BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Pittsburgh Jewish chronicle - ECPv4.9.13//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:The Pittsburgh Jewish chronicle
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://jewishchronidev.timesofisrael.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Pittsburgh Jewish chronicle
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20180311T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20181104T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T203000
DTSTAMP:20260603T235839
CREATED:20180409T164935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180409T180631Z
UID:56257-1523565000-1523565000@jewishchronidev.timesofisrael.com
SUMMARY:Allison Amend
DESCRIPTION:\n	\n		Allison Amend  (Photo provided by Shannon Reed)\n	\nApril 12 & 13th will be the 5th annual Rowan Festival in the Writing Program at Pitt. This festival is sponsored by The Alex Rowan Foundation (http://www.alexrowanfoundation.org/). Alex was a recent graduate of Pitt’s  creative writing program who tragically passed away in 2013. The festival is one of the events Alex’s parents sponsor in her memory. Pitt brings a writer of national renown to the campus for a reading\, and to hold a writing workshop with our undergrads and give out awards in Alex’s honor to the top female undergrad writers in poetry\, fiction and creative non-fiction (our three majors). \nThis year\, Allison Amend (http://www.allisonamend.com/) will read at 8:30 p.m. at Frick Fine Arts Auditorium\, followed by a reception in the Cloister. The program  is free and open to the public. Amend is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, is the author of the novels Enchanted Islands\, A Nearly Perfect Copy\, and Stations West\, which was a finalist for the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Oklahoma Book Award.\nShe is also the author of the Independent Publisher’s Award-winning short story\ncollection Things That Pass for Love. A former Visiting Assistant Professor at\nPitt\, she lives in New York City. \n
URL:https://jewishchronidev.timesofisrael.com/event/56257/
CATEGORIES:Program
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR