NEOMFA students can register for special workshops for either WORKSHOP or ELECTIVE CREDIT.  See the Courses Page to see where special  workshops can be counted.

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Special Workshop Opportunities

        for NEOMFA Students

 Alexis Stamatis, Greek Novelist and Poet

Alexis Stamatis will be reading on all four NEOMFA campuses October 13^th-16^th

Alexis Stamatis, well known Greek journalist, novelist, and poet, has published seven novels and six books of poetry. His second novel, Βar Flaubert (Kedros 2000), a critically acclaimed best seller in Greece, has been published in France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Bangladesh and Serbia, and been adapted to a screenplay by Vassilis Douvlis. His second book The Architecture of Interior Spaces, was awarded the Nikiforos Vrettakos Prize in 1994. Τwo collections of his poems have been translated into English in Great Britain. Stamatis also wrote the libretti for 2 musical pieces by the composer Theo Abazis, performed in Megaron Mousikis and the Chora theatre. In 2004, he participated at the world famous International Writing Program of the University of Iowa through a Greek Fulbright Artists & Art-Scholars Award. In 2007, the US publishing house Etruscan Press won the 1st International Literary Award by the National Endowment of Arts to publish his new novel American Fugue. Stamatis is visiting the NEOMFA this fall as part of a tour which includes various American Universities including Harvard, Columbia and Cornell.  

Check the NEOMFA Calendar for all NEOMFA Events featuring Alexis Stamatis!

Philip Lopate, New York Fiction, Essay, and Memoir Writer

Philip Lopate will teach a week-long workshop from 10 am-12 pm on the KSU Campus and will speak on all four NEOMFA campuses the week of November 3^rd-7^th

Philip Lopate, New York based fiction, essay, and memoir writer, is the author of three essay collections: Bachelorhood (Little, Brown, 1981), Against Joie de Vivre (Simon & Schuster, 1989), and Portrait of My Body (Doubleday-Anchor, 1996); two novels, Confessions of Summer (Doubleday, 1979) and The Rug Merchant (Viking, 1987); two poetry collections, The Eyes Don't Always Want to Stay Open (Sun Press, 1972) and The Daily Round (Sun Press, 1976); and a memoir of his teaching experiences, Being With Children (Doubleday, 1975). His essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in The Best American Short Stories (1974), The Best American Essays (1987), several Pushcart Prize annuals, the anthologies Congregation and Testimony, and The Paris Review, Harper's, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Harvard Educational Review, The New York Times Book Review, Boulevard, The Journal of Contemporary Fiction, Double Take, and others.

 SEE YOUR NEOMFA CAMPUS COORDINATOR FOR MORE INFORMATION ON VISITING WRITER EVENTS AND TO ENROLL IN THIS SPECIAL WORKSHOP!

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