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Archives Contents: Major Film Producer Susan Cartsonis Joins Creative Writing Advisory Board | Lenore Hart's The Raven's Bride is Released to Positive Reviews | Creative Writing Director Bonnie Culver Elected to AWP Board of Directors | Faculty/Staff Notes | Student/Alumni Notes Major Film Producer Susan Cartisonis Joins Creative Writing Advisory Board Cartsonis is a producer and also serves as President of Storefront Pictures. She is known for producing such blockbusters as What Women Want (starring Mel Gibson) and Where the Heart is (starring Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, and Sally Field). Cartsonis served as an executive for Twentieth Century Fox for n 2011 n n �nearly a decade before leaving to build two successful film companies. During her tenure at Fox, she helped develop and supervise Nell, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and many others, including a film adaptation of Wilkes faculty member Beverly Donofrio’s Riding in Cars with Boys.  Prior to her career at Fox, Cartsonis was an instructor for New York University's Dramatic Writing Program. She received her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from N.Y.U. and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from U.C.L.A. Cartsonis credits her degree as instrumental in her development as a producer, “When you work with writers, it's invaluable to be able to speak to them as someone who has written screenplays and plays and respects the creative process, struggle, and sheer challenge of creating something and seeing it through to completion.” Throughout her career, Cartsonis has always stayed connected to teaching, serving as a speaker and graduate critique professional at UCLA, USC, and SCAD. With such strong professional and academic records, she is a welcome addition to our Creative Writing Community. “Mentoring is part of being a producer— with writers young and old,” says Cartsonis, “Creative writing programs are so important in generating the next batch of talented film makers, novelists, and story tellers.” Cartsonis's latest project, Beastly, is in theaters now. Lenore Hart's The Raven's Bride is released to Positive Reviews Author and Creative Writing Faculty Member, Lenore Hart, has released her much-anticipated new novel, The Raven's Bride. The book chronicles the courtship and eventual marriage of Edgar Allen Poe and his thirteenyear-old cousin, Virginia Clem. The book has been called "an impressive, original work that illuminates its subject," by Publisher's Weekly.  Hart is no stranger to success, her break out novel, Becky, chronicling the life of Mark Twain's heroine Becky Thatcher, was also very wellreceived by the literary community. When asked what draws her to stories in which she gives voice to women who are largely considered �supporting figures, Hart said "I like the challenge of rendering what it must’ve been like to be a woman living in a different era (probably a lot more than I’d actually enjoy the reality of it!) It’s fascinating to immerse oneself in the food, clothes, manners, and customs of different eras and places." The Raven's Bride was a labor of love for Hart, requiring much research that meant spending two and a half years (figuratively) in Poe's 19th century world.   One of Hart's biggest challenges was keeping up with the Poes. "They moved all the time! I had to leave out some of their abodes or it would have been incredibly confusing. They were in Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia, and New York City (twice)".  Look for The Raven's Bride, published by St. Martin's Press, online or at an independent bookseller near you. Creative Writing Director Bonnie Culver Elected to AWP Board of Directors Bonnie Culver was elected to the board of directors for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Culver is only the second low-residency director to hold such an honor.  The program was founded in 1967 as the Associated Writing Programs. Created to support the growing presence of literary writers in higher education, the mission of AWP is to promote literary talent and achievement, to advance the art of writing as necessary for quality education, and to serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing.  Culver looks forward to the possibilities her AWP position may provide for the Wilkes Creative Writing Program. "Our inclusion means that the issues, concerns of low-residency programs are being heard directly by AWP and its membership. Grants, awards for emerging writers, arts support such as NEA (and its future), setting standards of assessment and quality of all successful programs are part and parcel of what is addressed by the Board and the AWP membership.  Wilkes is now there at the table, being a part of that national conversation." Culver's appointment allowed her a unique perspective at this year's AWP conference, held in Washington, D.C. She arrived two days earlier than attendees for board meetings, and things only got busier once the crowds started filing in. "Board members are expected to attend sessions, meet and greet and thank sponsors, go to receptions, special dinners, host writer guests at dinners, and even introduce writers at open sessions." But, the busy week paid off, says Culver, "Because Wilkes was a major sponsor of the conference, I had the honor of introducing �Mary Gaitskill this year; Jim [Warner, Assistant Director,] introduced poet/memoirist Sapphire!" Faculty/Staff Notes David Poyer’s latest novel Ghosting, a story of a dysfunctional family threatened on a weeklong sailing excursion, was published by St. Martin’s Press in November, 2010. Faculty members Tony Morris, Beverly Donofrio, and Lenore Hart, were among the visiting writers included in the first Ossabaw Island Writer's Retreat, organized by Morris himself. Ossabaw Island is a secluded retreat just off of Savannah Georgia. “Participants were strongly affected by the beauty and serenity of the island,” says Morris. “They commented on the spirit, tone and mood of the retreat—particularly the near-magical presence and sense of natural and human history locked into a place ‘that time forgot.’”  Nancy McKinley's short story, Glue, has been accepted by Gulf Coast.   Juanita Rockwell's short play, Language Monkey, was accepted for production in this summer's Source Festival, Washington D.C. Rockwell also directed Jennifer Nelson's play, 24, 7, 365, which toured to The Atlas Theater (DC), Hylton Performing Arts Center (Manassas, VA) and The Harris Theater (Fairfax, VA). Finally, Juanita's full-length play, Between Trains, was included in Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Fall 2010.   Neil Shepard has placed poems in the current issues of the Harvard Review, Hunger Mountain Review, NOR (New Ohio Review) and online at Fogged Clarity.   He also has a Jazz poem due out soon in the jazz magazine Brilliant Corners.   Jim Warner, Nancy McKinley, Alum Joseph Nalbone and Alum Starr Troup presented a panel session "Virtual Mentoring Made Real: The Evolving Tech of a Low-Residency Program" at the AWP Conference, 2011.  Bonnie Culver, Jean Klein, and Ross Klavan presented a panel session “Playwriting and Screenwriting: Our Business in the Academy” at the AWP Conference, 2011.   Student/Alumni Notes M.F.A. studentAmye Archer, has placed an excerpt from her memoir, �Fat Girl Skinny, with PANK Magazine, as part of their This Modern Writer Series.    M.F.A. student Ally Bishop, director of the Lit Outloud Reading Series, hosted another successful event this past February. Readers included Bishop, Alum Rick Fellinger, Alum Brian Fanelli, M.F.A student Amye Archer, Alum Lori Meyers, and M.F.A. student William Prystauk.   To celebrate Women’s History Month, Violet Oakley Unveiled, a onewoman play written by MA Student Cindy Dlugolecki, was performed at the Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) Rose Lehrman Arts Center.    M.F.A. Alum Brian Fanelli's poem "Dive" was published in March by the journal Young American Poets. In addition, Erika Funke of WVIA Radio interviewed Fanelli regarding his poetry chapbook, Front Man, for her ArtScene program.   M.F.A. Alum Patricia Florio hasentered into a contract with Sue Richter at Sera Publishing.  The two will be presenting, East Meets West, American Writers Review.     M.A. Alum Jennifer Diskinhas published a chapbook, Wear White and Grieve, with Naissance Chapbooks by chapbookpublisher.com.   M.F.A. Alum Rick Fellinger's novel, Memoirs of a Little League Dad, has been named a quarter-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. M.F.A. Alum Joseph Giomboni's screenplay, Ripple, was a quarterfinalist in the Scriptapalooza 2010 International Screenwriting Competition. The script made the cut of 377 from more than 3500 entries. M.A. student Tyler Grimm had an article published in Celebrate Gettysburg Magazine, and has since become a contributing writer for the publication.   M.F.A. Alum Matthew Hinton's play, Quiet Cowboy, was produced by The Gaslight Theater Company in Scranton, PA in January.   In November 2010, Finishing Line Press released M.F.A. Alum Dawn Leas's first chapbook, I Know When to Keep Quiet.  Leas has also led a workshop and reading at the West Pittston Library.   M.A. student Kimberly Loomis-Bennett has placed poems from her MA thesis, Soiled Doves, in The Legendary, and The Copperfield Review.   �M.A. Alum Gale Martin's novel, Deviled by Don, advanced to the second round of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.   M.A. student Laura Moran had two poems accepted from her MA mss, a novel in verse called Jump the Snake, by the journal Redactions (Issue 14) due out this summer.   Cinderella and the Lone Prince, book and lyrics by M.A. Alum, Lori Myers, was staged last summer by Gretna Theatre, Mt. Gretna, PA. Also, Lori's short story, Stranger on a Train, was published by Dark Fire Fiction.   M.F.A. Alum Taylor M. Polites' book, A Red and Dying Evening, has been picked up by Simon & Schuster. Look for it in February of 2012. M.F.A. student William Prystauk's screenplay, Risen, has won first place in the Horror Screenplay Contest, and was a semi-finalist in Shriekfest.  