{"id":12775,"date":"2024-10-23T22:16:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T22:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=12775"},"modified":"2024-10-23T22:16:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T22:16:36","slug":"writing-a-life-with-tara-stillions-whitehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2024\/10\/23\/writing-a-life-with-tara-stillions-whitehead\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWriting: A Life\u201d with Tara Stillions Whitehead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p>(By Katherine Buerke \u201926, staff writer)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LVC\u2019s \u201cWriting: A Life\u201d series welcomed author, teacher and filmmaker Tara Stillions Whitehead to campus this week.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stillions Whitehead is a California native who worked in the film industry before moving to central Pennsylvania. She is an assistant professor of film, video and digital media at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, PA, as well as an avid writer in multiple genres.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stillions Whitehead gave a reading of excerpts from her novels \u201cThey More Than Burned\u201d and \u201cThe Year of the Monster\u201d on Monday, Oct. 21, in the Bishop Library Atrium.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of Stillions Whitehead\u2019s works blur the lines between genres. Her latest novel, \u201cThey More Than Burned,\u201d blends film scripts, interviews and prose to create a hybrid piece.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI find the liminal space and I put an anchor down,\u201d Stillions Whitehead said. \u201cYou can write in multiple modes and be incredibly clear. If suddenly a story needs to turn into a film or screenplay, I\u2019ll let it. And I try to subvert expectations in what a story can do, to find the story\u2019s full potential.\u201d\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stillions Whitehead is an ardent advocate of writing programs like the \u201cWriting: A Life\u201d series.\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOf all the kinds of public engagements, things like this are the most important to me,\u201d she said. \u201cIt&#8217;s important for students to have access to writers. It humanizes the writing process.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second \u201cWriting: A Life\u201d reading of the semester will host Emma Copley Eisenberg on Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the Bishop Library Atrium starting at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>(By Katherine Buerke \u201926, staff writer)&nbsp; LVC\u2019s \u201cWriting: A Life\u201d series welcomed author, teacher and filmmaker Tara Stillions Whitehead to campus this week.\u202f&nbsp; Stillions Whitehead is a California native who worked in the film industry <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2024\/10\/23\/writing-a-life-with-tara-stillions-whitehead\/\" title=\"\u201cWriting: A Life\u201d with Tara Stillions Whitehead\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}