97 15 4134 https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/ae0a657206f5202c5a281ad66d8d800b.pdf 69baed991f9a706550bb570f2ff8a28c 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 Pay It Forward Introduced during the Creative Writing MA/MFA Revise This! Revise This! | January 2016 10th n The Arts n Archives Archives Archives Anniversary celebration of the Wilkes Creative Writing Program, Pay It Forward is a scholarship initiative for alumni and faculty to award new students entering our program. The $2,500 scholarship is credited toward the student’s first semester tuition expense. Sam Chiarelli, MFA ’16, was the first Wilkes alum to utilize Pay It Forward. “As a Graduate Assistant, I'd heard a lot about Pay It Forward and I thought it was a great idea. The Creative Writing program has been such a gift to me and I wanted to give that gift to others,” he says. “I taught a creative nonfiction workshop in the autumn of 2015 and I was fortunate to have an exceptional set of writers attend. They were a lively bunch,” says Chiarelli. "Janine [Dubik] didn't make a lot of noise during our workshop sessions, but as I read through the submitted essays and exercises, her work struck me. She tapped into some really universal themes, some transcendent fragments of reality that resonated with me. She had moments of absolute brilliance on the page, and yet I could see she had so much room to grow and become an even better writer. That's why I chose Janine for my Pay It Forward. She was ready to take the next step in her development as a writer.“ 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 n 2016 n n �Janine Pokrinchak Dubik, Wilkes '78, offers her perspective. “Until Sam's e-mail, I knew nothing of the Pay It Forward program, and I am honored he selected me. This was a deciding factor in why I applied for the creative writing program at this time. I have looked at the program for a number of years but hadn't applied until completing the five-week creative nonfiction workshop with Sam. If I hadn't taken the five-week workshop, I doubt I would have applied for the creative writing program now. I am grateful for the nudge from Sam to apply.” “The benefit for me will be watching Janine grow,” says Chiarelli. “Joining the Wilkes Creative Writing program was a major turning point in my life - the people, the environment, the inspiration is absolutely priceless for someone who wants to harness their creative energies and push themselves to become a better writer. What happens in our program goes beyond degrees and publications. It's about taking your passion seriously, about pushing yourself to places you didn't know you could go. It's about finding people who not only understand you, but know how to get the best out of you, and help you excel. It's about being a writer, not just saying you're one or wishing you were one -- actually doing it. “In writing, it's very easy to get down on yourself when things aren't turning out how you imagined. I think anyone who comes into the program through Pay It Forward will have some extra incentive in those difficult times. They can take solace in knowing that someone believed in them, and their work. This is a very special entryway into our community.” Photography with Jeff Talarigo How did you get into photography, and how do you view it as part of your artistic life? Is it just something you do for fun, or do you take it as seriously as you take your writing? �I have enjoyed photography on and off over the years. I had a camera with me on my research trips for my novels on Gaza, the China/North Korea border and to Nagashima Island, which was a leprosarium. I got away from taking photos mainly because of the expense of having them developed. A couple of years ago, after coming back to California from the winter Wilkes residency, I found a small digital camera waiting for me, a gift from my son. I started carrying the camera with me almost everywhere I went. Is a talent necessary to take good photos? I think a good photographer or writer sees everyday things differently, but I also believe that there must also be a great deal of passion and empathy for the project. This is what I hope comes out of my photos and sentences. Are there specific things you like to photograph? I love doing nature and wildlife photos, but also photos of people when I travel. Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California is heaven for me, truly my favorite place on earth, a place that, when I am there, I feel that I am a better person. Do you do anything with your photos beyond taking them for your own use? At this point, I do it for the pleasure and as a way to create. I am mulling the idea of incorporating some of my photos into a memoir/family history/novel I am slowly chiseling away at. Or maybe a book of photos and writing. Do you use a lot of equipment? About five months ago I bought a 35 mm digital camera which is really sweet. I have two lenses: a standard 16-50 lens and a 55-210 lens, which has a bit of a zoom, but for wildlife photos I still need to get fairly intimate �with the animals. I think it is really good to learn on smaller lenses, much like when I began to golf when I was 12, I only carried three clubs with me: a 7-iron, a 9-iron and a putter. But photography, like golf, like writing, you always want that giant zoom lens, that new driver, to write Moby Dick. Do you wait long for the “perfect” shot? I have been known to wait quite a long time for that perfect shot, or, at least anticipating it, for it doesn’t always happen. How do you view your photography in the scope of your artistic life? For the past year or so, photography has been a savior for me, allowing me some peace of mind and a way to express myself creatively while I try and figure out how to find some time and money to do my next book project, a novel on human trafficking. How does photography affect your writing; do you think your photography brings things to your writing that you might otherwise miss? About three times a month I drive the sixty miles up to Point Reyes, leaving a little before five in the morning and coming back home well after dark. When I am there things slow down for me and I try to tell a story with the photos. But I am also writing as I trek through the forest, along the beach, atop the mountains; in fact, last weekend while walking through a field trying to photograph a Harrier Hawk, the ending of the four act play on Gaza I have been working on came to me. In both photography and writing I am patient and I don’t rush, allowing a scene to wash over me whenever it is ready. Sara Pritchard: Thurber Writer-inResidence 2016 The John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence program is an annual residency of four weeks where recipients are housed in a two-bedroom apartment in the family home of author and New Yorker cartoonist, James Thurber. The fellowship is designed to provide a writer with the gift of time to develop a work in progress. The writer-in-residence for 2016 is Sara Pritchard, faculty member in the Wilkes Creative Writing program. What does a residency like this mean to you as a writer? �Pritchard says, “A conventional residency (like the Thurber House ones) provides a writer with a respite from his/her daily routine, an opportunity to steal away, be alone, engage a bit with other writers, and just write. Residencies provide housing. Some also include meals. Many residencies provide a stipend (which varies wildly, anywhere from a few thousand dollars for a month, with some paying as much as $60,000 for a full academic year). Some stipends are without any strings attached, while others are with the agreement that a writer give a public reading and/or teach something like a weekend workshop for members of the community or for an affiliated school. Some require the writer to teach a class all semester and work one-on-one with graduate or undergraduate students. “Some residencies like VCCA (Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, vcca.com) ask their residents to contribute to their stay according to their own ability to pay. Residencies vary in length, generally, from a few weeks to a full year. The venues vary, too, from remote areas like ranches (New Mexico, Wyoming) to intercity (D.C.), to trains (AMTRAK: http://blog.amtrak.com/general-faqs/), ships and research stations, hotels (http://www.theparisreview.org/standardculture), and even shop windows (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/from-shopwindows-to-prisons-writers-in-residence-find-new-homes/article535465/). Check this out: http://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/10/10/9amazing-writers-residencies-from-around-the-world/” For a comprehensive list of artist residencies, see the website of the Alliance of Artist Communities at http://www.artistcommunities.org/residencies. According to the AAC website, there are: • an estimated 500 artists’ communities in the US and more than 1,500 worldwide • 30,000 artists are provided residencies each year (~10,000 in the U.S.) • residencies in the U.S. provide an estimated $40 million in support to �artists annually • 70% are multidisciplinary, serving visual artists, writers, composers, filmmakers, choreographers, and others 60% are in rural areas and small towns, while 40% are in urban areas • • 90% have public programs that engage the local community Do you go on writing retreats in general? No. In general, I prefer to stay home. I live a quiet life without the demands that many of my colleagues and students face, so residencies for me at this point in my life (semi-retirement) are more about earning some extra income and taking a little vacation, meeting other writers and interesting people, and spending time in a different place (walking around, visiting cemeteries and museums, etc.). I’ve done one other residency—a semester-long one in 2012 as the Thornton Writer-inResidence at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, VA. I taught one workshop for three hours each week. I had great students, made some lifelong friends, lived in an apartment in an antebellum mansion, and loved exploring Lynchburg. Residencies are exciting, inspirational, rewarding, relaxing (for the most part), and yes, a bit stressful at first--like any adventure or travel. I’m really looking forward to spending a month in the “slightly haunted” James Thurber house in Columbus, Ohio. Stories always come to me when I’m away from home. The next one just may have a ghost (or two). Wilkes Workshops in Mesa, AZ In the spring of 2015, Austin Bennett MFA ’15, under the direction of Dr. Culver, developed a series of low-cost, four-week continuing education classes in the genres of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and screenwriting at the Wilkes University Mesa Campus. The founding instructors included: Bennett, alum Rene Allen MA ’15, and graduate assistant Mike Mortimer. These initial classes attracted beginning writers, journalists, selfpublished authors, and a New York Times bestselling children’s author. Primarily marketed through listservs, word-of-mouth, and Meetup.com, the classes averaged a 4:1 ratio which allowed for an intimate atmosphere to workshop student projects. Consistent with the graduate program goals, the classes were designed to produce a community-based atmosphere where students sharpened their craft while being encouraged. Several highly motivated and talented workshop participants have gone on to apply and enroll in the Wilkes graduate program. Children’s author Nate Evans says, “This was an incredibly helpful series �of classes. I went in with a story idea that had been stalled for months and this workshop got me thinking in new ways, gave me a lot of inspiration, and got me writing again. It also gave me a more nuanced critical lens through which to examine my own writing as well as new strategies to deal with my weaknesses and build on my strengths as a writer.” Now, with over 200 members on Meetup, Bennett notes, “We didn’t want to just be a resource, we wanted to break down those walls that divide writer from writer and writing group from writing group.” Through the program’s growing reputation, partnerships have formed with other local writing groups such as the Scottsdale Society of Women Writers where, this January, Wilkes alum Rene Allen will serve as the keynote speaker. This spring marks the program’s first anniversary and the third round of classes will feature two six-week long sessions in the most popular genres: fiction and memoir. Faculty News Faculty member Christine Gelineau has a new book in production: Crave. Gelineau's third full-length collection of poetry will be published in early February by NYQ Books. Faculty member Nancy McKinley's short story “The Dog” was selected to be included in the upcoming Dog Anthology, published by Main Street Rag.  Faculty Member Sara Pritchard will be the 2015 John E. Nance Writerin-Residence at the James Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio. Sara will be moving into the "slightly haunted" third-floor apartment of Thurber House for a month, beginning in mid-January, 2016.  Faculty member Jan Quackenbush’s short play “Attack at the PierreFontaine,” published by Blue Moon Plays, was recently produced by a newly formed senior drama group at the Perry County Opera House and Cultural Arts Center in Ohio.  Student News Amye Archer, MFA ’11 will have her memoir, Fat Girl, Skinny, published by Big Table Publishing this spring. Jennifer D. Bokal, MA ‘10 is pleased to announce the February 9 release of The Gladiator’s Temptation. It is the second book in The Champions of Rome series published by Montlake Romance. Jennifer’s novella, To Catch a Thief, a Romantic Thriller, will also be released in February as part of the Royals of Monterra Kindle World. Jennifer is also �the head of the steering committee for Lady Jane’s Salon of the Southern Tier, New York. LJSSTNY is a satellite of Lady Jane’s Salon, NYC © which brings writers of romance together with readers in a monthly reading series. LJSSTNY is held at Endicott Performing Arts Center on the second Saturday of each month. Tom Borthwick, MFA '09 has a flash fiction piece "You Belong to Me" appearing in Perihelion Science Fiction Magazine. David R. Brubaker, MA ‘14 is publishing his thesis, Liberace's Filipino Cousin, in early 2016 with ThingsAsian Press. Jim Craig, MA ’10 / James Craig Atchison officially launched his first crime novel, Blue Lines up in Arms, in Wilkes-Barre December 4-5. Published by Sunbury Press, and featuring fictional “Wavy Ray Beck” of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins AHL hockey team, promotional events included a radio interview on WILK (Sue Henry’s AM talk show), a Jumbotron announcement during a WBS Penguins home game Friday, December 4, and a book signing at the downtown Barnes & Noble. Brian Fanelli, MFA ‘10 had his poem, "Lady Day Sings the Blues on YouTube," published in the winter issue of The Museum of Americana. Another poem, "What I Imagine My Parents Did After Dinner," was published by The Lascaux Review. Patricia Florio, MFA ‘11 is returning to the Wilkes family as a student again, this time to get her M.A. in Fiction. Gerald Gurka, MA '07 had his short play "A Christmas Card Portrait" recently produced and performed in Larksville, PA, as well as featured in various local media. Dawn Leas, MFA ‘09 will have her full-length poetry collection, Take Something When You Go, published by Winter Goose Publishing in 2016. Lori Myers, MA ‘09 short story "The Kindest Cut" will be published in the anthology Bad Neighborhood by Spooky Words Press. Christoph Paul, MA ’14 had his Bizarro Horror novel Slasher Camp for Nerd Dorks published by Eraserhead Press in November. It won the Black Book Award for best satire. The same month Social Media for AntiSocials: #HowToUseTwitter was published by Riot Forge. Christoph Paul was also featured in a Huffington Post feature about The Miami International Book Fair: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/renee-loiacono/11-secrets-on-how-to-mark_b_8626322.html Christoph has �officially started the imprint New English Press with the help of hiphop artist, bizarro author, and Navy man Grant Wamack. The press will focus on publishing Black, Hiphop and Bizarro Fiction. The two titles planned for 2016 are This Book Ain't Nuthing to Fuck With: A Wu-Tang Tribute Anthology and Booty Holocaust by Patrick Scott Barnes. Under the pen name Mandy De Sandra, Christoph published the political satire-erotica novella Fox News Fuckfest with New Kink Books, an imprint of Rooster Republic Press. It is Mandy's tenth book. MA student Ronnie K. 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Title A name given to the resource Revise This! | 2016-01.pdf Creative Writing Maslow Maslow Family Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Revise This Writing https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/24ab2481ca066d95a13fa96404efd873.pdf c8a7720bc6b006eaf692194d08bd4368 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 - November 2015 Revise This!   |   November 2015 Revise This! Archives As the end of the year approaches, we reflect on many of the accomplishments of the Creative Writing program’s faculty, alumni, and current students. Several significant 2015 events include the anniversary of the program’s 2017 2018 tenth year, which was celebrated throughout the June residency. 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 STDREFRDnT doors for personal reasons, I PICTURES 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 ABRIIEF HIITJ RY the MA class of 2006. His thesis became his second published novel, The Book of OF ·- , 'lhurlonJum,; • Night Women, in 2010.  That ¥EN Kil.LINGS 7ha~q~t_i_meJ 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. 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Archives Creative Writing Community Workshops Weekender Program Launches in Wilkes-Barre January 8 - 10, 2016 AWP – Los Angeles, March 30 – April 2, 2016 Indie Lit Festival in Frostburg James Jones First Novel Fellowship 2015 2017 2018 Call for Writers: At the Inkwell Revise This! - The Wilkes Creative Writing Library Collection November 2019 Wilkes University Tenth Anniversary Celebration Introducing Door is a Jar Faculty Notes Student/Alum Notes Attention:  Alums and Faculty! PAY IT FORWARD — A Unique Revise This! Archives Related Links Calendars & Schedules Campus Map Centers for Excellence 2015 n n �Scholarship Opportunity        If you, as an alum or faculty member, know a writer who would be an excellent fit for our program, you have the power to pass along a $2,500 program incentive. This one time payment is used to offset tuition for their first term of study — an incredible benefit when you consider that most creative writing students pay tuition out of their own pocket.  To PAY IT FORWARD, tell a fellow writer about the program and this award. Send us their contact information and we will track them through the admissions process. Or, simply ask them to reference your name when completing their application. The award will be applied to their first bill. This is an incredible opportunity to bestow a significant gift onto a fellow writer and help jumpstart their career. This initiative was created for alumni/faculty of our program to bestow, so please invite more writers to join our community. Our next residency will be held from January 8 to 16, 2016, when we will also launch our first weekender series (January 8 to 10). Help us promote the program and PAY IT FORWARD.  We congratulate our first PAY IT FORWARD recipient, Ronnie K. Stephens, who discovered our program through MFA alum Jason Carney. If you know someone you think would be a great fit at Wilkes, email or call Dr. Bonnie Culver at bonnie.culver@wilkes.edu or 570.408.4527 to let her know the name of the person applying for the program. Creative Writing Community Workshops Twelve creative writing workshops were implemented last year to introduce Wilkes University to the community in Mesa, Arizona. These workshops were so successful that five additional workshops are planned for 2015. We have also expanded these community workshops to the main Wilkes University campus. Following is a listing of these workshops, offered in Mesa and Wilkes-Barre: Fall Workshop Opportunities – Mesa, Arizona CREATIVE NONFICTION: YOUR STORY • 6:15pm – 8:15pm Tuesdays – Sept. 8, 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13 • Cost: $50/$30 student ID “How do I turn my life into a story?” Join a community of writers who are dedicated to answering this question among others. Learn the various techniques used to convey emotion and memory through weekly • 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 �workshops grounded in the tradition of memoir. Be encouraged. Write your story. FICTION: THE UNTOLD STORY • 6:15 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. Tuesdays – Oct. 20, 27, Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24 • Cost: $50/$30 student ID Have you written a short story? Starting a novel? Don’t do it alone. Harness your curiosity by attending this class. Each week we will explore the elements of fiction through craft based discussion and workshop. Fall Workshop Opportunities – Wilkes-Barre Workshops in Fiction, Poetry, Screenwriting, and Creative Nonfiction will be conducted in September and October. These five-week, non-credit workshops are open to the public and are appropriate for adults of any age or educational level. Registration is $45 for each five-week series. The workshops available: FICTION • • Saturdays, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, and 10 Instructor: Francisco Tutella Learn the foundations of fiction writing. Whether you’re a new or established writer, expand your knowledge of the craft. In-class writing exercises and group workshops are designed to help improve work in a casual, supportive, and respectful environment.  POETRY • Tuesdays, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Sept. 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6 and 13 • Instructor: Dawn Leas Enjoy this introduction to poetry. Explore structure and language both visually and aurally through reading and discussing several American poets. Participants will also write and workshop original work.  SCREENWRITING • Wednesdays, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Sept. 16, 23, Oct. 7, 14, and 21 • Instructor: Dr. Bonnie Culver (No meeting September 30) Have an idea for a film, but don’t know where to start? This class will give you the basics of writing a screenplay, from formatting to structure to building great characters and using setting. Explore the world and craft as seen and used by the screenwriter. CREATIVE NONFICTION �• Thursdays, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Sept. 