Chapman Radio DJs, John Di Giacomo and Julie Pajuheshfar, are hosting a literary show every other Thursday at 1 p.m. on chapman.com. The program, Vox Humana, is bringing the storytelling power of the human voice back to everyday conversation through short stories and poetry readings featuring the talents of Chapman’s creative writing club
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2013- PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES. The 2013 International Poetry Reading invites the campus community to submit a poem (in any language other than English) related to the arts by a well-known poet in his/her original language along with the English translation. Please send entries to
The godfather of steampunk is back. And in a big way – 400 pages to be exact. Associate Professor James Blaylock, author of numerous short stories and novels that are hallmarks of the whimsical science fiction subgenre characterized by steam-powered machines and Victorian settings, has just published his first full-length steampunk novel in more
English Professor Alicia Kozameh is featured in the March 7, 2013 issue of OC Weekly in an article titled, Alicia Kozameh: The Hypnotic Novelist. In the article, Kozameh discusses her time as a political prisoner (three years) during the last military dictatorship in country, her published books and gets a little personal, discussing her family.
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing Literary Forum continues on Monday, March 11 , 2013 with author Zulfikar Ghose. Zulfikar A. Ghose is a novelist, poet and essayist. A native of Pakistan who has long lived in Texas, he writes in the surrealist mode of much Latin American fiction, blending fantasy and harsh
Associate Professor Anna Leahy , of the English Department , had her article featured in the The Huffington Post on Sunday, February 24, 2013 as part of the TEDWeekends feature. Click here to read more! Congratulations, Anna!
Congratulations are in order for Professor of Art, Wendy Salmond and Associate Professor of English, Kevin O’Brien . They been awarded a 2013-2014 Co-Teaching Competition Award for their course The Russian Avant-Garde: Art, Film and Literature by the Chancellor and the Faculty Research and Development Council members. Professors Salmond and O’Brien are
The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing Literary Forum continues on Monday, February 25, 2013 with author Miguel Syjuco. Miguel Syjuco is a Filipino writer from Iloilo, and is the son of Augusto Syjuco Jr., the current representative of the second district of Iloilo. His first novel, Ilustrado, won the 2008 Palanca Awards Grand Prize
Former MFA/MA English student, Peggy Hesketh, has published her Chapman thesis novel, ” Telling the Bees ,” with Putnam Press. Hesketh will be reading and signing books at the Book Carnival in Orange on March 7, 2013 at 7 p.m., on the novel’s release date, and again on March 13, 2013 at Vroman’s in
The Chapman University chapter of the international English honor society Sigma Tau Delta has been honored with one of the organization’s top awards. Chapman’s Alpha Zeta Iota chapter has been named an Outstanding Chapter by Sigma Tau Delta, just one of four student chapters from among a national membership of 700 to receive the honor