Eckleburg‘s Editor in Chief, Rae Bryant, will be the featured reader at PiP | The Vintage Theater this Sunday in Scranton, PA. Prior to the reading, she will be leading a small group writing workshop as part of the series. Come out. Have a beer. Listen to some words. You might even laugh a little.
PROSE IN PUBS: No microphones. No stage. No fancy cheese. Just prose. …oh, and beer.
This month’s feature will be Rae Bryant! Rae Bryant’s short story collection, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals, released from Patasola Press, NY, in June 2011. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review (online), StoryQuarterly, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, BLIP Magazine, Gargoyle Magazine, and Redivider, among other publications and have been nominated for the Pen/Hemingway, Pen Emerging Writers, and Pushcart awards. She received fellowships from the VCCA and The Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a Masters in Writing, teaches creative writing, and is editor in chief of the university-housed literary and arts journal, The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review.
The PEN/Faulkner Reading Series brings noted American and international writers to Washington, DC to present eight to ten public fiction readings in the Elizabethan Theater of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Readings are followed by a reception and book signing where audience members may meet visiting writers and engage in lively conversation about literature. This program brings diverse voices of literary excellence to the Washington, DC region and allows reads an opportunity to meet with the minds behind their favorite works.
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PEN/Faulkner is a nonprofit literary organization that believes in deepening readers’ connection to writing through public events, in-school education, and public promotion of exceptional literary achievement.
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Held in conjunction with the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, this series brings leading authors together for public readings and discussions of their work.
Each year we work with educators to bring local and international authors into DC public and public charter high schools for engaging talks about their work.
The Johns Hopkins University, M. A. in Writing Program, Baltimore, Maryland
Mark Farrington is an instructor and the faculty fiction advisor for the Writing Program. He has an MFA in Fiction Writing from George Mason University and a BA from Colby College. He has published short stories in The New Virginia Review, The Louisville Review, Union Street Review, and other journals, and he has served as editor-in-chief of Phoebe: The George Mason Review. He also has published numerous articles on the teaching of writing. He taught writing at George Mason for ten years and currently also works for the Northern Virginia Writing Project, a teacher training organization at GMU. In 2003 he was a recipient of the MA in Writing Program’s Outstanding Teaching Award, and in 2004 he received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Advanced Academic Programs. About teaching in the program, he says, “What I especially like about this program is its emphasis on the high quality of teaching, and its emphasis on craft. Maybe you can’t “teach writing”, but you can teach craft, and you can help students understand how to make their writing better. In workshops I ask students to be honest and constructive — always both, together.” He lives in Alexandria, Virginia , with his wife Christina and their springer spaniel Sophie.
Edward Perlman is the founder and editor of Entasis Press. Ed began his professional teaching career in the Alexandria City Schools, where he instructed in English and humanities and was principal for the European campus of a summer school program. He writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; his poetry, essays, and book reviews have appeared in various reviews and publications, including Explorations, Passages Northwest, The Sewanee Theological Review, and The Living Church. He is a contributing author to Alexandria, a Town in Transition 1800-1900 (Alexandria Historical Society). The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the NEA awarded him an artist fellowship grant for 2006 for his poetry. He has twice won the Writing Program’s Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence. Ed has master’s degrees from Virginia Tech and from the Writing Program. He and his partner live in Washington, D.C.
Rae Bryant’s short story collection, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals, released from Patasola Press, NY, in June 2011. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, StoryQuarterly, McSweeney’s, The Nervous Breakdown, BLIP Magazine (formerly Mississippi Review), Gargoyle Magazine, Opium Magazine, and PANK, among other publications and have been nominated for the Pen/Hemingway, Pen Emerging Writers, and Pushcart awards. She writes book reviews for such places as New York Journal of Books, Washington Independent Review of Books, Puerto del Sol, and Portland Book Review. She has received fellowships from the VCCA and The Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a Masters in Writing, teaches multimedia and creative writing, and is editor in chief of the literary and arts journal, The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review.