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8, and 15 • Instructor: Sam Chiarelli Explore personal interests to learn the foundations of creative nonfiction writing. In-class writing exercises and group workshops will help new and established writers expand their knowledge of the craft. Workshop members will also be given instruction on how to create a platform for their work and how to cultivate productive habits for a life of writing. Visit wilkes.edu/creativewriting for more information. Weekender Program Launches in Wilkes-Barre January 8 - 10, 2016 Following the success of the Weekender Program in Mesa, Arizona, Wilkes will launch the Weekender Program on the main campus in Wilkes-Barre in January, 2016. In lieu of the traditional eight-day residency, the Weekender Program delivers the same course work during four weekend classes (FridaySunday) over each six-month project term. Course work is delivered online, and the curriculum and requirements are the same as the lowresidency delivery method, including faculty and staff. Inaugural 2016 Term Weekend Class Schedule: • January 8-10 • February 26-28 • April 8-10 • May 20-22 This format is an alternative for students whose schedule prevents them from attending the eight-day on campus residencies. For additional information, please contact interim associate director Bill Schneider at 570.408.4534 or bill.schneider@wilkes.edu. AWP – Los Angeles, March 30 – April 2, 2016 The AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) 2016 Conference and Bookfair is taking place in Los Angeles from March 30 through April 2, 2016. The Wilkes Creative Writing program is �allotted 60 registration waivers, which covers only the cost of conference registration. If interested in attending AWP, you will be responsible for travel and hotel costs. If you are planning to attend the conference and would like to reserve a registration waiver, please contact interim associate program director Bill Schneider before Wednesday, September 30, 2015 – bill.schneider@wilkes.edu or 570.408.4534 More information about AWP16, including a list of accepted panels and featured presenters, is available at https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/overview Indie Lit Festival in Frostburg The ninth annual Indie Lit Festival will be held in downtown Frostburg, Maryland with events on October 23 and 24, with a special Thursday, October 22 poetry slam at Dante’s Bar (14 West Main Street in Frostburg). Writers of any experience level are invited to bring self-written poems and verbally duke it out for cash prizes. It is $2 to attend and/or participate; registration begins at 7PM and the slam begins at 7:30PM.  For poetry slam guidelines, visit http://www.frostburg.edu/cla/contestsopportunities/poetry-slam/  With a projected turnout of 200 writers, artists, students, poets, and fellow faculty from neighboring universities, the Indie Lit Festival invites MFA students and faculty to this event as it has been an excellent resource for those who have attended in previous years. The festival garners active participation from the community and brings together writers, editors, and publishers through a variety of panel discussions and roundtable sessions with topics that range from DIY Publishing and Starting a Press, to Fictive Poetry and Poetic Fiction. Many of those who attend the Indie Lit Festival do so to gain more information about the craft of writing and how to hone their creative voice. The festival will include a book fair setup where MFA programs, publishing presses, and editors can set up and use their knowledge and experience to connect with all those in attendance.  The Indie Lit Festival will also be hosting readings of authors presented by editors and their presses. This year will feature readings from Michael �Ratcliffe (Free State Review), Mark Brazaitis (Autumn House Press), Margaret Bashaar (Sundress Publications), and Michael Gerhard Martin (Braddock Avenue Books). Other writers who will be in attendance include novelist Steve Sherrill, author Tim Wendel, Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn, Nebula award winner Andy Duncan, and Guggeinheim Fellowship recipient Barbara Hurd among many others. For a full list of participating presses visit the website http://www.frostburg.edu/cla/indielit-festival/. James Jones First Novel Fellowship 2015 A prize of $10,000 is given annually for a novel-in-progress by a U.S. writer who has not published a novel. Runners-up receive $1,000. A selection from the winning work is published in Provincetown Arts, and the winner also receives complimentary travel and lodging to attend the James Jones Literary Society Conference. This year the conference will be held at Wilkes University on November 5 - 7, 2015. The 2015 James Jones Fellowship contest received a total of 623 submissions. The judges this year were Kaylie Jones, daughter of James Jones and novelist; Barbara Taylor, novelist and author of Sing In The Morning, Cry At Night; and Taylor Polites, novelist and author of The Rebel Wife. Following are the top four novels as decided by the judges: Winner ($10,000): Josie Sigler, Portland, Oregon, is the winner of the James Jones First Novel Fellowship with her manuscript titled The Flying Sampietrini, a novel. Runners-Up ($1,000): Reed Johnson, Takoma Park, Maryland, is the runner-up winner with his manuscript titled Love in the Afterlife. Crystal Hana Kim, Chicago, Illinois, is the runner-up winner with her manuscript titled If You Leave Me.  Honorable Mention:  Jake Andrews, Iowa City, Iowa, for his manuscript, Fiat Vita. �Call for Writers: At the Inkwell The At the Inkwell series is looking for fiction/non-fiction writers. The reading series is presented throughout the year at the KGB Bar in downtown New York. Anyone interested should contact Taylor Ropas (New York City scout for the series): tbrynropas@gmail.com. For more information about the series, please visit www.attheinkwell.com. The Wilkes Creative Writing Library Collection What do you do when you have over 100 published authors connected to your writing program and you want to share that with the world? Start your own library collection. With over 1,500 published works by Creative Writing faculty, alums, and program partners from Wilkes University, we are creating a home for this expanding collection of work, which includes books, produced plays, and screenplays. We have begun to collect copies of all published works by everyone connected to the Wilkes Creative Writing program. The E.S. Farley Library will house the Creative Writing collection.   Wilkes University Tenth Anniversary Celebration  uring residency this past June (June 19 – 26), we celebrated our 10-year anniversary with a slew of events including the 10-year anniversary gala, a ceremony dedicating our newly renovated building in the name of Dr. Harold Cox, alumni readings throughout the week, and special workshops taught by our program alums. 1W 'i'J All\ CRE1\'I 01 IVE WRITING We kicked off celebrations with an evening reading on Friday, June 19, at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Centre featuring alumni and faculty who have new books launching this summer. We continued on Saturday, June 20, with the evening gala, marking the 10-year anniversary and bringing program graduates, faculty, and current students together to reminisce �and celebrate. In addition to special presentations about the program’s history (including a compilation of videos produced by graduating classes, a photo exhibition, and a silent auction), we presented program founders Dr. Bonnie Culver and Dr. J. Michael Lennon with framed art pieces. Using photos from cohorts, residencies, and workshops over the past 10 years, MFA student and program graduate assistant Nathan Summerlin created a mosaic piece that depicts the newly named Dr. Harold Cox Hall.  The program’s building dedication took place on Wednesday, June 24, at the newly renovated building at 245 South River Street, where a special ceremony was held to thank Dr. Harold Cox for his generous financial gift to the program as well as his many years of unwavering support. Since the program’s inception, Dr. Cox has taught the research methods course and has assisted numerous students, alum, and faculty in their search for those niggling details that enable our writing to bear the seeds of truth.  During its first decade, the program has launched the careers of dozens of writers —including many from northeastern Pennsylvania. Throughout the week, beginning on Sunday, June 21, and continuing through Thursday, June 25, more than 60 alumni with published books, produced plays, and optioned screenplays, returned to Wilkes to share their work. On Friday, June 26, we held our graduation ceremony and welcomed alum Morowa Yejidé as the keynote speaker. Yejidé’s novel Time of the Locust was a 2012 finalist for the PEN Bellwether Award and longlisted for the PEN Bingham Award. In celebrating her success, Yejidé also reminded what a harrowing climb the writing life can be: “There is no writing life. There is your life and how you fit writing into it.” Whatever works for you is what works for a writing life. In the low-residency program at Wilkes, we encourage our students to find the ways in which to embed writing in their daily life — to include it as one includes bathing, dressing, and eating. Yejidé reminded us, “No one is going to fix your story. That’s up to you. You’re going to have to put in the work,” but also that, “No one remembers the critic.” With a decade behind us, those critics are silenced as we look ahead to the next successful 10 years. Introducing Door is a Jar  Founded in 2015 by Wilkes alumni Ahrend Torrey and Max Bauman, Door is a Jar is a bi-annual online magazine of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama, and D ,QR= Ill R on open publication �artwork from everyday writers and artists.  It features writing that has cadence, personality, and uses familiar language that takes readers on a journey. Door is a Jar aims to be a bridge from heart to heart, from life to life.  It aims to embrace everyone, redefining what art and literature is, making it understandable and enjoyable for anyone willing to sit down and read. Look for a future post in The Write Life blog for the genesis and ambitions of this new literary magazine, and check out Door is a Jar magazine at http://www.doorisajarmagazine.com Faculty Notes Faculty member Phil Brady recently published the following: Books:To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet (Broadstone Books 2015); Poems and Their Making: A Conversation (ed.) (Etruscan 2015). Periodicals: At Length, “Book VII Redaction” from To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet; The Literary Review, “Book XII The Etymology of Queens” from To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet; Poems and Their Making “Book X Wiretap” from To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet, an essay about making the poem; Best American Poetry Blog, “D. M. Spitzer May I Publish You;” Best American Poetry Blog, “Basketball at 60;” Best American Poetry Blog, “The Sea is Wild Tonight” reprinted from By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard (University of Tennessee, 2008). Brady also received the Ohio Governor’s Award in Arts Education; was named Distinguished Professor at Youngstown State University; and Etruscan Press (which Brady co-founded and serves as executive director) was named one of five finalists for AWP’s 2015 Small Press Award. �Faculty member Susan Cartsonis produced The Duff, which was nominated for five Teen Choice Awards: Choice Movie Comedy; Choice Actor – Robbie Amell; Choice Actress – Mae Whitman; Choice Movie Villain – Bella Thorne; Choice Movie Liplock – Mae Whitman & Robbie Amell. Susan attended the awards ceremony with her teenaged niece, Amelia Nicot, on August 16, and is proud that The Duff won for Best Villain. Program Director Bonnie Culver’s 10-minute play “GPS” was included in the winter Piney Fork Short Play Festival held in NYC. Directed by faculty member Gregory Fletcher, “GPS” was named the “Number 1 Play of the Festival” and the cast was invited to reprise the play as the headline feature in the summer festival. Faculty member Gregory Fletcher's short play “Family of Flechner” was selected to be included in the upcoming anthology The Best TenMinute Plays of 2016, published by Smith & Kraus, Inc.  Faculty member J. Michael Lennon’s “Mailer’s Letters: A Colloquy at the Strand Bookstore,” a transcript of a Lennon-Morris Dickstein conversation about Lennon’s edition of Mailer’s letters recently published by Random House, will appear in Vol. 9 of the Mailer Review, out in fall 2015. His review of the new biography of Gore Vidal by Scranton native Jay Parini is slated to appear in TLS this fall.  Faculty member and MFA alum Lori A. May is presenting a talk on literary citizenship at the Montana Book Festival this September. Her book The Write Crowd: Literary Citizenship & the Writing Life has been nominated for an award, with public details to come at a later date. Faculty member and MFA alum Taylor M. Polites' short story "Armory Park" was published in the Akashic Books anthology Providence Noir, �edited by Ann Hood. The story was republished in August in the literary magazine Voice and Eye. Polites has also launched a new venture in partnership with writers Ann Hood and Hester Kaplan dubbed Goat Hill, offering creative writing workshops, talks, seminars, and sociability. Faculty member Juanita Rockwellwas awarded a 2015 Rubys Artist Grant from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance to write the script, lyrics and music for Little Patch of Ground, a play with songs. Faculty member Neil Shepard's seventh book of poetry, Vermont Exit Ramps II, will be published in September 2015. The collection features 50 poems and 50 photographs composed along the highways and back roads of Vermont. Shepard also delivered a poetry lecture in June called "The Art of Concealing and Revealing in Poetry," which will be televised on Vermont Public Television in the coming months, and he will be reading from his new books this fall at Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH; Phoenix Books in Burlington, VT; and the Spectrum Reading Series in NYC. He will also be teaching in the first Rhodes Scholar's poetry program at the Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, NY, this fall. Student/Alum Notes MA graduate Molly Barari ‘15 received a scholarship to attend Sue William Silverman's memoir writing workshop at the Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers' Conference in August. MFA alum Maxwell Bauman ‘14 recently published a free eBook, a supernatural thriller titled Graven Image: Sculpt Me. MA alum Cheryl Bazzoui ‘14, writing under the pen name Ann McCauley, had her essay “Focused Writing Time” published in July/August Working Writer Newsletter and a review of The Search for Anne Perry by Joanne Drayton in the July/September Writer Advice Newsletter. Cheryl is an associate book reviewer for StoryCircle.org, and her most recent book reviews include: War Creek by Susan Marsh on April 2, 2015, The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward on April 18, 2015, Stella Rose by Tammy Flanders Hetrick on May 15, 2015, and My Autistic Awakening by Rachel Lee Harris on July 1, 2015.  MA student Jeremiah Blue ‘15 was privileged to win the Arizona state title for slam poetry at the Copper State Poetry Slam on August 8. The event took place at Firecreek Coffee Company in Flagstaff, Arizona. The annual event is the definitive state championship for slam poetry in Arizona. Jeremiah was the Executive Director for the event in 2013 and 2014, organizing and hosting it in downtown Phoenix. Normally a team event, it was converted into an individual competition for this year. It was a three round, traditionally timed and scored poetry slam event. Jeremiah �advanced to the final round, with a .5 deficit to the first place poet. However, with a higher scoring poem in the final round, he emerged the victor of the event, collecting a cash prize and the title of Copper State Poetry Slam Champion. MA alum Jennifer Bokal’s ‘10 novel, The Gladiator’s Mistress, was released on July 12. It debuted at No. 3 in the Kindle’s Ancient World Historical Romance category and within two days it moved up to the No. 1 position, where it has remained. Her second book in The Champions of Rome series, The Gladiator’s Temptation, will be released in late 2015 or early 2016 by Montlake Romance. Currently, Jen is hard at work on the third book in the series entitled The Gladiator’s Redemption.  MFA alum Tom Borthwick's ‘09 short story "Silencing the Machine" was published by Theme of Absence and a previously published short story entitled "Welcome to the Singularity" has been turned into a screenplay and is in the process of being filmed. The film, Solacium, will wrap production in September 2015. Promotional videos and information can be found on the Solacium Facebook page or at www.solaciumcorp.com. MA student Melody Breyer Grell’s ’15 essay, “Billie Holiday, Cabaret, Hall of Fame,” appears in issue 9/10/2015 of Cabaret Scenes. MA alum Renee Butts '08 published her novel Siren Slave under her pen name, Aurora Styles.  MFA alum Tara Caimi ‘10 read from her memoir Mush: From Sled Dogs to Celiac, the Scenic Detour of My Life and presented on a panel of firsttime authors at “HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers” held August 7 - 9, 2015. MA alum Jim Craig's ‘10 maiden crime fiction novel, Blue Lines Up In Arms , written under his penname James Craig Atchison, will be published by Sunbury Press on September 18. Sunbury Press has also contracted for the sequel to this series, Blue Lines & Old Money (his Wilkes 'capstone' project), which is targeted for March 2016 release. MFA alum Craig Czury ‘08 has been co-hosting an exciting new poetry series, recently touted as "rural intellectualism at its finest." The Old School Poetry Series, at The Springville Schoolhouse Art Studios in Springville, PA, has featured many notable poets including Kerry Shawn Keys, Rick Kearns, and Maria Jacketti. Upcoming poets include: Mischelle Anthony (September 13), Michael Jennings (October 11), and Michael Czarnecki and Sue Spensor (November 14). Take a country drive to be part of the most spirited and happening literary scene in northeast Pennsylvania. Visit www.craigczury.com for details. �MA student Wendy Lynn Decker ‘15 has been invited to the yearly New Jersey Association of Librarians at the Ocean Place Hotel in Long Branch, New Jersey, to showcase her young adult novel, Sweet Tea, in the "Author's Alley." This event takes place on the weekend of November 13 - 15. Visit wendylynndeckerauthor.com for more information. MA student Kayleigh DeMace’s ‘15 short story, “Emma,” has been accepted into an anthology entitled Let's Not, And Say We Did, to be published by Last Syllable Books. MA alum Cindy Dlugolecki ‘11 had three staged readings of short plays over the summer and one scheduled for the fall. Oyster Mill Playhouse in central Pennsylvania featured Paper Trail in a festival of original works over Father's Day weekend. Her Birthday Surprise premiered in the Dorothy Darte Center during the tenth anniversary celebration of the Wilkes Creative Writing program. Birthday Surprise had a second staged reading in August during the Cicada Festival in Mt. Gretna, Pennsylvania, and will be produced as a staged reading a third time at the Hershey Area Playhouse in September. MFA alum Brian Fanelli ‘10 will be part of a poetry panel/reading at the Italian American Studies Association's conference in Washington, D.C. in October. In addition, Brian recently had poems published in Paterson Literary Review, and he has poems forthcoming in the fall issues of Poetry Quarterly and Ishka Bibble. MA alum Donna Ferrara ‘14 has had short stories published in Adanna, r..k.v.r.y, The Diverse Art Project,the MacGuffin, and The Evansville Review this summer. MFA alum Patricia Florio ‘11, founding member of The Jersey Shore Writers, had a great night at the KGB Bar in Manhattan on July 8, 2015, reading from the Shore Writers latest anthology Darkness Falls at the Jersey Shore. They tell tales of noir taking place in the towns of the Jersey Shore from Sandy Hook to Atlantic City. The book can be purchased on Amazon.com. In July 2015, Patricia was notified that her nonfiction story “Missing” will be published in Door Is A Jar magazine. MFA alum Vito Gulla's ‘13 short story “Galacta” was published in The Subtopian: Selected Stories: Volume 2, and his story "High Score" is forthcoming this September in The Big Click. MA student Jennifer Jenkins ‘15 is a new graduate assistant in the marketing communications department at Wilkes University. MA alum Mark Levy ‘08 had a story, “Juggling with Sherlock’s Friend,” published in the Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Issue 15. He also �had a number of his legal advice columns for videographers published in Videomaker Magazine going back some 20 years. The Mensa Bulletin has scheduled publication of his essay on outwitting automatic toilets and other appliances in men’s rooms in October 2015. Mark is working on a book of 120 humorous pieces to be published by Bon Fed Publishing LLC entitled Trophy Envy, that comprises seven years of essays à la Andy Rooney which were broadcast on the NPR show, Weekend Radio. MA alum Deborah Makuma ’13 is now a full-time English faculty member at Arizona State University in the Writers' Studio Program.  MFA alum Ginger Marcinkowski's ‘11 first mystery short story, “Invisible,” was just named the winner of the 2015 Arizona Writer's Mystery Contest.  MA alum Gale Martin ‘10 had two eBooks purchased and republished by the Encore imprint of Amazon publishing: Grace Unexpected and Who Killed 'Tom Jones’? in 2015. Her novel Who Killed 'Tom Jones'? was also named a finalist in the 2014 Chanticleer Book Reviews Mayhem and Murder category. In August, she presented a session at Hippocamp15 called Arachno-cyber-phobia, in which she documented the challenges, surprises, and rewards of cultivating an online presence.  MFA alum Vicki Mayk's ‘13 essay "Letting Go of My Mother" appeared on The Manifest-Station web site (the manifestation.net) in July 2015. She completed a two-week writing residency at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, in July, where she worked on her nonfiction book-in-progress and was a featured reader at Poetluck, the colony's monthly reading series for the community. In August, she presented the workshop "Writing Grief: Re-Storying The Lives of Those We've Lost" at HippoCamp, the nonfiction conference started by alum Donna Talarico-Beerman. Vicki presented along with MFA alum Heather Taylor and MA alum Tiffany Hadley. This fall she will once again be teaching a memoir workshop for St. Luke's Hospice in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  MA alum Todd McClimans's ‘12 second time travel/historical novel Time Underground was published by Overdue Books, an imprint of Northampton House Press. MA alum Lori M. Myers' ‘09 theater for young audiences musical "Cinderella and the Lone Prince" was produced by Gretna Theatre, a professional summer stock theater in Mt. Gretna, PA. It was also performed at Weathervane Theatre, a professional theater in Whitefield, NH. Lori will be moving to New York where she will be teaching writing at Dominican College.  �MA alum Christoph Paul ‘14, under the pen name Mandy DeSandra, published a Bizarro Erotica book Kirk Cameron & The Crocoduck of Chaos Magick which was a break out book in July, being covered by Gawker, AV Club, Wonkette, Jezebel, Vocativ, and VICE. The follow up Ravished by Reagansaurus, inspired by fellow Wilkes student P. Casey Telesk, was published in mid-August. Christoph also published an article "Bizarro Fiction and the Literary Community" in Otter Magazine http://ottermagazine.com/article/bizarro-fiction-and-the-literarycommunity/ and will be publishing a How-To Twitter book with Riot Forge titled Social Media for Anti-Socials: #HowToUseTwitter. He is also publishing his humor fiction book A Confederacy of Hot Dogs for small press Dynatox Ministries. Finally, Christoph has joined the staff of ThatLitSite.com and ThatLitPress and will be editing and publishing Walk Hand In Hand Into Extinction: Stories Inspired By True Detective. MFA alum Adrienne Earle Pender ‘11 has been selected by the Eugene O'Neill Foundation Board to be the third Tao House Fellow in the Travis Bogard Artist in Residence Program at Tao House. Adrienne will spend three weeks at Tao House in September working on her play that will explore the relationship of O'Neill and her relative, actor Charles Sidney Gilpin, who starred in the premiere of O'Neill's play The Emperor Jones in 1920. MFA alum Laurie Elizabeth Powers ’13 was awarded the Louisiana Jury Best Screenplay for her short script "The Importance of Sex Education" at the 2015 Hollyshorts Festival in Los Angeles, CA. The prize comes with a $10,000 production grant to shoot the film in northern Louisiana courtesy of the Louisiana Film Prize (http://lafilmprize.com), effectively green lighting the film. You can follow the film and production news at http://www.importancemovie.com.  MFA alumni Sarah Pugh ‘10 and Cory Brin's ’10 original television series pitch, "The Department," was chosen as one of the ten finalists in the ATX Television Festival Pitch Competition, after submitting a 90second video and a sample pilot script. They pitched their concept live to a panel of industry professionals on June 5 in Austin, Texas. The pitch was very well received, despite not winning the grand prize. The winning pitch had puppets. They can't compete with puppets. MA alum Dania Ramos's ‘10 middle grade novel WHO'S JU, published by Northampton House Press/Overdue Books, won the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Best Young Adult eBook and placed second for Best First Book, Children/Youth.  MA alum Lynne Reeder's ‘10 short story "Marked" won first place in the East Meets West: American Writers Review spring contest, and appears in their Spring 2015 edition. Lynne also won a third place for her poem �"Unbridled" and an honorable mention for her poem "Innocence" in the 14th annual Sophie B. Choice Awards for Poetic Excellence. MFA alum Joseph J. Schwartzburt ‘13 is proud to brag about Seersucker Live's inaugural writing workshop in historic downtown Savannah, Georgia, February 3 – 7, 2016. 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Revise This Archives Archives Marlon James Continues to Knock ‘em Dead with Seven Killings Cracking Open Nesting Dolls More and More Alums Migrating “Home” to Wilkes Gaia: A Story of How Human Gardens Can Make for a Successful Screenplay 2017 2018 A Talk with Gregory Fletcher about his Shorts Revise This! - Guidance by Mentorship by Austin Bennett November 2019 Faculty/Staff Notes Student/Alum Notes Revise This! Archives Marlon James Continues to Knock ‘em Dead with Seven Killings  UPDATE Oct. 13, 2015: Creative Writing grad Marlon James '06 has won the 2015 Related Links Calendars & Schedules Campus Map Centers for Excellence 2015 n n �Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings. He is the first Jamaican author to win the Man Booker Prize, considered one of the most prestigious prizes in literature. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recently, Wilkes alum Marlon James has been making international news in the literary world with the release of his latest novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, which has been featured in numerous media outlets from The New York Times to BuzzFeed. The novel takes readers from the violent streets of West Kingston to New York, and then within the scope of a 30-year span, back to a drastically changed Jamaica. The story reveals the perspectives of a wide range of characters including gunmen, drug dealers, CIA agents, and spectral beings. The “briefness” insinuated in the title as well as its specificity of body count are belied by its near 700-page length and abundant body count, which immediately signals the reader to the novel’s weight, both metaphorical and literal. Even though James was born and raised in Jamaica, he has stated that his fiction is only minimally related to his own life story. In an interview with Biographile, he detailed how he (along with four other researchers) did extensive studies on the time period of the book, from the history of the CIA and The Cold War to back issues of High Times and Bob Marley books. Not incidentally, A Brief History of Seven Killings begins with the attempted assassination of Bob Marley and his family. James made an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, on March 3rd, and spoke candidly about the inspiration for the novel: “I was writing a story about this sexually-conflicted gay man in Chicago trying to kill this Jamaican guy.” He tells about how he “kept running into dead ends,” not only with this character but another, and he thought they were simply failed attempts at novellas until his friend Rachel told him, “You know this is one story,” which helped him bring it all together. Additionally, he relates that there are actually eight killings in the novel, but he retained its title because A Brief History of Eight Killings would be “so unsexy.” A Brief History of Seven Killings has been named one of the best books of 2014 by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, The Huffington Post, The Seattle Times, The Houston Chronicle, Publisher’s Weekly, and many more. It also brought in the New Year by placing on the BBC’s list “The Top Ten Books of 2014.” Additionally, it was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, the second time he has been nominated for this award. The Book of Night Women, his • 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 �second novel, was also a finalist. James received his master’s in creative writing from Wilkes University in 2006, as a member of the first cohort and joined Macalester College’s English faculty in 2007. His writing has since earned an impressive list of accolades. John Crow’s Devil, his debut novel, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and The Commonwealth Writers Prize. It was also a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His later novel, The Book of Night Women won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award. Considering his continually growing array of success that is bolstered with each new release, Marlon has evolved from a student into a beacon of the program’s excellence. Cracking Open Nesting Dolls Salena Fehnel’s novel, Nesting Dolls, recently received the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and has served as a platform to talk about the cyclical nature of domestic abuse. Her novel starkly illustrates the patterns of behavior caused by parental influence through the narrated accounts of three generations of women and further highlights the struggles of the younger generations to forge a new path against the tide of those patterns. Fehnel explains, “domestic abuse is one of those imprints that seems to stick from generation to generation, with primarily the women choosing abusive partners. I wanted to write a story about breaking that cycle.” Nesting Dolls does just that by demonstrating the connection between mothers and daughters, and the trials they face. Fehnel continues, “since Nesting Dolls came out, I have had so many women come up to me at events and tell me that they are the first generation to break the cycle of abuse, which is incredibly gratifying to hear, since the book was inspired by such stories.” When Fehnel first started writing this story in 2004, Valentine’s perspective was dominant, but as she continued the story, issues of Valentine’s past left Fehnel with so many unanswered questions, other points of view began to emerge. Valentine, one of three main characters in Nesting Dolls, comes from a long line of dysfunctional relationships and neglect. In caring for her sixyear-old brother for the entirety of his young life, she comes to realize �how devastating and dysfunctional her family’s behaviors have been and commits to making change. The story shifts back to her mother Theresa, a pregnant thirteen-year-old and shifts again to her grandmother Caroline, who herself is in the midst of an abusive marriage. Each character’s narrative takes place in a similar age bracket, which helps to depict the divergent characteristic of the various time periods. Fehnel said her biggest challenge was “separating them enough that they felt like individuals.”  As the plot formed and their circumstances became more vivid, their voices evolved in riveting dialogue and subtext. “We all have family ‘stuff’ that we don’t share with other people that lies deeply hidden and is sometimes never spoken about,” Fehnel says. “Valentine’s is more visible to the outside world, but who she chooses to become, how she chooses to break the cycle, and ultimately what she does for the generation that will follow her and her brother, is done through love, a lot of bravery, and heart.” Fehnel’s second novel, The Payment Plan, is in the final stages of editing and will be released this summer. Her third novel Fortunemaker is in progress. When Fehnel isn’t writing, she is teaching fiction and aiding her students in finding their voices. Fehnel is also proud to be working on a project called A New Day, which is a GoFundMe campaign that finances domestic abuse kits for women in difficult and potentially dangerous situations. “It’s just getting started,” she says, “but I am dedicated to making it work because, like Valentine, Theresa, and Caroline, it could make the difference in entire generations to come.” More and More Alums Migrating “Home” to Wilkes “Attending Wilkes is my No.1 hobby!” says Florida native Michael Soloway, who has returned to the program to study fiction writing. While many alums stay both active and vocal in the Wilkes community beyond graduation, Soloway is a part of a trend of alums returning to the program to pursue additional degrees in either different genres or the recently added track in publishing. Alums are awarded for returning with a reduced tuition �rate and the advantage of knowing the ins and outs of the program and its substantial successes. For Michael, writing is no hobby; it’s a profession (though he does list among his hobbies a proclivity to the infamous Talarigo naps). He is the editor of Georgia Southern Magazine at Georgia Southern university as well as their assistant director of University publications. Among his current works in progress are a full-length play, two 10-minute plays, and a novel to boot. He also maintains a healthy habit of reading most recently with Gregory Fletcher’s new craft book, Shorts & Briefs, among others. Soloway was originally inspired to apply to Wilkes University after researching Beverly Donofrio. When he saw that she “teaches at the lowres writing program” at Wilkes, he “instantly applied.” Now he “can’t seem to stay away.” He compares it to a family like in the Godfather that keeps pulling him back in and challenging him in new ways.  As an ambitious student, Soloway originally studied creative nonfiction/memoir, which led to his own memoir, Share the Chameleon, about his attempt to liberate himself from the previous patterns of family abuse after he became a father for the first time at 41. He continued to explore this theme in his M.F.A. analytical paper, which examined the “masks [both literal and figurative] that people wear to hide fear, shame and guilt growing up in an abusive household.” Soloway was also fortunate and driven enough to have received a double concentration in playwriting with Greg Fletcher, who was instrumental in helping Soloway shape his memoir. He had a love for both genres, and, after writing the first draft of his memoir, he “wanted to let it sit, take a break from prose, and explore more of [his] love for the stage.” Soloway then developed, as the final piece of his M.F.A. creative work, a full-length play titled, “The Flower Rules,” which he composed under the tutelage of Jean Klein.  �Soloway notes that the Wilkes creative writing program has fulfilled all of his expectations so far, and though he has participated in other lowresidency writing programs at both Hollins University and Lesley University, which have been ranked as the “best,” Soloway believes, “Wilkes supersedes them in every way. This is one case in which numbers do lie. Rankings are nice to look at and brag about and refer to, but ultimately it’s all about comfort, structure and guidance.” He continues saying that “the ‘top’ programs are only tops if they’re the best fit for you.”  Beyond the curriculum, he stresses the importance of finding the right mentor (or mentors) to guide student writers. He also praises the cohort model, saying “lifelong friendships are made that way; it’s what gives Wilkes that family feeling.” Soloway admits to being a bit of workaholic having originally drafted his memoir in three months, and he has written in several genres. He says, “ultimately, I decided to return because I trust the people at Wilkes. It’s home. And I needed help in finishing a novel, something with a longer narrative arc.” He hopes to one day teach, and he knows that a M.A. in fiction will better his resume. If you are you a Wilkes alum, and you are toying with the idea of returning to Wilkes to pursue an additional degree, Soloway says, “I’m not a Nike guy; I like Adidas. But I say, ‘Just do it!’” “With the wide variety of mentors, genres, and experience Wilkes never runs out of skills to add to a writer’s toolbox and that makes it well worth the tuition.” Soloway knows that his time at Wilkes has been a cornerstone to his goals of publishing, producing, and teaching. He has been on the journey to becoming an author and full-time writer since the third grade, and he concludes with “even on those days when I’m not following my dream, I know it’s still following me.” Gaia: A Story of How Human Gardens Can Make for a Successful Screenplay Over the past year, Autumn Stapleton-Laskey’s science-fiction screen play Gaia has been the recipient of numerous awards such as first place in the Science Fiction category at the World Series of Screenwriting and first place in The Indie Gathering’s Sci-fi Feature Contest. Currently, it is publicly available to read, free of charge, on the Screen Writer’s Showcase and The Black List. The screenplay is set in a near-future world where human clones are grown in gardens to provide organs for non-clone citizens. The �very first clone, Gaia, “wakes up” at the beginning of a harvest season and head scientist Cecillia Roden, who happens to be Gaia’s creator, endeavors ceaselessly to understand how. Stapleton-Laskey worked on Gaia, which was originally her thesis at Wilkes, for about a year to a year and a half. During that time she lived on steady flow of Monster beverages. She ate, drank, and breathed the story as she fostered its evolution into what it is today.   Her original inspiration for Gaia came from an image while completing her screenwriting course. This image consisted of a body, lying in an incubator, and generating organs like a plant in a greenhouse. This became the basis of her “human garden” concept and the screenplay quickly grew from that image. According to Stapleton-Laskey, she outlined, wrote, edited, revised the outline, wrote, edited, revised the outline again, wrote, edited and repeated- again and again and again until Gaia was completed. She struggled with every aspect of this initial foray into screenwriting. She fought the expansive urges of the text and her own anxieties to limit her scope, though the world of the text invited so many other areas of exploration Additionally, crafting natural dialogue was an unfamiliar enterprise. However, despite the difficulties, she found that the process itself was a font of excitement. Supplementing its awards, Gaia also became a quarter-finalist for Shore Scripts, and when it took its initial top placement in the Science Fiction portion of the World Series of Screenwriting Competition, it garnered her screenplay further recognition which put it in the quarter-finals of both Shore Scripts and Story Pros International’s 2014 screenplay contests. She added, “I'm extremely proud that Gaia is appreciated by these separate groups, and the recognition gives me an extra grain of confidence that's so beneficial to the writing process.” Stapleton-Laskey advises novice screenwriters to stay true to themselves because “writing a screenplay that you hope others will enjoy is much like a relationship. You have to lean into preferences and expectations of others, but you also have to stay true to yourself, and you can't do that unless you know yourself.”  While writing Gaia, which is a sci-fi screenplay on the surface, many elements of horror found their way into �the script.  When faced with whether or not to cut these so that it would better fit the genre, Stapelton-Laskey, herself inclined toward themes of horror genres, decided to keep them. Her instinct helped distinguish her screenplay from others in the genre and shape Gaia’s success. Stapleton-Laskey hopes to one day see Gaia on a 20x50 foot screen in theaters, but she is currently working on several other projects, including an experimental film about a woman who accidently runs over her own son. Aside from that, Stapleton-Laskey is serving as the secretary for the board of the Dallas Screenwriters Association, which is a non-profit organization that serves the needs of the Dallas/Fort Worth screenwriting community. A Talk with Gregory Fletcher about his Shorts Recently released by Northampton House Press, Gregory Fletcher’s new craft book, Shorts and Briefs, highlights various concepts and tools for the aspiring playwright’s toolbox. He discusses “tips for story structure, building a character, discovering an individual’s vocabulary, and creating action within dialogue” within the framework of “short” plays. These kinds of plays are “a great place to begin as a playwright,” he says. “[They’re] the perfect learning tool before taking on a one-act or fulllength play.” Raised in Texas, Fletcher’s New Yorker parents brought with them their love of theater, and that love was quickly instilled in young Gregory. Such was his early fervor for the stage, that he was writing scripts while attending elementary school. This devotion, however, was merely a candlelight in comparison to the fire that would BY G REGORY FLETCHER be ignited when he connected with his great aunt and uncle, Matilde and Theodore Ferro. Both incredibly successful screenwriters, they wrote for “such series as Peyton Place, The Patty Duke Show, Dr. Kildaire, Guiding Light, etc.” They also had a radio serial that ran for 14 years and wrote many teleplays for live television. At 10, Fletcher “discovered gold” in finding one of their actual scripts for Leave it to Beaver. He has been driven to write ever since. Conceptually, Shorts and Briefs is a craft book in two parts. First, �Fletcher uses nine of his own short plays as examples, not only for writers, but also beginning directors and actors to hone their own skills. He uses the term “short” as opposed to the more traditional “10-minute play,” because, while the traditional term relies on a stopwatch, a “short” play is limited to 10 pages and may or may not fall under the time restraints, given the choices of the director. The second portion of the book is a series of brief tips and principles that Fletcher uses when he writes. “[So] Shorts and Briefs not only became a literal description of the book, but also a play on words with men’s underwear. Which makes me smile. Not that men’s underwear makes me...next question?” Fletcher has had seven of his plays produced Off-Off-Broadway with several others produced in regional and university theaters, and he is currently a professor teaching playwriting at CUNY - Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. Shorts and Briefs is currently available on Amazon, and a reading will be held the At The Inkwell Reading Series at KGB Bar on East 4th Street in New York on Thursday, June 4th at 7 pm. Beyond the stage, Fletcher has also recently completed a fourth draft of his memoir entitled, Skipping a Generation and plans to begin a YA manuscript as well. Guidance by Mentorship by Austin Bennett Knowledge can be obtained through books and experience, but empowerment–that is beyond self. It is the parent who says, “I love you;” or the teacher who says, “I believe in you;” or the coach who says, “You got this;” or the spouse who says, “I trust you.” Trusting your own abilities does not come easy. Confidence is gained through failure. It also comes by way of continued encouragement and guidance. Mentorship is essential to success. There once was a particular academic tradition where professors referred to their students as “distinguished comrades.”* Education was built on mutual trust and respect. It was �a mutual endeavor built around camaraderie not mere selfreliance. Similarly, in the Ancient Near East, the Hebrews viewed those who pursued scholasticism as part of a family unit. Instructors were referred to as “fathers.” Students were referred to as “sons.”