The Newport MFA presents readings, craft talks with best-selling authors
Best-selling authors and award-winning writers will present guest readings and craft talks during a week-long winter workshop being hosted Saturday, Jan. 6, through Sunday, Jan. 14. These events are being hosted by the Newport MFA, Salve Regina’s master of fine arts in creative writing program.
All events are free and open to the Salve Regina community as well as the general public, and anyone interested is encouraged to attend.
To register for any of the events listed below, go here.
A Reading with Patricia Park
Saturday, Jan. 6, 7 p.m.
A Craft Talk with Patricia Park
Sunday, Jan. 7, 10:30 a.m.
Patricia Park
Patricia Park is a tenured professor of creative writing at American University, a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Arts, an Edith Wharton Writer-in-Residence, and a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. She is the author of the YA novel, “Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim,” and the adult novel, “Re Jane,” a retelling of Jane Eyre.
“Re Jane” was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and winner of an American Library Association Award, as well as being an NPR Fresh Air pick among other accolades. She’s written for the New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, and others.
Park’s new YA novel, “What’s Eating Jackie Oh?” is forthcoming in April 2024.
A Craft Talk with Will Shalbe
Tuesday, Jan. 9, at 4 p.m.
A Reading with Will Shalbe
Tuesday, Jan. 9, 7 p.m.
Will Shalbe
Will Schalble is the author of “The End of Your Life Book Club,” which was a #1 Indie Next pick, an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year, and spent nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He has worked in digital media, in book publishing, and as a journalist, writing for various publications — including the New York Times and the South China Morning Post.
Shalbe is currently an editor-at-large for Macmillan and previously was editor-in-chief of William Morrow and then Hyperion. Shalbe is also the author of “Send” (co-written with David Shipley) and “Books for Living.” His most recent book, “We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship,” was published in February 2023. He has served on the boards of the Asian American Writers Workshop, Yale University Press, and the Kingsborough Community College Foundation. Shalbe lives in New York City.
A Reading with Martha Frankel
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 10 a.m.
Martha Frankel has written book reviews, essays and celebrity profiles for many magazines, such as Movieline, Cosmopolitan and The New Yorker. She servesas executive director of the Woodstock Writers Festival, a yearly gathering of writers and readers in Woodstock, New York, and is host of Woodstock Writers Radio, a Sunday morning radio talk show.
To register for any of the events listed below, go here.
About the Newport MFA
Salve Regina’s low-residency Newport MFA program immerses students in the creative life through residencies, mentorships, publishing and editing panels, and craft talks. The two-year program guides aspiring writers to the terminal degree in their field through eight-day residencies held in Newport twice a year and a residency option in Cuba, where they focus on their preferred genre of fiction, poetry, nonfiction or historical fiction. Students, who also gain insights into the business of publishing and editing, spend the months between residencies writing and reflecting in an individualized mentorship with eminent writers. The program culminates with each student completing a polished manuscript.
