Chautauqua Writers’ Center

Writer-in-Residence Lily Hoang to discuss politics of travel in Brown Bag

by Emma Francois on August 9, 2018

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-

Poet-in-residence Charlotte Matthews to give Brown Bag on nature’s wonders

by Emma Francois on August 6, 2018

Charlotte Matthews is many things. To name a few: poet, teacher, environmentalist — and great-great-niece of Rachel Carson. Matthews is

Charlotte Matthews, Lily Hoang to lead Week Seven Writers’ Center workshops

by Emma Francois on August 3, 2018

This week’s Chautauqua Writers’ Center workshops will find the magic in the everyday and the unexpected. “Life should remain magical,

Poet-in-residence Allison Joseph to discuss global poetry, “diminishing borders” in Brown Bag

by Emma Francois on July 30, 2018

Allison Joseph is a “citizen of the world.” She is also an American citizen, a duality that “never seemed to

Allison Joseph, Jess Row to lead Week Six Writers’ Center workshops on global poetry, fiction beyond cultural divides

by Emma Francois on July 27, 2018

The Chautauqua Writers’ Center’s Week Six writers-in-residence, Allison Joseph and Jess Row, will explore poetry and prose beyond cultural divides

Writer-in-Residence Kazim Ali to discuss ‘genre queer,’ American tradition of innovation in literature in Brown Bag

by Emma Francois on July 26, 2018

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,

Writers-in-residence Beth Ann Fennelly and Kazim Ali to teach workshops on ‘musicality’ of sound, writing one’s surroundings

by Emma Francois on July 20, 2018

This week’s Chautauqua Writers’ Center workshops will explore poetry in “nuts and bolts” and prose in “time and space.” Poet-in-residence

Week Four writer-in-residence Valerie Boyd to talk literary kinship, Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston

by Emma Francois on July 19, 2018

Alice Walker was 29 when she trekked through Florida in search of Zora Neale Hurston’s unmarked grave. The year was

Week Four Poet-in-residence Robert Ostrom to talk fostering empathy, ‘constructive daydreaming’

by Emma Francois on July 16, 2018

Ideally, Robert Ostrom would write poetry in the early morning with coffee and a notepad. But with a new baby,

Week Four Writers-in-residence Valerie Boyd, Robert Ostrom to discuss mindfulness in poetry, truth in narrative nonfiction

by Emma Francois on July 13, 2018

The Chautauqua Writers’ Center this week will delve into the past and the present. Week Four’s workshops include Robert Ostrom’s

Rajiv Mohabir, Megan Stielstra to instill ‘childlike wonder,’ ‘permission to play’ in Week Three writers’ center workshops

by Emma Francois on July 6, 2018

This week, the Chautauqua Writers’ Center aims to transfigure scribes into wizards and workshops into playgrounds. The workshops this week will be held by poet-in-residence Rajiv Mohabir and prose writer-in-residence Megan Stielstra. Both writers will

Writer-in-Residence Eidus to explore intricacies of identities

by Emma Francois on July 5, 2018

As Week Two’s theme, “American Identity,” has proved, identity is both intricate and evolving. The only constant is that it

Wicker to give Brown Bag on ‘politics of me,’ poetry as protest

by Emma Francois on July 2, 2018

Marcus Wicker’s poetry is political. In many ways, it’s a form of social protest. In his Brown Bag at 12:15

Week Two Writers-in-Residence, Marcus Wicker and Janice Eidus to lead workshops on letter poems, sustaining one’s imaginative truth

by Emma Francois on June 30, 2018

This week’s Writers’ Center workshops delve into the vibrant lives of the imagination and the elegy. Week Two’s poet-in-residence,

Buntin to give Brown Bag on ‘alchemizing stories’

by Emma Francois on June 28, 2018

“Tell me what you can’t forget, and I’ll tell you who you are,” Julie Buntin wrote in the first sentence of

Dream Delivery Service’s Mathias Svalina to talk writing beyond paper in Brown Bag

by Emma Francois on June 25, 2018

The subway growls to a stop. Inside, the “Mona Lisa” smiles. Four Catholic priests play backgammon at a table, unperturbed. This is the type of dream that subscribers to Mathias Svalina’s Dream Delivery Service can

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