<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hello, Everyone,<div><br></div><div>Please see below for what looks to be a wonderful set of readings of creative work by writers from four Southwest US creative writing MFA programs, organized by Black Mountain Institute at University of Nevada Las Vegas. </div><div><br></div><div>You can attend via Zoom via the registration information below.</div><div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div><br></div><div>jt</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Huseyin Arikan <huseyin.arikan@unlv.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Sandbox: A Southwest Writers Exchange - Invite</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">October 20, 2025 at 2:59:24 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">----</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Sandbox: A Southwest Writers Exchange</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Join Black Mountain Institute for a reading exchange between four Creative Writing Programs situated in the Southwest: The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), New Mexico State (NMSU), the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside), and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The Sandbox Exchange will feature two readers from each university. Please join us as we bring writers in conversation with one another for this virtual event. It is our hope to share what it looks like to be writing from our landscapes today and showcase our vibrant Southwest literary community.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://unlv.zoom.us/meeting/register/S-fht48jTNSecaYtuNi1_Q#/registration" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Free registration is available here!</span></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.656; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span id="m_1945351068015838457m_6071039950697404614m_5442250314116127402m_-7301577638678823145gmail-docs-internal-guid-83625c14-7fff-75bd-9714-58ca55f02088"><br><br></span></div><img alt="sandbox2025 (2).jpg" height="542" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;" src="cid:ii_mgwhx8a31"></div>
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