Monday, April 29 at 4:30 in Memorial Hall

Please join us as the students of the 418 Creative Writing workshop read from their work. All are welcome.

Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in Mathers Theatre
The Insubstantial Pageant: Writing for Performance
Margaret Edson will discuss her perspective that we are born ready to talk and listen, but it takes years to learn to read and write. What is gained and lost when the redolent swirl of human experience is consigned to the abstract, linear, preterite alphabetic code? And what ironies await when the freeze-dried code is reconstituted as live performance?

Margaret Edson was born in Washington, DC in 1961.  Between earning degrees in history and literature, she worked on the cancer and AIDS inpatient unit of a major research hospital.  Wit was written in 1991, widely rejected, first produced in 1995, and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999.  The HBO production won the Emmy Award for Best Film in 2001.  Wit  has received hundreds of productions in dozens of languages and was presented on Broadway in 2012.  The script is used in classes ranging from AP English to medical ethics. Ms. Edson has been a classroom teacher for twenty years.  She currently teaches sixth-grade social studies.  She lives in Atlanta with her partner, art historian Linda Merrill, and their two sons.

This event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Norman M. Eberly Writing Center and the Departments of English, American Studies and Theatre & Dance.

Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang will visit Dickinson September 12 as the recipient of The Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholars and Writers Program award. Hwang will present a lecture, followed by a book signing, on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlecter (ATS) Auditorium, West Louther Street between College and Cherry streets. He will receive the award that evening. For further information, check out the news release on David Henry Hwang.

Wednesday, April 4 at 6:00 p.m. in ATS
Morgan Lectureship: "A Visit From the Goon Squad"

Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, will read from her work A Visit From the Goon Squad and discuss the novel, the characters and her writing process. She is the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a feature film starting Cameron Diaz in 2001, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories and, most recently, the The Keep, which was a national bestseller. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney’s and other magazines. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her non-fiction articles appear frequently in the New York Times Magazine. Her 2002 cover story on homeless children received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award, and her most recent article, The Bipolar Kid, received a 2009 NAMI Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health Reporting from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.  Her most recent novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize.

The event is co-sponsored by the Morgan Lectureship, The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, Student Senate, and the Department of English.

This year's Belfer lecturer will be award-winning author, Elyse Fenton. Fenton will read from her poetry collection, Clamor: The Poetics of Wartime on Thursday, February 16 at 7 p.m. in the Stern Center, Great Room. Fenton also will hold a Q&A on Friday, February 17 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Althouse 106.  All are welcome to attend.

She will discuss how her investigation of language of wartime found its poetic form. Her poetry collection, Clamor, won the 2010 University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize and the 2009 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. She has published poetry and nonfiction in The New York Times, Best New Poets, The Massachusetts Review and The Iowa Review, and has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered. Fenton received a B.A. from Reed College and an M.F.A. from the University of Oregon. She has worked in the woods, on farms, and in schools in New England, the Pacific Northwest,  Mongolia, and Texas. Co-sponsored by the Department of English and The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. Please visit her web site at www.elysefenton.com.

The Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholars and Writers Program
Margaret Atwood
November 29 & 30, 2011

* Monday, Nov. 28 at 7:30 pm at the Carlisle Theatre - The Handmaid's Tale (in advance of Atwood arrival)

* Tuesday, Nov. 29 at noon in East College 405 - Student-led discussion of Atwood's most recent novel, The Year of the Flood (in advance of Atwood arrival - Margaret Atwood will NOT be attending the discussion)

* Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 7 pm in ATS - Margaret Atwood Reading and Award Presentation

* Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 10:30 am in Stern Center Great Room - Q&A with Margaret Atwood followed by book signing

All events are free and open to the public.
 

 

The acclaimed author of such compelling novels as, The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin, which won the Booker Prize in 2000, is coming to Dickinson College this fall. Margaret Atwood is the 2011 recipient of The Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholars and Writers Program award and will present a reading on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) Auditorium, West Louther Street between College and Cherry streets. She will be presented with the award that evening.

Atwood also will present a Q-and-A session followed by a book signing on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 10:30 a.m. in the Stern Center, Great Room, West Louther Street between College and North West streets. The events are free and open to the public.

Atwood is a novelist, poet, literary critic, essayist and environmental activist. Throughout her writing career, she has received numerous awards and honorary degrees. She is the author of more than 50 volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction and non-fiction and is best known for her novels, including The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid’s Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996) and The Blind Assassin (2000). Her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood (2009), was hailed by The New York Times as “…a gripping and visceral book that showcases [Atwood’s] pure storytelling talents.”

For additional information on the event, please go to the Dickinson news and events page: Margaret Atwood.