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Newspaper Association Member Volume 74, Issue 2 Wilkes Universit • Wilkes•Barre Penns lvania A man of many stories: Remembering Dr. Harold Cox By Genny Frederick News Editor Dr. Harold Cox, professor emeritus of history and university archivist died on Sept. 8 at the age of 90. The distinguished member of the Wilkes University community was beloved throughout campus by faculty, staff and students alike, but what so many remember Cox by is the stories he told. Dr. Jonathan Ference, associate provost for student success, remembered Cox's stories and anecdotes from his early years at Wilkes. "Dr. Cox served as an invaluable resource of institutional memory for those faculty, staff and students joining the Wilkes community;' Ference said. "In particular, when I first joined the faculty I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Harold and getting to know the institution better. "He most certainly provided new community members with an accurate recollection of Wilkes historical facts, but was also able to weave into his recollections stories that typified what it meant to be a 'family of colonels.' I am sure it was this flair for storytelling and passion for Wilkes that endeared Dr. Cox to generations of Wilkes students, faculty and staff:' Cox began working at Wilkes College in 1963 and saw the university move from its first president to its current president. Watching so many years of Wilkes history supplemented the archival work he did. As the first and only university archivist during his time, the 40 years of work Cox put into collecting and recording archival data is what allowed the Wilkes archives to be what they are today. Cox's work earned him the distinction of having the university archives room named after him in 2013. The room is currently on the third floor of the Farley Library. Outside of the archival work, Cox served many positions on campus including faculty coordinator of graduate education, chair of the History Department, faculty adviser to the president, interim dean, and a member of the creative writing graduate program faculty. Dr. Bonnie Culver, former director of the Maslow Graduate Program in Creative Writing, recalled that Cox would work out with the football and wrestling teams. She also explained that his proudest moment was serving others. "He was most proud of his work in the 1990s on staff and faculty salaries and benefits that allowed Wilkes to pay competitive salaries and provide a significant increase in staff benefits." REMEMBERING, page 3 r �_J The Beacon - September 8, 2021 News 2 News Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact the news editor: Genevieve.Frederick@wilkes.edu Student Government notes: Sept. 8 weekly meeting By Sean Schmoyer Managing Editor Student Government conducted its first in-person meeting of the semester this past week. The meeting started with the typical format of call to order, roll call, approval of minutes and the treasurer's report. The treasurer's report stated that there is a total of $71,440 across the SG accounts. The first order of business was from Paige Gallagher from the office of advancement and alumni relations who presented virtually about homecoming. Gallagher gave an overview of how homecoming will be offered to alumni; informed the board that reunions for class years ending in 0, 5, 1 and 6 would occur this year; explained that affinity reunions for groups like the A-list; cheerleaders, Grissom Hall and the 75 year of men's lacrosse would take place; and that academic reunions will occur at the Pints with Professors event. Gallagher talked about potential student involvement at homecoming and then asked SG for $500 for 50 student tickets which will be valid for the academic reunions. This request is a yearly one, but will still be voted on at the next meeting after Gallagher gives her week two of two presentations. Next on the agenda, Student Body Vice President Ben Wojciechowski went over meeting expectations for new members or members who were attending their first in-person meeting. The Homecoming Committee presented the homecoming budget request. Morrison outlined the events and timetable for Homecoming: Thursday, Sept 30, will be the pep rally; Friday, Oct 1, will be the homecoming dance with the theme of Under the Stars; and Saturday, Oct 2, will be the homecoming game. The meeting's final budget request was The Homecoming Committee is looking · for Club Day and came from Student to have multiple food trucks available, Government President Lexi Payne. potentially incorporating inflatable obstacle In a week two of two Payne requested a courses, yard games, music provided by the total of $5,750 to cover catering, the door campus radio station and prize, incidentals and decorations. The _snapchat filters. allocation of the full amount of funds Part of the budget will be passed with all members eligible to vote used to cover 300 T-shirts in favor and those involved in the budget to hand out at the pep request abstaining. rally. The tickets for the Parliamentarian Nathan Pitcher reminded dance will be $5, and in the members of Student Government that preparation for an outside elections for the first-year class and to fill dance on the Greenway, vacant seats, are coming up soon. Currently the committee wants a the sophomore class has one vacant seat, real dance floor, a DJ and a the junior class has four vacant seats and photobooth. the senior class has three vacant seats. The committee also plans @wilkesbeacon to decorate for the game and hand out prizes, both of which will be included in Sean.Schmoyer@wilkes.edu the budget request. The total amount requested for homecoming is $31,000. The committee will return next week for week two of two where the board will vote on the request. Table of Contents Beacon Briefs: Upcoming campus events Complied by Beacon News Staff COVID Assurance Testing in Marts 203 COVID assurance testing for asymptomatic students, staff and faculty will take place in Marts 203 beginning Sept. 13. Testing will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. If you are symptomatic and experiencing symptoms make an appointment with the Health and Wellness Center by calling their phone number. Archives Feature Programs from Sordoni Art Gallery The Wilkes University Archives announced the Sordoni Art Gallery Exhibition Programs from 1973 to present have been digitized. To view these past programs, the digital repository, Omeka, can be used as well as the archives blog to find links to the exhibition files. Bierly Fellowship Looking for Candidates The Bierly Fellowship is seeking applicants for this fall. The fellowship was created to fund unique undergraduate learning opportunities for students outside of the campus. Applications are due by Oct. 1. Applications can be submitted online and documents can be sent to Sharon Castano, the Bierly Chair and Director of Internships. Internship Program seeks Applicants Sophomores and juniors interested in international internships are encouraged to apply to the Fulbright Canada-Mitacs Globalink internship program. This will take place during the 2022 summer semester. The program is a 10- to 12-week research internship and students in science, engineering, mathematics, humanities and social sciences may work under the direction of Canadian university faculty members. The deadline to apply for the program is Oct. 15. For further information on eligibility see Today@Wilkes @wifkesbeacon Thewifkesbeacon@wilkes.edu Life, A&E ............ 7 Opinion............ 14 Sports................ 19 Uocomin2 Events: 2021 Fall Semester September 16 - Cards Against Hypnosis (WUPB) 16 - First-Year Student Bowling Night 17 - ASME Movie Night 20 - Virtual Open House 25 - Family Day 26 - Frances Slocum Hike (Honors) 30 - Homecoming pep rally October 1 - Homecoming Dance 2 - Homecoming Game 8 - Virtual Health Sciences Discovery Day 9 - Open House 14 - Fall Recess Begins 21 - Allan P. Kirby Lecture 31 - Halloween November 6 - STEM Discovery Day 7 - Virtual Open House 11 - Veterans Day 13 - In-Person Open House 24 - Thanksgiving Recess Begins December 13 - Final Examinations Begin 20 - Final Examinations Ena Want your event featured in the calendar? Email: 1he WilkesBeacon@wilkes.edu �REMEMBERING, from front Giving to others, and to the university at large was a large part of the legacy he left behind. Cox gave a $165,000 donation to the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. This donation allowed the creative writing program to renovate its building. The building was renamed in 2015 to Dr. Harold Cox Hall, the second part of campus named in honor of him. Cox's gift 3 News The Beacon - September 15, 2021 benefitted all those who walked through the building. Cox also donated to the Wilkes Speech and Debate team to help continue the program. Dr. Terese Wignot, associate provost for academic partnerships, reflected on all Cox did for the university. "Dr. Harold Cox was truly a valuable member of our Wilkes community. He was a faculty voice and leader on campus for many years and was very Photos: The Beacon/Sara Ross Examples of archives housed In the Harold Cox Archive Room. Top photo: A scrapbook "Athletlcs from 1940 to 1960" Below: A Clvll War diary written by Alfred W. Shollenberger student-centric;' Wignot said. "He made innumerable contributions to the archives at the university and to the creative writing program, all well after his retirement." Wignot also recalled Cox's stories. "He always had a story to tell about the history of Wilkes and the area~• Outside of Wilkes, Cox received his undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary and earned his doctorate in history from the University of Virginia. Cox was a U.S. Army veteran, serving in active duty from 1954 to 1956. He then served in the U.S. Army Reserve for an additional 30 years, achieving the rank of command sergeant major. According to his obituary, Cox is survived by his spouse, Robert Reite and a son, Michael. Memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer's Association. @wilkesbeacon Genevieve.Frederick@wilkes.edu Courtesy of Dr. Bonnie Culver Dr. Harold Cox standing In uniform outside of Dr. Harold Cox Hall. The bulldlng was dedicated to Cox In 2015 after a six figure donation to the Maslow Famlly Graduate Program In Creative Writing. �.J The Beacon - September 15, 2021 News 4 New campus bookstore opens to mixed student reactions By Maddy Kinnard Asst. News Editor For the first time since 2007, Wilkes University has its bookstore back on campus. As the university's current bookstore contract came to an end in August 2021, administration chose to build a space of its own for books on campus, rather than continue the contract with Barnes and Noble. Now located on the lounge on the first floor of the Student Union Building, the new bookstore is more than just a way to purchase textbooks. It houses Wilkes gear, as the Barnes and Nobles location did, along with school materials and plenty of snacks. The bookstore is operating as a hybrid model, granting students the ability to order textbooks online as in the past. A kiosk will also be part of the new store but due to supply chain issues, has not been added yet. It will be added as soon as possible. "The course and book will determine which versions will be offered; i.e. new, used, rented or digital;' said Alicia Bond, director of business operations. "The store plans to continue offering different price points to allow students to select the format they prefer. If a student needs assistance, they can always stop in the store and manager Joe Stager is happy to assist:' Justin Kraynack, associate vice president of operations and compliance has found that making this switch to an on-campus location will also provide an economic benefit for not only the university but for students as well. "Thingslikerent, utilities and maintenance expenses are considerably lower on campus:' Kraynack said. "Though it's too early into our agreement to quantify all the benefits of this operation, we are confident that our new campus store will realize not only an economic benefit to the campus, but increase convenience and accessibility to products and supplies needed for classroom and campus life:' However, while the change in location may allow for easier accessibility for some students, frustrations have been expressed by those who preferred the appeal of the Barnes and Nobles location and feel the loss of the lounge space as the bookstore has taken over. "I mean I have yet to go into it, but I'm kinda sad and angry that they took the space away from students:• says senior earth and environmental science major Erika Wintersteen. "I liked spending time in the lounge area; it was usually quiet during the day. I also spent a lot of time there freshman year, too. Also, how can it be a bookstore if there are no books present in it? It's a gift shop:' On whether or not students opted for purchasing their books from the bookstore A large variety of snacks are available In the bookstore if anyone needs to quickly grab something to eat. Some other items available are umbrellas and plushies. or looked elsewhere to buy them, the latter was more appealing for senior English major Nicole McNelis. "I only purchased some of my books from the bookstore. Most of my books this semester came from Amazon:• said McNelis. "It is faster, more efficient, and usually cheaper that way. Right now, the bookstore is in a weird transition period, and I understand that, but it is currently pretty difficult to receive information (let alone books) from the bookstore. Personally, I think their current methods of operations are super inefficient:' All of these grievances are being taken into consideration by the university as members are still working to cater to students and professor's needs as they arise. "Collaboration between the bookstore and faculty is critical to not only the success of the campus store, but most importantly to supporting the success of our students;' said Kraynack. "A number of transitional problems made it difficult to fulfill some course book adoptions along with shipping and supply chain challenges. Our new campus store management team is committed to correcting these problems and to establish an active faculty outreach campaign to solicit their feedback:' @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Kinnard@wilkes.edu have as didn't s for diffi win the Wilk The new on-campus bookstore is located In the Student Union Bulldlng where the larger lounge used to be. There are stlll some couches, chairs and computers outside the bookstore available use. for Photos: The Beacon/Maddy Kinnard The bookstore still sells WIikes memorabilia as It did in the downtwon Barnes and Noble store. The big difference is that books are no longer on premises and need to be ordered online. As Wilkes "The probab season, Tone. Both throug First-y the op �The Beacon - September 15, 2021 5 News Damage and destruction in tht! _wake. of Hurricane Ida By Genny Frederick Ne Ed"t I ws or Hurricane Ida, the second major hurricane of the 2021 hurricane season, ripped through the country in the beginning of September, with damage with significant damage in New Orleans and northeastern states. Philadelphia, New York City and the state of New Jersey saw rainfall, flooding and tornadoes, which resulted in large amounts of damage. Nick Godfry, junior marketing major, explained how this damage impacted his family. "My grandmother lives on Long Beach Island, only a few blocks from the beach, and her entire first floor was flooded with about 2-3 feet of water;' he said. "Damage hit pretty hard on a different part of LBI from a tornado that passed through, taking out a few blocks worth of houses and docks right along the bay. "Some other parts that got hit really hard were the Philadelphia areas. My older brother lives right outside of Philly and was stuck in 3 feet of water outside of his apartment:' Hurricane Ida began developing in the Caribbean Sea on Aug. 23, and then developed mto ~ tropical depression. on Aug. 26. Later m the day, the tropical depression became a tropical storm and then the next day intensified into a hurricane. On Aug, 29 the storm moved to the coast of Louisiana where it is estimated that $15 to $20 billion of damage was done. The storm moved through the country toward the northeast as it weakened into a tropical depression and then a tropical cyclone. Rainfall records in numerous states were broken and tornados varying from EF0 to EF3 intensity were reported across Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In all regions impacted by the storm, infrastructure damage was overwhelming with more than 150,000 homes without power in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Louisiana also saw thousands of homes without power. Although the storm was smaller in size than other hurricanes such as Katrina, the intensity and quick development of the storm are not common. Lt. Col. Mark Kaster, meteorology instructor in the earth and environmental science department, explained the reasons for the intensity of Hurricane Ida. "Our Earth system is trying to rebalance Premium Student Housing FUR ISHED ALL INCLUSIVE 1-4+ BR partment and Mansion style living LEASE NOW FOR MAY 20 Move 1n! www.znproperties.com e! ~nequahties, Ka~ter said. The defici_ts m the polar regions and the surplus m the equatorial regions are rebalanced by hurricanes:' The imbalance includes both temperature and pressure imbalances. As storms move from the tropics, with high heat and low pressure, northward toward the poles, which have low heat and high pressure, these imbalances regulate. Excess heat in the equatorial regions will cause a larger imbalance resulting in larger storms. Kaster went on to explain that the excess heat in the atmosphere also contributes to the large amounts of rain that come with hurricanes such as Ida, which was a factor in the excess flooding seen in the northern states. ''.As the system warms up, the atmosphere warms up. We know from physics that warmer air holds more moisture, so there is more available moisture to produce these rainfall events:' said Kaster. Kaster also pointed out that the speed at which Hurricane Ida developed was of concern. While New Orleans may take up to three days to evacuate, the mere 36hour development of the storm left many unable to evacuate in time, whether or not residents had the means to. A_ngela Fiorentino, seni_or earth and environmental science maJor from New Jersey explained her reaction to the storm. "One of the most intense tornadoes in New Jersey history occurred as a result of Tropical Storm Ida;' Fiorentino said. "I think that this storm was a real eye-opener for a lot of people. There is no denying that more intense storms are happening more often and that's directly linked to climate change. It is very worrisome, especially for people living near the coast because flooding is occurring more frequently as a result:' Damage caused by these storms can be overwhelming, but the resiliency of those impacted allows areas to recover well. Jaycee Demaria, a junior nursing major, has hope that her area of Southern New Jersey will recover. "Some of our favorite restaurants flooded up to the tables inside;' she explained. "There were roofs from houses and restaurants in the streets and the bay. However, we are a tight-knit community. I know we will come together and help our neighbors and local restaurants with the restoration they need:' Genevieve.Frederick@wilkes.edu Graphic by Zoey Rosensweet Open House October 3, 2021 Limited availability. Join us at the OPEN HOUSE to see how to reserve your future apartment now... REGISTER AT WWW.ZNPROPERTIES.COM Can't make the open house???? FOR INFORMATION Email us at znpropertiesllc@gmail.com �.J The Beacon - September 15, 2021 News 6 Special education added as a new major at Wilkes By Genny Frederick News Editor This semester, Wilkes University added a new major on campus: special education. The additional major in the education department serves current students who have a passion for teaching special education, as well as future students who will be looking for a more specific major within education. The new major was readily accepted by new and current students this fall, with 12 students currently enrolled. Seven of the students were already education majors who decided to make the jump to the new program once it was announced Jordan Harrison was planning to work with students in special education following her college graduation, but the major allowed her to get started earlier than expected. 'Mer being a standard education major, I decided to go for the standalone special education degree because I feel that it will provide me with the opportunity to work with students of all ages:' Harrison said. "The degree is a K -12 certification, so I feel that it will not only challenge me, but provide me with the ability to work with students and be able to watch them improve their skills and knowledge on a daily basis:' Billy Searle, a first-year student, heard of the new major at orientation and from there decided to join the program. 'i\.t first I wanted to be a business major:' he said. "I then really began to look into the education field. I wasn't sure which field I wanted, but I looked into special education and realized that's what I wanted to do in life. education numbers "I really want to may have been 15 be able to make a to 17 percent. Now difference in the many of our regional world. I feel that school districts' working in special special education education could populations are help me make that '-~···,··~·- '"'"· upwards of 30 difference:' percent:' Within the major's While Wilkes first two weeks, previously offered student numbers are a certification in already exceeding special education, expectations. Dr. this certification Karen Frantz Fry, 1<> came with additional associate professor burdens. Five extra in the ~ducation courses were needed department, in addition to the explained the full course load of number of students the education major. who were expected This added nearly to join the program. one extra semester "When we to a student's time in submitted the Photos courtesy of Jordan Harrison college, which was proposal through the university process, The Education Club recruiting not a feasible option we were hoping members at Club Day this semester. for all. The new major still covers the core set within the first year to two years for the freshman class to have 10 of classes, but students now have more time to students, which would be a good start for us:' focus on topics that will benefit them in the field. she said. In addition to classwork, partnerships with Faculty enthusiasm is also to credit for the Graham Academy in Kingston allow interest in the program. Dr. Suzanne Murray Galella, chair of the Wilkes' education students to work with education department, explained that while children who live with autism and behavioral this major will serve Wilkes students, it will challenges. This experience allows future teachers to have real-life experience that will also serve the broader community. "Our special education numbers are on help them as they move into the classroom the rise. Ten years ago our district's special themselves. This partnership has been Education Club officers pose for a picture together. developed since 2018 by Frantz Fry, but in conjunction with the new major, will benefit students of both schools. Although the special education major is in its early stages, many new ideas are being discussed to advance the program. One of these ideas is the addition of a class on infant risk outside of the traditional bounds of the classroom. The infant risk class would focus on an understanding of what complications during birth mean for the social, academic and emotional development of a child. "We're currently working right now with some local neurologists and some pediatricians and our hope is once we get COVID a little bit more under control that we would actually offer this class, in a neonatal unit so that our students would be following doctors and nurses around in a neonatal unit to talk about what this development looks like;' Galella said. The development of new courses, partnerships, and programs to benefit the new major is continuous and brings the enthusiasm of the education department to life. Harris summed up the excitement and commitment to the new major. "I am looking forward to the opportunities that this new program will give me. I am hoping to learn more about how I can advocate for students with disabilities, spend more time studying and experiencing how every student is different, and as a teacher I have the opportunity to be a role model for my students as many of my professors were role models for me:' @wilkesbeacon genevieve.frederick@wilkes.edu Education Club members take a picture after hosting their first Big Brothers Big Sisters event. Participants played comhole, klckball, frlsbee, and other games. The Beac s The N released According teams in from the the Titans the East. Startin to the B" playoff s could ha grabs pri both the playoffs. N By Zar Staff Wi The released Sept. 9. the top from th the Bu Washin Start· season, Aaron Howev tomak to play ranked The center that · Meyer left tac Bakhti Dec.3 The Willi NFC �.1 The Beacon - September 15, 2021 7 Life, Arts & Entertainment Life, Arts & Entertainment Have any: events or artists to be shared? Contact Life, Arts & Entertainment Editor: Jordan.Daniel@wilkes.edu First-year students settle into life on campus By AJ Rubino and Kellle Scott Staff Writers Transitioning into college can be a challenge or a breeze for some. However, with a global pandemic still on the radar, there are new challenges for incoming firstyear students. How might the new students adjust to life on campus? 'J\.ny change is hard, especially moving into college;' said first-year student and neuroscience major, Elie Kramer. With the pandemic going on, it has made the adjustment a little harder, she explained. However, Kramer was able to ease her mind when she was able to bring her fish, Aioli, as a third roommate. Originally from Schuylkill Haven, Pa., Kramer said that at her high school, classes would be moved online frequently because of COVID-19 outbreaks. That left Kramer feeling confined and very unhappy. She credits macaroni and cheese to helping her through the tough times. Now, Kramer has found herself at many events in just the past few weeks, including Welcome Weekend's Drag Bingo. "It was one of the greatest nights of my life;' said Kramer. Despite having to be restricted to her own house at times when an outbreak occurred in her school, Kramer found a sense of community as she participated in the Welcome Weekend. "I chose Wilkes for the close knit community and the opportunities it holds;' said Kramer. Kramer said Wilkes has a great health sciences program and as she continues to adjust here on campus, she hopes to grow a sense of independence. She is also eager to explore more of what Wilkes has to offer. On the other hand, leaving for college was easier for some. "It was not that difficult;' said firstyear ,student and nursing major Bridget Rosenfeld. In New York, Rosenfeld was not always able to travel outside of the state due to their restrictions. Therefore, finally leaving was a ourtesy o Students partied with local drag performers, with Joy and entertainment helplng to curb first year students' Welcome Weekend nerves. nice change for Rosenfeld. When talking about her high school experiences with COVID-19, she was more fortunate than Kramer. When anyone tested positive at her school, officials made sure to do contact tracing and took precautions. She was still able to enjoy her senior year, including being able to go to prom, football games and participate in field hockey. "I was very glad to be able to have my senior field hockey season;' said Rosenfeld. "I have always looked forward to going to prom so I was very happy to hear we could have one this year:' In the two weeks she has been on campus, Rosenfeld has been adjusting to college life by hanging out with the field hockey team. She also attended Drag Bingo. Not everything has been so easy for Rosenfeld. She has been faced with juggling a busy schedule, playing field hockey and being a nursing student. "Wilkes has an amazing nursing program that I am looking forward to starting;' said Rosenfeld. Sydney Farmer, a first-year student and biology major with a double minor in Spanish and biochemistry, also had to make some major adjustments to life on campus. "Because of the pandemic and tennis I am restricted on the times I'm allowed to go home;' Farmer said. This is not the first time Farmer felt restricted when it came to doing things. Her high school brought a sense of unity when it came to athletics. However, due to the pandemic and the restrictions set in New Jersey, the football players were only offered two tickets. These two tickets were mainly reserved for the players' parents, leaving Farmer upset to miss out on their games. "Football is a really big sport in my school and brought together the school as a whole;' said Farmer. "It was definitely sad to not see a game my senior year:' Now on campus, she is very excited to continue her education and sports at Wilkes. On top of being a full time student athlete, Farmer plans to pursue a pre-med concentration and wants to do a 4+ 1 in the bioengineering masters program. She has found herself trying not to procrastinate and finishing what she needed to do to be able to participate in campus events. Farmer has discovered lots of fun things to do in her first two weeks on campus. Recently, she attended Club Day and participated in Welcome Weekend as much as she could due to tennis conflicts. Farmer is very excited to get to know the university more and has tons of goals set for herself. She is especially looking forward to continuing her education in a research based college. "There are so many opportunities and I cannot wait to see what the future will hold;' Farmer said. "I hold myself to high standards, as my biggest goal at Wilkes is to maintain a 3.75 GPA and I will be accountable and stay on top of my work to achieve this goal:' AJ.Rubino@wilkes.edu Kel/ie.Scott@wilkes.edu �_J Life, Arts & Entertainment The Beacon - September 15, 2021 8 Nutritious pup treats: Doggy Delicacies' frozen PB veggie bites By Emlly Cherkauskas Editor-in-Chief These low-calorie, frozen peanut butter veggie bites are a healthy snack that your dog will surely enjoy. They allow your dog to eat some peanut butter with hidden veggies mixed in, all while offering beneficial nutrients. Ingredients 1 cup of powdered peanut butter (with about 3/4 cup of water) 2 large carrots, sliced 1 cup diced cucumber 2 tablespoons of coconut oil (optional) Rice krispie cereal or oats (optional) Directions: First, cut and wash your vegetables. For convenience, I used a julienne vegetable peeler to quickly cut the carrots into small pieces. Wash the vegetables and let them briefly dry as you prepare the peanut butter. Next, mix together the peanut butter powder and water until there are no lumps. Now add the vegetables and coconut oil (the latter is optional). Once everything is mixed together, be sure that the consistency is just slightly runny so the peanut butter can fill up the ice cube trays. If the mix is too dry, add more water, and if it is too runny, add some more powder. Once everything is prepared, fill the mixture into an empty ice cube tray. For an optional added topping, you can sprinkle some rice krispie cereal or rolled oats on top of the cubes. Let the cubes freeze for about 12 hours. Once completely frozen, remove them and place them into a container. You may have to use a butter knife or spoon to gently pry the cubes out. Be sure to only feed the peanut butter cubes to your dogs about once a day so their teeth do not become sensitive to the coldness of this treat. Note: I used the PB2's original peanut butter powder due to its lower calorie and fat count compared to the regular spread. If you can only access the regular premade peanut butter spread, make sure whichever brand of peanut butter you use does not contain xylitol, as it is extremely poisonous to canines. Emily.Cherkauskas@wilkes.edu Graphic by Mia Walker I ofte spring getting another posting Wilkes!" Hown When virtual, I "normal" The Beacon/Emily Cherkauskas This frozen peanut butter veggie cube Is a great way to give your pup a tasty, yet nutrlonal snack, that helps cool them off. Each week, the Wilkes Beacon staff adds a song to their 2021-2022 Beacon Bumps playlist under Chris Gowartys account on Spotify. Look below for this weeks list of songs. Emily Cherkauskas, Editor-in-Chief: INDUSTRY BABY - Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow Sean Schmoyer, Managing Editor: The Rule of Life - Vian Izak Genny Frederick, News Editor: My Body - Young the Giant__ Maddy Kinard, Asst. News Editor: Amoeba - Clairo Jordan Daniel, LA&E Editor: Fair Trade - Drake with Travis Scott Breanna Ebisch, Opinion Editor: .1 am not a woman, I'm a God Halsey _ _ _ ~--~------•·------ Lindsey Scorey, Opinion Staff Writer: None for you - Kiana Lede Ariel Reed, Sports Editor: Bad Day- Justus Bennetts Chris Gowarty, Assoc. Sports Editor: HJ)NJ;ST- Baby Keem Baylee Guedes, Asst. Sports Editor: Next to__ _you - Mike Jone§ Jason Eberhart, Sports Staff Writer: Moon - Kany~ Mia Walker, Lead Designer: Way 2 Sexy - Drake Liz Cherinka, Social Media Manager: Pictures of Girls-Wallows Zoey Rosensweet, Lead Layout Designer: l::J_§y.,bb! - Binki almost stopped when mu we have I long word "C riddled vaccines. who was closed. It honest, p assignme class fro introvert· That b 2020-202 downside schedule. when all �The Beacon - September 15, 2021 Life, Arts & Entertainment 9 The Met Gala returns to New York in the fall due to COVID-19 Sordoni Art Gallery hosts event due to the excitement of the Met Gala By Morgan Rich Staff Writer On Sept. 13, the Met Gala returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's stairs. Otherwise known as one of fashion's biggest events of the year, the Met Gala was held in a smaller, more intimate fashion than in past years, but that did not stop fabulous celebrity fashion from walking the red carpet. The Met Gala is the Super Bowl of fashion, equivalent to the Oscars in the fashion world. Normally held on the first Monday in May, the Met Gala is an annual fundraising gala for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Exhibit in New York City and marks the opening of the Costume Institute's fashion exhibit. This year's theme is celebrating all things American fashion. According to USA Today, "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" was meant to honor the 75th anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. It explored the nation's elegant identity and dug deeper into America's creativity so there was a lot of patriotism on the red carpet. "I was very excited to see this yea_r's theme with all of the new costumes," said Rebecca Timko, sophomore business major. "I think this theme is very unique compared to other years:' The co-chairs of the Met Gala are in charge of putting together the guest list, curating the aesthetics of the gala, regarding proof of vaccinations. All attendees of the Gala were required to show their own proof of vaccination and wear a mask indoors. As of right now, "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion:' featuring ensembles of fashion in the United States, is expected to open on Sept. 18. The second exhibit, "I personally love the Met Gala and seeing all the red carpet looks so it was interesting to see how students put their own spin on it. It was super fun! It was a super unique event that we were very lucky to have such amazing clubs and f acuity members that allow us to do stuff like this." - Karoline Freitas creating the feel of the evening and selecting the decor. Singer Billie Eilish, actor Timothee Chalamet, inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and athlete Naomi Osaka were the co-chairs this year, which was announced this past May. The honorary chairs consisted of Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram and sponsor of the gala, Tom Ford and Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor-inchief. The guest list for the Met Gala is as secretive as guest lists get. But that is all part of the fun about watching the gala: seeing all of the familiar faces and guessing who is there According to WWD, there was some speculation as to who will show up on Monday. On Instagram, the account @_metgala2021 released a simulated seating chart of the guests that were rumored to attend the gala, though the account is not verified. There was also talk that the guest list expanded to include internet personalities, athletes and influencers this year. The Metropolitan Museum of Art requires all visitors ages 12 and older to show proof of being vaccinated against COVID-19, in accordance with New York's mandate "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" is expected to open on May 5, 2022, after the Met Gala next year. The exhibits will close on Sept. 5, 2022. Those who were not one of the lucky ones who got to travel to New York City this past Monday and sit next to Lady Gaga were still able to watch the fashion spectacle of the season. The Met Gala was live streamed by Vogue on Twitter. Actresses KeKe Palmer and Ilana Glazer hosted the live stream, which also included interviews and an exclusive look at the high-class attire of the guests. Questions have already sparked about what next year's Met Gala will entail. So far the Met Gala is back on schedule to take place on the original date of the first Monday of the month, May 2, 2022. Unless otherwise stated in the next year, the protocols will be the same and the theme will be a continuation of fashion in the United States. Even the university got in the spirit of things when it came to the Met Gala. From 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. the Sordoni Art Gallery opened so people could experience the "L'Esprit" while walking on the red carpet the gallery rolled out for its students and other visitors. At the gallery, there were light refreshments, guided tours of "L'Esprit:' a mini-exhibition of "The Battle of Versailles:• a live stream of the Met Gala, red carpet contests and more. Attendees were encouraged to dress up according to the theme. There were prizes for the best costumes so many made sure to break out their creative sides. "I think it was an amazing opportunity that we got to do something as creative and expressive as this here at Wilkes;' said Karoline Freitas, sophomore nursing student. "I personally love the Met Gala and seeing all the red carpet looks so it was interesting to see how students put their own spin on it. It was a super unique event that we were very lucky to have such amazing clubs and faculty members that allow us to do stuff like this:• To find out more information regarding the Met Gala at the Sordoni Art Gallery or see what you missed out on, follow them on Instagram @sordonigallery. Morgan.Rich@wilkes.edu Graphic by Zoey Rosensweet �_J The Beacon - September 15, 2021 Life, Arts & Entertainment 10 The Liz's Craft Column: DIY boho-chic wall hanger decoration M By Liz Cherlnka Social Media Manager Staff Now that classes have started and everyone has moved into their dorms, you may realize the walls look more white and plain than expected. Trying to find affordable decorations is hard but making cheap DIYs is easy. This boho-chic wall hanger is a quick craft that is sure to spice up any living space. This craft is time-consuming, but very relaxing. It is nice to do this after a long week of studying and homework to relax. The required supplies are four medium-sized embroidery hoops, yarn in at least two colors, hot glue and scissors. These supplies can be found at any craft store, such as Joann Fabrics, Michaels or Amazon. To start, remove the inside part from each hoop. This is that part that will be used so the outside can be moved to the side. Grab the first hoop and any color of yarn. Make a small spot of hot glue on the outside of the hoop on top and place the end of the yarn on it, being very careful to not touch the glue. A tip would be to push it onto the hoop while the glue dries using the yarn around the glue, not directly on it. Pull down from both sides to secure it in place. Then, pull the yarn strand down to the bottom of the hoop directly underneath where it is glued on top so it divides the hoop in half. Put a small spot of hot glue on that spot on the outside of the hoop and glue the yarn to it. Make sure the yarn strands are pulled taut each time. Secure it in the same way as before being careful to not touch the glue. Next, wrap the yarn around the back of the hoop and pull it to the top. Add more hot glue and attach it in the same way as before. Continue wrapping the yarn around the hoop moving toward the right adding a new spot of glue on the top each time. As you progress across the circle, the yarn on the bottom will slide and make it more difficult to just glue on the top. At that point, start adding a spot of glue on the bottom and top. This process will be very tedious but not difficult. The end of the circle starts to get tricky. There will be a point where you cannot wrap yarn anymore onto the hoop because it will start extending onto the circle rather, than just forming around it. In this case, finish the circle off by just wrapping from the top to the bottom on the edge of the circle, gluing the yarn down and cutting it. This will add a strand of yarn on the edge to cover the wood of the hoop. That finishes off the first hoop of four. To continue, repeat these steps with another color yarn. This craft can have two, three or four different colors. The example uses two but feel free to take creative liberty with the colors. Once all four hoops have been wrapped, it is time to attach them together. Lay them out on a flat surface to determine the orientation of the hoops. This can mean turning the hoop or flipping it to change where the yarn is. The example can be used as inspiration for orientations. To connect the hoops once they are arranged, add a large spot of hot glue on the bottom of the hoop in the middle and connect that to the center of the top of the hoop below it. Repeat this with the rest of the hoops. Allow this time to dry before it is hung. Once they dry, the craft is complete and ready to display to add some boho chic to your space. Ma in ep with Chi 1) First, glue the yarn to the outside top of the hoop. Then pull It taut to the bottom and glue It on the hoop. 2) Continue wrapping the yarn around the hoop, gluing each strand on top. If the yarn Is not holding In place on the bottom, glue there as well. marr Bu newl his s the kno whe play their A Liz.Cherinka@wilkes.edu Graphic by Anna Culver Chi Liz's Craft Rating: Two out of five yarn-balls. This DIY boho-chic wall hanger Is affordable because It requires only a few supplies. It does not require any prior craft experience so anyone can try it. Just make sure not to burn your hands with the hot glue. [ By LI - - ----- - - - -- -- - - -- . ~ - 3) Repeat these steps until four hoops are completely wrapped. Feel free to choose any sets of colors. Although this example uses two, you can have any sort of color set. - - -- - - - Photos: he Beacon/Liz Cherinka 4) Lay the hoops on a flat srface to determine positioning and then glue each hoop together. Glue the bottom of one hoop to the top of another in the orientation chosen. - - - - - - - -- - - - Share your completed crafts with us! Tag us on our Instagram account @wilkesbeacon with your craft! #LizsCraftColumn - --- - - - - - - choi can cou Kon �The Beacon - September 15, 2021 11 Life, Arts & Entertainment Concerts and festivals are up and running once again Made In America comes home to Philadelphia By Jordan Daniel Life, Arts & Entertainment Editor a music festival, so it is understandable for those to feel worried about their safety, especially because of COVID-19. However, although there were moments of uncertainty for some there was also excitement. "I liked getting to experience going to a big music festival;' said junior nursing major Alexis Yeakel. "I had never been anyone else that performed because she was not a 'rap' artist, she only sings. I have wanted to see her since 2014 so it was like a dream come true:' If people were hungry or thirsty there were places where they could buy food and drinks. There were also areas for people to buy merchandise and take pictures to post on social media. After a year of concert and festival cancellations and postponements due to COVID-19, it is now considered safe, with certain precautions, for people to watch their favorite performers live again. The two-day music festival produced by ''I like that I can see many artists I love Live Nation and owned by Jay-Z, Made In America, returned this past Labor listening to for a fraction of the cost of a concert Day weekend in Philadelphia and many celebrities came out to perform their top ticket. I decided to go because the price of a hits for their fans. According to Made In America Fest, the two-day pass was very worth it and I could see festival implemented all CDC and local many artists that I would have loved to see in public health mandates and guidelines. Attendees had to show proof of a concert." negative COVID-19 test 48 hours prior to the event or printed proof of a full - Jess Fred Torres COVID-19 vaccination upon entry. All attendees were also required to wear "The atmosphere is pure craziness:' to one before. I liked a lot of the artists masks on festival grounds. Yeakel said. "There