{"id":15877,"date":"2019-03-17T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/?p=15877"},"modified":"2019-04-23T15:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T19:57:51","slug":"in-print-festival-of-first-books-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/blog\/2019\/03\/17\/in-print-festival-of-first-books-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"In Print Festival of First Books 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #800000\">General Information<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>For over a decade, the Ball State Creative Writing Program&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/412265412843414\/\">In Print Festival of First Books<\/a> has brought authors who&#8217;ve just published their first book and a literary editor\/publisher to campus for a two day event featuring a reading, classroom visits, and a panel discussion\/Q&amp;A on literary editing and publishing.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s festival, to be held in <strong>AJ 175 at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20th and Thursday, March 21st<\/strong>, features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allison Joseph\u2014editor\/publisher<\/li>\n<li>Chen Chen\u2014poet<\/li>\n<li>Maria Romasco Moore\u2014fiction writer<\/li>\n<li>Dustin Parsons\u2014creative nonfiction writer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800000\">About the Speakers<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_15907\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15907\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-15907\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/17211605\/Allison-Joseph-Official-Pick-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allison Joseph<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Allison Joseph<\/strong><\/span> l<\/span>ives, writes, and teaches in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is part of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University. She serves as editor and poetry editor of <i>Crab Orchard Review<\/i>, moderator of the Creative Writers Opportunities List (<a href=\"https:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/neo\/groups\/CRWROPPS-B\/info?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACIuDh4kNnn8k4I-8bl6F9W-wamtyEEGtKklYtOODTmzqxQFczHwsuOCKuI4x9YxhcrMg1JgApB4mXUB66XsIY25RxNYqgEsnch2WSBKbCh4f2oVpOLALXiyFBM3YsmypCEaxts6T40tHEgwe1VnA2uMhyJ5W-B2PCWMWN6BnH2k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you should join!<\/a>), and director of Writers In Common, an all-ages inclusive writers conference launching in summer 2018. Her books and chapbooks include fifteen titles. Her latest full-length collection of poems, <i>Confessions of a Barefaced Woman, <\/i>was published in 2018 by Red Hen Press.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/longriverreview.com\/blog\/2017\/an-interview-with-allison-joseph\/\">\u201c\u2019The things that hold you back can often help you\u2019: An Interview with Poet Allison Joseph\u201d from <i>Long River Review<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pshares.org\/index.php\/always-on-the-lookout-an-interview-with-allison-joseph\/\">\u201c\u2019Always on the Lookout\u2019: An Interview with Allison Joseph\u201d from <i>Ploughshares<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/atticusreview.org\/an-interview-with-allison-joseph\/\">\u201cAn Interview with Allison Joseph\u201d from <i>Atticus Review<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/lunchticket.org\/allison-joseph-poet\/\">\u201cAllison Joseph, Poet\u201d from <i>Lunch Ticket<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><strong>Crab Orchard Review:<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/craborchardreview\/docs\/crab_orchard_review_vol_23_no_2_oct\">Volume 23, Number 2 (October 2018)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/craborchardreview\/docs\/crab_orchard_review_vol_22_double_i\">Volume 22, Double Issue (2018)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/craborchardreview\/docs\/crab_orchard_review_vol_23_no_1_dec\">Volume 23, Number 1 (December 2017)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Poetry:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/my-fathers-kites\">\u201cMy Father\u2019s Kites\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/soul-train\">\u201cSoul Train\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartjournalonline.com\/joseph\/2013\/12\/1\/two-poems-by-allison-joseph\">\u201cSundown Ghazal\u201d and \u201cChain\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 To read a piece not featured in this blog post, check out Words to Go below the creative writing bulletin board on the second floor of Robert Bell!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Classroom Visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allison Joseph to visit Silas Hansen&#8217;s 489 at 5:00 on Wednesday, March 20th (Student Center, Room 303)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_15909\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15909\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-15909\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/17211831\/Chen-Cen-Pic-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chen Chen<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Chen Chen<\/strong><\/span> <\/span>is the author of <i>When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities<\/i>, which won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the GLCA New Writers Award, and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. \u00a0His work has appeared in many publications, including <em>Poetry, Tin House, The Best American Poetry, <\/em>and<em> The Best American Nonrequired Reading<\/em>. Chen is the 2018-2020 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wintertangerine.com\/ucp-chenchen\/\">\u201cSometimes a Poem is a Home: An Interview with Chen Chen\u201d from <i>Winter Tangerine<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/readwildness.com\/15\/chen-feature\">\u201cAn Interview with Chen Chen\u201d from <i>wilderness<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/art-books\/2017\/3\/09\/queer-people-are-making-beautiful-worlds-chen-chen-his-debut-poetry-collection\">\u201c\u2019Queer People are Making Beautiful Worlds:\u2019 Chen Chen on His Debut Poetry Collection\u201d from <i>Out<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sinethetamagazine.tumblr.com\/post\/165332889305\/conversation-chen-chen-writes\">\u201cConversation: Chen Chen Writes\u201d from <i>Sine Theta Magazine<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Poetry:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/03\/magazine\/self-portrait-as-so-much-potential.html\">\u201cSelf-Portrait as So Much Potential\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poems\/58152\/im-not-a-religious-person-but\">\u201cI\u2019m not a religious person but\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/tinhouse.com\/winter\/\">\u201cWinter\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/blogs\/main\/poem-of-the-week-september-18-2017\">\u201cIf I should die tomorrow, please note that I will miss the particular\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 To read a poem not featured in this blog post, check out Words to Go below the creative writing bulletin board on the second floor of Robert Bell!