S u m m e r special events Writers Read & Talk L i t e r a r y About Their Work & Book Signing $10 per person/$5 student E v e n t s (tax-deductible donation) All events: Olympic Village Lodge, 1901 Chamonix Place, off the Squaw Valley Main Road Please make a reservation by calling Saturday, August 7 5:30 Short Takes Staff Readings: (530) 581-5200 8:00 Opening Talk: Glen David Gold Louis Edwards, Glen David Gold, or email [email protected] Sunday, August 8 Gerald Haslam, Andrew Tonkovich Sunday, August 8 • 8 pm 1:00 Craft Talk: Mark Childress 8:00 Deep Roots Panel: Faith or Religious “The Rituals of Writing - Background & How It May Manifest in Getting Going” Fiction with Greg Bills, Rhoda Huffey, JOHN DANIEL The Far Corner 2:00 Craft Talk: Martin J. Smith: , Alia Yunis & Amy Tan Rogue River Journal “Craft Talk: Making Stuff Happen: (if available) Moderated by Louis B. Jones How to Build a Plot” Looking After Wednesday, August 11 3:00 Panel: On Scene: Louis Edwards, Teresa Jordan, 12:15 Reception Lunch for all, followed by Alice Sebold, Al Young The Published Alumni Reading Series: TERESA JORDAN Moderated by Sands Hall Marisa Matarazzo, Victoria Patterson, Riding the White Horse Home Field Notes from Yosemite 5:30 (Un)solicited Testimonials Part I Dora Wang, Alia Yunis Field Notes from the Grand You Must Read This - Made possible with a donation from Canyon Emmons, Gold, Haslam, the Adelsohn Family Meschery, Shandler, Spatz Thursday, August 12 Introduced by Andrew Tonkovich MICHAEL JAIME-BECERRA 8:00 Writers Read and Talk about 1:00 Craft Talk: Michelle Latiolais Every Night Is Ladies’ Night Their Work: John Daniel, Teresa Jordan, “Why Reading Matters” This Time Tomorrow Michael Jaime-Becerra 2:00 Craft Talk: Sands Hall “Stagecraft in Monday, August 9 Fiction & Nonfiction” Monday, August 9 3:00 Panel: Writing The Short Story Thursday, August 12 • 8 pm 1:00 Craft Talk: Gill Dennis with Michael Jaime-Becerra, “Finding Your Story” Louis B. Jones, Victoria Patterson, MARK CHILDRESS 2:00 Panel: The Historical Novel with Greg Bills, Gregory Spatz One Mississippi Joanne Meschery, Luis Alberto Urrea Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich Tender Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich 5:30 (Un)solicited Testimonials: Part II Crazy in Alabama 3:00 Panel: Short Story Publishing with H. Emerson Blake, Janet Silver, Amy Tan with Blake, Dennis, Jaime-Becerra, Jordan, Huffey, Tan Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich Amy Tan 5:30 Short Takes Staff Readings: Introduced by Andrew Tonkovich The Joy Luck Club Greg Bills, Cai Emmons, 8:00 Writers Read & Talk about Their Work: The Kitchen God’s Wife Gregory Spatz, Al Young Mark Childress, Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning 8:00 A Screening of the HBO film Luis Alberto Urrea “” with LUIS ALBERTO URREA Christopher Monger (see back) Friday, August 13 Into the Beautiful North Tuesday, August 10 1:00 Craft Talk: Diane Johnson The Hummingbird’s Daughter 1:00 pm Book Editors Panel: Jordan Bass, “Finding Your Subject” The Devil’s Highway Ann Close, Malcolm Margolin, 2:00 A Magnificent Obsession – Fulfilling the Across the Wire Geoff Shandler moderated by Ann Close Obligations and Demands of 2:00 Agents Panel: Michael Carlisle, Your Subject: John Daniel, Gerald Henry Dunow, B.J. Robbins, Janet Silver Haslam, Teresa Jordan, Al Young Moderated by Mark Childress 3:00 Panel: What’s Love Got to Do With It? Moderated by Martin J. Smith These events are presented as part of On integrity and conscience in writing, 3:00 Panel: Writing Beyond The Conference: the Community of Writers’ Annual promoting and publishing Writing groups, etc. : Cai Emmons and Workshops. Free of charge: With Michael Carlisle, H. Emerson Blake, Amy Tan Moderated by Lisa Alvarez donations welcome. Ann Close, Malcolm Margolin Saturday, August 14 Schedule subject to change. Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich 10 am Closing Talk by Michael Jaime-Becerra www.squawvalleywriters.org/ reading.html

