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Edelman, Lacovara Highlight Homecoming Week Events As part of its virtual Homecoming 2020, Rowan University is holding a series of special Zoom presentations; one will feature the financial educator and champion of financial literacy after whom our college is named, and another will come from Rowan’s resident paleontologist and international Explorers Club medal winner. . . . Ric Edelman, a 1980 Rowan graduate, will speak on Monday, October 5 at noon about the keys to financial success; Ric also will take questions from viewers. . . . That same day, at 6 p.m., Dr. Ken Lacovara, dean of Rowan’s School of Earth and Environment will guide viewers on an exclusive Zoom tour of the university’s paleo laboratory; Ken also will answer audience questions. . . . For more information on how to attend either (or both!) events, contact the Office of Alumni Engagement.  From Our Keyboards to Journals and Websites Everywhere Here are the latest submissions of academic and creative works from Rowan Writing Arts faculty to be vetted, reviewed, and published. Congratulations, folks! Job well done!
Upcoming Online and Live Events for Your Calendar
 Check out Heather Lanier's reading of her book, Raising a Rare Girl, hosted on Facebook Live with Glassworks Magazine! Do you have a new publication, a reading, or any other event of interest coming up? Please let me know so I can let our colleagues know in the Rowan Writing Arts Events Update newsletter. Email me at royek@rowan.edu to give me the 4-1-1.
Stephen A. Royek M.A. Lecturer, Writing Arts, Rowan University Ric Edelman College of Communication and Creative Arts Chair, University Senate Awards Committee Lecturer Representative, Faculty Center Advisory Board Victoria Hall, Room 521 Phone: 856-906-4755 Email: royek@rowan.edu John Warner Visit, Related Events Just a Week Away The Rowan Writing Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary of helping students become stronger, more confident writers by hosting a series of events next week featuring John Warner. The author of Why They Can’t Write and The Writer’s Practice, Warner will be speaking at the Rowan Art Gallery at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 5 and at the Chamberlain Student Center (Room 221) at 9 a.m. on Friday March 6. . . . In preparation for the visit, a pair of reading group discussions focusing on Why They Can’t Write will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, March 4 in Victoria 422 and at 3:30 p.m. that afternoon in the fifth-floor conference room of Victoria Hall. Please contact Writing Center Assistant Director Leslie Allison to RSVP for any or all of these events.  Congratulations to Our 2019 Adjunct Awards Winners Adjunct instructors Donna Mehalchick-Opal and Daniel Boulos are the 2019 winners of the Rowan Writing Arts Adjunct Award for Outstanding Teaching. This award is given annually to two adjunct instructors who represent the best of writing instruction practices and provide our students with high-quality writing instruction and a meaningful learning experience. Both Donna and Daniel will receive a $250 cash award. . . . Kudos also to the multiple winners of the 2019 Adjunct Award for Excellence in Teaching: Melissa Perry, Frank Ward, Michael Fisher, Betsy Langley, Christina Maxwell, Deborah Scott, Christopher Tirri, Grayson Morley, Jenna Burke, Ann Caputo, Mark Krupinski, Beth Mecca, Nazneen Mandviwalla, and Tyler Riggs. The Excellent in Teaching honor goes to adjunct instructors based on their adjunct review teaching portfolio materials. Denise Gess Award Entries Due March 20; Ceremony Set for April 16 The final weekday of spring break – Friday, March 20 – is the deadline for submissions for the 2020 Denise Gess Literary Awards. First-, second-, and third-place winners for the best poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction