Writers in Camden Series Brings Authors to Campus : Rutgers- Camden Campus News. For aspiring authors in the Delaware Valley, the first chapter to literary success begins at Rutgers University–Camden, as the nation’s top authors, poets, editors and publishers once again visit the campus to lead a series of inspiring and engaging readings and workshops. Thanks to funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rutgers–Camden master of fine arts (MFA) program in creative writing will continue its celebrated Writers in Camden series, which is free and open to the public. Readings will be held on Wednesdays at 7: 3. Elizabeth Mc. Cracken and Teddy Wayne in the Multi- Purpose Room on the main level of the Campus Center. Elizabeth Mc. Cracken is the author of five books: Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, the novels The Giant’s House and Niagara Falls All Over Again, the memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, and the forthcoming Thunderstruck & Other Stories. She has received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Liguria Study Center, the American Academy in Berlin, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels The Love Song of Jonny Valentine and Kapitoil, for which he won the Whiting Writers’ Award.
He is also a recipient of a National Education Association Creative Writing Fellowship, a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and was a finalist for a Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A columnist for The New York Times, he regularly appears in The New Yorker, GQ, and Mc. Sweeney’s. He has taught at Columbia University, Washington University, and the Yale Writers’ Conference. Oct. 1. 5Brenda Shaughnessy and Steve Scafidi will read. Brenda Shaughnessy, anassistant professor of English and the MFA program at Rutgers University–Newark, is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Our Andromeda – one of The New York Times’ 1. Writers in Camden Series Brings Authors to Campus. For aspiring authors in the Delaware Valley, the first chapter to literary success begins at Rutgers. The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program will kick off its Spring 2015 Writers in Camden series on Wednesday, January 28th, with readings by authors Elisa. Notable Books of 2. Her other books are Human Dark with Sugar, winner of the James Laughlin Award, and Interior with Sudden Joy. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Harper’s, Mc. Sweeney’s, The Nation, The New Yorker, The Paris Review. She is a 2. 01. 3 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. Steve Scafidi, a cabinetmaker by trade, is the author of three poetry collections: the recent The Cabinetmaker’s Window, For Love of Common Words, and Sparks from a Nine- Pound Hammer, which won the fifth annual Levis Reading Prize. Nov. 1. 2Justin Torres and Gina Apostol will read. Justin Torres has published short fiction in The. New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, The. Washington Post, as well as nonfiction pieces in publications such as The Guardian and The Advocate. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Torres was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and is currently a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. His debut novel, We the Animals, was a national bestseller and has been translated into 1. Gina Apostol’s third novel, Gun Dealers’ Daughter, won the PEN/Open Book Award and was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize. She is a two- time winner of the Philippine National Book Award for her first two novels, Bibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. She has received fellowships from Civitella Ranieri, Phillips Exeter Academy, and Hawthornden Castle. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Gettysburg Review, Charlie Chan is Dead, Volume 2,The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, and other publications. She is currently working on a fourth novel, William Mc. Kinley’s World, set in 1. Balangiga and Tacloban during the Filipino- American war. Dec. 3. Writers Reginald Dwayne Betts, Randall Horton, and Linda Perez will read and lead a discussion on “Contemporary Authors and the Prisons.”Reginald Dwayne Betts’latest collection of poems is the forthcoming Bastards of the Reagan Era. His first collection of poems, Shahid Reads His Own Palm, won the Beatrice Hawley Award. Betts’ memoir, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison, was the recipient of the 2. NAACP Image Award for nonfiction. His writing has also earned him a Soros Justice Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Ruth Lily Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize. In addition to his writing, Betts serves as the national spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice and was appointed to the Coordinating Council of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention by President Barack Obama. He is currently a student at Yale Law School. Randall Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, and, most recently, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. Horton is a Cave Canem Fellow, a member of the Affrilachian Poets, and a member of the Symphony: the House that Etheridge Built, a reading collective named for the poet Etheridge Knight. An assistant professor of English at the University of New Haven, he is the author of the memoir Roxbury and the poetry collection Pitch Dark Anarchy. Linda Perez’s writings appear or will appear in Black Renaissance Noir, Valley Voices, and the New Sound: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Arts & Literature. The workshop is an experience- sharing project between communities. Participants will graphically depict secrets shared by people in the Netherlands. At the end of the workshop, participants will be invited to anonymously share their own secrets in order to feed future versions of the project. A Matter of Bits Teacher Open House and Workshop. February 1. 1, 4- 6 pm. Stedman Gallery The Teacher Open House will include an interactive museum tour and a hands- on workshop for local and regional teachers. Explore the exhibition, learn more about electronic literature, discuss topics with colleagues, and schedule your class for the RCCA Museum Education program during the run of the exhibition, A Matter of Bits. Light refreshments will be served. Made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Published by the Electronic Literature Organization, this collection gathers together historical and contemporary works of electronic literature from around the world. A Matter of Bits will feature a number of works from this brand new collection, works that push us to consider how electronic literature helps us think differently about literature in the digital world. Lecture/Demonstration: Rise of the Twitter Bots. March 2, 1. 2 – 2 pm Stedman Gallery. Computer programmer/artist Allison Parrish demonstrates Twitter bots, pieces of software that generate text in the form of 1. In recent years, the social networking platform Twitter has become a space for programmers and writers to experiment with making bots; attendees will learn the basics of creating a Twitter bot. Made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The workshop will introduce families to free and user- friendly tools such as Twine and Undum and will allow deeper interaction with the literature through discussion of interactive children’s stories. Made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. PRY is on display in the Stedman Gallery as part of the Matter of Bits exhibition. Gorman and Cannizzaro’s lecture will be the keynote for the Rutgers- Camden English Graduate Student Association’s conference “Beyond Boundaries: New Spaces for Constructing, Creating, and Composing.”Poetry in (Digital) Translation. March 2. 2, 5 – 6: 3. Reception immediately following. Stedman Gallery The translation of any literary work is a complex process, but translating a work that involves computers adds a layer of complexity. Attendees will translate print- based works into works of electronic literature. The workshop, led by Nick Monfort, will address the technical details of translating a print work into an electronic one, and will also ask participants to consider how the content of a work might shift as it moves from one medium to another. Reading and Lecture by Jason Lewis. April 6, 7 pm. Stedman Gallery. Jason Lewis is author and creator of a project called Poetry for Excitable Mobile Media (Po. EMM), a series of poems that is created for Apple’s i. OS platform. Readers can interact and touch poems, and Lewis will both read from this work as well as describe his creative process. This event is co- sponsored by the Digital Studies Center, and the Creative Writing Program. Rutgers- Camden Archive of Digital Ephemera (R- CADE) Symposium. April 2. 1, 4: 3. Stedman Gallery. The Rutgers- Camden Archive of Digital Ephemera (R- CADE) is a collection of hardware and software made available to scholars for research purposes, and each year the Digital Studies Center hosts an R- CADE Symposium. The 2. 01. 6 Symposium R- CADE Symposium will focus on John Mc. Daid’s Uncle Buddy’s Phantom Funhouse, a work of electronic literature published in 1. Four scholars and artists will meet to study, remix, take apart, or repurpose Mc. Daid’s seminal work of electronic literature. The symposium participants are Robert Emmons (Rutgers- Camden), Steph Ceraso (University of Maryland- Baltimore County), Stuart Moulthrop (University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee), Darius Kazemi (Feel Train Cooperative), and John Mcdaid, the author of Funhouse.
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