[Cwgrad-announcements] Re: Writer's Week Kick Off Tomorrow
Charles Whitney
chuck.whitney at ucr.edu
Wed Jan 31 14:11:48 PST 2007
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.
cw
At 12:41 PM 1/31/2007, aalva016 at student.ucr.edu wrote:
>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 Colisseum 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
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> Tom Lutz
>
> Francis Wong
>
> Ginny Lim
>
> Arlene Biala
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> Maurya Simon
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> Tim Miller
>
> Deb Bogen
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> 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
>
>MMary Beth Rogers — Non-Fiction
>
>
>WEDNESDAY, Febbruary 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 thethe Sea
>
>(Sheep Meadow Press)
>
>Alex Espinoza — SStill 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 Nurserries
>
>(Finishing Line Press)
>
>Tom Lutz — Doinng Nothing: A History of Loafers,
>Loungers, Slackers & Bums in America
>
>(Farrar, Strauss and Giroux)
>
>Malcolm Margolin — Publisher, Inlandia,
>
>(Heydayy Books)
>
>Derek McKown — New Works
>
>Sharyyn Obsatz — New Works
>
>Jo Scott-Coe — New Workorks
>
>Maurya Simon — Ghost Orchid
>
>(Red Hen Press))
>
>Andrew Winer — New Works
>
>Dwight Yates —— Bring Everybody Stories
>
>(University of Massachhusetts 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.â€
>
>
>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
>
>DDeb Bogen — Poet
>
>4:00 p.m.
>UCR Writers' Week
>Keeynote 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 — Noveliists
>A Conversation “On the Subversive Impact of
>Popular Culture on the Novel.â€
>
>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, Diirector 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 Millaar — Poet
>
>Dorianne Laux — Poet
>
>
>WEDNESNESDAY, 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.
>
>
>
>
>©2007 Regents of the University of California.
>All rights reserved. Page created and maintained by CHASS College Computing.
D. Charles Whitney, Professor and Chair, Creative
Writing; Professor of Sociology
Department of Creative Writing, 1607 HMNSS,
University of California , 900 University Ave.
Riverside, CA 92521-0118 951.827.6076 / Fax 951.827.3619
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