Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009
Scrawl, the ¾¨Ó㴫ý student literary arts publication, will sponsor "Wordplay," an all-day Writers Festival, Friday, Nov. 6, in the Berlin Lounge of the McKelvey Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Guest speakers will share their work, talk about their writing careers, and conduct workshops for student writers. They include:
Sheryl St. Germain, creative writing teacher and director of the master of fine arts program in creative writing at Chatham University, will speak at 9:20 a.m. and will conduct a writing workshop at 3:10 p.m. Her work has won numerous awards, most recently the William Faulkner Award for the personal essay. Her books include Going Home, The Mask of Medusa, Making Bread at Midnight, and her most recent, Let it be a Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems.
Terrance Hayes, creative writing professor at Carnegie Mellon University, will hold a workshop at 10:30 a.m. and will speak at 2 p.m. His work includes three Best American Poetry selections and was featured in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and The New Yorker. His most recent poetry collection, Wind in a Box, was named one of the Best 100 Books in 2006 by Publishers Weekly, and he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Brian Morgante, musician and songwriter, will speak at 12:50 p.m. and conduct a workshop at 3:10 p.m. He works and tours with the bands Awaken North Wind and Deadhorse. His albums were featured in AP, AMP, and RELEVANT magazines, and he is working to start an underground zine in the Erie area.
Morgante's band Deadhorse will perform in concert at 7 p.m.
Copies of each artist's work will be available for purchase at the event and Scrawl will sell T-shirts featuring the festival's theme.
Contact Corri Hines, Scrawl editor, at hinescl@westminster.edu, or Evann Garrison, ¾¨Ó㴫ý lecturer of English and faculty adviser to Scrawl, at (724) 946-7341 (e-mail garriseg@westminster.edu) for more information.
