. The 22nd Annual James Jones First Novel Fellowship awarded first place and $10,000 to Margot Singer of Granville, OH for her manuscript titled The Art of Fugue. Runners-up in the competition were Jennifer S. Davis of Baton Rouge, LA for her manuscript Reckonings; and Timothy Brandoff of New York, NY for his manuscript Connie Sky. They were each awarded $750. Tamara B. Titus, of Charlotte, NC received honorable mention for her manuscript Lovely in the Eye. The James Jones First Novel Fellowship was established in 1992 to “honor the spirit of unblinking honesty, determination, and insight into modern culture as exemplified by (the writings of) James Jones.” It is awarded to an American author of a first novel-in-progress. The competition is cosponsored by the Wilkes University Graduate Creative Writing Program and the James Jones Literary Society.   Faculty/Staff Notes Bonnie Culver is on the road for those organizations connected to the CW program. October 3-5, she attended the Board of Directors meeting for AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) of which Wilkes is an institutional member. She serves as the Vice-President of AWP whose next national conference is in Seattle, February 26 to March 1, 2014. October 24-26, she will attend the International Norman Mailer Conference hosted this month in Sarasota, FL where she and screenwriting faculty member Ken Vose will continue the annual tradition of a Wilkes University readers theatre presentation on Mailer’s work. Bonnie Culver and Mike Lennon are charter members and board members of the Mailer Society. As the JJL Society president, she will attend the 2013 James Jones Literary Society Symposium, which will take place on November 8 at the Quail Creek Country Club in Robinson, IL. In November, she will return to Mesa, AZ where she spent last year on special assignment for Wilkes. The Wilkes CW program will cosponsor the Mesa version of the National Novel in a Month (NaNoMo). Alums, students, faculty, if you are interested in knowing more about or participating with any of these organizations, please contact the program director. Christine Gelineau has a poem, “Eating Blueberries,” in the new issue of Gargoyle Magazine and her poem “Accident” has been accepted for the winter issue of the journal Broad Street. Also, she will have a poem included in a forthcoming book from H.L. Hix, accepted for publication by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. �Ross Klavan has a comic novel due out from Greenpoint Press. Schmuck has an official publication date of January 21, 2014. He was also consultant on a script for director Rich Devaney and is a voice on Amazon’s TV series Alpha House. Dawn Leas has a poem, “Empty Cars,” in the fall issue of San Pedro River Review. Her reviews of Gold by Barbara Crooker and What Remains by Caroline Maun, as well as a Q&A with Michael Czarnecki about his Poems Across America Tour, appear in the Fall 2013 issue of Poets’ Quarterly. Michael Mailer ’s new film, Seduced and Abandoned, premieres on HBO in October. Nancy McKinley ’s short story “Love, Masque & Folly” appears in the short fiction anthology Voices from the Porch, published by Main Street Rag. Nancy’s short story “Ramp” has been accepted by The Blue Penny Quarterly for Spring 2014. Neil Shepard has a new poem, “Street,” based on the James Nares’ video installation in The Metropolitan Museum, coming out in The Manhattan Review. Other new poems will appear in Barrow Street, as well as in Amherst College’s new literary magazine on place, The Common. His poem “No” will appear in The TV Anthology: Rabbit Ears, which will appear in print and podcast. His poem “Town Green: South Royalton” was selected as poem-of-the-week for the poetry blog, THEthe, by guest-editor Christine Gelineau. In September, Shepard gave a poetry reading at The Burlington Book Festival, did a radio interview for the literary program WriteTheBookin VT, and performed in nightclubs with his long-time ensemble, PoJazz. Jan Quackenbush had a concert-reading of his new play, Fire on the Water, at La MaMa Theater’s La Gallariain NYC. Susan Cartsonis had an article, “Why Women Should Get the Jobs,” published in ArtsHub, an Australian digital magazine.   Student/Alum Notes M.F.A. alum Amye Archer reviewed Beverly Donofrio’s latest book, Astonished, for Brevity. M.A. alum Tom Borthwick has a short story accepted for publication in �Bewildering Stories. TwentyFiveEight Studios is also going to be turning it into a short film. M.F.A. alum Cory Brin will have his poem “A Rainy Drive” published in a poetry collection, This Time Around, by Eben and Wein Publishing. M.F.A. alum Tara Caimi ’s essay “Cat-Face” was published in Pithead Chapel, and her essay “Without Words” was selected for inclusion in the nonfiction anthology Whereabouts: Stepping Out of Place, published by 2Leaf Press. Both essays are excerpts from the full-length memoir Tara completed during her time in the creative writing program at Wilkes. M.A. alum Chris Campion published his debut novel The Jiu-Jitsu Bum with Northampton House Press, LLC.   M.A. alum Cindy Dlugolecki has had three staged readings of her tenminute play At the End of Her Rope in 2013 as part of Playwrights Alliance of PA: Hershey Area Playhouse in June; Mt. Gretna’s Cicada Festival in August; and Open Stage of Harrisburg in October. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli ’s poem “Adjunct Plight” appeared in The Los Angeles Times over the summer. In addition, his poem “A Cub Reporter’s Mentor” was accepted for publication by Blue Collar Review for a future issue, and his poem “State of Emergency” was accepted for publication in the next issue of North Chicago Review. In addition, Brian’s full-length book of poems, All That Remains, will be out this fall through Unbound Content. M.A. alum Donna Ferrara ’s script Arvin Lindemeyer Takes Canarsie was named a Top Finalist in the ASU Feature Length Screenplay Contest. Her play The Waiting Place has been chosen for consideration for a yearlong workshop at William Paterson University New Playwrights Competition. M.F.A. alum Patricia Florio has a cookbook available through Serendipity Media Press. Cucina d’ Amelia: My Mother’s Sicilian and Neapolitan Recipes is currently available in a digital edition and will soon be available in print as well.   