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Anthony Varallo reads fiction – Nov. 13

aperry2 — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:21:00 +0000

Anthony Varallo—winner of both the Drue Heinz prize (University of Pittsburgh Press) and the John Simmons Award (University of Iowa Press)—will read in Johnston Hall at 7 p.m. Tuesday, November 13.

What, you say? Just the two nationally-recognized, hyper-competitive prizes? No worries: his third book of stories will be out from Northwestern University Press/Triquarterly Books in 2013.

Don’t know how to say it more clearly than this: nobody wins these prizes. Surely nobody wins them both. So, you know: come see Anthony Varallo. He’s smart. And funny. And writes some shiny, shiny sentences.

Call for Applications: Colonnades Editor-In-Chief

aperry2 — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:18:00 +0000

Applications are invited for the Editor-in-Chief position of Elon’s literary magazine, Colonnades. Please send a letter by Monday, September 19 to aperry2@elon.edu detailing classes you’ve taken in art or writing, past positions held with the magazine (if applicable), and any other relevant information and/or experience you deem important. Of special interest would be brief commentary about recent issues of Colonnades, and your vision for the magazine going forward.

All other positions (e.g. section editors, reading staff, etc) will be filled through the editor once she or he is in place.

contact email: aperry2@elon.edu
website: http://org.elon.edu/colonnades/

Arts & Letters Feats of Genuine Amazingness Housing Contest 2010

aperry2 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:41:00 +0000

Thing: Housing, 2010

Specific thing: Trollinger House

Explanation: Learning community for those folks interested in — wait for it — arts. Oh: and letters. Arts & Letters folks? Those persons interested in books, painting, sculpture, plays, and music not by Taylor Swift (or at least those folks willing to know and/or learn the difference between art and guilty pleasure).

Where house sits: Across train tracks from Subway. Looks like an old church. Is an old church. Funny, that.

How to say you might be interested in perhaps applying: send a list of (this is the feat of amazingness part) two or six interesting things that might fit in a can of peaches (if you emptied the can of peaches and washed and dried it) to: aperry2@elon.edu.

OR: apply/pay housing fee/etc to the A&L LC by the LC application deadline, MONDAY FEB. 15.

To recap: info and fancy peach-can feat of shocking artistic etcetera: Drew Perry, aperry@elon.edu

regular applying: housing application website etcetera

Kevin Wilson Reads Tonight Nov. 3 at 7:30 in Yeager

aperry2 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:28:00 +0000

Fiction writer Kevin Wilson, author of TUNNELING TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a critically-acclaimed collection of stories, reads from his work tonight at 7:30 in Yeager Auditorium.

Wilson’s work has appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, The Cincinnati Review, and The Greensboro Review, among dozens of other places. The New York Times hailed his work as “absurd, quirky, fabulous, detonating, and remarkable.”

Trollinger House Open House: Housing Bingo 2009 – Feb. 10

aperry2 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:28:00 +0000

Howdy, kids. Do you like, you know, smart stuff? Good music? Books? Real film? Super. Truly. You should probably join the Arts & Letters Learning Community, located in the quite excellent Trollinger House, which is right over there near the train tracks, across from Sidetracks, so named because it, like Trollinger, is beside the, ah, tracks. Trollinger is not named for the tracks. But we digress.

Open House Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. to chat about all things Arts & Letters. If we’re lucky, we’ll get a train, too. Interested? Stop by tomorrow, and/or name five things of import that weigh more than a loaf of bread but less than a VCR and drop an email to any of the faculty advisers — Tita Ramirez (tramirez@elon.edu), MIchael Fels (mfels@elon.edu), or Drew Perry (aperry2@elon.edu).

Trollinger House: Arty, Lettery

aperry2 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:42:00 +0000

Ahoy, there, folks looking for on-campus housing that’s only sort of on-campus. Trollinger House, just across the tracks over there by Sidetracks, may be just the spot for you. There is, however, just one wee catch:

You must be smart and interesting and a little funny, maybe, and interested in living in the Arts & Letters Learning Community, which means that not only should you like, oh, we don’t know, Arts, and, well, Letters, but you should also like things that have Arts and Letters in them, like sculpture and used bookstores and oh hey yes perhaps even shows by bands more interested in their music and lyrics than in whatever else bands get interested in and maybe you should also like independent film…

…and you should probably be interested in talking about all of those things (on occasion) and in living in a small community of folks who also prefer good stuff to cruddy stuff. Questions? Interested? Wondering where your people are?

Send us an email and six things that could fit inside of a matchbox and we’ll get back to you about whether or not we think you’re Trollinger material.

Faculty Advisors for the A&L LC: Tita Ramirez (tramirez@elon.edu), Michael Fels (mfels@elon.edu), Drew Perry (aperry2@elon.edu)

Smart? Funny? Live in Trollinger House

aperry2 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:32:00 +0000

Hey, kids who own actual, real, books. Or who like The Decembrists for their lyrics. Or who have seen a movie this year in which nothing blew up or winked into another time. Or who know where Arts West is (hint: west). Or who would be willing to admit, in certain circles, having gone to a museum/taken a creative writing class/considered majoring in ceramics or art history or philosophy or literature or any of a number of other ghastly impractical disastrous choices.

Yep. You. Wondering where your people are?

Consider, then, if you will, applying to live in the Arts & Letters Learning Community in Trollinger House. Trollinger House: Huge churchy-looking thing over by the railroad tracks. Tall ceilings. Kitchens. Smart, funny roommates who know where all the good concerts are. Do they call them concerts any more? They don’t. They call them shows. Roomies who know where all the good shows are. Do they call them roomies any more? They don’t.

Arts & Letters. Trollinger House. Housing Bingo 2009. For more info, email any of the faculty advisors (Tita Ramirez – tramirez@elon.edu / Michael Fels – mfels@elon.edu / Drew Perry – aperry2@elon.edu).

George Singleton Reads Wednesday Night, April 23, in Whitley Auditorium

aperry2 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:15:00 +0000

George Singleton, author of three collections of stories and three novels, most recently WORK SHIRTS FOR MADMEN, will read in Whitley Auditorium on Wednesday, April 23 at 7:30 pm. Singleton has published more than 100 stories in magazines, anthologies and journals including The Atlantic Monthly, The Southern Review, Harper’s, Zoetrope, and New Stories from the South. Books will be available for sale, and the reading, as always, is utterly free of charge. Y’all come on out and have a look a the place where art and Southern gothic humor collide (which, on Wednesday night, will be Whitley Auditorium).

Will Read for Food TONIGHT, 7:30 pm

aperry2 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:58:00 +0000

Come to the Isabella Cannon Room TONIGHT, Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 pm, to hear faculty, students and even a Dean (!) read in support of the Alamance County Food Bank. Admission: canned goods. Bring cans; bring friends.

Sponsored by the Arts & Letters LC, Elon Volunteers!, and Creative Writing

Creative Writing classes

aperry2 — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:52:00 +0000

HELP! I NEED ONE MORE CLASS!

Want to try creative writing? We offer small studio classes with occasional yelling. We are often even serious about your work.

Offerings this fall:

INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING

ENG 213-A MW 3:35-5:15 BOYLE

ENG 213-B TTH 10:30-12:10 BOYLE

ENG 213-C TTH 2:20-4:00 PERRY

INTERMEDIATE CRWR: POETRY

ENG 316 TTH 2:20-4:00 BOYLE

INTERMEDIATE CRWR: FICTION

ENG 317 TTH 12:25-2:05 RAMIREZ

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