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2009 LITERARY EVENTS IN
POETRY FICTION, NONFICTION, MEMOIR AND SCREENWRITING

THESE EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The 40th Annual Squaw Valley Community of Writers will convene again this summer with workshops in Poetry, Fiction and Screenwriting. We will post our 2009 Events Schedule here in July 2009.

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.
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July 18 – 25, 2009 the Poetry Workshop will meet in Squaw Valley. Please join us for a poetry reading by the five award-winning staff poets: Cornelius Eady, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Sharon Olds, Evie Shockley, and Special Guest Galway Kinnell.

Thursday July 23, 2009
8:15 pm

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August 1 - 8, 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. Download & Print August Schedule of Events

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This page still contains information from 2009. We will update the information here in June 2010.

 

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Friday July 17, 2009
7:30 PM

	Grace Cathedral - The Nave
	1100 California Street San Francisco

On Friday, July 17, 2009, at 7:30 p.m., Cornelius Eady, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds, and Evie Shockley will read their poetry in The Nave at Grace Cathedral (1100 California Street). This benefit reading will raise money for the Poetry Scholarship Fund at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Books donated by the poets and their publishers will be available for purchase before and after the reading, and the poets will be available to sign books after the reading.

This will mark the 18th year for this annual benefit event, and every year it is a standing room-only success. All proceeds will benefit the Poetry Workshop Scholarship Fund, enabling talented writers to attend the week-long poetry writing workshop held each year in Squaw Valley, California. It is the goal of this program to support both established and emerging writers of talent who would benefit from working with their peers at the Poetry Week at Squaw Valley.

Doors will open at 6:30 pm, and seating is general admission. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

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PRICES
Premium Seating (An unreserved seat in the first 3 rows): $30*
General Admission: $20*
Student: $15*

Group discounts are available. Please email squawpoet@ureach.com or call 877-537-8073 for details.

ADVANCE TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE. Click here to purchase your tickets from Brown Paper Tickets. If we do not sell out in advance of the reading, there will be tickets available at the door.

Don't miss this chance to hear some of our greatest living poets read their work!

The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley is a non-profit organization.

*Prices may change without notice.

PARKING: There is plenty of parking available near Grace Cathedral.

DIRECTIONS: For more information on the venue and its location and directions, visit gracecathedral.org.

Hotel Rex has generously provided hotel rooms for our poets the night of the reading for the last 4 years. Hotel Rex is also offering a discounted rate of $119 for anyone attending the reading.
Follow this link for more information:
http://tinyurl.com/community-of-writers

Hotel Rex is also offering 15% off all food and beverage in our restaurant or lobby bar to any guests who present their ticket stub from the reading. 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.

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.

Kim Lohse is the former Community of Writers Poetry Workshop participant volunteer who organizes the Benefit Poetry Reading. Many thanks to her for her wonderful work! She needs 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.

One way you can help get the word out is to download and print the event poster. If you could post in in your neighborhood bookstore, cafe or library, it would be a tremendous help. Click here to download the poster.

Another way to help get the word out. Download this image and email it to your friends: Click here.

Please email Kim at squawpoet@ureach.com or call 877-537-8073.

To obtain high resolution photographs of the writers, poets or former events, email Brett Hall Jones: brett@squawvalleywriters.org