* Much like a child learning from a parent, students were guided by teachers for the betterment of self and community. In both traditions, a close-knit-community was formed around scholasticism and teachers were viewed as mentors. When I chose to pursue my M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Wilkes University I was promised a mentor-based education. At that time, I did not fully know what that meant nor did I whole-heartedly buy the rhetoric knowing the competitive nature of colleges. Yet, what I found was something closer to camaraderie and kinship than cool academia. I became at once a peer and a son. When I wrestled with choosing my creative thesis, fearing I was out of my depth, encouragement came in the most unlikely of ways. I had a dream. The program director, Bonnie Culver, came to me like a fairy-god-mother and squelched my fears by pointing to mentorship. She said, “That’s why we’re here.” When my wife gave birth to our first child mid-way through my creative thesis, my mentor, Jeff Talarigo, offered more than advice on writing: he offered fatherly advice. *Kuper, Abraham. Scholarship: Two Convocations Addresses on University Life. Trans. Harry Van Dyke. Grand Rapids: Christian’s Library Press, 2014. Kindle file. Originally published on the Wilkes Mesa blog:https://wilkesumesa.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/guidance-bymentorship-by-austin-bennett/ Faculty/Staff Notes Faculty member Beverly Donofrio was interviewed in HBO's series, Road Trip Nation, which was broadcast in January 2015. Donofrio's children's book, Where's Mommy? published by Random House, was selected as one of the 10 Best Children's Books of 2014 by the New York Times. Donofrio's essay, "Choosing," appeared in the anthology, Faith: Essays from Believers, Agnostics, and Atheists, edited by Victoria �Zackheim and published by Atria Books. Faculty member Christine Gelineau has an essay, "The Courtesy of the Gravedigger," posted on the New York Times Opinionator Blog: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/ courtesy-of-thegravedigger/ (December 21, 2014).  Faculty member Gregory Fletcher had his essay The Sealed Envelope read at KGB Bar for At The Inkwell Series on December 10, 2014. The essay will appear in the soon-to-be-released Anthology Being: What Makes A Man, published by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Gender Programs. Faculty member Wendy Hammond’s play, What You Will, opened on February 19, 2015 at the Cunningham Theatre in Davidson, NC. Staff member Dawn Leas read in January at the Bridgewater International Poetry Festival at Bridgewater College in Virginia. Her poem “Slipstream” appears in the 14th anniversary issue (December 2014) of ThePedestalMagazine.com. She has also received two Pushcart nominations this year: one from SwanDive Publishing for “Seaside Heights, 2012,” which appeared in Everyday Escape Poems, and another that allowed her to select and submit three poems for consideration. Faculty member Michael Lennon’sSelected Letters of Norman Mailer, published by Random House on December 2, 2014, was chosen as a book of the week by Publishers Weekly (December 8, 2014); and selected as an Amazon book of the month (December 2014) in the biography/memoir category. It has been widely reviewed, including the following: New Yorker, Esquire, TLS, New York Times, Weekly Standard, Washington Times, The Guardian, and The Artery (WBUR-FM), The Tablet, and the Daily Beast. Staff member Lori A. May has received two Pushcart Prize nominations this year: one for an essay, “The Comfort of Ignorance” published in the fall issue of Border Crossing, and another for a poem, “Place Settings,” from her new full-length poetry collection, Square Feet. Her latest book, The Write Crowd: Literary Citizenship & The Writing Life, was published by Bloomsbury in December. Lori’s work has also recently been published in Tahoma Literary Review, 1966 Journal, Pine Hills Review, and in issue 52 of Creative Nonfiction. Her next book, Creative Composition: Inspiration and Techniques for Writing Instruction, co-edited with Danita Berg, will be published in May 2015 with Multilingual Matters. Lori will be presenting a panel on literary citizenship at the AWP conference in Minneapolis and reading at Subtext Books. Faculty member Taylor M. Polites participated in a reading from the �anthology Knitting Yarns at the Wellfleet Preservation Hall in Wellfleet, MA on October 26th, a panel discussion on historical fiction at the Providence Public Library on November 2nd, and a talk at Roger Williams University on November 18th as part of the Mary Tefft White Reading Series. Faculty member Richard Uhlig's comedy film Can’t Dance was a 2014 Festival Finalist for Public Broadcasting's Shorts Showcase. Richard wrote the screenplay while at a Wilkes residency. In August his novel Mystery at Snake River Bridge earned a four and a half star review from IndieReader and made the IndieReader Approved list for best books of the year. Richard's feature screenplay Tammy is currently in development with Dikenga Films. Student/Alum Notes M.A. student Molly Barari was published in the Holiday 2014 edition of East Meets West literary journal. Her essay on South Dakota life appeared in the "Bridging the Gap" section. She also completed the Norman Mailer Center's memoir writing workshop with Kaylie Jones in Salt Lake City in July 2014. M.F.A. student Austin Bennett published his article, “Guidance by Mentorship,” on the Wilkes Mesa blog. It can be found at the following link: https://wilkesumesa.wordpress.com/2015/02/16/guidance-bymentorship-by-austin-bennett/ M.F.A. alum Kait Burrier has launched Union Square Slam, a weekly open mic and reading series, in New York City. Kait hosts the series, which features curated readings and poetry slams, each Monday at Bar 13 near Manhattan's Union Square. Two of Kait's latest poems, "On the Queensboro Bridge" and "The Earrings," were published online by Germ Magazine. She reads regularly, most recently at :Kiss*Punch*Poem:. M.F.A. alum Tara Caimi's memoir Mush: from sled dogs to celiac, the scenic detour of my life was published by Plain View Press, and her essay "Lucky Teeth" was published in Oh Comely magazine. M.A. alum Cindy Dlugolecki had an excerpt of her one-woman play, Violet Oakley Unveiled, performed at the grand opening of The Underground Student Union in the Capital Blue Cross Theatre of Central Penn College (Summerdale campus) in mid-January. Violet shared the spotlight with only one other performer: Maestro Stuart Malina, conductor of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli's poem, "Surviving Winter," was published in �the December issue of Two Cities Review, and another poem, "956 Johler Avenue," was published in the fall issue of Slipstream. M.A. alum Donna Ferrara’s short story “Arms Raised in America” was published by Amarillo Bay and her short story “Fairy Godmother” placed second in East Meets West Holiday Short Story Contest and will be published in Spring of 2015. M. F.A. alum Patricia Florio has been hired as an adjunct in the English Department of Brookdale Community College. M.A. student Kimberly Behre Kenna’s short story “Grotta Azzurra” won honorable mention in the East Meets West Holiday Contest. M.A. alum "11" Donna Malies had a production of her one-act play, "Broken," as part of Pensacola 24 Hour Theatre, March 21, 2015. M.A. student Margaret McCaffrey's story "Ironing" was read on the 'Cover to Cover' program for Vision Australia Radio (1179 am) and Iris (DAB+) on Sunday 11 January  2015. M.F.A. alum Linda M.C. Nguyen's short story "'A' Like in Math" was published by Every Day Fiction in September 2014. M.F.A. alum Laurie Elizabeth Powers' short script "The Importance of Sex Education" closed out 2014 by winning best short screenplay in the 16th LA Comedy Fest and was an official selection for the Houston Comedy Film Festival in February 2015. M.F.A. alum Michael Soloway’s essay “Share the Chameleon” has been selected for inclusion in the 2014 Sundress Press Best of the Net Anthology. M.F.A. alum Joseph J. Schwartzburt was featured in Savannah Magazine's January 2015 issue along with other local Savannah writers who are "the young cubs reclaiming [Savannah's] storied history from the South's literary lions—and rewriting it for the future." Also, as board member and performer with Seersucker Live, Joseph hosted an allWilkes line-up in February 2015 featuring Beverly Donofrio, Neil Shepard, David Poyer, and Lenore Hart who were nearby teaching workshops at the Ossabaw Island Writers' Retreat. 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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 201 ,. ii so()l(ENOEVENT BBJ8~¾~~ 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 • June 10, 2015 (Memoir night):  Featuring Bonnie Friedman, a new Burrier, Stanton Hancock and     Andrea Talarico 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 Wilkes University 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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Analytical Papers in the Community Page and Stage: Alum Creates Opportunities | Announcements Faculty/Staff Notes | Student/Alum Notes   Related Links Calendars & Schedules Campus Map Centers for Excellence Faculty Publications Graduate Bulletin (.pdf) Third Novel for Alum Gale Martin Graduate Bulletin Online Graduate Student Handbook Library   Office of the Registrar Online Learning In Gale Martin’s newest novel, Who Killed Professional Pharmacy ‘Tom Jones’?, receptionist Ellie Overton is Application gaga for the pop singer Tom Jones. She School of Nursing - Graduate meets a handsome impersonator at a Tom Program Student Handbook Jones Festival but when he’s accused of Schools, Departments, killing the competition, Ellie’s not quite sure Divisions n n �he’s the one for her. Enter M.A. alum Gale Martin and her romantic, comedic, and curious personality.   “When I was in college, my closest childhood friend married an Elvis impersonator—when white-fringed-jumpsuit Elvis wannabes were popular,” Gale says. “I saw how women behaved around these impersonators and wondered what my friend’s married life must have been like. This notion stayed with me, for decades longer than my friend’s marriage lasted, until I was searching my soul for a hook for a NaNoWriMo book in 2008, and this idea popped into my head.” Tom Jones is Gale’s third novel. Since graduating from Wilkes, the author has steadily worked on one project after another, kept up her blogging and social media efforts, and tried to be as active in the community as possible. “Life after Wilkes is as challenging as I thought it might be,” Gale says. “At first I missed the Wilkes CW Program terribly— the interaction with other writers and faculty—but found ways to ameliorate my separation anxieties.” Gale has participated in a number of reading events and also started a writing workshop to continue the exchange of constructive feedback. Many of the participants are fellow Wilkes members. “In fact, this group, which now includes Nancy McKinley and Donna Talarico-Beerman,” Gale says, “were so helpful with my finishing and polishing Who Killed ‘Tom Jones’? that I dedicated the novel to them.” What’s next for Gale Martin? She says, “you’re only as good as your last novel,” so she’s already at work on her next manuscript.     M.F.A. Analytical Papers in the Community As part of the M.F.A. program, students a 6-credit course in literary analysis. The culmination of this term is an analytical �paper of publishable quality. Yet some graduates are taking their thesis topics off the page and into the community. M.F.A. alum Erin Miele built a course based on her topic for Misericordia University. “As someone who both paints and writes,” Erin says, “I chose to explore affinities between visual art and literature in my M.F.A. thesis, Painted Words. Under the excellent Nancy McKinley’s mentorship, I devised a syllabus for a college course on the theme, with a plan to include a range of writers and visual artists.” Some of the writers Erin included are Yeats, Walcott, Sexton, Italo Calvino, and Flannery O’Connor. The painters ranged from Van Eyck to Anselm Kiefer. “The primacy of the visual image in writing was emphasized, as was ‘reading’ a painting,” Erin says. “We also took a look at a variety of ekphrastic works.” Erin is teaching two sections of the course this spring. Alum Jeff Minton’s analytical paper included a discussion about music and writing and, specifically, about “scoring a narrative in a similar way as orchestral music is scored.” Together with alum Joseph Schwartzburt, faculty member Nancy McKinley, and one of Joe’s colleagues from Savannah, Zach Powers, the team will present a panel based on this topic at the upcoming AWP Conference in Seattle. “For those of us who double as musicians and writers,” Jeff says, “I feel we have a composer’s toolkit that transfers over to writing. I wanted to make that accessible to non-musicians.” The panel, Orchestration for Writers 101, will be presented on Saturday, March 1 at 9 a.m. “The panel itself focuses on applying musical ideas to better construct a narrative for both writers and teachers,” Jeff says. “We’ll perform, discuss, demonstrate, chat with the audience, laugh a little, have a good time, and ultimately explore these ideas in ways I hope the attendees can bring back home.” Nancy McKinley will add pedagogical perspective to the panel. “Writers and teachers of creative writing often listen to music as a warm-up, a springboard for bringing words to the page,” she says. “Jeff’s approach is the next logical step: using the analytic mode of musically scoring words on the page so that writers can see the progression of a piece. In the process, writers and teachers gain insight for heightening passages whereby the words and their placement enliven the musicality, in essence, the rhythm and soul of a piece.” �    Page and Stage: Alum Creates Opportunities When Monique Antonette Lewis was in the education internship term of her M.F.A., she encouraged her students to read their creative works in front of an audience. The venue she secured for her students’ reading was the notable KGB Bar in New York City. Since developing a rapport with the KGB management and demonstrating her ability to fill a room, Monique has successfully been running a monthly reading series. At The Inkwell is a two-part success story for this M.F.A. alum. Monique simultaneously runs the reading series—featuring indie locals and notable authors such as Wilkes’ own Beverly Donofrio and Kaylie Jones —alongside a website, attheinkwell.com, that features book reviews and interviews with up and coming writers. “I started At The Inkwell because I missed writing stories that helped people,” Monique says. “I’m a financial news journalist in NYC and before that I used to cover education and local government for newspapers. I loved that my stories sparked a change in people and the community I lived in, and the positive feedback that I received for the stories. I wanted to feel that passion again.” Monique’s goal with At The Inkwell is to serve both the local arts community and her own creative ambitions. “I love creative writing and hope to transition into it full-time one day, so I thought I could interview authors about their books, write book reviews, and host readings.”   Announcements   River & South Review , our new student-run literary journal, has launched its second issue. The editorial team is derived of current students in the M.A. and M.F.A. Wilkes writing programs. 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. 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! 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. 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.   Faculty/Staff Notes   Lenore Hart will be teaching at the Ossabaw Island Writer’s Retreat in Savannah, GA, Feb 16-21. The five-day writing retreat also includes faculty members Neil Shepard and David Poyer. Rashidah Ismaili has a new website in development: http://about.me/rashidaismaili. Dawn Leas has an interview with Lori A. May and a review of Waking My Mother by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell in the winter issue of Poets’ Quarterly. Her poem “Pairs” appears in the January 2014 issue of Cumberland River Review, and “Explorer” is part of the Luzerne County �Poetry in Transit 2013-2014 program.Swandive Publishing will be releasing its first collection in spring 2014, which will include work by alums Kait Burrier, Stanton Hancock, Dawn Leas, and Jim Warner, and current student, Andrea McGuigan. Other poets in the collection are Barbara DeCesare, Sarah Zane Lewis, Dale Wilsey, and Eric Wilson.   Ross Klavan ’snew novel, Schmuck, is now available from Greenpoint Press. Kaylie Jones will be teaching a Norman Mailer Center workshop in Salt Lake City, Utah this summer. She also participated on a panel at Vogue Knitting Live, reading from her essay in Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W.W. Norton. Karen McElmurray has a short story, “That Night,” included in Red Holler: An Anthology of Contemporary Appalachian Writing, published by Sarabande Books. Nancy McKinley ’s short story “Ramp” will appear in the spring issue of The Blue Penny Quarterly. Taylor Polites participated on a panel at Vogue Knitting Live, reading from his essay in Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W.W. Norton. David Poyer ’s new novel, The Cruiser, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in May. Sara Pritchard ’s story collection Help Wanted: Female, published by Etruscan Press in July 2013, is now available as an audiobook (with Sara reading) through Amazon and Audible.com. A story from Sara’s first book of stories, Crackpots, is included in Red Holler: An Anthology of Contemporary Appalachian Writing, new from Sarabande Books. Jeff Talarigo was interviewed by Jennifer De Leon in AGNI Online where his story excerpt, “The Night Guardian of the Goat,” is also published.   Student/Alum Notes   �M.F.A. alum Chris Bullard ’s first full-length book of poetry, Back, was published in November of 2013 by CW Books, an imprint of WordTech Editions. Kattywompus Press recently published his chapbook, Dear Leatherface, for publication in January of 2014. Minor Arcana Press accepted his poem, “Sidekick,” for the anthology, Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books, to be published in February of 2014. Fledgling Rag, a literary review, will feature a selection of his poems in its Issue 13 which will appear in April of 2014. M.F.A. alum Craig Czury has poems from “American Know-How: Patent Pending” in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Gazette. M.A. alum Jason Donnelly ’s novel, Gripped, was released by Perfect Edge Books in September. He has also released his creative thesis as a Kindle book. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli ’s full-length book of poems, All That Remains, was recently published by Unbound Content. The book has been nominated for the Working Class Studies Association’s Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award. Brian was recently interviewed by Open Alphabet about the book, as well as by Boston Literary Magazine, and Poets’ Quarterly. He will be doing several readings for the book in 2014, including at the KGB Bar in New York City. M.F.A. alum Tyler Grimm is currently designing a brand new class for Elizabethtown College, The Psychology of Creative Writing. Tyler will also begin teaching Writing and Analysis of Short Story and advising students beginning in the summer. M.F.A. alum Matthew S. Hinton has accepted the position of Coordinator of Writing at Misericordia University. M.F.A. alum Laurie Loewenstein ’s debut novel, Unmentionables, the inaugural novel in Akashic’s Kaylie Jones Books imprint, has received a starred review in the January 15 th, 2014 issue of Library Journal. The book was also selected as a Midwest Connections Pick for January. M.F.A alum Carol MacAllister ’s short story, “Upgrade,” will be included in The Upcoming speculations anthology. Her book, Mayan Calendar Reveal, prompted an invitation by UFO Magazine editor and TV personality Bill Byrnes to be his guest on their 90-minute radio theater call-in show to discuss her research for the novel. Her collection of horror, The Blackmoor Tales, published by Northampton House Press, has received good press particularly though the Horror Writers Association membership. MacAllister’s poems have been included in the recent issue of Word Fountain. �M.F.A. alum Lori A. May has an essay, “After the Winds Die Down,” in the February issue of 1966 Journal (Trinity University); her essay, “Independence Road,” in the December issue of Northern Cardinal Review; and another essay,“Motor City Redux: In Pursuit of the American Dream,” in the winter issue of Midwestern Gothic. Her latest poetry book, Square Feet, was published in January with Accents Publishing. M.A. student Andrea McGuigan published an interview with Ross Klavan in The570.com. She was also awarded the Jennifer Diskin Memorial Scholarship at the January residency. M.A. alum Lori M. Myers had her play “91366” accepted for publication by HaveScripts. Lori wrote the play while attending Wilkes and in Jean Klein’s foundations class. Also, her short story, “Heartland Flyer,” was published by Alban Lake Publishing in Disturbed Digest.   M.F.A. alum Richard Priebe ’s short story, “A Bilingual Battle,” was recently published as part of the Terrible Tuesdays series by Akashic Books. M.F.A. alum William Prystauk recently conducted an interview with horror director Stuart Gordon (of Re-Animator fame) for The Last Knock podcast. His essay, “How to Prepare Students for Their Online Experience in Converge: A Journal of Faculty Collaboration for Distance Education,”has just been published. He has written and will direct the short film, Tigers in the Soup, a family drama, in January. He is currently developing Kickstarter campaigns for the crime drama CASE #591, which he will direct this June, and for the animated comedy-fantasy he has written, MegaClimax 5000. M.A. alum Dania Ramos was selected as a finalist in the 2013 MetLife Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition at Repertorio Español. M.F.A. alum Carrie Reilly has a poem, “Hesitation Wounds,” in Apiary 7: The Power Issue. She recently read at the launch party in Philadelphia. M.F.A. alum Jonathan Rocks recently signed with the Silver/Bitela Agency in Los Angeles, California. M.A. student Bill Schneider ’s short story, “Yesterday Once More,” will appear in Silly Tree Anthologies in January 2014. M.F.A. alum Michael J. Soloway will have his essay, “Women and Children First,” published by Hippocampus Magazine in January. Michael �was also recently promoted from Managing Editor to Editor-in-Chief of Split Lip Literary Magazine. M.A. student Francisco Tutella had a poem included in the Luzerne County Poetry in Transit 2013-2014 program. M.F.A. alum Morowa Yejidé ’s novel, Time of the Locust, was covered by books editor Patrik Henry Bass in the January print edition of Essence 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 �Wilkes University 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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Michael Lennon Now Available Faculty and advisory board member J. 