Summer Author Visits

 

 

Each summer, the Plymouth Writing Project invites contemporary authors to visit our summer institutes to talk about their experiences writing, publishing and teaching. Summer institute fellows are specifically expected to attend, and these events are also open to the public within the limits of the available venue. You may contact site director Dr. Meg Petersen for more details. 

All Sessions will be held in Frost Commons on the Plymouth State University Campus 1:30-4:00 p.m. All sessions are free of charge and open to the public.

2009 Summer Author Visits

 

June 30, 2009                                             Penny Kittle

• Penny Kittle is the author of four books: Write Beside Them (2008), Inside Writing (2005), coauthored with Donald H. Graves, The Greatest Catch (2005), and Public Teaching (2003).  As a professional development coordinator for the Conway School District, Penny acts as a district-wide literacy coach and directs new-teacher mentoring. She also teaches writing at Conway’s Kennett High School.

July 7, 2009                                             Janna Malamud Smith

• Janna Malamud Smith is a writer and psychotherapist. She is the author of three books, Private Matters (1997), A Potent Spell (2003), and My Father is a Book: A Memoir of Bernard Malamud (2006). Her articles and essays have appeared nationally and internationally in newspapers, magazines and literary journals including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The American Scholar and The Threepenny Review. She has twice had essays selected for publication in Best American Essays.

July 14, 2009                                             Alice Fogel

•  Alice B. Fogel’s most recent book of poetry is Be That Empty, which was on the national poetry bestseller list for 4 weeks in 2008. A recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, her work has appeared in the Best American Poetry series, and many other anthologies and journals. Her new book, Strange Terrain: A Poetry Handbook for the Reluctant Reader, a nonacademic guide for those who don’t “get” poetry, is out in May of this year. Visit her website at www.alicebfogel.com.

July 21, 2009                                             Barry Lane

• Barry Lane has taught writing at the University of New Hampshire, founded a literacy program in Vermont prisons, and worked as a writer in residence in hundreds of elementary and secondary school classrooms throughout the USA and world. Barry is  known for his dynamic, hands-on workshops on writing and revision and his popular writing books, After "The End",  Discovering the Writer Within, The Healing Pen, Hooked on Meaning (dvd), 51 Wacky We-search Reports, Why We Must Run with Scissors and his most recent book from Scholastic But How Do You Teach Writing. A stand-up comic and folksinger as well, Barry also creates inspiring Literacy Cabaret Night clubs for teachers across the country for fun. Connect with him at his Ning www.discoverwriting.ning.com.

July 28, 2009                                             Emma Wood Rous

• New Hampshire State Representative Emma Wood Rous, formerly of Oyster River High School, is the author of the Literature and the Land, a guide for developing ecological literary in young people.  Emma Rous has served on the Environment and Agriculture Committee and currently chairs the Education Committee in the State Legislature.  Emma Wood Rous taught for twenty-eight years at every level from preschool to college. At Oyster River High School, she received three outstanding performance awards and developed and taught "Literature and the Land" for fifteen years. She has been a curriculum developer for the Education Development Center, a CBE National Fellow for Independent Study in the Humanities, an ITV Master Teacher, and a workshop presenter on nature writing.