M.F.A. alum Rachael Goetzke published a memoir excerpt with The Writing Disorder. �M.A. student April Line has written for the Jamie Chavez Blog. She also reviewed Tim Parrish’s Fear and What Follows in West Branch Life’s Fall issue. M.F.A. student Heather Lowery ’s essay “Keeping It Real” was recently published in Poets’ Quarterly. M.A. alum Gale Martin is a presenter at the 2013 Literary Festival at Alvernia University in Reading, PA. She is discussing her latest novel Grace Unexpected. She also participated in BookFest PA in State College, PA during Arts Festival Week, sponsored by Schlow Library of Centre County. M.F.A. alum Vicki Mayk is teaching a first-year foundations class for freshmen, “The Power of Story,” at Wilkes University. The class explores the ways that story is used to communicate in many contexts. Her personal essay “Road Warrior” was selected for publication in Hippocampus Magazine’s Road Trip issue in July 2013. M.A. alum Lori M. Myers had her musical Talk, the Musical,with music by Nicholas Wilders, produced by Gretna Theatre this past summer. Her playA 21st Century Christmas Carol was accepted for publication by Contemporary Drama Service. Her short story “Nina” will be published by Zest Literary Journal. She also recently interviewed singer/actress Shirley Jones for B Magazine. M.F.A. student Linda M.C. Nguyen ’s short story “Pretty Things” was published by the Sassafras Literary Magazine in September 2013. M.F.A. student Travis Nicholson recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor of English at University of Arkansas - Monticello. He has also interviewed fellow Wilkes alum Chris Campion for The Write Life. M.F.A. alum William Prystauk ’s short horror film Too Many Predatorsis an Official Selection at both the Twisted Tails Film Festival in Texas, and the New Jersey Horrorfest. His short drama Tigers in the Soup is in preproduction. M.F.A student Nisha Sharma ’s thesis, My So-Called Bollywood Life, won first place in the 2013 annual Write Stuff Literary Contest in the Young Adult Fiction category. M.A. student Thomas Simko will have a nonfiction piece, “The Long Goodbye,” published in War, Literature, & the Arts. �M.F.A. alum Donna Talarico is Director, Integrated Communications at Elizabethtown College and also is editor of the College alumni magazine and online newsroom, E-town NOW. Her previous position was Integrated Marketing Manager. In the spring and summer of 2013 she presented at a number of national and regional conferences including Penn State’s Social Media Summit and the Mid-Atlantic Web Conference at Gettysburg College. M.A. alum Douglas James Troxell was a guest on Read First, Ask Later, a radio show on I <3 Radio that discusses literature and conducts interviews with authors. His short story “The Working Dead,” a story he started writing in his 501 fiction workshop, will appear on Dark Futures Fiction in October as part of their zombie-themed month. M.F.A. alum Sandee Gertz Umbach , who has relocated to Nashville, TN, will be visiting the Western Pennsylvania area to give a reading at the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, on Sunday, October 20 as part of their Sunday Poetry Series.She will also be a Guest Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh that same week where her book, The Pattern Maker’s Daughter, is being taught by Professor William Scott in an English course focusing on Working Class Literature.   Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Archives Colum McCann Wins National Book Award | Marlon James Named Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award Cecilia Galante Joins Creative Writing Faculty | Page To Stage Faculty Notes | Student Notes  Colum McCann Wins National Book Award https://www.wilkes.edu/...masters-programs/creative-writing-ma-mfa/about-our-students/revise-this/archives/2010/revise-this-october-2010.aspx[3/2/21, 9:54:32 AM] �Revise This - October 2010 - Wilkes University Colum McCann, winner National Book Award Colum McCann, a member of the advisory board for the Wilkes University Graduate Creative Writing Program, has won the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin. The award was presented on Nov. 18 in New York City. The award – considered one of literature’s most prestigious – is presented in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. As a member of the Wilkes creative writing program’s advisory board, McCann has provided input on course content and curriculum, performed readings from his work at its residencies, and been a thesis reader for degree candidates in the program. Let The Great World Spin takes place in August 1974, when a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the Twin Towers, a quarter mile above the ground. It chronicles the lives of a group of New Yorkers, weaving their separate stories against the backdrop of the tightrope walker’s feat. Some of McCann’s other novels include Zoli, Dancer, and This Side of Brightness. His fiction has been published in 30 languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Paris Review, Bomb and other places. He has written for numerous publications including The Irish Times, Die Zeit, La Republicca, Paris Match, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent. In 2003 he was named Esquire magazine's "Writer of the Year." Other awards and honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Rooney Prize, the Hennessy Award for Irish Literature, the Irish Independent Hughes and Hughes/Sunday Independent Novel of the Year 2003, and the 2002 Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. His short film, “Everything in this Country Must,” directed by Gary McKendry, was nominated for a 2005 Academy Award. McCann lives in New York City, where he teaches creative writing at Hunter College. The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America. Marlon James Named Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award https://www.wilkes.edu/...masters-programs/creative-writing-ma-mfa/about-our-students/revise-this/archives/2010/revise-this-october-2010.aspx[3/2/21, 9:54:32 AM] �Revise This - October 2010 - Wilkes University Marlon James, Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction Marlon James’ novel The Book of Night Women was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction by the National Book Critics Circle. The finalists were announced in January, and the winners were announced on March 11.  