[Cwgrad-announcements] Writer's Week Kick Off Tomorrow

Wed Jan 31 12:41:39 PST 2007

Greetings! This Is Your Friendly Writer's Week Reminder...

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: 

Thursday, 2/1 from 2-5pm at The Chancellor's Conference Room, room 207 (upstairs) 

Located above Rubios Tacos at the University Villiage Shopping Center, 

1201 University Av 

Thanks! Also definitely check out the Writer's Week Website for all the colorful nitty gritty:

http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/writersweek/

Amalia Alvarez, MFA Poetry Student

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Welcome
Schedule of Events
Keynote Lecture
Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture     
Writers Week Spotlights
UCR Creative Writing
Writers Week Circa, 1983 — a Mini-Memoir     
Verbal Coliseum II 
Upcoming Events
Sponsors & Acknowledgements
Contacts

Schedule of Events  

All Writers Week events are free and open to the public 

        Jim Quay

        Al Young

        Stephanie Griest

        Jonathan Ritter

        Antonio Sacre 

        Allison Hedge-Coke 

        Daniel Alarcón

        Tom Lutz

        Francis Wong 

        Ginny Lim 

        Arlene Biala 

        Maurya Simon

        Tim Miller 

        Deb Bogen 

        Cheryl Klein

        lê thi diem thúy 

THURSDAY, February 1, 2007

2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Welcome and Opening Reception

Chancellor's Conference Room
1201 University Ave. Room 207 (upstairs)
University Village  shopping center   

Jim Quay — California Council of the Humanities, Executive Director

Stephen Minot — Professor Emeritus of UCR Department of Creative Writing

Readings by Al Young (California's Poet Laureate) and Stephanie Elizondo-Griest.

The UCR Andean Music Ensemble, Mayupatapi, led by UCR's Jonathan Ritter.

6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Evening Program

Bourns Hall, Room B118 (ROOM CHANGE) 

Ken Goddard, author of Balefire, the Alchemist, Double Blind, and First Evidence

FRIDAY, February 2, 2007

Gathering Stories & Telling Stories
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Riverside Art Museum,
3425 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA 

Antonio Sacre, Los Angeles storyteller.

Gary Gach, Korean poetry in translation, author of the anthology What Book!? ~ Buddha Poems from Beat to Hip.

6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
University Lecture Hall

Jonathan Lawton - Screenwriter of “Pretty Woman” and many other films. 

SATURDAY, February 3, 2007
3:00 p.m.

Riverside Public Library,
3581 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA
(951) 826-5369 

Allison Hedge-Coke - Poet, Non-fiction writer, Playwright, author of Dog Road Woman.

MONDAY, February 5, 2007
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

HMNSS Building,Room 1614

A conversation with literary agent Kendra Marcus from BookStop Literary Agency about the process of publishing fiction for young people. 

TUESDAY, February 6, 2007
Fiction & Non-Fiction
2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 1500 

Daniel Alarcón — Fiction

Mary Beth Rogers — Non-Fiction

WEDNESDAY, February 7, 2007

10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Brave New Works by Creative Writers of Riverside
Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 1500 

Nancy Best — New Works

Christopher Buckley — And the Sea

(Sheep Meadow Press) 

Alex Espinoza — Still Water Saints

(Random House) 

Michael Jayme — Every Night is Ladies’ Night

(Rayo/Harper Collins) 

Dana Johnson — Break Any Woman Down

(Anchor) 

Judy Z. Kronenfeld — Ghost Nurseries

(Finishing Line Press) 

Tom Lutz — Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers & Bums in America 

(Farrar, Strauss and Giroux) 

Malcolm Margolin — Publisher, Inlandia,

(Heyday Books) 

Derek McKown — New Works 

Sharyn Obsatz — New Works

Jo Scott-Coe — New Works

Maurya Simon — Ghost Orchid 

(Red Hen Press) 

Andrew Winer — New Works

Dwight Yates — Bring Everybody – Stories

(University of Massachusetts Press) 

Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture

8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
University Theatre
Wole Soyinka - Nobel Prize Winner

“A Writer’s Journey: An Evening with Nobel Prize Winner Wole Soyinka.” 

THURSDAY, February 8, 2007
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Verbal Coliseum II

UCR Studio Theatre 

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.

6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Inlandia @ The Barn 

The UCR Book Store offers a book signing and reception for the authors featured in Inlandia: A Literary Journey through California’s Inland

Empire, an anthology of writing about this region from Heyday Books. 

FRIDAY, February 9, 2007

1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
New Performance, New Poetry

Humanities & Social Sciences Building, Room 1500 
Tim Miller — Performance Artist

Deb Bogen — Poet

4:00 p.m. 
UCR Writers' Week
Keynote Preview 

The Work of Ann & Evan Maxwell

Riverside Public Library,
3581 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA
(951) 826-5369 

An INLANDIA Event for Book Clubs and Book Lovers at the Riverside Public Library.

6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Keynote Presentation
University Lecture Hall 

Ann & Evan Maxwell — Novelists
A Conversation “On the Subversive Impact of Popular Culture on the Novel.” 

Welcome by Charles Whitney, Chair of the Department of Creative Writing, and Juan Felipe Herrera, Writers Week Director.

SATURDAY, February 10, 2007
6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Christopher Rice — Novelist 

Welcome, Dr. Tom Lutz, Director of Palm Desert Graduate Center’s MFA Program.

UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center,
75-080 Frank Sinatra Drive, Palm Desert, CA. 

MONDAY, February 12, 2007
1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Short Stories & Poets 

Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Room 1500 

Cheryl Klein — Short Stories

Joseph Millar — Poet

Dorianne Laux — Poet

WEDNESDAY, February 14, 2007
6:10 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Closing event  
University Lecture Hall 
Immigration Theme Lecture

lê thi diem thúy — 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. 