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THE SOLSTICE MFA OF PINE MANOR COLLEGE
FACULTY & STAFF NEWS FOR MAY 2008
[Chestnut Hill, MA, April 30, 2008]
We are now accepting applications for the 4th Annual Solstice Summer Writers’ Conference, June 22-28 at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, featuring:
- Writing for Children & Young Adults: Tor Seidler & Marina Budhos
- Writing the Novel: Julia Glass & Eric Gansworth
- Writing the Short Story: Steven Huff & Lee Hope
- Writing Poetry, Section I: Francisco Aragón & Patricia Spears Jones
- Writing Poetry, Section II: Cleopatra Mathis & Stephen Dunn
- Writing Creative Nonfiction: Richard Hoffman & Barbara Hurd
- Special Guest: Dennis Lehane
For full schedule, detailed faculty bios, and an application, go to www.pmc.edu/solstice
READINGS & EVENTS
A full schedule of our July MFA Residency Readings Series will be posted on our Web site and included in the MFA Newsletter in June.
VERMONT
Children’s & young adult writer Laban Carrick Hill will be reading at the Phoenix Bookstore at Essex Shoppes & Cinema, in Essex, on Friday, May 2, at 7 p.m.
For more information, go to : http://www.phoenixbooks.biz/
NEW YORK
Poet Dzvinia Orlowsky will be reading as part of the 3rd Annual Ukrainian Night co-hosted by Irene Zabytko and Alexander J. Motyl at Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, New York City, on Saturday, May 31, at 6:00 p.m.
For more information, go to www.corneliastreetcafe.com
MASSACHUSETTS
Poet Kathleen Aguero and MFA Director Meg Kearney will appear on HCAM’s “Wake Up & Smell the Poetry” show, airing on local cable in Hopkinton, MA and beyond (including Fargo, ND) during the month of May.
For more information, go to: www.hcam.tv or write to the show’s host Cheryl Perreault (cbperreault@gmail.com) for details or information about how to bring the show to your area.
PUBLICATIONS
MFA Student Teresa Sutton’s poem “True Image of a Monster” will be appearing in the upcoming issue of California Quarterly. (Ms. Sutton will join the MFA Program in July.)
For more information, go to: http://californiaquarterly.blogspot.com/
Writer-In-Residence Mike Steinberg’s piece "Shorelines: A Memoir in Seven Beaches," appears in the Summer 2008 issue of Iron Horse Literary Review.
For more information, go to: www.english.ttu.edu/IH
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
UPCOMING
Writer-In-Residence Mike Steinberg will join two panel discussions — in addition to presenting two creative nonfiction craft talks and a reading — at the Kachemak Bay Writer's Conference, June 6-10 in Homer, Alaska.
For more information, go to: http://writersconference.homer.alaska.edu/
Children’s and young adult writer Laura Williams McCaffrey will be co-teaching a literature workshop with Rebecca Yahm called "Over the Bridge and Beyond the Book Report: Contemporary Literature for Your Child or Teen and Ways to Engage in Meaningful Literary Reflection," Monday, May 12, from 6-8 p.m. at the Pacem Learning Community in Montpelier, VT.
On Tuesday, May 6, MFA Student Maryann Jacob will present a talk about non-profit publishing as part of the City College of New York's Publishing Certificate Program, from which she graduated in 1998.
RECENT
Multi-genre writer Joy Castro gave a reading and served as a panelist at Vanderbilt University's symposium "Beyond Our Beginnings: Women Writers from Lower and Working Class Backgrounds," March 25-27. Hosted by writer Lorraine López, the three-day symposium featured performances, discussions, and class visits by writers Dorothy Allison, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Heather Sellers, and Minton Sparks.
For more information, go to: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2008/3/4/working-class-women-writers-to-gather-for-vanderbilt-symposium-beyond-our-beginnings-events-run-march-25-27
Joy Castro also served as a visiting writer at Mount Mercy College in Iowa on April 10.
For more information, go to: http://www2.mtmercy.edu/news/news032008castro.htm
Y/A writer An Na participated in a Conference for Writers of Young Adult Literature at Adirondack Community College in Queensbury, New York on April 5.
For more information, go to: http://writersproject.sunyacc.edu/
In April, MFA Student Debbie Wood Holton taught a four-week seminar on the “Work and Life of Zora Neale Hurston,” at The Newberry Library in Chicago.
For more information, go to: http://www.newberry.org/
OTHER NEWS
Laura Williams McCaffrey was a featured writer on Shelagh Shapiro’s show “The Radiator” on WOMM-LP 105.9 FM in Burlington, Vermont.
To hear the interview, go to: http://writethebook.podbean.com/
CONNECTIONS
Pergola Publishing seeks submissions for inclusion in A Memoir of Meanness, an anthology exploring the subject of mean behavior from grade school through adulthood.
For more information, contact: pergolapublishing@gmail.com
The Center for Public Service and Community Engagement at Indiana State University has issued a call for submissions for the inaugural issue of The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education.
For more information, go to http://www1.indstate.edu/publicservice/
Directions to Pine Manor College, complete bios of our authors, and more information about our MFA in Creative Writing Program can be found at www.pmc.edu/mfa.
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