Other finalists included memoir writer Mary Karr, former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glück, and former National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann. The other fiction nominees included Hilary Mantel, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Michelle Huneven. Mantel won the fiction category for her novel Wolf Hall. The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a nonprofit organization with around 600 members, "book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns." James worked on The Book of Night Women while he was enrolled in the creative writing program. He also teaches at Macalester College in Minnesota. Cecilia Galante Joins Creative Writing Faculty Cecilia Galante, newest member of Creative Writing Faculty Young adult novelist Cecilia Galante has joined the faculty of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. She is the author of five young adult novels. Her first, The Patron Saint of https://www.wilkes.edu/...masters-programs/creative-writing-ma-mfa/about-our-students/revise-this/archives/2010/revise-this-october-2010.aspx[3/2/21, 9:54:32 AM] �Revise This - October 2010 - Wilkes University Butterflies, was selected as a Young Adult Book of the Year by the Northeast Independent Booksellers Association, a Top Ten Pick for 2008 by Amazon, and a Recommended Read for Teens on Oprah's website. Another one of her books, Hershey Herself, will be translated into Polish in 2010. Her other novels include Willowood, and The Sweetness of Salt, which will be published in 2011. She has BA from King’s College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Her first interactions with the faculty and students came in January when she attended the residency. “It was thrilling. I had no idea that I was going to be among such a crowd of intellectuals and have peers that are so successful,” she said. Galante is no stranger to teaching. She spent years teaching high school English in the Wilkes-Barre area, though she is currently on sabbatical. But when it comes to teaching in the Graduate Creative Writing Program, she plans to use what she learned as a graduate student at Goddard. “I’m trying to borrow more from my experience as a student. My teachers at Goddard were incredibly supportive and astute,” she said.  “I’ve been able to draw from that experience and insert criticism in a way that doesn’t kill the spirit.” Besides teaching, Galante is also hard at work on her first adult novel, and the process has not always been easy. “It’s been incredibly daunting. For young adult, you’re allowed to write more simply and straightforward,” she said. “So, I was getting caught up in sounding like an adult and  sounding smart enough.” Galante added that the process has been easier lately, and she’s confident the book will stand on its own. She has to submit a manuscript by the end of April. Though this will be Galante’s first adult novel, she admitted that she was not initially attracted to the young adult genre. “I wasn’t even familiar there was a YA genre when I wrote my first book, The Patron Saint of Butterflies. My agent said we were going to market it as young adult, and I was devastated. I didn’t think it was young adult,” she said. “I sat back and waited, and she was right. It became a successful young adult book and a crossover book. It appeals to adults and young adults at the same time.” Bonnie Culver Helps Area High School Students Take Writen Work from "Page to Stage" https://www.wilkes.edu/...masters-programs/creative-writing-ma-mfa/about-our-students/revise-this/archives/2010/revise-this-october-2010.aspx[3/2/21, 9:54:32 AM] �Revise This - October 2010 - Wilkes University Bonnie Culver Students in four northeast Pennsylvania school districts have a chance to become playwrights in a special program being piloted by Bonnie Culver, director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. Culver worked with two graduate students, Sarah Pugh and Cory Brin, on a master of fine arts project developing a pilot program, “Page to Stage.” Culver is working as guest artist in four high schools – Hanover Area, Hazleton, Tunkhannock and Wyoming Valley West  – to teach basic elements of playwriting to students. Culver was in the schools Tuesdays and Wednesdays from Feb. 2 to March 25. Each student presented a 10-minute play. One or two plays from each school will be chosen to be presented at the Fine Arts Fiesta in May. Wilkes University’s long-term goal is to replicate this with fiction, poetry, film, and nonfiction with creative writing students and faculty serving as guest artists in area schools with a final arts festival on campus. Faculty/Staff Notes Christine Gelineau’s essay “Cops” was published in the winter issue of The Florida Review as a runner up in their Editors’ Award in Nonfiction. Rashidah Ismaili Abu-Bakr’s poetry was published in Bending the Bow, a collection of love poems from Africa, published by Southern Illinois Press. Sara Pritchard's story "Sip the Wine" was published in Vol. 76, No. 1 of New Letters (Dec. 2009). Her story "Two Studies in Entropy" won a Pushcart Prize and is included in the 2010 PUSHCART PRIZE XXXIV BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES anthology, and her story "Help Wanted: Female" is forthcoming in Vol. 6 (2010) of The Tusculum Review. Sara will be reading at the River Festival of Books in Huntington, West Virginia, on Friday, April 16, 2010.   Student/Alumni Notes https://www.wilkes.edu/...masters-programs/creative-writing-ma-mfa/about-our-students/revise-this/archives/2010/revise-this-october-2010.aspx[3/2/21, 9:54:32 AM] �Revise This - October 2010 - Wilkes University M.A. student Amy Archer had part of her memoir entitled “Bad Connection” published in the December issue of the Journal of Truth and Consequences. M.A. student Cindy Dlugolecki’s play, “Violet Oakley Unveiled,” was showcased at Villanova University on Thursday, March 18. The onewoman show helped celebrate Women’s History Month. Violet Oakley was the first woman in art history to paint murals in a public building, and her home and studio were only a few miles from Villanova’s campus, according to Dlugolecki. Dlugolecki, the actress, director, and tech team were also the guest of five different departments at Villanova, including Women and Gender Studies, History, and Art. M.F.A. student Brian Fanelli’s poem “Freshman Year” was published in the February issue of My Favorite Bullet. http://www.interiornoisepress.com/0010_FANELLI_FreshmanYear.html, and his poems “In a Club’s Cracked Mirror” and “Why I Said No” were published in the March issue of Word Riot http://www.wordriot.org/archives/976. Alum Pete Kaszyk’s short story, “You’re Not My Father,” was accepted for publication by Kerlak Publishing for inclusion in its WTF Anthologies edition. Publication date is pending. M.A. student Kimberly Loomis-Bennet’s poem, “It Is Sweet and Decorous To Be Poor in One’s Country,” was published in the Winter 2010 issue of The November 3rd Club. http://www.november3rdclub.com/2010/02-2010/poetry/loomisbennett.html     Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs E.S. 