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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While no one seems to be sure yet how such media impacts book sales, with the trend too early to completely monitor, Poyer says it’s a great addition to his promotional platform. “Macmillan linked their book sites to the trailer and it has already had over a thousand hits.” Powers has twelve years experience in visual effects and read an advanced reading copy of Poyer’s book to gather ideas. “I looked for phrases and images that stood out to me, or somehow defined the characters or storyline,” she says of her process. Her familiarity with the art form was also helpful in determining what would work for the project. “I know book trailers are becoming really popular as I see them everywhere, and I can say that I personally bought a couple of books after seeing promotional videos that friends posted on Facebook.” Short videos are easy to share on social media sites, Powers says, so the portable versatility lends itself to word of mouth promotion. “You can watch a small video on your iPhone on the bus for example. You probably wouldn’t open up a website and read book reviews on your phone,” Powers says, adding that “everything these days is promoted via multi-media, why should books be any different?” Justin Kassab, whose debut novel is scheduled for publication with Kaylie Jones Books, an imprint of Akashic Books, has latched onto the trend as well. Kassab says a book trailer was appropriate for his book, Foamers, as his “target audience isn’t the group reading book reviews; they are the people surfing Youtube for the next great clip to share with all of their friends. A book trailer has the potential to spread faster, farther, and to �more audiences, than traditional promotions.” Jones says Mark Dennebaum, Jr. and Twenty Five/Eight, a Scranton company, volunteered their studio and crew to produce the trailer. While the video is in its final editing, photos of the shoot are available on the publisher website and Facebook page. “With the younger generation of readers, who often choose their books based on trailers or on on-line marketing,” Jones says, “book trailers are much more effective than for older readers who still rely on book reviews and blogs, or word of mouth, to determine what they will read.” Kassab says the production experience was positive and a part of his creative process. He wrote the trailer draft and then Dennebaum finessed the final script “into something shootable,” Kassab says. “They let me stay on set and consulted me for decisions. Overall, I felt like a kid in a candy store watching something I had written come to life.”   Wilkes Grads Earn National Recognition M.A. alum Todd McClimans and M.F.A. alum Sandee Gertz Umbach have each recently been honored with national recognition for their creative works. While in the program, McClimans worked with Lenore Hart and David Poyer on his alternate-history middle grade manuscript, Time Traitor. The manuscript has been declared one of five finalists in the 2013 National Association of Elementary School Principals Children’s Book Award competition. “I couldn’t believe that my manuscript, Time Traitor, had been named one of the finalists,” says McClimans. ”I’ve been struggling to get my manuscript noticed in the slush piles of many agencies. Becoming a finalist let me know that I had written a viable story and that I do have a chance at achieving my dream.” Sandee Gertz Umbach took 2nd place in the Working Class Studies Association’s national “Tillie Olsen” Award for Creative Writing for her published book of poetry, The Pattern Maker’s Daughter. Each year, the WCSA issues a number of awards to recognize the best new work in the field of working-class studies. The review process is organized by the past-president of the WCSA, and �e THEPA1TERN MAKER'S DAUGlflllll POEMS ~. 0 submissions are judged by a panel of three readers for each of the five categories of awards. Comments from judges included this remark: “Sandra Gertz Umbach has a fresh way of seeing the everydayness of working lives.” While in the program, Gertz Umbach worked with Neil Shepard. The alum says her mentor “helped me to push to the finish line on this book when at times it seemed impossible.” McClimans also credits the Wilkes writing program for the development and success of his project. “I can’t overstate how much I learned from David Poyer and Lenore Hart,” the alum says. “Dave taught me how to take an idea from beginning to end with the dreaded outline, to hone my voice for brevity and exactness, to trust my story and myself, and to push through self-built walls. With Lenore, I learned to pull my language together and to further hone my voice to reach younger readers. I’m so grateful for their guidance, support, and friendship. I wouldn’t be here without them.”       Post-Grad, Post-Production: Kevin Conner and the Big Screen   M.A. alum Kevin Conner’s film, “Pitchfork,” is in post-production. The film began as a short film project during his time in the Screenwriting Foundations course taught by Ross Klavan. Conner says the film has a simple premise: “A no-luck farmer finds happiness again. It’s a basic love story, with just a few twists.” Since graduating, Conner has continued working with artistic directors Todd Oravic and Ryan Wood, both recent undergraduate Wilkes �students. “Working with Todd and Ryan has been great,” Conner says. “Their energy, enthusiasm, and knowledge made completion of the film possible. I learned an awful lot from them. They are two talented gentlemen.” Conner is thankful for his time in the Wilkes program for connecting him with the greater writing community. “In my opinion, this is the great intangible of the Wilkes program,” he says. “We all need help from others to keep projects moving along, and the program provides writers with the community necessary to see ideas through. It’s a very valuable resource.”   Fantasy Comes To Life for Alum Lauren Catron M.A. alum Lauren Catron says the Wilkes creative writing program has prepared her for what’s about to happen this summer: her debut novel, Changeling Eyes, will be published by indie press Booktrope Publishing. Between preparing the manuscript and planning for post-publication marketing efforts, Catron feels better educated about the publishing process thanks to her time at Wilkes. “It’s important to learn how to promote myself and do some of the work on my own,” she says, adding that contemporary publishing relies so much on the author’s efforts. Catron said David Poyer was “the most amazing mentor ever” as he helped her finesse her editing skills and make her manuscript the best possible prior to publication. “I still find myself reading books and thinking, ‘Poyer would never have let this slide’… I realized that when my book got published, it meant my books stood a better chance by comparison because I had Poyer in my corner. Thanks for getting me started, Dave.” Changeling Eyes is the first book in her series, The Aesir Chronicles, and “focuses on Lrill, her struggle with her powerful heritage, and the revelation that there is a core of truth at the center of every legend.” Catron says the series will offer an alternate history of Earth, spanning from the creation of the world to its destruction and rebirth. The alum says her favorite memory of attending the Wilkes program was “the moment when I realized any random member of the CW program was probably going to understand me better, as a person and a writer, �than anyone else I had ever known.” She is currently at work on the sequel to Changeling Eyes.   Success with MFA Internships in Education Earning real world experience is part of the Wilkes creative writing curriculum. In their final term, M.F.A. students have the option to pursue Education or Publishing internships as part of the 620 project semester. As a faculty supervisor, Nancy McKinley has seen many of her mentored students go on to secure post-graduate positions in local colleges. One college in particular, Elizabethtown College, has four Wilkes grads on their payroll: Rick Fellinger, Jeff Minton, Donna Talarico, and Tyler Grimm. ”I’m thrilled to see so many interns get hired for teaching positions,” McKinley says. “Their placement speaks to the value and professionalism of the M.F.A. Internship in Education. The interns receive training and experience in the Best Practices of Teaching that can be applied at the college level, Artists-in-the Schools, workshop groups, and secondary levels.” Alum Rick Fellinger tends to two roles at Elizabethtown College. He’s both an adjunct writing professor and a faculty fellow in The Writing Wing. “In the latter, I oversee the college’s writing tutors, mentor advanced writers, and hold writing workshops for faculty and community members,” he says. Fellinger credits his Wilkes internship for equipping him with the experience and practical tools to serve his students needs. “From the start, I was able to teach with a firm grasp of the writing process and I felt completely comfortable leading a classroom.” Such comfort and confidence is something alum Jeff Minton says not everyone possesses, which is why the internship experience is so valuable. “If your goal is to teach, take 620. There is just too much to know,” Minton says. “You need experience. Many applicants don’t have it, and given the extreme competitiveness in academia for English teachers, this will give you a crucial leg-up—not to mention a world of connections.” Many of those connections begin in the Wilkes program, and Nancy McKinley says the internships offer not only professional guidance, but also skills in balancing the creative success of graduates. “Throughout the internship semester,” she says, “the M.F.A. students have regular �online discussions that foster a community of writers-as-teachers wherein they share ideas, garner support, and remind one another about the importance of making time for their own writing.” Alum Donna Talarico combines her creative and professional skills in a position outside of the classroom. Talarico chose the Internship in Publishing and worked with Phil Brady to offer social media and website support for Etruscan authors. Now Talarico applies her combined skills as the integrated marketing manager in the Office of Marketing and Communications at Elizabethtown College. “Today, marketing writing is more about story-telling and less about selling,” she says. “I was able to contribute to establishing a new voice and personality for the college, and completely revamp our messaging and style. The craft portion of the M.F.A. program no doubt played a big role in this transition.” Talarico says her work day encompasses creative writing in every aspect. “I think the M.F.A., coupled with my communications background, gives me such a unique perspective on marketing—so much so that it has allowed me to innovate and, often, allow my institution to stand out from others.” The internship experience provided through Wilkes offers students concrete skills for the workplace—and a supportive learning environment that often translates to confident and compassionate instruction. After only two semesters of teaching, alum Tyler Grimm was recognized for his classroom presence when he was nominated for the Richard Crocker Outstanding Service to Students Award. Grimm says the annual award is decided by the students. “It is so important to me that these nominations come from the students and not from other faculty,” Grimm says. “It tells me I’m doing something right and making a positive impact even as I’m still honing my classes and teaching methodology.” Grimm credits his success to the Wilkes residency and internship, while giving a nod to faculty members Nancy McKinley, Lenore Hart, and Kaylie Jones. “Both Nancy and Lenore provided such insight and knowledge during 616 that I did not feel that overwhelmed when beginning my internship,” he says, adding that the development of syllabi, lesson plans, rubrics, and his pedagogical practices were also supported by Jones. “Throughout the program, she taught me how to provide feedback on students’ writing, which is obviously invaluable. The rest, though, came from working through questions and concerns with Nancy. Her approach to the internship is as individualized as possible.” An important part of the internship experience is encouraging M.F.A. students to balance their professional obligations with their creative ambitions. After all, our students are writers who came, first and foremost, to our program to explore their craft and pursue their personal writing dreams. “Our interns learn how to navigate time constraints whereby they find ways to balance writing with working as a teacher-ofwriting,” says McKinley, arguing that fulfilled writers create fulfilled �instructors. “Thus the interns bring a level of enthusiasm to the teaching environment that heightens their instructional delivery. I think that’s a key aspect of our success and why so many of our graduates get hired for teaching jobs.”   Announcements New Program Tracks: 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 will open at the June 2013 residency. Wilkes alums will take only an additional 18 credits to earn the M.A. in publishing. Have you found the world of documentary film fascinating? The Wilkes low residency program has also added a Master of Arts in documentary film, which will begin in January, 2014. Like the new publishing degree, alums need only take an additional 18 credits to earn this degree. The curriculum is being developed now working with Robert May and SenArt Films and other to be named companies. Other program updates: 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. Deadline to apply is May 31, 2013. Etruscan Press is delighted to announce that Dr. Jaclyn Fowler has agreed to accept the position of Managing Editor of Etruscan Press. Jackie received her M.F.A. and M.A. from Wilkes University’s Creative Writing program. Prior to coming to Etruscan Press, Dr. Fowler taught English, Creative Writing, and Education to K-12, undergraduate, graduate, and adult learners in both the traditional ground and asynchronous online classrooms. She also served several independent schools as head of their academic programs and sits on the PA State Board of Private �Schools. Dr. Fowler received her doctorate in Education and Second Language Acquisition from The Pennsylvania State University.   Faculty/Staff Notes Bob Arthur is heading up The Edge Theater, a new theater on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. His first show included two short-shorts: “GPS” by Bonnie Culver and “LifeSwap” by Jean Klein. Susan Cartsonis, faculty and advisory board member, was recently honored for her accomplishments in film by the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America at their 6th Annual Women of Distinction luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The speech she gave is shared online on The Write Life. Susan also attended the Forbes’ Women’s Summit in NYC. Bonnie Culver has an essay in an upcoming anthology, Writing on the Water: Words on the Allegheny River, which is scheduled for publication with Mayapple Press. The anthology will include a CD with poetry and music from Jerome Rothenberg and Pete Seeger. Her essay, “Moon on the Water,” is about a month-long canoe trip Bonnie took in 1969 on the river. Gregory Fletcher’s short play, “The Moon Alone,” was produced in March by Artistic New Directions at the Shetler Studio Theatre, Off-OffBroadway. Jean Klein is coordinating HaveScripts.com, an e-catalog of plays available for stage, readings, and classrooms. Current Wilkes faculty plays available with HaveScripts include selections from Bonnie Culver, Jan Quakenbush, Robert P. Arthur, and Jean Klein. Dawn Leas has a poem, “Bonfire,” forthcoming in the 2013 issue of Connecticut River Review and two poems, “A Winter Conversation” and “The 6:45 Train,” forthcoming in the upcoming issue of Word Fountain. Her review of Water-Rites by Ann E. Michael appears in the April 2013 issue of Poets’ Quarterly, and she has work included in the forthcoming anthology, A Commonplace Book: A Community Memoir Project edited by Jennifer Hill. Dawn also wrote a feature article about the Wilkes Creative Writing Program for The IndependentNEPA magazine, owned and published by alum John Plucenik. She will also have a poem, “Seaside Heights, 2011,” in the Harbors and Harbor Towns-themed issue of San Pedro River Review, scheduled to be released in June. �J. Michael Lennon has a number of events planned for the summer and fall, leading up to the October release of his Mailer biography, A Double Life. Lennon also has a new website. Nancy McKinley’s short story, “No Matter Where,” received an Honorable Mention in the Westmoreland Arts & Heritage 2013 Poetry and Short Story Contest. Dave Poyer debuted two new books this spring: a novel, The Whiteness of the Whale, for which he was touring on Cape Cod and Nantucket recently, and an oral history, Happier Than This Day and Time, which he will be reading from on Hatteras Island, Kitty Hawk, and Manteo Island next month. M. Kilburg Reedy, our frequent visiting entertainment lawyer, is coproducing a new Broadway play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, starring Sigourney Weaver and David Hyde Pierce. The show has been honored with six Tony nominations, including Best Play, as well as Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics’ Circle nominations for Best Play. Juanita Rockwell was granted a writer’s residency at Wildacres Retreat, NC, and is directing Jordan Harrison’s Act A Lady for Iron Crow Theatre, playing May 25-June 8 at Baltimore Theatre Project. Neil Shepard’s new e-book, Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat, is available from Northampton House Press.   Student/Alumni Notes M.F. A. alum Amye Archer was a featured reader at KGB in New York, as part of the At The Inkwell series. M.A. student Cheryl Bazzoui’s essay, “On Becoming Unplugged,” was published under her pen name, Ann Mccauley, in the February 2013 issue of Working Writer. M.F.A. alum Chris Bullard has had his chapbook, Dear Leatherface, accepted for publication by Kattywompus Press later this year. His fulllength collection, Back, is also scheduled for publication this year with WordTech Communications. M.F.A. student Kait Burrier’s monologue, “Gin on the Rocks,” was �produced by the Jason Miller Playwrights Project in Rock Bottom: Monologues About Starting Over at the Scranton Public Theatre. Her one act play “Spill” will be produced by Gaslight Theatre Company in their Playroom series during the last two weeks of June at Downtown Arts. Kait also had an article about The Office wrap-up party published in The Weekender. M.F.A. alum Tara Caimi’s memoir excerpt, “Without Words,” was published in Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine. M.A. alum Chris Campion, along with many other Wilkes creative writing alum, read the opening chapter from his new novel in progress, Office Fire, at New Visions Art Gallery for its bi-monthly writers and poets showcase. M.F.A. alum Jason Carney has three poems in the latest issue of Union Station Magazine. He is also now a contributing editor at Poets’ Quarterly. M.A. alum Erin Delaney was recently featured at the April Faculty Poetry Feature at Misericordia University’s Speaker Series, “From Mouth to Mic: Waxing Poetic II,” and was a Poetry Feature at New Visions Monthly Writers Showcase and Poetry Reading. She is currently working at Misericordia University teaching African American Literature, American Immigrant Literature, and Modern World Literature. She is currently teaching Sophomore Seminar at Southern New Hampshire University. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli’s poem, “Writing the Last Word,” has been accepted for the June issue of Spillway, and his poem, “Temp Worker,” has been accepted by The Oklahoma Review. A third poem, “Goodbyes in a Blackout,” was accepted by North Chicago Review. In addition, Brian recently enrolled in SUNY Binghamton’s Ph.D. program and completed his first semester in May. M.F.A. alum Patricia Florio’s short story, “Golden Boy,” was published in the summer issue of Newtown Literary. M.F.A. alum Jenn Freed recently published her young adult historical fiction novel, The Last Encampment, with Northampton Press. M.F.A. alum Sandee Gertz Umbach’s book, The Pattern Maker’s Daughter, received 2nd place in the national Tillie Olsen Award competition for Creative Writing given by the Working Class Studies Association. M.F.A. alum Virginia Grove published an excerpt of Break in the latest issue of Survivor’s Review. She was also a reader at Misericordia �University’s series, “From Mouth to Mic: Waxing Poetic II,” in celebration of National Poetry Month. M.A. student April Line’s column “Understanding Henry” will come out in the maiden issue of West Branch Life, a new publication of The Williamsport Sun-Gazette. She has also recently accepted a position as staff editor at Evolved Publications. M.F.A. alum Bill Lowenburg’s monograph, “Crash Burn Love,” was recently featured with a 14 picture spread on Slate.com’s photo blog, Behold. M.A. alum Laurie Loewenstein had a short story published in the Mondays Are Murder series from Akashic Books. M.F.A. alum Carol MacAllister was recently accepted in the Horror Writers Association. Alum Monique Lewis also conducted an author interview with Carol and wrote a review of her e-book, Mayan Calendar Reveal, which can be found at attheinkwell.com. M.F.A. alum Ginger Marcinkowski is now a regular column contributor to Book Fun Magazine. M.A. alum Gale Martin was featured at the Annual Book and Author Luncheon of the Willingboro chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) on April 26, where she gave an author talk, followed by a book signing. She will appear at the fourth annual BookFest PA, part of the 2013 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, on Saturday, July 13, 2013, sponsored by the Schlow Centre Region Library. M.A. alum Lori A. May was featured in an interview at r.kv.ry Quarterly Literary Journal, where she has new poetry in the latest issue. She also has an essay in a recent issue of Northern Cardinal Review. M.A. alum Todd McClimans’s alternate-history middle grade manuscript, Time Traitor, was declared one of five finalists in the 2013 National Association of Elementary School Principals Children’s Book Award competition. M.F.A. alum Chad Mullen’s book, The Mirror of Aberrantine, is scheduled to be published by Northampton House Press. M.A. alum Lori M. Myers had her short story, “Dante’s Window,” published in the inaugural issue of Rock Bottom Journal. She also recently interviewed singer Helen Reddy for an article in B Magazine. �M.F.A. alum Adrienne Pender’s thesis play, “Somewhere in Between,” will be produced at Theatre in the Park in Raleigh this September as part of their 2013-14 mainstage season. M.F.A. alum Sarah Pugh’s original series, “Killjoy,” made the Top 25 Semi-Final round of the Austin Television Festival’s Pitch Competition. M.F.A. alum Carrie Reilly will be teaching and writing in South Africa for two years while serving in the Peace Corps. M.A. student Bill Schneider has traded his surfboard for the Stylebook. He accepted a graduate assistantship with the Wilkes University Marketing and Communications Department beginning in late May. M.F.A. alum Joseph Schwartzburt reports that Amelia Gray, recent PEN/Faulkner finalist for her novel Threats, will be the headliner for Seersucker Live: A Literary Performance, Episode 7. M.F.A. student Michael J. Soloway will have an excerpt from his memoir, Share the Chameleon, published by Split Lip magazine in September 2013. Also, his latest essay, “I Submit to You,” is online at The Write Life. M.F.A. alum Rachel Luann Strayer has entered into an official agreement with Ellery Schaar of Repurposed Theatre in San Francisco, California, for the production of her play, Drowning Ophelia. Performances will be scheduled for the fall of 2013. M.F.A. student Edith Ajoke Morenike Trenou will provide editing, writing, and translation services at Saahelia.com. Edith, who is fluent in six languages, holds a master’s degree from the Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as an advanced translating and interpreting degree from Georgetown University. M.A. alum Kevin Voglino’s second book, Tea Time Boys, is now available from Rogue Phoenix Press. M.F. A. alum Jim Warner was a featured reader at KGB in New York, as part of the At The Inkwell series. M.F.A student Barry Wolborsky wrote an article for EW.com about The Office wrap-up party in Scranton. M.F.A. alum Morowa Yejidé joined University of Maryland University College (UMUC) as an online Adjunct Professor. She is teaching Advanced Technical Writing. �M.F.A. student Dawn D’Aries Zera had her work, “Disillusionment,” presented in May as part of a production of monologues at The Olde Brick Theater in Scranton. Also, her short story “Cuffs,” initially prepared for an oral presentation class during a residency, is in the summer 2013 edition of Big Pulp magazine. 