[CW-Grad] Writers Week Postgame Report

[Stephanie Hammer]

Thank YOU Michael!  this is always such a beautiful event, and has gotten folks like me all fired up and inspired!  stephanie h

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>Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:41:46 -0800 (PST)
>From: cwgrad-announcements-bounces at lists.ucr.edu (on behalf of <mjayme at ucr.edu>)
>Subject: [CW-Grad] Writers Week Postgame Report  
>To: CW Grad Announcements <cwgrad-announcements at lists.ucr.edu>
>Cc: Brian Marcelo <brianmarcelo at gmail.com>
>
>Dear All,
>
>Thank you everyone for helping make this year's Writers Week conference such a 
>thrill and a success.  It was good to see many of you again and again over the 
>course of the week.  I recognize how busy we all are, and with this in mind, I do 
>appreciate you making time to drop in on a visiting poet or journalist or fiction 
>writer.  
>
>Thank you in particular to our current Chair, Chuck Whitney, who has always 
>been incredibly supportive to Writers Week.  He suggested this year's Hays 
>Lecturer, Lawrence Wright, and made the connection to bring him to UCR and 
>the surrounding community.  Wright's lecture was terrifically attended, many 
>books were sold, and by all accounts the event was a resounding success.  All of 
>this began with Chuck's work.
>
>Thank you also to our forthcoming Chair, Tom Lutz, who brought us a 
>wonderful keynote speaker in Janet Fitch, and did so in clutch fashion, as an 
>unforeseen change in the schedule came in the very final planning stage.  
>Thank you also to all the other faculty who called in favors to help solve this 
>year's keynote issue.  Your generosity was tremendous, and it appears that, with 
>a proper budget and fingers crossed, we may already have a keynote for next 
>year.  
>
>Thank you also to Chris Buckley, who once again assembled a terrific 
>assortment of poetic voices, and to Rob Latham in English, who did the same in 
>Science Fiction.  Thank you to all the other faculty--Susan, Laila, Juan Felipe, 
>Reza, Claire, and Robin--who contributed readings and introductions and class 
>time for our visiting authors.  
>
>Thank you also to Yvonne.  Thank you also to Tiffany.  Their help, both this past 
>week and throughout the year, made Writers Week come together.  Without their 
>hard work, I really don't know how the conference could happen.  
>
>Thank you also to Brian Marcelo, our department's work-study student, for his 
>many, many efforts.  From brochure designer to public relations person to 
>bookseller, his contributions were many, and were definitely appreciated. 
>
>Thank you to Ching-In and Alison and Angela and Deja and Judy for 
>volunteering their time to sell books over the week.  The bookstore also 
>warrants a thank-you too, for ensuring that we had books to sell, some well in 
>advance of their actual release date!  Thank you too to Bonnie and Jie and Kaitlin 
>for their thoughtful introductions as well.
>
>Apologies in advance if I am forgetting anyone.  I am appreciative, but it's been 
>an eventful week.  
>
>A final development too: Because novelist Dolen Perkins-Valdez was snowed in 
>this past week, I am looking to reschedule her reading for the spring, hopefully 
>in May.  More information on this as it becomes available.  
>
>All best,
>
>Michael Jayme
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