I was supposed to post about this a few days go, but what can I say — I’m unreliable.

Potluck Reading

Serving a delicious mix of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and critical essays.

Date: Wednesday Dec 5th

Time: 8 - 9:30pm

Location: F-115

Come out and read your original poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or critical essay in front of a relaxed audience of Stocktonites.

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While not a pie eating contest per say, (everyone should stop ironing their bibs) the Mimi Schwartz creative nonfiction contest is a great way for a creative nonfiction writer to win some cash and recognition.

Stockton students only — sorry to all our readers from Harvard and such.

THE MIMI SCHWARTZ AWARD
FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION
$100 for Best Personal Essay

The Writing Program at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey will present the Mimi Schwartz Award for Creative Nonfiction to an undergraduate student. Deadline: December 5, 2007.

Contest Guidelines:

1. All Stockton students are eligible, as are non-matriculated students who are taking a Stockton course in the current semester.

2. One entry per student.

3. All entries must have been written during the 2006-2007 or 2007-2008 academic year.

4. Each entry must be a personal essay no longer than 15 double-spaced pages with font no smaller than 12 points.

5. Each entry must have a title, but do not put your name on the essay.

6. Please send your entry as an email attachment (Word document) to Judy Copeland at Your name, address, and phone number should appear in the email itself, but not in the attachment.

7. The deadline is December 5, 2007.

8. The winner will be announced the week of January 21-26, 2008.

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There’s a student nonfiction reading at Stockton on Dec 4th at 4:15pm in the TRLC. Judy Copeland is organizing the event. She’s Stockton’s go to nonfiction professor and a really excellent travel writer. She always tells these casual stories about her travels as if they are no big deal while her audience sits there flabbergasted,”so, then the bear took out a pipe and a book of Frost poems, but I didn’t panic — I called the stewardess.”

Some of her students will be reading their work and it’s always a lot of fun to hear creative versions of true stories. Check it out.

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The New Media Club, Brian Kim Stefans, and I (B to the S H A R P) are hosting a media event this Thursday night. I plan to talk about The Fhiz a bit, Richard Stockton OVERDRIVE, and The New Media Club. BKS is tossing out some info about independent video games and showing off some student projects from his classes. We also have a couple student presenters lined up to show off their work. It’ll be fun.

There’ll be pizza. You should come. Blow the poster up for all its majesty.

Thursday Nov 29th 4:30 - 6pm F-111

…bring a hot date.

Another brainchild of the brilliant Brian Kim Stefans, head of the New Media department and all around nice guy!

Stockton students are encouraged to submit their creative work to be included in a free dvd compilation appearing this coming spring. Blow that baby up for info.