Current Events:
November 2006

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley - Poet, Author: Thursday, November 2 at 7:30pm

Anne Berthelot - Author, Arthurian Scholar: “The Rise and Fall of Merlin in Arthurian Literature”  Wednesday, November 15, 7—8:30p.m.

 

 

 

 

 

The annual Writer's Symposium By The Sea

...gives students a chance to interact with some of the country's great writers.

Born out of the departmental journalism/writing program, the annual Writer's Symposium By the Sea (WSBS)--recently celebrating its ninth year--brings some of the best practitioners in a broad range of genres to the PLNU campus. PLNU students and faculty and members of the larger Southern California community benefit from this rich opportunity to hear from and interact with these writers. Past speakers have included:

• Amy Tan (author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter)
• Ray Bradbury (recent winner of a lifetime achievement award at the National Book Awards, author many well-known titles, including Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, and Zen in the Art of Writing)
• Bill Moyers (Television journalist and author of  Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times, A World of Ideas: Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future, The Power of Myth)
• Kathleen Norris (award winning author and poet)
• Barbara Bradley Hagerty (Washington correspondent with NPR National Public Radio)
• George Plimpton (best-selling author and editor of over 30 books, journalist, editor of The Paris Review for 40 years)
• Otis Chandler (former publisher of The Los Angeles Times)
• Quincy Troupe (poet, essayist, novelist, biographer, journalist and educator, Miles and Me: A Memoir)
• Anne Lamott (fiction and nonfiction, e.g., Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, Operating Instructions)
• Chitra Divakaruni (novels and short stories, e.g., Sister of my Heart, Vine of Desire, Mistress of Spices, Arranged Marriage, The Unknown Errors of Our Lives, The Conch Bearer, Neela: Victory Song, Queen of Dreams)
• Joseph Wambaugh (former Los Angeles Policeman, wrote The Onion Field, Lines and Shadows, New Centurians, and twelve other best-selling novels and nonfiction books)
• Bob Briner (Roaring Lambs and Leadership Lessons of Jesus)
• Noel Riley Fitch (biographer Julia Child, Anais Nin and Sylvia Beach)
• John Lee (architect of New York Times' Business Day section)
• John Ullman (Pulitzer Prize winner, director of World Press Institute)
• Richard Lederer (linguist, author of The World According to Bloopers and other books on language)
• Janell Cannon (author of Stellaluna, Verde, Trupp and other children's books)
• Donald Miller (author of Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Sprituality, Searching for God Knows What, Through Painted Deserts, To Own a Dragon)
  
  

Writer's Symposium 2007:

Point Loma Nazarene University welcomes back Anne Lamott and a great line-up of poets and authors to be announced soon!

Alumni News!

Journalism Alumni are now working in the news media in all corners of the U.S., as well as in Europe!

Orlando, Florida: a financial newspaper editor

Boston: an on-line editor, a public relations director for a major metropolitan hospital, a newspaper reporter

New York: an assistant producer for CBS News, a reporter in Syracuse, an editor for theatrical magazine Playbill

Denver: public relations professionals and newspaper reporters

Colorado Springs: magazine editor, communications director for international ministry

Las Vegas: news editor for major metro newspaper

Other alums are pursuing careers in animation, motion pictures, law, education, business and elsewhere.
  
Contact person: Dr. Dean Nelson: deannelson@pointloma.edu