News from the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay
CHESTERTOWN, MD — Poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and award-winning documentary photographer Steven Rubin will present elements of their collaborative photography/poetry book “Shale Play”—an immersion into the everyday world at the heart of fracking in Appalachian Pennsylvania—on November 21, 2019. Free and open to the public, the event begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Rose O’ […]
Continue ReadingAuthor Monica Ferrell will be at Washington College on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 as part of the fall Literary House Series. The Literary House Press will be debuting its newest limited-edition letterpress broadside featuring Ferrell’s work at this event. The free and public reading will begin at 4:30 p.m. on the Literary House enclosed porch, […]
Continue ReadingChestertown, MD – Playwright and memoirist R. Eric Thomas will be at the Rose O’ Neill Literary House on October 17, 2019 presenting “Eric Reads the News: Writing Humor in Current Events.” The free and public reading, part of the fall Literary House Series, will begin at 4:30 p.m., followed by a book sale and […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD—Alisha Knight, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, will discuss her unique research into the African American book publishing trade at the turn of the 20th century during a September 26, 2019 event at the Rose O’ Neill Literary House. The talk entitled “Agents Wanted: Selling Racial Uplift at the Turn of the […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — Rebecca Makkai, whose novel “The Great Believers” was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, will kick off the fall semester’s Rose O’ Neill Literary House Series on September 5, 2019. The free and public reading will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Lit House, followed by a […]
Continue ReadingThe Rose O’Neill Literary House is proud to showcase two Washington College poets, Dr. Kimberly Quiogue Andrews and Literary House Assistant Director Lindsay Lusby, during a tea and talk on Wednesday, September 5, 2018 as part of the fall Literary House Series. Andrews and Lusby will be discussing their recently published chapbooks, and the talk […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD—The Cherry Tree Young Writers’ Conference, which invites high school students to Washington College to work with esteemed writers, will feature readings on July 18 and 19, 2018 highlighting the conference’s faculty. On July 18, James Allen Hall, conference director and director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House, will join poet Jehanne Dubrow in […]
Continue ReadingNovelist and short story writer Amber Dermont, this year’s recipient of the Mary Wood Fellowship, will be hosting two events at the Literary House in April. Her craft talk on humor in fiction will be held on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 4:30 p.m., and she will read from her own work on Wednesday, April […]
Continue ReadingShort fiction writer and journalist Amy Hempel will be reading at the Rose O’Neill Literary House on Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 5:30 p.m. The event, which is a part of the spring Literary House series, is free and open to the public. Hempel is the author of four short story collections. Her Collected Stories […]
Continue ReadingWashington College’s very own Elena Deanda-Camacho will be giving a faculty tea and talk on Wednesday, February 14, as part of the spring Literary House Series. The event will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Rose O’Neill Literary House, and it is free and open to the public. Elena Deanda-Camacho is an associate professor […]
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