Book Bash

In an effort to raise awareness about literacy and books banned in the Tucson Unified School District as a result of its dismantled Ethnic Studies Program, the College of Educational Studies at Chapman University will be hosting its first Annual Book Bash on Thursday, May 3. The event will take place at the Attallah Plaza [...]

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Festival of Books

The 2012 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books returns to the University of Southern California campus next Saturday and Sunday, April 21 and 22.  Since its inception in 1996, the festival maintains one simple goal: “to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them.”  The 17th annual event [...]

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2012 Literary Orange

The 6th Annual Literary Orange is this Saturday, April 14, at UC Irvine Student Center.  This year’s celebration of authors, readers, and libraries features keynote speakers Paula McLain and Lisa See.  The goal of Literary Orange is to foster an appreciation of reading and literature by connecting writers and readers for a day of panel [...]

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Poetry Reading – Tom Zoellner

As part of the 2011 Tabula Poetica Reading Series, Chapman University’s Department of English is pleased to present Tom Zoellner, author of A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America (Viking, 2011).  Zoellner is also the author of Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock [...]

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Poetry Reading – Stephanie Brown

As part of the 2011 Tabula Poetica Reading Series, Chapman University’s Department of English is pleased to present poet and librarian Stephanie Brown, author of Domestic Interior (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and Allegory of the Supermarket (University of Georgia Press, 1999).  Brown was awarded an NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2001 and the Margaret [...]

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Tennessee Williams Literary Festival Writing Contests

The 26th Annual Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival is pleased to announce its 2012 Fiction and One-Act Play Contests.  Each fiction submission must be one original and previously unpublished short story of up to 7,000 words.  One-act play submissions should run no more than one hour in length and require minimal technical support for [...]

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2012 AWP Annual Conference & Bookfair

Early registration for one of the largest and most essential literary events in North America is now open to attendees, presenters, and exhibitors.  The Association of Writers & Writing Programs is hosting its Annual Conference & Bookfair in Chicago February 29 through March 3, 2012.  The 2012 “Big Literary Conversation” offers 400 literary readings, lectures, [...]

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Tabula Poetica Reading Series

Chapman University’s Department of English is pleased to present the 2011 Tabula Poetica Reading Series, which features poetry talks and readings by guest poets Amy Newlove Schroeder, The Sleep Hotel; Tony Barnstone, Tongue of War; Stephanie Brown, Domestic Interior; and Tom Zoellner, A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the [...]

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An Evening with Billy Collins

If ever there were a spring day so perfect, so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze   that it made you want to throw open all the windows in the house   and unlatch the door to the canary’s cage, indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,   a day when the cool brick [...]

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Literary Forum – Giuseppe Conte

As part of the 2011 John Fowles Literary Forum at Chapman University, Italian novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright Giuseppe Conte will be reading excerpts from his work on Monday, April 25.  Conte was born in Imperia and earned a degree in literature from the University of Milan in 1968.  His novels include Il terzo ufficiale (The [...]

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