Franklin & Marshall College

Tuesday, November 16th at 7:30 p.m.
Ron Currie Jr.’s first book, God is Dead, received the New York Public Library Young Lions Award and the Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent novel, Everything Matters!, has been translated into more than a dozen languages. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of English.

Thursday, November 18th at 5:30 p.m.
All semester-long we cross paths on campus, communicate over email, and bump into each other at readings. Now, it’s at last time for all of us -- writers, readers, friends -- to come together and share words over a home-cooked feast. This event is open to members of the F&M community. For more information, to bring a dish, or to RSVP, please email whouse@fandm.edu. This dinner also serves as our community meeting for the month of November.   

Friday, November 19th at 9:00 p.m.
Upstairs at the Fulton Theatre, 12 N. Prince St.
Writers House co-sponsors a performance by poet Edwin Torres as part of the Fulton Theatre's Edge Series.  For tickets and information, please visit www.thefulton.org.

Tuesday, November 30th at 6:00 p.m.
Bring no more than five minutes of your writing (poems, fiction, nonfiction, plays, songs) to share in an innovative and kinetic workshop forum with professor and novelist Sands Hall.  Who gets to read from their work is decided by lottery, and everyone is engaged in the workshop process.  Come prepared to have a terrific time, and leave with some great insights into your own writing.  This event is open to the F&M Community, and food will be served.

Wednesday, December 1st at 4:30 p.m.
Journalist Dyke Hendrickson '67 will give an upbeat presentation about opportunities in writing and publishing. Dyke has written three books and has been a city hall reporter, sportswriter, entertainment editor, television critic and technology columnist. He also served as editor of several niche newspapers. This event is open to the F&M community and is co-sponsored by the International Studies Program and the Office of the President. 

Lancaster Dramatists' Platform
Monday, December 6th at 7:30 p.m.
The Lancaster Dramatists’ Platform returns to the very room in Writers House in which it began in 2004. The group still meets regularly to read and discuss new work, and to plan and rehearse public readings, giving playwrights a chance to hear their words performed by actors in front of an audience.   

Wednesday, December 8th at 4:30 p.m.
Writers House community meetings bring students, staff and faculty together to imagine and oversee the programs and business of the Writers House and to share writing and reading-related opportunities.  This event is open to the Franklin & Marshall community.  First time attendees are welcome, and food will be served.

A Lecture with Art Spiegelman
Wednesday, November 10th at 8:00 p.m.
Schnader Theatre, Roschel Center 
Art Spiegelman has almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. Best known for his comics’ shifting graphic styles, formal complexity, and controversial content, Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative Maus, which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. This event is co-sponsored by the Holocaust Remembrance Committee, the Klehr Center for Jewish Life, The Center for Liberal Arts and Society, The Office of the Provost, Brooks College House and the Departments of Judaic Studies, Art & Art History, History, and English. 

Monday, November 8th at 4:30 p.m.
Jack Anderson is the author of ten books of poetry and seven collections of dance history and criticism. His most recent books are a poetry collection entitled Getting Lost in a City Like This and Art Without Boundaries: The World of Modern Dance, a history of modern dance. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Theatre, Dance & Film.   

Wednesday, November 3rd from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Robert Hass will meet with children from Fulton Elementary School and Reynolds Middle School at the Fulton School auditorium. This event is co-sposnored by Writers House and Poetry Paths, and is open to Fulton and Reynolds students and teachers only.  

Tuesday, November 2nd at 4:30 p.m.
Robert Hass was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995–1997 and served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001–2007. Hass earned his Ph.D. in English from Stanford University in 1971 and taught at St. Mary’s College and the University of California, Berkeley. As Poet Laureate, he advocated literacy, poetry and ecological awareness, traveling across the country to speak.

Monday, November 1st at 7:30 p.m.
For decades now, tabletop role-playing games, trading card games, and miniatures battle games have been popular ways for gamers to socialize. In order for players to have fun, though, gaming rules and scenarios need to be well written. So who are the writers behind these games? What is the creative process for imagining and then explaining fantasy worlds and their complicated systems of rules? And how does one find a career doing so? The Writers House hopes to find out with guest speakers and game writers Bryan Steele and Bryan Borgman. 

Saturday, October 30th from 12 to 2 p.m.
Writers House will share a tent with the English department at Franklin & Marshall's Homecoming Tailgate Extravaganza.

Wednesday, October 27th at 7:30 p.m.
Bruce Frankel was a national news reporter for USA Today and a senior writer at People Magazine. He co-wrote World War II: History’s Greatest Conflict in Pictures, a New York Times bestseller, and his latest book, What Should I Do With the Rest of My Life, was published in March. This event is co-sponsored by the English Department.

