Did You Know? November is National Novel Writing Month

To celebrate the National Novel Writing Month and promote creative writing, Lehman Library organizes a special lecture by Neil Connelly.  A winner of the 2014 Molly Ivors Prizes for Fictions, novelist and professor of English at Shippensburg University, will talk about his experiences in writing his first seven novels.  

Date: 11/12/15Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.Library 205

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)' s event began in 1999, and in 2005, National Novel Writing Month became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

The programs included in National Novel Writing Month,November are Camp NaNoWriMo, the Young Writers Program, Come Write In, and the “Now What?” Months.  Since 2006, roughly 100 NaNoWriMo novels have been published.  Some notable titles include:

• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, published by Doubleday
• Persistence of Memory by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, published by Delacorte Press
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, published by St. Martin's Press
• Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins, published by Dutton Juvenile
• The Darwin Elevator by Jason M. Hough, published by Del Rey Books
• The Night We Said Yes by Lauren Gibaldi, published by HarperTee