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Clarion students study with award-winning writers

July 27, 2015
Clarion students at Chautauqua
Back row, from left: Hanna Gloeckl, Kerrie Sprinkle; front row, from left: Becky Greenman, Amelia Eiger-McPartlin, and Christian Crankfield. Maureen Crowley is not pictured.

Six Clarion University students attended the Chautauqua Writers Festival June 18-21: Amelia Eiger-McPartlin, Grove City; Maureen Crowley, Cochranton; Rebecca Greenman, Fairview; Christian Crankfield, Harrisburg; Hannah Gloeckl, Bethel Park; and Kerry Springle, Frederick, Md.

Since 2003, at least four Clarion University students per year have had the opportunity to work with established professional writers at the four-day Chautauqua Writers' Festival at The Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, N.Y.

The festival, held annually in June and co-sponsored by Clarion University, Penn State-Behrend and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, brings six major, award-winning writers per festival. They work with festival attendees on fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

This year's writers included: poets Tony Hoagland and Tim Seibles, fiction writers Jane McCafferty and Aimee Parkison, and creative nonfiction writers Steve Almond and Lia Purpura. Phil Terman, Ph.D., Clarion professor of English, accompanied the students.

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