The English Department Pub(lishing) Crawl is a chance for graduate and undergraduate majors to hear professional writers, teachers, agents, and editors discuss what they do and how they came to do it. In other words, it addresses the sometimes thorny problem of what a graduate might do with his or her degree. This year’s Pub Crawl takes place on Tuesday, April 21, in Beckman 404 starting at 3 p.m. in the afternoon and running into the evening.

The 3 p.m. panel, made up of Chapman grads who are now teaching full time (some of them directing programs) will be of particular interest to any Chapman student who wants to teach and who wants to know the ins and outs of adjunct teaching and of turning the adjunct job into a full time job. Following that panel, a number of writers/editors will speak: Peggy Hesketh, Chapman grad and author of Telling the Bees, a national bestseller published by Penguin USA, will chat about the adventures of writing and publishing her first novel. Kate Gale, managing editor at Red Hen Press, will talk about literary publishing. Kim Addonozio, poet and fiction writer (Pushcart Prize, two NEA fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Book Award, etc.,) will talk about writing and publishing poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and editing anthologies. This is a star-studded cast of writing professionals, all of whom were once doing exactly what Chapman grads and undergrads are doing now. They’ll de-mystify the business of the developing writer, although not entirely. There’ll be plenty of mystery left over.

Text: Laura Silva

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