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Jen Browne Fall 2018 CLA Events
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Jen Browne is back to fill up your calendar with great Fall literary events in Frostburg, Maryland! We have a complete list of events listed below. For more information about the events listed below be sure to visit frostburg.edu/cla or contact jabrowne@frostburg.edu for more information. l
5-6 October: 12th Annual Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival
Join us for two days of readings, roundtables, and panel discussions celebrating the writers, publishers, and readers of small press and independent literature at various locations on Main St. in Frostburg. Saturday’s events include a book fair with regional publishers in the Lyric Theatre
11 October: Gerald Duff
7:30 PM, Lyric Theatre
Gerald Duff has published over 18 books, including novels, collections of short stories and poems, and books of nonfiction. His newest book, Nashville Burning, was published in September 2017.
25 October: Julia Kasdorf (poet) and Steven Rubin (photographer)
7:30 PM, Lewis J. Ort Library
Julia Spicher Kasdorf has published three collections of poetry with the University of Pittsburgh Press, most recently Poetry in America. With photographer Steven Rubin, she has created a poetry collection to document the impacts of natural gas development in Pennsylvania, titled Shale Play, which will be published by Penn State University Press in fall 2018.
http://english.la.psu.edu/faculty-staff/jmk28
1 November: Peter Stark
7 PM, Lyric Theatre
Peter Stark is an adventure and exploration writer and historian. A long-time correspondent for Outside magazine, Stark’s articles and essays have also appeared in Smithsonian, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Men’s Journal, and many others. His Astoria was a New York Times bestseller.Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father was published in May 2018.
Stark’s visit is funded by the Martha T. and Ralph M. Race Western History Lecture Fund and co-sponsored by the History Department.
https://www.peterstarkauthor.com
10 November: One Act Play Festival
7:00 PM in the Historic Palace Theatre
The One-Act Play Festival features a production of the winning play and staged readings of the second and third place winning plays of our international one-act playwriting competition; a talkback with writers, actors, and directors; and a reception.
6 December: Andy Duncan
7:30 PM, Main Street Books
FSU’s very own Andy Duncan will celebrate the release of An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories (out in November from Small Beer Press) with a reading at Main Street Books.
Other events, such as our first Saturday Coffee with a Writer program, will be continuing as well.
184 episodes
Manage episode 216180767 series 1168129
Jen Browne is back to fill up your calendar with great Fall literary events in Frostburg, Maryland! We have a complete list of events listed below. For more information about the events listed below be sure to visit frostburg.edu/cla or contact jabrowne@frostburg.edu for more information. l
5-6 October: 12th Annual Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival
Join us for two days of readings, roundtables, and panel discussions celebrating the writers, publishers, and readers of small press and independent literature at various locations on Main St. in Frostburg. Saturday’s events include a book fair with regional publishers in the Lyric Theatre
11 October: Gerald Duff
7:30 PM, Lyric Theatre
Gerald Duff has published over 18 books, including novels, collections of short stories and poems, and books of nonfiction. His newest book, Nashville Burning, was published in September 2017.
25 October: Julia Kasdorf (poet) and Steven Rubin (photographer)
7:30 PM, Lewis J. Ort Library
Julia Spicher Kasdorf has published three collections of poetry with the University of Pittsburgh Press, most recently Poetry in America. With photographer Steven Rubin, she has created a poetry collection to document the impacts of natural gas development in Pennsylvania, titled Shale Play, which will be published by Penn State University Press in fall 2018.
http://english.la.psu.edu/faculty-staff/jmk28
1 November: Peter Stark
7 PM, Lyric Theatre
Peter Stark is an adventure and exploration writer and historian. A long-time correspondent for Outside magazine, Stark’s articles and essays have also appeared in Smithsonian, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Men’s Journal, and many others. His Astoria was a New York Times bestseller.Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father was published in May 2018.
Stark’s visit is funded by the Martha T. and Ralph M. Race Western History Lecture Fund and co-sponsored by the History Department.
https://www.peterstarkauthor.com
10 November: One Act Play Festival
7:00 PM in the Historic Palace Theatre
The One-Act Play Festival features a production of the winning play and staged readings of the second and third place winning plays of our international one-act playwriting competition; a talkback with writers, actors, and directors; and a reception.
6 December: Andy Duncan
7:30 PM, Main Street Books
FSU’s very own Andy Duncan will celebrate the release of An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories (out in November from Small Beer Press) with a reading at Main Street Books.
Other events, such as our first Saturday Coffee with a Writer program, will be continuing as well.
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