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AUTHORS 2010 ALUMNI READERS LUIS ALBERTO URREA: The Hummingbird’s The Community of Writers is delighted to Daughter, The Devil’s Highway, Across the Wire, GREG BILLS: Consider This Home, Fearful Sym- celebrate the success of these writers and to Into the Beautiful North metry present them to the participants, staff, and the public. This event is brought to you by a dona- MAX BYRD: California Thriller, Jefferson, Jackson, Al YOUNG: Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Stills and tion by the Adelsohn Family Grant, Shooting the Sun Frames; Coastal Nights and Inland Afternoons; The Sound of Dreams Remembered; African Amer- MARISA MATARAZZO is the author of Drenched: MARK CHILDRESS: A World Made of Fire, V for ican Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology; Mingus Mingus; Something About the Blues Stories of Love and Other Deliriums (Soft Skull Victor, Tender, Crazy in Alabama, Gone for Good, Press, 2010). Her stories have been published One Mississippi in Faultline and Hobart. She attended the JOHN DANIEL: The Far Corner, Rogue River LITERARY EDITORS & AGENTS Community of Writers on a UC Irvine MFA Program Journal, Winter Creek, Looking After, The Trail Scholarship in 2006. Home JORDAN BASS: Managing editor of McSweeney’s Publishing VICTORIA PATTERSON’s essays and short stories GILL DENNIS: Film Script “Walk the Line” have appeared in various publications and literary H. EMERSON BLAKE: Editor-in-Chief of Orion journals, including the Times, Orange Magazine LOUIS EDWARDS: Ten Seconds, N, Coast Magazine, the Southern Review, Santa Oscar Wilde Discovers America Monica Review, and the Florida Review. Her short MICHAEL V. CARLISLE: Founder of InkWell Management, a literary agency story “Johnny Hitman” was selected as a notable CAI EMMONS: His Mother’s Son, The Stylist mention in The Best American Short Stories 2009. ANN CLOSE: Senior Editor at Alfred A. Knopf Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published her collection GLEN DAVID GOLD: Carter Beats the Devil, of interlinked short stories, Drift, in June 2009. She Sunnyside HENRY DUNOW: A New York literary agent with is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency SANDS HALL: Catching Heaven, Fair Use, Tools California, Riverside. She attended the Community of the Writer’s Craft of Writers in 2006. MALCOLM MARGOLIN: Founder of Heyday Books established in 1974 GERALD HASLAM: Haslam’s Valley, Grace Period ALIA YUNIS’s novel The Night Counter was published by Random House in 2009. It was also RHODA HUFFEY: The Hallelujah Side MICHAEL PIETSCH: Senior Vice President and chosen as a top summer read by the Chicago Publisher of Little, Brown and Company Tribune and Boston Phoenix. A PEN Emerging MICHAEL JAIME-BECERRA: Every Night Is Voices Fellow born in Chicago, she has worked as BJ ROBBINS: Los Angeles literary agent. Ladies’ Night, This Time Tomorrow a filmmaker and journalist in the Middle East and the United States. Her fiction has been published in DIANE JOHNSON: Le Mariage, Le Divorce, ANDREW TONKOVICH: Editor, Santa Monica many journals and anthologies, and her nonfiction L’Affaire Review work has appeared in a variety of publications, LOUIS B. JONES: Ordinary Money, Particles and GEOFFREY SHANDLER: Editor-in-Chief of Little, including the Los Angeles Times, Saveur, Luck, California’s Over Brown and Company SportsTravel Magazine, and Aramco World. She currently teaches film and television at Zayed TERESA JORDAN: Riding the White Horse Home JANET SILVER: Literary Director of the Zachary University in Abu Dhabi. Shuster Harmsworth agency MICHELLE LATIOLAIS: Even Now, A Proper DORA CALOTT WANG, M.D., is the author of Knowledge MARTIN J. SMITH: Editor-in-chief of Orange Coast a memoir, The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist’s magazine in Newport Beach, California, and former Reflections on Healing in a Changing World (River- JOANNE MESCHERY: In A High Place, A senior editor of the Los Angeles Times Magazine head), about the medical profession becoming the Gentleman’s Guide to the Frontier, Truckee for eight years health care industry. She has been the recipient of a Lannan Foundation writer’s residency. She ALICE SEBOLD: Lucky, The Lovely Bones,The attended the Community of Writers in 2000, 2001, Almost Moon 2002, 2004 and 2005. SCREENWRITERS MARTIN J. SMITH: OOPS: 20 Life Lessons From See website for Screenwriters’ bios. the Fiascoes That Shaped America, http://www.squawvalleywriters.org/swriter_ws.htm POPLORICA: A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, Lore That Shaped Modern CHRISTOPHER MONGER: Writer/director whose America, Time Release, Shadow Image, Straw credits include The Englishmen Who Went Up a Men Hill But Came Down A Mountain for Miramax; Girl From Rio; Waiting for the Light, Crime Pays, for GREGORY SPATZ: No One But Us, Fiddler’s Film Four International. He wrote the screenplay Dream, Wonderful Tricks Temple Grandin, which aired in February on HBO, and which stars Clare Danes as Temple Grandin. AMY TAN: The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Boneset- ter’s Daughter, Saving Fish from Drowning, The Opposite of Fate