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Roz Chast To Speak at Graphic Novel Workshop Saturday, May 13 at Manhattanville College
Free Presentation by National Book Award Finalist Precedes Graphic Novel Workshop
Purchase, NY, May 5, 2017 -- For writers bitten by the graphic novel bug, Manhattanville’s MFA program is sponsoring a unique Graphic Novel Writing workshop on Saturday, May 13, featuring a special presentation by Roz Chast, New Yorker cartoonist and author. Her graphic memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant, was a New York Times 2014 Best Book of the Year and a 2014 National Book Award Finalist.
In addition to Ms. Chast, whose free presentation is at 11 a.m., and open to the public, there will be a three-hour graphics workshop from 1 – 4 p.m. for adults, presented by Paul Levitz, a comic fan (The Comic Reader), editor (Batman), writer (Legion of Super Heroes) and executive (30 years at DC, ending as president and publisher).
A graphic novel workshop for youth will be led by Barbara Slate, a pioneer among women in comics. Using her critically acclaimed textbook, You Can Do a Graphic Novel, Slate teaches students how to find their own drawing style regardless of artistic ability, navigate the creative process and develop compelling dialogue.
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Cost of the full-day workshops, including boxed lunch is $75. Registration and details are at community.mville.edu/mfa.
Summer Writers’ Workshop
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Manhattanville is also sponsoring its 32nd Summer Writers’ Workshop June 19-23, featuring five days of readings and workshops on poetry, fiction, non-fiction, dramatic writing and young adult novels. Keynote reader is Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland, a book about the collapse of the World Trade Center, which won the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award.
“Both of these workshops are for writers, whether in their 20s or 60s, who are interested not only in learning their craft from the best writers of today, but who will benefit for the rest of their lives by meeting and belonging to an expansive community of their writing peers,” said Lori Soderlind, director of the MFA Creative Writing Program.
The workshops target writers in the Hudson Valley, Putnam, Westchester and Fairfield counties. Registration, schedules and further details are at www.mvillemfa.com.
Summer Writer’s Week
In addition to reader Joseph O’Neill, author of four novels, the workshop week will include special guest Rivka Galchen, a New Yorker contributor and author of a book of nonfiction, Little Labors and the novel Atmospheric Disturbances.
A poetry workshop will be taught by Melissa Tuckey, a co-founder of Split This Rock, a national organization dedicated to poetry of provocation and witness. She is the author of a book of poems, Tenuous Chapel.
A fiction course is headed up by Mitchell Jackson whose debut novel, The Residue Years, earned praise from The New York Times, The Paris Review and the Times of London. He won a Whiting Award and The Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence.
Michael McGregor will teach a workshop on nonfiction. He is the author of Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax, a finalist for a Washington State Book Award. His essays, articles and stories have been widely published.
The workshop on dramatic writing will feature Bangladeshi-American screenwriter, playwright, and author Sharbari Ahmed, a member of the writing team for the network TV series Quantico.
The young adult workshop will be taught by Meagan Brothers, author of Debbie Harry Sings in French, a 2009 American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults and its prequel, Supergirl Mixtapes.
Regular rate for Summer Writers’ Week is $750.
About Manhattanville College:
Manhattanville College (www.manhattanville.edu) is an independent, co-educational liberal arts institution dedicated to academic excellence and social and civic action. Manhattanville prepares students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community. Located just 30 minutes from New York City, Manhattanville serves 1,800 undergraduate students and 1,100 graduate students from more than 45 countries and 40 states. Founded in 1841, the College offers more than 90 undergraduate and graduate areas of study in the arts and sciences, education business, creative writing, as well as continuing and executive education programs.
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