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Classroom Visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thursday, 03\/21, 2:00-3:15 in Student Center Room 301<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-15910\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/17212721\/MRM-press-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Maria Romasco Moore<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u2019<\/span><\/span>s stories have appeared in <i>DIAGRAM<\/i>, <i>Hobart<\/i>, <i>Interfictions<\/i>, and the Lightspeed anthology <i>Women Destroy Science Fiction<\/i>. <i>Ghostographs<\/i>, an interconnected collection of flash fiction inspired by vintage photographs, came out with Rose Metal Press in November. Her first novel, <i>Some Kind of Animal,<\/i> will be published by Delacorte Press in 2020. She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writer\u2019s Workshop and has an MFA from Southern Illinois University. She currently lives in Columbus, OH with her partner and two black cats. She is an instructor at Columbus College of Art and Design.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interviews\/Craft Essays:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/entropymag.org\/unconventional-ghosts-playing-with-forms-in-fiction-a-roundtable-with-maria-romasco-moore-nino-cipri-and-karin-tidbeck\/\">\u201cUnconventional Ghosts: Playing with Forms in Fiction, a Roundtable with Maria Romasco Moore, Nino Cipri, and Karin Tidbeck\u201d from <i>Entropy<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.largeheartedboy.com\/blog\/archive\/2018\/11\/maria_romasco_m.html\">\u201cMaria Romasco Moore\u2019s Playlist for Her Novella \u2018Ghostographs\u2019\u201d from <i>largehearted boy<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/what-silent-film-and-found-photographs-can-show-us-about-writing\/\">\u201cWhat Silent Film and Found Photographs Can Show Us About Writing\u201d from <i>Literary Hub<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Stories:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/necessaryfiction.com\/stories\/MariaRomascoMooreMabel\">\u201cMabel\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thecollapsar.org\/my-father-by-maria-romasco-moore\">\u201cMy Father\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/interfictions.com\/peelmaria-romasco-moore\/\">\u201cPeel\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfordinner.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/22\/sample-by-maria-romasco-moore\/\">\u201cSample\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 To read a piece not featured in this blog post, check out Words to Go below the creative writing bulletin board on the second floor of Robert Bell!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Class Visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sean Lovelace&#8217;s 409 at 2:00 on Thursday, March 21st (Student Center, Room 305)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-15912\" src=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/03\/17213108\/Parsons-Pic-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Dustin Parsons<\/span><\/strong><\/span> is the author of <i>Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood with Diagrams <\/i>(University of Georgia Press). He is the winner of the <em>Laurel Review<\/em> Fiction Prize and the <em>American Literary Review<\/em> Fiction Prize as well as a New York Fine Arts and Ohio Art Grant in nonfiction. He teaches at the University of Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interviews\/Craft Essays:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.literarymama.com\/profiles\/archives\/2018\/06\/a-conversation-with-dustin-parsons.html\">\u201cA Conversation with Dustin Parsons\u201d from <i>Literary Mama<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/true.proximitymagazine.org\/2018\/06\/21\/in-conversation-aimee-nezhukumatathil-and-dustin-parsons\/\">\u201cIn Conversation: Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Dustin Parsons\u201d from <i>Proximity<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thecollagist.com\/collagist-blog\/2014\/8\/15\/the-names-of-the-flowers-that-deer-dislike-an-interview-with.html\">\u201c\u2019The Names of the Flowers That Deer Dislike\u2019: An Interview with Dustin Parsons\u201d from <i>The Collagist<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.essaydaily.org\/2018\/03\/dustin-parsons-on-dropping-off.html\">\u201cDustin Parsons on Dropping Off\u201d from <i>Essay Daily<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Essays:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thediagram.com\/14_6\/parsons.html\">\u201cPumpjack\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenormalschool.com\/blog\/2015\/7\/9\/mousetrap-by-dustin-parsons\">\u201cMousetrap\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/masqueandspectacle.com\/2014\/08\/27\/2-essays-dustin-parsons\/\">\u201cFruit Fly Extermination\u201d and \u201cGeode\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/proximitymagazine.org\/project\/12-parsons\/\">\u201cTake an Island, Give an Island Back\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0 To read a piece not featured in this blog post, check out Words to Go below the creative writing bulletin board on the second floor of Robert Bell!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Class Visit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Todd McKinney&#8217;s 406 at 9:30 on Thursday March 21st (Student Center, Room 303)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>This event is free and open to the public.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>For more information contact Dr. Matt Mullins, Director of Creative Writing at mbmullins@bsu.edu or visit the <a style=\"color: #800000\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/english\/\">English Department\u2019s blog<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Information For over a decade, the Ball State Creative Writing Program&#8217;s In Print Festival of First Books has brought authors who&#8217;ve just published their first book and a literary editor\/publisher to campus for a two day event featuring a reading, classroom visits, and a panel discussion\/Q&amp;A on literary editing and publishing. 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