National Day of Writing set for Oct. 20 at the BLUU


Ballroom C in the BLUU will be the official headquarters of the National Day of Writing on campus Oct. 20. All events will take place in this venue. The schedule:

10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Displays from Department of English, College of Education, The Center for Writing and the Writing Associates program focused on writing programs and writing support offered on the TCU campus.  The Center for Writing will provide one-on-one writing tutorials on site.   Contact the Center for Writing for more information at http://www.wrt.tcu.edu/

 

12:30 - 1:50 p.m.  “Writing on Authorship: ˇBureacracies, Letters, and Literary and Academic Marketplaces.” Scholarly panel featuring Anne Frey, Theresa Gaul and Sarah Robbins (English). Each speaker will discuss her recently published or upcoming scholarly book: Anne Frey’s book British State Romanticism: Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism will be released in December 2009; Theresa Gaul’s Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, co-edited with Sharon M. Harris, was published by Ashgate Press, 2009, and Sarah Robbins’ book The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe was published in 2007 and her new project Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Changing the US Academy is forthcoming.

 

7 - 7:30 p.m.  Fiction readings by TCU students

 

7:30 - 8:30 p.m.  Reading by Glen Pourciau, short story writer and author of Invite, a collection of short stories and winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. His stories have also appeared in the New England Review, Ontario Review, and Mississippi Review.

 

TCU also has its own Gallery on the National Gallery of Writing online: http://galleryofwriting.org/galleries/79621. All members of the TCU community are invited to submit one work of writing to this Web site now.  The Gallery will then be open to the public from Oct. 20 to June 30, 2010.

 

For more information about the events TCU is sponsoring for the National Day of Writing, contact Jill C. Havens, director of programming, Department of English. j.havens@tcu.edu.

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