Miscellany

The Outstanding Creative Writers of ECU, Class of 2009, were honored with a public reading on May 6 in Bate 1031.  This year’s Outstanding Creative Writers are Deven Melton, Lara Oliver, Amy Hart, and Archie Rose.  Pictured here left to right: Lara Oliver, Archie Rose, and Amy Hart.

Julie Fay joined Anna Quindlen, Terry McMillan, Galway Kinnel,  and Geraldine Brooks, among others in Lenoir Rhyne University's 20th Anniversary Visiting Writers Series. In March and April, Fay was the Writer-in-Residence, and gave several readings, taught a poetry workshop, and judged entries for the school's literary magazine.

John Hoppenthaler was interviewed on North Carolina National Public Radio's "The State of Things" by Frank Stasio on Wednesday, April 15. Hoppenthaler also read from his work with Joseph Bathanti at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh at 3 pm on Sunday, April 19.

The 2009 TAG lecture featured writers Marianne Gingher and Lawrence Naumoff, who read from their work in Bate 1032 on April 8.  Gingher has written three novels and two memoirs. Her work has received ALA Notable and Best Books citations, and her memoir A Girl's Life was Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year in 2001.   She has taught at Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bennington, and Hollins University.  She has published fiction and nonfiction in the Southern Review, Redbook, Seventeen, McCall's, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times.  Her novel Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit was an NBC Movie-of-the-Week in 1992.  Her most recent work includes editing Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-Five of North Carolina's Finest Writers (2009) and Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer's Journey from Inklings to Ink (2008).   Lawrence Naumoff is the author of six novels, and has won the Whiting Award, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Award, and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award.  His novel Taller Women: a Cautionary Tale was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1992.  His recent work includes Southern Tragedy, In Crimson (2005).  Both writers teach creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  The Tag Lecture is named in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Ella Tag and funded by an endowment to support an English Department-sponsored annual lecture in literature.

Pat Bizzaro, now of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Art Young of Clemson University presented "Responding and Evaluating Interactive Informal Writing" to students and teachers in Bate 1025 on April 3.  Their visit was sponsored by the University Writing Program.

"8 Wheels and Nowhere to Go" featured new and original songs and poems by Mike Hamer and Marty Silverthorne at the Emerge Gallery on April 3.