End time changed for Real Stories of Publishing, 4/18, Alumni Center
<p> The Real Stories of Publishing Panel will run from 7pm to 8:30pm, not 10pm as posted in an earlier Announcement.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> <em>Real Stories of Publishing </em></p> <p> <em>April 18, 7 – 8:30 p.m. Alumni Center</em></p> <p> <em>Sponsored by Friends of the ODU MFA Creative Writing Program and the Alumni Association</em></p> <p> </p> <p> RSVP on the Alumni Association Website and get parking passes at <ins cite="mailto:KATHERINE%20JACKSON" datetime="2013-04-03T12:11"><a href="http://odualumni.org/events.asp?EventID=705" target="_blank">http://odualumni.org/events.asp?EventID=705</a></ins>.</p> <p> For more information: kjackson@odu.edu</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> A panel of writers and editors will demystify the publishing process by addressing trends in the industry, sharing advice on publishing in all literary genres, and answering questions from the audience. Prior to the panel discussion, a reception will provide an opportunity to connect with ODU alumni, students, professors, and members of the local literary community.</p> <p> </p> <p> Panelists will include Trudy Hale, Norton Girault, Andrea Nolan, Jon Pineda, and Eric M. R. Webb</p> <p> </p> <p> <em>Panelists info</em></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p> <strong>Trudy Hale</strong> is co-editor-in-chief of <em>Streetlight Magazine, </em>an online journal of art and literature based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founder and director of <em>The Porches, a</em> writers' retreat in Norwood, Va., Hale currently facilitates workshops and literary consultations. She also teaches advanced writing at Longwood University. Her short stories and essays have been included in the SouthEast Review, the Santa Monica Review and Canyon Journal. Her poem, <em>Letter to the Hippie Girls Who Lived on My Third Floor,</em> was published in A Literary Collection: A Long and Winding Road, Dzanc Books, 2012. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Hale received her MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles.</p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"> </p> <p> Born in New Orleans, <strong>Norton Girault</strong> got his BA and MA in English at LSU. He served in the Navy during the years 1941-1969, taught English at Norfolk State University for 15 years, then devoted his time to writing. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in various literary magazines. He has been a regular participant in the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, since 1974, and has taken writing courses at ODU for about the same length of time. In 2012, he self-published a collection of short stories, <em>Out Among the Rooster Men</em> with Outskirts Press as his publisher.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> <strong>Jon Pineda</strong> is the author of the novel <em>Apology</em>, winner of the 2013 Milkweed National Fiction Prize. His memoir <em>Sleep In Me</em>, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, was named one of the Best Books of 2010 by <em>Library Journal</em> and is currently being translated into Chinese. His poetry collections include <em><a href="http://www.wmich.edu/newissues/titles/pinada-translatorsdiary.html" target="_blank" title="">The</a> Translator’s Diary</em>, winner of the 2007 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Poetry & Prose, and <em><a href="http://www.siupress.com/product/Birthmark,252.aspx" target="_blank" title="">Birthmark</a></em>, selected by Ralph Burns as winner of the 2003 Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry Open Competition. He teaches in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte and lives in Virginia with his family. (jonpineda.com)</p> <p> </p> <p> <strong>Andrea Nolan</strong> has published two narrative guidebooks, <em>Sea Kayaking Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay</em> and <em>Sea Kayaking Virginia</em>, both published with Countryman Press, an imprint of WW Norton. She has also published stories and essays in a variety of literary journals such as <em>Dogwood</em>, <em>Flyway, Fiction Writers Review</em> and <em>The Potomac Review</em>, and she has had stories and essays listed as “Notable” in both <em>The Best American Essays </em>series and in <em>The Pushcart Prize</em>. Nolan worked as an environmental educator and as a sea kayaking guide for over ten years. Andrea Nolan now works as a lecturer in the quiet classrooms at Old Dominion University, where none of her students are ever in danger of drowning, and yet the work is somehow as exhausting and exhilarating as leading a ten mile kayaking trip against a stiff headwind. </p> <p> </p> <p> <strong>Eric M. R. Webb's</strong> poems have appeared at <em><a href="http://qarrtsiluni.com/">qarrtsiluni.com</a></em>, in <em>Thunderclap! Magazine</em>, in <em>The Cossack Review</em>, and are forthcoming in <em>Pea River Journal</em>. He is currently a Poetry and Technical Editor for <em>Barely South Review</em>, where he has also published two interviews. Last Academic Year he ran the Writers in Community (WinC) Program at Old Dominion University, where he organized and managed fifty different writing events in the community. WinC and similar programs across the country were the subject of a panel Eric proposed and moderated at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference in 2013.</p> <p> </p> <p> <strong>Lucas Flatt</strong> holds a BA and an MA in English Literature from Tennessee Tech University. He's an MFA-Fiction candidate at Old Dominion University where he manages <em>Barely South Review</em>. His stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in <em>Ellipses...journal of Literature and Art</em>, <em>Fiction Southeast</em>, <em>Slow Trains</em>, and <em>CompTime</em>.</p>
Posted By: Kathleen Fowler
Date: Thu Apr 11 09:51:58 EDT 2013