“Besides Living a Whole & Creative Life, What Else Can I Do with My Degree in Creative Writing?”

Grucci Room, 102 Burrowes Building 102 Burrowes Building, University Park, PA, United States

Q&A with Sheila Squillante Penn State MFA Grad Poet & Essayist Students and faculty of all sorts welcome! SHEILA SQUILLANTE is a writer and visual artist living in Pittsburgh and a graduate of Penn State's MFA program in creative writing. She is the author of the poetry collections, Mostly Human, winner of the 2020 Wicked […]

Reading and Book Party for Sheila Squillante’s “All Things Edible, Random and Odd”

Springboard Coworking & Community Space 221 W. High Street, Suite 1300 (second floor), Bellefonte, Pennsylavania

Reading and book party for Sheila Squillante’s debut essay collection, All Things Edible, Random and Odd: Essays on Grief, Love and Food, published by CLASH Books in November, 2023. Sponsored by: Bellefonte's new, independent bookstore, the Print Factory SHEILA SQUILLANTE is a writer and visual artist living in Pittsburgh and a graduate of Penn State's MFA […]

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Rolling Reading Series Presents Julia Spicher Kasdorf and C.S. Giscombe

Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States

     Julia Spicher Kasdorf is the author of five award-winning poetry collections: Sleeping Preacher, Eve’s Striptease, Poetry in America, and Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, a documentary project created in collaboration with photographer and Penn State professor Steven Rubin. Her new book of poems is titled As Is.  She teaches poetry and […]

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Rolling Reading Series Presents Christine Hume

Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States

Christine Hume (PSU, 1990) is the author of an essay collection on sex offenders and women’s bodies, Everything I Never Wanted to Know, (OSU Press/21st Century Essays Series, 2023) and a lyric portrait of girlhood, Saturation Project (Solid Objects, 2021), as well as several books of poetry. Since 2001, she has been a faculty member […]

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Book Launch: “Burning Down The House”

Webster's Bookstore Cafe PA, United States

Join Webster’s Bookstore and Café for the launch of “Burning Down The House: Crime Fiction Incited by the Songs of the Talking Heads” — a new charity crime fiction anthology to help fight climate change. Featuring State College based author and anthology editor Michel Lee Garrett, co-editor T. Fox Dunham, Alex Award-winning writer Gregory Galloway, […]

Kalliope 2024 Release Party

Abba Java Coffeehouse 299 Locust Lane, State College, PA

Penn State's undergraduate literary and visual arts journal, Kalliope, will celebrate the release of its most recent edition on April 25, 6:30 pm, at Abba Java Coffeehouse in State College. Come help celebrate, hear students read their work, and pick up a copy of the newest edition of this student publication, published annually for the […]

Rolling Reading Series Presents Jai Chakrabarti

O. Henry and Pushcart Prize winner Jai Chakrabarti is the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World (Knopf ’21), which was awareded the National Jewish […]

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