2 0 1 4 special events Writers Read and Discuss Their LiterarY Work & Sign Books EventS Suggested Donation: $20 per person/$8 student Presented as part of the (tax-deductible) Please make a reservation: Community of Writers’ 44th Annual Workshops (530) 583-5200 or [email protected] www.squawvalleywriters.org/readings.html Tuesday, July 8 • 8 pm All events: Squaw Valley’s Olympic House, 1991 Squaw Valley Rd, off the Main Road Every event is open to the public. Events are free to attend except the Special Events (sidebar) Tom Barbash Stay Up With Me Tuesday July 8 3:30 Agent and Author: The Last Good Chance 1:00 Craft Talk by Amy Tan: Mary Evans and Monica Weslowska On Top of the World “The Universe of the Writer: 5:30 Published Alumni Reading Introduced by Julia Flynn Siler Observation, Obsession and the Photo: Sven Weiderholt Subconscious” Kevin Allardice, Eileen Cronin, Mark Childress 2:00 Panel: “How Plot Works” w/ Peggy Hesketh, Monica Wesolowska Janet Fitch, Michael Jaime-Becerra, 8:00 “The Sculptor Reveals the Backbone: Georgia Bottoms Christina Meldrum, Christian Kiefer, How to Build the Story from the One Mississippi Crazy in Alabama moderated by Louis B. Jones Spine of Research in Nonfiction &

3:00 Panel: “How Scene Works: w/ Documentary Film” w/ Photo: Brett Hall Mark Childress, Glen David Gold, Christopher Beaver, Christina Meldrum Ellen Sussman, moderated by Jordan Fisher Smith, Julia Flynn Siler, Amaryllis in Blueberry Andrew Tonkovich Jason Roberts, moderated by Madapple 5:30 Short Takes Staff Readings: John Glusman Christian Kiefer, Robin Romm, Friday July 11 - No events scheduled

Ismet Prcic, Al Young Saturday July 12 Photo: Lilac Chang 8:00 Authors read & talk about their 1:00 Craft Talk by Ron Carlson: work: Tom Barbash, Mark Childress, “Step Two: Source to Story” - Christina Meldrum & Amy Tan 2:00 Panel: 'Point of View” Amy Tan Wednesday July 9 w/ Gill Dennis, Sands Hall, The Valley of Amazement 1:00 Craft Talk by Glen David Gold Ismet Prcic, The Joy Luck Club “Days of Future Past Godzillas: moderated by Joanne Meschery The Bonesetter’s Daughter Saving Fish from Drowning

The Memoir and Other Monsters” 3:00 Panel: “Characterization” Photo: Rick Smolan 2:00 Panel: “Writing the Short Story” w/ w/ Josh Weil, Rhoda Huffey, Tom Barbash, Louis B. Jones, Edan Lepucki, Hector Tobar, Saturday, JULY 12 * 8 pm Robin Romm moderated by Sands Hall 3:00 Panel: “Future of Publishing” w/ 4:00 “Short Story Collections: Ron Carlson Terence Clarke, Susan Golomb, Assembling the Literary Mixtape” Return to Oakpine Andrea Schulz, w/ Steve Almond, Michelle Latiolais, Room Service moderated by James Naify Robin Romm, Ben George, The Signal 4:00 Roundtable on Literary Journals w/ moderated by Michael Jaime-Becerra Hall Photo: Tracy Five Skies Allison Lorentzen, Andrew Tonkovich 5:30 Short Takes Staff Readings: and Oscar Villalon Steve Almond, Rhoda Huffey, Edan Lepucki 5:30 Short Takes Staff Readings: Michelle Latiolais, Louis B. Jones California Sands Hall, Michael Jaime-Becerra, 8:00 Authors read and talk about their If You’re Not Yet Like Me Ellen Sussman, Andrew Tonkovich work. Ron Carlson, Edan Lepucki, 8:00 Screenwriting Program presents: Hector Tobar, Josh Weil

A screening of Kansas City Bomber Introduced by Christian Kiefer Photo: Bader Howar a 1972 film (MGM) starring Raquel Sunday July 13 Welch, co-written by Screenwriting 1:00 Craft Talk by Robin Romm: “What Hector Tobar Program director, Tom Rickman Neurotic Narrators Can do for You” Deep Down Dark Thursday July 10 2:00 Panel: “Fiction vs Nonfiction: The Barbarian Nurseries 1:00 Book Editors Panel w/ Narrative Strategies” w/ Translation Nation Ben George (Little, Brown), Steve Almond, Michelle Latiolais, The Tattooed Soldier

John Glusman (Norton), Hector Tobar, Al Young, Photo: by Doug Knutson Allison Lorentzen (Viking/Penguin), moderated by Jason Roberts Andrea Schultz (Houghton Mifflin ), 3:00 Panel: Writing Beyond The Josh Weil moderated by Michael Carlisle Conference w/ Julia Flynn Siler & The New Valley 2:30 Agents Panel w/ Elise Capron, Ismet Prcic, Mary The Great Glass Sea Mary Evans, Susan Golomb, moderated by Lisa Alvarez BJ Robbins, moderated by Schedule may change without Mark Childress notice. Please call to confirm.

