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FESTIVAL OF FAITH & WRITING IT IS LOVE FOR LIFE APRIL 12–14, 2018 TAKING VERBAL FORM. GEORGE SAUNDERS BOOKKEEPING NEWS & NOTES FROM THE FESTIVAL SCHEDULE THURSDAY In the following pages, you'll find the details of our schedule—look 9 am for the icons below to help you navigate the different types of Registration Desk sessions you can attend. You can and Exhibit Hall Open Prince Conference Center, Lobby also use the Festival Mobile App to customize your own schedule. KEYNOTE PANEL SPEAKERS DISCUSSION 10:30 am SOLO READING OPENING SESSION PRESENTATION CONVERSATION / WORKSHOP INTERVIEW “O God Our Help in Ages Past, Our Hope MUSIC FESTIVAL CIRCLES for Years to Come”: A Service of Gratitude THEATER / LUNCH FILM FORUM and Dedication Join us to celebrate and give thanks for EXHIBITOR OPEN 25 years of the Festival of Faith & Writing PRESENTATION MIC and for the establishment of the new Calvin Center for Faith & Writing with BOOK COFFEE SIGNINGS BREAK this short service of praise, prayer, and poetry. We will also commission the Center’s first co-directors. Calvin College Chapel KEY { } Session title with session type icon PRESENTER NAME(S) Description of session Additional involvement Location of session SCHEDULE / APRIL 14 / THURSDAY 17 SCHEDULE / THURSDAY 12 pm 1:45 pm KEYNOTE CONCURRENT SESSIONS Some Doubts Silence and Beauty About Certainty MAKOTO FUJIMURA TOBIAS WOLFF Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence took visual Esteemed author and mentor artist Makoto Fujimura on a pilgrimage Tobias Wolff offers a meditation of grappling with the nature of art, the on the social and spiritual problems significance of pain, and his own cultural posed by the felt need for certainty heritage. His journey overlaps with Endo’s in matters of faith and values, as he uncovers deep layers of meaning in and the corresponding danger of Japanese history and literature, expressed individuals, and societies, adrift in art both past and present. In this talk without a guiding sense of confidence he finds glimpses of how the gospel is in their beliefs. He will reflect on conveyed in Christ-hidden cultures. the circumstances surrounding Introduced by John Witvliet, his writing of “In the Garden of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship North American Martyrs,” and the Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium second thoughts he has had about the particular kind of heroism it depicts. To Insist That Sorrow WIERSMA MEMORIAL LECTURE Not Be Meaningless Introduced by Lisa Ann Cockrel, Festival of Faith & Writing DANI SHAPIRO Van Noord Arena Out of a chaotic childhood and a painful early adulthood marked by profound loss, Dani Shapiro “chipped away at her own bewilderment in order to find the pattern in it.” It is this pattern-making that has shaped Shapiro’s work over the course of eight books, and it is the daily practice of attempting to make art out of chaos that has also shaped 1:15 PM BOOK SIGNING her life. What makes us writers—and why? What do we do with what we’ve been given? Van Noord Arena In this talk, Shapiro discusses the raw TOBIAS WOLFF material of her personal history and how it has made her the writer she is today. Introduced by Kristine Johnson, Calvin College English Department Calvin College Chapel 18 SCHEDULE #FFWgr Writing in White Van Living As If JOHN DARNIELLE We Believe in Life Hailed as the best storyteller in rock JANISSE RAY for his work as the frontman of the The most existential challenge we face Mountain Goats, John Darnielle proved in the 21st century is figuring out how his storytelling prowess transcends genre to live well despite the isolation and with his debut novel Wolf in White Van. destructiveness of our times. This session Here Darnielle talks about writing novels will explore the role of writer as activist and dreaming out loud in front of people. and framer of a vision for a sustainable Introduced by Micah Lott, Boston College world. We can use our stories to transform, Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall and to help create a world in which we can all lead more meaningful lives. We can learn to live so that we keep what we love. Writing Through the Ages Introduced by Gail Gunst Heffner, LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS, Calvin College Service-Learning Center LUCI SHAW, JEANNE MURRAY WALKER, Prince Conference Center, Willow Room