are people everywhere Even though the festival's website that were going and wanted to experience and music coming from every direction. released a statement claiming there were something new with my friends. My Besides watching people perform there favorite part was seeing Lil Baby:' following CDC guidelines and protocols, Major performers on Saturday were were food trucks, different vendors trying some attendees disagreed with this. to sell their products and places where "There were no masks in sight during Megan Thee Stallion, Kehlani, Young you could go to take some cute pictures Thug, Griselda and Baby Keem, with this event;' said junior nursing major Jess with friends:' Fred Torres. "I understand that everyone Lil Baby being the closing act. Sunday The festival is full of high energy, and there was supposed to be vaccinated or performers included Doja Cat, Roddy lasts 12 hours, which may be too long for have a negative test result but that is not Rich, Bobby Shmurda, Freddie Gibbs, some people to be up on their feet. Mariah the Scientist and Justin Bieber, always the case. I have social anxiety and I "I would honestly rather go to a regular knew it was going to affect my experience, who closed on the last day of Made In concert because you at least have a place but I did not realize how bad it was going America. to sit if you need to and it also is not an "My favorite performer was Kehlani:' to be." event that lasts 12 hours;' Yeakel said. Also, for many, this was the first time Torres said. "She was such a sweetheart "Made In America is very fun, but tiring:' they had ever been to a large event live and had a beautiful voice. She was unlike Torres also shared her first-time experience at Made In America. "Before even entering the festival, people were drinking and getting blacked out before they even got inside. "When I was getting through security I could already see vomit on the ground and see all the people drunk or high on something. There were a lot of people, too many people, in my opinion. Since everyone wants to see the big artists I would get pushed around by all these people trying to reach the front:' One of the aspects Torres like most was the technological benefits. "My favorite part about it was that you could still enjoy the performances without actually having to be all that close up to the stage:' said Torres. "They had big screens and loud speakers to assure of that. I also liked that you could make friends or bond with these random people just by talking about the event or the artists:' Most ticket vendors and sites began selling tickets for the festival three to fourth months in advance of the actual date of the event. There was also a limit to the number of tickets one could buy at a time, which was eight two-day passes. The lowest price range for a two-day pass was around $150. "I like that I can see many artists I love listening to for a fraction of the cost of a concert ticket;' said Torres. "I decided to go because the price of a two-day pass was very worth it and I could see many artists that I would have loved to see in concert:' Jordan.Daniel@wilkes.edu Graphic by Zoey Rosensweet �...I LA&E The Beacon - September 15, 2021 RETURN Programming Board ByAJ Rubino Staff Writer Club Day, sponsored by Student Government, is once again back in person and was a huge success. On Sept. 9, many students and faculty came out to the greenway during the university's club hours to learn and engage with all the clubs and organizations there are on campus. "Every club that comes out here gets to attract new members," said senior mechanical engineering major and executive vice president of Student Government, Ben Wojciechowski. The main reason Club Day occurs every year is to recruit new members of any year or major. This is a great CLUB Luis Cespedes Ramirez, first-year nursing opportunity, especially for first-year students, to meet new people and become more involved with the university community. Many club members and advisers came out to represent their clubs and organizations. Some gained quite a bit of attention, with the Ecology Club, Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA), Career Center Internships, Commuter Council and Student Government being some of the most popular. "Commuter Council is a great opportunity for commuters and residents to be involved in campus," said treasurer of Commuter Council and junior environmental science major, Helen Campbell. Anyone can join Commuter 12 Student Government Council and it is a great way for students to interact with one another. For students focused on a business career and who want to start an internship, the Center for Career Development and Internships is the place to be .. "The Center for Career Development and Internships helps students of any major with any sort of professional development," said career peer ambassador and junior marketing major Sarah Palvick. The center also runs the Colonel Closet, which offers business attire for people on campus who need it for interviews and other professional needs. The university has many clubs, organizations and societies for students. There is such a wide variety and almost every department has some sort of club for students to join. Although Club Day is a great way to find out about all the campus has to offer, another way to find out about the wide variety of clubs on campus is by going to wilkes.presence.io, as it acts as a portal hub for all of Wilkes University's clubs and organizations. mia.rubino@wilkes.edu Photos: AJ Rubino Page Design/Layout: Mia Walker Mia.Walker@wilkes.edu �12 The Beacon - September 15, 2021 13 LA&E Ecology Club (from left to right) Tyler Saritski, Ecology Club president, double major in biology and physics, senior; and Alana Andreoli, earth environmental science with a biology concentration, senior Programming Board Top: GSA : Gender and Sexuality Alliance Bottom: The Center for Career Development and Internships ties !h a ery t of reat the ~her ide s is e.io, r all and u Top: Cheerleading Team Bottom: ASM E with their BAJA Matt Franchetti, hospitality leadership, president of RHC, senior r �The Beacon - September 15, 2021 Opinion 14 Opinion - - - - ~ - - - · - ~ ~ - ~ - ~ " - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - ~ . - ~H_a~v_e ~a~ n ~o~inion or want to write a guest column? Contact the opinion editor Breanna.Ebisch@wilkes.edu Editorial Staff 2021-22 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Emily Cherkauskas Managing Editor - Sean Schmoyer Social Media Manager - Liz Cherinka Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher SECTION EDITORS News - Genevieve Frederick LA&E - Jordan Daniel Opinion - Breanna Ebisch Sports -Ariel Reed LEAD DESIGNERS Mia Walker & Zoey Rosensweet ASSOCIATE EDITOR Sports - Christopher Gowarty ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Maddy Kinard Sports - Bajlee Guedes SECTION STAFF WRITERS LA&E - Judah Lyles Opinion - Lindsey. Scorey Sports - Jason Eberhart Interested In joining The Beacon? To learn more about what you can do, contact: Emily Cherkauskas@wllkes.edu or Kalen.Churcher@wilkes.edu 141 S. Main Street Clayton and Theresa Karambelas Media & Communication Center Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 Phone • (570) 408-5903 www.thewilkesbeacon.com Want to advertise in The Beacon? Contact: Sean Schmoyer at Sean.Schmoyer@wilkes.edu W The Beacon Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member - - - - ( l u r VoicV,_ · - - -Each week, The Beacon's editorial board will take a stance on a current issue. Vaccinated or not, we have a responsibility Health and safety of others must come first According to the Wilkes University COVID-19 Dashboard, there have been 14 positive cases on campus during the week of Sept. 6. Even with our 80 percent vaccination rate on campus, there are still positive cases emerging within the student and faculty population. This should come as no surprise given that even as the country's vaccination rate increases, the number of cases is currently the highest it has been since January, something visible in data collected from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The immediate reaction to squash here is that vaccines are ineffective; we know this to be false. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explains so in its explanation of breakthrough cases. "Vaccine breakthrough cases are expected. COVID-19 vaccines are effective and are a critical tool to bring the pandemic under control," according to the CDC. "However, no vaccines are 100 percent effective at preventing illness. Some fully vaccinated people will get sick, and some will even be hospitalized or die from COVID-19." The CDC continues to explain that evidence does show that the vaccine makes illness less severe and that the risk of infection, hospitalization and death are all much lower in vaccinated individuals than in unvaccinated individuals. Knowing all this is important because as a vaccinated individual, you may have the misconception that you are invincible and fully protected from COVID-19. As students and faculty, we have to recognize that whether we are vaccinated or not, we still need to follow health and safety protocols and be considerate of others if we start to feel ill. Members of campus who are not vaccinated undergo weekly assurance testing in the Marts Center. In a recent email to the student body, the COVID-19 Daily Response Team addressed students missing the weekly assurance testing. The response team said, "The Delta variant continues to surge throughout our country. We know from experience that identifying and isolating positive cases as quickly as possible is the best way to prevent the spread of COVID-19. If you are not vaccinated, it is absolutely imperative that you participate in regular testing:' Those who are vaccinated can still go to the Marts Center to receive assurance testing if they are sick or prefer to be tested. Though in a recent email, Health and Wellness Services clarified that those exhibiting symptoms should not go to the Marts Center and should instead make an appointment at the Health and Wellness Center at 570-408-4730 to be tested. As a campus community we have no say over the masking policy that has returned while inside buildings. However, actions such as not following the masking policy, attending reckless, mask.less events and exposing others to ourselves when we feel ill can have serious consequences. If the goal is to not miss another year of athletics, not be all online, not be masked outdoors, and not be at limited capacity, then remember that those regulations go back in place based on our actions as a community. If any or all the restrictions of the past year come back in place, we as a campus community would likely have no one to blame but ourselves for disregarding our responsibilities to keep ourselves and each other healthy and safe. @wilkesbeacon TheWilkesBeacon@wiJkes.edu Letter to the editor policy: The Beacon welcomes letters to the editor from differing viewpoints. Letters must contain contact information, including name, city, state and phone number. Phone numbers will not be published but may be used for verification purposes. All letters to the editor must be sent using one of the following methods: Email: TheWilkesBeacon@wilkes.edu Phone: (570) 408-2962 (Voicemail: 30 seconds or less, please.) Mail: 84 West South Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 Attn: The Beacon �L The Beacon - September 15, 2021 15 Opinion Marvel Studios nails it again: No spoiler "Shang-Chi" review By Liam Flynn Staff Writer 0 lue om in Marvel Studios returned to theaters in epic form over Labor Day weekend with the mythic martial arts film "ShangChi and the Legend of the Ten Rings", setting box office records while enjoying universal, critical and audience acclaim. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, "Shang-Chi" fits into Marvel packaging in its own way, but it has an immense soulfulness that other MCU movies, superhero movies and action movies, in general, should take notes from. Simu Liu stars as Shang-Chi, a key piece to a broken family that has a history of infighting. The dysfunctional family dynamics are even more important than the 10 rings that grant such immense power to Shang Chi's power-hungry father Wenwu, who has lived for 1,000 years and created a society called the Ten Rings which has destroyed kingdoms and swayed the events all over the world. When Wenwu found love with Jiang Li (Fala Chen), there was peace. They married and started a family. But after Shang-Chi's mother died, a newly monstrous Wenwu tried to mature his son by making him a killer, causing the young boy to leave behind his sister Xialing (Meng'er Zhang) and Wenwu. The film is an epic, mega-budget aircraft that flies over an abyss of grief. This backstory comes for Shang-Chi, known as an American adult as Shaun when he rides the bus with his friend Katy, played by the sensational Awkwafina, in their home of San Francisco. A group of henchmen attack ShangChi for a necklace he wears around his neck, and in a beat that's prefaced like a power-up, Shaun's immense courage suddenly comes to light. So do his fighting skills, which help make for an incredible melee scene of hand-to-hand combat that has the camera gazing for long shots and freely going in and out of the moving bus, just like its impromptu hero. The power for this film, however, comes through in the eyes of his father, Wenwu. One of the movie's most brilliant choices is casting Tony Leung so that can repeat the same magic he's had from countless romances and dramas in Hong Kong. Leung rules this movie. With the same silent passion and stillness that made "In the Mood for Love" one of the greatest romances of all time, Leung destroys armies, raises a family, and struggles to resist destructive grief. His presence is made all the more powerful by the 10 blue rings that help him slingshot around and destroy whatever is in his path. When he hears the voice of what could be his wife from behind a cave of rock, Wenwu becomes a Darth Vader-like tyrant, driving a campaign to rampage through the mother's magical home known as Ta Lo, in order to get to a cave that everyone else knows (including his son and daughter) has an apocalyptic, soul-sucking dragon inside. I believe it is one of the best performances from the Marvel Cinematic Universe because the passion and grief it expresses are perfectly displayed. Cretton is able to take this enthralling movie from one scene to the next with this vivid sense of a brother and sister trying to stop their father from destroying everything because he can't move on. It's a more devastating threat than the usual world domination thing. Plus, it parallels how the script builds out the painful backstory of Shang-Chi and his similarly skilled and aggrieved sister, Xialing. With a few strong twists along the way, this movie turns into an adventure and a homecoming to a peaceful realm from a whole different time, which brings in a sweet, moving performance from Michelle Yeoh. These passages show audiences how Shang-Chi learned two different fighting approaches. This parallels the two very different lives both of his parents lived. "Shang-Chi's" thrilling's embrace of clarity, of nudging your imagination instead of doing all the work for you, spreads the inspired special effects that enhance the magic of this story and the world of its characters. The majority of CGI useage is saved up for the last massive sequence, which is such an over-the-top, giddy, rollercoaster ride that you can't help but root for it. Not to mention that audiences also get to see the return of legendary incredible Hulk villain The Abonomition and, MCU fan-favorite Wong, Master of the Mystic Arts. The Avengers, the new roster at least, lurk on the periphery of "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings;' but this film benefits from establishing its deeper family and friend relationships. Liu and Awkwafina have exceptional chemistry as they are thrown into the world of this universe's superheroes. Awkwafina becomes a vital source of levity for the script, and a welcoming audience surrogate as the film ramps up to a large battle. She helps the humor pop even more compared to the story's darker themes, making numerous passages of the movie not only thrilling but charming and funny. From the very start, Shang-Chi signals this is a different storytelling experience than many are·used to from the MCU. It feels less like an overtly superhero film in many regards, although it certainly doesn't hide its comic book origins. Rather, it simply seems less obviously a costumed hero tale and could largely stand alone apart from the MCU if not for a few specific tie-in elements. "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" is top-tier Marvel superhero origin storytelling, rising to the occasion to not only live up to, but exceed expectations. Without spoiling, the movie does make great efforts to address Marvel's previously problematic presentations of Asian characters and it embraces fruitful ideas, both big and small. This movie is not an experiment for. Marvel and Disney; it is a promising origin story that could fit in perfectly to the continuation of the MCU's phase four. I give "Shang-Chi" a 9.3 out of 10, and I place it among the best of all Marvel films. Liam.Flynn@wilkes.edu Graphic by Jack Malatesta r �The Beacon - September 15, 2021 Opinion 16 My Wilkes University on-campus bookstore experience Wait... Where are the textbooks? By Emily Cherkauskas Editor-in-Chief The Colonel conception Wilkes University recently ended its ISyear relationship with the local Barnes & Noble store on Main Street, which ultimately caused the institution to be devoid of a physical place to sell textbooks and college merchandise. Or so we initially thought. The university had a choice: renew the contract or find another store to host the collection of merchandise and textbooks. It went with a decision that is fairly popular with other colleges nowadays: Instead of subjecting students to the headache of traversing the city to find textbooks and supplies, why not just build a bookstore on campus instead? I feel it would be common sense to be happy in reaction to the initial news. Until we learned that the SUB lounge would be replaced by the bookstore. As a commuter myself, I found solace in the SUB's lounging area as a first-year student and found a sense of worry for new students who did not know the more secluded lounge areas of the campus. The lounge was a truly calming area-we could peacefully relax, all while listening to the ambiance of the dining hall and Student Development area, while watching cars and students pass by outside the windows. Despite the concerns, the university assured us that there would still be lounging areas in the SUB for commuter students. The project took place through the summer, and as time went on, we became more curious to see the results. The store was ready to open its doors during Welcome Weekend, the same time the campus welcomed new and returning students and faculty. The idea was that the bookstore would be so convenient for students-it was to be a safer and more convenient option for us. The confrontation After a long and busy day working in our office, my friend and I had some free time on our hands, so we decided to stop by the monolith that is the Henry Student Center. He was craving dinner; I was craving answers. Although we were united in our journey across campus, we knew it was time to bid farewell to each other as we entered through the doors of the student center. His destination was upstairs, and mine was just to the right of me. Before the doors of Colonel Comer stood just two tables and one computer-the remnants of the destroyed SUB lounge. The gaming area was decimated, its innards ripped out-no more. These were empty husks of once glorious and colorful hang-out areas. I hope this was worth it, I thought to myself. Through the glass planes, I saw tablets and pens lining the shelves and hoodies hanging from racks. Taking just a few steps through the graveyard, I CNO BOOKS HERE, SORRY~ approached the door. With a heavy breath, my fingers wrapped around the door. I pulled. And I pushed. The door wasn't moving. What is happening? The people who survived this obstacle started to look at me through the glass. I felt their eyes on me. With a heavy breath, I used my entire bodily force to pull at the door handle. It worked. The door managed to swing open. I was exhausted. In hindsight, it was an omen: an inanimate object managing to expel incompetence being a sign of the times to come-despite my ignorance at the time. Nonetheless, I pressed forward. Upon first glance, I was impressed. The store was beheld within modern but classy architecture that fit the Wilkes University aesthetic. I was greeted by stunning hoodies, shirts, socks, plushies and more. I discovered blank notebooks, virgin pens, all eagerly yet patiently waiting to be used. However, those were not what I, and many others, had visited to find. Like how a bee dances through stalks, eager to find the sunflower with the largest bud of seeds, I wandered through the shelves, attempting to find the desired textbook section. But I hit a dead end. The end of the store was marked with a table and chairs, most likely for customers looking to take a break as they wandered this mysterious world. That could not have been it, right? I turned back to see shelves of notebooks and pens. Where are the textbooks? Just as my hope ran out, I saw a seemingly hidden doorway. Past that doorway showed plastic-sealed textbooks sitting upon metal shelves. After further peering into the room, I realized this was an employee-only area. This is not right, I thought. Where are the textbooks? That isn't the textbook section. I thought this was a bookstore-where are the textbooks lying about? And then it hit me. The textbooks are not here. In fact, there is no space available to house the textbooks that are required for hundreds of courses for just this semester alone. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. The store associates are certainly looking at me like I'm doing something wrong. Feeling embarrassment fill me, I turned to the door. As I am inches from the door, my body halts, turning to the nearby associate at one of the shelves. My scared body croaked out the question that would be echoed by others around campus: where are our textbooks? The answer was heart-shattering. There are no physical textbooks. I have to order them online, pay for shipping and either pick them up at the bookstore or have them shipped to my address. With all my might, I once again force the door open as I leave. I was already beaten down enough, and this door was the nail in the coffin for my emotional state. The suppressing noise of it finally closing confirmed it. The sealed coffin lid blocked out any light and any hope for my life. The coroner's report Colonel Corner, a college bookstore that does not physically sell any textbooks, is a worthless and unpunished murderer of hopes and dreams. As I continue to recover from the traumatic audacity of the bookstore that does not sell textbooks, I have no emotions left but fury and curiosity. I may lack my sense of touch to feel the textbooks, but I do have my eyes and ears. Through word of mouth, I found out that one particular student had been waiting about a month to pick up a textbook that they had shipped to the bookstore-with the store offering no solution to them. Another student had to pay an extraordinary amount for two basic notebooks. You can go to Walmart or the Dollar Tree and get the same type of notebook for no more than $1, but you would have to go out of your way for that, walking down the streets of Wilkes-Barre-in the case of the local Dollar Tree. It's just across the street from where the old bookstore used to be. Isn't this new campus bookstore supposed to be for convenience? Many students don't feel entirely comfortable leaving their home-base that is Wilkes' campus in order to explore the city, and it's as if the university knows that. It is like they are willing to take advantage of students with overinflated prices for basic school supplies. I say taking advantage because at least some items are lacking price tags or labels. You wont know the price of something until it's rung up. I did see one price tag; it was specifically on an avocado squishy plush and read $40. At least it was cute-looking. Maybe I'm becoming too emotional about this subject. Perhaps I should purchase a $40 avocado squishy plush to calm my nerves. Emily.Cherkauskas@wilkes.edu Graphic by Emily Cherkauskas �8 s The Beacon - September 15, 2021 17 Opinion The long-awaited return to in-person classes is finally here By Rudy Urenovlch · Staff Writer I often find myself thinking back to the spring of 2020 when the lockdown kept getting extended, another couple days .. . another week ... another month. I remember posting on Snapchat "See you in a month, Wilkes!" the day we left in March. How naive. When we ended the school year totally virtual, I wondered if we would ever have a "normal" semester again. It's weird that it's almost two years later; it's almost as if time stopped that unseasonably warm March day, when much of the country closed down, and we have been stuck in a time warp ever since. I long for days when I had never heard the word "COVID~ and the daily news was not riddled with data on infections, deaths, and vaccines. Full disclosure, I was not someone who was heartbroken when the campus closed. It definitely felt strange, but to be honest, part of me enjoyed working on my assignments at my own pace, and attending class from the comfort of my room. I am an introvert in every sense. That being said, the next school year, 2020-2021, definitely made me realize the downsides of a predominantly online class schedule. This year, I was particularly happy when all my classes were in-person, and on campus-activities were back up and running. Even though we have already established that I am an antisocial introvert, I was feeling isolated and in desperate need of some human interaction after the past year and a half. We have been back on campus for barely two weeks now, yet I have formed more \ friendships and partaken in more campus activities than I have in my first two years of college. I really do feel like I am finally getting a true college experience, and many people I know feel the same. Now, we are after all at college to get an education, not just for the social scene. With that being said, I definitely do feel my newfound outgoing, extrovert-in-trainingpersona prefers in-person classes. If you know what you are doing in an online class, it's a breeze. You just turn in your assignments, take your tests, reply to your discussion posts, and you will probably end up with a 4.0. However, I can personally attest that an online class in a subject you are totally new to or genuinely struggle with, is about a million times worse online than if it was in-person. There definitely is a sense of being totally helpless, getting across to your professor We\Nantto hear your voice! Let your thoughts be known within the community. Joi~ the Opinion section! CONTACT: Opinion Editor: Breanna.Ebisch@wilkes.edu exactly what you do not understand through means of a zoom call, or a series of emails is next to impossible. In person, you can look at the tangible class material together with your professor, which is always better, in my opinion. Also, in faceto-face classes you have the opportunity to meet with and converse with classmates, and help each other on ~ignments. It is quite hard to make connections with classmates when you are a black screen with a name on Zoom. I know, I know, I have to address the elephant in the room: The pandemic is not over. It is still ongoing, with new, more deadly variants emerging. Even though the university is taking stringent precautions, the more people there are on campus, the easier the virus may spread. I recognize I am extremely fortunate to not have been directly impacted by the virus, and I suppose this fact makes me a little less afraid of it. Don't get me wrong, I always carry a little hand sanitizer with me, and run away as fast as I can from large crowds, but I guess I feel that as long as I, and in a perfect world everyone else, follow all the guidelines, we have a shot at combating this virus. That being said, the fact that many people are vaccinated and masks are still required, and social distancing is still mandated makes me feel better. Overall, I am glad to be back in person on campus, and quite unlike myself, I am optimistic for the rest of the year. Rudy.Urenovich@wilkes.edu Graphic by Jack Malatesta �The Beacon - September 15, 2021 Opinion 18 20 years later: 9/11 's impact on the current generation By Breanna Eblsch Opinion Editor Where were you on Sept. 11, 2001? This is a question inevitably asked every year on the fateful day that has changed our nation forever. Millions of Americans can recall the exact details of what they were doing, where they were and how they found out about the horrible news that was unfolding in New York City, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. Every story is different. But who can only say some variation of "I don't know" or "I wasn't born yet"? Who has learned about 9/11 through secondhand accounts from family members, teachers, educational videos and many other resources. Genz. A vast majority of this generation wasn't even alive when the attacks occurred. To them, the anniversary marks a day in American history that claimed innocent lives and brought the country into international conflict, but they don't have any personal connection like older generations do. They don't have stories to tell or emotions to recall because they were either too young to remember or not born yet. And now, 20 years later, as the nation reflects in solitude on the horrific day that not only changed America but the rest of the world as well, it's become evident that the effects of Sept. 11 have impacted Gen Z in several ways which cannot be ignored anymore. This generation has only known a post9/ 11 world. There was never anything before what we know as our current reality. Terrorism, conflict, death and uncertainty has been at the forefront of everyone's mind over the last two decades because those issues are happening so often it's hard to ignore. And while no one could have predicted the long-term effects of Sept. 11 on the youngest and unborn children at the time, it's clear that this generation is coming to terms with the reality of the world in a variety of unique ways. Whether it be through political or social beliefs, mindset or worldview, Gen Z has been shaped by Sept. 11, 2001. Because of the absolutely terrifying event that happened in Lower Manhattan, but was watched by the world in 2001, the generation that is now old enough to make their own decisions and has grown up in the wake of such a major tragedy are working to make the world and their country a better place. But it isn't easy when opinions being formed belong to the two generations mainly affected by 9/11. According to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, "The Pew Research Center finds that Generation Z-those born after 1996are just as likely as millennials to say that they think other countries in the world are better than the United States. It is too soon to tell where Generation Z, which has little to no memory of Sept. 11 or even the era when the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts dominated the news, will land on foreign policy issues. But early indications somewhere in the globe that claimed lives and the worry about danger on a daily basis practically didn't exist. But everything changed on that fateful day in New York, and now Gen Z are the ones taking on a burden they never expected. Beyond the fact that Sept. 11 changed the course of history, the United States as a whole and the world for good, one of the largest impacts that the youngest generation is experiencing now is the anxiety that is interwoven into their lives. This also isn't a shock because, since 9/11, news coverage has adapted to the current state of the world which means reporting on all the devastating events that have occurred. There has been no escaping the extreme negativity for two decades now. The current generation has in some wa s But everything changed on that fateful day in New York, and now Gen Z are the ones taking on a burden they never expected. suggest they will share at least some of the sensibilities of their elder peers, including their view of America's role in the world:' This should come as no surprise. Gen Z has seen some of the most violent events unfold in their lifetime and seeing how the nation responds has drastically changed the mindset about the United States as a whole. They've grown up seeing America fail time and time again while fearing their safety is in danger on a daily basis. The post-9/11 world is not beautiful. These past 20 years have been some of the most devastating and have brought countless issues to the forefront that were almost never thought about prior to the terrorist attacks. And unfortunately, this is all the individuals who belong to Gen Z have known. Their parents and grandparents had the privilege of living in a world that wasn't constantly at war and took for granted a simplicity that no longer exists. Headlines in the news weren't always reporting on another attack that happened become desensitized to the variations of violence that rule the world, but carry the anxiety of everyday life with them because there is no other option. What else is there to believe when this is all you know? According to Army Emergency Relief, "Over 20,000 American youth were polled by the Varkey Foundation, who were asked what they dreaded most for the future. According to the report, 82 percent of them are more concerned about the emergence of terrorism and extremism than climate change or worldwide pandemics. One of the leading prospects in this anxiety is from Gen Z's engagement with the news:' As we see a significant rise in mental health issues among young people, especially those who belong to Gen Z, it isn't hard to understand why they are feeling this way. This generation has grown up practicing lockdown drills while seeing mass shootings happen almost every other day on the news. They have seen terrorist attacks of varying degrees carried out in their own country and around the world. Nowhere feels completely safe anymore with the possibility of some kind of danger being right around the corner. Even though a majority of Gen Z can't recount the events of 9/11 from their memory, every individual can certainly explain how that one day changed everything to the point where their life as it is today, is different than any other generations before them. The young people are taking on the burden of the long-term impacts the Sept. 11 attacks created without knowing this was going to be their future. As reported by the Observer, "Some researchers believe that even mediabased exposure to collective trauma could likely have a longer-term impact on the attitudes and beliefs of those who grew up in a post-9/11 world. It is possible, for example, that exposure to 9/ l l and other acts of terrorism has led to fears of perceived threats, political intolerance, prejudice and xenophobia in some American children:' We, as a nation, have changed drastically over the course of the last 20 years due to the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. Sept. 11 was catastrophic, claiming thousands of innocent lives and launching America into a state of terror. Even though Gen Z does not remember what happened that day or how terrifying the immediate after effects were, they have had no other choice but to come to terms with how the events of that day changed their lives forever. Now, as the 20th anniversary passes this year, we solemnly remember the lives lost and vow to protect our country so nothing as horrific ever happens on our soil again. But as time continues on and stories are told over and over again to teach the youngest generation about what happened that fateful day, it becomes more obvious that the impacts of the United States' most tragic day are affecting young Americans in ways that cannot be continued to ignore. Where were you on Sept. 11, 2001? It's a question that Gen Z cannot answer. One that they can only supply memories and stories they have heard from others in their life. "How has Sept. 11, 2001, changed your life?" @wilkesbeacon Breanna.Ebisch@wilkes.edu �6 in efit The Beacon - September 15, 2021 19 Sports Sports Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the Sports Editor Ariel.Reed@wilkes.edu r is AFC Conference: A look at the top four teams per division By Stephen Youkoskl Staff Writer ·ties I am wocate The NFL power rankings have been released and the season started on Sept. 9. According to the power rankings, the top teams in each AFC division are the Ravens from the North, the Chiefs from the West, the Titans from the South and the Bills from the East. Starting off in the North, after a loss to the Bills in the divisional round of the playoff season, the AFC North division could have been considered to be up for grabs prior to the start of the season, as both the Browns and the Steelers made the playoffs. The Ravens were in need of wide receivers, which was addressed in the draft as Baltimore picked up Rashod Bateman and Tylan Wallace, as well as signing former Chiefs receiver Sammy Watkins. The Ravens traded offensive lineman Orlando Brown Jr. for a number of draft picks. The running game, however, took a massive hit after being considered in the top 10 last retained most of their starters and are a as well as Janoris Jenkins from the Saints. Wrapping up with the East, the Bills were year with the forfeiting of running back J.K. favorite to make another run at the Super knocked out of the playoffs by the Chiefs in Dobbins to an ACL tear in the preseason. Bowl. In the South division, the Titans, in the AFC Championship game this past year, Play-making quarterback Lamar Jackson, a blockbuster trade with the but were able to celebrate winning their first who has led Baltimore to the playoffs in every year of his career, has, the Falcons, added wide playoff game in over a decade. Their offense receiver Julio Jones to included rising quarterback Josh Allen and opportunity to make a Super their core with AJ top 10 wide receiver Stefon Diggs. Defensive Bowl push. Brown. The Titans backs Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer also Heading to lost top five overall played a major role in the win. West, following a Buffalo retained most of their starting pick wide receiver win against the Corey Davis to the roster and added to their depth on both Bills in the AFC Jets and replaced sides with former top five draft pick Championship, but a loss in the Super him with Josh Mitchell Trubisky at quarterback, defensive end Gregory Rousseau, and offensive tackle Bowl against the ~~Ids. rushing Spencer Brown. After being one game away Bucs, the Chiefs for over 2,000 yards, from the Super Bowl last season, the Bills assessed their offensive line in Jst . . . ,.. ,.· ··· running back Derrick look to finally take home the Lombardi. The upcoming NFL season is bound to hopes to keep their ;.•..:,.ZJr;,~._'>(A;:.;zzk.,>•,,,J.,ic,/;;2:~"'""i!; ;>;, ,. . " Henry looks to repeat this performance. Their defense lost starting be an exciting season with plenty of teams MVP quarterback Patrick Mahomes healthy. Kansas City lost cornerback Malcolm Butler to retirement making off-season trades to structure deep Mitchell Schwartz, leading to the signing of and defensive end Jadaveon Clowney. In playoff runs. offensive lineman Joe Thuney and Orlando the draft, Tennessee picked up cornerback Graphic: Mia.Walker@wilkes.edu Brown Jr., both of which have been a staple Caleb Farley to replace Butler and signed Stephen.Youkoski@wilkes.edu for their respective teams. The Chiefs former Steelers defensive end Bud Bupree, --------------------- ·• p{_', . ;:,;, J NFC Conference: A look at the top four teams per division By Zara Lantzman Staff Writer The NFL Power Rankings have been released, as the league started on Thursday, Sept. 9. According to the Power Rankings, the top teams in the NFC are the Packers from the North, the Rams from the West, the Buccaneers from the South, and the Washington Football Team from the East. Starting in the North, after going 13-3 last season, there was suspicion of quarterback Aaron Rodgers leaving the Packers. However, they now are in a great position to make a Super Bowl run as he has decided to play this season with the number one ranked wide receiver Davante Adams. The Packers forfeited a key player in center Corey Linsley, but they addressed that in the draft by gaining center Josh Meyers. Green Bay will be without their star left tackle for seven weeks, as All-Pro David Bakhtiari, who suffered a left ACL tear on Dec. 31, is ineligible to play until Oct. 24. They have also lost running back Jamaal Williams as he decided to join the Lions, a NFC rival, in the free agency season. The Packers drafted cornerback Eric Stokes in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft and also lost tight end Gerald Everett to their signed linebacker De'vondre Campbell NFC rival, the Seattle Seahawks. The Rams during his free agency. The Packers start will start their season off by playing against their season off by playing against the New the Chicago Bears. In the South division, Orleans Saints. after winning the Heading to the West, following a 2021 Super Bowl, loss in the divisional round of the Buccaneers the playoffs last season, the managed to Rams traded quarterback ··"""'R,"~l<=tt~~m,x,-.,. re-sign all Jared Goff to the Detroit Lions for quarterback · their freeagents. They Matthew Stafford. were then Along with Goff, able to draft Detroit also received defensive end 2022 and 2023 first Joe Tryon in round picks and a the first round 2021 third round of the 2021 draft pick. The Rams and added free lost second-year agent running back running back Cam Giovani Bernard to their Akers to a torn achilles ending his 2021-2022 already crowded running back depth chart. The Buccaneers are now in a season. This led to the Rams trading for former first-round pick position to make another Super Bowl push. Tampa Bay will kick-off the 2021running back Sony Michel from the Patriots. The Rams lost wide receiver Josh Reynolds 2022 season by playing against the Dallas to the Tennessee Titans and replaced him Cowboys. Wrapping up in the East, before going with Desean Jackson and Tutu Atwell. They into the 2021 season, a team with a losing record then became the nameless division title holder. The football team is in a position to win the division again. They lost quarterback Alex Smith to retirement and replaced him with journeyman quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. They lost longtime defensive end Ryan Kerrigan to their NFC rival, the Philadelphia Eagles, and replaced him with linebacker Jamin Davis. Washington also added wide receiver Dyami Brown by drafting him in the third round of the 2021 draft. Second-year running back Antonio Gibson is expected to have a more important role in the offense while second-year defensive end Chase Young is looking to build upon his past season. The Washington Football Team will play against the Los Angeles Chargers in week one. The upcoming NFL season is bound to be interesting due to teams making off-season trades to structure runs for the Lombardi Trophy. Graphic: Mia.Wa/ker@wilkes.edu Zara.Lantzman@wilkes.edu r �Sports The Beacon - September 15, 2021 20 FH: Overtime push not enough to award first win of the season By Baylee Guedes Asst. Sports Editor EDWARDSVILLE, Pa. - The field hockey team faced the Alvernia Golden Huskies at Schmidt Stadium this past Saturday. Alvernia took the Blue and Gold to the goal cage, winning the match 3-2 in overtime. "The team was largely unknown going into this season as there has been two new coaches since their last competition in 2019;' said head coach Charlotte MacDonald. "The group works very hard and is anchored by very strong leadership from our upperclassmen. "We have a lot of potential and are using our early games to test that and work out the kinks. There has already been so much growth from this group so I am excited to keep working with them making adjustments in games and practices to continue their development:' In the first period, Alvernia put up five shot attempts, two of which were saved by sophomore goalkeeper Carly Eidle. Wilkes was not able to get any shot attempts against the Golden Huskies in the first period. Six minutes into the second period, junior midfielder Abigail Davis was able to put up the first goal of the game and of the season for Wilkes assisted by senior Ali Dunn. "You can not beat that feeling:' said Dunn in regards to being the team that scores the first goal. "Especially when you · · The Beacon/Ariel Reed Senior Morghan Murphy manipulates the ball through a sea of defenders to get an open look at the goal In the first half of the contest. have been working towards that goal. It is also great to see the excitement on all your teammates' faces:' The Colonels put up three other shot attempts in this period, however, they were unsuccessful. With three minutes left in the second period, Alvernias Makenzie Smeigh took on Eidle in the goal cage, scoring for the Golden Huskies and tying the game at 1-1. Senior center-forward and co-captain Morghan Murphy battled back and was able to attack Huskies' goalkeeper Hannah Wolfe. ''As a center-forward, I knew once we were tied 1-1, and I needed to get one in the back of the net," Murphy said. Murphy's first attempt at goal was unsuccessful; with five minutes remaining in the third period, Murphy got off another shot for Wilkes, thanks to an assist from Davis, putting them ahead of Alvernia 2-1. A few seconds remained in the third and Alvernias Madison Potthoff decided they were not done with the Colonels yet and tied things up again, 2-2 right at the buzzer. Alvernias defense did not allow shot attempts for the Colonels in the fourth period. Wilkes' Eidle had a save and there was a missed shot attempt for Alvernia. Both teams came up scoreless, sending the game into overtime. One minute into overtime, the Golden Huskies' Brooke Spezialetti put up a shot off of a corner and dribble that put the final score at 3-2. "Our main goal of the game was to score goals and we successfully added two goals to the scoreboard:' said Murphy. ''Along with scoring, our on-the-field communication provided informative constructive criticism, along with an equal balance of positivity:' Moving forward, the field hockey team looks to capitalize on their current losses as a learning tool for future matches The Colonels will be on the road for a match against Albright College tonight at 7 pm. Conference play begins on Sept. 25 against Arcadia University. @wifkesbeacon Baylee.Guedes@wilkes.edu �L 4 The Beacon - September 15, 2021 21 Sports MSOC: Overtime goal from Rangers breaks Colonel win streak By Arlel Reed Sports Editor e for EDWARDSVILLE, Pa. - On Patriot Day, the men's soccer team hosted Drew University in a non-conference match where Drew prevailed in overtime to defeat the Colonels 1-0. "We just came off a really good game against Juniata;' said head coach Michael Piranian. "We were knocking the ball around well and I was hoping we would have a similar level of play; our style just didn't seem to show out. We are searching for different guys and different ways to win the game:' Wilkes started the game off strong, popping off several shots on goal and controlling the pace of the first half. Four shot attempts and two corner kicks later, Drew started to get into the game and cannon off shots. The Rangers had yet to see a victory this season and were eager to get their first win. They stepped up their intensity after the Colonels attempted a bombardment of shots on goal and two corner kicks. As Drew increased their physicality, Wilkes also stepped up their game. "They brought it to us, that was probably our most physical game of the season;' said senior goalkeeper Zachary Tone. Both teams battled back and forth throughout the entire 90 minute contest. First-year forward Herbert Ramirez had the opportunity to put Wilkes up by one The Beacon/ Ariel Reed Senior goalkeeper, Zachary Tone quickly rolled the ball out to his teammate to try and get the offense going. around the 80th minute mark, but as fate would have it, Ramirez just barely missed the goal and the Colonels went into overtime. 