Last week, I was invited to talk to a class at City College in New York. Someone asked me about structure; specifically what I thought of the fact that none of the books on their syllabus, including my memoir, had a traditional structure. It wasn’t until that moment – when I learned that the class… Continue reading Writing From the Margins
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Toronto Arts Council grant to Kenny Fries
Kenny Fries received a Toronto Arts Council grant for his new Germany-based book, Stumbling Over History. He also had a poem, “An Opening,” up at Good Men Project. He also presented “Different Bodies,” at the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany on November 4, 2014 and was invited to speak by Dr. Theresia Degener, Professor of… Continue reading Toronto Arts Council grant to Kenny Fries
Faculty, Student and Alumni Achievements, July-August 2014
FACULTY Ryan Boudinot‘s story “Readers and Writers,” originally published in Post Road and nominated for a Pushcart Prize, is a story of the month on the Committee Room. An interview with Ryan appears in the inaugural issue of online magazine Moss. Deborah Brevoort’s backstage farce The Velvet Weapon was produced at the Trustus Theatre in… Continue reading Faculty, Student and Alumni Achievements, July-August 2014
News and Publications Jan-Feb 2014
FACULTY Kyle Bass has been commissioned by the Onondaga Historical Association to write a play based on events of 1839 involving a fugitive enslaved woman, abolitionist Gerrit Smith, and a young Elizabeth Cady (Stanton). Deborah Brevoort was invited in February to teach three playwriting workshops at the San Miguel Writer’s Conference in San Miguel de… Continue reading News and Publications Jan-Feb 2014