Lily Hoang Before her recent trip to Ohio, Lily Hoang knew exactly what she hoped to discuss in her Brown Bag: the American tourist as an identity. Hoang is the Chautauqua Writers’ Center prose writer-
Hmong embroidery, known worldwide for its beauty, carries many things: artistic pride, historic documentation, aesthetic ideals and poetic meanings. However, the needlework also represents a duality, for behind every thoughtful stitch and graceful pattern is
On a warm Sunday night, flickers of candlelight punctuated the Hall of Philosophy’s storied columns. The ambience was one of joy and reflection as the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle Vigil Ceremony recognized the graduating
When writing The Fact of a Body, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich drank coffee from a mug that read “creative nonfiction.” “Because you can’t make this stuff up,” Marzano-Lesnevich said. For example, the prosecutors in the book —
Charlotte Matthews is many things. To name a few: poet, teacher, environmentalist — and great-great-niece of Rachel Carson. Matthews is also the poet-in-residence for Week Seven at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center. She will deliver a
This week’s Chautauqua Writers’ Center workshops will find the magic in the everyday and the unexpected. “Life should remain magical, even as we become adults,” said Lily Hoang, prose writer-in-residence. Hoang will teach a class
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich braids together memoir and true crime in her book, The Fact of a Body, winner of the 2018 Chautauqua Prize. The Fact of a Body opens in 2003 as Marzano-Lesnevich interns for a
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie, Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Lena Dunham’s “Girls” have something in common. Chautauqua Writers’ Center Week Six prose writer-in-residence Jess Row will deliver his Brown Bag at 12:15
Jessica Bruder wrote about the nation’s increasing amount of nomadic workers in “The End of Retirement” for Harper’s in 2014. Six-thousand words later, she was still “full of questions.” Jessica Bruder “I couldn’t help but
Allison Joseph is a “citizen of the world.” She is also an American citizen, a duality that “never seemed to be separate things in my mind,” she said. Allison Joseph Joseph is the Week Six
Any time she takes to the stage, Capathia Jenkins hopes to bring her audience on a journey. Capathia Jenkins The musical escapade she has planned for Chautauquans is a personal one,drawing upon her life and
The Chautauqua Writers’ Center’s Week Six writers-in-residence, Allison Joseph and Jess Row, will explore poetry and prose beyond cultural divides in their workshops this week. Both writers will also give public readings of their work
Nicole Cuffy signs copies of her book, "Atlas of the Body," following the presentation of the inauguralChautauqua Janus Prize on Wednesday in the Athenaeum Hotel Parlor. A reception for a prize honoring the disruption of
Kazim Ali thinks about genre the same way he thinks about gender: performed categories with codes and expectations for behavior. Kazim Ali “My argument about genre itself is that it, too, is a constructed category,
When Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi imagines her “anti- love” heroine’s future beyond the novel, Call Me Zebra, she sees her setting off on a “subterranean, sinister journey,” reminiscent of a Grand Tour of Italy.
At 17 pages, Nicole Cuffy’s bildungsroman covers more years in her protagonist’s life than there are leaves in her book. Cuffy’s work, Atlas of the Body, is the inaugural winner of the Chautauqua Janus Prize,