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Category: Stuff You Oughta Know
The latest events, opportunities and any other news that is applicable to our program.
Off-Campus Housing Fair
Publishing Opportunity!
APIARY Magazine, a free literary magazine with a circulation of 10,000 that publishes the best new writing by Philadelphia authors of all ages and genres has an opportunity for you!
They are currently running a (free) writing contest to find work to help us launch our new website in June of this year. The first prize winner will get a short film made from their piece. The 2nd and 3rd place winners will be published on an illustrated broadside. Other outstanding entries will be the first pieces to appear on our new site, apiarymagazine.com. Our deadline is March 13, 2015 (although we will likely extend to March 20 for all the procrastinators out there!).
You can read how to submit at www.apiarymagazine.com/submissions.
Come on! Get your stuff out there!
Writing Studies Alum Danielle Bullen Talks Tips on Editing & Freelancing
MONDAY, MARCH 16, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Merion Hall, Room 174
Writing Studies Alum Danielle Bullen (’12) will offers tips on editing and freelancing.
Danielle will discuss her career as a Senior Associate Editor for ADVANCE newsmagazines. She is also a web-based freelancer, most recently for SkilledUp. Learn about working in publishing as an editor or freelancer.
All students are welcome!
The St. Joseph’s University Writing Series Continues…
…with a visit from poet, professor, and punk rocker, Gerry LaFemina.
Tuesday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the Foley Center
Please support the Writing Series! It should be an entertaining evening.
Here is some information about Gerry from his website:
Gerry LaFemina believes poetry is the highest art form; believes everyone should rock out with a guitar at least once–even if they can’t play; believes teaching is a calling; believes the New York City subways are beautiful (even if they smell badly); believes in love, bigfoot and other mythic creatures; believes in the power of a good meal, a good night’s sleep, good wine, etc; believes laughter is a type of prayer….
A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, LaFemina holds an MFA in Poetry from Western Michigan University as well as an MA in Literature with an emphasis on Twentieth-century Literature from WMU. He has taught at Nazareth College, Kirtland Community College, West Virginia University, Wheeling Jesuit University and Sarah Lawrence College. He directs the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing at Frostburg State University, where he is an Associate Professor of English.
Gerry LaFemina’s poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, The Sun, North American Review, among other journals, and in various anthologies including American Poetry: The Next Generation, and The Best of the Web 2013. His awards and honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Bordighera Prize in Poetry, the Anthony Piccione/MAMMOTH Books Poetry Prize, an Irving Gilmore Emerging Artist Foundation Fellowship, and Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship.
Gerry LaFemina’s fiction has appeared in Colorado Review, American Fiction, Bellevue Literary Review and other literary journals. He received the North American International Auto Show award for the story “Proofreading America” and the Renaissance City Fiction Prize for “Consolation Prize.” He’s currently at work on a new novel and a new collection of stories.