Week of Events
Writers’ Circle
Our Writers’ Circle is a student-led, open-genre writing workshop on Monday nights. Whether you’re a poetry buff, a fiction writer, or an avid journaler, there’s a place at the table for you. We begin with prompt-based freewriting for 20-30 minutes, and then students are free to share their work, while giving and receiving constructive feedback. […]
Slam Poetry
The Slam Poetry Team is a weekly-meeting group that allows poets and writers to take their creations to the spoken-word stage. This group is currently non-competitive, which allows aspiring poets to begin at the absolute basic level of slam within a welcoming and engaging environment. Â Join at any point in the semester! For more information, […]
Hisham Matar, Pulitzer Prize-Winner
His debut novel, In the Country of Men, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, a Commonwealth First Book Award, the Premio Flaiano and Premio Gregor von Rezzori. His second book, Anatomy of a Disappearance, published in 2011, was named one of the best books of the year by The Guardian and the Chicago Tribune. His work has been translated into twenty-nine languages. He lives in London and New York City.
No Shelf Control Book Club
No Shelf Control is a student-led book club focused on great books from every genre and time period. We meet bi-weekly and discuss chapters of our voted-on books. Join us if you enjoy reading, want to read more, or would like to meet a great new group of people who love the written word! For […]