May 2019 – Princeton Writes

New Undergraduate Fellow Named

Stephanie Whetstone2019-11-19T16:49:56-05:00

New Undergraduate Fellow Named We are delighted to announce that Alexandra (Allie) Spensley ’20 has been named Princeton Writes’ 2019-2020 undergraduate fellow and Student Board chair. She will succeed Maha Al Fahim ’19, who has filled this role with great devotion and distinction during the past year. Allie is a rising senior, pursuing a major in history and certificates in American studies, history and the practice of diplomacy, and creative writing. The high caliber of her in-class writing has been recognized by the 2017 Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence, the 2017 and 2018 Lewis Center for the Arts Outstanding Work Award, [...]

New Undergraduate Fellow NamedStephanie Whetstone2019-11-19T16:49:56-05:00

Symposium Debrief

Cate Mahoney2019-11-15T20:25:52-05:00

Symposium Debrief by Cate Mahoney On Thursday, May 2, and Friday, May 3, Princeton Writes saw the exciting culmination of many months of planning: its first annual symposium on the written and spoken word. Connect: Harnessing the Power of Words drew a rousing number of participants from across the University, and we thank you so much for making this event such a success. We enjoyed every step of this process, and we’re already thinking ahead to the next one! (Princeton Writes 2020!) As Princeton Writes' UAF (University Administrative Fellow), I’ll play crack reporter and give everyone a debrief on our two [...]

Symposium DebriefCate Mahoney2019-11-15T20:25:52-05:00

May and June Events for Writers

Stephanie Whetstone2019-11-19T16:40:49-05:00

To add an event to our calendar, please email pwrites@princeton.edu. Hilary Plum & Deborah Amos in Conversation Strawberry Fields: a Novel Thursday 5/16 at 6pm, Labyrinth Books Princeton LLL Presents: The Kitchen Twins: Emily & Lyla Allen The Teen Kitchen Sunday 5/19 at 3pm, Labyrinth Books Princeton LLL Presents Nina Khrushcheva In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire across Russia’s 11 Time Zones Tuesday 5/21 at 6pm, Labyrinth Books Princeton Book Lovers Luncheon featuring Judith Viorst at Springdale Golf Club, Friday, May 17, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm The Friends of Princeton Public Library [...]

May and June Events for WritersStephanie Whetstone2019-11-19T16:40:49-05:00

Juno’s Swans (2018) by Tamsen Wolff

Cate Mahoney2019-05-01T12:00:14-04:00

Critical Evaluation "Juno’s Swans by Tamsen Wolff is not a traditional queer “first love” novel. It’s not a story about becoming and it doesn’t contain bromides about the magic of new love. What it offers instead is a story about the limits of love: both the crash at the end of a first love, and the tunnel vision infatuation can give, the kind where everything outside that adoring gaze becomes flattened. Juno’s Swans gives us Nina, a high school senior washed ashore from a summer in Cape Cod in which she went to an acting residency, fell madly in love with Sarah, and [...]

Juno’s Swans (2018) by Tamsen WolffCate Mahoney2019-05-01T12:00:14-04:00

New Undergraduate Fellow Named

Symposium Debrief

May and June Events for Writers

Juno’s Swans (2018) by Tamsen Wolff

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