entries will be announced the week of April 6. Cash awards in each category of $200 (first place), $100 (second place) and $50 (third place) will be presented on Thursday, April 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Rowan University Welcome Center, 131 Rowan Boulevard, as the winners read their works. Click here for contest rules and submission procedures, and contact contest coordinator Lisa Jahn-Clough for more details. Singularity Press Holding Book Drive March 10 Through 12 The Writing Arts Department’s Singularity Press will be holding a fund-raising book drive on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, March 10, 11 and 12 in the first-floor lobby of Victoria Hall. If you have books to drop off for the sale, please leave them at Victoria Hall Room 512, the office of Singularity Press Faculty Advisor Megan Atwood. Please stop by to peruse the selection and maybe pick up a long-forgotten classic you’d like to read or re-read. Please contact Megan for more details.  Glassworks Spring Issue Debut Scheduled for March 26 Issue 20 – the Spring 2020 issue – of the Glassworks literary journal will debut at a reading scheduled for Thursday, March 26 at 6:30 p.m. at the Rowan Art Gallery, 301 High Street. Authors published in the new issue and previous ones will be presenting their work and Glassworks interns and staff members will be reading as well. Light refreshments will be available. Glassworks is a publication of the Master of Arts in Writing program in Rowan’s Ric Edelman College of Communication and Creative Arts (RECCCA). Please contact Editor-In-Chief Katie Budris for more information. Writing Arts Graduate Student Has Essay Published Jackie Domenus, a student in the Master of Arts in Writing program, had her essay “A Learned Behavior” published in Entropy Magazine. The work is a hybrid personal essay/cultural criticism written for colleague Heather Lanier’s “Innovations and Experiments in the Essay” graduate-level course. The piece explores the lack of LGBTQ representation in movies and television shows targeted at children. Click here to read Jackie’s essay. For Your Calendar:
Stephen A. Royek M.A. Lecturer, Writing Arts, Rowan University Chair, Faculty Senate Awards Committee Lecturer Representative, Faculty Center Advisory Board Victoria Hall, Room 521 Phone: 856-906-4755 Email: royek@rowan.edu  Sartorial splendor awaits with Rowan Writing Arts swag The Rowan Writing Arts “swag site” now is up and running! Be among the first to sport your own t-shirt, polo shirt, sweatshirt, hoodie (left), baseball cap, or canvas tote bag emblazoned with our new department logo. Proceeds from the sale – which ends Sunday, February 23 at midnight – benefit the Writing Arts Club. Click here for a look at the selection and contact either Kristine Lafferty or Jade Jones for more information. It’s Official: Welcome Center to Host Gess Awards Ceremony
Rowan Writing Arts will be the first department or office on campus to hold an evening event at Rowan University’s new Welcome Center when the 2020 Denise Gess Literary Awards ceremony takes place at the Rowan Boulevard location (next to the Dawn to Dusk eatery and across from the La Scala’s Fire restaurant). The ceremony will be Thursday, April 16 at 6:30 p.m. with awards being presented for outstanding student submissions in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction categories. Details, including deadlines for entries, will be available soon.  Just announced: John Warner, (left), author of Why They Can’t Write and The Writer’s Practice, will be on campus Thursday, March 5 and Friday March 6 for a series of events with students and faculty, according to Rowan Writing Center (RWC) Director Celeste Del Russo. The full agenda for his visit still is being compiled and will be made available in upcoming Events Update issues.