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In Revise This! - October, alum Marlon James, MA ’06 was awarded the Man Booker November 2019 Prize for his award-wining novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (see alum note). In November we presented the Second Annual Arizona Writer’s Conference in Mesa, featuring publisher, editor, and agent panels, screenwriters pitch sessions, workshops, readings, and a poetry slam. We also added eight testimonial videos to our website featuring alums and faculty discussing their impressions of our program. Q&A with Jean Klein – Wilkes Playwriting Faculty Interview with faculty Susan Cartsonis, Producer and President of Revise This! Archives n 2015 n n �Storefront Pictures Marlon James, MA ’06, Wins Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings Faculty Notes The Wilkes Readers Theatre Group at the Norman Mailer Society The Second Annual Arizona Writer’s Conference Student/Alum Notes Q&A with Jean Klein – Wilkes Playwriting Faculty Jean Klein has created a new publishing/distribution company called Blue Moon Plays—which focuses on family oriented plays that have a place in schools. A sister website, Once in a Blue Moon Plays, will seek plays that have had their premieres and are now looking for more traction, Jean talks about these two new endeavors as well as other interests for the stage. What was your mindset in creating Blue Moon Plays? I had another publishing company for about ten years that sold primarily plays that were appropriate to schools and families. An emphasis on teens and seniors was another one of our bigger sellers. There are a lot of senior groups out there now. I wanted to go in a different direction.  With Blue Moon Plays, I wanted to focus on new plays of two kinds: one was the new play that probably wasn’t getting the traction it should—most people don’t know that it’s harder to get the second or third production of a play than it is the first. They call it first light, second light, third light and so on. And a lot of theaters now are just clamoring to get the premiere or the world premiere and after that, well, we’re not so interested in the second one. For a play to get a second and third light, even after a couple of good runs, like Bonnie Culver’s “Sniper” for example—it’s been off-Broadway, got good reviews, it was in LA and in a couple of other theaters—I’m looking for plays like hers.  New plays that are edgy and that tackle topics that are a little risky. Or that are interesting in terms of the way the writer has used the stage. They’re just a little bit unusual or different. Plays that are staged differently, uniquely make different use of the stage, and/or �deal with topics that are currently difficult to deal with that are touchy and edgy.  What got you into playwriting?  Actually, my degrees are in fiction. I have an MA and an MFA from the Writer’s Workshop at Iowa. My undergraduate degree was at Carnegie Mellon and I had dabbled a little with radio plays when I was in junior high and high school. Then I went to Carnegie Mellon and of course they have an amazing drama department. Their playwriting department then was not quite as well connected as it is today, but they were cool. I was at Iowa for two and a half years getting my MA at the writer’s workshop and I was taking playwriting at the same time. I found my very real mentor, Howard Stein, who was also oddly, [Wilkes Creative Writing faculty] Greg Fletcher’s mentor years later at Columbia.  So that’s the background between Greg and me. We both had the same mentor. I clicked with him and he kind of stayed my mentor for the rest of my life, actually.  And I just stayed a playwright. It just became my love. I’m a little bit of an introvert, and I find writing can be very lonely. What I found in the theater is that I can find a lot of people who were willing—actors and directors—who were willing to sit down and read through my plays with me and make comments and it became much more of a community activity. The joy in writing for me is not so much seeing something produced. It’s fun and nice to see them produced but it doesn’t give me that kick. What gives me the kick is sitting at a reading of a play, realizing there’s something just not quite right, with the scene or an act, and then suddenly having it all come into focus and saying, “Oh, I know what it is -I know what to do!” That to me is the joy. That very moment when I say, “I can fix that.” And that’s the kick I get as a teacher, when I see that happen to somebody else. I think what the basis for my interest in at least getting a forum for new plays that haven’t “hit” yet, but that have the merit and should be done. How do you find the plays? I tend to rely, especially for Once in a Blue Moon Plays, on playwrights whom I know or know of. For Once in a Blue Moon Plays I’m only looking for full length. One Acts are really hard to sell. Long one acts that run about 90 minutes are fine. If you are interested in what Jean Klein has to offer, visit BlueMoonPlays.com. Its sister site, Once in a Blue Moon Plays will be up later this month. – Interview by Dale Louise Mervine �Interview with faculty Susan Cartsonis, Producer and President of Storefront Pictures How did Storefront Pictures come to be?   I’d been a studio exec and I’d built a film company for three highly successful television show creators.  When they decided abruptly to close their doors for personal reasons, I thought, I need to start my own company. When I looked at my own body of work and what my creative and business instincts tell me to make, it is always films from a female perspective. It turns out that this demographic, who largely drive the movie business, are grossly underserved. What were some of the struggles in the beginning? You had a history in filmmaking, so were you able to utilize some of your contacts, or did people sit back and see how you would do? Being a producer is always a struggle. It’s a relationship business so yes, I’ve leaned heavily and will always lean heavily on relationships. In film, as in raising a child, “It Takes a Village” as Hillary Clinton says. People STILL sit back to see how I will do. Your success serves to pave the way for you for about 30 seconds, and then you have to prove yourself again! Women in film (all aspects) has been a hot topic of late. I’ve seen you involved in many conversations, interviews, and panels where the charge for more women in film has been trumpeted. How have changes progressed since Storefront opened or even since you first entered the industry?  