SARA ZARR This panel features four writers of faith in each decade of life—from the 40’s through the 80’s—reflecting on the various seasons in their careers and also looking ahead. Themes include following one’s dreams, loneliness and persistence, the 2:45 PM COFFEE BREAK struggle to carve out room to write amidst family and job pressures, and the spiritual Covenant Fine Arts Center, Lower West Lobby depth that can arise from waiting. Hekman Library Lobby Commons Annex, Lecture Hall Prince Conference Center, Fireside Room Seeing the World Anew: Notes from Third-Culture Writers TIM BASCOM, SUSANNA CHILDRESS, DANIEL COLEMAN, FAITH EIDSE Four former missionary kids—raised in the Philippines, Ethiopia, Kenya, and the Congo—describe how their cross-cultural encounters put them in unique positions to write about human experience and 3 PM BOOK SIGNING spirituality. As third-culture people, they express personal dislocation and loss, but Campus Store also a keen awareness of global issues. JOHN DARNIELLE Participants will be invited into conversation MAKOTO FUJIMURA about the ways that travel can enrich writing DANI SHAPIRO with cultural insight and inventive language. Introduced by Allison Graff Poosawtsee, Bethany Christian Services Calvin College Chapel, Undercroft SCHEDULE / APRIL 14 / THURSDAY 19 SCHEDULE / THURSDAY 3:15 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS An Interview with Zadie Smith Writing for the Joy of It: The celebrated novelist fields questions Surrendering Our Need for Status about her novels, all of which include MICHA BOYETT, MARLENA GRAVES, religious zeal or doubt (or both). She JEN POLLOCK MICHEL, also speaks to her work as an essayist TISH HARRISON WARREN and critic, her creative community, Many writers consider obscurity a and, if we’re lucky, her new novel, form of death; we want people to read Swing Time, due out next winter. our work. But how do we cultivate an THE DALE BROWN MEMORIAL SESSION audience without becoming consumed Interviewed by Jane Zwart, by the need for status and importance? Calvin College English Department How do we write with sustained joy Calvin College Chapel while coping with the perils of rejection, criticism, misinterpretation, and success? Panelists discuss the wonder and ache Going East: Following the of the writing life, and the spiritual Path of Poetry and Liturgy practices necessary for flourishing. SCOTT CAIRNS, ANGELA DOLL CARLSON, Introduced by Jack Van Allsburg, GAELAN GILBERT, Calvin College '16 CAMERON ALEXANDER LAWRENCE Calvin College Chapel, Undercroft In our technology-laden, soundbite- driven world, we are often unaware of the deep poetry and lasting peace that Tales of Faithful Dissent liturgy offers. Through reflections on the CATHERINE WOLFF works of the great poets and experiences Drawing on her work editing Not Less in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, these Than Everything: Catholic Writers on writers clear a pathway through the Heroes of Conscience, from Joan of slings and arrows of modern life. Arc to Oscar Romero, Catherine Wolff Introduced by Dave Harrity examines how tales of faithful dissent Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall inspire writers, in their lives and in their work. Some of these dissenters were great saints, some great sinners, Cultivating the Imagination others relatively unknown, but each for Societal Flourishing maintained their religious faith while DAVID H. KIM challenging the prevailing authorities. Cultivating the imagination is not only The audience will be invited to consider critical for the writing process, but their own heroes of conscience. equally critical for societal flourishing. Introduced by Andrea LeRoy, Drawing from the work of C. S. Lewis, this Calvin College talk will explore the essential role of the Calvin Seminary Chapel imagination in the Christian life and the unique calling that writers have to help cultivate that imagination for all people. Introduced by Scott Hoezee, Center for Excellence in Preaching Calvin Seminary, Auditorium 20 SCHEDULE #FFWgr Writer and Prototype, A Reading: Jennifer Maier Post-Mortem: Fred Manfred Introduced by Hannah Faith Notess, Seattle Pacific University Meets Jennie Van Engen Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall JAMES SCHAAP A writer publishes a novel that clearly uses a painfully sad story—a true story his The Pen is Mightier Than the own boyhood community knows very well.