The Creative Writing Program of the English Department and the School of Humanities and Fine Arts at Saint Vincent College is pleased to announce a new lecture program.  The Emerging Writers Series will feature new writers who will participate in very short-term residencies at the College.  Visiting writers will meet with individual student writers to read and critique their work, they will present public lectures on the craft of writing and a public reading of their own recent work.
 
The first speaker in the Emerging Writers Series is fiction-writer and teacher David Schuman.  Mr. Schuman will give a lecture for students on "The Craft of Fiction Writing" on Friday, Oct. 7.  The craft lecture is open to the public but space is limited; interested individuals should call Creative Writing Program Coordinator Dr. Fran Zauhar (724-805 2317) to confirm availability.  Mr. Schumann's reading of his own recent work will take place on Monday, Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center Amphitheatre.  This reading is free and open to the public.
 
David Schuman has published short fiction in numerous national  literary magazines. He is a graduate of the MFA Program at Washington University, where he received a Third Year Fellowship, and has served  for the past two years as the associate editor of the Land-Grant  College Review. He lives in St. Louis where he teaches fiction  writing at Washington University and serves as coordinator of the Graduate Writing Program.