'Tm a lefty, and I hit it on my right foot;' said Ramirez. "I think it just slightly went wide. The whole game I was using my left foot, so they knew I would cut to my left. I decided to cut right instead to get more open and it was just unlucky:' With the minutes dwindling down on the clock, the Colonels were scrambling to rattle off a goal. First-year midfielder Park Scott was able to rattle off two shots within the final two minutes of the game. As luck would have it, his shots were ohso-close to hitting the back of the net. Within the final 10 seconds of regulation, a last second heave off the boot of junior defender Vincent Ippolito looked clean to break the plane and crown Wilkes victorious, but a heroic save by Drew's Alex Idrovo would give the Rangers a little more time to duke it out with the Colonels. Heading into overtime, Wilkes was locked-in looking to maintain their unblemished record. The Colonels took to the ball right off the bat as they maintained control of the ball for the vast majority of the 10 minute overtime frame. Within the final minute of overtime, Christian Tyson, a sophomore midfielder from Drew, broke past the wall of Colonel defenders and cranked the ball barely past the fingertips of Tone. "In the end, it just seemed like they wanted it more;' said Tone. "We came short at the end, but I thought we battled well and matched their physicality:' The Colonels look to bounce back from this loss as they return to the field tonight at Susquehanna University at 7 p.m. @wilkesbeacon Ariel.Reed@wilkes.edu innard on r �.:l The Beacon - September 15, 2021 Editors ncte: ea,h wtek. Sports Othet ~ - hAiie• ... ol tfle field? ' ' .· Outside of ~$lit l am into working ..._~---- "'"'-----"-~'a,o. •· outand:doingftaircuts~ i 22 �2 23 du was dent ed a door ollegiate ifi411U ", The act ·.' nds seat, sand .s. Position: Goalkeeper Dri$J force for your decision to come to Wilkes? 1 chose Wilkes because it gave me a great opportunity to continue my soccer career while receiving a great education from an accredited nursing program. Favorite bud&g on campust UCOM because What color/flavor of Gatorade your favorite? Blue or red. If you could have dinner with a P9st~graduation plans in term& of 7 aQ.reerf Aftft' padu.ation, I plan t o ~ registered nurse and hopefully attend graduate school. famous person from the . past, who would it be? Princess Diana. Most influential person ill your life? My parents. 4 9 er Favorite Memory as a Colonel? My favorite memory is playing in my first college game. Hopes for this seuon as a Colonel? I know for many of us on the team, our goal for this season is to make playoffs and to have a winning home record. When/Why did you ftnt begin playing? I began playing in first grade because my cousin played, and I wanted to be just like her. A quote you live your life by? Begin each day with a grateful heart. What does "Be Colonel" mean to yoaf «Be Colonel" means to always do the right thing for the right reason on and off of the field. -. r Anyone to g,tve a shout◄ut to,t My t<ffltmbates. Thank you for all that you do fot me. -Compiled by Julia Mazur, Staff Writer .;•>t~ Favorite thing to 4.o during practicef Just being around my friends and having fun. dar? Editor~s note: Athlete o t e Wee selections ar taff each week. At the en4 {)fthe academic year n Twitter @Wtlk Beacon tq (:'.Town an "Athlet orts ll �The Beacon - September 15, 2021 Sports 24 WSOC & WVB: Colonels travel to N.J. for weekend matchups By Jason Eberhart Sports Staff Writer A pair of Colonel teams traveled to New Jersey on Saturday to play in nonconference matchups. The women's soccer team played at Rutgers-Newark while the women's volleyball team played Drew University and Mount Saint Vincent in a tri-match. Rutgers-Newark got off to an early lead in the game, scoring their first goal just 10 minutes in. The Colonels defense was stout for the rest of the game, rarely allowing the opposition onto their side of the field. For the next 80 minutes, Wilkes looked for an equalizer but was unable to find one on the stifling Scarlet Raiders defense. With three minutes remaining in the game, the Colonels were on the attack and had two shots on goal. Despite powerful attempts on the shots, both potential goals were saved by the Rutgers-Newark goalkeeper. "Give credit to their goalkeeper;' said head coach John McNichol. "She made three unbelievable saves that kept us off the board. The women's soccer team eventually fell to Rutgers-Newark 1-0. "I am extremely proud of all of us because when they scored, not one single person put their head down and gave up;' said senior forward Tatiana Mancera The Colonels had their fair share of opportunities in the afternoon, as they led the game in shots 16-5. They were just unable to get one of their shots to fall in the back of the net. "I think in practice we can continue to work on staying connected both on the attack and when defending," said senior midfielder Emily Bidelspach. "We can also continue to work on finishing off restarts and the corner opportunities we get:' The Colonels have reached a three game losing streak, but a rotation of their veteran players have seen this situation before. "We need to continue to trust in the plan and keep working. We have a good team; we just have not been on the right end of the score this week:' said McNichol. "Games like this will help us as we progress through our season:' A half an hour down the road in the Garden State, the women's volleyball team found some success as they split a pair of matches against Mount Saint Vincent and Drew University. _ In their first game of the day, Wilkes found themselves trailing 1-0 to the Dolphins of MSV. The Beacon/Ariel Reed First-year Alexis Reedy serving the ball against Marywood University in an attempt to keep the Colonel momentum going. The Beacon/Steve Finkernagel Senior forward Emlly Bldelspach holds strong against a King's defender. This was now the Colonels' fourth straight set loss against the team as they had been swept just a week prior in a match in Wilkes-Barre. "Our success this week is attributed to executing our game plan and having faced them recently;' said head coach Joseph Czopek. "Although we started out slow off the bus, once warmed up it was a solid team effort:' First-year members Alexis Reedy and Alexa Cassel found their groove in their last three sets. The two rookies have shown their versatility for the Colonels. Reedy led the match in kills with 14, while Cassel had a team high 20 assists and 16 digs. "Since day one the team has been so encouraging and welcoming, which has helped boost my confidence while playing;' said Cassel. "It's really just important to trust yourself and your team in the end:' With strong play from the whole team, the Colonels were able to win the last three sets 25-21, 27-25, 25-23 to earn the victory in the match. The team was unable to find the same success against Drew University as they lost in three straight sets to earn the loss. Having to play back-to-back matches, Drew took advantage of a worn down Colonels team. Sophomore libero Ali Yordy had a notable performance in the tri-match as she recorded 10 digs in both games. 'Tm definitely trying to take on more of a leadership role on and off the court, and also keeping a good relationship with all the girls on the team;' said Yordy. "Whenever we get down, I want to be the person to keep everyone going with high energy." Although losing to Drew, the Colonels were very pleased to be coming home with a win after playing two very good programs. "The strength of our early season schedule is it has the young team gaining valuable experience;' said Czopek. "Facing strong competition allows them to see what they are capable of achieving by working hard in practice to prepare. Their positive attitude and willingness to play for each other will pay huge dividends as our season goes on:' Both teams play a pair of games this week as women's soccer plays a pair of games at Bruggeworth Field tonight and Saturday against Susquehanna and Messiah, respectively. Women's volleyball returns to the Marts Center on Thursday to take on Cairn University. @wilkesbeacon Jason.Eberhart@wilkes.edu � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. 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Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2021 September 15 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021 September 15 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/4314eb867da0aeb47a56a82a405b717c.pdf bb3222d1be5e63c7ed532fce361ef313 PDF Text Text Search... About Wilkes Home n Graduate Academics Academics n Graduate Admission & Aid Graduate Programs n Graduate Life Master's Degree Programs n The Arts Creative Writing MA/MFA n About Our Students n Revise This! Feb. 2021 Stand and Applaud A BIG round of applause is due for the Etruscan Press team and their second nomination for the AWP Small Press Publisher Award. Etruscan About Our Students Get Social with is one of four finalists for the 2021 award (the other finalists are Dzanc, Creative Writing Noemi, and Milkweed). Etruscan was nominated for consistently Revise This! demonstrating excellence in production and design, providing a steadfast commitment to nurturing authors, and actively engaging in the Revise This! community. Let’s wish them well as the judges finalize their decision this Archives month. Congratulations to the entire Etruscan Press team—your smart decisions and hard work are acknowledged. Bravo! Speaking of smart decisions, Spoken Word rocked the January 2021 residency and has landed at the Wilkes CW program going forward. In this edition of Revise This! Phil Brady provides the inside story and more about the new track. We also meet and welcome six new faculty members in “New Faces, New Faculty.” With newness in the air, meet Patricia Naumann, our new CW support person. Then escape into the gaming world and discover how one of our alum has blended her passions into a fascinating writing career—Linda Nguyen talks about River & South Review Testimonials Apply Online Request More Information g �scripting for gaming. Finally, be inspired by faculty, alumni, and students who are writing, publishing, and finding success in the world— and sharing their good news. But first, toggle onward for program updates!  Program Updates • Kevin Oderman and Ken Vose Retire Two brilliant writers and mentors have retired from our faculty, although Kevin will continue to take on the occasional student in our Master Class program. Join us in wishing them long and productive writing days ahead. • New Calendar Creative Writing will still have half-year terms (so students’ Financial Aid will not be affected), but we will now follow the Wilkes University academic calendar for our course calendars. In the fall, we will officially begin our course work in late August and finish in mid-December, and in the spring, we will begin midJanuary and end in early May. To make up for the loss of two weeks (from our normal 17-week schedule), students may be asked to begin their work before the actual start date, and thesis students will still have extra time to complete their work after the term is over; but from now on, all students will be submitting their final work before residencies instead of during or after. In June, we'll announce the term and residency dates for the next few years, and we'll adjust our calendars on the website, on LIVE, and with the University Registrar. • New Term Dates for the coming Academic Year Fall 2021: June 22 - Dec. 13, 2021 Spring 2022: Jan. 18 - May 4, 2022 The residencies remain scheduled for June 18-26, 2021 and Jan 7-15, 2022. • Will our June residency be in-person or online? We are working on hosting a masked, socially-distanced, inperson residency for June, but it’s difficult to predict human behavior and state guidelines, so this question will be answered in the next Revise This! • Master Classes Launched Officially the master classes (a post-graduate revision semester available to alumni of any Creative Writing MA or MFA program) will begin in the fall, but we already have three students enrolled in the current term: Sara Pisak (working with Kevin Oderman), Joseph Bryan (working with Jean Klein), and a non-Wilkes alum working with Lenore Hart. Be sure to share the link wilkes.edu/masterclass and spread the word! �• Superstar Alumni As we did in January, we will continue to feature our successful alumni at all future residencies--one panel to discuss their careers, another to feature their publications or productions. If you would like to nominate yourself or your favorite alumni for one of these panels, please send David or Patti (at cwriting@wilkes.edu) their names and current contact info (if you have it), and we'll keep a running list of invitees for each group.    • Scholarship Winners The following students were awarded scholarships at our winter residency. Congratulations to our winners! The Beverly Hiscox Scholarship  $3,000 - Joshua Holycross The Bergman Family Foundation Award $5,000 - Cody Marsh and Jutonya Myers ($2,500 each) The Faculty and Alumni Scholarship $1,500 - Amanda Gipson • From MA to MFA? Current students about to complete their MA thesis semester and who are interested in continuing to the MFA should attend a Q&A with the Director in April (date/time TBA), then submit a “Letter of Intent” to the Director by June 1. Spoken Word, An Oral Tradition Finds a New Home at Wilkes  Our recent creative writing zoom-residency at Wilkes came with change —a new director, a refined zoom schedule, new faculty members, and a pleasant surprise. A new track, Spoken Word, made its debut with a standing ovation. Bravo! But what to make of this curious form that’s poetic, dramatic, spellbinding, and refreshing all at once. Curiosity has been piqued, especially among the non-poetic members of our tribe. Phil Brady, esteemed colleague, profound mentor, Professor of English, co-founder of Etruscan Press, lover of words—guide us in our quest for knowledge of the Spoken Word.  Q: What is the history of Spoken Word? Phil: The oral tradition is the prime source of poetry. Spoken Word poetry has a long and deep history preceding literary poetry. Today, we are experiencing a rejuvenation of a genre as old as human culture. As far as we know, there has never been a culture without Spoken Word poetry. Q: What is the diference between poetry and Spoken Word? Phil: What’s the difference between literary poetry and Spoken Word �poetry, you mean. This is a huge area of interest and discovery. Etruscan will be producing a book, Sign & Breath in 2023 which will feature poets of all stripes addressing that question.  Q: What sent Wilkes down the path of adding Spoken Word to the curriculum? Phil: We’ve had quite a number of students with Spoken Word chops who came here to do work in other genres. You heard some of them at the residency reading. Here’s what alum Jeremiah Blue has to say. “I think there is precedent within our program for running different tracks of similar writing genres, i.e. our documentary film, screenwriting, and playwriting tracks. [We] also have a precedent for unique, forwardthinking offerings, i.e. publishing. “I think spoken word is re-establishing its place in the literary world.  We all know the oral tradition has been around since the beginning, and what we are experiencing now is a reiteration of that long-standing tradition.”  Q: How do you see Spoken Word being integrated into the program? Will SW be a part of poetry or a completely diferent track at Wilkes?  Phil: For the present, I would see Spoken Word as starting with 512 and 514. Students would take Poetry Foundations and then choose a Spoken Word mentor. Q: What would a grad student at Wilkes expect to get from taking Spoken Word as a as their MA project? This is unchartered territory for Wilkes, right? Can you elaborate on this? Phil: This is uncharted territory for any MFA program. One of Wilkes’s signatures is inclusivity and genre-expanding. Students who chose the Spoken Word track could expect deep immersion in the SW world guided by working Spoken Word poets; they could expect a historical perspective that threads from Slam to Homer; they could expect an active platform to perfect their art; they could expect full validation of their art in the academic environment.  Q: What types of examples/success stories are there in the world within the Spoken Word genre? Of late, there’s been a plethora of Spoken Word on display within mainstream America, such as SW poet Brandon Leake winning America’s Got Talent, and twenty- �two-year-old Amanda Gorman, who so eloquently shared her words during the inauguration and the Super Bowl. Phil: Wilkes has a lot of success stories from Spoken Word poets. Jason Carney, a Wilkes alum and poet, writer, and educator from Dallas, is a four-time National Poetry Slam finalist and was honored as a Legend of the Slam in 2007. He appeared on three seasons of the HBO television series Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. Carney has performed and lectured at many colleges and universities as well as high schools and juvenile detention centers from California to Maine. Starve the Vulture: One Man’s Mythology is his memoir. Laura E. J. Moran, is a poet, performer, playwright, and educator. She received her MFA in Poetry at Wilkes University in 2012. She has presented her work all over the United States and in Romania, Ireland, Italy, Canada, and Mexico. In 2019, she was selected as one of 20 international arts educators to attend the Lincoln Center Arts Education Leadership Lab in NYC. She is happy to return to Western Sullivan Public Library, her home library Callicoon, NY, as its new Branch Manager.  Jeremiah Blue, also a Wilkes alum, won the 2016 Southwest Regional Championship and the 2015 Arizona Slam Poetry Championship. Blue has been the Phoenix Poetry Slam Champion three times, representing the city at two National Poetry Slams and the Individual World Poetry Slam. His non-fiction won the 2016 Etruscan Prize, and his poems have been published by TEDx and Button Poetry, amongst others. Our of our new faculty members is Remica Bingham-Risher, a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Among other journals, her work has been published in The New York Times, The Writer’s Chronicle, Callaloo and Essence. She is the author of Conversion (Lotus, 2006) winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013) shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017) winner of the Diode Editions Book Award and a finalist for the Library of Virginia Book Award. She resides in Norfolk, VA with her husband and children. Additionally, Etruscan is publishing a book by Spoken Word poet Angelique Palmer. The book was chosen and curated by Wilkes Faculty member Dr. Laurie Carter. You heard Angelique perform at the residency. We hope that she will contribute much more to the Wilkes community and the Spoken Word track.  Q: What else would you like to share about the newest addition of Spoken Word as a �track at Wilkes? Phil: I see this a natural extension of Wilkes’ mission to nurture a dialogue among genres and cultures. The Wilkes CW Program has a history of inclusivity and experimentation. We have a rich film program; we feature drama and publishing; and our approaches to fiction embrace YA, Romance, Horror, and Fantasy, as well as Literary Fiction and NonFiction. Breadth of scope, generosity of spirit, and cross-fertilization of the academic and commercial worlds are hallmarks of the program’s success.  New Faces, New Faculty! With open arms, we welcome Remica Bingham-Risher, Lisa Jones, Robin McCrary, Nicole Pandolfo, Dania Ramos and Nisha Sharma. Read on to learn more about our recent additions to the Wilkes CW team. Remica Bingham-Risher Poetry, Spoken Word—Remica BinghamRisher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Among other journals, her work has been published in The New York Times, The Writer’s Chronicle, Callaloo and Essence.  Remica is the author of Conversion (Lotus, 2006), winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013) shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Starlight & Error (Diode, 2017) winner of the Diode Editions Book Award and a finalist for the Library of Virginia Book Award. She is currently the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University and resides in Norfolk, VA with her husband and children. Remica's Website Lisa Jones Screenwriting, Nonfiction—Lisa Jones has adapted works of fiction for the screen, including Disappearing Acts (HBO) and The Wedding (ABC), written original film projects, and done feature-film rewrites for Dreamworks, Focus Features, Fox, and Universal, among other studios and production companies. She was a staff writer for the landmark children’s �television shows Little Bill and Gullah Gullah Island (Nick Jr). A lifetime member of the Writer’s Guild of America, East, Jones has served as a screenwriting mentor at the Writer’s Lab.  Jones is also the author of the seminal essay collection Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair (Doubleday).  Her work as an essayist has appeared in many anthologies, including Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women (Norton). An award-winning journalist, Jones was a columnist and staff writer at the Village Voice. Jones began her writing career as a playwright.  Her one-act Combination Skin, collected in Contemporary Plays by Women of Color (Routledge), was a runner-up for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and has been staged around the country.  Jones co-founded the Rodeo Caldonia High-Fidelity Performance Theater with composer Alva Rogers, and their theater collaboration, Stained, won a Bessie Award.  Her early work as a playwright was featured in the landmark museum show We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-1985, which opened at the Brooklyn Museum and Boston ICA in 2017.  Jones’s influence as an artist central to the “New Black Aesthetic” of the 1990s was also profiled in Nelson George’s HBO documentary Brooklyn Boheme (2011).   An experienced literary collaborator, Jones has co-written three books with Spike Lee on the making of his films  She received a B.A. from Yale and a M.F.A in filmmaking from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Lisa's Wikipedia page Robin McCrary Nonfiction–Robin McCrary, author of Island in the City (University of Nebraska Press), a memoir-in-essays. As Micah McCrary, his work also appears in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction �Studies, Essay Daily, and The Essay Review, among other publications.  A contributing editor at Assay, Dr. McCrary lives in New York, where he researches Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Internationalization in creative writing pedagogies and teaches at Syracuse University. Robin's Website Nicole Pandolfo Playwriting—Nicole Pandolfo was most recently selected for a commission with the Writers Theatre of NJ. Her NJPAC Stage Exchange commission play, Brick City, opened in September 2018 at Premiere Stages at Kean University.  Nicole was a 2017 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow and her work has been developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center as a Playwright Observer, at Tofte Lake as a Jerome Foundation Fellow, and at The Actors Studio, NJ Rep, and the Lark among others. She was a finalist for the Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers. She is a member of The Actors Studio in the Playwright/Director Unit and received her MFA at Hunter College. Nicole's Website Dania Ramos Audio Drama, Playwriting—Dania Ramos is the creator and head writer of the audio drama series Timestorm (Cocotazo Media/TRAX), named one of the “Top Trendsetting Podcasts from 2020” by School Library Journal and selected as a 2020 Webby Awards Family and Kids Podcast honoree. Her stage plays have been produced or developed �by Luna Stage, Writers Theatre of New Jersey, Speranza Theatre Company, Dreamcatcher Rep, Repertorio Español/Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition, and Teatro Vivo/Austin Latino New Play Festival. She’s the author of the middle-grade novels Who’s Ju? (Overdue Books, 2015; International Latino Book Award - 2015 Best YA eBook) and Ignacio in the Dark (Overdue Books, 2019). She’s a former New Jersey State Council on the Arts playwriting fellowship recipient. She’s a graduate of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University.  Dania’s a member and New Jersey regional ambassador of the Dramatists Guild of America.  Dania's Website Nisha Sharma Fiction—Nisha Sharma is the author of the critically acclaimed YA novel My So-Called Bollywood Life. She also writes adult contemporary romances including The Singh Family Trilogy and If Shakespeare was an Aunty Trilogy (launching November 2021). Her writing has been praised by NPR, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Teen Vogue, Buzzfeed, Hypable and more.  Nisha credits her father for her multiple graduate degrees, and her mother for her love of Shah Rukh Khan and Jane Austen. She lives in New Jersey with her Alaskan husband, her cat Lizzie Bennett and her dog Nancey Drew. You can find her online at Nishasharma.com or on Twitter and Instagram @nishawrites. Behind the Scenes During residency many of you may have noticed encouraging emails from our organizer, assistant extraordinaire and new addition to the staff of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. What you may not know is that Patricia (Patti) Naumann is not new to Wilkes, nor to the CW program, nor to the area. Patricia has lived in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area most of her life. She is a three-time graduate �of Wilkes, including a Master of Arts in Creative Writing. Patricia has been an employee of Wilkes since 2013 in various roles, ranging from graduate assistant, admin to the provost, and now, administrative assistant in Creative Writing. “I like to say that I am a floater in the soda of life,” Patti says. “In my capacity of admin, I hope to help make your experience at Wilkes a memorable one.” As our director, David Hicks, puts it, “Patti has already proven to be a superb administrator in every way: efficient, intelligent and generous with her time. She is more friend than colleague - in fact, we’re starting to finish each other’s sentences. I appreciate her help, kindness, patience, and sense of humor more than she knows.”  Welcome to your new role at Wilkes, Patti! And thank you for your continued encouragement. Gaming & Scripting Combined, A Powerful Future If you attended the alumni session during our January 2021 residency, you were introduced to Wilkes Creative Writing alum Linda Nguyen. Her career sharing about gaming and scripting sparked many sidebar conversations about an industry that hasn’t even landed on the radar for most of the student body in the Wilkes CW program.  Attracted to Linda’s enthusiasm and what felt like an odd pairing of industries, I had to know more. Join me in my quest for knowledge as Linda and I discuss her experience. Roni: Your website suggests your links to game writing date back to 2011. Tell us about that ah-ha moment when you decided to make that your career? Linda: Yeah, I took a summer job as a video game tester back then. I won’t go into too much detail about game testing, but when I spotted a text issue or narrative inconsistency in games, I’d enter a bug report—a quality control entry—in this project-wide database. This bug would later get fixed by a Game Writer.  I wondered if I could write for games too, but I didn’t put much thought into it yet. I didn’t know if I had what it takes.  Then in January 2012, I joined the Wilkes Creative Writing Program. At that point, I was still aiming to write a novel or a screenplay. Fast forward to present day and I’m that game writer who fixes text bugs while juggling other tasks, like writing voice-overs. Thinking back, I decided to commit to a path in the games industry after I �graduated in 2014, not before. Luckily, it led me to game writing and it worked out for me. Roni:  What were some of your initial learnings as you began game writing? Linda: I learned to write for different voices, different characters, different styles… and I learned to write for different in-game purposes. For example, in an open-world shooter, a taunt from the enemy needs to be concise, even forgettable, while sending the right gameplay feedback to the player. Compared to a cinematic, that should be memorable. I learned to be a versatile writer. Oh… and I quickly learned to not wait for inspiration to hit me. I can’t afford to wait; I’m on a deadline and other gamedevs are waiting after me to work on their bit. At the same time, I produce some of my best work this way, and I still have a team that supports me. I enjoy the collaboration, and brainstorms are way more fun in a team setting anyway.  I also learned about production pipelines and the many different roles in game development to ship a title.  Roni: And one such role is that of the game tester, as you mentioned earlier. Can you elaborate on how you broke into scriptwriting? Linda: Right, so I got my foot in the door as a game tester. On the side, I worked on my game-writing portfolio. I joined the Pixelles Game Writing Group in Montreal. Roughly every other Sunday, I met up with this fantastic group of creative women and non-binary individuals, and we helped each other to craft writing samples.  Meanwhile at work, I became the legal coordinator for the narrative team on Watch Dogs 2 at Ubisoft. At some point, the studio was looking for a scriptwriter to join the ranks on Far Cry 5. I did the writing test, the lead writer and a manager asked to meet me, and I got my start as a Scriptwriter. Roni: Tell us about your gaming experience. How has that helped you in your career? Linda: I’d say my gaming experience is pretty varied, similar to how eclectic my reading preferences are. And yet, there’s nothing like a good role-playing game to remind me what interactive storytelling should be, or should strive to be. Games like Mass Effect and Deus Ex: Human Revolution, they've stayed with me because of the stories they allowed me to experience and the dialogue choices they offered. I get to choose �who I romance in this game? That’s amazing! Or… I get to choose body augments that best fit my playstyle? Sweet...   All these games provide an escape for many people, and words need to do so many things to help with that. The storytelling needs to mesh with the gameplay, the writing needs to support the creative direction, the scripts need to help actors breathe life into the characters… In short, I play video games for research and I’ve been using that excuse for years. Dabbling in different game genres is helpful too because each genre presents unique challenges for writers. If it’s important to read widely, then it’s also valuable to play different kinds of games in my profession, but this means I have a backlog of books AND games… Roni: What other aspirations do you have for your writing? Linda: Hmm… I feel I’m in a good spot to drive change in the games industry, even if it’s in small ways. Little by little, it adds up, and I hope my writing will have an even bigger impact. When I was a kid, I convinced my dad that the Game Boy wasn’t just for boys. I don’t blame my dad though, and I’m not here to judge Nintendo’s marketing… Now as an adult, I’m somehow still trying to convince a part of the world that video games and the games industry are for everyone, but at least I know I’m not alone to do so.  Not long ago, I worked on Rainbow Six Siege. Last I checked, this FPS (first-person shooter) has reached over 70 million players. That’s astounding… I may have only written three characters in the game, but that’s a lot of people who have seen or heard my writing. If I can promote diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility at the same time, that’s even better.  Roni: Having graduated in 2014 and building your dream career, what piece of advice or encouragement can you offer cohorts who are now rolling through the program, and other graduates who may be searching for their writing chops? Linda: It’s cliché, but it’s really about the journey, not the destination. As writers, we’re crazy enough to practice “a craft where no one ever becomes a master,” and yet, writing is our calling.   Back in 2011 when I was starting out as a game tester, I didn’t know if I �had what it takes to be a writer. It turns out I always did; I just needed some guidance and I found that with the community in the creative writing program. I found that with my cohort and I definitely found that with my mentors, even though my path ended up being different than I imagined at the time. Trust the path you’re on. Create your own path if you have to, and if it leads you astray, that’s no different to writing another draft. You’ll still get there. Roni: Is there anything else you’d like to share with our writing tribe? Linda: Let your words flow (and edit later). Best of luck with your journey! Faculty News • J. Michael Lennon. To commemorate Norman Mailer’s 100th birthday in January 2023, the Library of America will publish a 75th anniversary edition of his 1948 novel of jungle combat, The Naked and the Dead. This will be the third volume in the LOA’s Mailer series. J. Michael Lennon will edit the novel, which is set on the fictional South Pacific island of Anopopei during WWII. The new edition will add several supplementary items to the text, including approximately 20 unpublished letters written by Mailer to his wife Beatrice during his service as an Army rifleman in the Philippines, 1943-45. • David Poyer's new novel is just out from Macmillan/St Martin's Press. Violent Peace recounts the scorched-Earth aftermath of a disastrous nuclear war between the US and China.  Postapocalyptic, anyone? In Poyer’s outstanding 20th military action thriller featuring U.S. Navy officer Dan Lenson, the fifth focused on a near-future war in the Pacific, Lenson is back in the U.S. trying to find his daughter, Nan, who was working in Seattle on a cure for a virus known as the Chinese flu. The city was mostly obliterated by a megaton-range airburst, but he soon picks up a promising trail. VIOLENT PEACE, a link to another David Poyer masterpiece. • Jean Klein served on the advisory committee for the Eugene O'Neill Travis Bogard Fellowship at Tao house to select upcoming awards. "Inside & Out" was produced by North Carolina Central University. "Snapshots," a play in one act is scheduled for production in April 2021 in a one-act festival at Concordia University in Nebraska. • PHilip Brady's newest publication, The Elsewhere: Poems & Poetics, gathers the before and beyond to the here and now in a re-scored symphony woven in rearrangement of three of his collections of lyric and narrative poems, his book-length verse memoir, a poetic prose memoir, and two essay collections on poetics, all revivified in harmony of new poems crescendo-ing upon eye and heart and breath in the world. Phil Brady's latest work. �Alumni News • Beginning in February 2021, Danielle Sewell (Poupore) will be serving on the faculty of the Digital Community Builders Cohort, a three-month mastermind-style course for communicators in higher education, led by Dr. Josie Ahlquist. Curriculum will focus on the use of digital media to support campus storytelling and online communities. • In her role as an adjunct instructor in the English Department at the University of North Florida, Lauren Carey received the Outstanding Adjunct Teaching Award for the 2019-2020 academic year. Lauren teaches Technical Writing and is working on designing a Creative Writing course on the art of parody, pastiche, and satire. • Austin Grant Bennett is a 2020-2021 Montana University System Teaching Fellow where he teaches writing at Montana State University Billings. Recent publications include reviews on books by Canadian poet Catherine Hunter for the Billings Gazette, philosophermusician David Rothenberg for Poetics for the More-than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary, and poet Dana Gioia and novelist Ron Hansen for Christianity and Literature (forthcoming). This spring he's presenting two workshops at the 2021 Northern Colorado Writers Virtual Conference April 27-May 2. • In 2020, Margaret McCaffery’s writing group in Australia, Elwood Writers, released its anthology, Every Second Tuesday. A number of Margaret’s pieces seen within the anthology first begun during her MA at Wilkes. Margaret says, “Thank you to all teachers.” Every Second Tuesday is available at all online retailers. We recommend Book Depository for free shipping. • Douglas James Troxell's new novel, Cheshire Moon, released in December, is a dark comedy that follows the exploits of Doctor Ian Klein, who suffers from Humor Suppression Syndrome, and his quest to regain his sense of humor in a post-pandemic world full of tragedy, betrayal, and people who don't respect the 15-items-or-less rule at the grocery store. • Paul Christoph signed a contract with Death Head’s press to publish his western horror novella Even the Sun Sets on the Soulless in 2021. His press CLASH Books will be covered by Poets & Writers in their Small Press Points section. A book CLASH published, Born to be Public by Greg Mania, made NPR's top books of 2020, and Life of the Party by Tea Hacic-Vlahovic is being produced by an Italian TV production company.   • Monique Lewis’ short essay, Living Under Confinement, was published in the anthology, Art in the Time of COVID-19 (San Fedele Press, 2020). Monique’s literary reading series and book review organization, “At The Inkwell,” is hosting readings virtually and continues to review authors' new book releases. • Kimberly Kenna’s middle grade novel, Artemis Sharpe and the Sound Seekers Brigade, will be published by Regal House/Fitzroy Books in 2023. It's the first of three MG books featuring brave girl �protagonists whose close relationships with the natural world help them reclaim their authentic voices. Danah Lassiter recently had applied for a job in a writer's room at a company she has admired for some time. After going through the entire interview process, she’s happy to share she accepted a job as a writers’ assistant at WWE.  Lori May has a new hybrid lyric essay, “Waterborne,” in (Re) An Ideas Journal. She recently participated in a live online reading with (Re), featuring past and present contributors. Lori also has an article on writing the synopsis in The Write Life magazine. Waterbourne How to Write a Synopsis Gerald Gurka’s Lyrics for a New Christmas Carol article was published in the Dec. 19, 2020 West Side News Column of the "Citizen's Voice" Wilkes Barre newspaper. Student News Michael Hardin’s poems Northern Goshawk and Eastern Screech Owl appeared in the latest edition of Pangyrus. American Kestrel appeared in the Timberline Review. The first chapter of his memoir Born Again appeared in Ocotillo Review. Michael’s poetry manuscript Born Again was a semifinalist in the Ohio State University's Book Prize. 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Title A name given to the resource Revise This! | 2021-02.pdf Creative Writing Maslow Maslow Family Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Revise This Writing https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/54dee482098a35867639ff6a7e254bea.pdf 700ababa1f0a83b851729aceae4bd346 PDF Text Text About Wilkes Home n Graduate Academics Academics n Graduate Admission & Aid Graduate Programs n Graduate Life Master's Degree Programs n The Arts Creative Writing MA/MFA n About Our Students n Revise This! October 2020 Cha-Cha-Changes! This year, more than most, has been a year of lasts…and firsts. CoFounder and Program Director, Dr. Bonnie Culver, celebrated her last About Our Students Get Social with term before retirement. The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Creative Writing hosted its first online Residency. Associate Director Bill Revise This! Schneider accepted another position in the airline industry, and Joyce Anzalone orchestrated her last groups of cohorts, as she too retired. And, Revise This! for the first time in program history, the Wilkes creative writing community Archives welcomes its new director, Dr. David Hicks. River & South Review In this edition of Revise This!, Bill Schneider shares his tale of transition in Onward and Upward. Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. ’13) shares news of her debut book, Growing Up on the Gridiron (September 2020). You can read our interview about her Wilkes experience, her pathway to publication, and her advice for worried writers still wrestling with the first-draft process. Best-selling author and recent Wilkes alum Jennifer McLaughlin explores how her Wilkes writing life continues on, even after graduation. Finally, three current students reveal how a virtual residency compares to a traditional one. Testimonials Apply Online Request More Information g �Program Updates • The January 2021 Residency will take place online, from January 816.  • Morgan M.X. Shulz of Wilmington, NC is this year’s winner of the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, a $10,000 prize. Jessie Roy of Chicago, IL is the runner-up ($1000). • Michael Mailer (Film) and Nina Solomon (Fiction) have decided not to teach for our program any longer. We thank them for their superb teaching and wish them all the best. • Beginning next fall, we will be offering online Master Classes (CW 698: Post-Graduate Project Revision) in every genre for graduates of MA/MFA programs like ours. In this six-credit class, students will receive expert guidance on how to advance a manuscript to its final version and how to submit it to agents and editors. • Also beginning next fall, we will offer online 15-week versions of our Foundations classes as part of a “4+1” (a combined BA/MA) class at several universities, as well as to adults interested in an introduction to creative writing. • The MFA “Letter of Intent,” for all students in the MA program who would like to continue to the MFA program, is due November 1. Onward and Upward Refections from Bill Schneider (M.F.A.’14) Thursday, June 4, 2020 More than 1.8 million cases and over 101,000 deaths related to COVID19 in the United States were reported today by the CDC. Today is my first day of retirement following my seven-year affiliation with Wilkes University where I served as a graduate assistant in Marketing Communications, Managing Editor for Etruscan Press and Associate Program Director for the Creative Writing Program. I had hoped today would be the start of a new life chapter: traveling all around the world while I savor the cocktail hour of my life journey, similar to The Life of Riley. Boy was I wrong! �Since being quarantined on March 17th, I got a head start on being home full-time as life dramatically changed. Program alum and Wilkes University’s Executive Director of Communications and Graduate Marketing — Gabrielle D’Amico M.F.A.’17 — said it best of all in a recent email: “I'm sorry your final weeks at Wilkes feel like the Twilight Zone.” Earlier this year, I accepted an offer to be a consultant with my former employer from the 1970s. This new opportunity is based in Chicago, the headquarters and a major gateway for United Airlines, where I will have access and resources to produce video segments about airline employees and retirees and their travel experiences. With nearly 100,000 employees on the United team, storytelling is integral to the culture of this legacy airline. The stories I will share through the company’s intranet portal have a common theme: heartache and hope. My commitment is to bring light to the United community, especially because too much darkness clouds the horizon. Preparing for the transition Working with co-founder and program director Bonnie Culver since January, when I announced my retirement, we focused on developing a handbook to provide the new program director with a road map for the day-to-day activities to support the Maslow Family Creative Writing Graduate Program. To provide some context, Bonnie and I were retiring at the same time as Joyce Anzalone who oversees administration of our program. Ross Klavan says, “Between Bonnie, Bill and Joyce, the entire knowledge of how the program works is in their hands … each of them connecting/networking, and talking the faculty in and out of corners.”  By mid-March, our focus shifted. We began to prepare for the June residency to be delivered entirely online. This tireless effort required all hands-on-deck while each day brought more grim news about the pandemic.  Preparing for a virtual residency Bonnie immediately reached out to the entire faculty to begin discussions, brainstorm, and conceptualize online residency modules. The transition from face-to-face teaching to a virtual Zoom platform provided Bonnie and the faculty with the perfect opportunity for the program to re-emerge as the first-class program it is. This seamless transition evolved because of one component: the sense of community that permeates throughout the Wilkes Creative Writing Program. I think of this as harmony and grace, the ingredient that first attracted me to the Wilkes program in 2011. A major challenge in rolling out the June residency as a virtual experience was how to replicate that special ingredient that creates �community. As I prepared to retire from Wilkes, the world began to change as the pandemic closed international borders. Throughout the country, cities and states continued to escalate self-quarantine mandates. The entire world was on lock-down.  As Memorial Day arrived, the June residency was about to begin. The community of writers that comes together twice a year to share work and renew friendship continues to be the fabric of a tapestry woven from the spirit of our remarkable faculty. Friday, June 5, 2020 The stay-at-home order was lifted today for Pennsylvania residents in Luzerne County. This release from home confinement was conditional because I still do not have the freedom to travel anywhere in the world. There is no longer a welcome mat for Americans in many other countries, and most domestic travel requires a 14-day quarantine upon arrival. Flying for a weekend getaway is something from the past. Fortunately, I am a writer and an editor, both of which require solitary confinement. Instead of packing for my move to the Windy City, today is the day my movers notified me they will not travel to Illinois because of the high number of COVID-19 cases. Tuesday, September 1, 2020 More than six million cases and over 183,000 deaths related to COVID19 in the United States were reported today by the CDC. It has been 13 weeks since my retirement began. Every day it has been buns on the bench. I have focused on my writing and the never-ending connection to the Wilkes Creative Writing community. This is the connective tissue that keeps me grounded, hopeful, and confident. As coffee percolates, or later in the day, a martini shakes, I recall the advice offered by my Wilkes mentors. One of the most resonate suggestions came from Dr. Nancy McKinley during my first CW-501 workshop. The writing prompt, about the beauty of Wilkes-Barre in the middle of winter, forced me to look beyond the potholes. Writing is about doing the best you can and making the most with what you have.  What is certain about tomorrow is that it will be a better day than today. Bill Schneider (MFA’14) is the managing editor of Etruscan Press. He served as the associate program director of the Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program from 2015 through 2020. His �previous experience includes a three-decade long career in the music industry accompanied by extensive travel throughout six continents. Interview with Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. ’13) For any bibliophiles that get the opportunity to sit down with their favorite authors for a Q&A, one of the questions that is bound to come up is something along the lines of “Where do you get your inspiration, your ideas?” While this might be a fascination topic to dig into, what I find more fascinating is learning, as a writer, how the story chooses you. I recently had the opportunity to work with Vicki Mayk on her Write Life post, “When the Story Chooses You.” We were discussing her writing experiences as a student at Wilkes and her pathway to publishing Growing up on the Gridiron: Football, Friendship, and the Tragic Life of Owen Thomas, published and released by Beacon Press in September. Our phone conversation stretched from one hour to two and her story about learning how to tell someone else’s true story emerged, along with several challenges unique to the nonfiction genre. I invite you to sit in on part of our conversation about the art of research and the craft of creative nonfiction. Who or what drew you in to the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing? I had always wanted to earn an MFA in writing. I actually had entered a program at the University of Pittsburgh back in the 1970s (yes, I’m that old), but that was before there were low-residency programs. Unable to go to school and work full-time, I put the dream on hold after one semester. Fast forward to 2009: When I was hired by Wilkes University, I realized that I could finally earn the master’s degree I had always wanted. I had worked as a writer for my entire career – but the program changed my life, opening up new ways to tell a story. You have some exciting news...a recently published on book! Can you �tell us a little bit about that project? What is this book about? Growing Up On The Gridiron: Football, Friendship and the Tragic Life of Owen RDlIU IJP D~I Thomas is about University of Pennsylvania football player Owen Thomas who died by suicide in 2010. After his death, he was found to be the youngest amateur player at that time found to have the traumatic brain injury CTE – which was being found in former pro players and was linked to playing football. The book is about his short but remarkable life and about young men’s FOOTBALL, AND TIIE FRIENOSI-IIP TRAGIC OWEN VICKI LIFE OF THOMAS MAYK love affair with the game for football.  What was it about this story that sunk its hooks into you and drew you into this commitment to another long form project? This was a case of “the story chose me.”  What really drew me in was Owen Thomas, the young man who is at the center of my book. When he died by suicide in April 2010, I was invited to join a private memorial page that friends set up for him on Facebook. The way that everyone talked about him – from his teammates at his high school near Allentown, PA, and on the University of Pennsylvania Quakers team to friends, former teachers, casual acquaintances – haunted me. They told stories about him being a warrior on the field and one of the kindest humans off the field. One girl in his high school said Owen changed the energy when he entered a room. I wanted to answer the question: Who was Owen Thomas and how did his life come to this tragic end? When it emerged that he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, what we know as CTE, that added another important dimension to the story.  The path to publication is unique for every author. Can you tell us a little about your path to publication? What kinds of challenges did you fnd your way around with this project? Because I had a full-time day job, the interviewing and research for this book had to be done at night and on weekends. What I had originally envisioned as a two- to three-year project actually took nearly eight years �from the time I started interviews and research to a finished draft. (And we all know that there is always more revision ahead.) I was dragging my heels, so I took an independent study with Mike Lennon and was able to complete a draft. He urged me to submit to agents and I was signed by one in 2018. But I was far from done. Everyone who had seen the manuscript – me, Mike and my agent– envisioned a significant revision. I worked with my agent to create a book proposal that outlined a slightly different direction for the book. The book was actually sold on the basis of that proposal – not on the manuscript. When I began working with my editor at Beacon Press, Joanna Green, she and I had a similar vision for the book. It involved developing the stories of Owen’s friends and required me to do some additional research and interviews. Yes, more research after nearly eight years of working on the book.  I completely revised the existing manuscript in about six months in 2019. What did you learn about yourself as a writer through the many stages of creation, revision, and release?  I learned that it was a good thing that I had a long career making my living as a writer who was required to meet deadlines. (I’m laughing as I answer this.) All joking aside, I now see that all those years of writing on deadline have made me a slave to deadlines. If I have a deadline, I will meet it. That is why I finally took an independent study to finish the book. The deadline forced me to do it. I was able to revise it in six months because my editor was holding me to specific deadlines. Even after all these years as a writer, I’m trying to figure out how to create a structure that puts me in the deadline mindset – even when there’s no “real” deadline. I guess that’s a challenge we all face About craft? The biggest takeaway about craft was that we always have something to learn. I had been a journalist for years before entering the program, but in writing this book, I realized that I was able to write it because of what I learned studying creative nonfiction in the program. Day-to-day journalism can fall into a “just the facts” approach. The craft elements that I learned at Wilkes – to use the techniques of fiction to tell a true story -allowed me to do things in the book I might not have attempted earlier in my career. It includes things like recreating scenes and dialogue.  If you could offer a few words of wisdom or a piece of advice that has served you well through the rough parts of the writing process, what would you most like to gift to other �writers hitting those rough patches? Don’t doubt yourself: it’s really easy to fall prey to impostor syndrome. You’ll hear your inner critic asking, “Who do you think you are to write this book?” While working on my book, I came across a quote from LinManuel Miranda, who wrote “Hamilton.” He said, “You have to live with the notion of, ‘If I don’t write this, no one’s going to write it. If I die, this idea dies with me.’” Remember that you have a story that only you can tell. How have the members of our Wilkes community supported you as a writer? Is there anyone you would like to give a shout-out to? Perhaps a few key people? I received so much encouragement from so many people in our creative writing community. If you read the  ments in my book, I call Mike Lennon my “literary godfather.” I think there were times I kept going because I couldn’t stand the idea of disappointing Mike. I also received sound advice from Bev Donofrio, Kevin Oderman, Kaylie Jones and Jeff Talarigo. Dawn D’Aries Zera was the person who first told Mike about my book and she insisted I talk to him about it. And my writing group was an important source of support. They are all Wilkes alums from many different cohorts: Aurora Bonner, Kelly Clisham, Jennifer Jenkins and Francisco Tutella. The book title came out of a brainstorming session with them. Wilkes and the Afterlife By Jen McLaughlin A lot of people (or, at least, I’m assuming a lot of people) think that once you leave the Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Program…it’s game over. You never speak to your faculty again, never see your cohort, forget all your friends, and cry into an endless eternity of deadlines and graded papers. I’m here to tell you… YOU’RE WRONG! That’s right, I said it. You’re wrong.  Now, you might be thinking to yourself, “Who is this Jen girl anyway? Who is she to tell me what I know and what I don’t know?” Well, I’m you. Or, I was you, depending on where you are in the program. Whether you are entering it now, considering entering it, in it, or recently graduated, I’m here to tell you that what you’re getting from the program isn’t just some fancy letters or some sharpened writing tools…though those are �pretty amazing, too. What you’re getting is a community. Friends. A family. You see, my cohort (arguably the best cohort EVER…just ask anyone on the faculty—especially Nancy McKinley) graduated with our M.A. in September 2019, and those of us who went on to earn our MFA will graduate this September (in 2020, the cursed year that will forever live on in infamy). Though some of my cohort has been done for over a year, guess what? We are still friends. We still write together. Not even a pandemic stopped us. Let that sink in for a minute. I’ll wait. While the world was begging for us to stop writing, to lose our creativity because who the heck could create anything among chaos and pain and fear…we did it. We created, we supported one another, and we didn’t give up.  Because we’re family. Sure, we did it via Zoom once a week (something we will be continuing once we all return to the classrooms to teach and learn), and sure, we talked about a lot more than just our work, but you know what? It kept me going, kept me thinking, and most importantly? My cohort/friends/family kept me writing. The writing life is so valuable to us as writers and artists, and when you lose that, you lose a piece of yourself. Well, fear not. When you enter this program, and when you leave it, you will maintain a strong bond to those who went through those residencies with you, who poured over your words as if they were your own, and who cheered you on as you read your work out loud for a room full of people…and so will the faculty.  My mentor, the amazing and indestructible Nancy McKinley, never stopped having my back, or offering me opportunities, and quite frankly, I truly hope my time in the program, though officially finished, never ends. Rather, I hope it expands in many other ways, and that I can take the knowledge this program and my forty-nine published books have given me, and I can continue to build that community, friendships, and family the program gave me. My only remaining question to you, if you’re not with us yet, is… What’s holding you back, besides perhaps yourself? About Jen McLaughlin Jen McLaughlin is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of many genres and types. The Unforgiven Kingdom came to life when she couldn’t find her daughter’s bedtime story, and by the end of the "bedtime story" she realized she �had the first chapter of a book. As a lover of adventure and chaos, she strives to tell tales of strong female leads that take readers to unseen worlds. Jen was mentioned in Forbes alongside E. L. James as one of the breakout independent authors to dominate the bestselling lists. Jen resides in Pennsylvania with her husband, four kids, one dog, and five cats. She spends her time writing, and teaching high school and college students how to write creatively. Jen earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Wilkes University and is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Education. She is represented by Louise Fury at The Bent Agency. Faculty News • Gregory Fletcher’s short story “Ismene in Venice” is included in the new anthology The Night Bazaar: Venice, published by Northampton House Press. • Lenore Hart is pleased to announce a new volume in The Night Bazaar series, Northampton House Press' fantastic fiction anthologies. Volume two is entitled The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires. Hart is the series editor and contributor of the story, "Plenty of Fish in the Sea". Short stories by Wilkes alums Dana Miller, Corinne Nulton, Frances Williams (writing as Aphrodite Anagnost), and Carol MacAllister, along with faculty members Kaylie Jones and Gregory Fletcher, are featured as well. Additionally, Hart has published two poems, "Looking Into the Eyes of a Woman I Must Tell She's a Writer" and "Hypatia in the Library" in AMERICAN WRITERS REVIEW 2020 (San Fedele Press). Two Poems, "The Well-Shooter's Wake" and "On Visiting the Castle of My Drawn and Quartered Ancestor" were published in *FOOTNOTE 4: A LITERARY JOURNAL OF HISTORY (Alternating Current Press). • Ross Klavan has a new novella due to be published in October by Down & Out books. It's another in a series of noir crime stories, this one entitled, “Cut Loose All Those Who Drag You Down”. It is part of a compilation– three authors, three crime novellas– the book is called Third Degree. • David Poyer via Northampton House Press announced the publication of the trade paper edition of Susan Mailer's memoir In Another Place; With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer, available worldwide beginning September 1. The 2019 hardcover was critically praised, and the new edition contains all the text and photos of the original $27.95 edition. It is also available in e-book format. �Additionally, Poyer also published a short story in the latest edition a dark fantasy anthology entitled The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires. Set in 1348, the year the Black Plague arrived in Italy, "The Thousand Injuries of Fortunato" prequels Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" in explaining exactly why Fortunato richly deserved to be bricked up in Montresor's catacombs. Alumni News • Jennifer Bokal (M.A. 2010) will release her eleventh novel, Colton's Secret History, in September 2020 and her twelfth novel, Agent's Mountain Rescue, in November 2020. Both are being released by Harlequin Romantic Suspense. This fall, Jennifer will be teaching online workshops at Broome Community College; Painless Novel Writing and Solving the Publishing Puzzle. Jennifer is currently president of RWA's newest chapter, Aged to Perfection Seasoned Romance Writers of America--where they believe that love is timeless. • Todd Conner (M.A. 2019) launched an audio podcast called The Cariorker in December 2019.  For Season One he translated, produced and performed 13 short stories by Machado de Assis, Brazil’s most renowned literary son. Season One was cut short by the pandemic, but Season Two is slated to begin in November on location from Rio de Janeiro, when he will deconstruct and interpret the early classics of Samba and Choro for American ears. The Cariorker is available on major podcast platforms and at www.thecariorker.com. • Two poems by Caitlin Downs (M.A. 2020) were included in the anthology Erase the Patriarchy published by University of Hell Press, which is available for purchase (August, 2020). She was awarded a new contract and faculty status at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design and will be establishing the new writing center this fall. • Cooper Gorelick (M.A. 2017) wrote a one-act play titled "A Fragment of the Day" (which was specifically written for "drive-by" theater). His play is set to be produced in early October in Cherry Hill, NJ. • Tara Marta (M.A. 2018) had her first novel, Look Back to Yesterday, published in June. She was recently interviewed about her book on PA Live and VIA Radio. On Thursday, August 27th she offered a virtual reading and Q&A for the Abington Community Library. • Bill Schneider (M.F.A. 2014) announced his retirement as assistant program director of the Maslow Family Creative Writing Graduate Program at Wilkes University. • Ora Smith (M.A. 2017) is pleased to announce her book, The Pulse of His Soul: The Story of John Lothropp, a Forgotten Forefather was released on September 8, 2020. This is Ora's first historical novel to be published. Previously, she has illustrated and written a children's picture book titled A Christmas Story of Light released in 2018. • �Michael Soloway (M.F.A. 2014) founded a digital magazine in June at AuthenticityMags.com. The goal is to publish articles with unique voices from authentic people, so others can find their authentic selves. Their motto is: For the People. By the People. They have several Wilkes alumni contributing, but they always need more. Please reach out via michael@authenticitymags.com! He would love your feedback and participation! Student News Andree Catalfamo won Honorable Mention for her poem, "Expendable", in the annual Passager Journal poetry contest. The poem was published in September 2020. She also had a short story, "Blooms," published in June 2020 in Yellow Arrow Journal. Tonya Chadi’s poem Lately was accepted for publication by IndolentBooks.com What Rough Beast. It was posted 7/11/20. 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Title A name given to the resource Revise This! | 2020-10.pdf Creative Writing Maslow Maslow Family Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Revise This Writing https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/dd2403ce223de7aa403c666fc200d9a4.pdf b4a64ca157cabb0d39f68708b465687d PDF Text Text Search... About Wilkes Home n Graduate Academics Academics n Graduate Admission & Aid Graduate Programs n Graduate Life Master's Degree Programs n The Arts Creative Writing MA/MFA n About Our Students n Revise This! October 2020 Cha-Cha-Changes! This year, more than most, has been a year of lasts…and firsts. CoFounder and Program Director, Dr. Bonnie Culver, celebrated her last About Our Students Get Social with term before retirement. The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Creative Writing hosted its first online Residency. Associate Director Bill Revise This! Schneider accepted another position in the airline industry, and Joyce Anzalone orchestrated her last groups of cohorts, as she too retired. And, Revise This! for the first time in program history, the Wilkes creative writing community Archives welcomes its new director, Dr. David Hicks. River & South Review In this edition of Revise This!, Bill Schneider shares his tale of transition in Onward and Upward. Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. ’13) shares news of her debut book, Growing Up on the Gridiron (September 2020). You can read our interview about her Wilkes experience, her pathway to publication, and her advice for worried writers still wrestling with the first-draft process. Best-selling author and recent Wilkes alum Jennifer McLaughlin explores how her Wilkes writing life continues on, even after graduation. Finally, three current students reveal how a virtual residency compares to a traditional one. Testimonials Apply Online Request More Information g �Program Updates • The January 2021 Residency will take place online, from January 816.  • Morgan M.X. Shulz of Wilmington, NC is this year’s winner of the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, a $10,000 prize. Jessie Roy of Chicago, IL is the runner-up ($1000). • Michael Mailer (Film) and Nina Solomon (Fiction) have decided not to teach for our program any longer. We thank them for their superb teaching and wish them all the best. • Beginning next fall, we will be offering online Master Classes (CW 698: Post-Graduate Project Revision) in every genre for graduates of MA/MFA programs like ours. In this six-credit class, students will receive expert guidance on how to advance a manuscript to its final version and how to submit it to agents and editors. • Also beginning next fall, we will offer online 15-week versions of our Foundations classes as part of a “4+1” (a combined BA/MA) class at several universities, as well as to adults interested in an introduction to creative writing. • The MFA “Letter of Intent,” for all students in the MA program who would like to continue to the MFA program, is due November 1. Onward and Upward Refections from Bill Schneider (M.F.A.’14) Thursday, June 4, 2020 More than 1.8 million cases and over 101,000 deaths related to COVID19 in the United States were reported today by the CDC. Today is my first day of retirement following my seven-year affiliation with Wilkes University where I served as a graduate assistant in Marketing Communications, Managing Editor for Etruscan Press and Associate Program Director for the Creative Writing Program. I had hoped today would be the start of a new life chapter: traveling all around the world while I savor the cocktail hour of my life journey, similar to The Life of Riley. Boy was I wrong! �Since being quarantined on March 17th, I got a head start on being home full-time as life dramatically changed. Program alum and Wilkes University’s Executive Director of Communications and Graduate Marketing — Gabrielle D’Amico M.F.A.’17 — said it best of all in a recent email: “I'm sorry your final weeks at Wilkes feel like the Twilight Zone.” Earlier this year, I accepted an offer to be a consultant with my former employer from the 1970s. This new opportunity is based in Chicago, the headquarters and a major gateway for United Airlines, where I will have access and resources to produce video segments about airline employees and retirees and their travel experiences. With nearly 100,000 employees on the United team, storytelling is integral to the culture of this legacy airline. The stories I will share through the company’s intranet portal have a common theme: heartache and hope. My commitment is to bring light to the United community, especially because too much darkness clouds the horizon. Preparing for the transition Working with co-founder and program director Bonnie Culver since January, when I announced my retirement, we focused on developing a handbook to provide the new program director with a road map for the day-to-day activities to support the Maslow Family Creative Writing Graduate Program. To provide some context, Bonnie and I were retiring at the same time as Joyce Anzalone who oversees administration of our program. Ross Klavan says, “Between Bonnie, Bill and Joyce, the entire knowledge of how the program works is in their hands … each of them connecting/networking, and talking the faculty in and out of corners.”  By mid-March, our focus shifted. We began to prepare for the June residency to be delivered entirely online. This tireless effort required all hands-on-deck while each day brought more grim news about the pandemic.  Preparing for a virtual residency Bonnie immediately reached out to the entire faculty to begin discussions, brainstorm, and conceptualize online residency modules. The transition from face-to-face teaching to a virtual Zoom platform provided Bonnie and the faculty with the perfect opportunity for the program to re-emerge as the first-class program it is. This seamless transition evolved because of one component: the sense of community that permeates throughout the Wilkes Creative Writing Program. I think of this as harmony and grace, the ingredient that first attracted me to the Wilkes program in 2011. A major challenge in rolling out the June residency as a virtual experience was how to replicate that special ingredient that creates �community. As I prepared to retire from Wilkes, the world began to change as the pandemic closed international borders. Throughout the country, cities and states continued to escalate self-quarantine mandates. The entire world was on lock-down.  As Memorial Day arrived, the June residency was about to begin. The community of writers that comes together twice a year to share work and renew friendship continues to be the fabric of a tapestry woven from the spirit of our remarkable faculty. Friday, June 5, 2020 The stay-at-home order was lifted today for Pennsylvania residents in Luzerne County. This release from home confinement was conditional because I still do not have the freedom to travel anywhere in the world. There is no longer a welcome mat for Americans in many other countries, and most domestic travel requires a 14-day quarantine upon arrival. Flying for a weekend getaway is something from the past. Fortunately, I am a writer and an editor, both of which require solitary confinement. Instead of packing for my move to the Windy City, today is the day my movers notified me they will not travel to Illinois because of the high number of COVID-19 cases. Tuesday, September 1, 2020 More than six million cases and over 183,000 deaths related to COVID19 in the United States were reported today by the CDC. It has been 13 weeks since my retirement began. Every day it has been buns on the bench. I have focused on my writing and the never-ending connection to the Wilkes Creative Writing community. This is the connective tissue that keeps me grounded, hopeful, and confident. As coffee percolates, or later in the day, a martini shakes, I recall the advice offered by my Wilkes mentors. One of the most resonate suggestions came from Dr. Nancy McKinley during my first CW-501 workshop. The writing prompt, about the beauty of Wilkes-Barre in the middle of winter, forced me to look beyond the potholes. Writing is about doing the best you can and making the most with what you have.  What is certain about tomorrow is that it will be a better day than today. Bill Schneider (MFA’14) is the managing editor of Etruscan Press. He served as the associate program director of the Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program from 2015 through 2020. His �previous experience includes a three-decade long career in the music industry accompanied by extensive travel throughout six continents. Interview with Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. ’13) For any bibliophiles that get the opportunity to sit down with their favorite authors for a Q&A, one of the questions that is bound to come up is something along the lines of “Where do you get your inspiration, your ideas?” While this might be a fascination topic to dig into, what I find more fascinating is learning, as a writer, how the story chooses you. I recently had the opportunity to work with Vicki Mayk on her Write Life post, “When the Story Chooses You.” We were discussing her writing experiences as a student at Wilkes and her pathway to publishing Growing up on the Gridiron: Football, Friendship, and the Tragic Life of Owen Thomas, published and released by Beacon Press in September. Our phone conversation stretched from one hour to two and her story about learning how to tell someone else’s true story emerged, along with several challenges unique to the nonfiction genre. I invite you to sit in on part of our conversation about the art of research and the craft of creative nonfiction. Who or what drew you in to the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing? I had always wanted to earn an MFA in writing. I actually had entered a program at the University of Pittsburgh back in the 1970s (yes, I’m that old), but that was before there were low-residency programs. Unable to go to school and work full-time, I put the dream on hold after one semester. Fast forward to 2009: When I was hired by Wilkes University, I realized that I could finally earn the master’s degree I had always wanted. I had worked as a writer for my entire career – but the program changed my life, opening up new ways to tell a story. You have some exciting news...a recently published on book! Can you �tell us a little bit about that project? What is this book about? Growing Up On The Gridiron: Football, Friendship and the Tragic Life of Owen Thomas is about University of Pennsylvania football player Owen Thomas who died by suicide in 2010. After his death, he was found to be the youngest amateur player at that time found to have the traumatic brain injury CTE – which was being found in former pro players and was linked to playing football. The book is about his short but remarkable life and about young men’s FOOTBALL, ANO TIIE FRIENOSI-IIP TRAGIC OWEN VICKI LIFE OF THOMAS MAYK love affair with the game for football.  What was it about this story that sunk its hooks into you and drew you into this commitment to another long form project? This was a case of “the story chose me.”  What really drew me in was Owen Thomas, the young man who is at the center of my book. When he died by suicide in April 2010, I was invited to join a private memorial page that friends set up for him on Facebook. The way that everyone talked about him – from his teammates at his high school near Allentown, PA, and on the University of Pennsylvania Quakers team to friends, former teachers, casual acquaintances – haunted me. They told stories about him being a warrior on the field and one of the kindest humans off the field. One girl in his high school said Owen changed the energy when he entered a room. I wanted to answer the question: Who was Owen Thomas and how did his life come to this tragic end? When it emerged that he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, what we know as CTE, that added another important dimension to the story.  The path to publication is unique for every author. Can you tell us a little about your path to publication? What kinds of challenges did you fnd your way around with this project? Because I had a full-time day job, the interviewing and research for this book had to be done at night and on weekends. What I had originally envisioned as a two- to three-year project actually took nearly eight years �from the time I started interviews and research to a finished draft. (And we all know that there is always more revision ahead.) I was dragging my heels, so I took an independent study with Mike Lennon and was able to complete a draft. He urged me to submit to agents and I was signed by one in 2018. But I was far from done. Everyone who had seen the manuscript – me, Mike and my agent– envisioned a significant revision. I worked with my agent to create a book proposal that outlined a slightly different direction for the book. The book was actually sold on the basis of that proposal – not on the manuscript. When I began working with my editor at Beacon Press, Joanna Green, she and I had a similar vision for the book. It involved developing the stories of Owen’s friends and required me to do some additional research and interviews. Yes, more research after nearly eight years of working on the book.  I completely revised the existing manuscript in about six months in 2019. What did you learn about yourself as a writer through the many stages of creation, revision, and release?  I learned that it was a good thing that I had a long career making my living as a writer who was required to meet deadlines. (I’m laughing as I answer this.) All joking aside, I now see that all those years of writing on deadline have made me a slave to deadlines. If I have a deadline, I will meet it. That is why I finally took an independent study to finish the book. The deadline forced me to do it. I was able to revise it in six months because my editor was holding me to specific deadlines. Even after all these years as a writer, I’m trying to figure out how to create a structure that puts me in the deadline mindset – even when there’s no “real” deadline. I guess that’s a challenge we all face About craft? The biggest takeaway about craft was that we always have something to learn. I had been a journalist for years before entering the program, but in writing this book, I realized that I was able to write it because of what I learned studying creative nonfiction in the program. Day-to-day journalism can fall into a “just the facts” approach. The craft elements that I learned at Wilkes – to use the techniques of fiction to tell a true story -allowed me to do things in the book I might not have attempted earlier in my career. It includes things like recreating scenes and dialogue.  If you could offer a few words of wisdom or a piece of advice that has served you well through the rough parts of the writing process, what would you most like to gift to other �writers hitting those rough patches? Don’t doubt yourself: it’s really easy to fall prey to impostor syndrome. You’ll hear your inner critic asking, “Who do you think you are to write this book?” While working on my book, I came across a quote from LinManuel Miranda, who wrote “Hamilton.” He said, “You have to live with the notion of, ‘If I don’t write this, no one’s going to write it. If I die, this idea dies with me.’” Remember that you have a story that only you can tell. How have the members of our Wilkes community supported you as a writer? Is there anyone you would like to give a shout-out to? Perhaps a few key people? I received so much encouragement from so many people in our creative writing community. If you read the  ments in my book, I call Mike Lennon my “literary godfather.” I think there were times I kept going because I couldn’t stand the idea of disappointing Mike. I also received sound advice from Bev Donofrio, Kevin Oderman, Kaylie Jones and Jeff Talarigo. Dawn D’Aries Zera was the person who first told Mike about my book and she insisted I talk to him about it. And my writing group was an important source of support. They are all Wilkes alums from many different cohorts: Aurora Bonner, Kelly Clisham, Jennifer Jenkins and Francisco Tutella. The book title came out of a brainstorming session with them. Wilkes and the Afterlife By Jen McLaughlin A lot of people (or, at least, I’m assuming a lot of people) think that once you leave the Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Program…it’s game over. You never speak to your faculty again, never see your cohort, forget all your friends, and cry into an endless eternity of deadlines and graded papers. I’m here to tell you… YOU’RE WRONG! That’s right, I said it. You’re wrong.  Now, you might be thinking to yourself, “Who is this Jen girl anyway? Who is she to tell me what I know and what I don’t know?” Well, I’m you. Or, I was you, depending on where you are in the program. Whether you are entering it now, considering entering it, in it, or recently graduated, I’m here to tell you that what you’re getting from the program isn’t just some fancy letters or some sharpened writing tools…though those are �pretty amazing, too. What you’re getting is a community. Friends. A family. You see, my cohort (arguably the best cohort EVER…just ask anyone on the faculty—especially Nancy McKinley) graduated with our M.A. in September 2019, and those of us who went on to earn our MFA will graduate this September (in 2020, the cursed year that will forever live on in infamy). Though some of my cohort has been done for over a year, guess what? We are still friends. We still write together. Not even a pandemic stopped us. Let that sink in for a minute. I’ll wait. While the world was begging for us to stop writing, to lose our creativity because who the heck could create anything among chaos and pain and fear…we did it. We created, we supported one another, and we didn’t give up.  Because we’re family. Sure, we did it via Zoom once a week (something we will be continuing once we all return to the classrooms to teach and learn), and sure, we talked about a lot more than just our work, but you know what? It kept me going, kept me thinking, and most importantly? My cohort/friends/family kept me writing. The writing life is so valuable to us as writers and artists, and when you lose that, you lose a piece of yourself. Well, fear not. When you enter this program, and when you leave it, you will maintain a strong bond to those who went through those residencies with you, who poured over your words as if they were your own, and who cheered you on as you read your work out loud for a room full of people…and so will the faculty.  My mentor, the amazing and indestructible Nancy McKinley, never stopped having my back, or offering me opportunities, and quite frankly, I truly hope my time in the program, though officially finished, never ends. Rather, I hope it expands in many other ways, and that I can take the knowledge this program and my forty-nine published books have given me, and I can continue to build that community, friendships, and family the program gave me. My only remaining question to you, if you’re not with us yet, is… What’s holding you back, besides perhaps yourself? About Jen McLaughlin Jen McLaughlin is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of many genres and types. The Unforgiven Kingdom came to life when she couldn’t find her daughter’s bedtime story, and by the end of the "bedtime story" she realized she �had the first chapter of a book. As a lover of adventure and chaos, she strives to tell tales of strong female leads that take readers to unseen worlds. Jen was mentioned in Forbes alongside E. L. James as one of the breakout independent authors to dominate the bestselling lists. Jen resides in Pennsylvania with her husband, four kids, one dog, and five cats. She spends her time writing, and teaching high school and college students how to write creatively. Jen earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Wilkes University and is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Education. She is represented by Louise Fury at The Bent Agency. Faculty News • Gregory Fletcher’s short story “Ismene in Venice” is included in the new anthology The Night Bazaar: Venice, published by Northampton House Press. • Lenore Hart is pleased to announce a new volume in The Night Bazaar series, Northampton House Press' fantastic fiction anthologies. Volume two is entitled The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires. Hart is the series editor and contributor of the story, "Plenty of Fish in the Sea". Short stories by Wilkes alums Dana Miller, Corinne Nulton, Frances Williams (writing as Aphrodite Anagnost), and Carol MacAllister, along with faculty members Kaylie Jones and Gregory Fletcher, are featured as well. Additionally, Hart has published two poems, "Looking Into the Eyes of a Woman I Must Tell She's a Writer" and "Hypatia in the Library" in AMERICAN WRITERS REVIEW 2020 (San Fedele Press). Two Poems, "The Well-Shooter's Wake" and "On Visiting the Castle of My Drawn and Quartered Ancestor" were published in *FOOTNOTE 4: A LITERARY JOURNAL OF HISTORY (Alternating Current Press). • Ross Klavan has a new novella due to be published in October by Down & Out books. It's another in a series of noir crime stories, this one entitled, “Cut Loose All Those Who Drag You Down”. It is part of a compilation– three authors, three crime novellas– the book is called Third Degree. • David Poyer via Northampton House Press announced the publication of the trade paper edition of Susan Mailer's memoir In Another Place; With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer, available worldwide beginning September 1. The 2019 hardcover was critically praised, and the new edition contains all the text and photos of the original $27.95 edition. It is also available in e-book format. �Additionally, Poyer also published a short story in the latest edition a dark fantasy anthology entitled The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires. Set in 1348, the year the Black Plague arrived in Italy, "The Thousand Injuries of Fortunato" prequels Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" in explaining exactly why Fortunato richly deserved to be bricked up in Montresor's catacombs. Alumni News • Jennifer Bokal (M.A. 2010) will release her eleventh novel, Colton's Secret History, in September 2020 and her twelfth novel, Agent's Mountain Rescue, in November 2020. Both are being released by Harlequin Romantic Suspense. This fall, Jennifer will be teaching online workshops at Broome Community College; Painless Novel Writing and Solving the Publishing Puzzle. Jennifer is currently president of RWA's newest chapter, Aged to Perfection Seasoned Romance Writers of America--where they believe that love is timeless. • Todd Conner (M.A. 2019) launched an audio podcast called The Cariorker in December 2019.  