Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing
Stadler Center for Poetry
Named for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bucknell graduate and initiated in the fall of 1993, the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing offers an emerging writer four months of unfettered writing time during Bucknell's fall semester, without formal academic obligations. The Residence is designed to grant the writer time to complete a first or second book. The resident presents a public reading of his or her work and otherwise constitutes a literary presence on campus during the fall. Providing lodging on campus, an office in the Stadler Center for Poetry, and a stipend of $4,000, the Residence is awarded to writers of prose (fiction or creative nonfiction) and poets on an alternating basis.
The Stadler Center will be accepting applications for the 2010-11 Philip Roth Residence, which will be awarded to a poet. The Residence will extend from late August through mid-December 2010. The application postmark deadline is February 20, 2010. New applications procedures will be posted here in Fall 2009. Please check back after November 1.
Philip Roth Resident, Fall 2009: Michael Scalise
Mike Scalise’s essays and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Post Road magazine, Hot Metal Bridge, The Rumpus, PopMatters and many other publications. His writing has received grants, awards and scholarships from George Mason University as well as the Bread Loaf and Southampton Writers’ Conferences. He earned his M.F.A. at George Mason University, where he studied creative nonfiction. He’s currently at work on a memoir about brain tumors, bad decisions, and Andre the Giant.
Scalise will present a reading of his poetry on Tuesday, September 8, 2009, at 7 p.m in Bucknell Hall. The reading is free and open to the public.
Former Philip Roth Residents
1993-94 Blake Maher (fiction)
1994-95 Roger Fanning (poetry)
1995-96 Pamela Leri (fiction)
1996-97 Joe Wenderoth (poetry)
1997-98 Rhonda Claridge (fiction)
1998-99 Adrian Oktenberg (poetry)
1999-00 Tom Franklin (fiction)
2000-01 Ron Mohring (poetry)
2001-02 Junse Kim (fiction)
2002-03 Brian Teare (poetry)
2003-04 Michelle Hoover (fiction)
2004-05 Melora Wolff (poetry)
2005-06 Emily Rapp (fiction)
2006-07 Beth Martinelli (poetry)
2007-08 Rajesh Parameswaran (fiction)
2008-09 Eduardo Corral (poetry)
