IUSB Student Photography/Video/Book/Collage Exhibit

Please stop by for the opening reception of an exhibit of student art from four different courses in Art, Aesthetics, and Creativty (ENG-A190/A399).

Art, Aesthetics, & Creativity
English Department
STUDENT ART EXHIBIT

November 30 and December 1
3rd Floor Faculty Lounge (3001) Wiekamp Hall

Opening Reception: Monday, November 30
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Courses

A399 Narrative Collage (Prof. Kelcey Parker)

A190 The Dramatic Art of Not-So-Instant Messaging (Prof. Jessica Chalmers)

A190 The Magic of Image (Prof. Nancy Botkin)

A190 Contemporary Art Practices (Prof Linda Wilson)

The exhibit will feature

photography (self-portraits, urban/rural, Holga)
student-produced videos
handmade and self-published books
Surrealist dream collages
handmade postcards from South Bend

Blanqui Martini, altered recipe-book pages

Michael Telschow, altered book page

Dan Crowder, "Ghetto Rose" altered book collage

Chris McFarland, altered book page

Garrett Martin, altered book page

Justine Amos, altered book collage

France Hwang reading tonight! Local press coverage

From the South Bend Tribune, 11/21/09:

‘Transparency’ reading at IUSB

ARTS

SOUTH BEND — Indiana University South Bend’s creative writing program presents a reading and signing by Frances Hwang at 7:30 p.m. Monday on the third-floor “bridge” of Wiekamp Hall as part of IUSB’s Fall Fiction Series.

A professor of English who teaches creative writing at Saint Mary’s College, Hwang is the author of the short story collection “Transparency.”

“Transparency” received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a PEN/Beyond Margins Award. Hwang is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and has held fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the MacDowell Colony, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and Colgate University. Her work has been read as part of the Selected Shorts series at Symphony Space and has appeared in Best New American Voices, Glimmer Train, Tin House, AGNI Online, and Subtropics.

A book-signing and light refreshments will follow the reading. The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit the Web site iusbcreativewriting.wordpress. com.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20091121/INTHEBEND/911219974

From the IUSB Preface, 11/17/09:

Author of Transparency to speak at IUSB

By REBECCA GIBSON

IU South Bend professor of English, Kelcey Parker, could not be more thrilled to have author Frances Hwang speak to IUSB on Hwang’s book, Transparency.

“I am teaching the book to my graduate literature class,” said Parker.

Transparency is a book of short stories, characterized by the realism and clarity of Hwang’s writing. She is an assistant professor of English at St. Mary’s College, and has distinguished herself with awards such as the American Academy for the Arts and Letters’ Sue Kauffman Prize for First Fiction and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award.

“Her stories are not really invested in dramatic plots, but are lyrical and impressionistic,” said Parker.

Parker enjoys using the book in her class to show an example of the realist tradition of writing.

“I assign my students three different narrative traditions, realist, formulist, and fabulist,” said Parker.

Hwang uses multi-sensory descriptions such as smell, taste and touch within her stories, according to Parker.

“This can put just the right detail on a character and make it real to the reader,” said Parker.

Hwang will be speaking about the book on campus on Nov. 23, at 7:30 p.m. on the third floor bridge in Wiekamp Hall.

http://www.iusbpreface.com/news/author-of-transparency-to-speak-at-iusb-1.933853

Fiction Reading at IUSB – Frances Hwang

Frances Hwang, author of Transparency
Monday, 11/23 at 7:30 p.m. at IUSB
Third Floor Bridge of Wiekamp Hall

Joshua Cohen Reading at St. Mary’s

A message from Lily Hoang at St. Mary’s College:

Please come to hear the excellent Joshua Cohen read from his novels this Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 8pm at Saint Mary’s College, Student Center, Early Meeting Rm. E.

For those free, Lily Hoang will be having a public conversation with him about reading, writing, & publishing at noon, Wed. Nov. 11, at SMC, Spes Unica Hall, Rm. 212.

Joshua Cohen is the author of four books: A Heaven of Others (Starcherone Books, 2007), Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto (Fugue State Press, 2007), The Quorum (Twisted Spoon, 2005), and Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed (Six Gallery, 2007). His epic novel Witz is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive (2010). Born in 1980, he lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Cohen is one of the most exciting, innovative, and smart writers today. Please come & enjoy his reading!

Faculty News

David Dodd Lee’s latest poetry manuscript, Orphan, Indiana, will be published by the University of Akron Press in 2010. His book, The Nervous Filaments, will be published by Four Way Books in April 2010. His poem, “Who But I, O Reckless Death,” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Barn Owl Review.

Kelcey Parker is Artist of the Month for November 2009 at Image Journal.

