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<font size=3>Please DO pass the word along that Jonathan Lawton's 6:30 pm
Friday (Feb. 2) appearance has been CANCELED; he will be unable to
appear.<br><br>
cw<br><br>
At 12:41 PM 1/31/2007, aalva016@student.ucr.edu wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Greetings! This Is Your Friendly
Writer's Week Reminder...<br><br>
Please come one, come all...to as many Writer's Week events as you can.
Spread the WORD. As you can see with the attached schedule, it's gonna be
dope! The opening reception is tomorrow: <br><br>
Thursday, 2/1 from 2-5pm at The Chancellor's Conference Room, room 207
(upstairs) <br><br>
Located above Rubios Tacos at the University Villiage Shopping Center,
<br><br>
1201 University Av <br><br>
Thanks! Also definitely check out the Writer's Week Website for all the
colorful nitty gritty:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/writersweek/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/writersweek/</a><br><br>
Amalia Alvarez, MFA Poetry Student<br><br>
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Welcome<br>
Schedule of Events<br>
Keynote Lecture<br>
Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture <br>
Writers Week Spotlights<br>
UCR Creative Writing<br>
Writers Week Circa, 1983 — a Mini-Memoir <br>
Verbal Colisseum II <br>
Upcoming Events<br>
Sponsors & Acknowledgements<br>
Contacts<br>
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Schedule of Events <br>
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All Writers Week events are free and open to the public <br><br>
<br><br>
Jim Quay<br>
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Al Young<br><br>
Stephanie Griest<br>
<br>
Jonathan Ritter<br><br>
Antonio Sacre <br>
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Allison Hedge-Coke <br>
<br>
Daniel AlarcĂłn<br>
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Tom Lutz<br>
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Francis Wong <br>
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Ginny Lim <br>
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Arlene Biala <br>
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Maurya Simon<br><br>
Tim Miller <br>
<br>
Deb Bogen <br><br>
Cheryl Klein<br>
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lĂŞ thi diem thĂşy <br>
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THURSDAY, February 1, 2007<br><br>
2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.<br>
Welcome and Opening Reception<br><br>
Chancellor's Conference Room<br>
1201 University Ave. Room 207 (upstairs)<br>
University Village shopping center <br><br>
Jim Quay — California Council of the Humanities, Executive
Director<br>
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Stephen Minot — Professor Emeritus of UCR Department of Creative
Writing<br><br>
Readings by Al Young (California's Poet Laureate) and Stephanie
Elizondo-Griest.<br>
<br>
The UCR Andean Music Ensemble, Mayupatapi, led by UCR's Jonathan
Ritter.<br><br>
<br>
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.<br>
Evening Program<br><br>
Bourns Hall, Room B118 (ROOM CHANGE) <br><br>
Ken Goddard, author of Balefire, the Alchemist, Double Blind, and First
Evidence<br><br>
<br>
FRIDAY, February 2, 2007<br><br>
Gathering Stories & Telling Stories<br>
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.<br><br>
Riverside Art Museum,<br>
3425 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA <br><br>
Antonio Sacre, Los Angeles storyteller.<br><br>
Gary Gach, Korean poetry in translation, author of the anthology What
Book!? ~ Buddha Poems from Beat to Hip.<br><br>
<br>
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.<br>
University Lecture Hall<br><br>
Jonathan Lawton - Screenwriter of “Pretty Woman” and many other
films. <br><br>
<br>
SATURDAY, February 3, 2007<br>
3:00 p.m.<br><br>
Riverside Public Library,<br>
3581 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA<br>
(951) 826-5369 <br><br>
Allison Hedge-Coke - Poet, Non-fiction writer, Playwright, author of Dog
Road Woman.<br><br>
<br>
MONDAY, February 5, 2007<br>
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.<br><br>
HMNSS Building,Room 1614<br><br>
A conversation with literary agent Kendra Marcus from BookStop Literary
Agency about the process of publishing fiction for young people.
