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Photos and videos are not permitted at this event. Updated Feb. 2022: Margaret Atwood, best-selling author of more than 50 novels including “The Handmaid’s Tale,” will be the featured author of the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series at Wilkes University. “A Conversation with Margaret Atwood,” hosted by the …

The Wilkes University English Department will host the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series featuring Zach Linge, Poupeh Missaghi and Howard Norman. Throughout the spring 2021 semester, the guest artists will visit campus virtually to read from their work and discuss the creative process. English Department Chair and Associate …

Acclaimed writer and translator Poupeh Missaghi will visit Wilkes University as part of the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series. Missaghi will read an excerpt of her debut novel, “trans(re)lating house one,” published by Coffee House Press in February 2020. The event, hosted by the Wilkes English Department, will take …

Series Kicks Off Feb.12 With Alice Sola Kim The Wilkes University English Department’s Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series will bring three distinguished writers to campus in the spring 2020 semester. Each of the writers will visit campus to read from his or her work and conduct workshops with students. …

Mackenzie Egan Bachelors of Arts, double major English and History, minor in Women’s and Gender Studies College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Hometown:  Beach Lake, Pa. Activities and Achievements: Egan served as the editor-in-chief of the English Department’s magazine, The Inkwell Quarterly, since January 2017. She also served as …

In its new series, “First Year Q&A” News@Wilkes will highlight the journeys of first-year students. Meet Veronica Romanelli Major: English with a concentration in literature and a minor in secondary education. Hometown: Wilkes-Barre, Pa. On-Campus Activities: Staff writer for Inkwell Quarterly, the English department’s newsletter Favorite class: “I would say …

Acclaimed novelist, essayist and short story writer NoViolet Bulawayo  will read from her work on April 17 as part of the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series at Wilkes University. The reading, hosted by the Wilkes English Department, will be at 7 p.m. in the Salon of Kirby Hall, …

Wilkes University junior Brianna Schunk entered college with a passion for performance and the drive to succeed. The York, Pa., native has done just that, working toward dual majors as an individualized studies dance major and English major. “I got here and Wilkes was a place for me to foster …

Dave Eggers, best-selling author and founder of McSweeney’s, will be the featured writer opening the Wilkes English Department’s Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series on Feb. 28. But what does it take to bring in such an accomplished writer, educator and philanthropist to campus? News@Wilkes chats with Mischelle Anthony, …

If you stop by Chad Stanley’s Kirby Hall office, you might be greeted by someone who isn’t a member of the Wilkes University English Department. Stanley, an associate professor of English, often brings his dog Bonita Rosa – her name means “beautiful rose” in Spanish – to his office on …