February 2020 – Princeton Writes

Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series: Sheila Heti and Joy Harjo Visit Campus

admin2020-02-25T11:48:52-05:00

Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series: Sheila Heti and Joy Harjo Visit Campus by Mia Salas ’22 This past fall semester, I took a course called The Novel Since 2000, and one of the books we read was Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? I even gave a presentation on Heti’s novel about the role of autofiction, and just a few short months later, I found out that she was coming to campus! While a seemingly odd coincidence, these tend to happen quite often at Princeton thanks to the Princeton Creative Writing Department’s efforts: the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading [...]

Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series: Sheila Heti and Joy Harjo Visit Campus admin2020-02-25T11:48:52-05:00

Princeton Research Day Deadline 2/17/20

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Princeton Research Day 2020 is an exciting opportunity for students and other researchers to showcase their work for a broad audience. The event includes the full breadth of work being done by undergraduates, graduate students and other non-faculty researchers, artists and performers in every corner of Princeton University. Princeton Research Day will be held all day long on Thursday, May 7, at Frist Campus Center. The free, public program features talks, posters, video presentations, musical and theater performances, and art exhibitions. Cash prizes will be awarded.

Princeton Research Day Deadline 2/17/20admin2020-02-12T15:35:42-05:00

February 5 “Tell Me More” Conversation: Professor William Gleason

Elizabeth Durham2020-02-11T16:27:19-05:00

February 5 "Tell Me More" Conversation: Professor William Gleason On February 5, William Gleason, Hughes-Rogers Professor of English and American Studies, turned the second session of the “Tell Me More: Humanizing Our Research” dinner conversation series into an interactive workshop on “Writing Transparently.” “Have any of you ever been told,” he asked the assembled graduate students, that “your writing is either too transparent or too opaque?” On a disarming note of self-deprecation, he shared that “I’ve been told both those things! In graduate school, I wrote a seminar paper [and] one of the comments I got back [was]: ‘You write like [...]

February 5 “Tell Me More” Conversation: Professor William GleasonElizabeth Durham2020-02-11T16:27:19-05:00

February Events for Writers

admin2020-02-10T13:33:39-05:00

February Events for Writers Inside Buffalo: An African-Italian Story February 13, 2020, 5 PM East Pyne Building Room 010 The Department of French and Italian presents a film screening of Inside Buffalo followed by Q&A with director, Fred Kuwornu. Cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts. Sheila Heti and Joy Harjo February 12, 2020, 7:30 PM, Donald G. Drapkin Studio Fiction writer, playwright, and journalist Sheila Heti and 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, memoirist and musician Joy Harjo read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series. C.K. Williams Reading Series: Aaron Robertson ’17 February 21, 2020, 6:30 PM. Forum, Lewis [...]

February Events for Writersadmin2020-02-10T13:33:39-05:00

Word of the Week: perfidy (ˈpər-fə-dē)

Cate Mahoney2020-02-10T11:52:06-05:00

Word of the Week: perfidy (ˈpər-fə-dē) Definition (Noun) 1: the quality or state of being faithless or disloyal: TREACHERY 2: an act or an instance of disloyalty In Context His descriptions of the perfidy of the British élite have the ring of an insider. Sam Knight, “How Brexit Will End,” The New Yorker, Oct 30, 2019.

Word of the Week: perfidy (ˈpər-fə-dē)Cate Mahoney2020-02-10T11:52:06-05:00

CARLIN STORY SLAM

admin2020-02-06T16:50:40-05:00

CARLIN STORY SLAM (Patterned after The Moth Story Slam Series) THEME: Love Hurts -- true stories , told live and on-theme DATE: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 TIME: 6:30 PM doors open 7:00 PM storytellers selected HOST: Kevin Carlin STORYTELLERS: 10 selected at random VENUE: Tir na nOg (upstairs, intimate venue) A bit o’ Ireland at Trenton/Hamilton Line 1324 Hamilton Avenue Trenton, New Jersey COST: $10.00 (20 maximum attendees) $20.00 at the door, if available PAYMENT: In advance, imagine telling a story to less than 10 or being shut out due to sellout. Via Venmo to @Kevin-Carlin-20 WHAT IT IS: No [...]

CARLIN STORY SLAMadmin2020-02-06T16:50:40-05:00

How to Use Your Body in Public Speaking

admin2020-02-05T11:38:29-05:00

Here's a great, short video to remind you what to do with your body while you speak. Check it out! How to Use Your Body in Public Speaking

How to Use Your Body in Public Speakingadmin2020-02-05T11:38:29-05:00

A LOT of Mistakes! by Cate Mahoney

Cate Mahoney2020-03-19T11:57:11-04:00

A LOT of Mistakes! by Cate Mahoney There are times when I’m reading and I cringe. That may be for a huge variety of reasons—like I don’t understand the academic jargon of the article I’m trying to read about Walt Whitman. But in most cases, it’s when people are writing colloquially and they make mistakes that would not be obvious if they were speaking. Here is one of my favorites: “A lot” spelled as “Alot.” Hyperbole and a Half, an awesome blog written and drawn by Allie Brosh, has an excellent way to counteract the instinct to write “alot”: “The Alot is [...]

A LOT of Mistakes! by Cate MahoneyCate Mahoney2020-03-19T11:57:11-04:00

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