Panel at AWP Minneapolis, featuring David P. Ervin, Elana Bell, Olivia Kate Cerrone, and Maurice Decaul; moderated by Amira Pierce. Sat, Apr. 11, at 3pm, in Room 200 B&C, Level 2.
This panel features published writers--two of them US military veterans--who facilitate workshops for people with direct involvement in war. We share our practices for teaching writing as a means of coming together in a community and processing wartime experiences. In addition to our pedagogical discussion, we share writing from workshop participants, to show how crucial their work is in helping us see war as a worldwide cultural and literary phenomenon that is also the stories of real people.
Olivia Kate Cerrone is the author of The Hunger Saint. She recently won a "Distinguished Fellowship" from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her fiction has appeared in a wide variety of literary journals, including New South, the Berkeley Fiction Review and War, Literature and the Arts.
Elana Bell’s first collection of poetry, Eyes, Stones was selected as the winner of the 2011 Walt Whitman Award. She has led creative writing workshops for women in prison, for educators, for high school students, and for Seeds of Peace. Elana is writer in residence at the Bronx Academy of Letters.
Maurice Emerson Decaul, a former Marine, is a poet, essayist, and playwright. His poems have also been translated into French and Arabic and his plays have been produced and his plays have been produced and performed in New York City, Washington DC and Paris. He is a graduate of Columbia University.
David P. Ervin is a former Sergeant in the Army infantry and Iraq War veteran. He graduated West Virginia University with a BA in history. David self-published a memoir, "Leaving the Wire: An Infantryman's Iraq" and is President of Military Experience and the Arts.
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