The 2006 Emerging Writers Festival
April 4 - 6, 2006
The Emerging Writers Festival is an annual celebration of some of our country's most exciting younger writers. Over the course of three days, we gather with our visitors for craft talks, readings, dinners, and other writerly rituals. The 2006 festival took place April 4, 2006 - April 6, 2006, and featured Catherine Barnett, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Alix Ohlin, Lewis Robinson, and Sean Wilsey Please check back soon to discover the events of the upcoming EWF in April 2007. The Festival is co-sponsored by the English department and the Writers House, and is supported by the Hausman Fund.
Tuesday April 4, 2006
Reading
Catherine Barnett, Lewis Robinson
8 p.m. Green Room Theatre
(Reception following at The Writers House)
Wednesday April 5, 2006
Craft Workshops
- Poetry with Catherine Barnett, 10-11 a.m.
- Fiction with Alix Ohlin, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- Nonfiction with Sean Wilsey, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Lunch, 12:30 p.m.
Reading
Alix Ohlin, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Sean Wilsey
8 p.m. Green Room Theatre
(reception After At The Writers House)
Thursday April 6, 2006
Craft Workshops
- Fiction with Lewis Robinson, 10-11 a.m.
- Poetry with Gabrielle Calvocoressi, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Lunch, 12:30 p.m. (provided By Fair Trade Cafe)
Closing Barbeque, 4:30 p.m.
Craft Workshops, Lunches, and Barbeque will be held in the Philadelphia Alumni Writers House (633 College Avenue; Lancaster)
All events are free and open to the public.
Questions? 717.291.4244
EWF is supported by the Hausman Fund.
This year's Emerging Writers:
POETRY
CATHERINE BARNETT is the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, which consists of elegies written for the author's two nieces, who were six and eight when they died in a plane crash. Here's an excerpt from a poem:
http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/barnett_poem.html
Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced's Amazon page:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882295455/qid=1134405840/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-2190973-4377617?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
and a brief bio:
http://www.twc.org/writers/pp_cbarnett.html.
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI's first collection of poems, The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, has received considerable acclaim. She was a Stegner Fellow and is now a Jones Lecturer at Stanford. Here's a poem of hers:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16914
The book's Amazon page:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0892553154/002-2190973-4377617?v=glance&n=283155
A page on her in Poetry Daily (click the link there to another poem, "Save Me Joe Louis"):
http://www.poems.com/lasttcal.htm.
FICTION
ALIX OHLIN, whose novel, published in 2004, is The Missing Person. She's teaching now at Lafayette. Here's a story of hers:
http://www.webdelsol.com/Five_Points/issues/v4n1/ohlin.htm
a little write-up from Lafayette:
http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/7291/
and a short interview:
http://housemirth.blogspot.com/2005/05/brief-encounter-alix-ohlin.html.
LEWIS ROBINSON's first book is called Officer Friendly and Other Stories. Here's a review from the San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/27/DD85189.DTL
and Officer Friendly's Amazon page:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812972279/002-2190973-4377617?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance.
NONFICTION
SEAN WILSEY is an editor at McSweeney's who's produced a memoir, Oh the Glory of It All, that recounts his troubled adolescence (and then some) at the hands of rich, socialite, San Francisco parents. Here's a McSweeney's page that records a sort of diary he kept while vacationing and book-touring:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/wilsey/
a review of the book:
http://www.triangle.com/books/bookreview/story/2560337p-8994548c.html
an essay of his from The London Review of Books:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n18/print/wils07_.html
