Savannah Whiting ’13 is here to save your post-grad future:
Attention, seniors! Unsure what to do next year? Looking for a job
with significant responsibilities and learning opportunities?
Interested in a career in teaching, writing, or the arts?Look no further. Apply to be a 2015-2016 Ford Fellow or Kim-Frank
Fellow in the Writing Programs!
Attention, seniors! Unsure what to do next year? Looking for a job with significant responsibilities and learning opportunities? Interested in a career in teaching, writing, or the arts?
Look no further. Apply for the Wesleyan Writing Fellowships! Every year, the Writing Programs awards three graduating seniors with prestigious one-year, post-graduate fellowships:
Two Ford Fellows assist the Director of Writing Programs in running the university’s Writing Programs and Writing Workshop, including training more than one hundred student writing tutors. The position offers significant teaching and administrative experience.
The Kim-Frank Fellow organizes and supervises writing and music events and helps with other literary events on campus. The job offers an opportunity to work with distinguished writers, journalists, and other artists.
Ford Fellow Piers Gelly ’13 sends us this, but I’m too tired to think of something witty to say in this line and am just going to end it with a colon after this word:
Bring a short piece of writing (you own or someone else’s) and learn
how to turn that text into a beautiful printed work. Halloween-related
texts are extremely welcome but not required.Please email pgelly[at]wesleyan[dot]edu with any questions.
Date: TODAY, Thursday, October 31
Time: 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
Place: CFA Lab
Courtesy of Ford Fellow Piers Gelly ’13, the tall and compelling:
John Cheever wrote, “A good page of prose remains invincible.” Interested in attaining such invincibility? Come discuss your creative and academic writing in a pair of seminars with the Writing Programs’ Graduate Fellows and undergrad tutors.
4:30 p.m. — How to tear apart your paper, with Ford Fellow Savannah Whiting ’13
Drop by for some guidelines for editing efficiently and turning your draft into a great final piece.
6:00 p.m. — How to read and write a sentence, with Taylor Steele ’14
We will look at selections from great writers—David Foster Wallace, Joan Didion, and Virginia Woolf—and consider what makes their voices so beguiling.
Drop by for one or both workshops. Refreshments both sweet and savory will be provided.
Date: Tuesday, October 29
Time: 4:30 PM; 6:00 PM
Place: Downey 113
Courtesy of Ford Fellow Piers Gelly ’13, the esteemed and forever venerable:
John Cheever wrote, “A good page of prose remains invincible.” Interested in attaining such invincibility? Come discuss your creative and academic writing in a pair of seminars with the Writing Programs’ Graduate Fellows and undergrad tutors.
4:30 p.m. — How George Orwell can improve your writing, with Ford Fellow Piers Gelly
Come discuss George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language” and its implications for your own prose style.
6:00 p.m. — How to read like a college senior, with Rosy Capron ’14
What questions should you ask of a text when you’re writing a paper about it? We will discuss two examples: a piece of humor writing and a difficult academic text.
Drop by for one or both workshops. Refreshments both sweet and savory will be provided.
Date: Monday, October 28
Time: 4:30 PM, 6:00 PM
Place: Downey 113
Cost: Only your ignorance
Need editing help? Ford Fellow Piers Gelly ’13 has gotchya covered:
The Writing Programs present: Peer Editing WorkshopsLooking for help managing the veritable dust bowl of academic writing that has hit you? Visit one of our First-Year Seminar Peer Editing Workshops, at which the Writing Programs’ Graduate Fellows and First-Year Seminar tutors will provide guidelines to help edit your work and others’. We will also lead a short group workshop. Bring a paper (anything you’re working on right now will do, as will a high school paper) and get some feedback from your peers!The workshops will be:Thursday, October 10
at noon in 41 Wyllys, room 114
and 4:15 p.m. in 41 Wyllys, room 112Friday, October 11at noon in 41 Wyllys, room 114and 4:15 p.m. in 41 Wyllys, room 112
From Ford Fellow Piers Gelly ’13:
First college paper got you down? Worried about being swallowed whole by the workload? Never fear! The Writing Programs have you covered.
This Thursday and Friday, our wonderful group of First-Year Seminar tutors will hold workshops that are certain to enlighten and astound you.
From the desk of Emma Mohney ’12:
If you’re interested in being paid to help fellow students with their writing and develop yours in the process, don’t forget that the pre-application to work as a Writing Tutor is due this Friday, April 19th, at 5 p.m. The full application is due next Friday, April 26th, at 5 p.m.
Working as a writing tutor is impressive on a resume or a grad school application–if you’re planning to enter a field in which writing is important (that’s most fields, by the way!), having experience as a tutor will make you stand out. Tutoring is also really rewarding, and fun!
You can find more details about applying on our website, and if you have any questions please contact Ford Fellow Emma Mohney at writingworks@wes. We look forward to receiving your application!
Another message — just in time! — from current/outgoing Ford Fellow Emma Mohney ’12:
Calling seniors from all majors!
If you are:
1. unsure of where you’ll be next year,
2. looking for work with significant responsibilities and learning opportunities,
3. hoping to get into graduate school in the future (or considering it), and
4. interested in contributing to the success of writing programs at Wesleyan,
then consider applying for Wesleyan’s prestigious post-graduate Writing Programs fellowships!
The application deadline for the two Writing Programs fellowships is right around the corner: Wednesday, March 27, at 4:30 pm. You can find specific information on the application process–it’s quite simple!–at the Ford Fellowship and the Shapiro/Russell sites. (N.B. for those interested in the Shapiro Center/Russell House Arts Fellowship: As the Arts Fellow position is being redefined, just apply to the Ford Fellowship and be sure to indicate your interest in the Arts Fellowship.)
Emma Mohney ’12 begins seeking her replacement:
Do you like to write and enjoy working with writers? Are you interested in teaching or arts administration? Would you like to begin your post-graduate career with a prestigious fellowship? If so, apply to be a Ford Fellow next year—deadline March 27th!
The Ford Fellowship in the Writing Programs is a prestigious one-year, post-graduate position that offers teaching and administrative experience as well as graduate training. Two Fellowships will be awarded for the 2013-2014 academic year, and the deadline to apply is Wednesday, March 27th at 4:30 p.m. Find more detailed application information here.
For more information, contact Professor Anne Greene at 860-685-3604 (agreene@wes) or the current Ford Fellow, Emma Mohney ’12, at writingworks@wes.
Deadline: Wednesday, March 27
Contact: agreene(at)wes
