NPR Book Critic Maureen Corrigan Highlights the Week’s Readings Wilkes University’s Maslow Foundation Salon Reading Series, which highlights the June 2019 residency for the University’s Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Program, features debut authors and program faculty, many of whom are prize-winning authors, as guest readers. Readings are …
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Bonnie Culver, director of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes, says that she has had Norwegian elk hounds “for all of my adult life.” You can see her and her latest elk hound, Brody, out and about on campus. Inside the creative writing office in Cox …
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Wilkes University Creative Writing Alumnus Marlon James New Book Called African Game of Thrones
by Web ServicesWhen Marlon James MA ’06’s novel A Brief History of Seven Killings won the Man Booker Prize in 2015, it catapulted the Wilkes creative writing alumnus to literary stardom. As the first Jaimaican to win the international prize, the award put James in the company of such notable authors as …
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Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University Offers 2019 Winter Creative Writing Community Workshops
by Web ServicesThe Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University is hosting non-credit creative writing community workshops beginning in January 2019. All workshops are open to adults and will be held on the Wilkes campus. The cost for each workshop series is $65. Advance registration is available through the …
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Alicia Upano of Wahiawa, Hawai‘i, Wins 2018 James Jones First Novel Fellowship Competition
by Web ServicesThe 26th Annual James Jones First Novel Fellowship awarded first place and $10,000 to Alicia Upano of Wahiawa, Hawai‘i, for her novel titled Big Music. The competition is co-sponsored by the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University and the James Jones Literary Society. The first runner-up …
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Wilkes University Announces Partnership With Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony
by Web ServicesThe Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University is partnering with the Norman Mailer Center to bring the Mailer Writers Colony summer writing workshops to Wilkes University and serve as their permanent home. Named in honor of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning author, workshops offered by the Norman …
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The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University Presents Fall Creative Writing Community Workshops
by Web ServicesThe Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University is hosting non-credit creative writing community workshops this fall. All workshops are open to adults and will be held on the Wilkes campus. A highlight of the fall workshops will be a master class on writing young adult and …
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Wilkes University Announces Transformational Gift To Graduate Creative Writing Program
by Web ServicesUniversity Dedicates the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing Wilkes University has received significant financial support to benefit its graduate creative writing program. Given by local businessman and philanthropist Richard Maslow, of Dallas, Pa., and Naples, Fla., the gift will be used to enhance the creative writing program through …
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Anna Arnett of Chandler, Ariz., is Wilkes University’s Oldest Graduate At 91 Years Young
by Web ServicesWoman Earns Creative Writing Master’s Degree If you want to know the secret to longevity, 91-year-old Anna Arnett of Chandler, Ariz., might have the answer. When she completes her degree on June 4 in creative writing from Wilkes University, she becomes the school’s oldest graduate in its 83-year history. She …
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Wilkes University Creative Writing Alumnus Marlon James Wins Man Booker Prize For Novel
by Web ServicesA Brief History of Seven Killings Wins One of Literature’s Most Prestigious Honors Wilkes University alumnus Marlon James has won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. The international prize, one of the literary world’s most prestigious, was presented on Oct. 13 in London. …