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2010 LITERARY EVENTS IN
POETRY FICTION, NONFICTION, MEMOIR AND SCREENWRITING

THESE EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The 41st Annual Squaw Valley Community of Writers will convene again this summer with workshops in Poetry, Fiction and Screenwriting.

If you would like to get email notice of the schedule of events, sign up for our e-mailing list here, and check the box: Squaw Valley Public Events Schedule.


All events take place at the Olympic Village Lodge:
1901 Chamonix Place, Squaw Valley, California.
Click here for Directions .


July 17 – 24, 2010 the Poetry Workshop will meet in Squaw Valley.
Please join us for a poetry reading by the five award-winning staff poets:
Kazim Ali, Forrest Gander, Brenda Hillman, Evie Shockley, and Dean Young
with a special tribute to Lucille Clifton.


Thursday July 22, 2010 at 8:15 pm in the Olympic Valley Lodge

Featuring a tribute to beloved poet Lucille Clifton
 http://www.squawvalleywriters.org/lucille_clifton.html

Tickets: $15/$10 student (suggested donation)
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Email brett@squawvalleywriters.org or call (530) 581-5200 to RSVP


August 7 - 14, the prestigious Writing Workshops in Fiction and Nonfiction, will meet for a week in Squaw Valley. Writing Workshop participants meet each day in workshop, as well as attend presentations on the craft and the business of writing. Most of these events are free and open to the public.

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2010 Summer Literary Events - August 7 - 14

Saturday August 7

8:00 Opening Talk: Glen David Gold

Sunday August 8

1:00 Craft Talk: Mark Childress "The Rituals of Writing - Getting Going"

2:00 Craft Talk: Martin J. Smith:
"Craft Talk: Making Stuff Happen: How to Build a Plot with Tools You Probably Have Around the House"

3:00 Panel: On Scene in Fiction and Nonfiction: Louis Edwards, Teresa Jordan, Alice Sebold, Al Young Moderated by Sands Hall

5:30 (Un)solicited Testimonials Part I: You Must Read This - Introduced by Andrew Tonkovich with Emmons, Gold, Haslam, Meschery, Shandler, Spatz

8:00 Writers Read and Talk about Their Work: John Daniel, Teresa Jordan, Michael Jaime-Becerra

Monday, August 9

1:00 Craft Talk: Gill Dennis "Finding Your Story"

2:00 Panel: The Historical Novel with Greg Bills, Joanne Meschery, Luis Alberto Urrea Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich

3:00 Panel: Short Story Publishing with Jordan Bass, H. Emerson Blake, Janet Silver Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich

5:30 Short Takes Staff Readings: Greg Bills, Cai Emmons, Gregory Spatz, Al Young

8:00 The Screenwriting Program presents:

A Screening of the HBO film "Temple Grandin," written by Christopher Monger and starring Claire Danes. Christopher Monger will talk about the project following the screening.

Tuesday, August 10

1:00 pm Book Editors Panel: Jordan Bass, Ann Close, Malcolm Margolin, Geoff Shandler moderated by Anne Close

2:00 Agents Panel: Michael Carlisle, Henry Dunow, B.J. Robbins, Janet Silver Moderated by Mark Childress

3:00 Panel: What's Love Got to Do With It? On integrity and conscience in writing, promoting and publishing. With Michael Carlisle, H. Emerson Blake, Ann Close, Malcolm Margolin Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich

5:30 Short Takes Staff Readings: Louis Edwards, Glen David Gold, Gerald Haslam, Andrew Tonkovich

8:00 Deep Roots Panel: Faith or Religious Background and How It May Manifest in Fiction with Greg Bills, Rhoda Huffey, Alice Sebold, Alia Yunis, Amy Tan (if available) Moderated by Louis B. Jones

Wednesday, August 11

12:15 Readings by Published Alumni: Marisa Matarazzo, Victoria Patterson, Dora Wang, Alia Yunis

Afternoon and Evening Off ---

Thursday August 12

1:00 Craft Talk: Michelle Latiolais "Why Reading Matters"

2:00 Craft Talk: Sands Hall “Stagecraft in Fiction and Nonfiction”

3:00 Panel: Writing The Short Story with Michael Jaime-Becerra, Louis B. Jones, Victoria Patterson, Gregory Spatz Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich

5:30 (Un)solicited Testimonials: You Must Read This, Part II with
Blake, Dennis, Jaime-Becerra, Jordan, Huffey, Tan
Introduced by Andrew Tonkovich

8:00 Writers Read & Talk about Their Work: Mark Childress, Amy Tan, Luis Alberto Urrea

Friday August 13

1:00 Craft Talk: Diane Johnson "Finding Your Subject"

2:00 A Magnificent Obsession –
Fulfilling the Obligations, Demands and Scope of Your Subject
John Daniel, Gerald Haslam, Teresa Jordan, Amy Tan, Al Young
Moderated by Martin J. Smith

3:00 Panel: Writing Beyond The Conference: Writing groups, etc.:
Cai Emmons, Amy Tan Moderated by Lisa Alvarez

Saturday, August 14

9:30 Closing Talk by Michael Jaime-Becerra

These events are presented as part of the Community of Writers’ Annual Workshops. Free of charge: donations welcome. Schedule subject to change.