There’s a consciousness now that didn’t exist then. Geena Davis is working tirelessly through her Gender in Media institute to help create that consciousness. But the disparity in opportunity and the ridiculousness of Hollywood leaving money on the table still exists.   Some of the research I’ve done shows some increases in females working in film, but you’re there on the inside—have you seen it yet?    �There are, sadly, few increases. At the same time women are pushing for change in Hollywood, so too are LGTBQ supporters.  Do you see these groups working hand in hand to bring about more diversity?  Same with women of color, or even men of color—too often films still use “stock” actors to portray diverse characters.   I believe that where women lead, all diversity follows. In general, of course. We are, either by acculturation or genetically more about the good of the whole than individual achievement (part of the reason there are more female producers than directors), more about inclusion, and generally more about diversity—perhaps also because we are a majority yet treated as a minority. Would these groups working together affect change more rapidly, or do you think there is still enough push-back that “one at a time” makes more sense?   Gender and race rights have always been closely linked. Advances in one area support the other.  Everyone has both race and gender. Certainly any artist or filmmaker has a HUGE task in getting a movie made and might have to keep their focus on one cause above others, but anyone with a brain can see that race/gender/diversity inclusion rights are ALL linked. Ideally our work on the screen as well as through activism becomes a reflection of the change that we want to make.   What is the most satisfying part of production? Least satisfying? And what is involved in “prepping” a film? I say that production (which is physically rigorous) is the punishment for being good at development. I am so busy prepping two films right now that I seriously don’t have time to list all the things entailed in prepping a film.  I saw in an interview that you said you are a very visual person and if you can’t visualize the screenplay as you're reading, then you don’t think it’ll work as a film.  Is there one aspect of a screenplay, however, that strikes you when you’re reading? If I’m moved. Either to laugh, cry, or feel something deeply. Even if the material is flawed, if it moves something in me, I believe that it will reach other people and I’m moved to make it happen. Because I do believe we are all linked and if we can find that commonality in moments and themes between us, even in stories that seem incredibly unique, we can reach each other through the creative work that we do. �What is your advice to young screenwriters? Write something that entertains YOU. Interview by Dale Louise Mervine. Residing in York, Pennsylvania, Dale Louise is still trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up.  She’s the owner of Semicolon Creative, which only proves there is no vetting process for start-ups. Marlon James, MA ’06, Wins Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, a wave of excitement rippled throughout Wilkes University. The prize had just been announced, and Wilkes alum Marlon James, MA ‘06, had just won the Man Booker Prize—a prestigious prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language.    James was part of the first Creative Writing cohort and one of the first graduates of the MA class of 2006. His thesis became his second published novel, The Book of Night Women, in 2010.  That novel was preceded by John Crow’s Devil, published by Akashic Books soon after James began the Creative Writing program. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970, James was always interested in the history and people of that country. A Brief History of Seven Killings is an epic story told as an oral history in many voices. In December 1976, armed men stormed the home of musician Bob Marley, wounding him, his wife, and several others. This is the starting point of James’ look at the dark times in Jamaica through the 1970s, ‘80s, and into the 1990s.  Michael Wood, this year’s chair of the Man Booker Prize said, “It’s a crime novel that moves beyond the world of crime and takes us deep into a recent history we know far too little about.”  Congratulations, Marlon! Faculty Notes �Program Director Bonnie Culver was re-elected to the Association of Writers and Writing Program (“AWP”) Board of Trustees for another 4year term. She was also elected as Chair of the Board. Faculty member Beverly Donofrio had an essay, "Riding with the Top Down," published in the anthology, Shades of Blue: writers on depression, suicide, and feeling blue, edited by Amy Ferris for Seal Press, October 2015.  Faculty member J. Michael Lennon’s review of the new Gore Vidal biography by Scranton native Jay Parini, Every Time a Friend Succeeds, Something in Me Dies (Doubleday), appeared in the October 16 issue of the (London) Times Literary Supplement. His review of Kevin Oderman’s Cannot Stay: Essays on Travel (Etruscan Press) appeared in the October issue of Hippocampus Magazine. Faculty member and MFA alum Lori A. May‘s co-edited book, Creative Composition: Inspiration and Techniques for Writing Instruction, is now available from Multilingual Matters. She will be at the NonfictioNOW conference in Flagstaff, AZ, this fall, and will be on a panel about book marketing at AWP 2016 in Los Angeles. Lori has recently been awarded a project grant from 4Culture, a Washington state arts organization.   Faculty member David Poyer just found out he was published in SerboCroatian in 1981 . . . in a collection which included an unauthorized reprint of his short story, "If You Can Fill the Unforgiving Minute," translated as "Possljednja Utrka" by Aleksandar Gvoić. Pirated in Yugoslavia during the Cold War . . . he says “guess I'll take that as a compliment, all things considered . . . interesting cover for the collection. They never sent me a copy. . . .”  Faculty member David Poyer’s forthcoming novel Tipping Point (St Martin’s, December) was reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, and Quarterdeck Magazine.  