Administrators

The Center’s Program Directors brainstorm, support and guide our literary offerings. A devoted team of staff in New York, NY carry out the goals of the Center.

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Program Directors

Norman Mailer Writers Colony

1 years ago

There’s still time to get your application in! Learn more about our classes and application process at nmcenter.org/programs/2018-workshops ... See MoreSee Less

2018 Workshops – The Norman Mailer Center

2018 Workshops Norman Mailer understood the importance of the written word and devoted his life to it. He participated in many writing conferences, met and corresponded with countless young writers and encouraged them to be the best they could be. The vision of the Center and the Colony is as wide a...

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1 years ago

CALL FOR PAPERS: 16th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference! ... See MoreSee Less

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Update launching spring 2018. Please check back around May 1. The call for papers about our upcoming conference in Macon, GA, is available. Until then, check out Project Mailer or email info [at] normanmailersociety [dot] org.

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Norman Mailer Writers Colony

1 years ago

Happy National Library Week!

Today, the American Library Association is celebrating the most challenged books of 2017. While most books on the list last year are young adult works, Norman Mailer was no stranger to having his work challenged.

His 1948 work, "The Naked and the Dead" was banned in both Canada and Australia and was challenged in the U.S. for offensive language. While we've come a long way since Mailer's work was challenged, censorship is still an issue in libraries across the country. Below are the top ten most challenged books of 2017. ... See MoreSee Less

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Norman Mailer Writers Colony

1 years ago

“The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.” - Norman Mailer on the key traits of a writer. ... See MoreSee Less

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Norman Mailer Writers Colony

1 years ago

Learn more about the Norman Mailer Summer Writers Colony at Wilkes University, class offerings and more in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing’s monthly newsletter, Revise This! ... See MoreSee Less

Revise This! - Wilkes University

During the January Residency, Dr. Bonnie Culver, program director and co-founder announced the new partnership between the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing and the Norman Mailer Center. By partnering with the Norman Mailer Center, the Norman Mailer Writers Colony will now be perman...

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