Noted authors' campus readings to be webcast live
In addition to the usual classroom setting, the English Department's Living Writers course will live online this semester, providing anyone with a passion for literature the opportunity to interact with some of today's top contemporary authors.
Ten writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners Elizabeth Strout, Junot Diaz, and Jeffrey Eugenides, will visit campus, providing the 55 students in the class a unique opportunity to interact with them in several different settings.
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Visiting authors work with young writers at workshop
Next week, 45 area sixth- through 10th-graders with a passion for writing will spend five days on the Colgate campus stretching their imaginations and discovering new ideas through the act of writing.
The Young Writers' Workshop offers a chance to experience writing in a community of peers, instructed by noted writers from a variety of genres. The featured artist/instructors include:
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Tim Suermondt, author of chapbooks, discusses work
Tim Suermondt is the author of two chapbooks, The Dangerous Women with Their Cellos (The Manny Trio Press, 1998) and Greatest Hits (Pudding House Press 2002).
In the fourth episode of the podcast series Colgate Conversations: Writers and their Craft, Suermondt talks about his current work, its direction, and the influence of the Colgate Writers' Conference upon it.
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New Colgate podcast series features writers and their craft
Colgate professor Peter Balakian, whose book The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response was a New York Times bestseller, is the first guest for a new podcast series produced on campus.
The series - Colgate Conversations: Writers and their craft - features authors talking about their unique writing styles and their latest works. Faculty members, alumni, and visiting authors are among those to be interviewed by Matt Leone, organizer of the annual Colgate Writer's Conference.
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