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Visiting Writer Seriesand Common Reading Program

The Showcase will highlight student work from the 2015/16 academic year, and will include viewings of short films and animations from DTC courses.

Awards will be given for outstanding achievement in print
design, live action film/video, documentary film/video, web design, stop-motion animation and 3D digital animation.

We will be holding an end-of-year gathering after the Awards. There will be cake, refreshments and mingling.

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The English Club at WSU strives to provide a comfortable creative space for students from all majors.

Kristin Becker, Instructor, Digital Technology & Culture
Kristin Becker will give a brief introduction to the current art exhibit in the Bundy, which features her prints and examples from Debbie Lee’s “Walk Think Create” class.

Debbie Lee, Professor of English (with Katherine Lipp)
Debbie Lee will discuss the Walk Think Create class, and reflect on recent travels in Iceland.

Kirk McAuley, Associate Professor of English
Reflecting upon his extensive travels in Scotland, Kirk McAuley will discuss literary scholarship afoot – the importance of walking as research vis-à-vis Robert Louis Stevenson.

Linda Russo, Clinical Associate Professor of English
Linda Russo will talk about her experience of walking locally as a form of cultivating imaginative, geographic, and biome knowledge in the writing of her recent book of poems, MEANING TO GO TO THE ORIGIN IN SOME WAY.

The English Club at WSU strives to provide a comfortable creative space for students from all majors.

The English Club at WSU strives to provide a comfortable creative space for students from all majors.

Eileen Pollack is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction whose novel, Breaking and Entering, won the Grub Street National Book Prize and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection. She also is the author of Paradise, New York, a novel, and two collections of short fiction. Her creative nonfiction includes Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull and The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still A Boys’ Club. She teaches in the Masters of Fine Arts Program at the University of Michigan.

This event is co-sponsored by the Common Reading Program and School of Biological Sciences.

The English Club at WSU strives to provide a comfortable creative space for students from all majors.

The English Club at WSU strives to provide a comfortable creative space for students from all majors.

Taryn Fagerness is the owner of Taryn Fagerness Agency, a literary agency based in Tacoma, Washington, which she founded in 2009. Prior to starting her own agency, she worked at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency in Del Mar, California as an agent and subsidiary rights manager. She graduated from Washington State University Honors College in 2002 (Go Cougs!) and went on to attend the New York University Summer Publishing Institute.

This event is co-sponsored by the Honors College.

The English Club at WSU strives to provide a comfortable creative space for students from all majors.

The English Club at WSU strives to provide a comfortable creative space for students from all majors.