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| September 18, 2008 | |
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Fiction Workshop with Alyson Hagy Start Time: 9:00 AM End Time: 11:30 AM Place: Casper College Strausner Student Center, CE 217 |
Alyson Hagy with the University of Wyoming's MFA program will teach a two-day Fiction writing workshop. CEU's will be offered. |
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Non-fiction workshop with Beth Loffreda Start Time: 9:00 AM End Time: 11:30 AM Place: Casper College Strausner Student Center, CE 217 |
Beth Loffreda with the University of Wyoming's MFA program will teach a two-day Non-Fiction writing workshop. CEU's will be offered. |
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Jack Gantos presents to 1st-3rd grade students Start Time: 9:00 AM End Time: 10:00 AM Place: Casper College, Robert's Commons |
Jack Gantos, author of dozens of books for all ages of children and young adults will be presenting to 1st-3rd grade students from Natrona County School District, and other interested school districts in Wyoming. |
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Jack Gantos presents to 4th-8th grade students Start Time: 10:30 AM End Time: 11:30 AM Place: Casper College, Robert's Commons |
Jack Gantos, author of dozens of books for all ages of children and young adults will be presenting to 4th-8th grade students from Natrona County School District, and other interested school districts in Wyoming. |
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Creative Writing Workshop with David Romtvedt Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 3:30 PM Place: Casper College Strausner Student Center, CE 217 |
David Romtvedt from the University of Wyoming's MFA program will teach a two-day Creative writing workshop. CEU's will be offered. |
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Poetry Workshop taught by H.L. Hix Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 3:30 PM Place: Casper College Strausner Student Center, CE 217 |
H.L. Hix of the University of Wyoming's MFA program will teach a two-day poetry workshop. CEU's will be offered. |
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Local History presentation Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 2:15 PM Place: Ft. Caspar |
This panel discussion on local history includes John McDermott, Mike McClure, Mark Junge and Charlotte Babcock. This panel is moderated by Dr. Everett Akam from Casper College. |
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Readings: Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship Winners Start Time: 1:30 PM End Time: 3:30 PM Place: Durham Hall |
Every year, the Wyoming Arts Council gives up to three $3,000 creative writing fellowships plus a $500 travel stipend to the annual fellowship reading in Casper. This year's genre is fiction, and the judge is Laura Prichett. |
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Wyoming History presentation Start Time: 2:45 PM End Time: 4:00 PM Place: Ft. Caspar |
This panel discussion includes Susanne George Bloomfield, John Clayton, John Davis, and Larry Woods. This panel is moderated by local author, Tom Rea. |
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"So you want to be a children's book author?" Start Time: 4:00 PM End Time: 5:00 PM Place: Casper College, Physical Science Auditorium Rm:103 |
Jack Gantos is known nationally for his educational creative writing and literature presentations to students and teachers. He is a frequent conference speaker, university lecturer, and in-service provider. Mr. Gantos will offer a writing workshop for aspiring children's book writers, teachers, librarians and any interested persons. His books will be offered for sale on site and he will be available for autographs from 5:00-5:30. |
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Featured Speaker, Alexandra Fuller Start Time: 7:30 PM End Time: 9:00 PM Place: Durham Hall |
Alexandra Fuller's first book, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood (Random House, 2001), was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense Best Non-fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian's First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Her 2004 Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier (Penguin Press) won the Ulysses Prize for Art of Reportage. Her latest book is The Legend of Colton H Bryant (Penguin Press, May, 2008). She has also written for The New Yorker and National Geographic. Ms. Fuller will read from her most recent book, answer questions and autograph books which will be available for sale on site. |
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| September 19, 2008 | |
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Part 2, Non-fiction workshop with Beth Loffreda Start Time: 9:00 AM End Time: 11:30 AM Place: Casper College Strausner Student Center, CE 217 |
