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Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons on No, YOU Tell It! at New York Independent Theater Blog

Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA Creative Writing alum Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons writes about No, YOU Tell It! for the New York Independent Theater Blog. Kelly Jean writes: The storytellers are often far more concerned with doing their partner’s story justice than how their own piece is going to turn out....

30 Apr 2016 Posted by FDU MFA in Alumni Profiles, Events, Worth Listening, Worth Reading, Worth Watching no comments

FDU MFA Alum Risa Pappas Directs Someday You’ll Be My Wife

Official Selection 2016 New York City Independent Film Festival Press contact: Audrey Lorea E: audreythweatt@gmail.com ★ P: 347.633.4966 Watch the TRAILER Someday You’ll Be My Wife Synopsis: A nonstop, 9-minute joyride with Tigerman, New Jersey’s silliest and spookiest band. Risa Pappas Biography Risa is a writer and freelance editor. She graduated with an MFA...

27 Apr 2016 Posted by FDU MFA in Alumni Profiles, Video, Worth Listening, Worth Watching no comments

FDU MFA Alum Brian Bradford Featured at Lafayette College Reading

Lafayette College Reading: Brian Bradford Monday, April 18, 2016 - 4:15pm - 5:00pm at Gendebein Free to the general public A recipient of the Henfield Transatlantic Review Award for Fiction, Brian Bradford has published work in numerous small press publications, including New Blood and Black Ice. He has studied fiction...

09 Apr 2016 Posted by FDU MFA in Alumni Profiles, Events, Worth Listening, Worth Reading, Worth Watching no comments

Renee Ashley and Laura McCullough Tuesday April 12: 5:30-6:30 Hartman Lounge

06 Apr 2016 Posted by FDU MFA in Faculty Books, faculty news, publications, Worth Listening, Worth Reading no comments

FDU MFA Alum Heather Lang to Moderate AWP16 Panel

One by One: Editors Explore Single-Story and Single-Poem Issues Heather Lang, Elizabeth Bradfield, MRB Chelko, Jennifer Tappenden, Jane-Rebecca Cannarella There is a submovement in contemporary independent press publication toward single-author issues, and this panel explores the causes and effects. Discussion points may include the vast number of...

25 Mar 2016 Posted by FDU MFA in Alumni Profiles, Current Events, Current News, Worth Listening, Worth Watching no comments

FDU MFA Faculty to Present at AWP16: Learning the Craft of Children’s Literature in an Adult World

Learning the Craft of Children’s Literature in an Adult World Eliot Schrefer, Donna Freitas, Rebecca Chace, Kathi Appelt, Rene Steinke As more writing programs add children’s and YA tracks within larger pools of MFA students, it’s not easy to figure out how best to teach—and learn—the craft...

08 Mar 2016 Posted by FDU MFA in Current Events, Events, Faculty Advice, faculty news, Worth Listening, Worth Watching no comments

Writing Workshop: Do You Have a Story to Tell? With Rene Steinke and Rosie Schaap

Meet the authors: Rosie Schaap is the author of the memoir Drinking With Men (Riverhead Books), named one of the best books of 2013 by National Public Radio, Library Journal, and BookPage. The drink columnist for The New York Times Magazine since 2011, and a contributor to This American Life, she has also written...

08 Feb 2016 Posted by MFA7 in Current Events, faculty news, Worth Listening, Worth Watching no comments