Coordinated through the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, and facilitated by a committee composed of Newcomb and Tulane students, staff, and faculty, the Zale Writer-in-Residence program was established by Dana Zale Gerard, N '85, and made possible by an annual gift from the M.B. and Edna Zale Foundation of Dallas, Texas. Since 2006, the Program has been generously supported by Barnes + Noble College Booksellers.
Each year since 1985, the Zale Writer-in-Residence Program has brought to the Newcomb/Tulane campus a renowned woman writer to spend a week among her readers and student writers hungry for insight. In addition to sitting for a public interview and delivering a reading, the Zale Writer participates in creative writing, literature, and other liberal arts classes; as well as meeting with students in less formal settings.
To learn more about the Zale Writer-in-Residence program click here.
The Zale Writers2008: Michelle Tea is scheduled to visit campus as the 23rd Zale Writer in Residence in late February.
2007: Elizabeth McCracken
2006: Julie Orringer
2004/2005: Two semesters of events celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Zale Writer-in-Residence Program
- Fall 2004: Shake Loose Our Skin: A Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Zale Writer-in-Residence Program featuring the return of Zale Writers Linda Hogan, Sonia Sanchez, and Joanna Scott covened by Mab Segrest, Distinguished Tulane Mellon Professor in the Humanites (info and audio downloads)
- Spring 2005: Ellen Gilchrist was the 20th Zale Writer-in-Residence and Distinguished Tulane Mellon Professor in the Humanities
Schedule for the Mellon Symposium convened by Ellen on "The Writing Life."
2003: Thisbe Nissen
2002: Joanna Scott
2001: Edwidge Danticat
2000: Jessica Hagedorn
1999: Ann Patchett
1998: Octavia Butler
1997: Deb Margolin
1996: Ellen Bryant Voigt
1995: Dorothy Allison
1994 (Fall): Lee Smith
1994 (Spring): Rosellen Brown
1993: Linda Hogan
1992: Sonia Sanchez
1991: Ellen Douglas
1990: E.M. Bronner
1989: Gloria Naylor
1988: Nancy Willard
1987: Carolyn Forche
1986: Alison Lurie
* Writers before 1995 do not yet have pages devoted to them online