Part 2, Non-Fiction workshop with Beth Loffreda from the University of Wyoming's MFA program. CEU's will be offered. |
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Part 2, Fiction workshop with Alyson Hagy Start Time: 9:00 AM End Time: 11:30 AM Place: Casper College Strausner Student Center, CE 217 |
Part 2, Fiction workshop with Alyson Hagy from the University of Wyoming's MFA program. CEU's will be offered. |
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Jack Gantos presents to 9th-12th grade students Start Time: 9:00 AM End Time: 10:00 AM Place: Casper College, Robert's Commons |
Jack Gantos, author of dozens of books for all ages of children and young adults will be presenting to 9th-12th grade students from Natrona County School District, and other interested school districts in Wyoming. |
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Poetry presentation by Twyla Hansen Start Time: 9:00 AM End Time: 10:15 AM Place: National Historic Trails Interpretive Center |
Poet TWYLA HANSEN was raised in northeast Nebraska on land her grandparents farmed in the late 1800s as immigrants from Denmark. Her latest book, Prairie Suite: A Celebration (Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center, 2006) is a poem-drawing collaboration with ornithologist Paul Johnsgard. Twyla earned her BS and MA from the University of Nebraska — Lincoln. For more information on Ms. Hansen, please see her author profile. |
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Jack Gantos visit to Star Lane Start Time: 10:30 AM End Time: 11:30 AM Place: Star Lane School |
Jack Gantos, author of dozens of books for all ages of children and young adults will visit Star Lane school to work with interested Sr. High students. |
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Introduction to Oral History Start Time: 10:30 AM End Time: 11:30 AM Place: National Historic Trails Interpretive Center |
Mary Kay Quinlan, faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln campus will be offering this introduction to Oral History workshop in the morning at the Trails Center, followed by a longer workshop in the afternoon. |
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Part 2, Creative Writing Workshop David Romtvedt Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 3:30 PM Place: Casper College Strausner Student Center, CE 217 |
Part 2, Creative Writing with David Romtvedt from the University of Wyoming's MFA program. CEU's will be offered. |
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Part 2, Poetry Workshop with H.L. Hix Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 3:30 PM Place: Casper College Strausner Student Center, CE 217 |
Part 2, Poetry workshop with H.L. Hix from the University of Wyoming's MFA program. CEU's will be offered. |
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Oral History Workshop Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 4:00 PM Place: National Historic Trails Interpretive Center |
Mary Kay Quinlan, faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln campus will be offering this follow-up workshop to her morning session at the Trails Center. |
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Jack Gantos presentation to general public Start Time: 4:00 PM End Time: 5:30 PM Place: Durham Hall |
Jack Gantos is the author of dozens of books for children, including the Rotten Ralph Rotten Readers, the Joey Pizga books and the Jack Henry books, and books for young adults, including Hole in My Life, (Farrar Straus, 2002), a memoir of crime, prison, and his emergence as a writer. His publications can take a reader from "cradle to grave". Mr. Gantos presentations are highly entertaining for all ages and not to be missed. He will be available to autograph his books which will be for sale on site before and after his presentation. |
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Gala Banquet and Keynote Speaker, Gary Ferguson Start Time: 6:00 PM End Time: 9:00 PM Place: Casper Petroleum Club Contact: llye@caspercollege.edu |
Join the book festival authors and your friends for a no-host bar and mingling from 6:00-7:00, followed by a buffet and Festival Keynote speaker, Gary Ferguson. Besides being an award-winning writer, Gary has built a solid reputation as an engaging speaker. He offers a variety of talks to writing groups, universities, and environmental, social and outdoor organizations across the country. For more on Gary, see his "Author" profile on this website. Tickets will not be available at the door but keep watching this website for registration information which will be available soon. |
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Poetry Slam Start Time: 9:30 PM End Time: 11:00 PM Place: Metro Coffee Company Contact: llye@caspercollege.edu |