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Archives Astonished: A New Memoir by Beverly Donofrio | Kaylie Jones Launches New Imprint Thom Ward on Tour with Etcetera’s Mistress | Faculty and Alum Work With Northampton House Press Announcements | Faculty & Staff Notes | Student and Alumni Notes   Astonished: A New Memoir by Beverly Donofrio Attendees of recent Wilkes residencies have had the pleasure of hearing excerpts of Beverly Donofio’s then workin-progress memoir. Now, readers around the world will be able to see the final result in print. The hardcover edition of Astonished: A Story of Evil, Blessings, Grace, and Solace has a release date of n 2013 n n �March 7, 2013. “It’s all so exciting,” Donofrio said of her reading tour. “There’s often a flurry of activity surrounding a book’s release, interviews and invitations to read or give talks. It’s a time of angst—am I doing enough?—and also the excitement of great possibility. Not only that the book catches on and sells like gangbusters but that my experience of discover and healing will illuminate, help, resonate with, encourage others on their own journeys.” Donofrio will be going to Washington State, California, Colorado, Texas, New York, and Connecticut on her book tour. “I’ll be seeing many dear old friends and even staying with a few of them along the way—even the little cat I had to give to my friend when I left my life to join a monastery. I tear up every time I think of the reunion,” she said. “It’s always so interesting to meet the people at the events and to hear a bit of their stories. In the past, and I suspect it will happen this time too, I am dumbstruck by how much we all have in common and I end up with a delicious familial feeling that I can carry with me for a while.” Donofrio’s Astonished is featured in the March issue of O Magazine in the list of must-read books for International Women’s Day. Kirkus Reviews has called this latest memoir “Honest, engaging, and cathartic.” As for the cover design, Donofrio said, “This book possesses, by far, the most gorgeous book jacket of any I’ve written, and it’s in the top ten of any book jacket I’ve ever seen. It’s the color of sunrise and has milagros sprinkled on it. Milagros are the little metal charms you find all over Mexico—of a lung, a foot, an arm, a head, a car, a pig, a key, a girl praying on her knees, you name it, whatever a person might pray for. It’s thought that the milagros, or miracles, bring miracles. On my book they are raised up so that they look like you can almost lift them off and put them in your pocket.” Astonished follows Donofrio’s spiritual path and how, during her continued search to strengthen her faith, she comes face to face with a rapist holding a knife to her throat. The journey that follows includes time spent at five very different monasteries. Readers are guided through the author’s experience of healing and learning to love life again. �Beverly Donofrio’s first memoir, Riding in Cars with Boys, has been translated into 16 languages and made into a popular motion picture. Her second memoir, Looking for Mary, began as a documentary on NPR and was chosen as a Discover Book at Barnes & Noble.     Kaylie Jones Launches New Imprint Wilkes faculty member Kaylie Jones has launched a new imprint with Akashic Books. Kaylie Jones Books aims to work with a cooperative of dedicated emerging and established writers who will play an integral part in the publishing process, from reading manuscripts, editing, offering advice, to advertising the upcoming publications. “Our first release will be Laurie Loewenstein’s Unmentionables, which is slotted for January of 2014, and will be a traditional publication with an ebook option,” Jones said. “However, we are currently hard at work developing an effective e-book strategy, which could speed up the process and allow us more publications.” In addition to Loewenstein’s book, other publications include Wilkes alum Barb Taylor’s The Sawdust Trail and alum Jason Carney’s Starve the Vulture. Also scheduled for release is J. Patrick Redmond’s Feeding the Christians. “No one will ever be able to pigeonhole KJB into one genre,” Jones said. “Our focus is to publish quality books that have a message that needs to be heard. We are a collective of dedicated writers taking a stand toward helping one another achieve our literary goals and dreams without answering to mainstream, ‘big business’ publishing.” For more news and information about the press, visit kayliejonesbooks.com.   �  Thom Ward on Tour with Etcetera’s Mistress Advisory Board member Thom Ward has been busy touring with his latest poetry book, Etcetera’s Mistress (Accents Publishing). On February 7, 2013, Ward read and recited poems at Georgia Tech’s McEver Poetry reading series at Kress Auditorium in downtown Atlanta. Ward said it was “a great crowd of students and the general public. It was the largest of the year with 318 people in attendance.” An AV of the event and Ward’s reading is available online here. The event began with an introduction by Thomas Lux. Our Wilkes advisory board member read with Georgia poets Laura Newbern and Dan Veach to a standing room only crowd. Ward sold more than forty copies of Etcetera’s Mistress, though he says he “did not have enough time this time around to rap Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.’” Thom Ward is also the author of Small Boat with Oars of Different Size, The Matter of the Casket, and Various Orbits.     Faculty and Alum Work With Northampton House Press New titles from Northampton House Press LLC, a company founded in 2011, includes Blood & Honor by Wilkes alum Chelle Ang, Ordinary Angels by Joan La Blanc, and Empyres: Bloodblind by Wilkes alum John Koloski. “It’s thrilling to see my book become a reality,” Koloski said. “I thought nothing could compare to seeing the ebook online, but then I held my first galley copy! That beautiful glossy paperback came with a note from Dave Poyer stating that there’s nothing like a new book in one’s hand. He was absolutely right!” Koloski has also taken on the role of Science Fiction and Horror �acquisitions editor, while Joan La Blanc acquires Romance, Wilkes faculty member Bob Arthur manages Poetry acquisitions, and David Poyer acquires all other genres. The Wilkes connection to Northampton House Press doesn’t end there. Poyer said, “Works are in production from Neil Shepard, Rashidah AbuBakr, and Ken Vose, along with several books by graduated program members.” This semester, Wilkes student William Horn is interning with the publishing house. “Northampton House publishes carefully selected fiction—historical, romance, thrillers, fantasy—and lifestyle nonfiction, memoir, and poetry,” Poyer said. “Its mission is to discover great new writers, especially those graduated from accredited MA/MFA programs who have not yet achieved commercial recognition, and give them a chance to springboard into fame.” The publisher aims to bring something new to the marketplace and to readers, particularly the kind of works that may be overlooked by large trade houses. “Watch the Northampton House list at www.northamptonhouse.com,” Poyer said, “and Like us on Facebook to discover more innovative works of high quality from brilliant new writers.”     Announcements Watch for an important new program announcement in the next issue! 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. Faculty Gregory Fletcher and Jean Klein, and alum Laurie Powers are on the panel “The Ten-Minute Play: the Essential Ingredients,” Nancy McKinley is presenting on the panel “International Women’s Day Reading from Becoming: What Makes a Woman,” and Christine Gelineau will present on the panel “Second Sex, Second Shelf? Women, Writing, and the Literary Marketplace.” Jim Warner, alum and former assistant program director, will once again host the All-Collegiate Poetry Slam and Open Mic every night of the 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.” For more information about AWP and the conference schedule, visit awpwriter.org. Don’t forget to stop by Wilkes/ Etruscan Press booth in the Bookfair! �    Faculty/Staff Notes Philip Brady took part in “The Next Big Thing” project and his interview is available at The Write Life. Bev Donofrio’s new memoir, Astonished: A Story of Evil, Blessings, Grace, and Solace, is now available. Christine Gelineau has a poem about Wilkes-Barre in North American Review. Jean Klein had a production of a 10-minute play, Life Swap, at the annual Short Shorts at The Venue on 35th in Norfolk VA. Dawn Leas has two poems, “Current” and “A Lesson on Resilience,” included in the special flood edition of Word Fountain. Her review of Ghosts in a Red Hat by Rosanna Warren appears in the January 2013 issue of Poets’ Quarterly, and her essay, “A Running List,” was recently featured on the blog, and i ran. J. Michael Lennon reports that Simon and Schuster announced a publication date of November 1, 2013 for his next release, Norman Mailer: A Double Life. The official biography of Mailer (who died in 2007), the founding chair of the Advisory Board of the Wilkes MA/MFA Creative Writing Program, took six years to write, and is approximately 340,000 words in length. Mailer was the keynote speaker at the June 2005 writing conference that kicked off the Program. His wife, Norris Church Mailer (also a distinguished novelist) succeeded him on the Advisory Board, and regularly attended graduation ceremonies for the Program until her untimely death in November 2010. Lennon’s biography is the first to use Mailer’s extensive correspondence (45,000 letters) and unpublished manuscripts, as well as interviews with his nine children and ex-wives. Mailer was married six times. His longest marriage was to Norris, from 1980 to his death. The Mailers established a scholarship in her name shortly after the Program was founded. Lennon co-founded the Program with current Director, Dr. Bonnie Culver. Nancy McKinley’s short story, “Sweet the Sound,” was published in Blue Lake Review. Kevin Oderman’s essay, “Trips Not Taken,” has been published in �shadowbox. David Poyer’s new book, The Whiteness of the Whale, was reviewed in Publishers Weekly. The book will be officially released April 3, but is available for pre-order now and David would like to remind everyone that pre-orders are a great way to help an author. Juanita Rockwell contributed a piece, “A minute comes and goes with all its possibility,” to OneMinutePlays.wordpress.com. Neil Shepard was interviewed in Delphi Quarterly. Thom Ward’s poetry book, Etcetera’s Mistress, was reviewed by George Wallace in BigCityLit. Student/Alumni Notes M.A. alum Jennifer Bokal worked as the managing editor for Paddlewheel, a literary anthology. Jennifer’s short story, “Infinity Plus One,” also appeared in the book and had its beginnings as an exercise in the Fiction Foundation course at Wilkes University. M.F.A. student Kait Burrier co-founded “Sixteenhundred,” a collaborative column that covers concerts and festivals across the country. “Sixteenhundred” features an event review by Kait and photos by Jason Riedmiller. It is currently published online and in print via The Weekender. M.A. alum Bobbi Button is hosting a series of “Write With Your Child” evenings for her 7th and 8th grade students and their parents. The first evening was a success with 26 people in attendance. M.F.A. alum Tara Caimi’s personal essay, “Lucky Teeth,” is forthcoming in the March issue of Fire & Knives. M.F.A. student Chris Campion has an essay, “Back to the Start: Reclaiming Your Voice and Confidence in Writing,” in The Write Life. M.A. alum Joe Cetta’s episodic novel, Parade Day: A Wholly Remarkable and 33% Non-Fictional Account of Scranton and its St. Patrick’s Day Parade, is now available on Amazon, published under the pseudonym Joe Goats. M.A. alum Kevin Conner recently had a short film produced; Pitchfork is �currently in post-production. Also, his poem “Translating” was featured in Naugatuck River Review, and another poem, “Skinny,” was featured in The New Guard Review. M.F.A. alum Craig Czury was a featured poet at the 2012 Semana de las Letras y las Lecturas, International Poetry Festival in Rosario, Argentina. His poems appear in the online anthology ¡Ríoparaná! and Aldebaran Review. His book, Kitchen of Conflict Resolution, was published as La Cocina de Resolución de Conflictos, translated into Spanish by Esteban Charpentier y Griselda García, ArbolAnimal Ediciones, Buenos Aires, Argentina. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli has poems forthcoming in the spring/summer issues of Poetry Quarterly, Popshot, and Eunoia Review. M.F.A. alum Patricia Florio is working with publisher Sue Richter on a literary journal. They recently worked on a special Valentine’s Days Issue of East Meets West, American Writers Review, available from Sera Publishing. M.F.A. alum Rachael J. Goetzke is working with The Osterhout Free Library on an in-house literary magazine. Word Fountain has just released a special full-color issue to benefit local flood victims. Copies of the magazine can be obtained from the Osterhout Free Library for a donation of at least $5 per copy. All proceeds will go to an account via the Luzerne Foundation to help still-recovering flood victims. M.F.A. alum Michelle Henriques-Wilson’s debut martial arts fantasy novel, Blood & Honor, has been e-published by Northampton House Press under the pseudonym Chelle Ang. The book is available on Kindle, Nook, and Kobo. The author has recently been interviewed by Monique Lewis for At The Inkwell. M.A. student Paul Jackson was interviewed by Monique Antonette Lewis for At The Inkwell, about his novel A Servant’s Story and the sequel which he is writing now. The sequel is called: A Servant’s Story: The War Years. M.F.A. alum John Koloski has e-published his first novel, Empyres: Bloodblind. It is the first book in the Empyres trilogy, with the next two books to follow in 2013 and 2014. The book is available for Kindle, Nook, and Kobo readers. M.F.A. alum Ginger Marcinkowski is now a monthly health columnist for Bookfun.org, whose readership is over 30,000. Her first novel, Run, River Currents, was a semi-finalist in the ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) Genesis Contest and received an Honorable Mention at �the New England Book Festival. M.A. alum Lori A. May wrote new book reviews for Los Angeles Review, Northern Poetry Review, and The Review Review. M.F.A. alum Jeff Minton was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s November 2012 Short Story Contest. His story, “Fake Rubber,” was written in his Fiction Foundations course. M.A. alum Lori M. Myers has a short story, “Cooking in a Room with Strangers,” included in the anthology Forever Families published by Mandinam Press. Also, her play Eleanor and the Christmas Carol, a modern comedic twist on the Dickens’ classic, premiered at the Grace Milliman Pollack Performing Arts Center in Camp Hill PA. M.A. student Linda M.C. Nguyen’s short story, “The Blind Side of Control,” has been accepted for publication by Notes from the Underground Magazine for March 2013. She was also the recipient of the Bergman Foundation Scholarship. M.A. alum John Plucenik’s quarterly magazine, IndependentNEPA, will top the $1 million mark in subscription/advertising revenue by the May 2013 issue. He credits his time in the Wilkes program for his continued success. M.F.A. alum William Prystauk’s short film Too Many Predators won Third Place at MoviePoet.com. The short will be entered in upcoming festivals. His quirky drama short film, Go Blue! A Post-Apocalyptic After School Special, is in production. His crime thriller, Bloodletting, will be shot by LGG Digital Films later this year. M.A. alum Dania Ramos’ play Hielo received public readings at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey’s FORUM Reading Series at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison NJ and the Arts on Division Festival in Somerville NJ. Mi Casa Tu Casa, a bilingual holiday show she cocreated, had its second production at Luna Stage in December 2012. M.A. student Nisha Sharma’s poems “Synesthesia” and “Perfect You” were accepted for publication by YA Review Network, an award winning literary magazine for teens. M.F.A. student Michael J. Soloway’s most recent essay, “Sticks and Stones,” will be published by Split Lip magazine in March 2013. M.F.A. alum Donna Talarico, founding editor of Hippocampus Magazine, reports that Hippo has received great media coverage recently, including coverage in Wood Stove House. �M.A. alum Barb Taylor recently sold her first novel, The Sawdust Trail, to Kaylie Jones Books and Akashic Books. Her novel will be released in May of 2014. M.A. alum Kevin Voglino’s second book, Times Square Kiss, is now available from Rogue Phoenix Press.   Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 Revise This!   |   December 2012                                       Revise This Archives Revise This! Archives Etruscan’s Tim Seibles a National Book Award Finalist | Morowa Yejidé Signs Book Contract | New Michael Mailer Production Stars Alec Baldwin | Persistence Pays Off for Alum Tara Caimi | Announcements | Faculty/Staff Notes | Student/Alumni Notes | Program Notes Features Etruscan’s Tim Seibles a National Book Award Finalist It’s been another busy year for Etruscan Press! The press was honored with the National Book Award Finalist nod for Fast excitement in the following Q&A. • 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 Animal, by author Tim Seibles. The fine folks at Etruscan share their news and Related Links etruscan press • School of Nursing - Graduate Program Student Handbook • Schools, Departments, Divisions n n �Q. Fast Animal already had so much positive response. What has the National Book Award Finalist nod done for the book? A. This is the strongest collection yet from an important American poet at the height of his powers. Being chosen as one of five finalists for this prestigious award focuses attention on the book, on the press, and on the poet’s body of work so far. Q. What about for Etruscan? Has anything changed or is it just another day in publishing? A. This is a huge thrill and an important milestone for us. Etruscan seeks not only to encourage a dialogue among genres, but also to nurture a dialogue among writers at different stages of their careers. We have published work by some of America’s best known poets and writers, and we have also introduced first books by the next generation of writers. Having another National Book Award finalist is a boost for all our writers, and an encouragement of the dialogue which they conduct. Q. How has the designation influenced any post-publication activity? A. Because of the award, we’re in the process of doing a large reprint of Fast Animal. Seibles is already a much sought-after performer and advocate for poetry; his schedule will only get busier as he promotes his latest book. Q. Now, this isn’t the first time Etruscan has received such an honor, is it? A. This is our third National Book Award Finalist, following William Heyen’s Shoah Train in 2004 and H.L.Hix’s Chromatic in 2006. To put this in context, only one other independent press in the country has placed three NBA finalists in the last eight years; and no other press has ever had three in their first eleven years of existence. Q. Any other comments? A. We’re delighted to share this celebration with Wilkes M.F.A. Program, whose continued support helps Etruscan thrive. The partnership with Wilkes has blossomed in many ways: this year we are publishing two books by Wilkes faculty, Kevin Oderman’s novel White Vespa and Sarah Pritchard’s short story collection, Help Wanted: Female. Two Etruscan authors, H.L. Hix and William Heyen, serve on the Wilkes Advisory Board; our co-founding Editors, Phil Brady and Bob Mooney, serve on the faculty. Our Managing Editor, Starr Troup, is a Wilkes M.F.A. alumna. Over twenty Wilkes graduates have interned for Etruscan, gaining professional experience and credential in all aspects of publishing, from editing to educational outreach to design to production to fund-raising; many more students have learned about publishing with our Literary Publishing class. With Akashic Books’ Johnny Temple, we are launching a new branch of the M.A. in Literary Publishing. Entering our seventh year, The Wilkes-Etruscan partnership is stronger than ever. �  Morowa Yejidé Signs Book Contract “When you work so hard at something and constantly dream and strategize about it and then you finally do get a YES, it’s hard to believe it,” Morowa Yejidé said. “That was my initial reaction to hearing that my novel, Time of the Locust, was going to be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster. Disbelief.” The Wilkes alum said the premise of her novel had been floating around her mind for several years before she even put pen to paper. It’s the story of an autistic boy living in the universe of his mind and his supernatural relationship with his incarcerated father. Prior to focusing on her thesis, Morowa had a few sample chapters that were published as short stories. With that early success and encouragement, she took the project further. “I decided to give a complete manuscript a serious effort through the Wilkes M.F.A. The faculty really seemed to be in the trenches as working writers—which was what attracted me to the program,” she said. “I listened to Robert Mooney read one of his powerful, visually-driven narratives and knew right away I wanted to work with him as my Faculty Mentor.” Morowa was determined to strengthen the story, but she was also eager to have an audience. “I continued revisions along the way, working with Mooney, sending the manuscript out, sort of building the plane while I was flying it. After many rejections from various agents and publishing houses large and small, I decided to try some national competitions.” That’s when she began making headway. “Time of the Locust placed as a finalist in the 2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize and the Dana Awards.” The Wilkes alum had already seen success in other venues. Her short stories have appeared in the Istanbul Literary Review, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Underground Voices, the Adirondack Review, and others. One of her stories had been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, too, but she still wanted the book manuscript to strike a chord with publishers. Once she had the selling point as a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize and the Dana Awards, Morowa took another chance. “I sent out more queries. The rest is, as they say, history. Time of the Locust is forthcoming Spring 2014.” More about Morowa Yejidé can be found on her website at http://morowayejide.com. �  New Michael Mailer Production Stars Alec Baldwin Faculty member Michael Mailer has produced more than twenty features and leads Michael Mailer Films. He has been busy with a new project, starring Alec Baldwin and James Toback, and we were pleased to find out more about this unique production. Q. Can you tell us about Seduced and Abandoned? A. Seduced and Abandoned is a non-fiction 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. Q. What was the reaction to the process while filming at Cannes? A. Shooting a film about the making of a film at a filmmakers festival was highly stimulating both for all of those involved but for the denizens of Cannes as well. We had great support from the head of the festival himself, Thierry Fermaux. Q. Would you say the project was a success—either in terms of the project itself or in raising money for the ‘undisclosed future film’? A. So far yes. The film we shot turned out well. It’s compelling and will be of interest to anyone interested in film and the filmmaking process. Q. When and where can audiences see the film? A. We’re in post production. The movie will be finished at the end of January, then hopefully viewable in theaters initially, followed by VOD, and other ancillaries.   