Many thanks to Squaw Valley Resort, The Academy Foundation, Hachette Book Group, Random House, the Adelsohn Family, Photo: Jilan Carroll Glorfield and our friends in the Community for their support as well as our individual donors. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers is a nonprofit corporation. , THURSDAY, JULY 10 * 5:30 pm PUBLISHED ALUMNI SERIES: The Community of Writers is delighted to celebrate the success of these writers and to present them to the participants, staff, and the public. This event is supported by Noel Corngold and Emily Adelsohn Corngold.

KEVIN ALLARDICE is the author of the novel Any Resemblance to PEGGY HESKETH’s writing has appeared in Calliope and the Actual Persons (Counterpoint). His short fiction, winner of the of the Antietam Review, and her short story was selected by Elizabeth Donald Barthelme Prize, has appeared in The Santa Monica Review, George for inclusion in her anthology Two of the Deadliest. A long- The Florida Review, Gulf Coast, The North American Review, and time journalist, Peggy teaches writing and rhetoric at the University elsewhere. He attended the Community of Writers in 2006 and 2012. of California, Irvine. Her first novel, Telling the Bees was published www.kevinallardice.com by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in 2013. She attended the Community of Writers in 1993. www.peggyhesketh.com EILEEN CRONIN is the author of Mermaid: A Memoir of Resilience (W.W. Norton). She won the 2008 Washington Writing Prize in MONICA WESOLOWSKA is the author of the memoir fiction and has a notable essay in Best American Essays. She was Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, which was named a “Best Book” of 2013 an assistant editor for Narrative magazine. Her fiction and essays by Library Journal, is also forthcoming in German and Polish. She have appeared in several literary magazines and newspapers, in- also speaks at institutions about motherhood, medicine, and grief. cluding . She has a small psychology practice Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in other venues including in . She attended the Community of Writers in 2005, .com, Literary Mama, The Carolina Quarterly, 2006 and 2009. and Best New American Voices. She has developed and taught writing courses at UC Berkeley Extension and elsewhere for over a decade.She attended the Community of Writers in 1997 and 1998. www.monicawesolowska.com Featured authors & Screenwriters

STEVE ALMOND: JORDAN FISHER SMITH: Candyfreak, God Bless America. RHODA HUFFEY: Nature Noir The Hallelujah Side TOM BARBASH: ELLEN SUSSMAN: Stay Up With Me; The Last Good Chance; On Top MICHAEL JAIME-BECERRA: The Paradise Guest House, French Lessons, On A of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, This Time Tomorrow, Every Night Is Ladies’ Night Night Like This, A Wedding in Cassis and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal LOUIS B. JONES: JOSH WEIL: CHRISTOPHER BEAVER’s films include Dark Ordinary Money, Particles and Luck, California’s The New Valley, The Great Glass Sea Circle,Treasures of the Greenbelt and Secrets Over, Radiance, Innocence of the Bay; and in addition he has produced and AMY TAN: curated an international multi-media photographic CHRISTIAN KIEFER: The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The exhibit with accompanying book and film: Nagasaki The Infinite Tides Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Journey, the Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata, Saving Fish from Drowning, The Opposite of Fate, August 10, 1945. EDAN LEPUCKI: Valley of Amazement If You’re Not Yet Like Me, California RON CARLSON: Return to Oakpine, Room Service HECTOR TOBAR: The Signal, Five Skies, Ron Carlson Writes a Story CHRISTINA MELDRUM: Barbarian Nurseries, The Tattooed Soldier, Deep Madapple, Amaryllis in Blueberry Down Dark: The Untold Story of 33 Men Buried in a MARK CHILDRESS: Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set them Free A World Made of Fire, V for Victor, Tender, Crazy in JOANNE MESCHERY: In A High Place, A Gentle- Alabama, Gone for Good, One Mississippi man’s Guide to the Frontier, Truckee AL YOUNG Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Stills and Frames, Some- TERENCE CLARKE: ISMET PRCIC: thing About the Blues: An Unlikely Collection of The Notorious Dream of Jesús Lázaro, Autumn in Shards Poetry; Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons, New York Mingus Mingus: Two Memoirs MICHELLE LATIOLAIS: GILL DENNIS: Even Now, A Proper Knowledge, Widow SCREENWRITING EVENING He wrote the movies Forever with Tatia Pilieva, See website for the Screenwriters’ bios. JASON ROBERTS: Walk the Line with James Mangold and Return to http://www.squawvalleywriters.org/swriter_ws.htm Oz with Walter Murch. Two Shipwrecks, A Sense of the World

JANET FITCH: ROBIN ROMM: Paint It Black, White Oleander. The Mother Garden, The Mercy Papers

GLEN DAVID GOLD: JULIA FLYNN SILER: Carter Beats the Devil, Sunnyside The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty SANDS HALL: Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Catching Heaven, Fair Use, Tools of the Writer’s Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure Craft