His screenplay, The Darwin Witch, was selected as a top-ten finalist in Shiver’s First Short Horror Screenplay Competition. In addition, Prystauk's short screenplay, Catalyst, has also placed second at WILDsounds, and was recently picked up by an up and coming production company, and expanded to a ten-minute film. M.A. studentAnastasia Savage's YA novel, Any Witch Way, is being published by JournalStone Publications. The novel is available for presale on Barnes&Noble.com.   M.F.A. Alum Donna Talarico was hired as web content editor in the office of marketing and communications at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pa.   M.F.A. 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Title A name given to the resource Revise This! | 2011-04.pdf Creative Writing Maslow Maslow Family Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Revise This Writing https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/f10c925c00c65d43a585ed674d9e8839.pdf ba3b79412e78772e40722c1619e77ca6 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 - December 2010 Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! REVISE THIS ARCHIVES Contents: Susan Cartsonis Joins Advisory Board | James Jones Winner Announced Colum McCann Wins National Book Award Marlon James Named Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award Cecilia Galante Joins Creative Writing Faculty | Page To Stage Faculty Notes | Student Notes Susan Cartsonis Joins Advisory Board Film producer Susan Cartsonisjoins the Advisory Board of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. She is a Producer and President of Storefront Pictures. In 2000, The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the top five grossing of the year for her film What Women Want (starring Mel Gibson) and Where the Heart Is (staring Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, and Sally Field). Cartsonis was an executive for Twentieth Century Fox for nearly a November 2019 Revise This! Archives n 2010 n n �decade before leaving to build two successful film companies. During her tenure at Fox, she helped develop and supervise Nell, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and many others, including a film adaptation of Wilkes faculty member Beverly Donofrio’s Riding in Cars with Boys.   Prior to her career at Fox, Cartsonis was an instructor for New York University's Dramatic Writing Program. She received her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from N.Y.U. and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from U.C.L.A. Cartsonis credits her degree as instrumental in her development as a producer, “When you work with writers, it's invaluable to be able to speak to them as someone who has written screenplays and plays and respects the creative process, struggle, and sheer challenge of creating something and seeing it through to completion.” Cartsonis is no stranger to teaching. She has taught at NYU as well as been a speaker and graduate critique professional at UCLA, USC, and SCAD. With such a strong connection to academics, she is a welcome addition to our Creative Writing Community. “Mentoring is part of being a producer—with writers young and old,” says Cartsonis, “Creative writing programs are so important in generating the next batch of talented film makers, novelists, and story tellers.” James Jones Winner Announced! Gina Ventre of Columbus, Ohio, was awarded first place and the $10,000 prize in the 19th Annual James Jones First Novel Fellowship contest for her novel Moon’s Extra Mile. The competition is co-sponsored by the Graduate Creative Writing Program of Wilkes University and the James Jones Literary Society. Runners-up in the competition were David Kim of Costa Mesa, Calif., for his manuscript Serendipity; and Laura Walter of Lakewood, Ohio, for her manuscript Finding Opal. They were each awarded $750. Colum McCann Wins National Book Award �Colum McCann, winner National Book Award Colum McCann, a member of the advisory board for the Wilkes University Graduate Creative Writing Program, has won the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin. The award was presented on Nov. 18 in New York City. The award – considered one of literature’s most prestigious – is presented in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. As a member of the Wilkes creative writing program’s advisory board, McCann has provided input on course content and curriculum, performed readings from his work at its residencies, and been a thesis reader for degree candidates in the program. Let The Great World Spin takes place in August 1974, when a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the Twin Towers, a quarter mile above the ground. It chronicles the lives of a group of New Yorkers, weaving their separate stories against the backdrop of the tightrope walker’s feat. Some of McCann’s other novels include Zoli, Dancer, and This Side of Brightness. His fiction has been published in 30 languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Paris Review, Bomb and other places. He has written for numerous publications including The Irish Times, Die Zeit, La Republicca, Paris Match, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent. In 2003 he was named Esquire magazine's "Writer of the Year." Other awards and honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Rooney Prize, the Hennessy Award for Irish Literature, the Irish Independent Hughes and Hughes/Sunday Independent Novel of the Year 2003, and the 2002 Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. His short film, “Everything in this Country Must,” directed by Gary McKendry, was nominated for a 2005 Academy Award. McCann lives in New York City, where he teaches creative writing at Hunter College. �The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America. Marlon James Named Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award Marlon James, Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction Marlon James’ novel The Book of Night Women was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction by the National Book Critics Circle. The finalists were announced in January, and the winners were announced on March 11.  Other finalists included memoir writer Mary Karr, former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glück, and former National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann. The other fiction nominees included Hilary Mantel, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Michelle Huneven. Mantel won the fiction category for her novel Wolf Hall. The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a nonprofit organization with around 600 members, "book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns." James worked on The Book of Night Women while he was enrolled in the creative writing program. He also teaches at Macalester College in Minnesota. Cecilia Galante Joins Creative Writing Faculty �Cecilia Galante, newest member of Creative Writing Faculty Young adult novelist Cecilia Galante has joined the faculty of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. She is the author of five young adult novels. Her first, The Patron Saint of Butterflies, was selected as a Young Adult Book of the Year by the Northeast Independent Booksellers Association, a Top Ten Pick for 2008 by Amazon, and a Recommended Read for Teens on Oprah's website. Another one of her books, Hershey Herself, will be translated into Polish in 2010. Her other novels include Willowood, and The Sweetness of Salt, which will be published in 2011. She has BA from King’s College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Her first interactions with the faculty and students came in January when she attended the residency. “It was thrilling. I had no idea that I was going to be among such a crowd of intellectuals and have peers that are so successful,” she said. Galante is no stranger to teaching. She spent years teaching high school English in the Wilkes-Barre area, though she is currently on sabbatical. But when it comes to teaching in the Graduate Creative Writing Program, she plans to use what she learned as a graduate student at Goddard. “I’m trying to borrow more from my experience as a student. My teachers at Goddard were incredibly supportive and astute,” she said.  “I’ve been able to draw from that experience and insert criticism in a way that doesn’t kill the spirit.” Besides teaching, Galante is also hard at work on her first adult novel, and the process has not always been easy. “It’s been incredibly daunting. For young adult, you’re allowed to write more simply and straightforward,” she said. “So, I was getting caught up in sounding like an adult and  sounding smart enough.” Galante added that the process has been easier lately, and she’s confident the book will stand on its own. She has to submit a manuscript by the end of April. Though this will be Galante’s first adult novel, she admitted that she was not initially attracted to the young adult genre. “I wasn’t even familiar there was a YA genre when I wrote my first book, The Patron Saint of Butterflies. My agent said we were going to market it as young adult, and I was devastated. I didn’t think it was young adult,” she said. “I sat back and waited, and she was right. It became a successful young adult book and a crossover book. It appeals to adults �and young adults at the same time.” Bonnie Culver Helps Area High School Students Take Writen Work from "Page to Stage" Bonnie Culver Students in four northeast Pennsylvania school districts have a chance to become playwrights in a special program being piloted by Bonnie Culver, director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. Culver worked with two graduate students, Sarah Pugh and Cory Brin, on a master of fine arts project developing a pilot program, “Page to Stage.” Culver is working as guest artist in four high schools – Hanover Area, Hazleton, Tunkhannock and Wyoming Valley West  – to teach basic elements of playwriting to students. Culver was in the schools Tuesdays and Wednesdays from Feb. 2 to March 25. Each student presented a 10-minute play. One or two plays from each school will be chosen to be presented at the Fine Arts Fiesta in May. Wilkes University’s long-term goal is to replicate this with fiction, poetry, film, and nonfiction with creative writing students and faculty serving as guest artists in area schools with a final arts festival on campus. Faculty/Staff Notes *Lenore Hart’s new novel The Raven’s Bride (named after the poem by Edgar Allen Poe) will be published in both hardcover and paperback by St. Martin’s Press in February 2011. *David Poyer’s latest novel Ghosting, a story of a dysfunctional family threatened on a weeklong sailing excursion, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in November 2010.   *Bonnie Culver, Creative Writing Program Director; Advisory Board member Column McCann; plus faculty members Mike Lennon, Lenore Hart, and Kaylie Jones all served as workshop instructors at the August �session of the Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony in Provincetown, MA.   Bonnie Culver, Creative Writing Program Director, and Jean Klein, playwrighting faculty member, each had a ten-minute play included in Shorts for All Seasons: America Revisited: An Evening of Short Plays at the VENUE, Norfolk, VA November 12-20. Christine Gelineau’s essay “Cops” was published in the winter issue of The Florida Review as a runner up in their Editors’ Award in Nonfiction. Rashidah Ismaili Abu-Bakr’s poetry was published in Bending the Bow, a collection of love poems from Africa, published by Southern Illinois Press. Sara Pritchard's story "Sip the Wine" was published in Vol. 76, No. 1 of New Letters (Dec. 2009). Her story "Two Studies in Entropy" won a Pushcart Prize and is included in the 2010 PUSHCART PRIZE XXXIV BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES anthology, and her story "Help Wanted: Female" is forthcoming in Vol. 6 (2010) of The Tusculum Review. Sara will be reading at the River Festival of Books in Huntington, West Virginia, on Friday, April 16, 2010. Student/Alumni Notes Morowa Yejide’s short story “Tokoyo Chocolate” appears in the Japanbased collection Yomimono, published in September, 2010. Her short story “To Do List” was nominated for the Dzanc Best Books of the Web 2011 by Jersey Devil Press. Gale Martin’s opera blog (www.operatoonity.wordpress.com) has received critical attention, and she has been named an accredited Bachtrack reviewer for the Metropolitan Opera.   Starr Troup attended a week-long workshop at the Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony in Provincetown, MA. She was awarded a summer scholarship and spent the week at the center working with and learning from other professional writers. M.A. student Amy Archer had part of her memoir entitled “Bad Connection” published in the December issue of the Journal of Truth and Consequences. M.A. student Cindy Dlugolecki’s play, “Violet Oakley Unveiled,” was showcased at Villanova University on Thursday, March 18. The onewoman show helped celebrate Women’s History Month. Violet Oakley was the first woman in art history to paint murals in a public building, and her home and studio were only a few miles from Villanova’s campus, �according to Dlugolecki. Dlugolecki, the actress, director, and tech team were also the guest of five different departments at Villanova, including Women and Gender Studies, History, and Art. M.F.A. student Brian Fanelli’s poem “Freshman Year” was published in the February issue of My Favorite Bullet. http://www.interiornoisepress.com/0010_FANELLI_FreshmanYear.html, and his poems “In a Club’s Cracked Mirror” and “Why I Said No” were published in the March issue of Word Riot http://www.wordriot.org/archives/976. M.A. student Kimberly Loomis-Bennet’s poem, “It Is Sweet and Decorous To Be Poor in One’s Country,” was published in the Winter 2010 issue of The November 3rd Club. http://www.november3rdclub.com/2010/02-2010/poetry/loomisbennett.html Alum Pete Kaszyk’s short story, “You’re Not My Father,” was accepted for publication by Kerlak Publishing for inclusion in its WTF Anthologies edition. Publication date is pending. Alumnus Brian Fanelli’s chapbook of punk rock poetry, entitled Front Man is now available through Big Table Publishing. It was released in October, 2010. Alumna Dawn Leas will see the release of her first chapbook “I Know When to Keep Quiet” by Finishing Line Press in November. Leas received her MFA in January 2009, and this chapbook is 26 pages of her original thesis. Leas will be the featured reader at Anthology New and Used Books in Scranton on November 26th at 7 p.m.   Alums Maureen Hooker, Bill Lowenburg, and Matthew Hinton will all appear in the fourth volume of the acclaimed Mailer Review, which was released in November.   Alumni Jonathan Rocks, Bill Lowenburg, and Matthew Hinton each attended week-long workshop at the Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony in Provincetown, MA. They were awarded summer scholarships and spent their time at the center working with and learning from other professional writers.   �Quick Links DONATE TO THE WILKES FUND Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Title A name given to the resource Revise This! | 2010-12.pdf Creative Writing Maslow Maslow Family Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Revise This Writing https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/abb8df6b2d2bbdc20b63161f13a3718f.pdf 397378e5b0478629a64f96c19fe27957 PDF Text Text Revise This - October 2010 - Wilkes University 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 2010 n n Revise This - October 2010   Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 REVISE THIS ARCHIVES Contents: Revise This! Archives Colum McCann Wins National Book Award | Marlon James Named Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award Cecilia Galante Joins Creative Writing Faculty | Page To Stage Faculty Notes | Student Notes  Colum McCann Wins National Book Award https://www.wilkes.edu/...masters-programs/creative-writing-ma-mfa/about-our-students/revise-this/archives/2010/revise-this-october-2010.aspx[3/2/21, 9:54:32 AM] �Revise This - October 2010 - Wilkes University Colum McCann, winner National Book Award Colum McCann, a member of the advisory board for the Wilkes University Graduate Creative Writing Program, has won the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin. The award was presented on Nov. 18 in New York City. The award – considered one of literature’s most prestigious – is presented in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. As a member of the Wilkes creative writing program’s advisory board, McCann has provided input on course content and curriculum, performed readings from his work at its residencies, and been a thesis reader for degree candidates in the program. Let The Great World Spin takes place in August 1974, when a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the Twin Towers, a quarter mile above the ground. It chronicles the lives of a group of New Yorkers, weaving their separate stories against the backdrop of the tightrope walker’s feat. Some of McCann’s other novels include Zoli, Dancer, and This Side of Brightness. His fiction has been published in 30 languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Paris Review, Bomb and other places. He has written for numerous publications including The Irish Times, Die Zeit, La Republicca, Paris Match, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent. In 2003 he was named Esquire magazine's "Writer of the Year." Other awards and honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Rooney Prize, the Hennessy Award for Irish Literature, the Irish Independent Hughes and Hughes/Sunday Independent Novel of the Year 2003, and the 2002 Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. His short film, “Everything in this Country Must,” directed by Gary McKendry, was nominated for a 2005 Academy Award. McCann lives in New York City, where he teaches creative writing at Hunter College. The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America. Marlon James Named Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award https://www.wilkes.edu/...masters-programs/creative-writing-ma-mfa/about-our-students/revise-this/archives/2010/revise-this-october-2010.aspx[3/2/21, 9:54:32 AM] �Revise This - October 2010 - Wilkes University Marlon James, Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction Marlon James’ novel The Book of Night Women was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction by the National Book Critics Circle. The finalists were announced in January, and the winners were announced on March 11.  Other finalists included memoir writer Mary Karr, former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glück, and former National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann. The other fiction nominees included Hilary Mantel, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Michelle Huneven. Mantel won the fiction category for her novel Wolf Hall. The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a nonprofit organization with around 600 members, "book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns." James worked on The Book of Night Women while he was enrolled in the creative writing program. He also teaches at Macalester College in Minnesota. Cecilia Galante Joins Creative Writing Faculty Cecilia Galante, newest member of Creative Writing Faculty Young adult novelist Cecilia Galante has joined the faculty of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. She is the author of five young adult novels. Her first, The Patron Saint of https://www.wilkes.edu/...masters-programs/creative-writing-ma-mfa/about-our-students/revise-this/archives/2010/revise-this-october-2010.aspx[3/2/21, 9:54:32 AM] �Revise This - October 2010 - Wilkes University Butterflies, was selected as a Young Adult Book of the Year by the Northeast Independent Booksellers Association, a Top Ten Pick for 2008 by Amazon, and a Recommended Read for Teens on Oprah's website. Another one of her books, Hershey Herself, will be translated into Polish in 2010. Her other novels include Willowood, and The Sweetness of Salt, which will be published in 2011. She has BA from King’s College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Her first interactions with the faculty and students came in January when she attended the residency. “It was thrilling. I had no idea that I was going to be among such a crowd of intellectuals and have peers that are so successful,” she said. Galante is no stranger to teaching. She spent years teaching high school English in the Wilkes-Barre area, though she is currently on sabbatical. But when it comes to teaching in the Graduate Creative Writing Program, she plans to use what she learned as a graduate student at Goddard. “I’m trying to borrow more from my experience as a student. My teachers at Goddard were incredibly supportive and astute,” she said.  “I’ve been able to draw from that experience and insert criticism in a way that doesn’t kill the spirit.” Besides teaching, Galante is also hard at work on her first adult novel, and the process has not always been easy. “It’s been incredibly daunting. For young adult, you’re allowed to write more simply and straightforward,” she said. “So, I was getting caught up in sounding like an adult and  sounding smart enough.” Galante added that the process has been easier lately, and she’s confident the book will stand on its own. She has to submit a manuscript by the end of April. Though this will be Galante’s first adult novel, she admitted that she was not initially attracted to the young adult genre. “I wasn’t even familiar there was a YA genre when I wrote my first book, The Patron Saint of Butterflies. My agent said we were going to market it as young adult, and I was devastated. I didn’t think it was young adult,” she said. “I sat back and waited, and she was right. It became a successful young adult book and a crossover book. It appeals to adults and young adults at the same time.” Bonnie Culver Helps Area High School Students Take Writen Work from "Page to Stage" https://www.wilkes.edu/...masters-programs/creative-writing-ma-mfa/about-our-students/revise-this/archives/2010/revise-this-october-2010.aspx[3/2/21, 9:54:32 AM] �Revise This - October 2010 - Wilkes University Bonnie Culver Students in four northeast Pennsylvania school districts have a chance to become playwrights in a special program being piloted by Bonnie Culver, director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. Culver worked with two graduate students, Sarah Pugh and Cory Brin, on a master of fine arts project developing a pilot program, “Page to Stage.” Culver is working as guest artist in four high schools – Hanover Area, Hazleton, Tunkhannock and Wyoming Valley West  – to teach basic elements of playwriting to students. Culver was in the schools Tuesdays and Wednesdays from Feb. 2 to March 25. Each student presented a 10-minute play. One or two plays from each school will be chosen to be presented at the Fine Arts Fiesta in May. Wilkes University’s long-term goal is to replicate this with fiction, poetry, film, and nonfiction with creative writing students and faculty serving as guest artists in area schools with a final arts festival on campus. Faculty/Staff Notes Christine Gelineau’s essay “Cops” was published in the winter issue of The Florida Review as a runner up in their Editors’ Award in Nonfiction. Rashidah Ismaili Abu-Bakr’s poetry was published in Bending the Bow, a collection of love poems from Africa, published by Southern Illinois Press. Sara Pritchard's story "Sip the Wine" was published in Vol. 76, No. 1 of New Letters (Dec. 2009). Her story "Two Studies in Entropy" won a Pushcart Prize and is included in the 2010 PUSHCART PRIZE XXXIV BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES anthology, and her story "Help Wanted: Female" is forthcoming in Vol. 6 (2010) of The Tusculum Review. Sara will be reading at the River Festival of Books in Huntington, West Virginia, on Friday, April 16, 2010.   Student/Alumni Notes https://www.wilkes.edu/...masters-programs/creative-writing-ma-mfa/about-our-students/revise-this/archives/2010/revise-this-october-2010.aspx[3/2/21, 9:54:32 AM] �Revise This - October 2010 - Wilkes University M.A. student Amy Archer had part of her memoir entitled “Bad Connection” published in the December issue of the Journal of Truth and Consequences. M.A. student Cindy Dlugolecki’s play, “Violet Oakley Unveiled,” was showcased at Villanova University on Thursday, March 18. The onewoman show helped celebrate Women’s History Month. Violet Oakley was the first woman in art history to paint murals in a public building, and her home and studio were only a few miles from Villanova’s campus, according to Dlugolecki. Dlugolecki, the actress, director, and tech team were also the guest of five different departments at Villanova, including Women and Gender Studies, History, and Art. M.F.A. student Brian Fanelli’s poem “Freshman Year” was published in the February issue of My Favorite Bullet. http://www.interiornoisepress.com/0010_FANELLI_FreshmanYear.html, and his poems “In a Club’s Cracked Mirror” and “Why I Said No” were published in the March issue of Word Riot http://www.wordriot.org/archives/976. Alum Pete Kaszyk’s short story, “You’re Not My Father,” was accepted for publication by Kerlak Publishing for inclusion in its WTF Anthologies edition. Publication date is pending. 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Title A name given to the resource Revise This! | 2010-10.pdf Creative Writing Maslow Maslow Family Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Revise This Writing https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/fc8662a522db8a00bc9938f8a9efc08e.pdf 1c345d40afb97c67b38236784beb6c24 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 - April 2010 Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! REVISE THIS ARCHIVES Contents: Colum McCann Wins National Book Award | Marlon James Named Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award Cecilia Galante Joins Creative Writing Faculty | Page To Stage Faculty Notes | Student Notes  Colum McCann Wins National Book Award Colum McCann, winner National Book Award November 2019 Revise This! Archives n 2010 n n �Colum McCann, a member of the advisory board for the Wilkes University Graduate Creative Writing Program, has won the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin. The award was presented on Nov. 18 in New York City. The award – considered one of literature’s most prestigious – is presented in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. As a member of the Wilkes creative writing program’s advisory board, McCann has provided input on course content and curriculum, performed readings from his work at its residencies, and been a thesis reader for degree candidates in the program. Let The Great World Spin takes place in August 1974, when a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the Twin Towers, a quarter mile above the ground. It chronicles the lives of a group of New Yorkers, weaving their separate stories against the backdrop of the tightrope walker’s feat. Some of McCann’s other novels include Zoli, Dancer, and This Side of Brightness. His fiction has been published in 30 languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Paris Review, Bomb and other places. He has written for numerous publications including The Irish Times, Die Zeit, La Republicca, Paris Match, The New York Times, the Guardian and the Independent. In 2003 he was named Esquire magazine's "Writer of the Year." Other awards and honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Rooney Prize, the Hennessy Award for Irish Literature, the Irish Independent Hughes and Hughes/Sunday Independent Novel of the Year 2003, and the 2002 Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. His short film, “Everything in this Country Must,” directed by Gary McKendry, was nominated for a 2005 Academy Award. McCann lives in New York City, where he teaches creative writing at Hunter College. The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America. Marlon James Named Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award �Marlon James, Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction Marlon James’ novel The Book of Night Women was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction by the National Book Critics Circle. The finalists were announced in January, and the winners were announced on March 11.  Other finalists included memoir writer Mary Karr, former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glück, and former National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann. The other fiction nominees included Hilary Mantel, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Michelle Huneven. Mantel won the fiction category for her novel Wolf Hall. The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a nonprofit organization with around 600 members, "book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns." James worked on The Book of Night Women while he was enrolled in the creative writing program. He also teaches at Macalester College in Minnesota. Cecilia Galante Joins Creative Writing Faculty Cecilia Galante, newest member of Creative Writing Faculty Young adult novelist Cecilia Galante has joined the faculty of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. She is the author of five young adult novels. Her first, The Patron Saint of Butterflies, was selected as a Young Adult Book of the Year by the Northeast Independent Booksellers Association, a Top Ten Pick for 2008 by Amazon, and a Recommended Read for Teens on Oprah's website. Another one of her books, Hershey Herself, will be translated into Polish in 2010. Her other novels include Willowood, and The Sweetness of Salt, which will be published in 2011. She has BA from King’s College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. �Her first interactions with the faculty and students came in January when she attended the residency. “It was thrilling. I had no idea that I was going to be among such a crowd of intellectuals and have peers that are so successful,” she said. Galante is no stranger to teaching. She spent years teaching high school English in the Wilkes-Barre area, though she is currently on sabbatical. But when it comes to teaching in the Graduate Creative Writing Program, she plans to use what she learned as a graduate student at Goddard. “I’m trying to borrow more from my experience as a student. My teachers at Goddard were incredibly supportive and astute,” she said.  “I’ve been able to draw from that experience and insert criticism in a way that doesn’t kill the spirit.” Besides teaching, Galante is also hard at work on her first adult novel, and the process has not always been easy. “It’s been incredibly daunting. For young adult, you’re allowed to write more simply and straightforward,” she said. “So, I was getting caught up in sounding like an adult and  sounding smart enough.” Galante added that the process has been easier lately, and she’s confident the book will stand on its own. She has to submit a manuscript by the end of April. Though this will be Galante’s first adult novel, she admitted that she was not initially attracted to the young adult genre. “I wasn’t even familiar there was a YA genre when I wrote my first book, The Patron Saint of Butterflies. My agent said we were going to market it as young adult, and I was devastated. I didn’t think it was young adult,” she said. “I sat back and waited, and she was right. It became a successful young adult book and a crossover book. It appeals to adults and young adults at the same time.” Bonnie Culver Helps Area High School Students Take Writen Work from "Page to Stage" �Bonnie Culver Students in four northeast Pennsylvania school districts have a chance to become playwrights in a special program being piloted by Bonnie Culver, director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program. Culver worked with two graduate students, Sarah Pugh and Cory Brin, on a master of fine arts project developing a pilot program, “Page to Stage.” Culver is working as guest artist in four high schools – Hanover Area, Hazleton, Tunkhannock and Wyoming Valley West  – to teach basic elements of playwriting to students. Culver was in the schools Tuesdays and Wednesdays from Feb. 2 to March 25. Each student presented a 10-minute play. One or two plays from each school will be chosen to be presented at the Fine Arts Fiesta in May. Wilkes University’s long-term goal is to replicate this with fiction, poetry, film, and nonfiction with creative writing students and faculty serving as guest artists in area schools with a final arts festival on campus. Faculty/Staff Notes Christine Gelineau’s essay “Cops” was published in the winter issue of The Florida Review as a runner up in their Editors’ Award in Nonfiction. Rashidah Ismaili Abu-Bakr’s poetry was published in Bending the Bow, a collection of love poems from Africa, published by Southern Illinois Press. Sara Pritchard's story "Sip the Wine" was published in Vol. 76, No. 1 of New Letters (Dec. 2009). Her story "Two Studies in Entropy" won a Pushcart Prize and is included in the 2010 PUSHCART PRIZE XXXIV BEST OF THE SMALL PRESSES anthology, and her story "Help Wanted: Female" is forthcoming in Vol. 6 (2010) of The Tusculum Review. Sara will be reading at the River Festival of Books in Huntington, West Virginia, on Friday, April 16, 2010. Student/Alumni Notes M.A. student Amy Archer had part of her memoir entitled “Bad �Connection” published in the December issue of the Journal of Truth and Consequences. M.A. student Cindy Dlugolecki’s play, “Violet Oakley Unveiled,” was showcased at Villanova University on Thursday, March 18. The onewoman show helped celebrate Women’s History Month. Violet Oakley was the first woman in art history to paint murals in a public building, and her home and studio were only a few miles from Villanova’s campus, according to Dlugolecki. Dlugolecki, the actress, director, and tech team were also the guest of five different departments at Villanova, including Women and Gender Studies, History, and Art. M.F.A. student Brian Fanelli’s poem “Freshman Year” was published in the February issue of My Favorite Bullet. http://www.interiornoisepress.com/0010_FANELLI_FreshmanYear.html, and his poems “In a Club’s Cracked Mirror” and “Why I Said No” were published in the March issue of Word Riot http://www.wordriot.org/archives/976. Alum Pete Kaszyk’s short story, “You’re Not My Father,” was accepted for publication by Kerlak Publishing for inclusion in its WTF Anthologies edition. Publication date is pending. M.A. student Kimberly Loomis-Bennet’s poem, “It Is Sweet and Decorous To Be Poor in One’s Country,” was published in the Winter 2010 issue of The November 3rd Club. http://www.november3rdclub.com/2010/02-2010/poetry/loomisbennett.html   Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Title A name given to the resource Revise This! | 2010-04.pdf Creative Writing Maslow Maslow Family Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Revise This Writing https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/4142d67d6ec75d4d1668396bf9465271.pdf c159c26abe64f67bea925182ca4adc83 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 2009 Revise This! 2017 2018 REVISE THIS ARCHIVES Revise This! November 2019 Contents: 2009 James Jones First Novel Fellowship Winner Announced Jim Warner joins Etruscan Press | Student Profile: Chris Bullard Wilkes University Awards Scholarships | Faculty Notes |  Student Notes  2009 James Jones First Novel Fellowship Winner Announced Tena Russ of            Riverwoods, II Revise This! Archives n 2009 n n �Wilkes-Barre, Penn. –Tena Russ, of Riverwoods, Il., won first place for her novel After Paradise in the 18th Annual James Jones First Novel Fellowship, co-sponsored by the Graduate Creative Writing Department of Wilkes University and the James Jones Literary Society. Russ was awarded $10,000. This year’s contest drew 674 submissions, and this was not the first time Russ had entered her manuscript in the competition.  “I actually entered the contest several times and never made it to the second level. I almost didn’t even enter the contest this year,” she said.  Russ was shocked to learn that her manuscript, which has undergone several revisions, finally won. She was notified that she won by novelist Nina Solomon, a judge for the competition and a faculty member of the creative writing program.  “It was like Ed McMahon just came to my door. When Nina called, I literally got goose bumps,” Russ said. Russ was not always heavily involved in writing. Following her studies at Northwestern University and the American Academy of Art, she worked as a portrait artist. She started writing regularly after she joined a local writers group and took an additional writing workshop at Northwestern University. The professor brought in published authors at the end of the semester, and the experience encouraged Russ to become a writer.  “The challenge of learning to write has been so rewarding in many ways,” Russ said. “I love every part of it. I do it every day now.”  Prior to winning the James Jones competition, Russ’s manuscript won first place in the Novel-in-Progress category of the William FaulknerWilliam Wisdom Writing Creative Writing Competition of 2008.  Her second novel will focus on Sam, a secondary character in After Paradise who is a Vietnam War veteran, suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The novel is in the prewriting stages. She is also still revising After Paradise.   Russ also volunteers in a literacy program for young children, The Canine Reading Buddies. Once a month, she and Cami, her German Shepherd, meet with children at a library where the children enjoy reading to Russ and her dog.The submission deadline for entries is �March 1 of each year. The runner-up winners of the James Jones competition were Michael Schiavone, of Gloucester, Mass., for his manuscript Call Me When You Land, and Christine Wade, of New York, for her manuscript Seven Locks. They were each awarded $750.  The James Jones Fellowship was established in 1992 to “honor the spirit of unblinking honesty, determination, and insight into modern culture as exemplified by (the writings of) James Jones.” Requests for guidelines should be sent, along with a stamped, self-address envelope, to James Jones First Novel Fellowship, c/o The Graduate Creative Writing Department, Wilkes University, 84 West South Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766, or via e-mail to jamesjonesfirstnovel@wilkes.edu Jim Warner joins Etruscan Press Jim Warner, Assistant Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program of Wilkes University, has been named business manager and associate editor of Etruscan Press. Warner, a published poet, said his duties with Etruscan will involve community outreach, managing finances, and organizing the office to ensure it runs more efficiently. The press is Jim Warner, Assistant Director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Wilkes housed in the creative writing offices. “I’ve always wanted to be involved in the publishing industry. It’s a new challenge and a new world to me. There’s so much untapped potential here,” Warner said. Etruscan just signed a new three-year contract to remain on campus, and Warner hopes to strengthen the relationship between the university and the press through community outreach projects, including working with the downtown Wilkes-Barre Barnes & Noble to have book launches. The press will also eventually reach out to local high schools to start programs in the arts. Warner made clear that his duties with the creative writing program will still be his top priority, and he described the work he now does with Etruscan as a “part-time job” done off-hours. However, the press is tied into the creative writing program in several ways. Its current graduate assistants are enrolled in the program, and some of Etruscan’s founders and directors also teach in the program, including poet Philip Brady and fiction writer Robert Mooney.  �The press will continue to publish about eight manuscripts a year in the genres of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Etruscan will eventually consider publishing more manuscripts a year, according to Warner. Warner’s own writing has appeared in the poetry journals Drunken Boat, Word Riot, Cause & Effect, and other publications. His first collection of poems, Too Bad It’s Poetry, was published in 2007 by Paper Kite Press, located in Kingston. His follow-up book, Jim Warner’s Second Book, will be published by Paper Kite in December.   Student Profile: Chris Bullard Some of the most well-known poets often balanced their writing with other professions. William Carlos Williams was a doctor. T.S. Elliott was a banker. Chris Bullard, one of the Wilkes University Graduate Creative Writing Program’s most well-published poets, balances his writing with his duties as an administrative judge for the Social Security Administration in Vorhees, N.J. Bullard, who resides in Collingswood, NJ, has had his poetry has been published by some of the most prominent literary journals in the country, including Green Mountains Review, Nimrod, and Atlanta Review. His work is also forthcoming in Rattle, and his chapbook, You Must Not Know Too Much, won the 2009 Plan B Press Chapbook Contest. As a result, Bullard was given a cash award and 50 printed copies of the book. His interest in poetry predates his interest in law. He’s been writing poetry since high school, when he served as the editor of the school’s literary magazine. His influences early on included Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost, but his influences broadened when he attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia as an undergraduate.  Once he graduated, he knew he had to make a serious decision about his writing career. “At the end of college, I either had to go to writing school or do something else with my life,” he said. “It was easier for me to ask my parents for money for a career in law than for a famous writers’ school.” Bullard added that he also had no interest in becoming an academic, a career for many poets. The world of academia seemed too political to him. But balancing poetry with his law career wasn’t as easy as Bullard had hoped it would be. He stopped writing after law school until he was about 40. “I had reached a point with my poetry where I couldn’t think of anything interesting to do. I also wasn’t in contact with any poets,” he said. �But he eventually started writing again, once his career situation changed and he had more time. He also hired private poetry tutors to strengthen his work. Now, Bullard’s career involves hearing claims of people who believe they are disabled and deserve Social Security funds. But his job has not influenced his work. “I have written I think only one poem about my work, though I have certainly seen the human condition. I pretty much have heard everyone’s beefs with the world.” He became interested in the Wilkes program because he and his wife have a home in the area, and he was impressed by the quality of the faculty. He is now completing his M.F.A. and has expanded his own knowledge of contemporary poetry, due his work with the poetry faculty. “I tend to reread people I like, but the program has definitely brought me up to date,” Bullard said. “When I started working with Christine [Gelineau], she had me read all of these people I had not heard of but have been impressed with.” He recently completed two full-length collections of poems, which he’s been submitting to presses and contests. One of the books is entitled Back and features all formal verse, and the other book, Under Growth, includes the poems from You Must Not Know Too Much and additional work.  Wilkes University Awards Scholarship to Taylor Polites and Richard Fellinger Wilkes University awarded the 2009-2010 Norris Church Mailer Scholarship to fiction writing major Taylor Polites, of Provincetown, Mass. , and the 2009-2010 Beverly Blakeslee Hiscox ’58 Scholarship to fiction writing major Richard Fellinger, of Camp Hill, Pa.  The Norris Church Mailer Scholarship was established in 2004 by Mr. Norman Mailer, husband of the novelist Norris Church Mailer; other friends; and a gift from the estate of the late Gordon Smith. It is awarded annually to a graduate student in the creative writing program who has both artistic promise and financial need. Selection is made by a faculty committee appointed by the director of the creative writing program. The Beverly Blakeslee Hiscox ’58 Scholarship was established by her children with love and affection to honor their mother’s dedicated service to Wilkes University as trustee from 1986 - 2003. First preference is given to a non-traditional student with family responsibilities. �Faculty/Staff Notes Phil Brady’s memoir, By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard, was chosen by Foreword Magazine as Essay Book of the Year. Program co-founder and director Bonnie Culver’s play, “The Cell,” and Jean Klein’s play, “The Test,” will run on Nov. 13 and Nov. 14 and Nov. 20 and Nov. 21 at The Venue at 35th in Norfolk, VA. For more info, visit http://www.venue-35.com. Program co-founder and advisory board member J. Michael Lennon’s interview with fellow advisory board member Lawrence Schiller was published in the third issue of The Mailer Review in October. The interview focuses on the origins of Norman Mailer’s Oswald’s Tale, including the successful effort to convince the Russian KGB to reveal their tapes of Lee Harvey Oswald in Minsk in the early 1960s. Two of Christine Gelineau’s poems, “Socanasett” and “Physical,” will be published in the next issue of Paterson Literary Review, and her essay “Cops” will be published in the next issue of Florida Review as a finalist for their 2009 Editors’ Award in Creative Nonfiction. Her next book of poems, Appetite for the Divine, is forthcoming in April from Ashland Poetry Press. Advisory Board Member Colum McCann’s novel, Let the Great World Spin, has been shortlisted for the fiction prize for this year’s National Book Awards. Nancy McKinley’s story, “Yellow Tape,” will appear in the 2010 Main Street Rag Short Fiction Anthology: Coming HomeTheme, and her story, “Goat Meat,” will appear in the 2010 Main Street Rag Short Fiction Anthology: Commute Theme. David Poyer’s novel, The Crisis, will be published on Nov. 8 by St. Martin’s/Macmillian, and his novel, The Weapon, will be published as a soft cover edition on Dec. 1. Neil Shepard has four poems forthcoming in literary journals. “Physician in the Dark” will be published in the Harvard Review, “Pleasant Weather in Cornwall” in North American Review, “If I have to Die, and I Have To” in Notre Dame Review, and “Iced Tea in Deer Isle” in Chautauqua Literary Review. Little Theatre Players will present "Imagine," a short one-act and a triology of new mini-plays by playwright Jan Quackenbush at Broome Community College's Little Theatre, November 20, 21 at 7 p.m. Student/Alumni Notes M.F.A. student Richard Fellinger’s story, “Flashbacks,” has been �accepted for publication by Audience Magazine. It will be the eighth story published from his rust-belt themed collection. M.A. student Patricia Florio’s story, “My Coney Island Baby,” was published by Word Fountain, a literary magazine run out of Ousterhout Free Library in Wilkes-Barre. Alum Andrea Janov, M.A. student Carol MacAllister, and M.F.A. student Brian Fanelli have poems forthcoming in the December issue of Chiron Review. Alum Dawn Leas’ poetry chapbook, I Know When to Keep Quiet, was accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press. M.A. student Gale Martin received a Pushcart Prize nomination from The Greensilk Journal for a short story published in spring of 2009 entitled “On Hens and Elephants and Being like Them.” M.A. student Dara Morowa Yejide Madzimoyo’s story, “Agnes,” was published in the September issue of Adiorondack Review, and her poem, “Your Grave,” will be published in the autumn/winter edition of Zócalo Press’ "Age" chapbook series.           Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Online Nursing Make A Gift �Programs E.S. 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Title A name given to the resource Revise This! | 2009-11.pdf Creative Writing Maslow Maslow Family Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Revise This Writing https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/4ead105800f0ab3f80b2b2bcd641d32b.pdf 4da1552989d003499d4ed7ab898083cd 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 - August 2009 Revise This! 2017 2018 REVISE THIS ARCHIVES Revise This! November 2019 Contents: Norman Mailer's Home Transformed to Writer's Colony | Lawrence Schiller Joins Advisory Board Jeff Talarigo Makes Noteable Book List Student Profile: Alysha Haran | Faculty Notes |  Student Notes Norman Mailer's Home Transformed to Writer's Colony Brick Dedicated to Wilkes Revise This! Archives n 2009 n n �Prior to Norman Mailer’s death in 2007, his friends and colleagues, J. Michael Lennon and Lawrence Schiller, wanted to do something to honor his legacy. Lennon and Schiller, both advisory board members of Wilkes University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, contemplated having a chair at a university endowed in Mailer’s name. But when Mailer seemed uninterested in the proposal, Lennon, Schiller and Mailer’s family decided to launch the Norman Mailer Writers Colony at Mailer’s house in Provincetown, Mass. Mailer, the first advisory board member of the creative writing program, and his wife, novelist Norris Church Mailer, started coming to Provincetown in 1983. They spent much more time there throughout the 1990s, according to Schiller, executive director of the colony.  “The house had become part of the town’s cultural heritage,” Schiller said. “Norman often said that Provincetown had become for him what Key West and Cuba were for Hemingway.” The colony is fitting to Mailer’s legacy because he regularly provided guidance to beginning writers and always wrote back to them if they sent him a letter, according to Lennon, Mailer’s biographer. Writers will now have the chance to stay at his house and work one-on-one with wellpublished writers and editors through the fellowship program and workshops. “He always felt that as a writer, he had to give back and should never ignore an emerging writer,” said Lennon. He added that when Mailer’s house was cleaned out last summer, hundreds of manuscripts by other writers were found.   The first seven fellows accepted to the colony will arrive at the house on July 5. William Kennedy, also an advisory board member of the creative writing program, Don DeLillo Doris Kearns Goodwin, and editors from The New Yorker, Playboy, The New York Review of Books and Random House Publishers will be there to offer writing advice and discuss their careers.   The workshops are a separate program from the fellows and require a payment from participants. These short courses are geared towards intermediate and advanced writers and have specializations such as writing biographies and new journalism.  What the workshops have in common, however, is that they all incorporate Mailer’s work or different aspects of his life in the curriculum. They will be taught by people who knew Mailer, including Lennon and Kaylie Jones, a fiction faculty member of the creative writing �program. “I loved Norman and I am proud to be involved in this project,” said Jones. “I’ll be teaching a week-long workshop on memoir writing. I have wonderful students and am looking forward to the experience.” In addition, the colony will also give annual awards to emerging writers. In association with the Provincetown Arts Press, the colony presented the first ever Normal Mailer Cape Cod Writing Award for Exceptional Writing to Salvatore Scibona on June 6. Scibona is the author of The End, a finalist for a National Book Award. The colony, in collaboration with the National Council of Teachers of English, will also sponsor the Norman Mailer National Writing Awards for college and high school students.  For more information about the colony, visit www.nmwcolony.org, or www.wilkes.edu/creativewriting. Lawrence Schiller Joins Advisory Board Lawrence Schiller Novelist, photojournalist, screenwriter and director Lawrence Schiller is the latest member to join the Advisory Board for the Graduate Creative Writing Program of Wilkes University.  Schiller grew up outside of San Diego, Calif. and has worked for Life magazine, Paris Match, The Sunday Times, Newsweek, The Saturday Evening Post and other publications as a photojournalist. He was also a close friend to Norman Mailer, the program’s first ever advisory board member, and is currently the executive director of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, Mass. He was asked to join the advisory board by program co-founder and advisory board member J. Michael Lennon. “Mike Lennon, who has been a close friend of mine for a number of years, introduced me to this aspect of education, which I was not �involved in first-hand,” said Schiller. “As time went on, Mike thought my ideas could aid the university, even though I don’t come from a strict education background.” “In all ways, Mr. Schiller represents the ideal Advisory Board member,” said Program Director Bonnie Culver. “Our program is designed for working, producing writers. Mr. Mailer advised us at the beginning of the program to make this program less about a degree and all about the craft and business of writing. Our graduating students have their theses read by outside readers who are agents, editors, publishers, or producers such as Mr. Schiller. It is that industry hands-on learning that makes our M.A./M.F.A. unique.” Along with writing his own novels, Schiller has worked with other writers on their novels, including Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song. He has also directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television. The adaptation of The Executioner’s Song and Peter the Great won Emmys. He is also a consultant to NBC news and has written for the New Yorker. In addition, Schiller serves on the executive board of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.  Jeff Talarigo Makes Notable Book List Jeff Talarigo Wilkes-Barre, Penn. – Jeff Talarigo, a fiction faculty member of Wilkes University’s Graduate Creative Writing Program, landed on the American Library Association’s Notable Book List of 2009 for The Ginseng Hunter, his second novel.  The winners were chosen by the Notable Books Council, which includes librarians and academics from across the country. The award makes available to readers a list of 25 books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry that the council considers to be well-written and important. “I would say five out of my ten favorite novels are on past lists. Having my �name even mentioned amongst these people is a great honor,” Talarigo said. Authors of the selected titles will be invited to speak at the Library Tastes Breakfast at the ALA Annual Conference in July. Talarigo, a resident of Boston, says if he is invited, he will definitely attend. The Ginseng Hunter takes place in contemporary China, along the Tumen River, which separates China from North Korea. The book follows the plight of North Koreans who have escaped their country by crossing the river. Talarigo visited the river in 2003 for research, and was surprised at how rural the area is. “It’s the most accessible place for refugees to cross,” he said. “It’s dangerous, but very barren. There are so few people there.” His next book will focus on Lebanon during the civil war in 1982 and the story of a Palestinian woman who becomes a nurse in Beirut. The story will also focus on the Gaza Strip, where Talarigo visited in the early 1990s. Talarigo hopes to complete a solid draft by the end of the year.  Student Profle: Alysha Haran Alysha Haran Most of the students enrolled in the Graduate Creative Writing Program of Wilkes University have the luxury of completing their school work in a comfortable room. But for Alysha Haran, a Navy lieutenant, her writing is often produced while onboard her ship in the middle of the ocean. Haran works as a surface warfare officer onboard the USS Pinckney, home ported out of San Diego. Many nights, she stands watch as fleet officer of the deck; otherwise, her job consists of driving the ship in a battle formation as part of the NIMITZ Strike Group. Haran is responsible for the safety of navigation, engineering, and weapons employment for air and surface/subsurface defense. Haran also serves as the ship’s electrical officer and assistant chief engineer. �She heard about the graduate program through a simple Internet search for online degrees. Originally from San Rafael, Ca., she has experience working in the film business. She worked as a line producer in Los Angeles for eight years where she mostly worked on commercials, but her role expanded into feature work at the end of the career.  During that period, she was scheduled to board one of the flights that crashed into one of the World Trade Centers on September 11, 2001. The attack encouraged her to join the Navy. “It was a last minute change of travel plans that kept me from being a passenger on one of the planes that struck the towers on September 11th,” she said. “It was the impetus for joining the Navy; I raised my right hand thirty days later.” While other students have fewer challenges completing an online graduate degree, Haran often has to deal with sluggish technology. “Most of the time I’m doing school work I’m literally in the middle of the ocean,” she said. “We are dependent on satellites for connectivity, and it’s slow at best.” But Haran stresses her job has been an incredible inspiration in her writing. She plans to use her experience, including deployment to the Arabian Gulf and the Horn of Africa, as material for a book.  “The six to seven month deployment will give me the structure and frame of reference I need to be able to talk about the story of sailors, how we come together to form a crew and what we go through collectively and individually during a combat deployment,” Haran said. She has also been deployed to the Philippines and port visits have included Chennai, India, Kota Kinablu, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. She will return from deployment shortly before the January residency.  Faculty/Staff Notes Philip Brady’s memoir, By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard, has been chosen as Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year for 2008 in the category for essays. Christine Gelineau’s manuscript, Appetite for the Devine, has been selected as the Editor’s Choice in the McGovern Series of the Ashland Poetry Press. The manuscript is slated to be published in April 2010, and will be her second book with Ashland. Kaylie Jones’ memoir, Lies My Mother Never Told Me, has been named one of the hottest summer reads by the website The Daily Beast, www.thedailybeast.com. The book will officially be released on Aug. 25. �Assistant Director Jim Warner has joined the staff of Etruscan Press and will serve as the business manager and associate editor. The press is housed in the offices of the creative writing program and has published two National Book Award finalists – Chromatic by H.L. Hix and Shoah Train by William Heyen.      Student/Alumni Notes M.A. student Chris Bullard’s poetry manuscript, You Must Not Know Too Much, has been selected by Plan B Press, www.planbpress.com, as the winner of their 2009 chapbook contest. The press, based out of Philadelphia, also plans to publish the book. M.F.A. student Richard Fellinger was awarded the annual Beverly Hiscox Scholarship during the June residency. The scholarship was established by Hiscox’s children to honor her service to Wilkes University. The students recipient is a non-traditional student who who demonstrates need and writing talent. Alum Andrea Janov had three poems accepted for publication in the allpunk rock issue of Chiron Review. The issue will be out in December.  