06/15/2009
06/19/2009
Philadelphia Stories Free Writer’s and Reader’s Series
June 15-19 from 12pm-1pm
Connelly Hall at Rosemont College
Monday: Curtis Smith
Curtis Smith's latest book is The Species Crown, a story collection from Press 53. His second novel, Sound and Noise, will be released in fall 2008. He has published over fifty stories and essays in literary journals. His work has been cited by The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories and The Best American Spiritual Writing.
Tuesday: Marc Schuster
Marc Schuster is the author of The Greatest Show in the Galazy, Don DeLillo, Jean Baudrillard and the Consumer Conundrum, and The Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom and Party Girl. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals ranging from Weird Tales to Reader's Digest.
Wednesday: Alexander Long
Alexander Long is a poet, teacher, critic, essayist, and musician. His newest book of poetry, Light Here, Light There will be available this spring from CR Press. Vigil, his first book of poems, was released in 2006 from the New Issues Press Poetry Series. Co-editor of A Condition of the Spirit: the Life & Work of Larry Levis (Eastern Washington UP, 2004), Long is also the author of a memoir, Noise (RockWay Press, 2007), and a chapbook, Six Prose Poems (Brandenburg Press, 2004). His poems, essays, and book reviews have been published in American Writers (Charles Scribner's Sons), Blackbird, Quarterly West, The Prose Poem: an International Journal, Third Coast, Rivendell, and elsewhere. Currently, Long teaches at John Jay College in New York City.
Thursday: Karen Quinones Miller
Karen Quinones Miller graduated magna cum laude from Temple with a B.A. in Journalism. She has been a reporter for the Associated Press, The Norfolk Virginian Pilot, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and People Magazine. Karen wrote Satin Doll in 1999, and after many unsuccessful attempts at finding a publisher, she decided to publish it herself with an initial printing of 3,000 copies. Satin Doll ultimately sold 28,000 copies in eight months and wound up on the Essence Bestseller's List for two months. Publishing rights were ultimately sold to Simon & Schuster (via auction) for six figures. Karen went on to write four other Essence Bestselling novels for Simon & Schuster: I'm Telling, Using What You Got, and Ida B, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction and Satin Nights. Her newest novel, Passin', was published by Warner Books in February, 2008.
Friday: Liz Abrams-Morley
Liz Abrams-Morley's second full-length poetry collection, Necessary Turns, will be published by Word Press in early 2010. Earlier books include Learning to Calculate the Half Life (Zinka Press, 2001) and What Winter Reveals (Plan B Press, 2005.) Liz's poems and short stories have been published in a variety of nationally distributed journals and anthologies and both her poems and stories have been featured on NPR. In April, her story, "Mitzraim" was performed at InterAct Theatre as part of their Writing Aloud Series. Co-founder/director of Around the Block Writers' Collaborativ (www.writearoundtheblock.org,) Liz is on the MFA in Writing faculty at Rosemont College and works as an artist in the schools.
This program is sponsored in part by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Federal-State Partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
