[Crwt-undergrad-info] zoom talk this week - with MFA alum Kate Bolton Bonnici & Louisa Hall

[Allison Hedge Coke]

Sharing news of a Zoom conversation with alumna Kate Bolton Bonnici on
Thursday, 4/4 @ 9 AM PDT sponsored by the Program in British, Irish, and
Empire Studies at UT Austin and organized by J.K. Barret.

Her books are phenomenal, btw!!!

BIES invites you to attend
Writing Extensions: Afterlives, Reimaginings, and Biographical Inspiration
in conversation with
*Kate Bolton Bonnici & Louisa Hall*
Thursday, April 4 at 11 a.m. CDT
via Zoom (click here
<https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvfuGvrzsoHdFodKffzmAeBPe5yUwdrUes#/registration>
 to register)


Our new virtual series, Writing Extensions
<https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/bies/events/writing-extensions-afterlives-reimaginings-and-biographical-inspiration-virtual-series.html>
, pairs writers and scholars whose work takes inspiration from eclectic
source material—historical biography, pathbreaking technological discovery,
the (sometimes messy) creative creations of influential writers, to name
but a few—for an hour-long virtual session that invites informal
conversation followed by audience Q&A

About Kate Bolton Bonnici's A True and Just Record
<https://www.kateboltonbonnici.com/about-1>:

Hecate-like, *A True & Just Record* invites us to the three-way crossroads
of poetry, feminist rhetorics, and early modern studies. Kate Bolton
Bonnici weaves together archival materials from the English witch trials,
20th- century poets and philosophers, and her own family. With fury and
care, haunted by absences, these poems―all also forms of experimental
scholarship―interrogate, disrupt, and play.

About Louisa Hall's Reproduction <https://louisahall.net/>:

Louisa Hall's fourth novel is a lucid, genre-defying novel that explores
the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood in a country in
crisis.

A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of
*Frankenstein*, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the
cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist’s own painful
experiences of pregnancy and childbirth force her to give up on the book
and turn instead to writing a contemporary *Frankenstein*, based on the
story of an old friend who mysteriously reappears in her life.

In telling a story that ranges from pregnancy to miscarriage to traumatic
birth, from motherhood to the frontiers of reproductive science, Hall draws
powerfully from her own experiences, as well as the stories of two other
women: Mary Shelley and Anna, a scientist and would-be parent who is
contemplating the possibilities, and morality, of genetic modification.

Both devastating and joyful, elegant and exacting, *Reproduction* is a
powerful reminder of the hazards and the rewards involved in creating new
life, and a profoundly feminist exploration of motherhood.

Upcoming events from BIES:
-Cohabiting Fictions
<https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/bies/events/cohabiting-fictions.html> on
Friday April 19 from 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. CDT in HRC 3.206

Please feel free to share information about these events with contacts and
colleagues! For more information about the Program in British, Irish, and
Empire Studies (BIES), please visit the website
<https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/bies/events/>.
[image: Pepperdine University logo]
*Kate Bolton Bonnici, PhD, JD *(she/her)
Assistant Professor of English
Humanities and Teacher Education Division
Seaver College




-- 
*Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, **Distinguished Professor of **Creative Writing*
**She/her & Surname is Hedge Coke, no hyphen**

*     Weird Times, Be Kind*

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
<https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/allisonh>

*Director, Writers Week 2021, 2022 <http://writersweek.ucr.edu/>,
Co-Director in Spring 2023 Director, Medical Health and Humanities DE, UCR
School of Medicine*
*Director, **Along the Chaparral, Sandhill Crane Fest*
*Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity (SEHE), affiliated
faculty*
*Summer sessions are anticipated, check Banner classes for offerings*

*author/editor of 18 books–m**ost recent release, a National Book Award
Finalist, winner of an Emory Elliot Book Award, Finalist for
the Firecracker Award and ASLE Book Award*
*Look at This Blue
<https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/shop/products/look-at-this-blue>*

allisonh at ucr.edu
allisonh at medsch.ucr.edu
(909) 848-3803 messages - VM/text
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