Clayton Michaels’s poems “eleemosynary” and “hexagram” have been accepted for publication by The Prism Review.

Frances Hwang to read at IUSB 11/23

Mark your calendars and please join us for this event – free and open to the public!

Frances Hwang

Frances Hwang, author of Transparency
Monday, 11/23 at 7:30 p.m. at IUSB

Frances Hwang’s story collection, Transparency (Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Company, 2007), received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a PEN/Beyond Margins Award.  She is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and has held fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the MacDowell Colony, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Colgate University.  Her work has been read as part of the Selected Shorts series at Symphony Space and has appeared in Best New American Voices, Glimmer Train, Tin House, AGNI Online, and Subtropics.  She teaches at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana.

Chapbook by IUSB Alum Steve Henn

IUSB English Dept alum and former Wolfson Award fiction and poetry winner Steve Henn has a new chapbook out from Boneworld Publishing. The chap, Subvert the Dominant Paradigm!, is Henn’s 3rd. It includes death-defyingly subversive poetry such as “Dine n Dash with Abraham Lincoln” and “I saw this male pornstar driving a reliable car.”

Henn has been publishing in the small press since just after his graduation from IUSB, including appearances in 5AM, the New York Quarterly, Quercus Review, Nerve Cowboy, Pearl, the late, great Staplegun, the Chiron Review, and a bunch of other places. The chap is available for $5 from Boneworld Publishing, 3700 County Route 24, Russell, NY, 13684. They will eventually have info up at www.boneworldpublishing.com, but not as of 10.19.09. The chap can also be purchased direct from the author – if that’s your preference, email him at stephenthenn@aim.com for ordering information.

Surrealist Collages at Remembering Places

Do you remember Remembering Places? The blog we share with De Montfort University (UK) and St. Peter’s College (NJ)? We’re working to begin again with posts, musings, reflections, poems, etc. on anything “place.”

To show how loose our interpretation of place is, I’ve posted surrealist collages from today’s A399 Narrative Collage course at the Remembering Places blog: http://rememberingplacesblog.blogspot.com/

Please also feel free to join the Facebook group cleverly titled “Remembering Places.”

Here are a couple sample collages:

Analecta: Call for Submissions

Hello,

My name is Mitch Robinson and I am the 2010 editor of Analecta, an annual
 award-winning magazine at IU South Bend that accepts written and visual
 art submissions from the IU South Bend campus.  We consider submissions 
from both graduate and undergraduate students from any majors.

There is an early submission deadline for special consideration on December 18, 2009 and a late submission deadline on January 18, 2010.

Analecta Submission Rules:

1. For special consideration, manuscripts must be e-mailed by Friday, December 18, 2009. ALL manuscripts must be e-mailed by Monday, January 18, 2010.

2. Manuscript preparation:

A. Word-processed manuscript, double spaced, 12 point font, and Times New Roman.

B. The author’s name, student ID number, and e-mail address
 must appear on the first page ONLY of each manuscript.

C. Please use IUSB email address

D. Manuscripts MUST be submitted as an attachment and not within the body of the e-mail.

3. Students should retain original copies of their work. Manuscripts 
are not returned.

4. Please use, Analecta Submission, as the e-mail subject/title header.

Genre Rules

Poetry: 1 to 3 poems, maximum of 6 pages

Short Fiction: 1 story, maximum of 5,000 words.*

Drama: 1 one-act or 1 full-length play (no musicals)*

Non-fiction Prose: 1 work of non-fiction, maximum of 5,000 words*

Visual Art: 3-7 maximum.

Comics: 3-7 *

*Works accepted may be excerpted.

Please send all submission to analecta@iusb.edu or to anrichmo@iusb.edu

Any manuscripts submitted are automatically considered by the staff of
Analecta, IU south Bend’s student-edited and student-written inter-arts
 magazine, for publication in its annual spring issue as well as the English Department’s Student Writing Awards.

Thank you,

Mitch Robinson

Sunset Over IUSB – Darrin Doyle’s reading

October Sunset (photo: Jeff Tatay)

Thanks to all who came out for Darrin Doyle’s reading!

As I mentioned in my introduction, Darrin visited my A399 Narrative Collage class, where we got a sneak peek at his forthcoming novel, The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo. I forgot to take a picture in the class, but here are photos from dinner, the reading, and afterwards at the Oaken Bucket.

Thanks to Jeff Tatay for sharing his photos. Look for his article on the event in next week’s Preface!

Darrin Doyle (photo: Jeff Tatay)

Darrin Doyle signs a book for Robert White (photo: Jeff Tatay)

Dinner

Bree Jacobs, Austin Farrar, Sarah Boes

Book signing

Revenge of the Teacher's Pet: A Love Story

Darrin Doyle & Kelcey Parker

The Bucket