Calendar of Events | SUNY Fredonia

Spring 2012

The 4th annual Albert Dunn Day of Poetry and Prose will be held on Thursday, April 12, 2012 from noon-3:30 p.m. in the Alice E. Bartlett Theater. This event celebrates the great literature taught by Dr. Dunn as well as your favorite poems or short prose pieces. It is held during National Poetry Month and promotes the art of reading aloud. There is no charge to attend and everyone is encouraged to come and listen. Due to its length it is a come and go as you need to event. Reading fees are required prior to the event and raise funds for the Albert A. Dunn Scholarship and Book Grants. Participation forms for readers will be available in February in the English Dept. Office.

Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series

We are excited to have an ongoing series of nationally-acclaimed visiting writers, who work directly with our students in small workshop as well as lecture settings. All are welcome.

Author craft talk: 4-5pm, reading 7pm. All events in 202 McEwen Hall and free and open to public. Q&A and book-signing after each reading.

Spring 2012:

Patrick Somerville

Mar. 22: Patrick Somerville (fiction) Patrick Somerville earned his MFA from Cornell University. He has taught creative writing and English at Cornell and Auburn State Correctional Facility, and currently teaches in the MFA programs for Northwestern and Warren Wilson. His books include two collections of stories--Trouble (2006) and The Universe in Miniature in Miniature (2010)--and a novel, The Cradle (2009). The Cradle was nominated for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Award and named one of the Ten Best Books of 2009 by the New York Times. The Universe in Miniature in Miniature was short-listed for the 2010 Story Prize.
Patrick's writing has appeared in One Story, Epoch, GQ, Esquire, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is a MacDowell Fellow and was recently selected as the winner of the 2009 21st Century Award, given annually by the Chicago Public Library. His next book, the novel This Bright River, will be released in the summer of 2012.

Apr. 5: Christina Olson (poet and Fredonia alumna!)
Her first book of poems, Before I Came Home Naked, won the 2007 Spire Press annual contest. Gerald Stern chose her as the winner of The Dirty Napkin’s Poetry Prize, and she has been awarded a fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center. Other poetry and nonfiction has appeared (or will soon) in magazines and journals including Barn Owl Review, The Best Creative Nonfiction Volume Three, Black Warrior Review, Brevity, Cream City Review, Eclipse, Folio, Gargoyle, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Ledge, Mid-American Review, Midwestern Gothic, The Normal School, and Passages North.
She has served as the managing editor of the Blue Earth Review, worked as a healthcare marketing copywriter in Madison, Wisconsin, and taught as a visiting assistant professor of writing at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she also co-founded the Cherry Bomb reading series. She currently teaches writing and technical communication at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia.

Fall 2011

Sept. 22: Shara McCallum is Associate Professor of English, and the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University. She is the author of four books of poetry, This Strange Land, Song of Thieves, The Water Between Us and The Face of Water: New & Selected Poems. Her poems and personal essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and been reprinted in over twenty anthologies of American, African American, Caribbean, and World poetry. She was awarded a 2011 NEA grant in poetry.

DeanBakapolous

Nov. 10: Dean Bakopolous was born and raised in metro Detroit, which is the setting of his first novel, Please Don't Come Back from the Moon (Harcourt), a New York Times Notable Book. The winner of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Dean is a professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment at Iowa State University. His second novel, My American Unhappiness, was just released in 2011.

October 13

SarieMackay

Sarie Mackay is a graduate of SUNY Fredonia, where she received a degree in English with an emphasis on professional writing. Mackay hails from both Western New York and Montana, and has self-published two historical romances set in Montana and infused with a strong sense of place and character. Mackay will read from her work on Thursday, October 13, in McEwen 202, at 7 p.m. She will give a craft talk in the same room earlier in the day, at 4 p.m. Please join us to hear about her writing accomplishments.

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Ongoing

Writers' Ring
English Department student-led creative writing club. First Wednesday of every month, 6pm, 127 Fenton.

Sigma Tau Delta Sponsored Activities

Coffee Talks: TBA

Meet the Uppers: TBA

Other Activities

These campus-wide events are sponsored outside of the English Department, and organized by English department faculty in collaboration with other departments and student groups.

The Brown Bag Lectures
Lunchtime Talks on Research in the Arts and Humanities, sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities. First Wednesday of every month between 12 and 12:50 pm, Williams Center, S-104. They are free and open to all campus and community members.