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Beaudelaine Pierre visits Drexel 2/24

By Jordan Schilling
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Haitian author and editor, Beaudelaine Peierre is visiting Drexel today. The reception will start at 3:00pm followed by a reading at 3:30 in Stein Auditorium, Nesbitt, 33rd and Market Street.


Who are America’s best voices?

By Emily Homrok
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Doors part with a hydraulic hiss. Steam billows. Behold! The emerging voices of the nation have arrived… from the future.
Author Dani Shapiro, perhaps best known for the best-selling Slow Motion, her memoir of decadence and death, sits in as editor in the tenth entry in the Best New American Voices series: the 2010 edition.
How I [...]


Braverman lives up to her name

By Emily Homrok
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

As a writer, there are a few tiers you may find yourself falling onto. Being a non-confrontational sort of person (oh, those Pisces — just so sensitive, you know?) I’ll refrain from ranking said tiers, but I will do the bare minimum and differentiate.
There are two types of Household Names. Strain A of Household Names [...]


The word on lit mags

By Emily Homrok
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

As you, my lovely little reader of DPGOnline, may already be aware, Drexel University publishes a quarterly literary magazine. Nothing big, y’know… just a little mag that’s been around for nearly 40 years, receives submissions from all over the world, and has an odd tendency to discover literary gems that find their way into places [...]


All-day writing workshop to be held at Rosemont College

By Emily Homrok
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Okay, you’ve done the hardest part already: you’ve gotten over your white elephant, conquered writer’s block, and finished a manuscript!
…Now what?
On October 17, 2009, Rosemont College (located in Rosemont, PA, at 1400 Montgomery Avenue) is hosting an all-day writer’s workshop. For a fee of $75 — okay, maybe not a drop in the bucket for [...]


Calling all aspiring writers

By Emily Homrok
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Because as nifty as “aspiring writer” sounds, doesn’t “published author” roll just a tad more nicely off the tongue?
It’s up to you to make the transition. Sadly, I can’t wave a literary wand and transform your long suffering, coffee-stained manuscript into the masterwork that makes Ulysses look like child’s play. What I can do is point [...]