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PLU MFA Program presents Alaskan writers at Richard Hugo House Four writers from Alaska, including Peggy Shumaker, the Alaska State Writer Laureate, will read from their new books at 7 p.m., Monday, April 9, at Richard Hugo House : 1634 11th Ave, Seattle, Wash. The event…
teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, and at many writing conferences and festivals, and currently serves as the Alaska State Writer Laureate. The Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University is the Northwest’s premier low-residency MFA in Creative Writing. An innovative, three-year, four-residency program, it provides writers with a unique means to develop their writing, working with an outstanding faculty of writers and editors drawn from all over the
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TACOMA, Wash. (April 30, 2015)—Award-winning authors and PLU alumnae Leslye Walton ’04 and Marissa Meyer ’04 will return to campus May 2 for the inaugural Cavalcade of Authors West youth writing workshop. Cavalcade of Authors West is comprised of two components: 1) students reading novels…
Authors West is comprised of two components: 1) students reading novels from 15 featured authors and 2) a writer’s conference led by these featured authors. Author Leslye Walton ’04. [Photo courtesy of www.LeslyeWalton.com]Walton is the author of the Morris-nominated novel The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender. Walton received a B.A. in Education from PLU and earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University. She lives in Seattle, where she’s teaching reading and writing to
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Following Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin’s recent publication in Newsweek, PLU’s Philosophy Department Chair sat down with me to discuss her article’s reception, the role of Twitter in philosophical discourse, and how philosophers of the modern day relate to the public. The article, originally published by…
English Writing, with minors in Music and Philosophy. She wrote this article as part of her work in English 320: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction. Read Previous The Trail to Social Justice: Ultrarunning Meets Dark Green Religion Read Next Indivisible: English Faculty Members Join the Anti-Trump Resistance LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26
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Diego Perelmuter Testimonial Posted by: Parker Brocker-Knapp / April 1, 2023 April 1, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project Team Open English TranslationOpen Spanish Transcript Read Previous Giza Alterwajn de Goldfarb Testimonial Read Next Mariana Pasquet Testimonial LATEST POSTS Hilda Waksman Testimonial May 3, 2023 Enrique Shapira Testimonial April 20, 2023 Mariana Pasquet Testimonial April 9, 2023 Giza Alterwajn de Goldfarb Testimonial February 20, 2023
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Enrique Shapira Testimonial Posted by: Parker Brocker-Knapp / April 20, 2023 April 20, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project Team Open English TranslationOpen Spanish Transcript Read Previous Mariana Pasquet Testimonial Read Next Hilda Waksman Testimonial LATEST POSTS Hilda Waksman Testimonial May 3, 2023 Mariana Pasquet Testimonial April 9, 2023 Diego Perelmuter Testimonial April 1, 2023 Giza Alterwajn de Goldfarb Testimonial February 20, 2023
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Hilda Waksman Testimonial Posted by: Parker Brocker-Knapp / May 3, 2023 May 3, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project Team Open English TranslationOpen Spanish Transcript Read Previous Enrique Shapira Testimonial LATEST POSTS Enrique Shapira Testimonial April 20, 2023 Mariana Pasquet Testimonial April 9, 2023 Diego Perelmuter Testimonial April 1, 2023 Giza Alterwajn de Goldfarb Testimonial February 20, 2023
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Mariana Pasquet Testimonial Posted by: Parker Brocker-Knapp / April 9, 2023 April 9, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project Team Open English TranslationOpen Spanish Transcript Read Previous Diego Perelmuter Testimonial Read Next Enrique Shapira Testimonial LATEST POSTS Hilda Waksman Testimonial May 3, 2023 Enrique Shapira Testimonial April 20, 2023 Diego Perelmuter Testimonial April 1, 2023 Giza Alterwajn de Goldfarb Testimonial February 20, 2023
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If you polled people, chances are few would raise their hands and volunteer to go back to middle or high school. For many, those were awkward times in just about every way imaginable. For folks that struggled with reading, writing, communication or other subjects, even…
Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), a college-readiness program, and are seeking extra guidance and support. The idea for a writing center that would serve the community surrounding the campus began in 2016, when co-director Scott Rogers and his colleague in the PLU English Department, Jason Skipper, wrote a plan to fund the center. Their concept was based on a successful program in Salt Lake City. “The goal was to provide writing and reading support for students in the community, and to
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Marissa Meyer ’04 signs one of her latest books in the Luna series, ‘Scarlett’, for a fan this spring at PLU. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Love of Sci-Fi and Fairy Tales Leads to Best-Selling Series By Barbara Clements Director of Content Development, PLU Marketing and Communications…
into a sci-fi world. Meyer visited campus twice this year, first in February for her official book release and signing party for Cress, the latest book in the Luna Chronicles, and then again in April to talk to Writing and English majors about her journey from PLU to best-selling author. Cress is Meyer’s third novel, with the fourth—Winter—scheduled for release in 2015. Meyer’s love affair with writing began early—she remembers writing stories about the time she saw The Little Mermaid. Her interest
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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), describes a society whose members, constantly fearing the loss of personal reputation, ask themselves this question like a reprimand: What will people say? The title’s timeless alliteration also displays how words shape reputation’s near relation–memory. Soniah Kamal’s Unmarriageable (2019),…
, and the USA motivates her re-examination of a British literary “canon” populated by white authors. She originally completed what would later become Unmarriageable for her MFA thesis at the University of Georgia in 2017. Her personal essay ” Pride and Prejudice and Me” (2019), found in the book’s endmatter, details her creative inspiration: “I wanted to write a novel that paid homage to Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice, as well as combined my braided identification with English-language and
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