New on the Bookshelf
George Looney, Tom Noyes to share recent works at April 17 reading
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| George Looney |
Two members of the creative writing faculty at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will read from their newest works on Thursday, April 17, in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel.
The readings by George Looney, associate professor of creative writing and English, and Tom Noyes, assistant professor of creative writing, will begin at 6:00 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
Looney’s novella Hymn of Ash (Elixir Press, 2008) is winner of the national 2007 Elixir Press Fiction Chapbook Competition. His previous books include The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels, winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize, Animals Housed in the Pleasure of the Flesh, winner of the Bluestem Award, and the chapbook Greatest Hits 1990-2000. He is chair of the college’s B.F.A. program in creative writing and serves as editor-in-chief of its international literary journal, Lake Effect. Looney also is translation editor of The Mid-American Review and co-director of The Chautauqua Writer’s Festival.
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| Tom Noyes |
Tom Noyes will read from Spooky Action at a Distance and Other Stories (Dufour Editions, 2008), a collection of short fiction that was runner-up for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ 2006 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. Noyes’ first book, Behold Faith and Other Stories was short-listed for Stanford University Library’s William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and reviewed favorably in many publications, including the New York Times Book Review, where it was praised for its macabre wit and startling confessions of frailty and delusion.
Penn State Behrend’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences is home to the University’s only B.F.A. in creative writing.