Wang Jack Wang’s debut short story collection, We Two Alone, came at the end of a very long road — he’ll be 48 years old
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The words “refugee” and “immigrant” are not interchangeable — the first word has often been used in the media to describe victims of horrifying circumstances,
Though it may have been a recording, the Miller Bell Tower rang out just as true as it always has on Saturday, marking the beginning
The influence of music on Ralph Black’s poetry started when his parents met in Buffalo, New York — his father was the manager of the
For his CHQ Assembly Online Classroom workshop, Jack Wang said he wants to examine fiction through an unlikely lens — that of evolutionary psychology and
Snodgrass Among the winning poetry and prose showcased in the Friends of the Chautauqua Writers' Center’s Contests Awards Sunday, Aug. 16, on Zoom was a
When Lori Jakiela was young, the idea of being a writer wasn’t acceptable — it was like saying, “I want to be invisible,” or, “I
When David Treuer set out to write his first full-length work of nonfiction on reservation life in the United States, he thought it wouldn’t be
While the 2020 season at Chautauqua may have been drastically different from a normal year, not all of the changes brought on by the pandemic
When Lori Jakiela returned to The University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg after a battle with breast cancer, she decided to start a series of courses on writing
Randon Billings Noble has a view of writing that is at once both practical and romantic. Noble The fusion of those two outlooks, Noble said,
Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s debut novel sits perfectly at the intersection of technology, race and satire. “Technology has been both a boon for our society and
Maybe you get your newspaper delivered, or your pizza, or maybe you use apps like GrubHub and Doordash to get your favorite foods delivered straight
To say that writing a Chautauqua Prize-winning historical novel like Out of Darkness, Shining Light takes a lot of research is an almost laughable understatement
For Week Seven, it’s Mathias Svalina’s goal to have workshop and lecture attendees think about how they can “build a poetics out of the commonplace,
How do authors describe a scene, setting or person without shattering the illusion of the story for its reader? Plum It’s a problem every fiction