For Season One he translated, produced and performed 13 short stories by Machado de Assis, Brazil’s most renowned literary son. Season One was cut short by the pandemic, but Season Two is slated to begin in November on location from Rio de Janeiro, when he will deconstruct and interpret the early classics of Samba and Choro for American ears. The Cariorker is available on major podcast platforms and at www.thecariorker.com. • Two poems by Caitlin Downs (M.A. 2020) were included in the anthology Erase the Patriarchy published by University of Hell Press, which is available for purchase (August, 2020). She was awarded a new contract and faculty status at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design and will be establishing the new writing center this fall. • Cooper Gorelick (M.A. 2017) wrote a one-act play titled "A Fragment of the Day" (which was specifically written for "drive-by" theater). His play is set to be produced in early October in Cherry Hill, NJ. • Tara Marta (M.A. 2018) had her first novel, Look Back to Yesterday, published in June. She was recently interviewed about her book on PA Live and VIA Radio. On Thursday, August 27th she offered a virtual reading and Q&A for the Abington Community Library. • Bill Schneider (M.F.A. 2014) announced his retirement as assistant program director of the Maslow Family Creative Writing Graduate Program at Wilkes University. • Ora Smith (M.A. 2017) is pleased to announce her book, The Pulse of His Soul: The Story of John Lothropp, a Forgotten Forefather was released on September 8, 2020. This is Ora's first historical novel to be published. Previously, she has illustrated and written a children's picture book titled A Christmas Story of Light released in 2018. • �Michael Soloway (M.F.A. 2014) founded a digital magazine in June at AuthenticityMags.com. The goal is to publish articles with unique voices from authentic people, so others can find their authentic selves. Their motto is: For the People. By the People. They have several Wilkes alumni contributing, but they always need more. Please reach out via michael@authenticitymags.com! He would love your feedback and participation! Student News Andree Catalfamo won Honorable Mention for her poem, "Expendable", in the annual Passager Journal poetry contest. The poem was published in September 2020. She also had a short story, "Blooms," published in June 2020 in Yellow Arrow Journal. Tonya Chadi’s poem Lately was accepted for publication by IndolentBooks.com What Rough Beast. It was posted 7/11/20. 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Title A name given to the resource Revise This! | 2020-09.pdf Creative Writing Maslow Maslow Family Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Revise This Writing https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/e055b4e97a1092c3857ca8663e1b3b93.pdf d4efef06c9564446c2b77713e30de2a5 PDF Text Text Search... About Wilkes Home n Graduate Academics Academics n Graduate Admission & Aid Graduate Programs n Graduate Life Master's Degree Programs n The Arts Creative Writing MA/MFA n About Our Students n Revise This! February 2020 January 2020 Residency Scholarship Recipients The Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program presented three About Our Students Get Social with scholarships to five students during the closing residency banquet on Creative Writing January 10, 2020. Revise This! Revise This! The Wilkes University Archives Faculty and Alumni Scholarship was awarded to Frances River & South Review Reilly of Beacon, N.Y. Testimonials She is currently working on her Apply Online creative nonfiction Request More thesis with memoirist Information Beverly Donofrio. The Faculty and Alumni Scholarship is January 2020 Scholarship Awards. Left to right: Frances Reilly; Monique Franz; Jasmine g �awarded annually to one or more incoming Griffin; Justin Sciandra; and Taylor Polites (MFA '10 and Wilkes Creative Writing faculty students at the M.A. member) level of the Wilkes creative writing program based on financial need and a writing sample submitted as part of the application materials. The scholarship recipient(s) will be determined by a three-member faculty committee who will recommend the student(s) to the program director. This scholarship was started to offer a scholarship opportunity to students who are new to the program and was funded through taxdeductible gifts from faculty and alumni. The Bergman Family Foundation Scholarship was awarded to both Jasmine Griffin of Amelia, OH, and Justin Sciandra of Exeter, Pa. Griffin completed her master of arts fiction thesis with Lenore Hart. Sciandra is currently working on his poetry thesis with Phil Brady. The Bergman Family Foundation Award is awarded annually to students who demonstrate great need and ability. Students may nominate themselves for this award by writing a letter to the Bergman family when called for by the program director. The Beverly Hiscox Scholarship was awarded to both Juliette Dunn of King of Prussia, Pa., and Monique Franz of Rochester, N.Y. Hiscox Scholarship: Left to right: Harry Hiscox; Monique Franz; Juliette Dunn; and Beverly Hiscox Dunn is working on her playwriting thesis with Juanita Rockwell, while Franz is working on her fiction thesis with Taylor Polites. The Beverly Hiscox Scholarship is awarded annually to a non-traditional student who is returning to school while supporting a family. The award is based upon need and demonstrated writing talent. It is given in honor of Beverly Hiscox, a Wilkes University Board of Trustees member and longtime supporter of our program. Awarded annually, faculty members nominate students who are already in the Creative Writing program. We offer our condolences to the Hiscox family over the passing of David Hiscox, son of Beverly and Harry Hiscox. Donations in memory of David can be made at https://www.donationline.com/multiplemyelomaresearch/ �An Interview with Founding Faculty Member Nancy McKinley NANCY McKINLEY Read the News@Wilkes story about our very own Nancy McKinley, her career at Wilkes University and the ways she makes time to write. Read More → Year of the Vote To celebrate the Year of the Vote, the Sordoni Art Gallery will bring art and activism to the Wilkes community. Facilitated by alum Karley Stasko, M.F.A. ’19, an Open Mic night will honor the literary arts. All writers, actors, and audiences are invited. The event will be held on the last Thursday of each month beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the Sordoni Art Gallery in the Karembelas Media Center. The first Open Mic event will be held on February 27. The Sordoni Art Gallery staff will provide some event-themed texts for those who prefer oral interpretation. There is a 10-minute maximum time limit for all readings. More information→ Marlon James to Host Literary Podcast Marlon James, M.A.’06 and winner of several awards, including The Man Booker Prize, is hosting a new podcast with his editor, Jake Morrissey. The podcast is titled “Marlon and Jake Read Dead People.” More information (via the New York Times) → �Spring Creative Writing Community Workshops The Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program will be offering two Community Workshops to interested community participants in the spring. Both workshops will be offered through the Wilkes University Center of Continued Learning, and each workshop series is $65. Nonfction Essentials from Personal Essays to Book Reviewing This workshop will help adult writers of any age develop ways to write themselves as characters in their own personal essays, craft characters closest to the writer, and promote works the writer admires (including their own work) through review writing. This workshop will help writers develop an understanding of generating and revising new work. Meetings: Wednesdays – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.  April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 and May 6 Instructor: Sara Pisak Register Intro to Screenwriting This six-week workshop for adults of any age will explore writing for the big screen, with an introduction to the tools and techniques screenwriters use to tell effective stories. We’ll cover screenplay genre, format and structure. Students will write a short or begin a feature-length screenplay. The workshop will end with a table read of each writer’s work during the final session. Meetings: Thursdays – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and May 7 Instructor: Kelly Clisham Register Announcements �Faculty • Jean Klein recently published three blog posts on her publishing site that reference material by Wilkes faculty and alums recently published by Blue Moon Plays. The New Role of Poetry in Contemporary Theatre: https://havescripts.com/verse-on-stage-poets-fight-back/ https://havescripts.com/what-in-the-heck-is-a-poem-play/ The need for Playwrights to write diverse casts rather than relying on color-blind casting to create diversity on stage: https://havescripts.com/crossing-the-racial-divide-on-the-greatwhite-way/ • David Poyer noted that the new Northern Appalachia Review is accepting submissions for its first issue. He serves on its advisory board. Deadline is April 1. (No, this is not an April Fool’s joke.) Guidelines below: https://northernappalachiareview.wpcomstaging.com/home/submissions/   Alumni • Amye Archer, M.F.A.’11, will host a reading of her new book, If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings, and a Q&A with parents and survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, to commemorate the anniversary of the shooting. Amye will also be presenting a panel at AWP 2020 titled "Documenting Trauma Narratives: Survivors in the Aftermath of Gun Violence." • Austin Bennett, M.F.A.’15, is the recipient of a $100,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Community College Initiatives Grant (2019) to strengthen the humanities within the general education core at Montana State University Billings City College. His 2015 internship with Etruscan Press was critical in providing him with the tools and courage to pursue grant writing. Austen also Reviewed: 2019 High Plains Book Award non-fiction award winner, An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor by Danell Jones, for the Billings Gazette, October 2, Print. And finally, Bennett presented “Identities in Flux: The Fiction of Alistair MacLeod” (presentation), Fall 2019 International Language Week Conference, Billings, MT; and “The Book Review: Where Writers, Critics, and Readers Unite” (panel), Fall 2019 Montana Book Festival, Missoula, MT. • Lauren Carey, M.F.A.’11, was nominated for the Oustanding Adjunct Teaching Award at the University of North Florida as a member of the English Department and Writing Program faculty. The award winner(s) will be announced at the Spring Convocation in April 2020. • �Craig Czury, M.F.A.’18, received a 2020 Fulbright Fellowship to Chile. His new book, Postcards & Ancient Texts, is forthcoming from FootHills Publishing this spring. • Gerald Gurka, M.F.A.’07, wrote and directed his latest Christmas play, Two Babies in a Manger, performed on Christmas Eve in 2019 at St. John the Baptist Church, Larksville, PA. He is currently writing and casting a new Easter play, Witness Portraits of the Passion, to be presented on Friday, April 3, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. at St. John the Baptist Church, Larksville, PA. Gurka is nearing completion on a Young Adult novel for Northampton House Press entitled Freddie Foodmore's Menu of Unsavory Events. • Mark Levy, M.A.’08 has published the humorous essays he had written and broadcast on the public radio show, Weekend Radio. The set of essays appeared in Trophy Envy and They're Only Words, available on his web site, www.trophyenvy.net and from Amazon respectively at:  https://www.amazon.com/Trophy-Heard-Public-RadioWeekend/dp/1717235751/ https://www.amazon.com/Theyre-Only-Words-Public-Weekendebook/dp/B081LJB521/ • Lori A. May, M.F.A.’13, has a new lyric essay published in the latest issue of untethered. She was a featured reader during the January 2020 launch party in Toronto for untethered. Lori also read during the recent Seattle Lit Crawl series and will make an appearance at the Bloomsbury booth during AWP20 in San Antonio. She has an upcoming craft article in The Write Life, and a travel piece forthcoming in The Seattle Times. • Tara Marta, M.A.’18, hosted a discussion at Lackawanna College about her upcoming debut novel, Look Back to Yesterday, and her path to becoming a writer. • Josh Penzone, M.A.’13, had a story collection, The Court of Vintage Woods, published by Brown Posey Press. • Sara Pisak, M.A.’19, reviewed Kai Coggin’s poetry collection, Wingspan which appeared in the December issue of Glass Poetry. Sara’s list of the top five books she read in 2019 was featured in The Poetry Question’s “Top Five” on January 20, 2020. Two of Sara’s poems, “Pulse of the Nation” and “Mercury,” are slated to be published this spring in the Northeast Poetry Review. • Ronnie K. Stephens, M.F.A.’18, wrote a guest blog for Dyslexia Awareness Month published by Teen Librarian Toolbox, a School Library Journal blog. He also recently presented an essay, “Professional Distance: Maintaining an Active Presence in Creative Disciplines as a Community College Professor,” at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference. In March, he will present “Who Put This Song On?: How Playing it Safe Norms the Conservative White Experience“ at the Conference for College Teachers of English and “Ebony Stewart: Transforming Lived Experiences into Award-Winning Literature” at the Texas College �English Association Conference. In December 2019, Stephens reviewed How We Fight for Our Lives for Hippocampus Magazine, as well as several titles for The Poetry Question. Douglas James Troxell, M.A.’13, is tickled pink to announce that his debut novel, Trumptopia! The United States of Walmart, will be released in March 2020. This dystopian comedy started as one of his thesis projects during his time at Wilkes. Current Students   Juliette Dunn wrote a play called The Puzzle. The play is being developed by Shiner and Rowe in partnership with National Disability Theater. More information. Jason Miller has been accepted to Binghamton University's English Literature Ph.D. program starting in the fall. 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 Make A Gift �Schedule a Visit Parking Information Virtual Tour Campus Map 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. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Revise This! | 2020-02.pdf Creative Writing Maslow Maslow Family Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Revise This Writing https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/922e8662e03a1025f1013ab1ceec9826.pdf 4754918b7a6990a737d043da61d16f3b PDF Text Text Search... 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! Revise This – September 2019 Norman Mailer Society Annual Conference This year’s conference will be held at Wilkes University, in WilkesBarre, PA, from Thursday, October 10 through Saturday, October 12, 2019. Thursday and Friday will be full days of panels and events; panels will continue on Saturday morning and the conference will conclude with our Saturday luncheon and keynote address. This year, we are happy to announce that the keynote will be delivered by Norman's youngest daughter, Maggie Mailer, a New York-based painter. You can find more information about Maggie's work at www.maggiemailer.com. Susan Mailer will be reading from her new release, In Another Place With and Without My Revise This! n 2018 n n �Father, Norman Mailer, followed by a book signing on Thursday, October 10 at 4:30 p.m. The conference will also feature a screening of the 1982 film The Executioner’s Song (based on Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize winning true-crime novel published in 1979) on Friday, October 11 at 7:00 p.m. in the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center. (The screening is free and open to the public.) On Saturday, October 12, a reading of selections from Mailer’s 1998 anthology, The Time of our Time, will be presented by The Wilkes Readers Theatre, featuring students, alum, and faculty of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University.    Hotel Accommodations Hotel accommodations will be provided by Genetti's Best Western, just a few blocks from the Wilkes University campus. You can reserve your room one of two ways (in both cases, making sure to mention you will be there for the Norman Mailer Conference; the room block is under "Wilkes Creative Writing/Norman Mailer Conference"): 1) By email: frontdesk@genetti.com 2) By phone: 1-570-823-6152 Transportation If you are booking a flight to the conference, the closest airport is the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport (AVP). From there, it is about a 20-minute cab/Uber/Lyft ride to Genetti's Best Western. The Best Western also offers a free airport shuttle; however, you will need to call the hotel 24 hours in advance of your arrival to arrange for airport pickup. �For those driving to the conference, or flying into a different airport and renting a car, the hotel does provide free parking for guests. Registration Registration fees for the 2019 conference are as follows: • 2019 Individual Registration Fee: $150 • 2019 Student Registration Fee: $75 • 2019 Guest Fee: $50 Each presenter, moderator, or individual attendee may bring one guest who must pay the Guest Registration Fee of $50. The guest does not have to be a member of the Norman Mailer Society. If someone is NOT a presenter or moderator but attends the conference, that person must be a member, must pay the respective registration fee, and may still bring only one guest. Registration fees can be paid at https://www.paypal.me/normanmailer. Fall Writing Workshop The Maslow Family Creative Writing Program will be offering a Introduction to Fiction community workshop to interested students this Fall: Introduction to Fiction: The Elements of Story An introductory workshop in fiction writing. Adults of all ages and all experience levels and genres are welcome. Each week, an element of story (image, voice, character, setting, and story) will be explored through lecture, discussion and writing exercises. At the end of each workshop session, a writing prompt will be assigned. Students will craft a one to two-page piece of fiction and return the following week with these assignments, to be delivered during the workshop. Participants will complete a portfolio of fiction writing samples during this workshop series. Meetings: Tuesdays 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – Cohen Science Center, Room 102 September 17, 24, October 1, 8, 15 and 22 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Bill Schneider June 2019 Residency Scholarship Award Winners �Sara Pisak of Sugarloaf, Pa., was awarded The Norris Church Mailer Scholarship on June 21, 2019. Pisak completed her M.A. in Creative Writing - Creative Nonfiction and is pursuing her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. Photo credit: Shawn Hatten The Norris Church Mailer Scholarship is awarded to a student with demonstrated talent, need and a commitment to serving the writing community. Created by Norman Mailer, it is given in honor of Norris Church Mailer, a writer and board member in her own right. Awarded annually, faculty members nominate students who are already in the program. Julianna Evans of Jim Thorpe, Pa., was awarded The Jennifer Diskin Scholarship on June 21, 2019. Evans is pursuing her M.A. in Creative Writing - Poetry at Wilkes University.   Julianna Evans (right) is presented The Jennifer Diskin Scholarship by Dr. Bonnie Culver (left), co-founder and director of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. Photo credit: Bill Schneider �The Jennifer Diskin Scholarship is awarded to a student with demonstrated need and talent and a commitment to studying poetry. It is given in honor of alumna Jennifer Diskin, who passed away after a brave struggle with cancer. Started by her family, poetry faculty members nominate students who are already in the program. Congratulations to the New Editorial Team of River and South Review! • Managing Editor - Amanda Cino • CNF Editor - Jennifer Tarr • Fiction Editor - James "Jake" Cannington • Poetry Editor - Caitlin Downs • Production and Design Editor - Danah Lassiter • Readers - Wayne Benson, Tyler Miles, Ely Reyes-Viruet • Proofreader - Toni-Lyn Sorger This literary review will continue to be produced by current students in the Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program. River and South Review seeks to be a home for work that evokes a visceral reaction, encourages continued conversation, captures the adventures of life, and spurs its readers to go find their own adventures to write about. Announcements Faculty J. Michael Lennon recently published a review in the Times Literary Supplement (July 12) of Douglas Brinkley’s new book, American Moonshot: JFK and the Great Space Race. Please click on the following link to access the review: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/cold-war-trophy/ Alumni Randee Bretherick, M.F.A. ’13. The Kindle version of Randee’s second novel, Criminal Chokehold (published under the name Randee Green) was released on July 16, 2019. The paperback version will be available on September 10, 2019. Randee was also a featured speaker at the Gaithersburg Book Festival in May. Cindy Dlugolecki, M.A. ‘11, was one of eight playwrights with a short play included in the Cicada Festival at Mt Gretna, Pa, on August 30. Boxed In had its premier in an evening of staged readings with the theme “Sanity Takes a Holiday.” �Janine P. Dubik, M.F.A. ’19, taught a six-week community writing workshop on character development at Wilkes University this summer. Her poem “My heart” is part of the 2019 Poetry in Transit program with the Luzerne County Transportation Authority. This is the fourth consecutive year her work is being displayed in LCTA buses. “Self” and “Alphabet,” two of her poems, are published in Issue 16, 2019, of Word Fountain, the Osterhout Free Library literary magazine. The literary magazine is being released this month. Richard Fellinger, M.F.A. ‘10, published an excerpt from his novel, Summer of '85, in the 2019 edition of Seven Hills Review (Volume 24). The excerpt from the unpublished novel won the journal's Novel Excerpt Contest. Richard also published a pair of op-eds on national politics in Lancaster's LNP newspaper. His July 14, 2019 op-ed is titled "In defense of the seemingly lost art of the apology," and his June 14, 2019 op-ed is titled "About Joe Biden's frontrunner problem." Cooper Gorelick, M.A. ’17, showcased three of his ten-minute plays being produced as part of the Third Annual One-Act Play Festival Act 1 Scene 1 at the Village Playbox in Haddon Heights, New Jersey (September 12-14). Margaret McCaffrey, M.A. ’15. Her story “Winter in America” was broadcast on Vision Australia Radio this July. The Cover to Cover program featured members of Elwood Writers (Elwoodwriters.com) who curated stories and poems around the theme of Winter. Ginger Marcinkowski, M.F.A. ’11, was chosen as a recipient for a fiveday residency for the Nancy Zafris Short Story Fellowship at The Porches in Norwood, Virginia which she attended in July 2019. Nancy Zafris is the series editor of the Flannery O’Connor award for short fiction and was for nine years the fiction editor of The Kenyon Review. Ginger was also chosen from over 300 applicants to attend the Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts (KIRA) in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada for the month of August 2019. Nisha Sharma, M.F.A. ’14, received the RITA award for best YA novel of 2018 from the Romance Writers of America Organization. Pamela Turchin, M.F.A. ’18, was selected to read a piece of short fiction at OutWrite, Washington DC’s annual LGBTQ literary festival on August 3, 2019. Current Students Tyler Miles shorty story“A Change in the Winds” was recently published by the online fantasy and science fiction magazine Collective Realms. �Jason Miller’s flash fiction piece "We All Scream" has been accepted by the online journal Prometheus Dreaming (www.prometheusdreaming.com). Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Summer 2019 Maslow Foundation Salon Reading Series at Wilkes University Scheduled for June 16-20, 2019 All events are free and open to the public Programs at the door include biographies. A book fair, sponsored by Barnes & Noble, features books for purchase by the authors. All readings Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 are free and open to the public except Sunday, June 16. Sunday, June 16, 2019: RC Theaters 14, 24 E Northampton Street 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. FILM NIGHT Michael Mailer Films presents: The Second Sun With producer, Michael Mailer; star, John Buffalo Mailer; and director Jennifer Gelfer as guests. Followed by Q & A  Revise This! Archives n 2018 n n �Monday, June 17, 2019: Dorothy Dickson Darte Center 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Maslow Foundation Evening Reading Series  POETRY, FICTION AND NONFICTION SAMPLER Bill Schneider, Lenore Hart, Kevin Oderman, Donna Talarico, David Poyer, Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr, Jeff Talarigo, Mike Lennon  Tuesday, June 18, 2019: Dorothy Dickson Darte Center 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Maslow Foundation Salon Reading Series  POETRY, FICTION AND NONFICTION SAMPLER Laurie Loewenstein, Christine Gelineau, Kaylie Jones, Taylor Polites, Beverly Donofrio, Robert Mooney, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Phil Brady, H. L. Hix  Wednesday, June 19, 2019: Dorothy Dickson Darte Center 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.  PLAYWRIGHTS NIGHT Group S.O.S. by Bonnie Culver Readers: TBA  PLAYWRITING FACULTY Bonnie Culver, Gregory Fletcher, Jean Klein, Jan Quackenbush, Juanita Rockwell  Thursday, June 20, 2019: Dorothy Dickson Darte Center 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Maslow Foundation Evening Reading Series Special Reading of alums, faculty, and special guests Alums: Richard Fellinger and Leah Vernon Faculty: Nancy McKinley, Ross Klavan, Gregory Fletcher Special Guest: Maureen Corrigan  M.A. and M.F.A. Creative Writing Graduates Don their Caps in Spring Commencement �Left to right: Janine Dubik, Patricia Naumann, Sarah Bedford and Danielle Watson Congratulations to the graduates of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing who were awarded their diplomas at the May 18, 2019 spring commencement ceremony at Wilkes University: MA • Sarah Bedford – Fiction • • • Todd Conatser – Screenwriting Patricia Naumann – Creative Nonfiction Lindsey Wotanis – Creative Nonfiction MFA • Jeremiah Blue • • Janine Dubik • • Camika Spencer Karley Stasko Danielle Watson Congratulations to each of these members of our Wilkes writing community, and welcome to the newest members of the Wilkes Alumni Association! Summer Community Workshops Be sure to check out the two non-credit community workshops offered this summer on the Wilkes University campus for adult learners of any �age. Advance registration for these community workshops is available at wilkes.augusoft.net Character Development:Plumping Up Flat Stanley or Stella Flat Stanley may be perfect for traveling along in your suitcase; however, a protagonist who is flat is not one who readers will spend their free time with. To help keep the reader's interest, we'll explore ways to take Stanley or Stella from flat to rounded. We'll review five ways writers can plump up their characters—through image, voice, action, thought, and author's interpretation. We'll spend the six-week workshop for adults of all ages creating a new character or developing a character who's been in the back of our heads waiting to come alive. • Meetings: Tuesdays – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. • Dates: July 9, 16, 23, 30, August 6 and 13 • Cost: $65.00 for the entire series • Instructor: Janine Dubik Writing for Social Media: How to Plan, Market and Earn In this six-week non-credit course, adults of all ages will learn the language of social media, how to market their own work/selves and how to earn money working as a social media marketer. Participants will leave the class with an assessment of their own social media habits, understanding of blog writing, website copy and how to use Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for marketing purposes. • Meetings: Wednesdays – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. • Dates: July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7 and 14 • Cost: $65.00 for the entire series • Instructor: Danielle Watson Mailer Conference Returning in October The 17thAnnual Norman Mailer Society Conference returns to Wilkes University October 10-12, 2019 with the theme:Mailer on Politics, Public Life, and Pop Culture. The Norman Mailer Society call for papers that address any of the above categories plus those that help celebrate the 40-year anniversary ofThe Executioner’s Song,the 50-year anniversary ofOf a Fire on the Moon,and the 60-year anniversary ofAdvertisements of Myself. Conference highlights include: • Keynote speaker Maggie Mailer, youngest daughter of Norman Mailer �• A reception to celebrate the opening of the Norman Mailer Room and Collection. This room, housed in the Farley Library, is a research/Mailer scholar’s dream. It is a replica of Mailer’s last studio in Provincetown that includes his private library, manuscripts and revisions, dating from 1984, and his studio furniture • A reading from The Time of Our Time • Screening of the film The Executioner’s Song • And more… To be part of the reading of The Time of Our Time, contact Dr. Culver. To submit a proposal for the conference, please email the following toMaggie McKinley andMike Lennonby June 1, 2019: • 50-word biographical statement • 150-200 word abstract of the proposed presentation • Indication of A/V Requirements Graduate students are also welcome to submit proposals. Students who present at the conference will receive a $100 travel grant. Hotel accommodations will be at Genetti’s Best Western, Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, PA at $89 per night (from October 9 through October 13). The hotel offers free shuttle service from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton airport, hot buffet breakfast, parking, and is a two-block walk to campus. The Norman Mailer Society Graduate Writing Award The Norman Mailer Society invites submissions for its first annual Graduate Writing Award, which recognizes high-quality graduate student work about or inspired by the work of Norman Mailer. Eligible entries include academic papers or creative pieces composed by current graduate students. Submissions should be 10-15 pages, doublespaced, in 12 point Times New Roman font, and should be sent to:Maggie McKinley, President of the Norman Mailer Society. The deadline is June 1, 2019 The winner of the Norman Mailer Society Graduate Writing Award receives: • a $500 cash award • a complimentary one-year membership in the Mailer Society, which includes that year’s issue of The Mailer Review �• an opportunity to work with the editor of The Mailer Review to publish a revised version of the essay or creative piece Executive board members of the Norman Mailer Society will evaluate all entries and notify entrants of their decision. FACULTY NEWS • Gregory Fletcheris pleased to announce the publication of his first YA novel, Other People’s Crazy (Overdue Books, an imprint of Northampton House Press), and Tom and Huck—Breakin’ the Law (Blue Moon Plays), a full-length play. • Jean Klein will present a fully staged reading of the first act of her latest play, Generous Rivals, June 13and 14 at Zeider’s American Dream Theater, Virginia Beach, VA. • Blue Moon Plays recently publishedN, by Adrienne Pender (M.F.A. ‘11), a full-length explosive drama about Charles Gilpin, in which the noted African-American actor clashes with Eugene O’Neill. • Check out Mike Lennon’s review of Philip Brady’s new book, Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2019) for the May/June 2019 Issue of Hippocampus Magazine (#94) and of John O’Hara: Four Novels of the 1930s, edited by Steven Goldleaf. • David Poyer is pleased to announce the April 2019 publication of Robert P. Arthur, Selected Works (Northampton House Press). Poet of national renown and former Wilkes Creative Writing faculty member, Robert P. Arthur is a virtuoso practitioner of a wide variety of forms. His work displays an acute feel for drama and a vivid sense of place. This collection includes the best of hundreds of poems written by Arthur over a forty-year career, including “The Arrow,” “The Poetess of Blue Streak Grill,” and more. In addition, Poyer’s upcoming novel, Heroes of Annapolis is due for release July 2019.Over the last ten years, Poyer has spent thousands of hours researching for Shipmate, the U.S. Naval Academy’s magazine. The extraordinary personal stories of adventure and courage he’s collected span American history from the Civil War to the War on Terror.Heroes of Annapolis shines light into corners of history that still affect us today. STUDENTS/ALUMNI NEWS • Amye Archer's (M.F.A. ’11) anthology: If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings will be released September 3, 2019 from Skyhorse Publishing. Amye's co-editor on this project was Loren Kleinman. • Jeffrey Alves (M.A. ’18) was recently recognized by The International Council of Small Business (ICSB) as Professor Emeritus Jeffrey R. Alves, a Global Leader, and named editor of the Journal of the International Council for Small Business (JICSB). JICSB will focus �on policies and practices that will help micro, small and medium sized enterprises elevate their communities to a better standard of living. • Austin Grant Bennett (MFA ’15) reviewed What Does Not Return by poet Tami Haaland for Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts (Volume 21, Issues 1 & 2, Spring 2019), with a reprint at www.losthorsepress.org/catalog/what-does-not-return/. In addition, he served on the judging panel for the Poetry Out Loud Regional Final held at Montana State University Billings in February. • Cindy Dlugolecki, (M.A. ’11), was a semi-finalist with her play The Bombcatchers in a contest sponsored by the Theatre on the Lake in Deep Creek, MD. Her play Royal Tea was produced by students in St. Peter the Apostle Catholic High School, Alberta, Canada, in an April one-act-play festival. Cindy's short play, Birthday Surprise, will have a staged reading in Oyster Mill Playhouse, Camp Hill, PA, as part of the "Not-Run-of-the Mill Plays" Festival during Father's Day Weekend. • Patricia Florio (M.F.A. ’11) is in the thick of proofing the Summer 2019 issue of American Writers Review. She is sending galleys to the writers from the UK, Scotland, Australia, and across the USA, incorporating a dynamic mix of seasoned Wilkes writers and others whose work will be published for the first time. The anthology shows off Pat’s photography as well as that of Jeff Talarigo. Christine Gelineau, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, and Alyssa Waugh(M.F.A. ’14) are the judges for the summer issue. She looks forward to introducing this edition in the month of June and is hopeful to have a reading at Words Bookstore in Brooklyn. She has also taken on two new editorial staff members: Kristin Florio and Dale Louise Mervine (M.A ’16). On Friday, June 14 several alums will read from the latest issue to open the June 2019 residency. • Tara Lynn Marta (M.A. ’18) is pleased to announce that her first novel, Look Back to Yesterday, will be published by Adelaide Books in May of 2020. • Ann Lee Miller (M.F.A. ’18) was chosen English Adjunct of the Year 2018-19 at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, AZ where she teaches English Composition I & II. • Dawn Leas (M.F.A. ’09) and Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. ‘13) are partnering to offer Words in the Sand, a writing retreat September 13-15 in Ocean Grove, NJ It is the second year that they are offering the retreat, which this year will include a session on creating a hybrid work combining creative non-fiction and poetry and another using hands-on materials, such as Legos, Play-Doh and colored pencils, to stimulate the writing process. Dawn's website is www.thehammockwriter.com and you can catch up with Vicki at www.vickimayk.com. • Patti Naumann (M.A. ’19) was accepted into the Trinity College Dublin Sancho Panza Society Literary Conference Summer Workshop to be held June 4 - 14 and the Kettle Pond Creative NonFiction Manuscript Workshop held at Paul Smith's College in the �Adirondacks June 22 - 29. Suzanne Ohlmann’s (M.F.A. ’17) essay, “Hallelujah,” will be published in the Spring 2019 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, a literary journal produced by Columbia University. Sara Pisak (M.A. Student) was promoted to Visual Poetry Editor at Helen: A Literary Magazine. Sara's review of Jennifer Patterson’s debut poetry collection, A Beautiful Unraveling, appeared online April 22 at Mookychick in the U.K. Two of Sara's erasure poems, “Spark of Existence” and, “Wafted the Sound of Voices” are slated to be published this summer in the fifth issue of Moonchild Magazine. Joseph Schwartzburt (M.F.A. ’13) will emcee the Second Annual Muster of Peacocks reading at the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home in Savannah, GA on May 19, 2019. The reading will feature eight members of the Peacock Guild Writers' Salon, a bi-monthly writers' group. Joseph has been a member of the group since 2010 and has led the salon sessions for the last 3 years. In August the Salon celebrates its 10th year and will be toasting it's most esteemed alum, Zach Powers, as his first novel, First Cosmic Velocity, is released by G.P. Putnam and Sons (imprint of Penguin). Melanie Simms (M.A. Student) was featured in an April 29 interview with Mindy Cronk on WVIA Public Media. A reading from her book, Life Signs & Fortune Cookies: Stories & Poems of a Strange but Beautiful Life (Brown Posey//Sunbury Press) is included with the interview. Danie Watson (M.F.A. ’19) recently accepted a job at Volunteers of America as an Employment Instructor where she is assisting members of the Wilkes-Barre community with their resumes, cover letters and applications. Watson is also integrating creative writing prompts into her class. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. Farley Library Human Resources Jobs at Wilkes Online Nursing Offices & Administration Accessibility Statement Financial Aid Adobe Acrobat® Reader Make A Gift �Registrar's Office Finance Office Investor Relations Student Work Study Jobs Veterans Services Visit Quick Links Schedule a Visit Parking Information Virtual Tour Campus Map 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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Title A name given to the resource Revise This! | 2019-06.pdf Creative Writing Maslow Maslow Family Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Revise This Writing https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/3a9a6a334d9c79a7f409fa5aaa3829b4.pdf 77559c24a2cb7d116a615158d9d2c011 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 Spring 2019 - Revise This! Spring 2019 Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 Revise This! Archives  Left to right: Dr. Patrick F. Leahy (President, Wilkes University), Mary Poth (M.A. student), Dr. Nancy McKinley (Faculty Member) The Faculty and Alumni Scholarship is Awarded At the closing banquet of the January 2019 Residency, Dr. Nancy McKinley, fiction and creative nonfiction writer and founding faculty member, presented Mary Poth with the program’s inaugural award of the annual Faculty and Alumni Scholarship. This newly established scholarship is awarded to one or more incoming students at the M.A. n 2018 n n �level of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing based on a writing sample and essay submitted as part of the application materials. The scholarship recipient is determined by a three-member faculty committee who recommends students to Dr. Bonnie Culver, program director and co-founder. This scholarship is funded entirely through the generous donations of faculty and alumni. Mary is pursuing her M.A. thesis in fiction with Dr. Robert Mooney as her mentor. She is from Lovettsville, VA and joined the Wilkes community in June, 2018. Congratulations Mary Poth! Marlon James Releases His Latest Novel Marlon James (M.A. ‘06) is having another amazing year. His latest release, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Riverhead Books, 2019), takes us on a fantastical ride with Tracker, a mercenary enlisted to search for a missing boy. The first novel in The Dark Star Trilogy, Black Leopard, Red Wolf has skyrocketed to the New York Times Bestseller List. James has also been featured in recent articles in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. The critically acclaimed Wilkes alum is the author of three additional novels, including: A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books, 2015), winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize; John Crow’s Devil (Akashic Books, 2005), National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and The Book of Night Women (Riverhead Books, 2009). James teaches creative writing and is the writer in residence at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. 17th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference The 17th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference will take place at Wilkes University October 10-12, 2019 with the theme: Mailer on Politics, Public Life, and Pop Culture. The Norman Mailer Society calls for papers that address any of the above categories plus those that help celebrate the 40-year anniversary of The Executioner’s Song, the 50-year anniversary of Of a Fire on the Moon, and the 60-year anniversary of Advertisements of Myself. Conference highlights include: • Keynote speaker Maggie Mailer, youngest daughter of Norman Mailer • A reception to celebrate the opening of the Norman Mailer Room and Collection. This room, housed in the Farley Library, is a research/Mailer scholar’s dream. It is a replica of Mailer’s last studio in Provincetown that includes his private library, manuscripts and revisions, dating from 1984, and his studio furniture • A reading from The Time of Our Time • Screening of the film The Executioner’s Song �• And more…… To submit a proposal for the conference, please email the following to Maggie McKinley and Mike Lennon by June 1, 2019: 1. 50-word biographical statement 2. 150-200 word abstract of the proposed presentation 3. Indication of A/V Requirements Hotel accommodations will be at Genetti’s Best Western, Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, PA at $89 per night (from October 9 through October 13). The hotel offers free shuttle from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton airport, hot buffet breakfast, parking, and is a two-block walk to campus. More details regarding hotel reservations and conference registration are forthcoming. Call for Submissions: The Norman Mailer Society Graduate Writing Award The Norman Mailer Society invites submissions for its first annual Graduate Writing Award, which recognizes high-quality graduate student work about or inspired by the work of Norman Mailer. Eligible entries include academic papers or creative pieces composed by current graduate students. Submissions should be 10-15 pages, doublespaced, in 12 point Times New Roman font, and should be sent to: Maggie McKinley, President of the Norman Mailer Society. THE DEADLINE IS JUNE 1, 2019 The winner of the Norman Mailer Society Graduate Writing Award receives: • a $500 cash award • a complimentary one-year membership in the Mailer Society, which includes that year’s issue of The Mailer Review • an opportunity to work with the editor of The Mailer Review to publish a revised version of the essay or creative piece Executive board members of the Norman Mailer Society will evaluate all entries and notify entrants of their decision. Graduate students are also welcome to submit proposals for the annual Norman Mailer Conference, which will be held at Wilkes University from October 10-12, 2019. Students who present at the conference will receive a $100 travel grant. Proposals for all presentations should be sent to Maggie McKinley. Faculty News �• Faculty member Greg Fletcher’s first YA novel, Other People’s Crazy, has finished pre-production at Northampton House Press against a publication date of June, 2019. In a high school in suburban Arizona, the biggest kid in his sophomore class is being bullied by the smallest. With no dad, best friend, or girlfriend, Brandon’s life feels like pure hopeless chaos. But thanks to his crazy single mom, a stray dog, a bronco-busting hairdresser, a random left turn, and boomerang karma from the Universe, Brandon has a chance to turn his life in a new direction. Chaos, or Choice? They’re both in the mix of crazy at Mesa Verde High. Look for it on the sale table at Barnes & Noble at this summer’s residency! • Beverly Donofrio is thrilled that her personal essay “Meanness,” which appeared in Brevity has been nominated for inclusion in the Best Essays of SPACE  by Brevity for 2018 Best American Essays and will be included in the Best of Brevity anthology. Her personal essay “Bad Memorial Day,” which appeared in Cagibi, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  • Jean Klein is pleased to announce that Blue Moon has licensed two productions from members of the Wilkes family so far this year. Distant Survivors, a play based on the Holocaust poetry of William Heyen (Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Advisory Board Member), adapted by June Prager, ran for eleven performances in February at Zeider’s American Dream Theater in Virginia Beach to responsive crowds. Royal Tea, a play by Cindy Dlugolecki (M.A. ‘13) will be performed at St. Peter the Apostle High School in Alberta, Canada. (Dates TBA) • J. Michael Lennon will have a review-essay on the first four novels of Pottsville, PA novelist, John O’Hara, coming out in the (London) Times Literary Supplement next month. O’Hara wrote perhaps the finest novel of Southeast, Pennsylvania, Appointment in Samarra, in 1935. A classic. Also, he has a review of Philip Brady’s Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City forthcoming in Hippocampus. • Nancy McKinley’s novel-in-stories, St. Christopher on Pluto, has been accepted by West Virginia University Press, with publication slated in 2020.   • Lenore Hart was recently awarded an international writing Fellowship at the Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Germany. Along with a composer and two visual artists, she will be spending six weeks as 2019’s Writing Fellow in a studio and apartment on the grounds of the residential palace built in 1890. The palace is also a museum, concert and lecture hall, and theater. The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts �offers an annual exchange residency for the four varied types of artists. Lenore will arrive on June 1 and stay until July 15, working on the proposed project they accepted; a collection of contemporary short stories based on the darker original versions of German fairy tales and Greek myths. There will be an open house at the Oberpfalzer museum and their studios in the Kunstlerhaus on June 30. She is really looking forward to this total-immersion experience in a foreign setting and already desperately trying to improve her language skills! Alumni and Student News • Robert Antinozzi (M.F.A. ‘14) and Alyssa Waugh (M.F.A. ‘14) started their own publishing company: Blind Faith Books. Their first anthology is entitled I AM STRENGTH: True Stories of Everyday Superwomen. Two thirds of the book's proceeds benefit No Means No Worldwide and Girls Inc. The book includes essays, poems, and art by many Wilkes alums as well as other women from all over the U.S. The second book Blind Faith published, Drowning Back to Life, a collection of poetry by Elise Emersyn, tells a story through poetry of falling in love with herself and breaking toxic cycles. They are currently accepting submissions for the next anthology: I Am More Than my Addiction. In additional news, Alyssa’s book, Hell's Laughter and Other Spooky Tales, is out in paperback and available on Amazon and her poem, "Sure" was also recently published on Writing in a Woman's Voice. • Aurora Bonner (M.F.A ’18) had an essay published through Assay: Journal of Nonfiction Studies in October, 2018. Additionally, she published two book reviews, one through the Colorado Review on The Jaws of Life by Laura Leigh Morris and one through Brevity Magazine on Dig: A Personal Prehistoric Journey, by Sam Chiarelli (M.F.A. ’16). • Caryn DeVincenti (M.F.A ’16), aka Dana Ross (pen name) had her first book, Full Girlfriend Experience, a romantic suspense novel birthed through her M.F.A classes at Wilkes, released through The Wild Rose Press on February 18, 2019. Readers can purchase it on Amazon and Barnes & Noble (online). • Brian Fanelli's (M.F.A. ‘10) essay, "Rethinking Early Horror Cinema: Gender, Female Empowerment, and Sexuality in Nosferatu, Frankenstein, and Bride of Frankenstein," appeared in the fall issue of Schuylkill Valley Journal, both print and online. Additionally, his interview, "Channeling the Dark Muse: An Interview with Eric Morago, Editor of Dark Ink," was published in January by the website Horror Homeroom. He also has published and forthcoming poetry in Evening Street Review, Italian Americana, and The Paterson Literary Review. �• Patricia Florio (M.F.A. ’11) of San Fedele Press and American Writers Review was featured in an interview in the August, 2018 issue of Boston Voyager. She will also have copies of the 2018 literary anthology of American Writers Review at the NewPages table, along with information on taking 2019 submissions at the AWP Conference in Portland, Oregon. • Gerald J. Gurka (M.A. ’07) had his article, “Second Sunday of Lent,” published in King’s College Lenten Reflection Series Calendarfor Sunday, March 17, 2019. He is also the author and director of a new play entitled, A Holy Land Tour of the Passion, to be performed on Friday, April 12, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. in St. John’s Church, 126 Nesbitt Street, Larksville, PA. The performance is open to the public. He is currently writing “Freddie Foodmore’s Menu of Unsavory Events,” a Young Readers Story for Northampton Press. • Anne Henry (M.F.A ‘11) is thrilled to report that her story, “That’s It, That’s the News,” will be included in Air: A Radio Anthology published by Books by Hippocampus (coming Spring 2019). True stories from radio in its heyday! Pre-orders accepted on the website. She is also happy to announce that her story, “The Cold War,” was accepted for publication in the next issue of American Writers Review (Summer, 2019). • Joshua Horwitz (M.A. ‘16) has formed a media company CellCinema that helps movie makers, documentarians and activists make cinema quality productions using current model cell phones with high end audio and specialized lenses. They are currently accepting interns for the Spring/Summer. • Jennifer Jenkins (M.F.A. ‘17) has published "The Secret Door" in the Winter 2019 edition of Up North Lit. It is a chapter from her forthcoming novel, American Bourbon. • Nichole Kanney (M.F.A. '15) ran a screenwriting workshop in February to support Readathon, a fundraiser that promotes literacy for the students at Richmond Friends School. She also participated in Warp and Woof, a storytelling event for Wayne County Indiana. Nichole has joined the Wayne Writes committee, which hosts an annual weekend writing conference in the summer. Stay tuned for more! • Bibiana Krall (M.F.A ‘18) is among the poets chosen for the 2019 Poetry Leaves Exhibition that will be displayed on buildings, inside City Hall, and in the library during the month of May all across Waterford Twp., Michigan. The exhibition was launched in 2014 as a �way to celebrate National Poetry Month. A grant from the Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs funded the project in the beginning. Bibiana’s poem “Little Universe” will also be published in an anthology later on this year. She’s just wrapped up a Writing Fellowship with Deep Center in Savannah, Georgia as a mentor in The Young Author Project where she taught Creative Writing to an incredible group of inner-city teens (Go Team Hess!) with a focus on diversity and empowerment. • Ginger Marcinkowski, (M.F.A. ‘11) has been chosen by Kingsbrae International Residence for the Arts (KIRA) for a month-long August residency in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. She will have the opportunity to write on the seaside property of Kingsbrae Gardens. Visiting artists are required to engage with the community and partner with Kingsbrae Garden which is located steps away from the residence and studio. Applications were open to a range of disciplines and types of artists including, the visual arts, music/composition, new media, and interdisciplinary arts. Artists from all levels in their career who exhibited a strong professional work ethic and a collaborative attitude were considered for this very competitive honor. Marcinkowski will be working on a new collection of linked short stories during her residency. • Vicki Mayk’s (M.F.A. ‘13) nonfiction book, The Friends of Owen Thomas (working title) will be published by Beacon Press in 2020. Her personal essay, “Dayparts,” will be included in the anthology Air, publishing in March, 2019 from Books by Hippocampus.   • Sara Pisak (M.A. Student) was named a Staff Reviewer for Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Sara's review of Sonia Greenfield's chapbook, American Parable appeared online January 17 and her review of Adrienne Novy's chapbook, Crowd Surfing With God, was published in the magazine's March issue as well as online. Sara's review of Anne Graue's poetry collection, Fig Tree in Winter: Found Poetry From Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, was also featured in the Litstyle section of Five:2:One Magazine. Sara's work can also be found in the sixteenth issue of Boston Accent for a poetry/art collaborative feature entitled, "20/20" and "Prints." • Oliver Reilly (M.F.A. ‘13) was recently hired by Lehigh Carbon Community College as an instructor of Literature and Composition. • Joseph Schwartzburt’s (M.F.A. ’13) non-fiction piece entitled “Gavin and the Paci Pirate” was published in Akashic Books’ Terrible Twosdays Online Series on January 8, 2019.   �• Nisha Sharma (M.F.A. ’13) received a Library Journal starred review for The Takeover Effect, a contemporary romance releasing on April 2, 2019. The Takeover Effect is the first in a trilogy published by Avon Impulse. • Melanie Simms (M.A. Student) is promoting her third book, Life Signs and Fortune Cookies, published by Sunbury Press out of Mechanicsburg, PA, released in the winter of 2018. She appeared on a WVIA in an interview with Mindy Cronk on February 28, which will go out on the next Art Scene program in March. In addition, she recently appeared on ABC 27 in Harrisburg for the Author Spotlight and with Tory Gates Brown Posey Press Show. She was also selected as one of the judges in the poetry category for the Pennwriters. • Ora Smith (M.A. ’17) is pleased to announce the November 2018 release of her children’s picture book, A Christmas Story of Light. She will write a blog about her amazing experience writing and illustrating the book for the pre-holiday issue of The Write Life. • Alan N. Yount (M.A. ’18) will be part of the Tenth Anniversary Story Slam at the Woodstock Bookfest on Thursday, March 28, 2019. The theme of the Story Slam is “it’s about time,” and Alan will answer that burning question…How do you know when it’s about time to leave a sex club? AWP 2019 The 2019 AWP Conference & Bookfair will be held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon from March 27 – 30, 2018. In Portland, swing by these sessions and support the Wilkes CW family, including program partners Akashic Books and Etruscan Press: Ibrahim Ahmad (Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing and Akashic Books) Can I Pick Your Brain? The Fine Line Between Giving Back and Getting Paid Friday, March 29, 2018 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. B117-119 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 The right connections in publishing can jumpstart your career and make the journey more enjoyable. But there is a fine line when asking for a favor (or a freebie) and networking. This panel looks at how emerging �writers can gracefully navigate the art of "the ask" and how established authors can balance their time and effort and meaningful connections. Five publishing insiders share secrets of effective networking without looking self-interested—and when to say no without looking unsupportive. Kazim Ali (The Disappearance of Seth, Etruscan Press) Reinventing the Wheel: The Tradition of Innovation in Poetry Friday, March 29, 2019 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Portland Ballroom 256 Oregon Convention Center Level 2 Sidney famously writes, "And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way" ("Astrophel and Stella"). However, one would only need to read Homer, Virgil, and Dante, the letters between Wordsworth and Coleridge or Moore and Bishop, to recognize the long tradition of poets mentoring and inspiring other poets. The poets will challenge the notion that tradition and innovation are at odds by revealing how specific poems influenced them and led them to better understand different poetic elements. Kazim Ali (The Disappearance of Seth, Etruscan Press) Fifty Years of FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Saturday, March 30, 2019 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. B115 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Since 1969, FIELD Magazine has been known as one of the country's leading journals of contemporary poetry and poetics. In 2019, FIELD will publish its 100th and final issue. This panel, featuring two founding editors and three later additions, will discuss the magazine's history and values, including its annual symposium of essays on the work of a major poet, its commitment to translation, and its openness to a wide variety of voices, both established and emerging. Laurie Jean Cannady (Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul, Etruscan Press) and Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Faculty) #MeToo, Girlhood:Writing and Subverting Childhood Sexual Violence Narratives Thursday, March 28, 2019 �3 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. E145 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Writers discuss creating narratives of girlhood sexual trauma, share influences and craft advice, and offer strategies for overcoming the challenges of writing these stories. The writers on this panel create works that subvert common victim narratives—via humor, style, non-linearity, narrator agency, lack of disclosure, and more—as well as examine the intersections of gender, race, class, inherited trauma, and sexual identity on narratives of sexual violence. Laurie Jean Cannady (Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul, Etruscan Press) and Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Faculty) Author Signing Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:15 p.m. – 5 p.m. Booth 3031 – AWP Bookfair Robert Eastwood (Romer, Etruscan Press) Author Signing Friday, March 29, 2019 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. Booth 3031 – AWP Bookfair Stanton Hancock (M.F.A. ‘12) AWP Open Mic and Old School Slam Thursday, March 28, 2019 and Friday, March 29, 2018 B113 10 p.m. to 12 Midnight Oregon Convention Center Level 1 AWP welcomes students to return to the roots of Slam! Open mic special guests and then undergraduate and graduate students partake in a hardcore-break-your-heart-strut-out-the-good-stuff slam competition. Students are welcome to sign up to participate on Friday, March 29, 2019 and Thursday, March 28, 2019 at the Wilkes University/Etruscan Press booth and read original pieces (three minutes or less with no props) at the Slam later that night. Sponsors: Wilkes University and Etruscan Press. Patricia Horvath (All the Diference, Etruscan Press) �Rewriting History: Why It's Not Okay to Fictionalize Our Memories Friday, March 29, 2019 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. B114 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Every so often, literary scandals seem to surface, particularly when it comes to memoirs. Is there an unspoken code of ethics that exists for memoirists and essayists? Or is it something deeper, something psychological that gives birth to the betrayal we feel upon discovering that a nonfiction writer has invented a character, setting, or memory? In this panel, nonfiction writers discuss the difficulty in cultivating memories while managing this genre's ethical demands and expectations. Patricia Horvath (All the Diference, Etruscan Press) Author Signing Friday, March 29, 2019 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Booth 3031 – AWP Bookfair David Lazar (Who's Afraid of Helen of Troy: An Essay on Love, Etruscan Press) Que savent-ils?: What Classic Essays Can Teach Contemporary Essayists Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. B114 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 When's the last time you sat down with an essay by Lamb? Or cracked open The Rambler? Maybe not recently enough. With so many exciting new modes of the essay being written today, it can be easy to forget those of the past, but writers like Montaigne, Rousseau, Hazlitt, and Woolf have more bearing on contemporary essayists than you might think. This diverse panel of essayists writing in a variety of sub-genres shows how the "classics" inspire them—as perhaps they will inspire you, too. Paul Lisicky (The Burning House, Etruscan Press) Endings for the End Times? Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Portland Ballroom 255 Oregon Convention Center �Level 2 As we reach the concluding lines of our own works, current ailments in the body politic may bend us toward chaos and despair. At the same time, ever-present narrative and commercial pressures may drive us toward neatly resolved, even uplifting, endings. How do we craft final notes that imply light and dark, open and closed, emotional and intellectual complexity? We discuss struggles and strategies for endings that feel satisfying for readers, and yet true to the work, the moment, and ourselves. Paul Lisicky (The Burning House, Etruscan Press) Am I Really Going to Do This Until I Die? Friday, March 29, 2019 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Portland Ballroom 256 Oregon Convention Center Level 2 The longer a person teaches workshop, the more prone he or she is to burn out; after all, instructors tend to use the same format semester after semester, and students tend to need the same advice. How can instructors keep workshops feeling relevant and energized? Are there new models that might reinvigorate our students and ourselves? This panel, featuring undergraduate and graduate writing instructors, will address strategies to keep everyone engaged, down to the most exhausted teacher. Shara McCallum (Poems and Their Making, Etruscan Press) Boulevard 35th Anniversary & 100 Issues Reading Saturday, March 30, 2019 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. B116 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Founded in 1984, Boulevard magazine celebrates 100 issues and thirtyfive years of continuously publishing the finest in contemporary voices in fiction, poetry, and definitive essays on the arts and culture. Featuring writers from across our thirty-five years, this reading reflects Boulevard's mission to present a variegated yet coherent ensemble of creative and critical writing by both emerging and established writers. J. D. Schrafenberger (Saint Joe's Passion, Etruscan Press) Impact and Empathy: Service-Learning and Creative Writing Friday, March 29, 2019 �10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. D139-140 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Service-learning and community engagement not only provide student writers with real-world experiences, applied skills, and opportunities for personal growth, but their empathy and perspectives are expanded in ways that transform the creative process. Teachers from various backgrounds and institutions discuss the practical challenges and unique benefits of service-learning in the creative writing classroom, including work with veterans, oceanographers, food co-ops, and refugee organizations. J. D. Schrafenberger (Saint Joe's Passion, Etruscan Press) Changing of the Guard: Editors on Inclusion and Diversity in Literary Journals Saturday, March 30, 2019 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Portland Ballroom 255 Oregon Convention Center Level 2 The VIDA Count is an indispensable measure of gender diversity in literary journal publications. While the numbers layout disparities within this community, the question remains: how can we increase contributor and staff diversity in areas such as race, sexual identity/orientation, and disability? Where is the line between diversity and tokenism? This panel of literary journal editors will share their strides, missteps, and questions on inclusive staff and contributor practices. Tim Seibles (Fast Animal and One Turn Around the Sun, Etruscan Press) and Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Program Advisory Board Member) Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology Reading Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Portland Ballroom 256 Oregon Convention Center Level 2 Eco-justice poetry embodies justice, culture, and the environment. It is poetry born of ecological and social crisis, poetry that holds memory, fed by a wealth of cultural traditions, urgent in our time. Come listen to contributing poets read from and discuss the ground-breaking Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, as each discusses their approach to writing in these troubled times and the traditions that feed their work. �Tim Seibles (Fast Animal and One Turn Around the Sun, Etruscan Press) and Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Program Advisory Board Member) How we need another soul to cling to: Writing Love Poems in Difficult Times Saturday, March 30, 2019 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. D139-140 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 When the news feels like a daily onslaught, it's hard to believe writing a poem can matter—let alone a love poem. Here, five poets will share their own love poems and discuss how writing about love also allows them to explore everything from racism to climate change to queerness to personal grief, then offer strategies of how others might do the same. For how better to know why resistance is worth it? In this panel, we'll discuss not just what we're fighting against but what we're fighting for. Ronnie K. Stephens (M.F.A. ’18)(The Kaleidoscope Sisters, Kaylie Jones Books) Author Signing Thursday, March 28, 2019 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Booth 3031 – AWP Bookfair Daneen Wardrop (Silk Road, Etruscan Press) Author Signing Friday, March 29, 2019 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Booth 3031 – AWP Bookfair For the full AWP19 schedule, visit the AWP Conference Schedule. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Make A Gift �Online Nursing Programs E.S. 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The Norman Mailer Society Conference, 2019 A Diferent Norman BY JASON MILLER  In The Spooky Art, his treatise on writing, Norman Mailer identifies 2017 2018 himself as a writer who changes his persona with every book he writes. Revise This! - As academics who study his work and as writers ourselves, it can be November 2019 difficult to find a means to access a man whose personality, and work, seem to be in constant flux. This year’s Norman Mailer Society Conference, which took place from Thursday, October 10 to Saturday, October 12 at Wilkes University, provided a multifaceted portrait of the artist, and the man, and allowed participants some access into his world. Over the three-day period, Mailer scholars from across the country, along with four of his children, facilitated or participated in panels exploring Mailer’s fondness for the theater, his little known (or widely forgotten) essay on graffiti, “The Faith of Graffiti,” his political aspirations, his attitudes on violence and war, as well as a discussion on how to promote academic study of Mailer’s work in classrooms, both now, and into the Revise This! Archives n 2018 n n �future. The first evening of the conference was capped with a tour of the newly christened Norman Mailer Room in the Wilkes University E. S. Farley Library, which features a recreation of Mailer’s studio in Provincetown, MA, where he completed his last work, The Castle in the Forest, a novel focusing on Hitler’s childhood. The Mailer collection also includes dozens of hand-written manuscripts presenting a unique view into how he worked, his reference library, as well as his own personal reading material. The room, and the conference itself, serve as a reminder that Mailer was more than just his public persona, more than just a novelist. Mailer was also an essayist; a journalist and co-founder of The Village Voice; a biographer; a playwright; a filmmaker and actor; an activist and politician. He was also a husband, married six times, and father to nine children. He was awarded two Pulitzer prizes and a National Book Award. He wrote about war, peace, violence, madness, forgiveness, and, apparently, graffiti. Mailer’s youngest daughter, the painter and sculptor Maggie Mailer, gave Saturday’s keynote speech. Ms. Mailer spoke about what she viewed as “the different Normans,” those experienced by her and her siblings, as well as his differing and ever-changing writing voice and public persona.  As I listened to a daughter speak about her father, I heard one artist speaking about another, and I came to the realization that Norman Mailer, proper, is a man for all seasons because he is a man of all seasons; a man whose legacy, and body of work, offers something for everyone because he was, at one time or another, a bit of everything. �The Norman Mailer Room The Pulitzer Prizewinning author, Norman Mailer, now has a permanent home at Wilkes University. The E.S. Farley library showcased a collection of Norman Mailer's works, a portrait-donated by his daughter Danielle, and his original writing desk. The room came into public view on October 10 to kick-off the Norman Mailer Society Conference, hosted by the Wilkes University Maslow Family Creative Writing Graduate Program. The room on the second floor of the Farley Library includes Mailer's desk from Provincetown, MA. In addition to his personal effects, the recreated studio holds Mailer’s research materials, drafts, notes, and other personal items. J. Michael Lennon, emeritus professor, and program co-founder, along with his wife Donna Lennon, have donated other personal items and Mailer's manuscripts. The room also contains the citations for Mailer's Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.  Please check out of this replica of literary history the next time you are on campus.  Maslow Family Creative Writing Collection Members of the Maslow Family Creative Writing Program community strive not only for individual success but also to be a part of a broader writing community. We are pleased to announce that all published works are now accessible through the E.S. Farley Library. Designated by the gold medallion, a search under "libguides" will provide �you with the entire catalog of published works including, 150 novels, poetry collections, or memoirs. Through this collection, alumni, faculty, and current students can now access the published works of the writers in their writing community.  Enjoy your reading! Call for submissions: The Maslow Family Creative Writing Collection includes all work received through April, 2017. If you are a member of our writing community and have had novel, poetry collection or memoir published, or play produced or screenplay developed, we welcome you to submit this work to the collection. Please send two copies (one can be autographed) to the following technical services librarian: Eddie Clem, Technical Services Librarian  E. S. Farley Library | Wilkes University 84 West South Street Wilkes Barre, PA 18777 Creative Writing Community Workshops at Wilkes University – Winter 2020   Playwriting: Playwriting 101  This six-week workshop will introduce students with the tools to write a short one-act (10 page) play, and further develop their playwriting skills. The first two classes will focus on writing prompts, exercises, and learning the basics of playwriting. The last four classes will give participants the opportunity to workshop their play-in-progress at a table �reading, with all participants providing feedback.  • Meetings: Wednesdays 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. • February 5, 12, 19, 26, March 4 and 11 • Cost: $65.00 for the entire series • Instructor: Crista Gaskill Writing Relatable YA Books: The Essential Elements of Storytelling  During this six-week workshop for adults of all ages, participants will focus on the different aspects of craft that will help create reliable and realistic characters young booklovers want to read. The focus of this workshop is to shape image, voice, character, setting and story in young adult books that are representative of the target audience. Workshop participants will study the works of successful young adult authors and engage in writing activities that start the scene. Workshopping each element will take place weekly with peers and the instructor. • • Meetings: Mondays 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. January 27, February 3, 10, 24, March 2 and 9 (no meeting on February 17) • Cost: $65.00 for the entire series • Instructor: Jennifer McLaughlin Screenwriting Master Class  In this six-week non-credit course, adults of all ages will be introduced to a new way of imagination and creativity, an entry into an alternative reality: media. This master class will provide participants with an overview of how to write for the screen. Any size screen. Through the use of narrative film and television as a model, participants will discover that learning to write requires learning to read. Participants will learn how to closely read what's on screen, how it got there and why. They will also read screenplays. The master class will be delivered organically, not in the traditional delivery of a series of formulas.  The master class outcome will be a three to four-page sequence of scenes that would act as the opening of either a feature length film or the pilot episode of a TV series. Participants will also craft a page or two on what the rest of the story would hold for the audience. At the conclusion of the master course, participants will have acquired or sharpened their ability to imagine and create in images, be skilled in how �stories are constructed and be able to put a story on the page, for the camera. • Online Master. Class • Six-week online master class begins February 3 and ends March 13 • Cost: $125.00 for the entire series • Instructor: Ross Klavan REQUIREMENTS FOR ONLINE MASTER CLASS Students must have a sincere interest in media, film and television and have a serious interest in knowing this world as a writer. Students must bring to the course an open, adult mindset and willingness to view screen narrative in its widest form: films viewed in class may include violence, sexual situations, strong language or be shot in black-and-white. Anyone offended by any of these factors should not take the course. You will be provided with the necessary handouts and scripts (as digital documents). You will have to provide on your own the following films: the pilot episode the TV series Mad Men, and the films The Birdcage, The Stepfather (original version), The Sweet Smell of Success, and Unforgiven.  These films are easily available on DVD, on Netflix or on Amazon Prime. They are inexpensive to rent.  Winter 2020 Workshops Announcements Faculty Jean Klein’s Generous Rivals, a full-length play in which Hester Thrale, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell go head to head in a literary and romantic rivalry for Johnson's attention and for immortality received two productions. Produced by Zeider's American Dream Theater in June of 2019 (the first act) and October 2019 (the Festival version) for the Proteus Festival in Virginia Beach. Inside and Out, a short play about a mother and her autistic son, will be produced at a director's workshop at the University of North Carolina in December of 2019.  J. Michael Lennon shared an article from Deadline Hollywood about Norman Mailer: A Double Life, which is under consideration for a film or TV Series.  �PHOTO CREDIT: KATHY WILLENS/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK   NANCY McKINLEY Nancy McKinley is thrilled to announce the publication of St. Christopher on Pluto, a novelin-stories, West Virginia University Press, 2020. There will be a reading and launch during the Wilkes January 2020 Residency (on Thursday, January 9) with a signing of books hot-from-the-press.        David Poyer - In September, Galaktika magazine, from Budapest, published the novella-length version of Stepfather Bank translated into Hungarian, plus another of David Poyer's short stories, “The Unforgiving Minute,” plus a biographical article – in an official "D.C. Poyer" issue.   Alumni Molly Barari (MFA '17) was selected to present a memoir writing workshop at the 2019 South Dakota Festival of Books. The workshop-sponsored by the South Dakota Humanities Council--took place in October in Deadwood, SD. Maxwell Bauman (M.F.A.'15) has a literary magazine Door Is A Jar, that came out with its 12th issue early in October 2019. Additionally, CLASHBooks just published his new horror novella, The Mummy of Canaan.    �      Craig Czury (M.F.A.'18) received the Alexander the Great Gold Medal for Letters and Arts from UNESCO in Salamina, Greece in October. He was awarded Honorary Membership of P.E.N. Albania in June for his promotion of the Albanian language, literature, and culture in the world through his lectures, readings, workshops, and translations throughout Albania and the Albanian diaspora. His New & Selected Poems is forthcoming from NYQ Books. Wendy Decker (M.A. '16) has been hired as an Adjunct Professor at Middlesex County College and Ocean County College in New Jersey.   Patricia Florio (M.F.A. '11) and Donna Ferarra (M.F.A.'12) are reading contest submissions for their 2020 edition of American Writers Review from the founders of San Fedele Press. Both Florio and Ferarra had readings at Wilkes on June 14, 2019, as well as in August in Neptune, NJ, and in September in Los Angeles, CA. Another event is scheduled in December at the Jersey Shore Art Center in the 3rd-floor coffee bar on 66 South Main Street, Ocean Grove, NJ 07566.  Refreshments will be served, and books are available for purchase with a complimentary gift wrap.  Krista Harner's (M.F.A. '08) personal essay, "Square Peg, Round Hole," has been selected to appear in Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Forgiveness Fix, which went on sale on November 5, 2019. Kristin Ivey (M.A.'18) recently had three poems published. “A Midsummers Cavatina” and “Let Me, Bee” were published in August 2019 through the Poetry in Transit contest, sponsored by Kings College. These poems will be displayed on the LANTA buses for the next year in the Scranton area. “Writing, in Parts of Speech,” was published in Spark: A Creative Anthology, Volume IX, published September 19, 2019. This poem was first penned during CW-501R during her first week at Wilkes in 2016. Ivey is currently serving as The Write Life editor. �Marlon James (M.A.'06) was a finalist for the 2019 annual National Book Awards for his fantasy novel, Marlon James' fantasy novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf.         Maura Maros's (M.F.A.'18) poem, “A Mother's Guide to Getting By,” was published in the American Writers Review 2019 in May of 2019. Her short story, “Calling Mum...The home” was published in October 2019 on Mum Life Stories.  Leah Vernon (M.F.A. ’15) is currently on tour with her new book Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim, which is included in Michelle Obama’s “Twenty-One Books to Read After Becoming” (The Atlantic, November 13, 2019).           Current Students Jason Miller has accepted a position as a freelance reviewer with ForeWord Reviews. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Make A Gift �DONATE TO THE WILKES FUND Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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September 2018 M.A. and M.F.A. Creative Writing Graduates Don their Caps in Summer Commencement   Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 Revise This! Archives From left to right: Aurora Bonner, Pamela Turchin, Andre Carter, Samantha Patterson, Samantha Stanich, Julie Yelen and Kristin Weller. We congratulate the graduates of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, who were awarded their diplomas at the summer commencement ceremony on Sunday afternoon, September 9, 2018, at Wilkes University: n 2018 n n �M.A. • Jack Butler • Michelle Chmielewski • Karla Erdman • Jessica Fisher • Michael Hoarty • Amanda Lance • Sally Lehman • Lori Mills • Iris Ouellette • Samantha M.F.A. • Aurora Bonner • Andre Carter • Bibiana Krall • Ann Miller • Pamela Turchin Patterson • Caterina So • Samantha Stanich • Cameron Thrall • Kristen Weller • Julie Yelen • Alan Yount Congratulations to each of these members of our Wilkes writing community, and welcome to the newest members of the Wilkes Alumni Association! PWC and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony at Wilkes �  • Andre: Andre Dubus III (The House of Sand and Fog) was the 2018 PWC keynote speaker. • Jackie: Jacquelyn Mitchard (The Deep End of the Ocean) taught a workshop on "leaning into the pain" at PWC18 and taught a 4-day fiction workshop as part of the Norman Mailer Summer Writers Colony. • Marita: Marita Golden (The Wide Circumference of Love) also taught fiction at the 2018 Norman Mailer Summer Writers Colony. The Pennsylvania Writers Conference is a yearly event hosted by the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. Writers near and far come together for two days of craft, pedagogy, workshop, performance and of course, writing. This year's conference was held on August 3-4, 2018 and featured keynote speaker Andre Dubus III (The House of Sand and Fog) along with Jacquelyn Mitchard (The Deep End of the Ocean). The two-day conference featured classes on publication, a pitch session, writing through chaos and rebirth, teaching with rubrics and office hours with a publishing house editor (Nicole Frail, Skyhorse Publishing). With nearly 100 writers in attendance, PWC was a success. In January of 2018, program co-founder Dr. Bonnie Culver worked with Lawrence Shiller of the Norman Mailer Center to bring the Norman Mailer Writers Colony to Wilkes University. Previously held at the Mailer house in Providence, RI, the Norman Mailer Writers Colony classes are weeklong workshops taught by distinguished members of the writing �community. This year, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Marita Golden (The Wide Circumference of Love) and faculty member Ross Klavan taught classes in fiction and screenwriting. The weeklong classes bookended PWC with Golden teaching during week 1 (July 29-August 3) while Mitchard and Klavan taught during week 2 (August 5-10). For more information on the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, please visit nmcenter.org. Sanding the Rough Edges: PWC and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony By Iris Ouellette (M.A. '18) The Pennsylvania Writers Conference took place during the first weekend in August, flanked by two weeks of workshops at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. Featuring an engaging keynote address by Andre Dubus III, author of The House of Sand and Fog, PWC gave both regional and national writers the opportunity to interact with their peers and role models. The weekend, full of classes and comradery with fellow writers, instilled in me (and presumably in each of the attendees) a sense of community and belonging. The first PWC workshop I attended, on Historical Narrative, was taught by Joseph Kraus, one of the foremost experts on Jewish gangsters in Chicago. He spoke to us about weaving seemingly scattered pieces of history into a cohesive narrative, referencing the boxes and boxes of material he had to sort through to form the narratives of his first and second novels. Educators in attendance were treated to a workshop on teaching with rubrics that proved invaluable as I began my career as a professor in September. We were given sample rubrics and taught how to break them down into understandable terms for our students. As a new teacher, I was incredibly thankful for this opportunity because it's difficult to get hands-on experience with grading tools before being thrown into the classroom. Jacquelyn Mitchard, waylaid by weather, unfortunately missed the plenary session originally in the schedule. Fortunately, this meant that she led a workshop – one that ended up being the weekend's most memorable for me. Her workshop dealt with "leaning into" the pain we so often shy away from as writers. She stressed the importance of writing about our traumas and painful experiences and asked each person in attendance (there were at least twenty) to write down five topics about which we've never written. She then asked us to share one. What happened as a result was an intense sense of love and understanding within the room. People spoke about divorce, disease, abuse, mental health, family relationships, and more with unflinching �honesty and courage. On the final night of PWC, Andre and Jackie shared the stage, offering readings that left us in the audience perhaps teary but feeling whole. Following their readings, the two authors, both with books in Oprah's Book Club, offered a Q&A and engaged with the audience for nearly an hour. It was incredibly valuable to those of us in the audience who are unpublished to see two published authors describe their writing processes since they were so very different. Seeing established authors explain that they, too, experience self-doubt is a pleasant reminder that we're all right. That night, with the encouragement of Jackie, I was able to write about a topic I've avoided for years. Her workshop during PWC proved a successful audition for the class I took with her and three other people during the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. Jackie then led a four-day Mailer Colony class on story endings, during which four attendees shared the first 25 pages of our current projects and offered critiques. A successful writing workshop such as this one has the potential to sand the rough edges of our projects without killing the spirit that caused us to create in the first place. We were also given well-known first and last sentences of stories and novels and asked to mimic them, because as Jackie taught us, writing like the masters makes our own writing much better. The most valuable aspect of this class for me was my individual meeting with Jackie. We spoke, of course, about my project, but also about my overarching aspirations as a writer. She provided me with both encouragement and concrete tips for reaching my goals, as well as sharing more than a few laughs and tears. I cannot recommend the Pennsylvania Writers Conference and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony enough. If you are a writer in any sense of the word, you must surround yourself with like-minded individuals periodically, even if only once a year. It recharges your writerly batteries. It makes you feel less like an impostor. It reminds you of your purpose. �Mailer Conference returning in October The 16th annual Norman Mailer Society Conference will be held at the Macon City Center Marriott Hotel, in Macon, GA from Thursday October 25 to Saturday October 27, 2018. Mailer was the first founding advisory board member of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, and students and faculty from the CW program have read and performed his work for the last 15 years as part of the Wilkes U Readers Theatre. This year faculty, alums and students will read from a script based upon Mailer's Why Are We in Vietnam? The Norman Mailer Summer Writers Colony is now held at Wilkes University! We will once again be offering two weeks of craft, pedagogy and workshops with New York Times and members of our faculty. For more information about the Norman Mailer Writers Colony at Wilkes University, please visit this link.  