Writer
David Surface has led fiction workshops for The Hudson Valley Writers'
Center for the past 15 years. On Friday evening, February 27, he and one of his
Saturday morning students, Tom Mellana, will share their work in a special
reading at the Center.
David
Surface was awarded a 2005 Fellowship in Non Fiction Literature from the New York
Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and was also nominated for the NYFA Prize. He
has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in fiction. His essays and stories
have been published in a wide variety of 
print
and on-line journals, including DoubleTake, North American Review,
Crazyhorse, Fiction and Slow Trains, and his essays about
the craft of fiction writing have been featured in the National Writers Union
Magazine and Teachers & Writers Guide to William Carlos Williams.
David is a founder of WriteMind, a creative language arts program for teachers
and students of grades 4 - 12, and he is leader of The F*E*G*S Writing Project
which conducts writing workshops in mental health facilities throughout New York
City. He has worked as a writer-in-the-schools for the Lincoln Center Department
of Education, designing and implementing innovative writing curriculum for Intermediate
Schools in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn. David has also taught as a Visiting
Writer at Wooster College, the University of Kentucky, and the Urban High School
for the Humanities.
Tom Mellana is the editorial page editor of The Advocate and Greenwich Time newspapers in Fairfield County, Conn. He’s been a print journalist for 20 years. Born in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., he’s lived in Tarrytown for the last five years with his wife, Suzanne, and The Cat — and enough comic books to drive both wife and cat insane.
The reading will be followed by a Q&A period with David and Tom.
Suggested
Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, David G. Taft Foundation, Orchard Foundation, William E. Robinson Foundation, and Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.