KGB Reading this Saturday

This Saturday, January 28, come for the Rutgers-Newark KGB reading! Poet Britt Melewski will be joined by fiction writers, Leslie-Ann Murray and Kevin Catalano. The reading begins at 7:00 PM at KGB Bar (85 East 4th St, New York, http://www.kgbbar.com).

Tayari Jones is nominated for the NAACP Image Award

Tayari Jones is nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work–Fiction. You can vote for Tayari by joining the NAACP and becoming eligible to vote. Here is the link to the list of nominees and the link to vote! http://www.naacpimageawards.net/43/nominees-and-honorees/literature/

Anna Alves, Max Gray, and Bryanna Tidmarsh read at Coffee Cave

Welcome back to school (and the Spring ’12 semester)! Our next Coffee Cave reading features fiction writers Anna Alves and Max Gray, and poet Byranna Tidmarsh.

Four Way Books interviews Rigoberto Gonzalez!

Four Way Books interviews poet and RN-MFA instructor Rigoberto Gonzalez! Listen to the interview here!

Alice Elliott Dark’s “Rumm Road” in the Literarian

Novelist and Essayist (and beloved instructor) Alice Elliott Dark’s has a short story, “Rumm Road,” just published in the Literarian! Read it here.

Best-selling author Judith Viorst (and RN Almuna) talks

Best-selling author Judith Viorst (and RN Almuna) talks about her books for children and adults and her experience at Rutgers-Newark! Watch her here.

Tayari Jones is featured on Rutgers Today!

Novelist and RN-MFA instructor Tayari Jones is featured on Rutgers Today! Read the article here.

Story Prize Awards Ceremony

The Story Prize’s Awards Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. Mark your calendar!

The 2011 finalists are Don DeLillo, Steven Milhauser, and Edith Pearlman. Click here for an official announcement of the finalists on the Story Prize blog.

Jayne Anne Phillips and Rachel Hadas will join in a celebration of Edith Wharton

Jayne Anne Phillips, RN-MFA Director; and Rachel Hadas, RN-MFA faculty member; will join in a celebration of Edith Wharton to benefit The Mount. Jayne Anne and Rachel Hadas will join other writers in a marathon reading of Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth on Thursday, January 26, from 5 pm – 9 pm. Click here for more details!

“Cold Curry” by Phedra Deonarine

Phedra Deonarine’s short short, “Cold Curry,” is featured on the CBC Canada Writes website. Congrats, Phedra! Click here to read!