Fall �ATTEND OUR CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS Adults of any age or education level are welcome! Registration is $65 for each series. Workshops take place on the campus of Wilkes University. Writing Our Environments 6 to 8 p.m. on Mondays Get Real! A Memoir Workshop 10 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturdays Sept. 10 to Oct. 22 Sept. 8 to Oct. 20 Instructor: Aurora Bonner Instructor: Rachael Hughes Generating from the Senses 6:30 to 8 p,m. on Fridays Jazz Poetry Workshop 1 to 3:30 p,m, on Saturdays Sept. 21 to Nov. 2 Sept. 29 to Oct. 27 Instructor: Virginia G(ove Instructor: Rashidah lsmaili Abubakr Workshops are spOltSOfedby the Maslow Graduate Crearive Writ/Ilg Program at Wilkes Ul'lilf&rS/ty.Follow your pauJon, write your story and learn to Qet published. Earnyour M.A. and M.F.A. Q11/me w,tli limited campvs v1s,ts. w WILKES UNIVERSITY REGISTER ONLINE AT WWW.WILKES.EDU/CW Questions? Call us at (5701 408 4547 Community Workshops Sharpen your skills and jump into writing with our Fall Community Writing Workshops! Generating from the Senses With Diane Ackerman's A Natural History of the Senses as our guide, we will explore the common five senses: smell, touch, taste, hearing, and vision. This workshop for adults of all ages is meant to be generative in nature, enabling writers the option of composing in any genre they see fit for a given assignment. This workshop is appropriate for anyone looking to create a more regular space for writing, anyone looking to enrich an inprogress piece, and anyone wanting to learn more about themselves and how memory and our senses connect. Students will be expected to purchase a copy of A Natural History of the Senses and to complete readings within each of the five-sense sections, in addition to weekly writing assignments. Meetings: Fridays – 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Dates: September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 26 and November 2 (No meeting on October 19) Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Virginia Grove Get Real! A Memoir Workshop Want to write memoir but don't know where to start? Afraid to? Great. Join me on a six-week journey on opening up and facing the hard stuff that just needs to be told. The premise of most memoir is to write it out to �get past it, but to leave a trail of wisdom and comfort for your readers to follow you into your next creative work. This workshop for adults of all ages will rely on writing prompts, sharing of works, and tips and advice from someone in the field who's "been there and done that!" Another component of this will be to tear down the insecurities of being a writer who writes about sensitive material. It is my hope this workshop will empower you to share your story, so that you and your readers will benefit from your journey. Meetings: Saturdays – 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Dates: September 8, 15, 22, 29, October 13 and 20 (No meeting on October 6) Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Rachael Hughes Jazz Poetry Workshop This five-week workshop for adults of any age will be a combination of looking at the genre of Jazz Music as an eclectic way of being that permeates lifestyle, fashion, language, culture and poetry. The goals of the workshop are to increase the appreciation for and knowledge of this genre of music and the integration of poetry within that frame, to have basic information of the history of Jazz and the musicians who created this art form and the culture it spawned for over one hundred years. To look at the early poets who used the language, signature rhythms and styles to craft a new way of writing and seeing. To look at the performative aspects of Jazz Poetry as its own art form and appreciate the contributions of those early musicians and poets. To have each participant create a chapbook of Jazz poems. Using various techniques of poetry and oral recitation, participants will create and hone their poetic muscles into crafting Jazz Poems and at the same time critical skills to help write and listen to the music and poetry of this uniquely American art form. Selected music and poetry will be listened to in workshops. Handouts and a schedule of both works to be listened to, articles on the subject as well as in depth focus on stages of development of chapbook and rewrites as a result of the workshop process. Budding poets, closet poets and intimidated poets of all levels are welcome. Meetings: Saturdays – 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Dates: September 29, October 6, 13, 20 and 27 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series �Instructor: Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr To register for a community workshop, please visit wilkes.augusoft.net. Wilkes at AWP19 The 2019 AWP Conference & Bookfair will be held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon from March 27 – 30, 2018. Current students are invited to apply for an AWP19 registration waiver, which covers the cost of conference registration. Transportation and housing will be at your expense. Contact Associate Director Bill Schneider at bill.schneider@wilkes.edu for more information. In exchange for your conference waiver, students are required to spend a minimum of two hours each day working at the Wilkes/Etruscan booth. Working the booth is a great way to network with authors, publishers, and other graduate students from around the country while promoting the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing to potential students. The full AWP19 schedule will be released in October, and more information can be found at www.awpwriter.org. While you're in Portland, swing by these sessions and support the Wilkes CW family, including program partners Akashic Books and Etruscan Press: Etruscan Press Authors Kazim Ali (The Disappearance of Seth) • Fifty Years of FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics • Reinventing the Wheel: The Tradition of Innovation in Poetry Patti Horvath (All the Difference) • Rewriting History: Why It's Not Okay to Fictionalize Our Memories David Lazar (Who's Afraid of Helen of Troy: An Essay on Love) • Que savent-ils?: What Classic Essays Can Teach Contemporary Essayists Paul Lisicky (The Burning House) • Endings for the End Times? J. D. Schraffenberger (Saint Joe's Passion) • Changing of the Guard: Editors on Inclusion and Diversity in Literary Journals • Impact and Empathy: Service-Learning and Creative Writing �Tim Seibles (Fast Animal and One Turn Around the Sun) • How we need another soul to cling to: Writing Love Poems in Difficult Times • Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology Reading Shara McCallum (Poems and Their Making) • Boulevard 35th Anniversary & 100 Issues Reading Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing  Jason Carney and Bill Schneider (Wilkes University Alumni) • AWP Open Mic and Old School Slam Program Partners Ibrahim Ahmad (Akashic Books) • Can I Pick Your Brain? The Fine Line Between Giving Back and Getting Paid Faculty News Lenore Hart's short story, "Thirteen Ways of Living With a Wolf, appeared in the July issue of The Florida Review. It was a finalist for their 2017 Editors' Fiction Prize. Her poem "The Well-Shooter's Wake" was a finalist for the Charter Oak Prize for Historicals. That poem and another, "On Visiting the Castle of My Drawn and Quartered Ancestor", will be published in Alternating Current's Notes #4 this fall. Lenore was also invited to attend the annual gathering of the Connecticut Poetry Society in New Haven, CT. There, she gave a reading of "Struck By Light", which won the 2017 Connecticut River Review Poetry Prize. Lenore also was featured in The Horror Tree, which is a resource for both new and experienced writers. Ross Klavan's new noir novella, I Take Care of Myself, which is out in September, received a favorable review from Publisher's Weekly. Jean Klein published a new blog on Havescripts/Blue Moon Plays with mention of both Wilkes and Dr. Culver. Nancy McKinley's short story "Hand Against the Horn" is published in the Timberline Review Issue 7, with the theme of Rebirth, August 2018.  Student/Alumni News Molly Barari (M.F.A. '17) has been chosen to speak about the �importance of life story writing for the 2018 Black Hills Aging Gracefully Expo in September. Randee Bretherick (M.F.A. '13) under the name Randee Green published her first mystery novel on July 1, 2018. CRIMINAL MISDEEDS is the first novel in the Carrie Shatner Mystery series. Janine P. Dubik (M.A. '17) is among the poets selected for the 2018 Poetry in Transit in conjunction with the Luzerne County Transportation Authority in the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, area. The 2018 theme is unbreakable, and Janine's poem is entitled "Touchstone." This is the third consecutive year that Janine has been part of Poetry in Transit. The six-line poems are displayed on illustrated panels that rotate among all LCTA bus routes for the next year. The official launch of the 2018 Poetry in Transit was held at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, at the Wilkes University/King's College Barnes & Noble on South Main Street in downtown Wilkes-Barre.  Rachael Hughes (M.F.A. '13) will be 1lJ (iirCs My ~ "WitlimdJI 1ltffla launching her debut memoir Us Girls: My Life Without a Uterus at the Barnes & Noble Wilkes Kings Bookstore on September 22, 2018 at 7 p.m. Tara Lynn Marta (M.A. '18) had an essay "The Dream Lives On" included in the I Am Strength anthology, which was released on August 26th, in honor of Women's Equality Day. Tara read her essay at KGB Bar in NYC on August 29, 2018. Josh Penzone's (M.A. '13) short story "A Soldier's Story" appeared in the July issue of Blue Lake Review.    Donna Talarico (M.F.A. '15) coordinator and creator of Hippocamp, A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers was featured in the Living section of the Lancaster Paper. Donna's publishing �endeavor, Hippocampus Magazine and Books, was featured in LNP as well, along with an interview with Hippocampus Magazine and Books' flagship author Rebecca Fish Ewan.        Alyssa Waugh (M.F.A. '15) curated and edited an anthology titled I AM STRENGTH, which was released on August 26, 2018. I AM STRENGTH is a collection of true stories, poems, and art created by women from all walks of life, championing our everyday struggles and triumphs. Alan Yount (M.A. '18) had an essay, "Syllogisms" published by Not Your Mother's Breast Milk in June and "The Paddle" was published August's Hippocampus Magazine. Danie Watson (M.A. '18) began teaching at Lackawanna College as an adjunct instructor in August 2018. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Online Nursing Make A Gift �Programs E.S. 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Congratulations to the graduates of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, who were awarded their diplomas at the spring commencement ceremony at Wilkes University: M.A. Jeffrey Alves – Creative nonfiction Rodney Annis – Fiction Jeremiah Blue – Creative nonfiction n 2018 n n �• Margaret Hall – Creative nonfiction • Crista Mallecoccio – Playwriting • Tara Marta – Fiction • Kathleen Rosa – Fiction • Camika Spencer – Playwriting • Karley Stasko – Screenwriting • Danielle Watson - Fiction M.F.A. • Joseph Bryan • Michelle Byrnes • Deborah Canon • Donald Granza • Jennifer Judge • Maura Maros • Robert Peck • Ronnie Stephens (diploma awarded during the 2018 winter commencement ceremony) Congratulations to each of these members of our Wilkes writing community, and welcome to the newest members of the Wilkes Alumni Association! Wilkes Ranked Third Best Online Creative Writing Program �:. 3 ~ ""t~b".~ 61.02 Wilkes University COST ~ $$$$ % ENROLLED ONLINE LOCATION 14% WIikes-Barre, PA - Serving fewer than 5,000 students, Wilkes is a small college with big impact. The Pennsylvania-based institution delivers 42 bachelor's and 25 master's degrees rooted in the liberal arts and career preparation. Wilkes offers graduate programs online, in fields like education, nursing, and creative writing. The university's on line assembles a community of writers where students receive one-on-one assistance in the creative process. Faculty mentor students in a range of genres, from young adult and thriller to science fiction and playwriting. The program is distinct from other on line creative writing programs due to its two delivery options: the "weekender" option allows students to take their courses online with four weekend sessions per semester. Students who choose the low-residency option attend eight-day residencies on campus in June and January. The primary consideration for admission to the program is a 15-25 page writing sample. In April of 2018, BestColleges.com released the "Best Online Master's in Creative Writing Programs" and we're proud to announce that the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University was ranked number three. The rankings were based on academic quality, affordability and online programming. Academic quality made up 50% of the score, while both affordability and online programming made up 25% of the score respectively. Wilkes and Etruscan Books Take Flight In March of 2018, Wilkes University and program partner Etruscan Press entered into a �Congratulations! You'vechosena book publishedbythe Maslow FamilyGraduateProgram in CreativeWritingat WilkesUniversityor EtruscanPress. · 'l:I'"I I::::J ~ .Ill :1111; nr•; I : 11 ."R (,~~ ' -~-'J:Ci:: .,~"-!M.:.i ,'- ,~\ ,. l ~1- l• • [aJ~:.~: prou;t: .:=, To learn more about the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing and Etruscan Press, please visit wilkes.edu/booksonthefly and etruscanpress.org/booksonthefly providea venuefor writerswhotestthe boundaries of literature andthe readerswho appreciate thoughtprovokinginsights. partnership with United Airlines with their initiative Books on the Fly--an outreach partnership based at Boston Logan International Airport where passengers on long-distance flights can chose a free book before they board. Books on the Fly was created by two United Airlines employees, Jen Ruffini and Bob Di Rice, who noticed books piling up in their break room —going unread. Ruffini and Di Rice had the idea to load these books onto a cart and hand them out to passengers at the gate before their plane boarded. The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University and Etruscan were the first outside partners to donate books to the initiative. Each book donated by Wilkes and Etruscan comes with a bookmark highlighting the program and the press, as well as QR codes for passengers to scan and learn more about Etruscan and the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. "This innovative partnership provides a wonderful opportunity to share the talents of the Maslow Family program's faculty, alumni and publishing �partners with a new literary audience," says Dr. Bonnie Culver, cofounder and program director. To date, Di Rice estimates that United Airlines has given away over 1,500 books to passengers. "I think there's a psychological aspect to having a book, something tangible, when you travel," Di Rice said. "It can be comforting. And when you watch the customers talk with each other about the books they've read, you see their faces soften. It's like the stress disappears." Books on the Fly carts are popping up at United Airlines gates around the country with more and more books making the trip across the country. AWP Provides Special Discount for Recent Grads Photo credit: AWP Now through June 30, 2018, recent graduates of AWP affiliated creative writing programs are eligible to continue their membership with AWP at the deeply discounted student rate of just $49 for the first post-graduate year—a 35% savings. AWP's extraordinary benefits include: • Access to all of AWP's online benefits, including the AWP Job List and Writer's Calendar • Eligibility to apply for the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program • Deep discounts on registration for #AWP19 in Portland, Oregon • A one-year subscription to the AWP magazine, The Writer's Chronicle • Access to AWP online webinars, including the new Writer to Agent Web Series • Discounts off the Award Series entry fees �Join online today, and AWP will begin your individual membership from the date your personal or school membership expires. Simply enter the code MFA18 + The Name of Your School. (i.e., MFA18 Wilkes University) and select the $49 student rate at checkout. This offer is only valid through June 30, 2018. While making your purchase, as a recent or prospective graduate you can also opt in to AWP's special monthly email series on "Life after the Degree." Each month, starting in late April, AWP will be discussing a different topic from the writing life, guiding you to resources that can help, and presenting advice from respected teachers about those "critical next steps" to becoming the writer you want to be. Take advantage of this great discounted rate today! Faculty News The second edition (revised and expanded) of Gregory Fletcher's Shorts And Briefs (a handbook on how to write short plays) will be published by Northampton House Press in June 2018.     sv GREGORY FLETCHER       Faculty member Jean Klein (owner) announces the merger of two dramatic publishing companies: the new site of Blue Moon Plays and HaveScripts is officially live as of February 2018. The Blue Moon Plays imprint publishes new, original, and provocative comedies and dramas for contemporary community, regional, and professional theater. HaveScripts serves the educational and community �theater marketplace: scripts that educate and inspire schools, senior, populations, spiritual communities, and community theaters. The press is at about 90 scripts right now—including some Wilkes faculty members and alums—and are continuing to grow at www.havescripts.com). In January 2018, Refraction of Light by Jean Klein was read on Playwright's Night at the Maslow Foundation Salon Reading Series. A reading in NYC by the Transcendence Theatre Collective on March 14, 2018 followed the Wilkes reading. A play based on William Heyen's Holocaust poetry— Distant Survivors by June Prager— and published by Blue Moon Plays was featured at a book fair on April 14, 2018, at Barnes & Noble in Poughkeepsie, NY, with readings and music to launch the publication of this stage adaptation. J. Michael Lennon's essay on the library of Norman Mailer, "The Naked and the Read," was published in the March 7 issue of the (London) Times Literary Supplement.It will eventually appear in his memoir-inprogress about Mailer's last days in Provincetown, MA. Nancy McKinley read from her short story "After All Danger of Frost" at a celebration event for the This Land is My Land exhibit, Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO. Audio rights to David Poyer's Deep War have sold to Dreamscape (same publisher that bought Hunter Killer last year). The publication date will be December 2018, to coincide with the hardcover publication. Alumni and Student News Molly Barari (M.F.A. '17) has been accepted into the Doctor of Education program at the University of South Dakota for the summer 2018 semester. She will focus on Adult and Higher Educational Leadership in her doctoral studies. Jennifer D. Bokal (M.A. '10) is now writing a series for Harlequin Romantic Suspense. The first book in the Rocky Mountain Justice series, Her Rocky Mountain Hero, was released in November 2107. The second book, Her Rocky Mountain Defender, was an April 2018 release. Rocky Mountain Valor, the third book in the series, will be released in September 2018. Aside from writing, Jen keeps busy teaching online classes and is the President of the Southern Tier Authors of Romance (a �chapter of Romance Writers of America). Aurora D. Bonner (M.A. '17) has been invited to attend the Summer Workshop at Tin House this July for creative nonfiction. At Tin House she'll have the opportunity to hear and learn from Dorothy Allison, Camille Dungy, Melissa Febos, Tayari Jones, Lidia Yuknovitch, and others. Aurora's review of In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees by Jeff Talarigo will appear in the Colorado Review. She has been asked to become a regular reviewer there. Sam Chiarelli (M.F.A. '16) had his essay "When the Leaves Forget to Be Green" published by Longridge Review. Richard Fellinger (M.F.A. '10) published an op-ed on banning assault weapons in the Lancaster paper. Rachael J. Hughes's (M.F.A. '12) memoir of Us Girls: My Life without a Uterus will be published by Big Table Publishing in May 2018. Us Girls: My Life without a Uterus is a project that Hughes worked on at Wilkes with Dr. J. Michael Lennon. Lori A. May (M.F.A.'13) has new writing in Canadian Traveller, Explore Magazine, and Seattle Post. This spring, she is participating in a few conferences on the west coast and conducting local workshops in Seattle. Tara Marta (M.A. '18) had her short story "Strangers No More" published in Adelaide Literary Magazine. Dana Miller (M.F.A. '13) has been signed by Northampton House Press for her new romantic novel, tentatively titled Twisted Fate. Jonathan Pierce's (M.F.A. '16) publication "PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly," an Army technical bulletin, won the Most Improved Publication of 2018 for switching from a printed format to a mobile app format and adding videos and other interactive content to our publication The Secretary of the Army which annually holds a competition among all of its official publications and their editors. In June, Pierce will be recognized as the Editor of the Year for leading the effort. Sara Pisak (M.A. student) will be featured in Glass Poetry Press' Journal. Her review of Valerie Fox's news chapbook Insomniatic [poems] was published online March 25th as well as in their April issue. Sara's work can also be found in the upcoming issue of Moonchild Magazine for a poetry/art collaborative feature. �Dania Ramos's (M.A. '10) play Hielo placed third in the Henley Rose Playwright Competition and was selected for Teatro Vivo's Austin Latino New Play Festival. Her one-act play Silent Aurora was one of six works in Continuing the Conversation: An Evening of Short Plays Inspired by Current Events produced by Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre. Nisha Sharma (M.F.A. '13) received a Kirkus starred review for her YA romcom My So-Called Bollywood Life, as well as mentions in Buzzfeed, Teen Vogue, Paste Magazine, NYPL, Publisher's Lunch Spring Buzz Books, MY SO-CALLED BOLLYWOOD LIFE NISHA SHARMA Hypable and more. She went on tour from May 15-20 and her final stop was on May 20 in Wilkes Barre, at the Barnes & Noble Arena Hub Plaza. The event included a discussion of her book with mentor Cecilia Galante.           Ronnie K. Stephens (M.F.A. '18) has recently joined At the Inkwell as a staff book reviewer, and he has already published reviews in non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. Working with Edelweiss and NetGalley, Stephens is working to establish himself as a steady reviewer of recent and forthcoming titles. On the creative front, Stephens finalized the cover of his debut novel, The Kaleidoscope Sisters, and set a publication date of August 21, 2018 with his publisher, Oddities KJB. Pamela Turchin (M.A. '17) presented a portion of her MFA thesis "Cut the Ending, Revise the Script, The Man of Her Dreams is a Girl: The Evolution of Lesbians in Literature From 1886-2018" at the 2018 �Women's and Gender Studies Conference at Wilkes University on April 10. Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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Spring 2018 Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 July 29 - August 3 August4 -10 Workshop sessions. Lectures. Group discussions. Individual instruction. Learn more at nmcenter.org   Norman Mailer Colony Comes to Wilkes University  During the January Residency, Dr. Bonnie Culver, program director and co-founder announced the new partnership between the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing and the Norman Mailer Center. By partnering with the Norman Mailer Center, the Norman Mailer Writers Colony will now be permanently housed at Wilkes University. The Mailer Center is an organization named for the late Norman Mailer that offers workshops, grants, awards, fellowships and other activities that allow writers to express themselves while provoking discussion and calling for societal changes. This new partnership bolsters the creative writing mission to bring writing faculty to the Wilkes University campus. Revise This! Archives n 2018 n n �Lawrence Schiller, founder of the Norman Mailer Center and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, collaborated with Norman Mailer for more than 30 years. Originally, the summer colony was held at the Mailer home in Provincetown, MA. Past instructors include faculty and board members J. Michael Lennon, Kaylie Jones, Bonnie Culver, Beverly Donofrio and Colum McCann. "Like the Norman Mailer Center, Wilkes University encourages and celebrates writers who challenge readers' perspectives on the world around them," said Schiller. "Together, Wilkes and the Center will promote writers as people of action, and seek to support those who are driven by an endless curiosity to make sense of the times in which they live." The 2018 Norman Mailer Writers Colony will be held in two weeklong sessions bookending The Pennsylvania Writers Conference in August. In week one, which will run from July 29 to August 3, students may take courses in memoir, fiction, publishing, poetry, nonfiction and self-promotion. In week two, which will run from August 4 to August 10, students may take courses in fiction, book reviewing, screenwriting, publishing, and poetry. On August 3 and 4, the Pennsylvania Writers Conference will be held on the Wilkes campus, featuring keynote speaker Andre Dubus III.           Week 1 Classes: Memoir with Beverly Donofrio Put pen to paper-or fingers to the keyboard-in this writing workshop with master �memoirist Beverly Donofrio. Discover the life-changing potential of memoir writing in a workshop designed to take you deeper into your hearts and your pasts. Instructor Beverly Donofrio creates a supportive environment to help mine and then develop your material. Telling your stories can be profound and transformative. All that is required is a strong desire and the courage to write the truth. Through the in-class prompts, overnight assignments, and sharing our work, we not only learn craft, but develop camaraderie and have fun. We may even find that what made us rage and cry now makes us laugh. Keep writing and you may even forgive life for being life. And throughout, we will have an ongoing discussion of the writing life and how to feed it outside of a workshop.    Elements of Fiction: Crisis Conflict Character with Marita Golden This fiction workshop will focus on the foundational elements of compelling fiction. As we discuss your in progress work, and do inclass exercises you'll learn how to give your characters "character," how to push them past the limits you impose on them and how to create characters who can both hurt and heal. For those writing novels and short fiction.    �        Publishing with Philip Brady Ever wanted to start your own press or literary magazine? Or are you struggling as a fledgling editor or publisher to make yours work and gain more ground in the literary landscape? This course will also give you a hands-on insider's look at the way publishing companies work. Working with Etruscan Press, a non-profit literary press that has produced over seventy-five titles in five genres since 2001, this course will focus on how to produce and market books/journals, zines, and how to run a publishing house in an increasingly competitive environment. We'll explore editorial styles, marketing plans, production schedules, budgeting, design, and event-planning. We'll look at the publishing models from a close perspective, always returning to practical questions such as: "How do things work?"..."How can I understand the process from author-to-consumer?"... "What is the right place for me in this diverse and challenging industry?" Poetry with Rashidah Ismail Abubakr We will start at the beginning, with poems that have been selected by each participant to start of a book of poems. We will discuss the various concepts of producing poems: chapbook, collection, themed, with or without visuals and look at organizing tools that can lead to a coherent body of work. Poems will be edited and �written then workshopped during the sessions.         Creative Nonfiction: Types and Techniques with J. Michael Lennon Following a brief survey of the wide variety of forms that can be fairly called creative nonfiction (memoir, various essay types, travel and place writing, reviews, narrative history, autobiography, and biography), will be a discussion of five elements of craft common to all types of creative nonfiction: imagery, voice and point of view, character, setting, and story. The session will also examine the blurred boundary lines with other genres.         Marketing Planning for Writers, Online and Off: Promotion, Publicity & More with Donna Talarico Marketing and communication planning is a crucial component to the �working writer today. In this session, you'll learn the basics of building a marketing plan, from setting SMART goals to analyzing your success. Then we'll dive deeper into the many tactics you can use, from making connections with the media and brand ambassadors to get coverage -- reviews, feature stories, etc. -- to running successful events and from managing your online persona to interacting with readers in digital spaces. We'll cover everything from Facebook pages and blogging to email marketing and social ads. This session will give you a high-level overview of the tools and techniques you can use to market your work, from promoting a single book to building general awareness for yourself as an author and expert in your field. We'll have in-class exercises to help you spark some ideas of where and how to promote your work -- no matter where you are with your project, this will be helpful in big-picture planning! Simply put: You have a great idea -- this session is about shooting that from the rooftops so others can share -- and enjoy -- your vision. Week 2: The Closer Class: A Workshop on How to Finish Your Book with Jacquelyn Mitchard You have a great concept. You know what you want to write. You know how you want to write it. You may even have a great start. But you're afraid that you'll mess with this thing for the rest of your life and it will never see publication. This workshop help you finally complete your fiction project - and help you discover what to do next on the path to publication, without sacrificing artistic integrity or neglecting the need to have a real life. Some critical questions about structure, contents, and even intention are key to writing a book you can actually finish. And there are some elements you may not have considered. �Bring pages to share in a full, frank, and nurturing critique with your fellow writers and be prepared to be overwhelmed by information - in a good way. Writing Book Reviews and Breaking into that Market with Maureen Corrigan How does one claim the cultural authority to become a book reviewer? After all, there are no dedicated graduate programs or certificates in "book reviewing;" nor is there a clear route to regular reviewing. In this course, Maureen Corrigan, who has been the book critic for the NPR program Fresh Air for thirty years, explores some of the pathways to book review publication and discusses the intellectual background and the skills that it takes to write a worthwhile review. She also gives some advice about what never to do in a book review.       Screenwriting with Ross Klavan Screen language will go deeply into how to get your vision-and your story-onto any kind of screen. Through a variety of exercises in class and as homework, we'll begin by working through the nature of images, of film's birth in still photography (instead of the novel or theater) and what subtly changes when the images begin to move. We'll then shift into the structure of storytelling through images, both conventional and alternative, and the creation of characters whose life may begin on the page but will exist, �through actors or animation, on some form of screen, large or small. A final project of a five-minute short or film segment will be written. There will be a personal meeting with the instructor on projects written in the course or previously. Proper format will be taught and the instruction will be assisted by examples from films, TV episodes and script pages.    To apply to the Norman Mailer Writers Colony at Wilkes University, please download this application. Please submit 10 pages of poetry, single-spaced, or 10-20 pages of prose or a screenplay sample, double-spaced, in the genre to which you are applying. Admission to a workshop is based primarily on your writing sample. For more information about the Norman Mailer Center or the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, please visit nmcenter.org. For more information about the Pennsylvania Writers Conference, please visit wilkes.edu/pwc. Students and alumni man the Wilkes-Etruscan booth at AWP18 in Tampa, FL. From left to right: Karla Erdman (M.A. student), Danie Watson (M.F.A. student), Pamela Turchin (M.F.A. student), Kristin Weller (M.A. student) and Patricia Florio (M.F.A. '11). Smooth Sailing: Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Attends AWP18 By Kristin Weller (M.A. student) Henry David Thoreau once said, "We are constantly invited to be who we are." Like many writers-in-progress, I have struggled with my identity. I �teach full-time. I am a wife. I am a daughter. I am a perfectionist. Making a living from writing alone is the road I have less traveled. While teaching is a great gig, a gift in many ways, teaching can create all kinds of conflict for the writer-self, not the least of which is getting the time off during the academic year to attend conferences like AWP. But as with anything else in life, the choices we make and where we choose to put our time and energy are often a reflection of our priorities, and this year, I made a commitment to put my writing ahead of all else. Thanks to a one-semester sabbatical and the student registration waivers offered to Maslow Family graduate students, I was able to make-good on my self-promise and participate in AWP18 in Tampa. The spring-like temperatures and cloudless skies of South Florida were a welcome contrast to the Pennsylvania Nor'easter I and my Wilkes colleagues left behind us. Ahead, a menu of more than 1000 panel discussions, readings, activities, signings, and keynote speeches from which to choose, all in the service of enriching the writing community. And the Book Fair! Over 800 exhibitors filled the main floor, showcasing literary presses and journals, independent publishers and freelancers, writing programs and writing residencies, poets and swag (think, free totes, buttons, pens, and big price cuts on books). Imagine the directory portion of all of your favorite writing magazines, online journals, and publishing industry books coming to life and gathering together around tables and booths in one, massive room. I'll admit that I was both overwhelmed and impressed. After registration and a quick tour of the vendor hall, I met up with cohort member Meg Hall and my mentor, Kaylie Jones. We headed over to the Marriott across the street from the Convention Center where a few dozen meeting rooms held sessions of interest. Outside of each salon and meeting room was a full-sized poster with a list of the sessions scheduled in that room throughout the weekend. We perused the menus and ended up popping into the tail-end of a panel discussion on contemporary Southern literary fiction. The panelists were discussing the ways poverty, racism, and violence permeate their works. Following their planned discussion, the panelists opened up the floor to questions. It wasn't long before questions of culture appropriation arose. We have all heard the advice to write what you know, but if you stick with the process of developing your craft, you will come to know that more often than not, we use writing to explore the questions we do not know the answers to. What stuck with me after listening to the open dialogue about writing outside of your race or experience was this: if you do the work -- read everything you can in the cultural genre your story requires, travel to and be with the people whose lives you want to represent with fidelity, and research your own personal biases alongside the historical �events relevant to your story -- than you have less chance of creating a story that most readers will view as culturally appropriated. I found this topic to be extremely relevant beyond the cannon of Southern fiction. In my own experience as a Maslow Family Graduate student, this topic has come up for discussion within several of the residency courses I have attended. Like it or not, through our work we all become ambassadors of our genres. Credibility is earned. Integrity, demonstrated. After the panel ended, Meg, Kaylie and I headed outside to look for a place to eat. The Marriott and the Convention Center are part of a Riverwalk park where pedestrians and exercise enthusiasts share sidewalks and foot bridges that run along Tampa Bay. In the center is a cafe called The Sail where Kaylie, Meg and I ran into Bill Schneider and Pamela Turchin who had just flown in from Newark, NJ. After a few laughs and some catching up, we downed our burgers before splitting up to attend different sessions and man the booth. There's so much to pick from, so having a minute to peruse the registration materials was much appreciated. I found the AWP app to be an especially useful tool for adding sessions of interest and building daily agendas. Maps, room details, program descriptions, and schedules were all built-in to the app giving me easy access to necessary information quickly. At 3:30 p.m. Kaylie and I made our way to the Book Fair floor so I could start my first shift at the Wilkes University-Etruscan Press booth. (Go ahead. Say it. You know you want to. "The (John) Wilkes Booth!" We have the best name as far as booths go.) Maslow Family graduate students and alumni can attend AWP, registration-free if we commit to volunteering to work two hours each day in the booth at AWP. Because Wilkes is a major conference sponsor, the program receives 45-60 conference registration waivers so that our students may attend. They want us there, networking and learning from and with each other. I was a little nervous about the work, but as it turned out working in the booth was fun. Working in the Wilkes-Etruscan Press booth was painless, even for anxiety-prone personality types like me. That's mostly because of the great and magical duo, Danie Watson and Pamela Turchin, who do most of the on-site, logistical heavy-lifting, and our Associate Director, Bill Schneider, who orchestrates the rest. Working with the Wilkes-Etruscan team was fun and at times, reminiscent of residency. Booth required responsibilities included things like promoting the inclusion of the Norman Mailer Writing Colony at Wilkes, along with the Pennsylvania Writers Conference dates, and of course our fabulous �MA/MFA programs, volunteers haggled over who was the most outgoing from our contingency (that would be Justin Kassab, Danie Watson, and Karla Erdman) and sent them off to wander the Book Fair, enticing conference-goers to sign up for the Old School Poetry Slam, which 2012 MFA graduate, Stanton Hancock, hosted on March 9th and 10th following the Keynote speakers. The rest of us remained at the booth to answer the questions of passersby. Honestly, this task was no burden to bear. Both our programs and our presses already have a very strong reputation amongst those shopping around for an MFA program. All we needed to do was share what we love about our writing program. Easy! Two of the messages I found myself repeating to potential students were how much our fabulous faculty and our student participants value a respectful, collaborative approach, and how accessible and supportive we all are as a literary community. Even as I was sharing these points, I was flashing back to my first residency in June of 2016 and how many times I was approached by upper-level graduate students who introduced themselves and congratulated me on entering the 501s. It happened in the dorm lobby, in the Henry Center, in the Starbucks, in the Darte before and after the evening readings. And, every faculty member made it a point to connect with each of the 18 members of my cohort over the course of those first few days - no easy task given their own packed schedules. What a difference that kind of care and attention can make, especially for a writer so wrapped up in fear, rejection, and isolation. What an antidote that kind of attention can be! At AWP, I got the chance to spend time with my mentor who has committed her time and attention to helping me develop my work and my identity as a writer. Other faculty members, like David Poyer who I hadn't really had a chance to get to know at residencies, showed up and engaged with us too. He asked about the work I and my cohort members were doing over lunch, thus giving Meg Hall, Jeff Alves and I a chance to practice pitching. The practice, like the process, never ends. Attending AWP just verified what I had already learned about our faculty: their commitment to their students and to writing is lifelong. Investing my time in these three, glorious, twelve-hour days at AWP Tampa as a writer participating in this community of peers has reaffirmed my commitment, not only to the completion of my term project, but also to my place in this community of writers. I belong, and that is enough. Kristin Weller is a Pennsylvania writer, English teacher, and a graduate student at Wilkes University. Her �essay, Life: What Writer and Teacher Can Tell You about Craft, was featured in Craft section of the May 2017 issue of Hippocampus Magazine. She earned a Writing Fellowship with the National Writing Project in 2000, an organization for which she has served as an Advisory Board member and teacherconsultant. When she's not grading eighth grade English papers or running her two boxer dogs around agility courses, she facilitated a local writing group called Write Nights in Nazareth, PA. She anticipates earning her Creative Writing Masters degree in 2018.      Spring into Writing: Community Workshops Introduction to Fiction Writing From flash fiction to fullfledged short stories, Introduction to Fiction Writing covers the basics of storytelling and the revision process. The workshop focuses on the basic elements of the genre and provides participants with a supportive environment where they can explore their literary interests and experiment with character, plot, and language. Open to beginning writers and those looking to hone their writing skills, the workshop asks participants to come with an open mind and be ready to read, write, revise, and repeat. Adult learners of any age may register for this workshop Meetings: Tuesdays - 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Kirby Hall, Room 108 �April 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1 and 8 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Francisco Tutella   Memoir: Many Ways to Tell Your Story This class will explore writing memoir by using a variety of prompts and artifacts to mine your memories, from recipes and photos to letters, diaries and family heirlooms. Adult learners of any age may register for this workshop. Meetings: Tuesdays - 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Breiseth Hall, Room 209 April 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8 and 15 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Vicki Mayk       Preparing You and Your Manuscript for Publication This five-week workshop is designed for adult learners who are interested in the submission process and developing the skills to enter the world of publishing. Participants will be provided an overview of how to prepare literary projects for submission to publishers. Through a variety of lectures, workshop exercises, and group �discussions, participants will discover what it takes to prepare themselves - and their work - for consideration. A comprehensive look at industry standards and best practices include crafting a project synopsis, drafting a query letter, understanding the author questionnaire process, creating a thumbnail, keynote, and writing the book description. Participants do not need a completed manuscript for this workshop series.  Meetings: Wednesdays - 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Breiseth Hall, Room 211 April 11, 18, 25, May 2 and 9 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Bill Schneider Playwriting How to Write a Short One-Act or 10-Minute Play CURTAIN UP! Have you ever imagined your story on a stage? This workshop will teach ways to write a short play in our first session. In our second session, you will hear your short play read alive and envisioned. Bring yourself and your own best characters wanting a stage to our playwriting workshop. This workshop is designed for adult learners. Session 1: Learning how to write a play - short one-act or a 10-min play and assignment to do so. Session 2: Bring your assignment to workshop, and we read together, critique, and provide feedback.    Meetings: Saturdays - 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Kirby Hall, Room 108 April 21 and 28 Cost: $65.00 for the entire series Instructor: Jan Quackenbush   �Faculty News Gregory Fletcher's short play Mapplethorpe's Flowers was produced by Off-Off-Broadway's Artistic New Directions during the first two weeks of March in their Eclectic Evening of Shorts XI at the Theatre 54 in New York City. Lenore Hart and David Poyer taught at a writing retreat on Ossabaw Island from February 22-28. Lenore was the fiction instructor, presented workshops and provided one-on-one manuscript consultations, and David presented publishing workshops and spoke on a larger panel of regional editors and publishers. They both gave evening readings during the writing retreat. Juanita Rockwell's libretto for composer Douglas Knehans' chamber opera, Backwards from Winter, will premiere at Symphony Space, NYC on May 25, presented by The Center for Contemporary Opera and directed by Jennifer Williams. This monodrama for soprano, electric cello and video, traces a woman's year with her beloved, beginning in deep winter where she is in grief over his death, backwards through the seasons to the heart-opening birth of their love in spring. Juanita's play with songs, Between Trains, was recently published by Blue Moon Plays, and she was named a VCCA Fellow with her first residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Student/Alum News Amye Archer (M.F.A. '11) has co-edited an anthology about body image titled My Body, My Words, which was released March 15th from Big Table Publishing. Several Wilkes faculty members and alums have essays in the collection including Bev Donofrio and Kaylie Jones. Aurora D. Bonner (M.A. '17) recently had an excerpt from her memoir published in the January/February issue of Hippocampus Magazine. One of her essays, "The Night we Ate Moussaka," will also appear in the April publication of Under the Gum Tree. Brian Fanelli's (M.F.A. '10) essay, "Lessons on the Environment: Revisiting Robert Bly," was recently published by The Schuylkill Valley Journal. He also has three poems in the anthology, Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America(NYQ Books). Proceeds from the anthology benefit the National Immigration Law Center. Brian recently joined 4squarereview as a staff book reviewer. Richard Fellinger (M.F.A. '10) published an op-ed in the Lancaster paper arguing for a better brand of national politics. �R. Anthony Giamusso's (M.A. '15) debut scifi/fantasy novel Under A Veil Of Godswas published by BHCpress/Indigo on March 8, 2018. Tyler Grimm (M.F.A., '13) has accepted a teaching appointment in the Composition Program at University of Delaware. He has also begun writing craft columns for Hippocampus Magazine, the first of which, "Hooking Your Students, Hooking Yourself" was published in September 2017. A subsequent column published in January 2018, "The Trauma Museum" has received considerable praise. Gerald Gurka (M.A. '07) wrote and directed The Gold Wrapping Paper, a play that was performed on Dec 24, 2017 in Larksville, Pa. His newest play Relics of the Passion, both written & directed by Gerka was performed on March 23, 2018 in Larksville, Pa. His young readers novel Freddie Foodmore's Menu of Unsavory Events will be published with Overdue Books. Monique Antonette Lewis (M.F.A '12) has three flash fiction stories from her collection Looking for Mr. Wrong that have been published / are forthcoming in lit zines: "Shall We Dance" (Polarity eMagazine, sister publication of PoetryBay, Winter 2017) and "A Waste of Your Damn Time" and "A Mr. Right" (both forthcoming this year in American Writers Review). Her essay "How You Came to Love Me" will also be published in the anthology My Body, My Words  (Big Table Publishing, March 2018). Mark Levy (M.A. '08) has joined the Denver law firm of Block45Legal as Intellectual Property Counsel; and a book of his essays, entitled Trophy Envy, is scheduled to be published this April. The essays are transcriptions of his tri-weekly broadcasts on the public radio show, Weekend Radio with Robert Conrad. illustrahons by John Ed Bon Fed Lori A. May (M.F.A.'13) has an essay included in an upcoming anthology, Writing Creative Writing: Essays from the Field, scheduled for May 2018 publication with Dundurn Press. Her first novel, The Profiler (2005), has been reissued in Australia with publisher Mills and Boon. This spring, Lori is speaking and reading at events throughout Washington, California, and Nevada. �Michael Nixon (M.A. '15) had a chapter from his memoir, a work (still in progress) that was his thesis project, published in the January/February issue of Hippocampus Magazine. The piece was also a semi-finalist in their "Remember in November" competition. Christoph Paul's (M.F.A. '17) press CLASH Books recently put out the poetry collection If You Died Tomorrow I would Eat Your Corpse, the anthology for pre-order Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del Rey and Sylvia Plath, and the pre-order for the magazine CLASH Magazine: Issue #1. CLASH Books had a table again at AWP 2018 and had an offsite reading. As an author, his book A Confederacy of Hot Dogs was featured in Powell's small press section, he sold a story to the anti-fascist anthology Engage! forthcoming from King Shot Press, and found a home for his poetry collection At Least I Get You < In My Art with Rooster Republic Press which is to be published in the summer of 2018. Sara Shalom Scharrer's (M.A. '15) short story "Means of Escape" was published on January 24 in STORGY online magazine. C.A. Smith (M.A. '11) released her first book LongNeck Bottles under the pseudonym Phoenix Ash. She also has a ,~'~l LONGNECK podcast called "Life As P" that is available BOTTLES " ~i ,1 ,, via iTunes, Google Play and iHeart Radio. 