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THE SOLSTICE MFA OF PINE MANOR COLLEGE
FACULTY & STAFF NEWS FOR JULY 2008
[Chestnut Hill, MA, July 3, 2008]
READINGS & EVENTS
The Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College announces its July Reading Series. The following writers will read from their work at 7:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) in the Founder’s Room of Pine Manor College, located at 400 Heath Street in Chestnut Hill. All readings are free and open to the public; copies of the authors’ books will be available for sale and signing before and after the readings. Plenty of free parking!
Friday, July 11: Fiction & nonfiction writer Randall Kenan (The Fire This Time, Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Century, and Let the Dead Bury Their Dead), & novelist Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island, and the forthcoming The Given Day).
Saturday, July 12: Graduating MFA student Kirsten Blocker, poet Kathleen Aguero (Daughter Of, The Real Weather, and Thirsty Day), & novelist Sterling Watson (Sweet Dream, Baby; The Calling; and Weep No More, My Brother).
Sunday, July 13: Graduating MFA student Adam Eisenson, Program Administrator and fiction writer Tanya Whiton (published in Crazyhorse and Northwest Review), plus novelist & young people’s writer Laban Carrick Hill (America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the 60s, A Brush With Napoleon, and Casa Azul).
Monday, July 14 at 4:30 p.m.: MFA student readings.
Tuesday, July 15: Graduating MFA student Maryann Jacob, MFA Program Director and poet Meg Kearney (An Unkindness of Ravens, The Secret of Me, and the forthcoming Home By Now), and poet, essayist, & short-story writer Ray Gonzalez (The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande, The Underground Heart: A Return to a Hidden Landscape, and the forthcoming Faith Run: Lyrical Poems and Cool Auditor: Prose Poems).
Wednesday, July 16: Graduating MFA student John Theo, Jr., YA novelist Laura Williams McCaffrey (Alia Waking and Water Shaper), and special guest novelist & nonfiction writer Roland Merullo (In Revere, In Those Days; Golfing With God; A Little Love Story; and the forthcoming American Savior).
Thursday, July 17 at 4:30 p.m.: MFA student readings
Thursday, July 17: Poet & fiction writer Steven Huff (A Pig In Paris, The Water We Came From, and More Daring Escapes), fiction & nonfiction writer Joy Castro (The Truth Book), & novelist Helen Elaine Lee (Water Marked, The Serpent’s Gift, and the forthcoming Life Without).
Friday, July 18: poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar (A New Hunger, Small Gods of Grief, and The Hour Between Dog and Wolf), YA novelist An Na (The Fold, A Step From Heaven, and Wait for Me), and essayist & memoirist Michael Steinberg (editor of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction and author of Still Pitching).
CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
Poet Kathleen Aguero will be teaching for the New York State Young Writers Institute held at Skidmore College from July 20-26.
For more information, go to: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/nyssywi.html
Poet Dzvinia Orlowsky will be visiting poet at the Keene State College 6th Annual Writers' Conference, August 4-6 in Keene, New Hampshire.
For more information, go to: http://www.keene.edu/conted/writerconf/
PUBLICATIONS
Young adult and children’s writer Laban Carrick Hill’s short story, “Misery,” will be in the July issue of the online magazine Breath and Shadow.
For more information, go to: http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath/.
Multi-genre writer Ray Gonzalez has published a new chapbook, The Same Window, through Mesilla Press, and Luna #8, a bi-annual journal of poetry. Ray’s third book of personal essays, Renaming the Earth, will be available in September from the University of Arizona Press; his essay on the prose poem is included in the recent anthology, Truth in Nonfiction, from Iowa University Press.
For more information about Luna #8, go to: http://lunapoetry.blogspot.com/; for more information about Truth in Nonfiction, go to: http://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/
MFA student Teresa Sutton’s poem, “Elegy for Paul,” will be published in the fall issue of Euphony.
For more information, go to: http://euphony.uchicago.edu/
MFA student Linda Alcorace’s essay on awaiting a liver transplant appeared in the June 30, 2008 edition of the Los Angeles Times.
To read the article, go to: http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-myturn30-2008jun30,0,4689958.story
OTHER NEWS
Fiction writer Sterling Watson was appointed the first occupant of the Peter Meinke Endowed Professorship in Creative Writing at Eckerd College in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
For more information, go to: http://www.eckerd.edu/news/index.php?f=detail&id=2516
MFA student Jasen Sousa will be at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, from July 24-27, signing and selling copies of his new book, Selected Poems: 17-24.
For more information, go to: www.jasensousa.net
Laban Carrick Hill will be a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. His Ghana Journal blog will be posted on the PEN America website, http://www.penamerica.blogspot.com/ and at www.labanhill.com.
CONNECTIONS
Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, a new online journal (not affiliated with the Solstice Creative Writing Programs of Pine Manor College) will start accepting submissions in August, 2008.
For more information, go to: www.solsticelitmag.org or write solsticeinstitute@yahoo.com.
Fiction Weekly, an online journal, announces its first call for submissions.
For more information, go to: www.fictionweekly.com
dis-ABILITIES: Fiction is a collection of literary works by and/or about persons with disabilities. Submissions must be received by September 15, 2008.
For more information, email: dorkenn@yahoo.com
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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