All readers and listeners welcome; prizes you won't want to live without will be awarded. Two rounds of unbiased judging likely; three possible. The slam will be emceeded by the esteemed Greek-American poet and sushi chef, George Vlastos. |
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| September 20, 2008 | |
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Equality State Book Fair Start Time: 9:00 AM End Time: 4:30 PM Place: Nicolaysen Art Museum Contact: llye@caspercollege.edu |
Check out exhibits by local, regional and national publishers, as well as archives, libraries and museums with special collections for writers, researchers, and readers. Stop by the display tables on your way to the panel discussions all day at the Nic. Panels will be held in the main gallery. "Readings, Readings, Readings Galore" will be held by sign up authors every 15 minutes in the Nicolaysen Library. If you are an author with at least one book in print and would like to reserve a 15 minute reading slot between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 20, please contact Kathy Coe (kcoe@caspercollege.edu). All authors presenting on panels will have books for sale by local bookstores and will be available for autographs after their presentations. See panel details for further information. |
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Catching the Big One: Writers on Trout Start Time: 10:45 AM End Time: 12:00 PM Place: Nicolaysen Art Museum Contact: trea@tribcsp.com |
Join Fly Rod and Reel columnist John Gierach, author of Sex, Death, and Fly Fishing and 17 more; Oregon fish essayist Ted Leeson, author of The Habit of Rivers and many more; Casper College's Chad Hanson, author of Swimming with Trout; and British Columbia educator and short-story writer Mallory Burton, author of Green River Virgins and other Passionate Anglers, for a lively discussion of book-writing, life, dry flies, and nymphs. Check the authors link for more on their work. Panel will be moderated by the book-readin' angler, Casper College's own Bill Mixer. |
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Featured Poet Laurie Kutchins Start Time: 12:00 PM End Time: 1:00 PM Place: Nicolaysen Art Museum |
Prize-winning poet Laurie Kutchins grew up in Casper and now teaches at James Madison University in Virginia. Her latest book, The Night Path, was published last year by BOA Editions, and her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She is also a regular faculty member for the Taos Summer Writers Conference, and she offers private workshops that nurture interconnections among creativity and healing. Check the authors link for more info. |
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Young Authors Ceremony Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 2:30 PM Place: Natrona County Public Library, Crawford Room |
The Wyoming State Reading Council and the Center for the Book present the awards ceremony for winners of each of their contests, "Young Authors" and "Letters About Literature". About 35 students; that's three winners from each grade level K-12 on prose, non-fiction and poetry will be on hand with their books to receive their awards, for "Young Authors". About 9 winners for "Letters About Literature" will be on hand to receive their prizes as well. Cookies, snacks and punch will be served. Please come to honor these talented young folks. |
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Publishing from the Ground Up Start Time: 1:00 PM End Time: 2:15 PM Place: Nicolaysen Art Museum Contact: trea@tribcsp.com |
Join Sarah Crichton, editor of Sarah Crichton books at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in New York City; Katie Dublinski, editorial director for Graywolf Press in Minneapolis; Nancy Curtis, editor and publisher of High Plains Press in Glendo, Wyoming; and RoseMarie London, Laramie bookseller and self-published author, for news, war stories, and free advice from all levels of publishing in the USA. |
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Making Up Stories in the West Start Time: 2:45 PM End Time: 4:00 PM Place: Nicolaysen Art Museum Contact: trea@tribcsp.com |
Join novelist Tina Welling of Jackson, author of Crybaby Ranch; novelist and former Wyoming Poet Laureate Robert Roripaugh, whose new collection of short stories spanning five decades, The Legend of Billy Jenks, was just published last year; novelist Laura Pritchett, judge for the Wyoming Arts Council's 2008 fiction fellowships, whose books include Sky Bridge, published last year by Milkweed Editions, and other books; and one more fiction writer as they talk about the sources of fiction in their lives. Panel moderated by Alyson Hagy. |
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Fiction Workshop with Alyson Hagy 9/18 Non-fiction workshop with Beth Loffreda 9/18 Jack Gantos presents to 1st-3rd grade students |
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