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MEADVILLE, Pa. – April 2, 2012 — The Single Voice Reading Series at Allegheny College will feature Pam Houston at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 10, in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center. The presentation is free and open to the public.

 Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, “Cowboys Are My Weakness,” which was the winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award and has been translated into nine languages, and “Waltzing the Cat,” which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction. She has also written two novels, “Contents May Have Shifted” and “Sight Hound,” and two collections of autobiographical essays, “A Rough Guide to the Heart” and “A Little More About Me.”

 A member of the faculty at the University of California at Davis, Houston has also edited a collection of fiction, nonfiction and poetry titled “Women on Hunting: Essays, Fiction, and Poetry.”

 For more information about the Single Voice Reading Series, contact Associate Professor of English Christopher Bakken at cbakken@allegheny.edu.

Spring 2012 Deadlines

Senior project proposals and creative writing portfolios for Fall 2012 are due Friday, March 30, at 4 p.m.

Senior projects for Spring 2012 are due Friday, April 13 at 4 p.m.

THE CHAUTAUQUA WRITERS’ FESTIVAL SCHOLARSHIP

The deadline for submissions for THE CHAUTAUQUA WRITERS’ FESTIVAL SCHOLARSHIP this year is March 15, 2012.

This scholarship will allow two Allegheny students with experience in creative writing to attend the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival each June at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York. Selected students will partake of three days of workshops, lectures, readings and panel discussions, as well as (if they choose) one-on-one consultations with writers, and open mic spoken arts events in a festive, informal setting.

This year’s festival takes place Thursday, June 14 through Sunday, June 17, 2012, and features fiction writers Christina Garcia and Glenn Taylor, poets Martin Espada and Judith Vollmer, and creative nonfiction writers Valerie Boyd and Natalia Rachel Singer  (For more information about the festival, click the “festival” link, below.)

The historic Chautauqua Institution, a Victorian era lakeside community, was founded in 1874 as a center for the arts, recreation, and spiritual renewal. It is the home of the oldest continuous book club in America (The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle) and the Chautauqua Literary Arts Center. Festival participants will be housed at the Bellinger Hall Retreat Center and may enjoy meals and programs at various venues throughout the scenic Institution grounds.

Allegheny’s Chautauqua Writers’ Festival Scholarship covers the cost of tuition and lodging and meals for each student. Students are responsible for arranging transportation to and from the Institution, which is roughly 75 minutes north of Meadville, PA.
To qualify for the scholarship, students

1. Must have taken at least two courses in creative writing at Allegheny
2.  Must complete an» application sheet
3.  Must submit that sheet and a writing sample in hard copy (one short story or creative nonfiction essay,or five poems) to Ada Berdeguer in Oddfellows Hall by March 15, 2012 in any given year.

Late applications will not be considered.  HARD COPIES ONLY.  Graduating seniors are only in very rare instances awarded scholarships.  If no student or students are deemed eligible in a particular year, no scholarship will be awarded.

Students receiving the scholarship must submit a post-conference response to the Dean of the college (two typed pages, emailed as an attachment in Word, submitted within ten days of the end of the Festival), describing Festival highlights and the specific benefits the experience afforded that student in terms of his or her craft.  A copy of this response should also be sent to Professor Nesset, delivered within the same time frame.
Information about the festival:  http://www.ciweb.org/writers-festival/

There is a new section of English 200 being offered by Professor Caballero,  TTH 9:30-10:45.

Please join us on Thursday, December 15th from 2-4 pm in the hallway outside the Departmental Office for coffee, tea, snacks, friends, colleagues, and professors. Come join us for a study break–or bring along your work and settle in!

Our Student Erin Dakas just published a poem called “MIA” at this site:

http://lastromantics.com/

Reminder: Fall Senior Projects are due by November 18, 2011 at 4 pm.

Please remember that the deadline for Spring 2012 Senior Project proposals is Friday, October 28th at4 pm.

Congratulations to Elaina Mercatoris and Laurel Wilder who join Ben Bussewitz as our English Department Student Representatives!

Please note that the deadline for Spring 2012 Senior Project Proposals is Friday, March 30, 2012, at 4 pm.  For Senior Project guidelines, click here.