January 10, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm

September 13, 2011 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Congratulations to the winners of the Center for American Literary Studies' (CALS) Family Writing Contest! As part of the 2011 Centre County Reads program, featuring Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls, Centre County residents and Penn State students were invited to submit work on a family related theme. 

March 9, 2010 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Congratulations to the winners of the Dashiell Hammett Writing Contest!

Overall Winner: Andrea Rochat, Penn State MFA student, for "How It All Adds Up."

Alternative category: Jarod Rosello, Penn State MFA student, for "In the Words of Dashiell Hammett,"

The Nittany Valley Writers Network is a sharing, supportive, inspiring community linking local writers of all genres and levels of experience: expert and novice. . .published and hopeful. 

Steven Sherrill is not only an associate professor of English and integrative arts at Penn State Altoona, but an author of three novels*; one of which, Visits from the Drowned Girl, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

Paul Yeager & his wife Sherry Coven present a practical yet humorous session on words, phrases, and expressions that writers should avoid as well as grammatical errors that make editors cringe.

Join local authors Suzan Erem and Paul Durrenberger as they talk about their experience co-authoring On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5, their non-fiction account of an 18 month struggle between a black longshoremen's union in the South and a white neoconservative attorney general that started in late 1999 and continues to reverberate through the global economy.