John Cornelius of Nescopeck, Pa., was awarded the Etruscan Prize during the Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program residency on June 25. The Etruscan Prize is awarded each year to a member of the Wilkes creative writing student community who submits one page of any genre (prose, script,…
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The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University is hosting LitFest from Sunday, June 20 through Thursday, June 24, its first-ever literary festival. Highlights include in-person readings by National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann, NPR’s Maureen Corrigan, “Riding in Cars with Boys” memoirist Beverly Donofrio, readings by…
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Wilkes University’s Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing announces the launch of a new track in spoken word. It is the first graduate program in the United States leading to the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing to offer a concentration in spoken…
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Wilkes University’s Maslow Foundation Salon Reading Series, which highlights the January 2021 residency for the University’s Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, will be available for free to the public virtually via Zoom. The series features alumni, guests and creative program faculty, many of whom are prize-winning authors, as…
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David Hicks recently joined Wilkes as director and faculty of practice in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. Although his office is a little bit out of the way in Harold Cox Hall on South River Street, he’s making himself at home on campus. An accomplished fiction writer,…