Best-selling authors and award-winning writers will present guest readings and craft talks during a week-long winter workshop being hosted by Newport MFA, Salve's master of fine arts in creative writing program. All events are free and open to the Salve Regina community as well as the general public, and anyone interested is encouraged to attend.

Join us for the showing of the movie 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' at 2 pm.  After the movie, guest author, Bruce Handy, will discuss the movie and his book Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies.

BRUCE HANDY is a journalist, critic, humorist, and children’s book author. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and The Atlantic, among other publications. His book Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies has just been released. He is also the author of Wild Things: The Joys of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult and five picture books, including The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in Its Mouth and What If One Day..., both of which were named New York Times Best Children’s Books. He began his career as a writer and editor at Spy magazine and also spent a season (1992–1993) writing for Saturday Night Live.