Deb Olin Unferth will read selections from her short story collection, “Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories,” on Thursday, April 18, when the 2018-19 edition of the Creative Writers Reading Series returns to Penn State Behrend. Her 6 p.m. reading and the reception preceding it are free and open to the public. Both events will be held in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel.
As Penn State University Libraries launches into its third University-wide Libraries Short Stories writing contest, previous Penn State authors’ winning works now have twice the potential to be printed and read across Pennsylvania, with the University Libraries’ installation of new Short Edition story dispensers at five of its Commonwealth Campus libraries.
Now open for submissions through April 12, Penn State University Libraries Short Stories’ third writing contest challenges all Penn State students, faculty and staff to let their minds run wild to submit original creative writing about "The Other Side."
Todd Davis will read from his new book of poetry at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, in the Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts at Penn State Altoona.
ALTOONA, Pa. — Poet and prose writer Jesse Waters will read from his work at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 19, in the Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts at Penn State Altoona.
Penn State University Libraries Short Stories “Lost and Found” Fall 2018 contest winners and honorable mentions represent a wide range of creative writers University-wide. Nine student honorees range from first-year through senior undergraduates to a doctoral student and represent six campuses and six colleges, and five faculty/staff honorees represent three campuses.
Erin Murphy, professor of English, is featured in a recent WPSU interview about her newest book of poems, "Assisted Living."
Penn State Altoona Associate Professor Patricia Jabbeh Wesley has signed a new book contract with Autumn House Press for the publication of her sixth book of poems, "Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems."
In Todd Davis's fifth installment of "Notes from the Allegheny Front," the professor of English and environmental studies meditates with a porcupine on the barrenness of the woods at the end of fall.
Penn State University Libraries’ second University-wide Short Stories writing contest is now open and seeking short creative writing entries on the theme of “Lost and Found.” All students, faculty and staff are encouraged to submit entries, now including a poetry option, for the new contest, which is open through Nov. 16.
Since graduating with her bachelor of arts in English from Penn State Scranton, Tara Marta has gone on to earn a master of arts in creative writing from Wilkes University and has been published 12 times. Recently, she had an essay featured in the anthology “I Am Strength,” a book that became a No. 1 new release in feminist theory on Amazon.com.
Henrietta Goodman will read poems from her sonnet collection "All That Held Us" on Thursday, Oct. 4, when she visits Penn State Behrend as part of the college’s Creative Writers Reading Series.
Alumna Jen Town will read from her poetry collection, “The Light of What Comes After,” on Thursday, Sept. 20, when she visits Penn State Behrend as part of the college’s Creative Writers Reading Series. Her 6 p.m. reading and the reception preceding it are free and open to the public. Both events will be held in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, associate professor of English, established the non-profit organization Young Scholars of Liberia to engage youth, particularly young girls, in Liberia in literacy, literature and writing as a means of inspiring excellence.
Gabeba Baderoon, keynote speaker for the 2018 African American Read-In Chain, presented “Writing the World: The Poetry of African Women in the Diaspora” at Penn State Altoona.
