Category Archives: Creative Writing Fund
Jonathan Franzen: March 5, 2012
Report by Engram Wilkinson: Audience members filed into McAlister Auditorium Monday night–most clutching copies of The Corrections or Freedom–eager for Tulane University’s sixth reading in its Great Writer Series. Franzen joins the league of Toni Morrison, Salmon Rushdie, Joan Didion, Carlos Fuentes and … Continue reading
Poet Laureate Series: Rita Dove, 3/8/10
Report by Nicola Wolf In a much-anticipated public appearance at Tulane’s McAlister Auditorium on March 8, former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove read thirteen poems from her latest book Sonata Mulattica, a book she said she hadn’t expected to write. … Continue reading
Filed under Creative Writing Fund, Events, Poetry, Visiting writers
Peter Bogdanovich class visit 01/27/10
Report by Marissa Blake: You don’t have to read about Peter Bogdanovich’s many accomplishments – both in front of and behind the camera – to understand that he is an entertainer. You only have to listen to him for a … Continue reading
Filed under Creative Writing Fund, Events, Screenwriting, Visiting writers
Apply now for SCHOLARSHIPS to the AWP conference
Attention all Tulane creative writing students: This year’s AWP (Associated Writers/Writing Programs) conference will take place in Denver from April 7–10, 2010. The conference is one of the biggest and liveliest literary gatherings in North America, featuring 300+ presentations, readings, … Continue reading
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Deborah Eisenberg 11/04/09: An evening with a genius
Report by Jenny Douglass: Until this past Wednesday, when I thought of Deborah Eisenberg I pictured the photo on the back of Twilight of the Superheroes: a woman with rigid facial features looking at something unseen by the camera, her … Continue reading
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Things You’ll Learn at the Angola Prison Rodeo
Reportage by Chris D. Courtesy of Professor Morris and the generous donors of the Tulane Creative Writing Fund, the Advanced Fiction Workshop (and myself–recent grad/willing driver) had the opportunity to attend the morally ambiguous and spectacularly muddy forty-fifth annual Angola Prison Rodeo. … Continue reading
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Personal Essay Symposium 10/03/09: Jonathan Ames
Report by Faine Greenwood: I never thought I would see a man discussing, ahem, evacuating his bowels in the South of France at an officially Tulane sponsored event. Yet I have: I have seen Jonathan Ames. Ames, a NYC-based personal … Continue reading
Personal Essay Symposium 10/03/09: Chris Rose
Report by Sarah Manthey: Chris Rose, local newspaperman turned spokesperson for post-Katrina New Orleans, half-read half-performed works from his book 1 Dead in Attic as the third contributor in the symposium on the personal essay. His book is a compilation … Continue reading
Personal Essay Symposium 10/03/09: Phillip Lopate
Report by Faine Greenwood: Phillip Lopate has been a particular delight for me to discover. I’ve got my reasons: I have often been critiqued in the past for providing too much background information in my essays: it is the fetish … Continue reading