Persistence Pays Off for Alum Tara Caimi M.F.A alum Tara Caimi has a craft essay in the December 2012 issue of The Writer’s Chronicle (AWP). It took time and patience to see “Privileged Perspective in Memoir: Building the Bridge of Trust by Trusting the Reader” in print, but Tara was determined and persistent in her submission process. �“I think it was fourteen months after I submitted the article before I heard from The Writer’s Chronicle. By that time I assumed the article had been rejected and that the letter had somehow gotten lost in the mail,” Tara said. That’s when she received an email from the editor requesting a few verbiage adjustments. Tara sent in the edited essay and then waited another eight months to hear back from the magazine. This time, they accepted her piece but not for immediate publication. “It didn’t seem real, but the wait was not yet over. Another full year passed before the editors found a place for it in the journal. It took three years total from submission to publication. I can say now with confidence, it was well worth the wait.” On the topic of patience, Tara says “being impatient doesn’t change most outcomes.” She considers the revision process and waiting game part of the job, acknowledging that much of the editorial side of things is out of a writer’s control. “I think we, as writers, do best to focus on the parts we can control—the writing, the submitting, the querying—and we should try not to worry about those parts of the process that depend on others. Of course, this is easier said than done.” The Wilkes alum also believes perseverance is a necessity for writers. “We can’t know with any degree of certainty how the work will be received by others, and we get far more rejections than acceptances. Without perseverance, we would not be writers.” Tara’s professional attitude has netted positive results. The alum has also had success with placing excerpts from her memoir in literary journals. Tara credits her Wilkes education and experience for developing her skills as a professional writer. “Being among this community of supremely talented writers with the students, alum, and faculty provides both support and inspiration and helps me to continue moving forward. Writing can be a lonely endeavor, and I’m encouraged by reading about the work that others are doing. I continue to learn from this community through reading the newsletter and following discussions on various social media platforms on a regular basis. It is part of my ‘writerly’ life and I’m happy to be able to give back by sharing my experiences as well.” �Announcements The Wilkes Creative Writing Program is thrilled to again receive a grant from the Maslow Foundation. The grant is $17,000, which helps underwrite the costs of our visiting writers and public evening readings, aptly titled, the Maslow Evening Reading Series. This is the seventh year in a row the Maslow Foundation has supported our program and we are grateful and honored for their continued support and enthusiasm for what we’re doing here at Wilkes. The Wilkes program will again offer a one-week in-depth literary publishing seminar. The Art and Science of Literary Publishing will take place from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday, Jan. 7 through Friday, Jan 13, 2013 on the Wilkes University campus. The course includes information about the current publishing environment from large to small presses, including corporate, independent, non-profit, university, multi-media and selfpublishing models. There will be discussions about editorial policies, book design, distribution, business models, marketing, sales of manuscripts, legal issues, author events, and much more. Instructors are Phil Brady (executive director of Etruscan Press) and Johnny Temple (publisher and editor of Akashic Books). The course may be taken for four graduate credits in conjunction with Wilkes’ creative writing degree programs. Those not taking the course for graduate credit will receive a certificate of completion following receipt of their final portfolio of written work. For more information, or to register, call the Wilkes University graduate creative writing program at (570) 408-4547 or email cwriting@wilkes.edu. 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. Faculty Gregory Fletcher and Jean Klein, and alum Laurie Powers are on the panel “The Ten-Minute Play: the Essential Ingredients,” Nancy McKinley is presenting on the panel “International Women’s Day Reading from Becoming: What Makes a Woman,” and Christine Gelineau will present on the panel “Second Sex, Second Shelf? Women, Writing, and the Literary Marketplace.” Jim Warner, alum and former assistant program director, will once again host the All-Collegiate Poetry Slam and Open Mic every night of the 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.” For more information about AWP and the conference schedule, visit www.awpwriter.org. Don’t forget to stop by Wilkes/ Etruscan Press booth in the Bookfair! Faculty/Staff Notes �Bonnie Culver’s 10-minute play GPS was recently produced at The Venue, Norfolk VA. 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. Christine Gelineau’s poem, “List for a Blue Day,” was published in Women’s Voices for Change. Dawn Leas has two poems, “Hibernia” and “East West,” included in the anthology Forever Families (Mandinam Press). Nick Mamatas has several short pieces in various recently released anthologies: the novelette “Arbeitskraft” appears in Steampunk: Revolutions (Tachyon Publications); the short story “Avant-n00b” can be found in Bloody Fabulous (Prime Books), which collects short fantasies about fashion; the suspense story “Willow Tests Well” was published in Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane (Black Dog & Leventhal); and “The Big Blue Peacock” appears in Dark Faith: Invocations (Apex Publications), which collects horror stories on religious themes. Nancy McKinley’s short story, “Sweet the Sound,” has been accepted by Blue Lake Review for publication in February 2013. Kevin Oderman has a new novel, White Vespa, available from Etruscan Press. David Poyer has increased his backlist. His novel Stepfather Bank is now available on Kindle, Nook, and Kobo readers. Neil Shepard has seen a number of book reviews for his fourth collection of poetry, Travel/Untravel. These appear in the American Book Review, Colorado Review, Rain Taxi Review, Rattle, Provincetown Arts, The Journal (Ohio State U), and PANK. Shepard’s radio interview with the SUNY-Binghamton radio program, Eggshell Parade, was recorded in October. He has new poems in two online literary magazines Mead and Per Contra, as well as in an upcoming anthology of TV poems. His poetry readings in the coming months include gigs at the University of Vermont, The Vermont Studio Center, The Writers Place (Kansas City MO), The Cosmopolitan Club (NYC), and Barnes & Noble (Burlington VT). He will be teaching poetry workshops at The Writers Place in Kansas City MO and at the Ossabaw Writers’ Retreat in Savannah GA. �Richard Uhlig’s novel, Mystery at Snake River Bridge, was recently acquired by Wild Child Publishing and is set for a 2014 release. Student/Alumni Notes M.A. student Kait Burrier’s short one act play, Patient/Fracture, was recently staged during the 2nd annual JMPP invitational, Dyonisia ‘12. She also wrote and directed three site-specific monologues for Scranton’s 2nd annual Bonfire at the Iron Furnaces. She continues to review arts and entertainment for NEPA’s Weekender. Kait’s poetry will appear in forthcoming issues of Ruminate Magazine, Word Fountain, and NAP lit mag’s e-chapbook, #GOODLitSwerveAutumn. M.F.A. alum Tara Caimi has a craft essay, “Privileged Perspective in Memoir: Building the Bridge of Trust by Trusting the Reader,” in the December issue of AWP’s The Writer’s Chronicle. Her short story “Chicken Divan,” which first appeared in Fire & Knives, is forthcoming in Oh Comely magazine. M.A. student Christopher J. Campion’s short story “That Familiar and Dissonant Tune” has been accepted for publication by Fiction365.com. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli has three poems published in Foliate Oak. His poem, “After Working Hours,” has been nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. The poem first appeared in the fall 2012 issue of Boston Literary Magazine. M.F.A. alum Patricia Florio’s story “Golden Boy” will appear in the Spring 2013 edition of Newton Literary. “Golden Boy” is based on a family member who was a professional dancer in the 1940s, and the rest of the story bears a bit of truth and a lot of fiction. M.F.A. alum Wendy Garfinkle’s debut novel, Serpent on a Cross, has been e-published by Northampton House Press, under the pseudonym Darya Asch. It’s available on Nook, Kindle and Kobo. M.F.A. alum John Koloski has e-published his first novel, Empyres: Bloodblind. It is the first book in the Empyres trilogy, with the next two to follow in 2013 and 2014. The book is available for Kindle, Nook, and Kobo readers. M.F.A. alum Carol MacAllister’s sci-fi e-book, Mayan Calendar Reveal, is available on Kindle and scheduled for all popular reading devices. Her short story “Blood Pine” is part of the prestigious trade collection The Call of Lovecraft, from Evil Jester Press. “Under Nighttime Rainbows,” an erotic horror story, is part of the upcoming UK collection Peep Show �Vol.2.edited by Paul Fry. Several of her poems and a foreword are slated for the collection of inspirational work Light Within, from Ireland. A shared poem with Adrian Spendlow, official town bard of York England, will appear with other work in Word Fountain. M.A. student Lori A. May has new critical essays and reviews in New Orleans Review, The Iowa Review, and Los Angeles Review. Her poem “Drinks Among Friends” was published in a special anthology by Pirene’s Fountain. Her personal essay “Out of a Suitcase and Into the Vortex” was published by Passages North. Another essay, “The Stamp,” was published by Connotation Press. M.F.A. alum William Prystauk presented a critical paper, “Disturbing Cinema: Why We Watch,” at the EAPSU Fall Conference. He is currently filming his horror short, Too Many Predators. Also, Fantastic Horror is publishing his short story “Food” in the upcoming “Blood” issue. M.A. alum Joseph Schwartzburt is working with Seersucker Live, a Savannah Literary group. They will be putting on a show in January featuring writers from The Georgia Review: Liza Wieland, Alice Friman, and editor Stephen Corey. M.F.A. alum Donna Talarico was one of seventeen higher ed professionals contracted to write a chapter for the forthcoming book from mStoner, Social Works: How #HigherEd Uses #SocialMedia to Raise Money, Build Awareness, Recruit Students and Get Results. Her chapter is a case study of a shared social media campaign/contest between MIT and Cornell. She also presented “No Such Thing as TMI: How to Create a Culture of Content Sharing” at the 2012 Higher Education Web Professionals annual conference held in October in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Talarico won Best of Track for the Marketing, Content and Social Strategy track, which allowed her to give her presentation two more times during special “Red Stapler Sessions” on the final day of the conference. Talarico also gave this presentation at the eduWeb conference in July and was asked to give an abbreviated version of it in October for the higher ed software company, OmniUpdate. M.A. alum Kevin Voglino’s second novel, Tea Time Boys, will be released by RoguePhoenix Publishing in January 2013. M.F.A. alum Morowa Yejidé’s debut novel, Time of the Locust, which tells the story of an autistic boy who lives in a world of his own making and his supernatural relationship with his incarcerated father, will be published by Atria/Simon & Schuster in spring 2014.   �  Program Notes   The Write Life blog welcomes guest posts from faculty, students, and alumni. Email lori.may1@wilkes.edu for details. 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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. 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Title A name given to the resource Revise This! | 2012-09.pdf Creative Writing Maslow Maslow Family Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Revise This Writing https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/28552df05286cac170201de836b2d96e.pdf b1189fd5fc8b49d21f6c8e751a27d637 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 n 2012 Revise This - July 2012  Revise This! Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 Revise This Archives Revise This! Archives Writing Program Welcomes Dawn Leas as Associate Director | Jim Warner Roast Boosts Jennifer Diskin Memorial Scholarship | Announcements | Faculty/Staff Notes | Student/Alumni Notes Writing Program Welcomes Dawn Leas as Associate Director The Wilkes Creative Writing program is growing and with progress comes change. The position of Associate Director was recently added and in a national call for applicants, Dawn Leas rose to the top and was selected to join the Wilkes team. As a Wilkes M.F.A alum, Leas is no stranger to the program and she admits her personal experience will influence her new administrative role. “This new position will give me the opportunity to talk about the strengths of the programs,” Leas said, “to share my own personal experiences as a student and alum; to provide support in terms of navigating LIVE, our online platform; to assist Dr. Culver in building new programs as well as managing daily office operations; 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 �and to nurture a growing writing community.” In her past lives, Leas has worked in PR and marketing, actively using social media and community events to engage audiences. Leas said, “I will take this experience and apply it to my new position working closely with University Relations on marketing and social media, and with Dr. Culver, Joyce Anzalone and the graduate admission office on admissions. I am also learning the tech side of LIVE so that I can help guide faculty and students through its terrain.” In her role as Associate Director, Leas will build on the current strengths of the Wilkes program “while also looking at other avenues to best reach these groups to bring them together as a vibrant, dynamic writing community that interacts not only within itself, but also with the larger literary world,” Leas said. “I see the Wilkes Creative Writing programs as a place where we can all communicate about craft, trends in publishing, continued learning experiences, successes and milestones to help support one another in what is otherwise a rather solitary pursuit.” Jim Warner Roast Boosts Jennifer Diskin Memorial Scholarship The summer 2012 residency kicked off with a night of celebration, memories, and philanthropy. M.F.A. Alum Amye Archer planned an evening to honor the departure of one of its admins, but the night soon became more than a simple send-off. “The roast was initially conceived as a unique way to say goodbye to Assistant Director Jim Warner,” Archer said. “It was Jim’s very generous decision to donate all funds raised to a scholarship honoring Jennifer Diskin, Jim's friend and program alum who passed away in December 2011.” News of the fundraiser garnered huge support and the party was wellattended by faculty, alums, current students, and advisory board members. In addition to straight-up donations, a number of items—such as gift baskets and signed books—were donated for a silent auction. Archer said the goal of the evening was to raise $2,000, but the event brought in well over $4,000 in honor of Jennifer Diskin. “Jennifer was a bright light in our community,” Archer said, “and with the help of those who generously donated their time and money for the roast, as well as with the support from Jennifer's family and friends, it is a light that will continue to glow.” Announcements Faculty members who included students on AWP 2013 panel discussions are eligible to apply for student funding support from the Wilkes �University Mentoring Committee. Please contact Program Director Bonnie Culver for more details. Faculty/Staff Notes Gregory Fletcher’s new play, Uploaded, was read in New York this July. The play was read by Michael Learned, June Gable, and Phil Mills. Christine M Gelineau’s poem “Sockanosset,” published by The Paterson Literary Review, has been selected for the 2012 Pushcart Prize anthology. The anthology will be available in November. William Heyen, Advisory Board member, has just released Straight’s Suite for Craig Cotter & Frank O’Hara from Mayapple Press and Hiroshima Suite from Nine Point Publishing. A third title, The Football Corporations, is available from Etruscan Press this summer. Also, The Cabin: Journal 1964-1984 will be out from H_NGM_N Press by the end of the year. Ross Klavan’s film Tigerland is being remastered on blu-ray and includes an interview with Ross. Jan Quackenbush had a play performed in Germany this summer. Student/Alumni Notes M.F.A. alum Christopher Bullard has new poems accepted by Rattle, Waccamaw, Trincaria and Slipstream. One of his poems was chosen for the anthology The Best of the Barefoot Muse, edited by Anna M. Evans. M.A. student Kait Burrier will premiere a ten-minute play this September at Dionysia 12, the second-annual Jason Miller Playwrights Project Invitational. She will also be collaborating with The Pop Up Studio this October to introduce a theatrical component to Scranton’s Harvest Festival. M.A. student Christopher J. Campion’s short story, “Angel,” was selected as a finalist for East Meets West, American Writers Review Spring/Summer 2012 contest. M.A. alum Cindy Dlugolecki was the featured speaker in May for Sunday at Museum Square in Mechanicsburg PA. She presented a series of vignettes dramatizing the town’s colorful history and just as colorful citizens. Cindy’s M.A. thesis/play SNAP! was produced as a staged reading at the Little Theatre of Mechanicsburg in July. M.F.A. alum Jaclyn Fowler won first place in the East Meets West �Spring 2012 contest for her short story, “Swing Topping and Red Shoes.” She was also invited to attend this summer’s Norman Mailer Writers Colony workshop on Historical Fiction. M.F.A. alum Wendy Garfinkles’ poem “Stronger Than You Think” was selected as a Finalist in the East Meets West, American Writers contest and will be published in the Spring/Summer 2012 issue. M.A. alum Jerry Gurka’s play The Prodigal Sons was performed at Saint John the Baptist Church, Larksville PA this past spring. He has an article forthcoming in Celebration Magazine and Scripts Works Press will be publishing a second collection of his Passion Plays in 2013. Also, his play Murder at the Pierogie Wedding will be performed this August. M.F.A. alum Matthew S. Hinton developed PLAYROOM: An Evening of One-Act Plays by Regional Authors. The program ran this June at Kings College Theater, Wilkes-Barre. M.A. student Lori A. May has new creative nonfiction in Passages North, Hippocampus Magazine, and The Smoking Poet. New poetry has been published at Lansing Online News and she has new reviews published in Rattle, Los Angeles Review, and Northern Poetry Review. M.A. alum David McDonald’s short film, Choker, was a finalist in the 2012 Beverly Hills Film Festival. This piece was inspired by his work in the Wilkes Creative Writing/Screenwriting Program. Janis Productions is currently budgeting the project and several more producers in Texas and California are reading it. M.A. alum Lori M. Myers’ play The Serpents Egg will be produced by fellow alum Matthew Hinton at Gaslight Theatre in Wilkes-Barre. Her short story “Smoke” was recently published by Sunbury Press in the anthology A Community of Writers. M.A. alum Dania Ramos’ play Frozen War was read at the Arts on Division Festival this past May at the PCNJ Pop-Up Art Gallery, Somerville NJ. This was Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey’s second round of readings for the New Jersey Emerging Women’s Playwrights Project. M.F.A. alum Jonathan Rocks’ screenplay Luke Whimsey, which was his capstone for the Wilkes program, has been optioned by Triboro Pictures, and they are currently representing it at the 2012 Cannes Film Market in France. Program Note �The Write Life blog welcomes guest posts from faculty, students, and alumni. Email lori.may1@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 Programs E.S. 