Spring Semester Readings 2015

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Event Time & Location Details
Dimitri Keriotis Reading 2/5/15, 4pm workshop, 5pm reading, COB 205 SFA Press published Dimitri Keriotis’s debut collection of short stories, The Quiet Time, in fall 2014. His website is http://dimitrikeriotis.com
Lawson Inada Reading 2/9/15, 2pm Reading, KL 355 Oregon Poet Laureate Lawson Inada’s collections of poetry are Before the War: Poems as They Happened (1971); Legends from Camp (1992), winner of the American Book Award; Just Into/Nations (1996); and Drawing the Line (1997), winner of the Oregon Book Award.
Steven Church Reading 3/12/15

12pm workshop, 1pm reading, Kolligian 296

 Steven Church is the author of The Guinness Book of Me: a Memoir, Theoretical Killings: Essays and Accidents, and The Day After The Day After: My Atomic Angst. His fourth book, a collection of essays titled Ultrasonic was published in Dec 2014.

 
Creative Writing Conference 4/4/15

9am-3:30pm

Kolligian Library

 Soul Vang will be key note speaker as well as workshop leader. Workshops in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction in the morning, a catered lunch for all participants, and readings in the afternoon. Students will read work completed in the morning, and Soul Vang will read from his new poetry book, To Live Here.

 
Lingo + Vernal Pool Party 4/17/15 12:30-2pm Launch party for the second issue of The Vernal Pool will include a printed folio featuring creative work by UCM undergrads. Submission periods November and April annually.

 

Fall Semester Readings 2014

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Write! Look! Listen! Reading Series        Fall 2014 Schedule

Date Time Location Event Information
W 9/17/14 12pm-1pm SSM 217(El Capitan) Faculty Reading Faculty interested in reading, please email Yu-Han Chao at ychao (at) ucmerced.edu by 9/8/14
W 10/15/14 12pm-1pm KL 355 The Vernal Pool Launch Our creative writing journal’s debut.
Th 10/30/14 6pm-7:30pm COB 267 Hmong American Writers’ Circle Several authors will read their work from the anthology, How Do I Begin?
M 11/10/14 10:30-11:30am Merced County Library Juan Filipe Herrera Workshop and Reading Poet Laureate of California and author of children’s book Calling the Doves.