Writing for Our Lives: Bucks County Community College Alumni and Faculty Authors Forum, April 12-April 16. Wordsmiths Reading Series

Screenwriters, biographers, novelists, memoirists, science writers, newspaper columnists, children’s authors, poets, and even tattoo artists are returning to the place where they got their start.

Bucks County Community College welcomes back to its Newtown campus alumni who have authored books or made writing their career. The alumni will share with current students and members of the community the challenges and rewards they have experienced as part of their writing careers and how BCCC helped to prepare him for these careers. Reading with alumni authors will be faculty and staff authors

For those who love writing and would like to make it more part of their lives, the forum offers an excellent opportunity to be inspired by and learn from those who have made found an audience for their work. From April 12 to 15, the forum takes place in the Fireside Lounge of the Rollins Center, on BCCC’s Newtown Campus and on April 16 in the Lower Bucks Campus.

The Forum is dedicated to the memory of Beverly Foss Stoughton, a BCCC alumna
and former BCCC teacher, as well as a former Bucks County Poet Laureate.

Schedule of Forums

Monday, April 12, Fireside Lounge, Newtown Campus

10 Creating Worlds: The Challenges and Rewards of Children’s Literature
a.m. Jan Cook, author of The Handsome Crow Nina Haydel, author of Creole Cats Meet Hurricane Katrina

11 a,m. Creating Worlds, Creating a new American Literature: The Challenges
and Rewards of the Novel
Dennis Tafoya, author of Dope Thief
Allen Hoey, author of Chasing the Dragon
Jim Freeman, author of Parade of Days and Ishi’s Journey

12 Making Sense out of History: Poetry as a Way of Healing
noon Bill Wunder, author of Pointing at the Moon
Gloria DelVecchio, author of Patriarch Athenagoras, Man of Love
and Existentialism and Modern Poetry

1 p.m. Coming to Understand Violence: Fiction vs. Fact
Debra Niehoff, author of The Biology of Violence
Dennis Tafoya, author of Dope Thief

7 p.m. Inventing Possibilities
Kevin Jameson, author of WOWIdeas from A to Z Ellie Slott Fisher, author of Mom, There’s a Man in the Kitchen and He’s
Wearing Your Robe: The Single Mother’s Guide to Dating Well
Jo Ciavaglia, Bucks County Courier Times Columnist
& Debra Niehoff, author of The Biology of Violence

Tuesday, April 13, Fireside Lounge, Newtown Campus

9:30 Claiming the Right to the Play of the Mind
Charles Mann, author of After the Pledge of Allegiance
Allen Hoey, author of Country Music and Once Upon a Time at Blanches
Joe Leonard, illustrator of Sockmuffin the Elf and Offerings from the Bloody Bucket
Fred Seton, Hollywood scriptwriter, author of Pierre, Pierrre (with Jim Carrey)
Mark Wolverton, author of The Science of Superman

11:00 Finding Our Voices
Mark Wolverton, author of A Life in Twilight: the Final Years of J. Robert Openheimer
Fred Seton, Hollywood scriptwriter, author of Pierre, Pierrre (with Jim Carrey)
Joe Leonard, illustrator of Sockmuffin the Elf and Offerings from the Bloody Bucket
J.D. Mullane, Bucks County Courier Times

12:30 Where it Begins: A Coffeehouse with Current BCCC Students
hosted by Tyler Literary Society

1:30 Testing the Limits: Working across Genres
Allen Hoey, author of Chasing the Dragon
James Freeman, author of Parade of Days and Ishi’s Journey
Mark Wolverton, author of The Science of Superman
Fred Seton, Hollywood scriptwriter, author of Pierre, Pierrre (with Jim Carrey)
Joe Leonard, illustrator of Sockmuffin the Elf and Offerings from the Bloody Bucket

3 p.m. The Research Essay Writ Large: Obsession, Exploration, Engagement
Maureen McCreadie, co-author of Accessing and Browsing Information
and Communication
Mark Wolverton, author of The Depths of Space
Ray O’Brien, author of The American Sublime
Roberta Mayer, author of Gilded Aspirations, Tarnished Dreams

7 p, m. Sending Your Vision into the World: Finding a Voice, Finding an Audience
Mark Wolverton: author of A Life in Twilight:Final Years of J .Robert Oppenheimer
Fred Seton, Hollywood scriptwriter, author of Pierre, Pierrre (with Jim Carrey)
Joe Leonard: author of Offerings from the Bloody Bucket



Wednesday, April 14, Fireside Lounge, Newtown Campus

2 p.m. Reclaiming the Past, Honoring the Present Susan Charles T Groth, author of Cultural Riches: A Sampler of Northwest Jersey
Traditional Arts in Cultural Context
Janice Wilson Stridek, editor of The View in Winter: A Book of Poems by Margery
Wells Steer and memoirist
William Pezza, author of Anna’s Boys and Stealing Tomatoes

5 p.m. Gathering our Voices: A Reading from the anthology of survivors of domestic
p.m. violence – with Julie Cooper Fratrik

7.p. m. Carrying on the Tradition
A Reading with Professor Emeritus Stan Heim and the Winner, Runners-up in
The Stan Heim and Louis Camp Annual Poetry Competition, and with Julie
1983 Bucks County Poet Laureate Julie Cooper Fratrik and 1989 Poet Laureate
Cheryl Baldi reading from their own work and that of Beverly Foss Stoughton

Thursday, April 15, Fireside Lounge, Newtown Campus

11 a.m. Claiming Our Voices
Pamela Perkins Frederick, author of No Sorrow That Light Won’t try to Wipe Away
Charlotte McGurty Smith, author of Something Matters That is Not Being Said
Carolina Morales, author of Bride of Frankenstein
Caren Friedman, author of Tree: Rubbings and Poems

3:00 Using Research to Change and Save Lives
p.m. Dr. David Hall, author of Allies at Work: Creating a Lesbian, Gay. Bisexual,
Transgender Inclusive Work Environment
Dr. Shannon Colestock, author of Sexual Etiquette 101

Friday April 16, Lower Bucks Campus

10 a.m. Scree Garden: A Reading of the Poetry of Bev Stoughton with Dr. Christopher Bursk

11 -- Fumbling with Thread: A Reading of the Poetry of Douglas Hughes
a.m.

Sponsored by Wordsmiths Reading series, the Department of
Language and Literature and a Dean’s Cultural Programing Grant

For information, contact Dr. Christopher Bursk, 215-968-8156