M.A. student Carol MacAllister will have an article published in the boating magazine Living Abroad. The article, “Boating Superstitions,” will be published in the September edition.   M.F.A. student Taylor Polites was awarded the annual Norris Church Mailer scholarship at the June residency. The scholarship is given to promising, emerging writers enrolled in the program. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Revise This! - May 2008 REVISE THIS ARCHIVES 2017 Contents: 2018 James Jones First Novel Fellowship Winner Announced  | Revise This! - Award-winning Novelist Jeff Talarigo Joins Faculty| November 2019 Etruscan Press Managing Editor Joins Poetry Faculty |  Student Profile: Rev. Raphael Ezeh | Faculty Notes |  Student Notes   James Jones First Novel Fellowship Winner Announced Margarite Landry Margarite Landry, of Southborough, MA, won first place for her novel Blue Moon in the 17th Annual James Jones First Novel Fellowship, co- Revise This! Archives n 2008 n n �sponsored by the Creative Writing Department of Wilkes University and the James Jones Literary Society. Landry was awarded $10,000. Her novel, which competed with about 520 other submissions, follows the story of a single mother and her son, who bring a lively, troubled foster child into their home. Landry, who earned a Ph.D. in Victorian Literature from Columbia University, was inspired to craft the story after a boy on the street asked her where she was going. She told him she was going to teach at a college down the street, but the boy didn’t even know what a college was. “I fell in love with the boy,” Landry said. “He was so vulnerable.” Throughout the years, Landry has had a variety of writing jobs, including editing math books and ghost writing self-help books. She currently is an associate professor of English/Professional Writing at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts.  Now that her novel is award-winning, Landry plans to make some final revisions and try to get it published. She also has short stories slated to be released in Pisgah Review and The Bellingham Review. The runner-up winners were Matthew Dillon, of Port Townsend, WA, for his manuscript tilted Restoration, and Nicholas Gerogiannis, of Birmingham, AL, for his manuscript titled SERE. They were each awarded $750.  The James Jones Fellowship was established in 1992 to “honor the spirit of unblinking honesty, determination, and insight into modern culture as exemplified by (the writings of) James Jones.” Requests for guidelines should be sent, along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope, to James Jones First Novel Fellowship, c/o Creative Writing Department, Wilkes University, 84 West South Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766, or via e-mail to jamesjonesfirstnovel@wilkes.edu   The submission deadline for entries is March 1 of each year. Award-winning Novelist Jef Talarigo Joins Faculty �Jeff Talarigo Award-winning author Jeff Talarigo is the newest addition to the faculty of the Graduate Creative writing Program. Talarigo is the author of The Pearl Diver, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award. His latest book is The Ginseng Hunter. He was born in Pennsylvania and educated at Slippery Rock University. He currently lives in Boston with his wife and son. When doing a book tour over the summer, Talarigo was encouraged by advisory board member and novelist Colum McCann to join the program’s faculty. What Talarigo plans to stress to fiction students is to write what you don’t know. “I like the idea of stepping outside of who you are and writing about what you’re not familiar with,” Talarigo said. “I also find that it’s a challenge, and it forces me to improve my writing with each book and to go in different directions.” Currently, Talarigo is working on a novel about Palestine, influenced by his trips to the region in 1990 and 1993 and plans to complete a solid draft of the novel by the summer. He is also doing research for a novel about Chechnya.    Etruscan Press Managing Editor Joins Poetry Faculty Doris Umbers Doris Umbers, the current managing editor for Etruscan Press, has joined the Graduate Creative Writing Program as a poetry faculty member. Umbers currently teaches at Empire State College and received her PhD in English from Binghamton University, where she edited the literary journal Harpur Palate. Umbers also worked as an editorial assistant to �Binghamton’s Creative Writing Program and as an assistant to the director of the Poetry Center in Patterson, NJ. Her poems have appeared in various anthologies and journals, including Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art and the Paterson Literary Review. She also authored, What Persists, which was a finalist for the BkMk Press John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. Umbers had her first experience as a faculty member in January when she stayed on campus to experience the 8-day residency. “Having heard of the residency before joining Etruscan Press, I was delighted to be able to experience it not only as a managing editor, as I did the previous year, but also as a member of the creative writing faculty,” she said. She adds that she noticed a real sense of community among the faculty members and writers and looks forward to working with students who are “self-motivated, who can work outside the classroom and bring that living to their writing.” Students working with Umbers can expect to learn about linguistics and nature and how they influence poetry. “The endangerment of our biological environment is in part caused by language. I bring that learning to my own poetry as well as my teaching,” Umbers said. She also wants to stress to students the importance of revision and patience in the writing process, which she learned from working on her manuscript and trying to get it published. “One of the more important things I can bring to the program is the idea of a poet’s work as a lifetime of work, a continuum, and the patience such a view requires—not just patience but the resolve to work tirelessly despite the ever changing world of publishing,” Umbers said. Students will also be able to approach her about opportunities with Etruscan Press, which is housed in the creative writing office of Wilkes University. The press offers internships in all aspects of the publishing world. Umbers would also like to share with students the work of the poets the press publishes, including William Heyen and H.L. Hix, both National Book Award finalists.    Student Profle: Rev. Raphael Ezeh �Rev. Raphael Ezeh M.A. student Rev. Raphael Ezeh is proof that the low-residency Graduate Creative Writing Program of Wilkes University extends beyond the borders of the United States.  Ezeh was born in Umodioka Village, located in southeast Nigeria, and moved to the United States nine years ago as part of a missionary congregation called the Missionary Society of St. Paul of Nigeria. He worked in a regional headquarters in Houston for a year, before being reassigned to New Orleans and later Chicago, where he currently resides and works as the pastor of Corpus Christi Church in the city’s  south side.   “Mostly, I do what every pastor in a Catholic parish does – minister to parishioners, celebrate the sacraments, work with various ministries in the parish and work with the administration of the parish and parish facilities,” Ezeh said.   When searching for creative writing programs, Ezeh did a simple Internet search and discovered the program at Wilkes. He found it appealing not only because of its low-residency aspect, but also because it was one of the few programs he found that offered poetry, fiction and screenwriting as areas of study.   Ezeh’s faith and experience of two cultures have had a direct influence on his creative thesis, a screenplay and novel he’s working on about a boy named Jamar who struggles to overcome poverty. The screenplay and novel are set in a Nigerian village and also Chicago, tracing Jamar’s journey.   “I believe that people in Africa and the Western World can learn a lot from each other,” Ezeh said. “I wanted to bring aspects of Nigerian and American cultures and lifestyles together.”   The family theme that runs through Ezeh’s thesis is also a reflection of his home culture. “In my culture, immediate and extended family relationships and communal spirit run very deep and play vital roles in everyone’s lives,” he said. “I see a lot of individualism here in America.”   Ezeh is uncertain how long he will be living in the United States, but he does know any transfer to another country by his missionary organization �would not happen until a few years, allowing him to complete the graduate program.     Faculty Notes Marlon James Marlon James’ second novel, The Book of Night Women, will be published in February by Riverhead Press. The book focuses on the story of Lilith, a Jamaican slave who works on a sugar plantation at the end of the 18th Century, and The Night Women, a group of slaves plotting a revolt. Michael Mailer The Lodger, a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 film produced by Michael Mailer, will be released on DVD on February 10. The movie stars Simon Baker, Rachel Leigh Cook and Hope Davis and follows the story of a modern serial killer emulating Jack the Ripper. David Poyer David Poyer’s latest novel, The Weapon, was published in November by St. Martin’s Press. The book is the 11th in his Dan Lenson series.    Student Notes Chris Bullard M.A. student Chris Bullard had two poems, “Million Dollar Movie” and “Godzilla Agonistes” published in the Popular Culture section of the winter 2008-2009 issue of the journal Umbrella. Richard Fellinger M.F.A. student Richard Fellinger had a short story, “A Completely New Life,” accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of The Potomac Review. 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