<br><br>
<br>
TUESDAY, February 6, 2007<br>
Fiction & Non-Fiction<br>
2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.<br><br>
Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 1500 <br><br>
Daniel AlarcĂłn — Fiction<br><br>
MMary Beth Rogers — Non-Fiction<br><br>
<br>
WEDNESDAY, Febbruary 7, 2007<br><br>
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.<br><br>
Brave New Works by Creative Writers of Riverside<br>
Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 1500 <br><br>
<br>
Nancy Best — New Works<br>
<br>
Christopher Buckley — And thethe Sea<br><br>
(Sheep Meadow Press) <br>
<br>
Alex Espinoza — SStill Water Saints<br><br>
(Random House) <br>
<br>
Michael Jayme — Every Night is Ladies’ Night<br><br>
(Rayo/Harper Collins) <br>
<br>
Dana Johnson — Break Any Woman Down<br><br>
<br>
(Anchor) <br>
<br>
Judy Z. Kronenfeld — Ghost Nurserries<br><br>
(Finishing Line Press) <br>
<br>
Tom Lutz — Doinng Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers &
Bums in America <br><br>
(Farrar, Strauss and Giroux) <br>
<br>
Malcolm Margolin — Publisher, Inlandia,<br><br>
(Heydayy Books) <br>
<br>
Derek McKown — New Works <br>
<br>
Sharyyn Obsatz — New Works<br>
<br>
Jo Scott-Coe — New Workorks<br><br>
Maurya Simon — Ghost Orchid <br><br>
(Red Hen Press)) <br><br>
Andrew Winer — New Works<br>
<br>
Dwight Yates —— Bring Everybody Stories<br><br>
(University of Massachhusetts Press) <br><br>
<br>
Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture<br><br>
8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.<br>
University Theatre<br>
Wole Soyinka - Nobel Prize Winner<br><br>
“A Writer’s Journey: An Evening with Nobel Prize Winner Wole
Soyinka.” <br><br>
<br>
THURSDAY, February 8, 2007<br>
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.<br>
Verbal Coliseum II<br><br>
UCR Studio Theatre <br><br>
Four featured performers, Francis Wong, Ginny Lim, Arlene Biala, and
Margarita Robles, will join in an evening of spoken word jazz, led by
Rickerby Hines, Shane Shukis, and Amalia Alvarez, and joined by
undergraduate and graduate word-wrestlers.<br><br>
<br>
6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.<br>
Inlandia @ The Barn <br><br>
The UCR Book Store offers a book signing and reception for the authors
featured in Inlandia: A Literary Journey through California’s
Inland<br><br>
Empire, an anthology of writing about this region from Heyday Books.
<br><br>
<br>
FRIDAY, February 9, 2007<br><br>
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.<br>
New Performance, New Poetry<br><br>
Humanities & Social Sciences Building, Room 1500 <br>
Tim Miller — Performance Artist<br><br>
DDeb Bogen — Poet<br><br>
4:00 p.m. <br>
UCR Writers' Week<br>
Keeynote Preview <br><br>
The Work of Ann & Evan Maxwell<br><br>
Riverside Public Library,<br>
3581 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA<br>
(951) 826-5369 <br><br>
An INLANDIA Event for Book Clubs and Book Lovers at the Riverside Public
Library.<br><br>
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.<br>
Keynote Presentation<br>
University Lecture Hall <br><br>
Ann & Evan Maxwell — Noveliists<br>
A Conversation “On the Subversive Impact of Popular Culture on the
Novel.” <br><br>
Welcome by Charles Whitney, Chair of the Department of Creative Writing,
and Juan Felipe Herrera, Writers Week Director.<br><br>
SATURDAY, February 10, 2007<br>
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.<br>
Christopher Rice — Novelist <br><br>
Welcome, Dr. Tom Lutz, Diirector of Palm Desert Graduate Center’s MFA
Program.<br><br>
UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center,<br>
75-080 Frank Sinatra Drive, Palm Desert, CA. <br><br>
<br>
MONDAY, February 12, 2007<br>
1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.<br>
Short Stories & Poets <br><br>
Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 1500 <br><br>
Cheryl Klein — Short Stories<br><br>
Joseph Millaar — Poet<br>
<br>
Dorianne Laux — Poet<br>
<br><br>
WEDNESNESDAY, February 14, 2007<br>
6:10 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.<br><br>
Closing event <br>
University Lecture Hall <br>
Immigration Theme Lecture<br><br>
lĂŞ thi diem thĂşy — Novelist, author of The Gangster We Are All
Looking For, selected as the theme book for students in the College of
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. <br><br>
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Creative Writing; Professor of Sociology<br>
Department of Creative Writing, 1607 HMNSS, <br>
University of California , 900 University Ave.<br>
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