If you are interested in taking part in this event, please email RWC Assistant Director Leslie Allison to volunteer. Help is being sought for assistance during Warner’s keynote address, escorting the author around campus, and other related tasks. The RWC also is organizing an in-person and online “book club” focusing on Why They Can’t Write in anticipation of Warner’s visit. Please email Leslie by this Friday, February 7 if you’d like to participate. You will be contacted with more information. Do you have a new publication, a reading, or any other event of interest coming up? Please let me know so I can let our colleagues know in the weekly Rowan Writing Arts Events Update newsletter. Stop by Victoria 521 or email me at royek@rowan.edu to give me the 4-1-1.  Breaking News: Tentative Date, Location(s) Released for 2020 Gess Awards Pending final confirmation, the 2020 Denise Gess Literary Awards will be presented on Thursday, April 16 during a ceremony at either the new Rowan University Welcome Center on Rowan Boulevard or the Edelman Planetarium in Science Hall. Once the details are approved, the entry submission deadline along with other salient information will be publicized. The competition, named in honor of the late Writing Arts Associate Professor Denise Gess (left), offers cash awards of $200 for first place, $100 for second and $50 for third in the categories of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. All currently enrolled Rowan undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to submit their original work for consideration and entries by the same student are allowed in more than one genre. Colleague Corner:
 Writing Arts Winter Retreat Offers Unique Opportunities
The success of January’s Rowan Writing Arts Winter Retreat could presage future, more robust events, said department chair Drew Kopp at last week’s department meeting. Eighteen students spent the weekend of January 10-12 at the Pendle Hill Resort in Wallingford, Delaware County, PA fully immersed in writing, reviewing, and reading their own creative works. “The only thing that could make this retreat better is making it longer,” one attendee offered, adding that they wished they could have earned more credits from an even-longer stay. Each student received one credit for the experience, but that was – judging by other comments – just one of many benefits reaped by the students. Thank you to Jade Jones for her work organizing the Retreat and for joining fellow faculty members Megan Atwood, Lanre Akinsiku, and Heather Lanier in presenting a series of fun and informative seminars on poetry, kid lit, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Remembering Thomas N Bantivoglio Rowan lost a champion of education excellence and a major financial benefactor when Thomas N. Bantivoglio died in late January at age 92. In addition to being the namesake of the university’s Honors Program, Mr. Bantivoglio was a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School who worked for more than 50 years at the Haddonfield law firm now known as Archer & Greiner, P.C. He also was, his family noted in his obituary, an enthusiastic oenophile and gastrophile. Do you have a new publication, a reading, or any other event of interest coming up? Please let me know so I can let our colleagues know in the weekly Rowan Writing Arts Events Update newsletter. Stop by Victoria 521 or email me at royek@rowan.edu to give me the 4-1-1. Access Events Update online by clicking here. Stephen A. Royek M.A. Lecturer, Writing Arts Rowan University Chair, Faculty Senate Awards Committee Lecturer Representative, Faculty Center Advisory Board Victoria Hall, Room 521 Phone: 856-906-4755 Email: royek@rowan.edu  The Barnes Foundation offers 10-week summer internships for college students. This year, they are pleased to offer funded opportunities for students who are from southern New Jersey or attend school in southern New Jersey, thanks to generous funding from the Schultz Hill Foundation.
The summer internship program runs from the first week in June through the second week of August. Interns must commit to a minimum of eight consecutive weeks and two days per week, and must be on-site or available to attend enrichment activities every Friday during the program. In order to apply, students need two letters of recommendation, a resume, cover letter, and transcript. So if you are interested, it's best to start working on your application ASAP. Click here to apply. You can read more about the internship program on their website: https://www.barnesfoundation.org/about/careers-and-volunteering. Or by downloading this flyer here.  Applications are open for the PSE&G Green Teams Internship Program for summer 2020. This is a paid, 10-week, residential internship program hosted at Montclair State University between June 1 and August 5. The application deadline is January 22nd at midnight.