 

 

Featuring a tribute to beloved poet Lucille Clifton
 http://www.squawvalleywriters.org/lucille_clifton.html

Friday, July 16, 2010, at 7:30 p.m
Starr King Room, 1st Unitarian Universalist
1187 Franklin at Geary, San Francisco

On Friday, July 16, 2010 acclaimed poets Kazim Ali, Forrest Gander, Brenda Hillman, Evie Shockley and Dean Young will read their poetry in the Starr King Room of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco.

The five poets are this year’s staff teachers for the Poetry Workshop. They represent a wonderful diversity of styles. This benefit reading will raise money for the Poetry Workshop Scholarship Fund at the Community of Writers and is also being held in honor of long-time staff poet Lucille Clifton, who passed away on February 13. The reading will feature a special tribute to Lucille Clifton. Books by the poets will be available for purchase and signing.

For more information about the poets who will be reading, please visit: www.squawvalleywriters.org/poetry_ws.htm

Buy Tickets Now: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111259

DETAILS: The First Unitarian Universalist Society is located at 1187 Franklin Street at Geary in San Francisco. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Doors will open at 6:30 pm, and seating is unassigned.

Tickets are $30 for premium seating, $20 general admission, and $15 for students. Group discounts are available. Tickets are available online at http://bit.ly/PoetryBenefit2010, or call 877-537-8073.

For questions call 877-537-8073 or email squawpoet@ureach.com.

 

The First Unitarian Universalist Society is located at 1187 Franklin Street at Geary in San Francisco. Map it!

PARKING: Parking is available at the Sutter Place Garage, 1355 Sutter St. (open 24 hours), 2 blocks from the church. On-street free parking may also be available in the surrounding area, but please arrive early to give yourself time to find a space. Take note of the one-hour parking signs, Monday through Friday; they extend until 6 PM on the east side of Franklin and until 7 PM on the west side.

PARKING FOR DISABLED: For people with disabilities who have a blue placard ONLY, there are reserved parking spaces in the First Unitarian Church’s underground garage. The garage entrance is on the corner of Starr King Way and Franklin Street. Starr King is Geary Boulevard headed downtown. The name changes 3 times in 3 blocks (Geary, Starr King, O’Farrell). You need to be in the left lane to turn left into the garage (about 10 feet before the Franklin Street intersection). The gate will open out automatically (stay back a few feet). Park in any spot that is not marked “Reserved.”

PUBLIC TRANSIT: BART - exit Montgomery Station at the Kearny Street exit, catch the 38 Geary bus on Kearny/Market intersection and get off the bus at Van Ness (if 38 Limited to Express), or Franklin if it is a 38 local; OR BART to the Civic Center Station, walk west 3 blocks past City Hall, to Van Ness and catch a #47 Muni northbound on Van Ness to Geary. The 47 Van Ness and 38 Geary buses stop 1 block from First Unitarian.

 

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Hotel Rex has generously provided hotel rooms for our poets the night of the reading for the last 5 years.
www.thehotelrex.com

The Booksmith will be selling books at the event and
will be generously donating a portion of the sales to our scholarship program. www.booksmith.com

Rev. Audrey Gonzalez, a volunteer probation officer, CASA worker, and prison chaplain for Shelby County juvenile court in Tennessee, an art collector, theatrical entrepeneur, former award winning-journalist, and resident of Uruguay for 20 years, who is attempting to be a poet.

Deborah and Leo Ruth have been supporters of the Community of Writers for many years. Deborah is a poet and a many-time Poetry Program participant. They are sponsoring this event to help poets who, without the financial aid this event provides, would be unable to attend.

 

Maxima Kahn is a former Community of Writers Poetry Workshop participant volunteer who organizes the Benefit Poetry Reading. She may need additional volunteers to help her on the day of the event. If you would like to help, please contact her: squawpoet@ureach.com or call 877-537-8073.

Please help get the word out! Download and print the event poster. If you could post in in your neighborhood bookstore, cafe or library, it would be a tremendous help. Or email the poster to your friends. Click here to download the poster.

To obtain high resolution photographs of the writers, poets or former events: http://www.squawvalleywriters.org/ImagesPoets.html