An Afternoon with Donald Margulies

The English Department and the Student Government Association at Chapman University are pleased to present an afternoon with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies on Saturday, March 17.  In addition to a talk about writing for the theatre, film, and television led by Margulies, the event will include selected readings from his plays Sight Unseen, Collected [...]

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A Celebration of the Short Story

The J. Paul Getty Museum is pleased to present Selected Shorts, an annual spring series featuring actors from stage, screen, and television reading classic and new short fiction.  The series is produced by New York’s Symphony Space and hosted by Isaiah Sheffer.  The theme of the 2012 series is Objects of Desire, with readings by [...]

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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  Each fiction submission must be one original and previously unpublished short story of up to 7,000 words.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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Literary Forum – Dacia Maraini

As part of the 2011 John Fowles Literary Forum at Chapman University, acclaimed author and playwright Dacia Maraini will be reading her favorite poetry and discussing her successful career on Monday, March 7.  The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing promotes and advances the discipline of creative writing in all its aspects: fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction, [...]

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