Events Archive for the Nonfiction Writing Program
2010-11
Nonfiction Writing Program: Reading with your eyes closed: audiences, stories and where they come together
| Monday October 18 6:00 p.m. |
Andrew Losowsky John Nicholas Brown Center Library, 357 Benefit Street This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. Co-sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. |
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Nonfiction Writing Program: Making Public Radio More Public
| Thursday November 4 4:00 p.m. |
Jake Shapiro, Executive Director, Public Radio Exchange Salomon 203, Main Green This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. |
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Nonfiction Writing Program: The Past is Not Dead. It Isn't Even Past: The Power of Creative Nonfiction
| Monday November 22 6:30 p.m. |
Marion Winik, '78, lecturer Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. |
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Nonfiction Writing Program: telling personal stories: memoir as more than self-journalism
| Thursday February 3, 2011 6:00 p.m. |
Ariel Sabar, '93 Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. |
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Nonfiction Writing Program: science writers' panel
Brown degree days
| Monday February 28, 2011 6:30 p.m. |
Rachel Aviv, '04 Molly Birnbaum, '05 Casey Schwartz, '04 Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. Co-sponsored by the Dean of the College, Committee on Science and Technology Studies, and the Public Health Program. |
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| Friday April 8, 2011 6:30 p.m. |
Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture Speaker: Curt Ellis Film documentarian on environmental economic issues Stuart Theatre, Waterman St. |
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2009-10
The Art of Literary Memoir and Biography
| Wednesday October 7 6:30 p.m. |
Susan Cheever '65, Writer and Teacher
Smith-Buonanno 106, 95 Cushing Street, Pembroke Campus Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10 |
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Literary Investigative Journalism
| Wednesday November 11 6:30 p.m. |
David Shenk '88
Smith-Buonanno 106, 95 Cushing Street, Pembroke Campus Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10 |
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The Rise of the New taliban
| Monday November 16 4:00 p.m. |
David Rohde '90, Reporter, The New York Times
List Art Center, Room 120, 64 College St. This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. |
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Author Meet & Greet
| Wednesday February 24 11:00 a.m. |
Susan Jane Gilman '86, author Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven 70 Brown St. Lounge, Rm. 219 |
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Literary Nonfiction: Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
| Wednesday March 17 6:30 p.m. |
David Shields '78
Salomon 001, main green Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10 |
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NPR National Political Reporting
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Mara Liasson '77
Salomon 101 Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10 |
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Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Challenging the Conventional Wisdom
| Tuesday April 20 6:30 p.m. |
Walt Bogdanich, Assistant Editor for Investigations, The New York Times
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106 This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. |
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Narrative for Complex Social Issues
| Thursday April 29 6:30 p.m. |
Susan Eaton, Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St., 2nd floor This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. |
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2008-09
True Stories
| Tuesday November 11 4:00 p.m. |
Caroline Dworin, Writer, The New York Times
Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. This event is funded by a Salomon Grant (Dean of the College) and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. |
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Turning the Seams Inside Out: Fun with Conspicuous Editing
| Thursday December 4 4:00 p.m. |
Nick van der Kolk, Creator and Senior Producer for alt.NPR's Love and Radio podcast
Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. This event is funded by a Salomon Grant (Dean of the College) and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. |
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At the End of the Road: Reporting in the Seams
Tuesday March 10 7:00 p.m. |
C.J. Chivers, Foreign Correspondent, The New York Times
Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and is sponsored by the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English. |
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Narrative Journalism: Reporting, Organizing, Writing and Ethics
| Tuesday April 7 4:00 p.m. |
David Finkel, Reporter, The Washington Post
Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and is sponsored by the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English. |
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Readings by Nonfiction Writing Program Award Winners 2008-2009
| Tuesday April 28 4:00 p.m. Brown Bookstore |
Casey Shearer Memorial Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction: 1st Place: Kevin B. Roose, The Workers are Few, from The Unlikely Disciple Barbara Banks Brodsky Prize for Excellence in Real World Writing: Sandra E. Allen, A Story About Bobby David Rome Prize for Best Lyric Essay: Emily A. Silverman, 120/80 |
Nonfiction Writing Program Faculty Reading
| Monday May 4 6:30 p.m. |
Nonfiction Writing Faculty will read from their most recent books. Book signing to follow.
Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and is sponsored by the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English. |
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2007-08
Historical Memoir: "My Confederate Kinfolk"
| Wednesday October 10 6:30 p.m. |
Thulani Davis, New York University
MacMillan 117 Great Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2007-08 |
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Personal Nonfiction: The Paradise of Bombs, A Private History of Awe
| Wednesday November 14 6:30 p.m. |
Scott Russell Sanders '67, Indiana University
Salomon 001 Great Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2007-08 |
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Covering the Legacy of War
| Tuesday December 4 4:00 p.m. |
Jimmie Briggs Barker Presentation Room 315 English Department 70 Brown St. This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund, and is co-sponsored by: Africana Studies Department and Rites and Reason Theatre, the Watson Institute for International Studies, and the Third World Center |
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Science Narrative: Galileo's Daughter, Longitude
| Wednesday February 20 6:30 p.m. |
Dava Sobel
Salomon 001 Great Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2007-08 |
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A Life of Investigative Journalism
| Wednesday March 12 6:30 p.m. |
Tracy Breton, Brown University and The Providence Journal
Brown/RISD Hillel |
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Writing about Science and Nature
| Wednesday April 9 6:00 p.m. |
Chet Raymo, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Stonehill College Brown/RISD Hillel |
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Writing About People and Place
| Tuesday April 22 4:00 p.m. |
Dan Barry, New York Times Columnist, memoir writer, and former Providence Journal reporter
Barker Presentation Room 315, 70 Brown St. |
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Film Documentary: "An Inconvenient Truth"
| Monday May 5 6:30 p.m. |
Davis Guggenheim '86
Salomon 101 Great Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2007-08 and Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture |
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Readings by 2007-2008 Nonfiction Award Winners
| Tuesday May 6 4 p.m. |
Nonfiction Award Winners Flynn Berry, Winner, Barbara Banks Brodsky Prize for Excellence in Real World Writing Robert Moor, First Prize Winner, Casey Shearer Memorial Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction Brittany Harwood, Second Prize Winner, Casey Shearer Memorial Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction Brown Bookstore |
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2006-07
Winners Read at the Brown Bookstore:
2007 Casey Shearer Memorial Awards for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction Wednesday, May 2, 4 pm
1st Place
Alexander Eichler '08
"Silent Night"
2nd place
Molly Young '08
"Pages from the Goncourt Journals"
Honorable Mention
Lindsay Harrison '08
"Apnea"
| Date & Time | Lecture Title | Lecturer | Location |
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| Monday November 20 7:00 p.m. |
This I Believe and the Art of Citizen Storytelling | Jay Allison, National Public Radio | Smith Buonanno, Room 106 |
| Tuesday March 13 4:00 p.m. |
The Journalism of Empathy | Isabel Wilkerson, journalist and author | 70 Brown Street, Barker Presentation Room 315 |
| Wednesday March 21 6:30 p.m. |
The Penny and the Well: A Quarter Mile Along -- 20 Years As a Book Reviewer | Richard Eder, Boston Globe and The Times | Glenn & Darcy Weiner Center, 80 Brown St. |
Brown Writers' Symposium, July 23-26, 2006.
Note: Prior to Fall 2006, the Nonfiction Writing Program was called the Expository Writing Program.
2005-06 Great Writers Lecture Series
| The Great Writers Lecture Series presents four of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of our time, brought to Brown by the Expository Writing Program in the Department of English. The program uniquely links academic writing with all forms of nonfiction: literary journalism, memoir, lyric essay, and the narrative of science, history, and travel. |
| Date & Time | Lecture Title | Lecturer | Location |
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| Wednesday October 5 6:30 p.m. |
Writing the Bi-cultural Memoir | Judith Ortiz Cofer, Department of English, University of Georgia | Salomon 001 |
| Wednesday November 16 6:30 p.m. |
Writing the Science Narrative Einstein Lecture |
Alan Lightman, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Salomon 001 |
| Wednesday February 15 6:30 p.m. |
Writing the Lyric Essay | John D'Agata, Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English, University of Iowa | MacMillan Hall 117 |
| Tuesday April 11 6:30 p.m. |
Writing the Political Memoir Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture |
Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President, Children's Defense Fund | Salomon 101 |
| The Great Writers Lecture Series is made possible through generous contributions from the Charles K. Colver Lectureship and Publication Fund, the Zucker Family Endowment, the Goldway/Shearer family, the Dean of the College, the Department of Physics, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, the Literary Arts Program, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research, the Department of Modern Culture and Media, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Africana Studies Department, and the Department of Hispanic Studies. |
Brown Writers' Symposium, July, 2005.
Events prior to 2005
Alumni Symposium, Writing Beyond Brown, November 20, 2004. Sponsored by the Writing|Rhetoric Fellows Program; Co-sponsored by the English Department's Expository Writing Program and the Career Development Center.
Conference, Creative Nonfiction: Revitalizing Expository Writing, October 3, 2003
Open Lecture, Thomas Mallon, "A Narrative on Narrative," April 8, 2003. Mallon is an author of historical fiction and creative nonfiction. His latest book is Mrs Paine's garage: and the murder of John F. Kennedy
Open Lecture, Joe Richman and Jay Allison, "Radio Documentaries," November 21, 2002. Co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Culture & Media. Richman is an independent radio documentary producer. Allison is an independent broadcast producer and journalist.
Open Lecture, Jill Ker Conway, "Writing Your Life," March 4, 2002. Co-sponsored by Sarah Doyle Women's Center. Ker Conway is an historian, memoirist, and scholar of women's autobiography. A former president of Smith College, she now is a Visiting Professor in the Science, Technololgy and Society Program of MIT.
Reading, Joan L. Richards, "Angles of Reflection," March 15, 2001. Co-sponsored by Department of History and The Chaplain's Office. Richards is a professor in the Department of History, Brown University
Reading and Discussion, Susanna Kaysen. Nov. 17, 2000. Co-sponsored by Sarah Doyle Women's Center. Kaysen is author of Girl, Interrupted and a lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Boston University.