Tag: Justin Hocking
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Why Yoda: An explanation of the strange plastic action figure I got for John Calderazzo for his retirement
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Read More: Why Yoda: An explanation of the strange plastic action figure I got for John Calderazzo for his retirement~From Assistant Professor Todd Mitchell Sixteen years ago I took a class that changed my life. I think, even then, I knew that something special was happening in John’s graduate creative nonfiction course. Several people had recommended it to me, and I’d never before encountered such an intimate and productive…
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News of Note Week of April 20th
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Read More: News of Note Week of April 20thAlumnus Justin Hocking’s memoir The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld won the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. The book is also: a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, listed as one of Ten Brilliant Books That Will Grab You from Page One in Kirkus Reviews and The Huffington Post,…
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Recent English Department Publications, Award Winners, and Publishing News
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Read More: Recent English Department Publications, Award Winners, and Publishing NewsNew faculty publications and awards reveal the diversity of scholarly and creative strengths in this department. Sue Doe and Lisa Langstraat, Generation Vet: Composition, Student-Veterans, and the Post-9/11 University Zachary McLeod Hutchins, Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England Tobi Jacobi (with co-author Ann Folwell Standford), Woman,…
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Reading Series: Justin Hocking
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Read More: Reading Series: Justin HockingAlumnus Justin Hocking (M.F.A., ’02) read from his new book, The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld, at the University Center for the Arts on the evening of March 3rd. Hocking was the featured author of the Crow-Tremblay Alumni Creative Writing Reader Series. Justin Hocking was raised in Colorado and California…
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Reading: Alumnus Justin Hocking
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Read More: Reading: Alumnus Justin HockingAlumnus Justin Hocking is reading tonight from his new memoir, The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld, at 7:30pm at the Tattered Cover in Denver. Tomorrow night, Justin reads in Fort Collins as a part of the Crow-Tremblay Alumni Reading Series. This event is free and open to the public, 7:30pm…