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February 5, 1999
"Writers Talk" Features Local & National Talent at College Lecture SeriesContact:
Jane Finalborgo
Joe Dionisio
(516) 287 8313
Fax: (516) 283 4081Southampton, NY -- Prominent local and national writers will be featured in the MFA Lecture Series "Writers Talk," presented during the spring semester at Southampton College of Long Island University.
The lectures, held in the Ocean View Lounge in Southampton Hall, are free and open to the public. The series is presented by the Masters of Fine Arts Program in Writing, which debuted at the College in the summer of 1998.
The Spring 1999 "Writers Talk" Lecture Series features:
Wednesday, February 10, 7pm LOU ANN WALKER: novelist & memoirist, A Loss For Words
Wednesday, February 17, 7 pm SHERIDAN SANSEGUNDO: journalist with The East Hampton Star
Wednesday, February 24, 7 pm KARL GROSSMAN: investigative journalist, The Wrong Stuff
Wednesday, March 3, 7 pm ALLEN PLANZ: poet, Dune Heath, Canio Editions
Wednesday, March 10, 7 pm HARVEY SHAPIRO: poet, Selected Poems, Wesleyan
Wednesday, March 24, 7 pm GALEN WILLIAMS: Editor of Poets & Writers
Wednesday, April 7, 7 pm STEVE STERN: novelist, A Plague of Dreamers
Monday, April 19, 7 pm JAMES SALTER: novelist, Solo Faces, Burning the Days
Wednesday, April 21, 7 pm GERARD DONOVAN: poet, Kings and Bicycles
Friday, April 23, 7 pm DAVA SOBEL: New York Times science writer; Bestseller, Longitude
Wednesday, April 28, 7pm JANE & MARK CIABATTARI: Novelist and Parade Magazine columnists
Wednesday, May 5, 7pm WILLIAM MULVIHILL: novelist, God is Blind
Southampton College's MFA program in Writing enlists a galaxy of star writers, many of them full- or part-time residents of Long Island's East End.
Its faculty members include: author, essayist and Emmy-winning television commentator Roger Rosenblatt, the Parsons Family University Professor in Writing; poet William Hathaway; novelist Indira Ganesan; and author Kaylie Jones, whose novel, A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, was released as a movie last year.
This innovative program is more realistic and comprehensive than similar ones across the country, offering courses in business and science writing as well as in fiction, poetry, biography, script writing and literary journalism. The degree may be earned in regular semesters or by attending only during summers.
For more information on the "Writers Talk" MFA Lecture Series, call professor William Hathaway at 516-287-8424.
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