Applications are open to all majors! If you are selected to participate, you would work on a multi-disciplinary team to solve real-world sustainability problems submitted by major companies. The program emphasizes skills that can be put to immediate use in your career, and the internship programs has a very strong track record of job placement for program alumni. You would also expand your peer and professional network in sustainability-related fields. Applications are due in two weeks, and selection is competitive! Start learning about the program now: https://www.montclair.edu/pseg-sustainability-institute/green-teams/ For more information, contact Dr. Amy Tuininga (tuininga @ montclair . edu) or visit http://www.montclair.edu/iss to apply or learn more. On Monday night, students, faculty, staff, and family members gathered to discuss the tragic recent events. Three students have passed away this semester by suicide. This has been a hard time for students and faculty alike. On Monday night, the scheduled SGA meeting was open to all to discuss these recent events and how Rowan University plans to move forward. Members of Rowan University faculty were in attendance, including the Director of the Wellness Center Scott Woodside and Associate Director of Counseling and Psychological Services Amy Hoch, the Dean of Students Drew Tinnin, President Ali Houshmand, as well as a representative from the New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services. The night began with a few of these members addressing the crowd and discussing some of the services the Wellness Center provides. Students then began a dialogue on mental health and their experiences with the Wellness Center. Students brought thoughtful questions, criticisms, and suggestions, and the Wellness Center faculty were receptive to them. Although the event officially ended at 9 pm, many students and faculty stayed past 10 pm to continue their conversations. Faculty members that I spoke to were concerned about the recent events and receptive to student suggestions. Many students and faculty assured that Monday night was only the beginning of this important dialogue on mental health and support for students in distress. If you or someone you know is struggling and are in need of support, please use the resources provided below.
TONIGHT: Writing Arts Colleague Delivers ‘Last Lecture’
Grayson Morley, one of our department’s adjunct professors, will deliver Rowan University’s 10th annual “Last Lecture” at 7 p.m. this evening – Monday, December 2 – in the Eynon Ballroom of the Chamberlain Student Center. Grayson, who was selected in a four-way vote conducted on ProfLink, will be following in the tradition of professors who are ceremoniously asked to pass along wisdom to students as if it was their final lecture. The concept received nationwide attention in 2007 when former Carnegie Mellon computer science professor Randy Pausch was selected to deliver a last lecture at his university and soon thereafter received a what would be fatal diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. . . . Congratulations, Grayson; we’ll see you there! Colleague to Highlight Reading at Philadelphia Book Store Lecturer Jade Jones will be the featured reader this coming Thursday, December 5 at the final 2019 presentation in the Emerging Writers Series sponsored by the Rutgers University-Camden Master of Fine Arts in Writing program. The reading will be held from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Wooden Shoes Books and Records, 704 South Street, in Philadelphia (19147). Jade, who also is Managing Editor of Glassworks magazine, received her B.A. from Princeton University, her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was the 2019 recipient of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Click here for more details. Glassworks Nominates Three Students for Award Consideration Glassworks, the literary journal of our Master of Arts in Writing program, has nominated three student staff members for recognition in the Intro Journals Project, a contest run by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). The three students are Joe Gramigna (4+1 M.A. student) for creative nonfiction, Eric Avedissian (M.A. student) for fiction, and Dina Folgia (dual B.A. major in Writing Arts and RTF) for poetry. The contest is designed to recognize the best new work by students in AWP member programs. It’s considered an honor to be nominated and these selections are impressive additions to a student’s resume. This is the first time Glassworks has made such nominations. You can learn more about the Project by clicking here Colleague Essay Published in Cultural Studies Book on Trump Lecturer Jackie Partyka is one of 17 writers and educators to have their work included in a new contemporary cultural studies book, Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television. Debuting on Amazon this past weekend, the book is – its promotional flyer says – “filled with smart observations and juicy tidbits” about how cultural artifacts from such authors as Thomas Pynchon and Salman Rushdie as well as Sesame Street and Sex and the City both presage and detail Trump’s journey from real estate to realty TV to his current position. Trump Fiction is available in both hardcover and as an eBook. Contact Jackie for more details. For Your Calendar:
Do you have a new publication, a reading, or any other event of interest coming up? Please let me know so I can let all our colleagues know in the weekly Rowan Writing Arts Events Update newsletter. Stop by Victoria 521 or email me at royek@rowan.edu to give me the 4-1-1. Access Events Update online by clicking here. Stephen A. Royek M.A. Lecturer, Writing Arts Rowan University Chair, Faculty Senate Awards Committee Lecturer Representative, Faculty Center Advisory Board Victoria Hall, Room 521 Phone: 856-906-4755 Email: royek@rowan.edu |
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