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Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 Revise This Archives Revise This! Archives The Rebel Wife by Taylor Polites – Best Southern Read | New LowResidency Representation on AWP Board | Announcements | Faculty/Staff Notes | Student Alumni Notes The Rebel Wife by Taylor Polites – Best Southern Read Since graduating in June 2010 with his MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University, Taylor Polites has been busy! His debut novel, The Rebel Wife, was published in February 2012 by Simon & Schuster. The debut has been named one of the Best Southern Reads for 2012 by The Atlanta Journal – Constitution. Taylor has also received glowing reviews from BookPage, O Magazine, and The Southern Independent Booksellers Association. “I am really amazed at the amount of great coverage and response the book has received,” Taylor said. “It is truly a dream come true. I really appreciate the support and guidance that the Wilkes MFA community, 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 �students, alumni and faculty, has given me. You don't make these things happen on your own. I feel so lucky to be a part of a community that extends way beyond graduation.” Taylor was on the road for almost four weeks in February. “I toured 14 cities in five states. It was amazing to be able to go out, book in hand, and talk to people about writing and history and the South. It is an absolute dream come true.” He is now embarking on a series of promotional events ranging from the Virginia Festival of the Book to the Alabama Book Festival. Dates and locations for the tour are available on Taylor’s website: http://taylormpolites.com In 2009, Taylor was awarded the Norris Church Mailer Scholarship. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he is currently working on the research for a second book, another one set in Albion, Alabama. New Low-Residency Representation on AWP Board At the recent AWP Conference in Chicago IL, two low-residency program directors were elected to serve as officers on the AWP Board. Wilkes’ own Bonnie Culver is now serving as Treasurer and Steve Heller, director of the Antioch University Los Angeles program, is serving as President. Steve was elected in 2010 and Bonnie Culver in 2011; each will serve a four year term. “This is the first time two low-res program directors are on the Board,” Culver said, “and it’s the first time two are acting as Officers. It’s very exciting.” This is great news for low-residency programs. Congratulations to Steve and Bonnie. Announcements The June Residency is scheduled to take place June 15-23, 2012. Applications for June admission are due May 15 for regular admission or May 1 to be considered for Graduate Assistantships. Jack Scovil, long-time Advisory Board Member, passed away February 23, 2012. Jack was a literary agent for more than 40 years and a principal agent at Scovil Galen Ghosh in New York City. He worked with Norman Mailer, Margaret Truman, Larry Smith, and many others. Jack was a founding Advisory Board Member of the low-residency MFA program at Wilkes. “‘Uncle Jack’ was a wonderful supporter, friend, and advisor to the entire program,” said Bonnie Culver. “He will be dearly missed.” A Memorial Celebration for Norris Church Mailer will take place in April. This is a closed event by invitation only. Wilkes faculty, alum, and �students wishing to share a few words about Norris should contact the Program Director, Bonnie Culver or Dr. Michael Lennon for more information. They will attend the event and represent Wilkes. Faculty members who include students on AWP 2013 panel discussions are eligible to apply for student funding support from the Wilkes University Mentoring Committee. Involvement of current students is encouraged. Please contact Program Director Bonnie Culver for more details. Alums George Kraynak and Julia Steier have good news: Many nonsensical things occur with your cohort during the grueling eight days of the January and June residencies that brings your group closer. But during the work semesters and the hours spent on the program formally known as WebCT, an unlikely friendship can ignite then twist into companionship. George Kraynak (MFA 2010) and Julia Steier (MA 2010) met in 501 during the January residency in 2008. In 2009, their Wilkes friendship moved into real time and the writing relationship quickly derailed into something more. They co-founded a scrumptious online food blog titled George and Julia Eat Manhattan (http://www.georgeandjuliaeatmanhattan.com). They began documenting their culinary adventures, and for two and a half years these two delectable delights couldn’t deny their uncanny connection and attraction. On an unseasonably warm February afternoon in Central Park, George and Julia were laying side-by-side holding hands when suddenly George began pouring his heart out about their future together. Several times before they've hypothetically discussed the greatness of getting married and moving in together, but nothing more. But like a colt learning to stand, George nervously got on one knee and gazed into her eyes. Julia sat up so bewildered by his actions and couldn't fathom what was unraveling right in front of her. So instead of shutting up and listening, she hollered at his practical joke. But George tuned her out—a tactic he’s acquired over their time spent together— and pulled a small velvet brown box from his breast coat pocket. When he creaked the box open, the daylight glinted off the diamond like meteor showers at midnight. Without hesitation, Julia lunged for the ring. George smiled and said, “So you’ll marry me?” and Julia emphatically nodded yes. �Faculty/Staff Notes Nancy McKinley’s essay “Title IX and Me” appears in the anthology Becoming: What Makes a Woman, published by the University of Nebraska, February, 2012. Her short story “Signed Sealed Delivered” has been accepted by the Main Street Rag Short Fiction Anthology for the TATTOOS theme to be published in Fall of 2012.Nancy was a reader at the February Prose in Pubs event. On May 4, 2012 she will be reading at MulberryArt Studio, First Friday in Lancaster City, 6-8 p.m. for the Elizabethtown Writers Group, with Wilkes Alumni Gale Martin and Rick Fellinger, as well as Mary Beth Matteo and Jesse Waters. Gregory Fletcher’s play Cow-Tipping and Other Signs of Stress is a national finalist for the Reva Shiner Comedy Award from the Bloomington Playwrights Project. Neil Shepard has given poetry readings in a half-dozen states to celebrate his new poetry book, (T)ravel/Un(t)ravel. Upcoming readings include the KGB Bar in New York City in April, Vermont Poetry Society in May, Saratoga Arts Festival in June, and Chautauqua Writers Institute in July. Shepard will teach a Poetry Workshop at Poets House in Manhattan (April-May) and an Advanced Poetry Workshop at the Chautauqua Writers Institute in July. New poems are forthcoming in Per Contra (online) and the Chautauqua Literary Review. Three book reviews of Travel/Untravel appear in PANK (online), Fogged Clarity (online), and Provincetown Arts. Student/Alumni Notes M.F.A. alum Amye Archer has a piece, “Found,” accepted by H_ngm_n for the April issue. She has also been selected as a guest editor for a special Parenting issue of PANK Magazine. The issue is scheduled for June. M.F.A. alum Christopher Bullard’s full-length book of poetry, Back, has been selected by WordTech Communications for publication by their CW Books imprint in November of 2013. M.A. student Kait Burrier’s poem, “To the Little Boy in the White Gown,” will be published in the Carlow University Press anthology, Voices in the Attic, Vol. XVIII. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli has a poem entitled “After Work” in the current issue of Harpur Palate. He also has poems forthcoming in the fall issue of Inkwell Journal and the spring/summer issue of Solstice Literary Magazine. �M.F.A. alum Richard Fellinger’s short story collection, They Hover Over Us, has been published by Snake Nation Press. This collection of 13 stories about people from PA’s Rust Belt won the 2011 Serena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award and is available now at readings and signings hosted by the author. The publisher will make the book available soon at its Web site, snakenationpress.org, and on Amazon. M.F.A. alum Patricia Florio is working with Literary Adventure, a reading series. This month The Jersey Shore Writers will be sharing the stage at the Belmar Arts Council with three Wilkes Alums. M.A. alum Jerry Gurka wrote and directed a play, The Prodigal Sons: Passion Play 2012, performed in Larksville PA, in March. M.F.A. alum Bill Lowenburg’s novel, The Zorki Chronicles, is a quarter finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest. Finals take place in June. He also recently published a photography article on the Australian Website, Lucida. M.A. alum Gale Martin will be reading at MulberryArt Studio, May 4, for the Elizabethtown Writers Group. M.A. student Lori A. May has an article, “Bypass obstacles to traditional publication,” in the March 2012 edition online at WriterMag.com. She is scheduled to speak at the Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs Conference hosted at Humber College in Toronto, May 2012. M.A. alum Lori Myers will be teaching a workshop entitled “Acting the Book: Putting Pizazz into Your Literary Readings” at the Pennwriters Conference, Lancaster, PA. She will also be doing a fiction reading and teaching a writing workshop at the Chautauqua Institute in New York this summer. M.F.A. alum William D. Prystauk’s academic paper, “The Kids Aren’t All Right: Horror Movies Remind Us that Protecting Children at Home is an Illusion” was just published in the Mid-Atlantic Popular American Culture Association “Gazette” (2012 Winter Edition). His short crime story, “Mara” will appear in the upcoming issue of “Criminal Class Review.” The academic paper he prepared for his MFA critical paper at Wilkes has been accepted for publication by the peer reviewed “Studies in Gothic Fiction.” Bill has also begun pre-production of his short dramatic horror, Too Many Predators, to be filmed in late August. M.A. alum Dania Ramos’ bilingual co-creation MI CASA TU CASA was produced at Luna Stage as part of its 2011-2012 mainstage season. In December, her play ROOM 30 received a staged reading as part of Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey’s FORUM Series at Fairleigh �Dickinson University. She was also selected for Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey’s 2011-12 New Jersey Emerging Women Playwrights Project, a ten-month play development program. M.A. student Michael Soloway will have a memoir excerpt published in the May issue of Brevity magazine. The piece is called “Introducing Mother Nature.” M.F.A. student Sandee Umbach’s full-length poetry collection, The Pattern Maker’s Daughter, was released in February of 2012 by Bottom Dog Press. Jim Daniels, author and editor, calls the collection “a remarkable debut … full of honesty, wisdom, and heart.” Program Note The Write Life blog welcomes guest posts from faculty, students, and alumni. Email lori.may1@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 Programs E.S. 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Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 Revise This Archives High Praise for Advisory Board Member William J. Kennedy's Latest Book | Alum Lori Myers' Essay Nominated for a Pushcart Prize | Faculty/Staff Notes | Student Alumni Notes High Praise for Advisory Board Member William J. Kennedy's Latest Book William J. Kennedy, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Ironweed, has seen glowing reviews for his recent book, Chango Beads and Two-Tone Shoes. The New York Times, Paris Review, and many more media outlets are praising Kennedy’s latest publication, with USA Today calling this an “ambitious, mature work.” In Chango Beads and Two-Tone Shoes we see Hemmingway make chatter with Castro, and a witty reporter, Quinn, settle into Cuba because it’s “closer than Paris.” “The Cuban element in my book had its origin in personal experience,” Revise This! Archives n 2011 n n �Kennedy said in a recent interview. “I covered the Cuban revolution in Miami and later in San Juan, PR, in the 1950s as a newsman, first on the Miami Herald, then on the San Juan Star, and as a correspondent for Time-Life. The experience nagged me for years, and eventually I took up the challenge.” While the personal angle may have prompted the book’s creation, it did not make the journey any easier. “I witnessed much suffering and heroic behavior among people in the movement; also much repression and virulent racism, and that became central to the new novel. The book in progress turned into a story of two revolutions; and what then loomed was the reimagining of both, and fitting them into my story about a journalist and a revolutionary debutante. And nine years later I finished it.” Wilkes writing students were honored with a featured reading at a recent residency, wherein Kennedy shared a few scenes from Chango Beads and Two-Tone Shoes. For students wishing to merge nonfiction elements with fiction, Kennedy has this advice. “The novel usually wants to be as true as possible to historical reality, but not at the expense of the story. The writer is getting at the truth of what he/she knows and wants to put on the page; but the reimagining of history, or even our own past, is necessary if this work aspires to be literature,” Kennedy said, “for such work is not the transcription of history but is experience that has passed through the center of our being, and been transformed into a story, play, novel that never was—a work created from the argument that the creative element in the writer’s brain is having with imagination, memory, and the implacable drive to be authentic.” This can prove to be a challenge for writers, young and experienced. “History is always malleable to the novelist. Being scrupulously, morally faithful to it can involve distorting or even eliminating what was actual. The writer’s quest is to be true to what is more important: the literary synthesis of all that internal torsion—the truly new story.” With all the media and publicity, Kennedy is settling in to getting back to what matters most. “I just finished my book tour about two weeks ago and am still not quite settled into the next phase of my life, which is to get back to writing,” Kennedy said in a recent interview. “Hemingway said that after you finish a novel you have to let the well fill up again; and that’s what I’m doing. But I have resumed something I started years ago and never finished—a play. I will finish it this time, and I will be satisfied, I think. I’m never satisfied with anything, but at least this time I will not consider what I write to be a provisional draft. This will be it, and I’ll have a staged reading. Then, of course, I’ll start the rewriting.” Alum Lori Myers' Essay Nominated for a Pushcart Prize When Hippocampus Magazine published Lori Myer’s essay, “Word,” in September 2011, the author and �Wilkes alum would have never guessed so much attention would come her way. “I am beyond thrilled to receive a Pushcart nomination and be part of this select group of writers,” Myers said recently. From the year’s submissions, Hippocampus selected six pieces of non-fiction, including Myers’ essay exploring the power of word play. “Words can affect us, cut like a knife, or perhaps even change our lives, our philosophies, our paths,” Myers says in her essay. An award-winning writer of creative nonfiction, fiction, essays, and plays, Myers has seen her work published in more than 40 national and regional publications. A graduate of the Creative Writing masters program at Wilkes University, she is now part of the writing faculty at York College of Pennsylvania. Even with her continued stream of success, this author is modest and appreciative of the attention she is earning for her writing— and for the genre as a whole. “Honestly, I have no idea when the winners will be announced. Just being nominated has meant so much! Besides, these types of awards place the literary arts center stage!” In her reflection on words and their weighty meaning, Myers has this to say in her essay: “Like a rock thrown into the literary pool, words cause the waters to ripple; they have power and weight, which is why writers ache and moan and starve and revise, revise, revise to make certain they use just the right words in a scene, in dialogue, in verse.” To read the full essay, visit Hippocampus Magazine at http://www.hippocampusmagazine.com. More information about the Pushcart Prize may be found online at http://www.pushcartprize.com/index.htm. Faculty/Staff Notes Robert P. Arthur has again been nominated for Poet Laureate of Virginia. He was a runner up for the post in both 2008 and 2010. Taschen Press has just published a new, revised edition of Norman Mailer’s 1973 biography, conceived by Advisory Board member Larry Schiller, and edited by J. Michael Lennon, who also contributed a biographical note on Mailer. The new edition contains heretofore unseen photographs by the great photographer, Bert Stern, from the last sitting with Monroe just before she died in 1962. The oversize, clamshell-boxed, limited edition of 125 copies sells for $1,000. A trade edition is six languages for a much lower price will appear in a few months. Go to �Taschen.com for details. Lennon reports that he is six months from completing a draft of the authorized biography of Mailer, to be published by Simon & Schuster next year (or maybe early 2013). Nancy McKinley’s short story “Navidad” appears in Issue 53 of The Cortland Review. Thom Ward has given a number of readings around the country, and has scheduled more for 2012, for his new poetry book, Etcetera’s Mistress, published by Accents Publishing. A review written by Brian Fanelli is available at pankmagazine.com. Student/Alumni Notes M.F.A. alum Chris Bullard’s second poetry chapbook, O Brilliant Kids, was recently released by Big Table Publishing. His poem “Miss Ross” was selected for inclusion in the poetry anthology, Best of the Barefoot Muse. His poems currently appear in 32 Poems, Plainsongs, Pleiades and Think Journal, and have been selected for future publication by River Styx, New York Quarterly, Unsplendid, fourteen magazine and Blue Unicorn. M.A. student Kait Burrier’s poem, “The Angler’s Gaze,” was accepted into Dionne’s Story: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose for the Awareness of Relationship Violence, Volume 2. Proceeds from anthology sales benefit Dionne’s Project for Safe Relationships. M.A. student Christopher Campion had two short stories, “Debt” and “Opened,” accepted by www.fiction365.com for 2012 publication. M.F.A. alum Craig Czury has been named Laureate and Honorary Member of the largest Albanian celebration of poetry in the world, the XV “Days of Naim” International Poetry Festival in Tetovë, Macedonia. Czury is the first poet from the United States to be awarded this laureateship. M.A. alum Alessandra Djordjevic has two poems, “Love’s Androgynous” and “Poetic Countenance” published on the website wordathering.com. He also has a short story, “Black Agate,” published in an anthology of short stories, The Smartest Kid in the Bronx. M.F.A. alum Brian Fanelli’s poem “After Work” has been accepted for publication in the winter issue of Harpur Palate, and his poem “How I Remember Her” is forthcoming in the next issue of Evening Street Review. M.F.A. alum Patricia Florio’s memoir, My Two Mothers, is now �available. She is working on a follow-up, with the working title Sundays with My Father. Her short story, “The Blonde I Loved to Hate,” has also been recently published. M.A. student Lori A. May was a guest presenter at the fall College Student Literary Magazine Conference in Danville IL. She also had a recent poetry reading at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, during the Michigan College English Association conference. M.F.A student Vicki Mayk’s essay “Verismo” was awarded third prize in Hippocampus Magazine’s “Remember in November” contest. M.A. alum Lori Myers’ short story “Maneuvers” was published in the anthology Off Season. Her children’s musical GLEE-ful Rapunzel was staged at Gretna Theatre, Mt. Gretna, PA, and her short play Sight Unseen was staged at Gamut Theatre, Harrisburg, PA as part of Sonnet Inspirations. She also had sketch-plays Miss Information and No Way staged at The Academy Theater, Meadville, PA. M.F.A. alum Taylor Polite’s The Rebel Wife has been named one of the best southern reads for 2012 by The Atlanta Journal – Constitution. M.F.A. alum William D. Prystauk’s dramatic horror Ravencraft was a Top-20 Finalist at Shriekfest in Hollywood and a review of his screenplay Risen appeared on Horrorphilia.com. He has also recently published reviews in Hippocampus Magazine and PANK Magazine, and presented the paper, “The Kids Aren’t All Right: Horror Movies Remind Us that Protecting Our Children in the Home is a Delusion” at the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association’s Annual Conference this past November in Philadelphia. M.A. student Joseph Schwartzburt’s literary group Seersucker Live ran a successful event that brought out more than 110 literary lovers to Kevin Barry’s Bar in Savannah, GA. Featured writers were novelist Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), poet Patricia Lockwood, novelist Jonathan Raab, and poet/memoirist Chad Faries. M.F.A. student Sandee Umbach’s full-length poetry collection, The Pattern Maker’s Daughter, is being released in February of 2012 by Bottom Dog Press Program Note The Write Life blog welcomes guest posts from faculty, students, and alumni. Email lori.may1@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 Programs E.S. 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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 LET prize worth 100,000 euro (approx $139,000 USD). I ,. PIN~ J prize of its kind. McCann’s was selected from a shortlist of ten nominees and brings home a literary CT HE GREAT WORLD 7 ,.:,;.r,r. •" C0 M UM ANN 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. 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