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The SEGway News
Serving South East Grant County
Volume 1 , Number 22 A Good News Ventures publication March 2 , 2017
Hoosier Poet Laureate to headline lit . conference
The Poet Laureate for the State of Indiana and numerous authors and presentations will highlight the 2017 William A . Fry Undergraduate Conference on Literature and Writing at Taylor University , on March 2 – 4 .
Shari Wagner , Indiana ’ s Poet Laureate for the 2016- 2017 year , will be among the presenters at the event during which numerous undergraduate students from Taylor University and beyond will present their own work for peer consideration and review .
Making Literature ’ s 2017 Keynote Speakers include :
Tom Noyes ( fiction ), the writer of Come by Here : A Novella and Stories , which won the 2013 Autumn House Prize in Fiction and a gold medal from the Independent Publishers Awards . Other titles include Spooky Action at a Distance and Other Stories and Behold Faith and Other Stories , the latter of which was shortlisted for Stanford Libraries ’ William Saroyan Award . His stories have appeared in such journals as American Literary Review , Ascent , Colorado Review , Image , Mid-American Review , New Ohio Review , Pleiades , and Sycamore Review .
Jessica Mesman Griffith ( creative nonfiction ), the coauthor of Love & Salt : A Spiritual Friendship in Letters , which won the 2014 Christopher Award . She is also author of Grace Filled Days ( Loyola Press , 2016 ) and co-author of Daily Inspiration for Women ( Loyola Press , 2014 ). She ’ s currently at work on a memoir called Eden Isles .
David Griffith ( creative nonfiction ), the Director of Creative Writing at Interlochen Center for the Arts and the author of A Good War is
Hard to Find : The Art of Violence in America ( Soft Skull Press , 2006 ). He is working on a new manuscript : Pyramid Scheme : Making Art and Being Broke in America .
Grace Tiffany ( literary scholarship / fiction ), who has teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance literature at Western Michigan University . Her work has appeared in Shakespeare Studies , Texas Studies in Literature and Language , The Renaissance Quarterly , Comparative Drama , Christianity and Literature , and Renascence , among many others .
Shari Wagner ( poetry ), the Poet Laureate of Indiana for 2016-17 . She is the author of The Harmonist at Nightfall : Poems of Indiana ( Bottom Dog Press , 2013 ) and Evening Chore ( Cascadia , 2005 ); co-author with her father of Making the Rounds : Memoirs of a Small-Town Doctor and A Hundred Camels : A Mission Doctor ’ s Murder Trial and Sojourn in Somalia ; and editor of Returning : Stories from the Indianapolis Senior Center . Her poems and essays have appeared on The Writer ’ s Almanac and American Life in Poetry , and in North American Review , Shenandoah , The Christian Century , Black Warrior Review , Best American Nonrequired Reading , and many others . Her Poet Laureate website is Through the Sycamores .
Other featured events include readings and the launch a
newly-published memoir Dangerous Territory by Taylor faculty member Amy Peterson . She teaches a variety of courses and works with the Honors program at Taylor University , and has written for Books & Culture , Christianity Today , The Other Journal , Comment Magazine , The Cresset , The Living Church , and Art House America , among others .
On Saturday morning from 9am there will be an opportunity to meet and mingle with several of the keynote speaker as well as representatives from Relief Journal , Discovery House publishers , Digital Literary Review , Ball State University Graduate English Department , The Cresset and Taylor University Department of English
Making Literature will also pay tribute to poet and late English professor from Wheaton College Dr . Brett Foster , who died last year after a lengthy illness , during a special event led by Professor David Wright of Monmouth College .
The conference ’ s namesake is Dr . William A . Fry , who served as English department chair at Taylor University for 20 years , from 1978 until his retirement in 1998 . After his death in 2009 , Taylor ’ s English department dedicated the Making Literature conference in his memory .
The Book Fair , anchored by Eighth Day Books , will be selling books by all of our visiting writers , along with their usual excellent selection of literary titles . The Book Fair will be held in Euler Atrium and is open : Thursday , March 2 : 1pm –
4pm Friday , March 3 : 8pm – 5pm Saturday , March 4 : 9pm –
12:30pm
Local writer at lit . conference
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Local writer Amy Peterson will launch her memoir Dangerous Territory ( Discovery House ), at the Making Literature conference at Taylor University this weekend . Her launch , reading and book signing will take place on Saturday , March 4 , 10:30 am in Euler Legacy Commons .
MPO will present ‘ Gems ’
Marion Philharmonic Orchestra will be presenting a chamber concert entitled Gems on Saturday , March 4 , at 7:30 p . m . at the Taylor University Butz Carruth Recital Hall . Since this will be Alexander Platt ' s final season after his 21 year tenure with MPO , his favorites will be performed this Saturday .
They include Bach ' s Brandenburg Concerto No . 5 .
The concert will feature Taylor University ' s Chris Bade on clarinet , Leon Harshenin on piano , and Trudy Whitford on flute . From IWU , Jason Thompson will be playing violin . From Fort Wayne will be Mike Trentacosti on bassoon .
High School Concerto / Aria Competition winner , pianist Sage Hamm will perform Rachmaninoff ' s Concerto No . 2 in C Minor .
Tickets may be purchased by calling 765-662-0012 . Adults $ 20 , $ 10 students 13 and up and free for students under 12 with an adult ticket purchase .
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