UWP Lecturers Writer's Week at UCR Feb 2-Feb 7, 2009

Mon Feb 2 10:59:14 PST 2009

Does everyone know that this is Writer's Week at UCR?

Link to Schedule:

http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/writers_week/writers%20week%202009.html

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Walter Isaacson, a former 
chairman and CEO of CNN and former managing 
editor of Time, will give the 41st annual Hays 
Press-Enterprise Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 4, at 
7:30 p.m. in University Theatre at the University of California, Riverside.

The Hays lecture is scheduled as part of the 
university’s annual Writers Week, which runs from 
Tuesday, Feb. 3, through Saturday, Feb. 7. 
Writers Week activities are free and open to the public.

Isaacson, who is president and CEO of the Aspen 
Institute, is the author of “Einstein: His Life 
and Universe,” “Benjamin Franklin: An American 
Life” and “Kissinger: A Biography.”

The Hays lecture series honors former 
Press-Enterprise editor and publisher Howard H 
“Tim” Hays and features a news media leader 
discussing the state of the industry. Past 
speakers have included Benjamin Bradlee of the 
Washington Post, Chicago Tribune columnist 
Clarence Page and syndicated columnist George Will.

The lecture, presented at UCR for many years, 
returns to the campus after being held at the Mission Inn in recent years.

“We're delighted at the opportunity to bring the 
lecture back to its roots,” said Ron Redfern, The 
Press-Enterprise’s publisher and chief executive officer.

Redfern also said he was pleased that Walter 
Isaacson’s lecture is part of UCR’s annual 
Writers Week, which will feature more than a 
dozen award-winning poets, novelists and journalists.

With the exception of the Hays lecture, weekday 
events will be held in the College of Humanities, 
Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) 
Interdisciplinary Building, room 1128. The final 
reading on Saturday, Feb. 7, will be held at the 
downtown branch of the Riverside Public Library, 3581 Mission Inn Ave.

The schedule is:

Tuesday, Feb. 3
3 p.m. – Gustavo Arellano, a staff writer with OC 
Weekly and author of the nationally syndicated column “Ask a Mexican”
5 p.m. – Mark Jenkins, an adventure travel columnist for Outside magazine

Wednesday, Feb. 4
11a.m. – Betsy Amster, president of Amster 
Literary Enterprises, a literary agency in Los Angeles
1 p.m. – Elena Karina Byrne, literary programs 
director for The Ruskin Art Club and the Museum 
of Contemporary Art’s Night Vision poetry programs
5 p.m. – Joseph Stroud, poet and winner of the 
Witter Bynner Fellowship of the Library of Congress and a Pushcart Prize
7:30 p.m. – Walter Isaacson

Thursday, Feb. 5
1 p.m. – Patrick Michael Finn, assistant 
professor of English at Chandler-Gilbert 
Community College in Chandler, Ariz., and winner 
of Cleveland State University’s 2007 Wiley 
Memorial Novella Contest for “A Martyr for Suzy Kasasovich”
3 p.m. – Marsha de la O, whose first book of 
poetry, “Black Hope,” won the New Issues Press 
Poetry Prize and a Small Press Editor’s Choice Award
5 p.m. – Susan Straight, UCR professor of 
creative writing, novelist and winner of numerous 
awards including a Lannan award for “A Million 
Nightingales” and the 2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award 
for her short story “The Golden Gopher”
7:30 p.m. – Panel on Place with Thursday’s authors

Friday, Feb. 6
1 p.m. – Amy Wallace, an award-winning journalist 
who worked for the Los Angeles Times for 14 years 
and whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, 
Vanity Fair, Esquire, Men's Journal, Elle, the 
New York Times Magazine, The Nation and Conde Nast Portfolio
3 p.m. – Michelle Latiolais, associate professor 
of English at UC Irvine and author of the novel “Even Now”
5 p.m. – Gary Phillips, author of the Martha Chainey and Ivan Monk novels.

Saturday, Feb. 7
2 p.m. – Patrick Michael Finn

Michael Jayme, assistant professor of creative 
writing and director of Writers Week 2009, said 
he is proud to bring such a diverse range of 
writers, poets and journalists to UCR.

“A central theme in the work of many of this 
year’s authors is the matter of place, the matter 
of how where they come from shapes their work,” 
Jayme said. “I am excited to hear Gustavo 
Arellano discuss Orange County, to hear Susan 
Straight discuss the Inland Empire, and to hear 
Patrick Michael Finn, who is returning to campus 
for our first Distinguished Alumnus reading.”

For more information, contact Jayme at 
michael.jayme at ucr.edu or (951) 827-4291, or view 
the schedule 
<http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/writers_week/writers 
week 2009.html>online.

Related Links:
<http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/writers_week/writers 
week 2009.html>Writers Week
Additional Contacts:
<mailto:michael.jayme at ucr.edu>Michael Jayme, (951) 827-4291

http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/writers_week/writers%20week%202009.html

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