Reviews below: “In Poyer's engrossing 15th Dan Lenson novel (after 2014's Cruiser), the skipper of the USS Savo Island faces challenges as old as those confronted by Horatio Hornblower and as new as the latest military sexual harassment charge…this series sets the standard for naval action thrillers.” – Publisher’s Weekly “A hair-raising yarn of the sea and a U.S. Navy cruiser on the cusp of war... First-class storytelling by a master of the genre.” – Kirkus Reviews “Crisp prose, punctuated with authentic operational naval details, create a page-flipping thriller. David Poyer continues his run as a master of modern naval fiction.” – Quarterdeck Magazine  �The Wilkes Readers Theatre Group at the Norman Mailer Society Presented a marathon reading of Tough Guys Don’t Dance October 1 and 2. The reading lasted 11 hours over two days at locales in Provincetown that served as settings in Mailer’s novel. Readers included Creative Writing faculty, alum, and current students: Bonnie Culver, Matthew Hinton, Ross Klavan, Carol Lavelle, Dale Louise Mervine, Jan Quackenbush, Bill Schneider, and Ken Vose. The Second Annual Arizona Writer’s Conference Was held at the Mesa Center for Higher Education on November 13 and 14. Featuring publisher, editor, and agent panels, screenwriters pitch sessions, workshops, readings, and a poetry slam, several Creative Writing faculty participated, including Phil Brady, Bonnie Culver, Beverly Donofrio, Ross Klavan, Jeff Talarigo, Richard Uhlig, and agent Albert LaFarge. Student/Alum Notes MA student Jeremiah Blue was recently asked to do a TEDx Talk on the convergence of slam poetry and social justice. He and his partner in the talk created a multi-media presentation, filming and showing his first official spoken word video, which they mixed with a live lecture on key foundations of advocating for social justice issues through art and performance/spoken word poetry. The presentation took place in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, October 24th and the video can be seen at www.jeremiahblue.com. Kait Burrier, MFA ’14 recently launched Sweet Nothings, a creative writing open mic series co-hosted by Andi Talarico in Manhattan's Lower East Side. In September, Kait served as curator of TheThePoetry's Poem of the Week feature. She also looks forward to returning as a guest editor for the 2015 Winter Issue of River & South Review. In November, Kait will feature at The Plunge NYC. More recent readings include Prose in Pubs, �Brooklyn Poets, At the Inkwell, Salon Lucero, Great Weather for Media's Spoken Word Sundays, the Watershed Reading Series, and the NYC Poetry Festival.  Brian Fanelli, MFA ’10 successfully defended his PhD dissertation on Monday, November 16.  His dissertation included a poetry collection entitled, Waiting for the Dead to Speak.  Fanelli’s new collection will be published by New York Quarterly Books. Congratulations to Dr. Fanelli, who joins former Binghamton PhD alums— Phil Brady, Bonnie Culver, Christine Gelineau, Nancy McKinley, and Robert Mooney. Fanelli’s poem, "Trying to Call Forth a Ghost," was published online by The Kentucky Review. The poem will also appear in the annual print addition in January. His poem, "What Our Cat Teaches Me in Dreams," was accepted for publication in Stone Canoe, and another poem, "Immigrant Names," was a finalist for the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize and will appear in The Paterson Literary Review in summer 2016. TheThePoetry and [PANK] recently published book reviews Fanelli authored, and in October, he read as part of a panel entitled "The Next Generation of Italian American Poets" at the Italian American Studies Conference in Washington, D.C. Patricia Florio, MFA ‘11 was featured in an article from Rutgers University Continuing Education News Center, “Where were you at 62? Court reporter finds her own words through Rutgers degree earned off campus.” bit.ly/1j9nAZq  MA student Jeffrey Ford will have three film critiques published in an upcoming issue of SCREEM Magazine. SCREEM #31 can be purchased at Barnes & Noble or through the publication's official website: www.screemag.com Tyler Grimm, MFA ‘13 will be giving two public presentations in the next few months: Fight Off Your Demons: Creative Writing as Therapy on November 6 and True Life: The Working Writer on February 19, both at Elizabethtown College where he is a faculty member. Tyler also recently published a short story he wrote while at Wilkes, Green Bean Casserole, in Vox Magazine. Monique Antonette Lewis, MFA ‘12 has expanded her reading series At The Inkwell to San Francisco. The series is now bi-coastal, including New York City. She plans to launch another series in Denver and Seattle by Spring 2016. Founded in 2013, At The Inkwell supports published authors through book reviews, readings, and feature articles.  Donna R. Malies, MA ’11 wrote her one act play "Marriage, Men, Menopause – No Laughing Matter" for the Pensacola 24 Hour Theatre on October 17, 2015.  As the name implies, the play was written and �produced in the span of 24 hours.  MA student Michael Mortimer wrote, directed, and edited a movie, In the Dark, in 2005 that has finally found release. The footage, lost for many years, was recently discovered in an attic somewhere. The ghost story can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfcxCBDp8go Linda Minh Chau Nguyen, MFA ’14 is a Narrative Development Tester at Ubisoft Montreal, working on Far Cry Primal, an upcoming actionadventure video game set to be released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on February 23, 2016. The trailer can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ2iH57Fs3M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Cry_Primal  Rachel Luann Strayer, MFA ’12 will have her full-length play Drowning Ophelia produced by Gaslight Theatre Company in Scranton, PA, at the end of January. Rachel has had four of her ten-minute plays produced by Gaslight.  Donna Talarico, MFA ‘10 presented a 3.5 hour pre-conference intensive workshop called "Words, Words, Words" at the Higher Education Web Professionals annual conference in October, held this year in Milwaukee, WI. This was her fifth consecutive year presenting at this event, this time moving from a 45-minute track session to a more in-depth workshop. Talarico also served on the conference committee this year in a communications role. She presented a shorter version of "Words, Words, Words" at the 2015 Northeast PA Blog Conference (better known as NEPA BlogCon) in September. Additionally, she was part of a nonfiction panel and editor speed-dating session at Philadelphia Stories' 2015 Push to Publish Conference October 10, and presented a session on personal branding at Moore College of Art and Design's Leadership Conference for Women in the Arts on October 17. She loves nothing more than combining words and business.  Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Online Nursing Make A Gift �Programs E.S. 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Archives n 2009 n n �Wilkes-Barre, Penn. –Tena Russ, of Riverwoods, Il., won first place for her novel After Paradise in the 18th Annual James Jones First Novel Fellowship, co-sponsored by the Graduate Creative Writing Department of Wilkes University and the James Jones Literary Society. Russ was awarded $10,000. This year’s contest drew 674 submissions, and this was not the first time Russ had entered her manuscript in the competition.  “I actually entered the contest several times and never made it to the second level. I almost didn’t even enter the contest this year,” she said.  Russ was shocked to learn that her manuscript, which has undergone several revisions, finally won. She was notified that she won by novelist Nina Solomon, a judge for the competition and a faculty member of the creative writing program.  “It was like Ed McMahon just came to my door. When Nina called, I literally got goose bumps,” Russ said. Russ was not always heavily involved in writing. Following her studies at Northwestern University and the American Academy of Art, she worked as a portrait artist. She started writing regularly after she joined a local writers group and took an additional writing workshop at Northwestern University. The professor brought in published authors at the end of the semester, and the experience encouraged Russ to become a writer.  “The challenge of learning to write has been so rewarding in many ways,” Russ said. “I love every part of it. I do it every day now.”  Prior to winning the James Jones competition, Russ’s manuscript won first place in the Novel-in-Progress category of the William FaulknerWilliam Wisdom Writing Creative Writing Competition of 2008.  Her second novel will focus on Sam, a secondary character in After Paradise who is a Vietnam War veteran, suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The novel is in the prewriting stages. She is also still revising After Paradise.   Russ also volunteers in a literacy program for young children, The Canine Reading Buddies. Once a month, she and Cami, her German Shepherd, meet with children at a library where the children enjoy reading to Russ and her dog.The submission deadline for entries is �March 1 of each year. The runner-up winners of the James Jones competition were Michael Schiavone, of Gloucester, Mass., for his manuscript Call Me When You Land, and Christine Wade, of New York, for her manuscript Seven Locks. They were each awarded $750.  The James Jones Fellowship was established in 1992 to “honor the spirit of unblinking honesty, determination, and insight into modern culture as exemplified by (the writings of) James Jones.” Requests for guidelines should be sent, along with a stamped, self-address envelope, to James Jones First Novel Fellowship, c/o The Graduate Creative Writing Department, Wilkes University, 84 West South Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766, or via e-mail to jamesjonesfirstnovel@wilkes.edu Jim Warner joins Etruscan Press Jim Warner, Assistant Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program of Wilkes University, has been named business manager and associate editor of Etruscan Press. Warner, a published poet, said his duties with Etruscan will involve community outreach, managing finances, and organizing the office to ensure it runs more efficiently. The press is Jim Warner, Assistant Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Wilkes housed in the creative writing offices. “I’ve always wanted to be involved in the publishing industry. It’s a new challenge and a new world to me. There’s so much untapped potential here,” Warner said. Etruscan just signed a new three-year contract to remain on campus, and Warner hopes to strengthen the relationship between the university and the press through community outreach projects, including working with the downtown Wilkes-Barre Barnes & Noble to have book launches. The press will also eventually reach out to local high schools to start programs in the arts. Warner made clear that his duties with the creative writing program will still be his top priority, and he described the work he now does with Etruscan as a “part-time job” done off-hours. However, the press is tied into the creative writing program in several ways. Its current graduate assistants are enrolled in the program, and some of Etruscan’s founders and directors also teach in the program, including poet Philip Brady and fiction writer Robert Mooney.  �The press will continue to publish about eight manuscripts a year in the genres of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Etruscan will eventually consider publishing more manuscripts a year, according to Warner. Warner’s own writing has appeared in the poetry journals Drunken Boat, Word Riot, Cause & Effect, and other publications. His first collection of poems, Too Bad It’s Poetry, was published in 2007 by Paper Kite Press, located in Kingston. His follow-up book, Jim Warner’s Second Book, will be published by Paper Kite in December.   Student Profile: Chris Bullard Some of the most well-known poets often balanced their writing with other professions. William Carlos Williams was a doctor. T.S. Elliott was a banker. Chris Bullard, one of the Wilkes University Graduate Creative Writing Program’s most well-published poets, balances his writing with his duties as an administrative judge for the Social Security Administration in Vorhees, N.J. Bullard, who resides in Collingswood, NJ, has had his poetry has been published by some of the most prominent literary journals in the country, including Green Mountains Review, Nimrod, and Atlanta Review. His work is also forthcoming in Rattle, and his chapbook, You Must Not Know Too Much, won the 2009 Plan B Press Chapbook Contest. As a result, Bullard was given a cash award and 50 printed copies of the book. His interest in poetry predates his interest in law. He’s been writing poetry since high school, when he served as the editor of the school’s literary magazine. His influences early on included Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost, but his influences broadened when he attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia as an undergraduate.  