Tuesday, October 26th at 6:00 p.m.
Bring no more than five minutes of your writing (poems, fiction, nonfiction, plays, songs) to share in an innovative and kinetic workshop forum with professor and novelist Sands Hall.  Who gets to read from their work is decided by lottery, and everyone is engaged in the workshop process.  Come prepared to have a terrific time, and leave with some great insights into your own writing.  This event is open to the F&M Community, and food will be served. 

Thursday, October 21st at 7:30 p.m.
The beat goes on! Join your favorites from the beatnik generation — Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and others—for a night of readings, finger snapping, sunglasses, apple pie, and ice cream. Then, stay on for our second Open Mic of the fall. Bring your stories, poems, songs (instruments!) and essays.   

a discussion with Jeffrey J. Selingo
Wednesday, October 20 at 1:30 p.m.
Jeffrey J. Selingo, editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, talks with students interested in writing and journalism careers. In the Brooks College House Great Room.

Wednesday, October 13th at 4:30 p.m.
Writers House community meetings bring students, staff and faculty together to imagine and oversee the programs and business of the Writers House and to share writing and reading-related opportunities.  This event is open to the Franklin & Marshall community.  First time attendees are welcome, and food will be served.

with Christopher McDougall
Tuesday, October 12th at 8:30 p.m.
Christopher McDougall is author of the New York Times bestseller, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. He does his own running, usually barefoot, among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania.

with Arthur B. Dodge Jr. '47
Saturday, October 9th at 1:00 p.m.
Arthur B. Dodge Jr. '47 is an eminent Lancastrian who retains close ties with F&M.  Join us as we celebrate his writings about his experiences in WWII as well as his family’s support, which secured the very creation of the Writers House.  Refreshments will be served.

Friday, October 8th, time TBD
Writers House is sponsoring a bus trip to Newark, New Jersey for the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the largest poetry event in North America. Join celebrated poets, from across the country and around the world, in readings, discussions, and conversations.  Visit www.dodgepoetry.org for more information, and reserve your spot on the bus by emailing whouse@fandm.edu.

Kabi Hartman & Marci Nelligan
Wednesday, October 6th at 7:30 p.m.
Kabi Hartman works in fiction, creative non-fiction, and scholarship. Her writing has appeared in Western Humanities Review, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and Women’s History Review.  Marci Nelligan is a teacher, poet, and toddler-wrangler. Her first collection of poems is due out this winter from Black Radish Press. This event is co-sponsored by the English Department. 

Lisa Levchuk ‘85 & Joe Mackin ‘88 
Saturday, September 25th at 12:00 noon
Bonchek Lecture Hall, LSP
Lisa Levchuk’s Everything Beautiful in the World is a highly acclaimed novel for young adults about loss and love. Joseph Mackin’s Pretend All Your Life gives readers a new view of New York post-9/11 in “reliably excellent” fiction. (Publisher’s Weekly) A lunch reception will follow the readings. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Parent Relations and the Dept. of Athletics and Recreation.

Wednesday, September 22nd at 7:30 p.m.
Ron Carlson has been praised as a “master of the short story” (Booklist), and he has written five novels, most recently The Signal, as well as a work of non-fiction, Ron Carlson Writes A Story, in which he invites readers into his writing process.

Wednesday, September 22nd at 12:00 noon
Jeffrey Nesteruk is a professor of legal studies and a member of the Department of Business, Organizations, and Society. In this reading and conversation, Nesteruk will explain how he has come to use personal narratives in his work as an ethicist. A free lunch will be served.

Tuesday, September 21st at 6:00 p.m.
Bring no more than five minutes of your writing (poems, fiction, nonfiction, plays, songs) to share in an innovative and kinetic workshop forum with professor and novelist Sands Hall.  Who gets to read from their work is decided by lottery, and everyone is engaged in the workshop process.  Come prepared to have a terrific time, and leave with some great insights into your own writing.  This event is open to the F&M Community, and food will be served. 

Saturday, September 18th from 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Writers House will host a book sale run entirely by students in an effort to bring student groups together and give back to the community.  Books for sale include signed copies of works by authors who have visited campus in the past.  All proceeds benefit the Lancaster Public Library.

Thursday, September 16th at 7:30 p.m.
Gene Baur, president and co-founder of the Nation's leading farm animal protection organization, campaigns to raise awareness about the negative consequences of industrialized factory farming and our cheap food system. His book, Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, is a national bestseller. This event is co-sponsored by the Mellon Grant for Environmental Values. 

Wednesday, September 15th at 5:00 p.m. 
Don’t miss the first Writers House event of the year, for first years, seniors, and everyone in between, even if you’ve never been to Writers House before.  Catch up with friends or meet some new ones.  Come hungry, and bring a piece of writing, yours or someone else’s, to share for our open mic. You’re welcome just to listen too.