1 ~ ,,   ' ) Phoenix Ash Quick Links Career Development Campus Safety and Internships Centers & Institutes Online Programs Programs E.S. 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November 2018 Check in: M.F.A. Internships Across the Board By Danie Watson Revise This! 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 Revise This! Archives (Left to right: Jeremiah Blue, Camika Spencer, Karley Stasko, Janine Dubik, Danie Watson) During each Residency the 616 students introduce themselves to the best practices in both publishing and education in the hopes that they will find a perfect internship by the end of the week. Internships in education can include adjuncting a class, holding a workshop, or assessing current classroom procedures. Publishing internships can include working with n 2018 n n �any of our program partners including: Akashic Books, At the Inkwell, Etruscan Press, HaveScripts (formerly Blue Moon Plays), Hippocampus Magazine and Books, Kaylie Jones Books, Michael Mailer Films, Northampton House Press or SenArt Films on a number of projects. This semester, M.F.A. candidates Jeremiah Blue, Janine Dubik, Camika Spencer, Karley Stasko and Danie Watson are all working in what they hope to be their future careers. Jeremiah Blue is currently working with Donna Talarico (M.F.A. '10) at Hippocampus Magazine and Books. Jeremiah has been working on book launch support and research for Dig: A Personal Prehistoric Journey by Sam Chiarelli (M.F.A. '16) and another upcoming release for the press. Jeremiah has also been working with faculty member Phil Brady at Etruscan Press doing grant research and a review for Etruscan's outreach program. Of his experiences, Jeremiah says, "It's been a revealing, challenging, and inspirational process to assist in the final moments before a book makes its official debut to the public—in other words, being published. Especially so for a book, though in my literary genre of specialty, considerably different from my own work in topic and theme." Janine Dubik is currently working with Phil Brady at Etruscan Press. Both Janine and Karley Stasko were copyeditors of Sixteen by Auguste Corteau, a January 2019 forthcoming title from Etruscan. Together, both Janine and Karley are now proofreading the final proof of the title. Janine said she is "amazed and proud of what our editing team has accomplished." Janine also read Phil Brady's upcoming book Phantom Signs and has created study guides for the books she read to be used for outreach and in the classroom with Etruscan books. Of her experience, Janine says, "My MFA publishing internship with Etruscan Press has given me an inside look at what happens to a writer's words on their way to becoming a book. A team of Etruscan editors and three interns helped revise a manuscript that is now quick-paced, touching, funny, and historical simultaneously. The Etruscan editors, Karley, and I are going through a final proof, and I am incredibly amazed by and proud of the shape of Sixteen, compared to that ARC in June. I plan to use my experience with Sixteen in my own writing." Camika Spencer is creating a curriculum for a Reader's Theatre class at her school because they do not currently have an auditorium. Of her experience, Camika says, "It's refreshing, timely, and it's bringing me a great deal of joy to be the creator, author and implementer." Karley Stasko has been working at Etruscan Press alongside Janine Dubik. As previously mentioned, Karley and Janine were part of the editing team for Sixteen by Auguste Corteau, which is a forthcoming �January 2019 Etruscan title. Karley is on her third round of edits for this title. When she wasn't serving as a copywriter, Karley prepared for a conference seminar on "Revising Like a Publisher" for the Kings College Creative Writing Alumni Conference in October. Of her experiences, Karley says, "Etruscan has opened my eyes to at least a dozen new ways of reading and analyzing a work. From the proofreader's careful eye to the academic's cross-curricular perspective, I won't be able to read the same way again." Danie Watson has been working at Lackawanna College as an adjunct professor under Department Chair Brian Fanelli (M.F.A. '10). Danie is teaching a section of Introduction to Literature, two sections of Effective Speaking and one section of College Writing, which serves as her internship. Of her experience, Danie says, "It's certainly been a challenge to move from student to professor, but I try to think of it as 'how would I best learn this lesson?' and adapt that to my student's needs. I'm having a blast. I learn just as much from my students as they learn from me and I couldn't be happier with my internship, which I hope will one day turn into my career." While the internship duties and tasks change each semester along with the students, there's no doubt that each student leaves with valuable experience and excellent feedback. Danie Watson (Goetz) is an adjunct professor at Lackawanna College, where she teaches writing, literature and communications classes. Danie also serves as the Marketing Coordinator for Oddities by Kaylie Jones Books and a graduate assistant for the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. Her book review "Unmasking the Hermit" was published in Tailor Made Magazine. Danie lives in Scranton, PA with her husband Daniel. HippoCamp 2018: More of an Honor than an Obligation By Caitlin Downs �(Caitlin Downs (M.A. student) (left) pictured with HippoCamp Director Donna Talarico (M.F.A.’10). My role at Hippocamp 2018 was to act as an emcee in one of the conference rooms at the large and somewhat labyrinthine Lancaster Convention Center that houses the annual weekend-long event series. It was more of an honor than an obligation to assist Donna Talarico in the massive undertaking that is the system of operations at a creative nonfiction conference that draws hundreds of attendees. My role was pretty small and straightforward, but both Donna and her trusted partner, Kevin Beerman, graciously made sure to extend access to the conference to me in exchange for my assistance. I missed the 2017 conference because of a conflict but I attended this year to report on the keynote speaker, the titan of the creative non-fiction field who is Tobias Wolff. More impressive than the headliner was the community of writers in attendance, many of whom didn't recognize me from any previous events and welcomed me anyway. People in the line for book signing were so socially engaging, asking me if and what I write, talking about influential authors and events that they attended over the weekend that inspired them. It struck me that Hippocamp has a very different vibe than what I was used to from past readings and engagements. There, people became really invested in one another's stories. My first �Hippocampus 2018 experience began once I had the pleasure of introducing my friend and fellow writer Tyler Barton to a room full of enthusiastic writers and professionals. Tyler is one half of the literary organization Fear No Lit, and he presented on organizational strategies that can help bring members of the writing community together. He outlined his team's methods for coming up with unusual fundraisers or exhibits. He and partner Erin Dorney have organized many exciting events I have attended in and around Lancaster, such as an Adult Spelling Bee, or a Page Match that offers a Mexican wrestling style take on a slam. Athena Dixon was the next breakout session speaker I witnessed. Her presentation spoke to the unaddressed benefits of "navel gazing" and reframed it as a worthy pursuit for writers. Athena engaged her audience with personalized bingo sheets that helped attendees acknowledge the key components of their identities. She also wove a beautiful web of anecdotes and examples to help her audience rethink their roles as writers and how their stories serve the wider community. (Photo by Caitlin Downs)  Donna is able to pull together a lineup of presenters that offers something for �NAVEL GAZING everyone. Over thirtyfive events and a multitude of speakers address issues of craft as well as entertain with stories told either from the stage or in the more competitive slam format. This year the keynote speaker, Abigail Thomas, spoke of a lifetime of accomplished writing, living up to the description of being an inspirational and wisdom-filled memoirist. My favorite line from Thomas's talk on crafting memoir is "if you start where you think you're going to start and end up where you plan to end up, you're doing something wrong." Similarly, if you think you know where a conference is going to start and what you're going to learn then you probably haven't been going to the right kind of conference, because Hippocamp changes every year. The community, and new speakers bring new issues to the floor that may very well change the way attendees write in multiple ways. Caitlin Downs teaches creative writing, literature, and communications at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design in Lancaster, PA. She holds a Master's in English from Arcadia University and is currently pursuing an MA/MFA in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. Her poetry has appeared in such places as Cease, Cows, The University of Edinburgh Journal, and The Fiction Pool.  “Navel Gazing and Other Worthwhile Pursuits” at HippoCamp18 Photo by Caitlin Downs    Taylor M. Polites Recognized by Rhode Island Council for the Humanities �Faculty member Taylor M. Polites was awarded the Public Humanities Scholar Award by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities in 2018. From their website, "The Scholar Award recognizes outstanding public humanities work in teaching and scholarship that advances the civic and cultural life of Rhode Island. This year, the Award honors Taylor Polites for his historical fiction writing, research, teaching, and creative interpretations of Rhode Island history for public audiences. Polites expertly bridges history, art, and literature working with artists, activists, archivists, and scholars with boundless interdisciplinary imagination and energy. He partners with Ann Hood and Hester Kaplan in Goat Hill, a collaboration dedicated to bringing writers and writing professionals to Southern New England, and works with local organizations to cultivate storytelling and community. He teaches in the Newport MFA program at Salve Regina University, in the Maslow Family Creative Writing MFA program at Wilkes University, at the Rhode Island School of Design, and at Roger Williams University. Polites exemplifies an inclusive approach to scholarship and public engagement in the humanities and is a bridge through his efforts to value individual voices." Congratulations Taylor! Wilkes at AWP 2019: Schedule of Events AWP Association of Writers & Writing Programs The 2019 AWP Conference & Bookfair will be held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon from March 27 – 30, 2018. In Portland, swing by these sessions and support the Wilkes CW family, including program partners Akashic Books and Etruscan Press: Etruscan Press Authors: Kazim Ali (The Disappearance of Seth) Reinventing the Wheel: The Tradition of Innovation in Poetry Friday, March 29, 2019 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Portland Ballroom 256 �Oregon Convention Center Level 2 Sidney famously writes, "And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way" ("Astrophel and Stella"). However, one would only need to read Homer, Virgil, and Dante, the letters between Wordsworth and Coleridge or Moore and Bishop, to recognize the long tradition of poets mentoring and inspiring other poets. The poets will challenge the notion that tradition and innovation are at odds by revealing how specific poems influenced them and led them to better understand different poetic elements. Fifty Years of FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Saturday, March 30, 2019 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. B115 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Since 1969, FIELD Magazine has been known as one of the country's leading journals of contemporary poetry and poetics. In 2019, FIELD will publish its 100th and final issue. This panel, featuring two founding editors and three later additions, will discuss the magazine's history and values, including its annual symposium of essays on the work of a major poet, its commitment to translation, and its openness to a wide variety of voices, both established and emerging. Laurie Jean Cannady(Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul) #MeToo, Girlhood: Writing and Subverting Childhood Sexual Violence Narratives Thursday, March 28, 2019 3:00 a.m. to 4:15 a.m. E145 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Writers discuss creating narratives of girlhood sexual trauma, share influences and craft advice, and offer strategies for overcoming the challenges of writing these stories. The writers on this panel create works that subvert common victim narratives—via humor, style, non-linearity, narrator agency, lack of disclosure, and more—as well as examine the intersections of gender, race, class, inherited trauma, and sexual identity on narratives of sexual violence. Patti Horvath (All the Diference) Rewriting History: Why It's Not Okay to Fictionalize Our Memories Friday, March 29, 2019 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. B114 �Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Every so often, literary scandals seem to surface, particularly when it comes to memoirs. Is there an unspoken code of ethics that exists for memoirists and essayists? Or is it something deeper, something psychological that gives birth to the betrayal we feel upon discovering that a nonfiction writer has invented a character, setting, or memory? In this panel, nonfiction writers discuss the difficulty in cultivating memories while managing this genre's ethical demands and expectations. David Lazar (Who's Afraid of Helen of Troy: An Essay on Love) Que savent-ils?: What Classic Essays Can Teach Contemporary Essayists Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. B114 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 When's the last time you sat down with an essay by Lamb? Or cracked open The Rambler? Maybe not recently enough. With so many exciting new modes of the essay being written today, it can be easy to forget those of the past, but writers like Montaigne, Rousseau, Hazlitt, and Woolf have more bearing on contemporary essayists than you might think. This diverse panel of essayists writing in a variety of sub-genres shows how the "classics" inspire them—as perhaps they will inspire you, too. Paul Lisicky (The Burning House) Endings for the End Times? Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Portland Ballroom 255 Oregon Convention Center Level 2 As we reach the concluding lines of our own works, current ailments in the body politic may bend us toward chaos and despair. At the same time, ever-present narrative and commercial pressures may drive us toward neatly resolved, even uplifting, endings. How do we craft final notes that imply light and dark, open and closed, emotional and intellectual complexity? We discuss struggles and strategies for endings that feel satisfying for readers, and yet true to the work, the moment, and ourselves. Am I Really Going to Do This Until I Die? Friday, March 29, 2019 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. �Portland Ballroom 256 Oregon Convention Center Level 2 The longer a person teaches workshop, the more prone he or she is to burn out; after all, instructors tend to use the same format semester after semester, and students tend to need the same advice. How can instructors keep workshops feeling relevant and energized? Are there new models that might reinvigorate our students and ourselves? This panel, featuring undergraduate and graduate writing instructors, will address strategies to keep everyone engaged, down to the most exhausted teacher. Diane Raptosh (AmericanAmnesiac and Human Directional) Reading: Unmasked: Women Write about Sex and Intimacy after 50 Thursday, March 28, 2019 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Nuture Realty, 1100 SE Division St., #120, Portland, OR 97202 J. D. Schrafenberger (Saint Joe's Passion) Impact and Empathy: Service-Learning and Creative Writing Friday, March 29, 2019 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. D139-140 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Service-learning and community engagement not only provide student writers with real-world experiences, applied skills, and opportunities for personal growth, but their empathy and perspectives are expanded in ways that transform the creative process. Teachers from various backgrounds and institutions discuss the practical challenges and unique benefits of service-learning in the creative writing classroom, including work with veterans, oceanographers, food co-ops, and refugee organizations. Changing of the Guard: Editors on Inclusion and Diversity in Literary Journals Saturday, March 30, 2019 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Portland Ballroom 255 Oregon Convention Center Level 2 The VIDA Count is an indispensable measure of gender diversity in literary journal publications. While the numbers layout disparities within this community, the question remains: how can we increase contributor and staff diversity in areas such as race, sexual identity/orientation, and �disability? Where is the line between diversity and tokenism? This panel of literary journal editors will share their strides, missteps, and questions on inclusive staff and contributor practices. Tim Seibles (Fast Animal and One Turn Around the Sun) Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology Reading Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Portland Ballroom 256 Oregon Convention Center Level 2 Eco-justice poetry embodies justice, culture, and the environment. It is poetry born of ecological and social crisis, poetry that holds memory, fed by a wealth of cultural traditions, urgent in our time. Come listen to contributing poets read from and discuss the ground-breaking Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, as each discusses their approach to writing in these troubled times and the traditions that feed their work. How we need another soul to cling to: Writing Love Poems in Difficult Times Saturday, March 30, 2019 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. D139-140 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 When the news feels like a daily onslaught, it's hard to believe writing a poem can matter—let alone a love poem. Here, five poets will share their own love poems and discuss how writing about love also allows them to explore everything from racism to climate change to queerness to personal grief, then offer strategies of how others might do the same. For how better to know why resistance is worth it? In this panel, we'll discuss not just what we're fighting against but what we're fighting for. Shara McCallum (Poems and Their Making) Boulevard 35th Anniversary & 100 Issues Reading Saturday, March 30, 2019 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. B116 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Founded in 1984, Boulevard magazine celebrates 100 issues and thirtyfive years of continuously publishing the finest in contemporary voices in fiction, poetry, and definitive essays on the arts and culture. Featuring writers from across our thirty-five years, this reading reflects Boulevard's mission to present a variegated yet coherent ensemble of creative and �critical writing by both emerging and established writers. Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing: Stanton Hancock (M.F.A. Alum) AWP Open Mic and Old School Slam Thursday, March 28, 2019 and Friday, March 29, 2018 B113 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 Midnight Oregon Convention Center Level 1 AWP welcomes students to return to the roots of Slam! Open mic special guests and then undergraduate and graduate students partake in a hardcore-break-your-heart-strut-out-the-good-stuff slam competition. Students are welcome to sign up to participate on Friday, March 29, 2019 and Thursday, March 28, 2019 at the Wilkes University/Etruscan Press booth and read original pieces (three minutes or less with no props) at the Slam later that night. Sponsors: Wilkes University and Etruscan Press. Program Partners: Ibrahim Ahmad (Akashic Books) Can I Pick Your Brain? The Fine Line Between Giving Back and Getting Paid Friday, March 29, 2018 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. B117-119 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 The right connections in publishing can jumpstart your career and make the journey more enjoyable. But there is a fine line when asking for a favor (or a freebie) and networking. This panel looks at how emerging writers can gracefully navigate the art of "the ask" and how established authors can balance their time and effort and meaningful connections. Five publishing insiders share secrets of effective networking without looking self-interested—and when to say no without looking unsupportive. Ronnie K. Stephens (Kaylie Jones Books) Author Signing--The Kaleidoscope Sisters Thursday, March 28, 2018 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Bookfair Booth 3031 (Wilkes University/Etruscan Press) Oregon Convention Center �Level 1 For the full AWP19 schedule, visit the AWP Conference Schedule. Faculty News: Bonnie Culver, program director, will have her play Auto-Mated performed as part of a 10-minute play festival at Caroll College in Helena, Montana. David Poyer's Hatteras Blue audiobook debuted in October by Northampton House Press. This is their first audiobook. Marketed under NHP's Polyhymnia Books imprint, Dave Poyer's Hatteras Blue is an exciting underwater adventure narrated by Edison McDaniels (available on Audible, iTunes, and other online sellers). Other Polyhymnia audiobooks are in production, narrated by McDaniels and by Julie Yelen (M.A. '18), a program alum. J. Michael Lennon, along with his wife Donna Pedro, published the revised, enlarged version of Norman Mailer: Works and Days on November 1. He is also doing a reading alongside authors John Winters and Barbara Burkhardt at a biographers' night on November 14th, 7-9 pm at the WORD Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY. It's in the Greenpoint neighborhood. Alumni and Student News: Amye Archer (M.F.A. '11) will have her book If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings released in Spring 2019 by Skyhorse Publishing. For this book, Amye and co-editor Loren Kleinman worked with over 90 survivors of school shootings and helped them to write their stories. Amye presented at PCTELA in Harrisburg on October 18th with Wilkes M.F.A. alums Dawn Zera (M.F.A. '13) and Ginny Grove (M.F.A. '12). The three presented a panel titled "I, Too, Am a Writer," which explored ways in which teachers can bring their own writing experience into the classroom. Patrick Charsky (M.F.A. '17) finalized an agreement with The Bundy Museum to do a film series on screenwriting where most of the films are based on the M.F.A. guide from Wilkes called "The Screenwriting Biz." The dates are November 13, December 11, 2018, January 8, February 12, March 12 and April 9, 2019 at The Bundy Museum in Binghamton, NY. Charsky will curate and present a series of films and lead discussions after every screening. Iris Ouellette (M.A. '17) is an adjunct professor at Lackawanna College teaching Introduction to Literature and Effective Speaking. Her nonfiction piece "Finding �Oscar Wilde" was published in July's issue of Parhelion Literary Magazine. Josh Penzone's (M.A. '13) short story "A Return" appeared in the December issue of Blue Lake Review. Ronnie K. Stephens (M.F.A. '18) recently published book reviews in Lambda Literary Review andThe Los Angeles Review. His debut novel, The Kaleidoscope Sisters, has received glowing reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and School Library Journal. Donna Talarico (M.F.A. '10) presented for the eighth consecutive year at the annual Higher Education Web Professionals conference in Sacramento, CA. She hosted a lightning round talk called "All Work and No Play? Nonsense! — How Creativity, Curiosity, Surprise and Play Help Us Work" and a three-hour post-conference workshop called "Copy That! Creating Ad Copy Headlines and Other Content that 'Clicks' with Your Audience." Donna also was interviewed for the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) podcast; the episode aired to its members in mid-October and a recording will be made public later this fall. 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Title A name given to the resource Revise This! | 2018-01.pdf Creative Writing Maslow Maslow Family Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Revise This Writing https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/ae679dfb65266d1914e813b5fcf935dc.pdf c66227ceaf91fec025b616d06ee00a45 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! October 2017 M.A. & M.F.A. Grads Walk the Stage in Archives Archives 2017 2018 Revise This! November 2019 Left to right: Anthony Kapolka, Pamela Turchin, Janine Dubik, Sean Egan, Patrick Kelley, Travis Shick n 2017 n n �Summer Commencement We congratulate the graduates of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, who were awarded their diplomas at the summer commencement ceremony on Sunday afternoon, September 10, 2017, at Wilkes University: M.A. Aurora Bonner (Creative nonfiction) Andre Carter (Fiction) Janine Dubik (Fiction) Sean Egan (Screenwriting) Patricia Florio (Fiction) Patrick Kelley (Fiction) Cooper Gorelick (Screenwriting) Lisa Greim (Creative nonfiction) Bibiana Krall (Fiction) Ann Miller (Creative nonfiction) Toni Muma (Creative nonfiction) Travis Shick (Fiction) Pamela Turchin (Fiction) Carol (Christy) White (Poetry) M.F.A. Draper Brown Jennifer Jenkins Anthony Kapolka Thomas Simko   Congratulations to each of these members of our Wilkes writing community, and welcome to the newest members of the Wilkes Alumni Association!  James Jones First Novel Fellowship Awarded for Quantum Girl Theory Erin Kate Ryan, Minneapolis, MN, has been awarded the 2017 James Jones First Novel Fellowship for her manuscript Quantum Girl Theory. Runners-up Glori Simmons, Oakland, CA is the first runner up with her manuscript Restell. Second runner-up Jennie Li, is from San Bruno, CA, and was honored for her manuscript The Unpassing. The James Jones First Novel Fellowship is given annually for a novel-inprogress by a U.S. writer who has not published a novel. Winners receive �$10,000. Runners-up will receive $1,000. A selection from the winning work is published in Provincetown Arts. The 2017 James Jones First Novel Fellowship was judged by Laurie Lowenstein, James Jones Society president, novelist and author of Unmentionables; Greg Hrbek, novelist, author and past James Jones First Novel Fellowship winner with his novel, The Hindenburg; and Lisa Greim, journalist and author. The 27th Annual James Jones First Novel Fellowship will be awarded to an American author of a first novel-in-progress, in 2018, by the James Jones Literary Society. Eligible writers have never published a novel, are U.S. citizens, and may have published other types of work including nonfiction and short stories. Big   . Picture? The Little Things: HippoCamp 2017 Wrap-up By Aurora Bonner (M.A. '17) The man in front of me squealed, "Oh my goodness, what are these?!" Not waiting for an answer, he grabbed two of the desserts, one, a cupcake with a whipped chocolate topping and the other, a slim slice of cake so dense it was almost black. • Lisa Romeo and 2 others liked Elane Johnson @Elane.Johnson • Sep 9 V I kinda just want the literal and literary offspring of Tobias Wolff and Beverly Donofrio. #dreaming #Hlppocamp17 #amwriting Q1 tl,3 C) 9 El "Oh! Tiramisu cupcakes and flourless cake," I heard the event organizer say. Donna Talarico Beerman (M.F.A. '13) seemed to be everywhere throughout the weekend, and always smiling, as if hosting Hippocamp 2017: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers is her favorite way to spend the weekend. I turned to say hello, but she was already off, carrying a load of conference materials through the crowd. �• Athena Dixon and 2 others liked Yalonda Rice @yalondarice • Sep 10 I met the wondertul Beverly Donofrio today. Life is good. • v #hlppocamp17 There were crowds, but they're manageable. Unlike the annual AWP conference, faces of presenters and attendees became familiar, prompting everyone to geek out. "Bev Donofrio sat right next to me in the last session. I was only a foot away from her!" gushed one attendee, as we made heaping lunch plates. When I told her I attended the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University, she shot me rapid-fire questions. • LaurieJean cannady liked Miranda Remington @missremington • Sep 9 v With Laurie Jean Cannady, author of "CRAVE: Soujourn of a Hungy Soul." AMAZING LADY! "If you're gonna tell it - tell it all.· #HlppoCamp17 • HIiiary Mohaupt and 1 other liked Justice Fisher @justicewrites • Sep 9 V Rockin' it out with Laurie Jean Cannady. Perfect balance of humor and information about writing trauma #hlppocamp17 "One of the things I like best about the program at Wilkes is the writing community. It doesn't matter where you are from or what you write, you are immediately absorbed into this giant, cable-knit sweater of a community. Everyone is approachable and accessible," I said. "Like Hippocamp?" "Yes, I guess you could say that." "Nice! So you're with your tribe." "What's that?" I asked. "You're with your tribe. This is your community!" "Oh, yes! Yes, exactly!" Later, I joined my tribe at the Wilkes booth. Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. '13) and M.A. student Danie Watson were congratulating Sam Chiarelli (M.F.A. '16) on his upcoming book, Dig: A Personal Prehistoric Journey, due out from the Hippocampus Books Division in Fall of 2018. �• krlsttn shaw and 1 other llked amy fish Oamyfishwrites • Sep 9 V We use speculation when getting married. Based on the info we had up until then, we thought this would be fine @VlckiMayk #HlppoCamp17 Q t1,1 tl Holary Mohaupt 0 2 El and 1 other Retweeted Kelly Kautz @kellykautz · Sep 9 V Use speculation to move from telling to shoWing. Use it when feelings are stronger than facts: get at an emotional truth .. #hlppocamp17 Q • t1,2 oe El Hippocampus Magazineliked Kristin Kelly @KellyKmkelly · Sep 9 V @VickiMayk Great examples of speculation: Mary Karr, Darin Strauss, Michael Ondaatje, Maxine Hong Kingston #hlppocampH $ Translate from Dutch Q u • 3 "Vicki, you're blowing up on Twitter," Danie said, turning her phone for Vicki to see. Vicki presented one of the first sessions early Saturday morning, examining the use of speculation in creative nonfiction. As conversation shifted into Twitterland, my thoughts drifted to the work I had at home. Not only did I owe my mentor work, I also had papers to grade. I'm in the 612 cohort of students, working on my M.F.A., while juggling a bunch of adjunct classes and momming it at home. Distracted, I floated into the next session. The woman presenting was ageless, somewhere between twenty and fifty, soft-spoken and a self-proclaimed bookworm. In a room full of bookworms, not surprising. But what was surprising was the passion that erupted from her when she began presenting. Her excitement about the topic—and her enthusiasm to share her revelations with us—was infectious. She explained how she applied the lesson to her own work, and then gave us a copy of her notes so we could see exactly what she'd done. Seeing this helped me imagine how I could apply her lesson to my current the project at Wilkes. I skipped through the rest of the conference, with a grin perhaps only Donna surpassed. �ft AgentV @VeronlKaboom · Sep 9 I miss this mashedpotato bar everyyear,and everyyear I hate myselfa little more for missingit. #HippoCampl7 V WIikes UniversityCW @WilkesUWrltlng Isn't that #mashtinlbardelicious?Whenyou've had your fill, pop over to the Wilkesbooth for your chanceto win a #PWC18reg! #HippoCamp17 01 t1 1 • 7 amy fish @amyfishwrites f@j§!:i•V Replyingto @VeroniKaboom @lauriecann I saved you one in my pocket. Marshmallows might be a little squished but other than that I'm sure it's fine. #HippoCamp17 My biggest take-away from Hippocamp? The little things. Mashtini bars, tiramisu cupcakes (okay, the food is really good), the blending of voices and experiences, the sharable moments, and the extraordinary buzz of community. The ageless presenter with a soft voice and a craft lesson that knocked me into a permanent smile was not the only person sharing. The entire community, attendees, presenters, keynotes, volunteers, and organizers, shared. As a student, I was sitting in awe of greats like Beverly Donofrio and Tobias Wolff, but I was also learning applicable lessons on craft and insight into the post-writing world. The whole conference screams community. Even the tweets. Aurora D. Bonner (M.A. '17) is a writer and artist who teaches in the Endless Mountains. She is currently working on a memoir that follows her through several National Parks in the American West. Bonner is an M.F.A. candidate at Wilkes University. Follow her @aurora_bonner.    5 �From June 23 to 25, 2017, alum Vicki Mayk hosted her first writing retreat "Healing Through Our Stories" in Bangor, PA. Eleven writers joined Mayk at the Kirkridge Retreat Center for the writing and storytelling retreat. Questions for Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. '13): On Hosting a Writing Retreat Mayk is a memoirist, nonfiction writer and magazine editor whose work has appeared in print and online publications including Ms. Magazine, Hippocampus Magazine, Literary Mama, and the Manifest-Station. She created and teaches a memoir workshop for the bereaved at St. Luke's Hospice in Bethlehem, PA, and teaches writing workshops for those dealing with loss under the umbrella of her business, Write To Heal. She is the editor of Wilkes, the University Magazine at Wilkes University, where she also teaches adult creative nonfiction workshops and a class about the power of story for first year students. We asked her a few questions about hosting a writing retreat, and how her M.F.A. internship blossomed into a full-fledged retreat. 1. What was the catalyst that made you want to host a writing retreat? After participating in a writing residency at the Mailer Center in Provincetown in summer 2013 and a second residency in summer 2015 at the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, I realized how valuable it is for a writer to be able to "get away" for some focused writing time. A year later, in August 2017, I attended a session on starting a writing retreat given by Joanne Lozar Glenn at HippoCamp, the nonfiction conference started by Wilkes creative writing alumna Donna Talarico-Beerman. Those experiences showed me how hosting a retreat could be a natural extension of one of the things I like to do best – teach – while providing that "away time" for fellow writers similar to what I �enjoyed in my residency. 2. What benefits do you think a retreat has for a writer? There are two benefits for writers: it gives them some time away from home and their daily routine to dedicate to writing and it also offers an opportunity to interact with other writers. It's kind of a yin/yang type of thing: time alone and time with like-minded people. 3. What are the logistics of planning a retreat? Well, it can be a bit daunting because there are a lot of logistics! The session I attended at HippoCamp was helpful because the presenter provided a sample timeline and summarized the steps. You have to find a venue and reserve the date. Then there is planning the program for the weekend (since my retreat is a weekend), which includes a mix of workshops and prompts and down time for people to do their own work. As organizer, I have to also coordinate food and refreshments, advertise and promote the retreat, take registrations and answer the 1,000 questions that your attendees may have. And you have to pay attention to all kinds of things like whether attendees have food allergies, if one of them has to leave early (or arrive late), and bring along all the materials you will need for the weekend. 4. How/Why did you pick your venue?  I teach a memoir workshop for St. Luke's Hospice in Bethlehem, PA, and a social worker there, hearing that I was planning to offer a retreat, suggested Kirkridge Retreat Center. I also had found a retreat center in New York state that I considered. But Kirkridge ended up being a great choice: it's in a lovely country setting that allows writers to get away from it all. They also can provide all the food, and the cost is relatively reasonable for attendees. It's not as luxurious as a hotel, but people were willing to have more modest accommodations for a more reasonable price. However, I'm also experimenting with using a bed and breakfast for �an upcoming retreat. There are a lot of options – and there's no single "right fit." One of the biggest challenges is that almost everyplace requires you to guarantee a certain minimum number of people staying at the location in order for you to use the facility. 5. What is the return on your investment? Well – you asked why I do this in addition to everything else I'm involved with, including having a day job. So the first answer that came to my mind was that I'm crazy! But all joking aside: it gives me great satisfaction to put together an event for a group of writers. It allows me to expand the community of writers that I am a part of and it also allows me to expand my teaching. I also should note that my first retreat was designed for both writers and non-writers and was aimed at helping people use writing as a way to heal from grief, trauma and other challenges. It's part of an initiative of mine that I call Write to Heal, which focuses on using writing as a way to process our experiences. It grew out of my hospice workshop – which I created as part of my M.F.A. teaching experiences. Talk about coming full circle! If anyone in my Wilkes family is interested in receiving information about my upcoming retreats in June and September 2018, they can email me at vicki.mayk@gmail.com. For more information, visit Vicki's website. Danie Watson is a freelance writer based in Scranton, PA. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in fiction from Wilkes University, where she serves as a graduate assistant. Faculty, Student, and Alumni News Faculty News: �Gregory Fletcher directed the play Image by Jack Rushen for the Broadway Laurie Bound Theatre Festival in Sojourn Jean NYC in August. discussed her writing process and of Cannady a Hungry (Crave: Soul) signed books at the Wilkes and Lenore Hart's short story Etruscan booth at AWP17 "Thirteen Ways of Living" was a finalist for The Florida Review's 2017 Editors' Awards. Ross Klavan wrote "Act Two: A Craft Essay" that was recently published in the magazine for Down and Out Books. J. Michael Lennon moderated an event focusing on "fake news" at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on October 1. The event was organized by Laura Moran (M.F.A. '12). Lennon will speak at an event in Washington, D.C. commemorating the 1967 March on the Pentagon, sponsored by the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee, along with Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Yarrow (of "Peter, Paul and Mary), and Vietnam War vets. The event will be at the Western Presbyterian Church in Washington on Saturday, October 21st. The Norman Mailer Society is co-sponsoring the event, which will conclude with a March to the Pentagon, and a gathering at the Vietnam Memorial. David Poyer will be republished in Hungarian in Galaktika this fall. Student and Alumni News: Jennifer D. Bokal's (M.A. '10) newest book, Her Rocky Mountain Hero, will be released by Harlequin Romantic Suspense in November, 2017. HRMH is the first book in the Rocky Mountain Justice series. The second book in the series, Her Rocky Mountain Defender, will be released in April, 2018. Craig Czury's (M.F.A. '08) new book Fifteen Stones has been published by NYQ Books.  Cindy Dlugolecki (M.A. '11) will have her "Ghosts of Mechanicsburg" produced at the Little Theatre of Mechanicsburg the last two weekends in October and her "ANGELs INC. produced at the same community theater �the first two weekends in December. ANGELs INC. is published by Blue Moon Plays. Richard Fellinger (M.F.A. '10) published an op-ed on responding to racial hatred in the Lancaster paper after the events in Charlottesville.  Vicki Mayk (M.F.A. '13) presented the writing retreat "Healing Through Our Stories" from June 23-25 at Kirkridge Retreat Center in Bangor, Pa. In 2018, she will be offering retreats once again at Kirkridge in June, and in September at the New Jersey shore. Vicki also presented "Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly,... Using Speculation In Creative Nonfiction" at the HippoCamp Creative Nonfiction Conference from Sept. 8-10 in Lancaster, Pa. She is teaching "Life Stories: A Memoir Workshop" at Union United Church of Christ in Neffs, Pa., in October.  Lori A. May (M.F.A.'13) has an essay included in an upcoming book, Writing Creative Writing: Essays from the Field, scheduled for 2018 publication with Dundurn Press. Margaret McCaffrey (M.A. '14) had two memoir pieces read on Vision Australia Radio in celebration of Father's Day: 'Poultry Farm' and 'Leaving for London'.  Donna Talarico (M.F.A. '10) has the cover story in the November 2017 issue of The Writer (available in October), which focuses on technology and the writing life. She'll also have a story in the same magazine in the December 2018 issue, on literary magazines and website accessibility. She continues to write a monthly marketing column for Wiley's higher education newsletter, "Recruiting and Retaining Adult Learners." She presented "Interview Like a Journalist, Write Like a Marketer" at two higher education marketing conferences: WPCampus in June and HighEdWeb in October. Donna was the featured guest on two creativenonfiction themed podcasts in August, the Brevity Magazine podcast with Allison K. Williams and #CNFpod with Brendan O'Meara.  Patti Taylor (M.A. '15) had two books published over the summer. Making Miracles: 1st I Cured My IN-Curable Blindness, So Why the HELL Am I Still Fat? and Slip Away: 11 Escape Stories under her entire name:  Dr. Patti Novotny Taylor. Taylor also delivered a keynote speech July at an event for Courage to Change Enrichment Leadership & Mentoring, LLC and received an award for the speech. She also received the Stephen Shank award for teaching for the third time this summer. Taylor is also being included in Who's Who in the World for the second time. 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