Once he graduated, he knew he had to make a serious decision about his writing career. “At the end of college, I either had to go to writing school or do something else with my life,” he said. “It was easier for me to ask my parents for money for a career in law than for a famous writers’ school.” Bullard added that he also had no interest in becoming an academic, a career for many poets. The world of academia seemed too political to him. But balancing poetry with his law career wasn’t as easy as Bullard had hoped it would be. He stopped writing after law school until he was about 40. “I had reached a point with my poetry where I couldn’t think of anything interesting to do. I also wasn’t in contact with any poets,” he said. �But he eventually started writing again, once his career situation changed and he had more time. He also hired private poetry tutors to strengthen his work. Now, Bullard’s career involves hearing claims of people who believe they are disabled and deserve Social Security funds. But his job has not influenced his work. “I have written I think only one poem about my work, though I have certainly seen the human condition. I pretty much have heard everyone’s beefs with the world.” He became interested in the Wilkes program because he and his wife have a home in the area, and he was impressed by the quality of the faculty. He is now completing his M.F.A. and has expanded his own knowledge of contemporary poetry, due his work with the poetry faculty. “I tend to reread people I like, but the program has definitely brought me up to date,” Bullard said. “When I started working with Christine [Gelineau], she had me read all of these people I had not heard of but have been impressed with.” He recently completed two full-length collections of poems, which he’s been submitting to presses and contests. One of the books is entitled Back and features all formal verse, and the other book, Under Growth, includes the poems from You Must Not Know Too Much and additional work.  Wilkes University Awards Scholarship to Taylor Polites and Richard Fellinger Wilkes University awarded the 2009-2010 Norris Church Mailer Scholarship to fiction writing major Taylor Polites, of Provincetown, Mass. , and the 2009-2010 Beverly Blakeslee Hiscox ’58 Scholarship to fiction writing major Richard Fellinger, of Camp Hill, Pa.  The Norris Church Mailer Scholarship was established in 2004 by Mr. Norman Mailer, husband of the novelist Norris Church Mailer; other friends; and a gift from the estate of the late Gordon Smith. It is awarded annually to a graduate student in the creative writing program who has both artistic promise and financial need. Selection is made by a faculty committee appointed by the director of the creative writing program. The Beverly Blakeslee Hiscox ’58 Scholarship was established by her children with love and affection to honor their mother’s dedicated service to Wilkes University as trustee from 1986 - 2003. First preference is given to a non-traditional student with family responsibilities. �Faculty/Staff Notes Phil Brady’s memoir, By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard, was chosen by Foreword Magazine as Essay Book of the Year. Program co-founder and director Bonnie Culver’s play, “The Cell,” and Jean Klein’s play, “The Test,” will run on Nov. 13 and Nov. 14 and Nov. 20 and Nov. 21 at The Venue at 35th in Norfolk, VA. For more info, visit http://www.venue-35.com. Program co-founder and advisory board member J. Michael Lennon’s interview with fellow advisory board member Lawrence Schiller was published in the third issue of The Mailer Review in October. The interview focuses on the origins of Norman Mailer’s Oswald’s Tale, including the successful effort to convince the Russian KGB to reveal their tapes of Lee Harvey Oswald in Minsk in the early 1960s. Two of Christine Gelineau’s poems, “Socanasett” and “Physical,” will be published in the next issue of Paterson Literary Review, and her essay “Cops” will be published in the next issue of Florida Review as a finalist for their 2009 Editors’ Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her next book of poems, Appetite for the Divine, is forthcoming in April from Ashland Poetry Press. Advisory Board Member Colum McCann’s novel, Let the Great World Spin, has been shortlisted for the fiction prize for this year’s National Book Awards. Nancy McKinley’s story, “Yellow Tape,” will appear in the 2010 Main Street Rag Short Fiction Anthology: Coming HomeTheme, and her story, “Goat Meat,” will appear in the 2010 Main Street Rag Short Fiction Anthology: Commute Theme. David Poyer’s novel, The Crisis, will be published on Nov. 8 by St. Martin’s/Macmillian, and his novel, The Weapon, will be published as a soft cover edition on Dec. 1. Neil Shepard has four poems forthcoming in literary journals. “Physician in the Dark” will be published in the Harvard Review, “Pleasant Weather in Cornwall” in North American Review, “If I have to Die, and I Have To” in Notre Dame Review, and “Iced Tea in Deer Isle” in Chautauqua Literary Review. Little Theatre Players will present "Imagine," a short one-act and a triology of new mini-plays by playwright Jan Quackenbush at Broome Community College's Little Theatre, November 20, 21 at 7 p.m. Student/Alumni Notes M.F.A. student Richard Fellinger’s story, “Flashbacks,” has been �accepted for publication by Audience Magazine. It will be the eighth story published from his rust-belt themed collection. M.A. student Patricia Florio’s story, “My Coney Island Baby,” was published by Word Fountain, a literary magazine run out of Ousterhout Free Library in Wilkes-Barre. Alum Andrea Janov, M.A. student Carol MacAllister, and M.F.A. student Brian Fanelli have poems forthcoming in the December issue of Chiron Review. Alum Dawn Leas’ poetry chapbook, I Know When to Keep Quiet, was accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press. M.A. student Gale Martin received a Pushcart Prize nomination from The Greensilk Journal for a short story published in spring of 2009 entitled “On Hens and Elephants and Being like Them.” M.A. student Dara Morowa Yejide Madzimoyo’s story, “Agnes,” was published in the September issue of Adiorondack Review, and her poem, “Your Grave,” will be published in the autumn/winter edition of Zócalo Press’ "Age" chapbook series.           Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Online Nursing Make A Gift �Programs E.S. 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