Juanita Rockwell

Juanita Rockwell is a writer and director of over a hundred projects including plays with and without songs; opera; puppetry; audio theater; solo performance; translation; installation; and multi-author collaboration. Awards include a Marion International Fellowship; Baltimore’s Ruby Award; NEA; Fulbright; Maryland Arts Council Award in Playwriting; and artist residencies including Djerassi and Ucross.—

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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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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

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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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“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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