http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/acaddept/creativewriting/ Colby College events feed for Creative Writing. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:00:01 GMT en Copyright 2009 Colby College web@colby.edu (Colby College) web@colby.edu (Colby College) http://www.colby.edu/images/Colby.gif http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/acaddept/creativewriting/ http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/acaddept/creativewriting/_dept_news/events/1911827 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:25:23 GMT web@colby.edu (Colby College) Robinson Room, Miller Library (Book signing to follow in Wornser Room) -- Blevins’s Live from the Homesick Jamboree features heartbreaking, brash poems about growing up female during the 1970s. Blevins's earlier collection, The Brass Girl Brouhaha, won the 2004 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is also the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer's Foundation Award, a Bright Hill Press Chapbook Award for The Man Who Went Out for Cigarettes, and the Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction. In Debra Spark’s latest novel, Good for the Jews, three families clash over an anti-Semitic mystery, office politics and romantic relationships. Her short stories, essays and articles have appeared in Food and Wine, Maine Home+Design, Esquire, Yankee, Ploughshares, and The New York Times, among other places.http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/acaddept/creativewriting/_dept_news/events/1911827 http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/acaddept/creativewriting/_dept_news/events/1913474 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:20:37 GMT web@colby.edu (Colby College) Robinson Room, Miller Library, Book signing to follow in Wormser Room -- Is fiction relevant any more? Maybe not, argues David Shields in his controversial new book,Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, which serves as a call to writers everywhere to “get real.” In the past, Shields’ ingenious, often hilarious, nonfiction has tackled topics like mortality, celebrity, and race and the NBA, while his fiction has dealt with identity issues, family relationships, and stuttering. He is the author of eight previous books, including the New York Times bestseller The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead and Dead Languages, winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. His essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's, and Utne Reader. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, he is a contributing editor of Conjunctions magazine and lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is a professor in the English Department at the University of Washington. Shields’s work has been translated into ten languages.http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/acaddept/creativewriting/_dept_news/events/1913474 http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/acaddept/creativewriting/_dept_news/events/1913716 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:37:50 GMT web@colby.edu (Colby College) Robinson Room, Miller Library, Book signing to follow in Wormser Room --  Jeff Thomson’s fourth book of poems, Birdwatching in Wartime, wanders the globe but settles in the rainforests of Peru and Costa Rica. Maine poet laureate Betsy Scholl calls the results “lush and amazing.” Currently, thomson leads an annual trip of students to study (and write about) Costa Rica’s rainforests. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Arts Commission, and the Maine Arts Commission and has most recently published poetry and nonfiction in Quarterly West, Isotope, Indiana Review, Sycamore Review, Brilliant Corners, Gulf Coast, and Willow Springs, as well as critical essays on Sandra Cisneros, James Wright, Derek Walcott, and the environmental elegy. He is an associate professor at the University of Maine-Farmington. Rhttp://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/acaddept/creativewriting/_dept_news/events/1913716