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  • Week of Writing 2013

    May 20, 2013 through May 24, 2013

    11:00 AM-5:00 PM

    Lobby of Drexel University Recreation Center, 3301 Market Street

    • Alumni
    • Current Students
    • Faculty
    • Parents & Families
    • Prospective Students
    • Public
    • Staff
    • “Pitfall! What Writers and Videogame Designers Need to Know About Each Other”
    • “Food Profiles and Food Porn: Why We Just Can’t Get Enough”
    • “When Readers and Editors Attack! How to Stand Up for What You Write”
    As always, the weeklong affair will also feature open mics, reading marathons, a poetry slam and the winners of the DPG writing contests.

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  • 2013 Week of Writing: Marathon Reading

    Monday, May 20, 2013

    11:00 AM-2:00 PM

    Lobby of Drexel University Recreation Center

    • Current Students
    • Faculty
    Student winners of the WoW Writing Contest, as well as faculty members, read from their own original creative writing.  Each reading is followed by questions and comments from the audience as the writers talk about the inspiration and decisions that made the pieces possible. 
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  • Pitfall! What writers and videogame designers need to know about each other

    Monday, May 20, 2013

    2:00 PM-3:30 PM

    Lobby of Drexel University Recreation Center

    • Current Students
    • Faculty
    In 2008, the Writers Guild of America presented its first award for Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing, and that same year the "New York Times" added "Video Games" as a distinct feature of its Arts section.  In the five years since, many successful authors have gone "Game" the way authors of past generations went "Hollywood."  As writers work with game studios, what do they need to know about video game design and its processes?  Inversely, what do designers need to understand about writing and its processes?  Where do design and writing intersect?  Where do they diverge?  This panel will bring together video game writers, journalists, and designers to discuss these questions and more.
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  • The Brick Through the Window: Writing into Controversial Issues

    Tuesday, May 21, 2013

    11:00 AM-12:30 PM

    Lobby of Drexel University Recreation Center

    • Current Students
    • Faculty
    All writers expect some criticism.  High-profile issues, however, pose risks that go well-beyond a bad review or sarcastic facebook comments.  Writers may receive threats to their lives and livelihoods, so may the people whose stories they tell.  So why do it?  In this panel, writers will discuss their own experiences with controversy and how it shapes their writing.
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  • Poetry Reading by Lynn Emanuel, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Natalie Shapero & William Kulik

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013

    3:30 PM-4:30 PM

    Drexel Recreation Center

    • Current Students
    • Faculty

    The Certificate in Writing and Publishing and Saturnalia Books are proud to present a reading by four visiting poets: Lynn Emanuel, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Natalie Shapero and William Kulik.
     
    Lynn Emanuel's books of poetry include: Noose and Hook (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010); Then, Suddenly— (1999), which was awarded the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets; The Dig (1992), which was selected by Gerald Stern for the National Poetry Series; and Hotel Fiesta (1984). She is currently a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

    Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Lullaby (With Exit Sign), winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize selected by Lynn Emanuel. Hadara is currently assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

    Natalie Shapero, poet and civil rights lawyer, is the author of No Object. Her poems have appeared in magazines and literary journals including The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, Poetry,and The Progressive. She is currently the Kenyon Review Fellow at Kenyon College in Ohio.

    William Kulik’s translations of French Surrealist poetry are well-known, especially his versions of Robert Desnos, Tristan Tzara and Max Jacob. His most recent book of translation is The Voice of Robert Desnos: Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005). Nowhere Fast is the first collection of his own poems which have appeared in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, and Best American Poetry 1999.

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  • CoAS Honors Day

    Thursday, May 23, 2013

    2:00 PM-3:00 PM

    Behrakis Hall

    • Alumni
    • Current Students
    • Faculty
    • Parents & Families
    • Prospective Students
    • Public
    • Staff
    At the annual CoAS Honors Day, the College of Arts and Sciences recognizes and awards the hard work, dedication and accomplishments of CoAS students, as well as students from across the University.
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