Please join the English and Creative Writing Department for Convergences: A Black Life and Letters Lecture Series on Sunday, March 14, 2021.
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Meetinghouse is excited to host a virtual reading and conversation with three fiction writers from our inaugural issue, Becky Mandelbaum, Alyssa Freeman-Moser, and Dartmouth's own Jordan McDonald. Please join us for the second reading in our winter series on March 3rd, 2021 from 5-6 pm followed by a discussion on creativity during the pandemic, finding community in writing, and the future of literary journals.
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Please join us for a poetry reading on February 24, 2021 from 5-6 pm followed by a discussion on the writing life during the pandemic, finding writing community, and the future of literary journals.
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On February 4th, 2021, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Matthew Olzmann is one of 35 writers who will receive an FY 2021 Creative Writing Fellowship of $25,000. This year's fellowships are in poetry and enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Fellows are selected through a highly-competitive, anonymous process and are judged on the basis of artistic excellence of the work sample they provided. Olzmann was selected from 1,601 eligible applicants.
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The faculty of the Department of English and Creative Writing stands in solidarity with colleagues in the Program in African and African American Studies, and with all the faculty, students, staff, alumni, and other members of the Dartmouth community whose concerns were raised in the open letter to the Board of Trustees of the College, President Hanlon, and members of the senior leadership team, dated July 14, 2020.
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