Archived Literary Events

2007

Feb. 28-Mar. 3, 2007

Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference

Atlanta GA

At the Red Hen Press Booth

Thursday March 1
11:30am-12:30 pm

Friday March 2
3:30-4:30 pm

Saturday March 3
2:30-3:30 pm

Off-site Reading with other Red Hen Authors

7:30 Thursday, Mar. 1

Charis Bookstore

1189 Euclid Ave.

Atlanta GA

404 524-0304

March 7, 2007

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg PA

Seminar

Blaze slide presentation and reading

8:00 p.m., Joseph Theater

Gettysburg College

Reception following

717 337-6773

March 13, 2007

Fisher College

Rochester NY

Two classes

Reading

June 8-12, 2007

Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference

Land's End

Homer AK

writersconference.homer.alaska.edu

July 13-14, 2007

Alaska Book Festival

University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus

Friday, 1:00  Wood Center, UAF

Poetry Panel

Friday, 7:00-9:00 Reading, Forget-me-not Bookstore, Gaffney Road

with Doreen Fitzgerald and Dan O'Neill

Saturday, 1:00  Wood Center, UAF

Panel on Writing and Publishing

with Kantner, O'Neill, Marusek, Cox, Straley, Brightwell

http://2007akbookfest.wordpress.com

July 15-31, 2007

Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival

University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus

Creative Writing Class

I'll be teaching along with Marvin Bell, Scott Olsen, and Ann Pancake.

Faculty reading UA Museum, 5:30, Tuesday, July 17, 2007  Booksigning to follow. 

No admission charge.

Special guest writers Jennifer Brice, Derick Burleson, Marjorie Cole, Amber Flora Thomas

For more information go to www.fsaf.org.

August 4-15, 2007

Rainier Writing Workshop Residency

Pacific Lutheran University Campus

Tacoma WA

MFA @ PLU ~ Rainier Writing Workshop

Barnstorming Alaska Tour:

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September 12, 2007

Island Institute, Sitka, Alaska

7:00, Pioneer Home Chapel

120 Katlian St. (across from Totem Square)

Reading by Peggy Shumaker from Just Breathe Normally

Reading by Jennifer Brice from Unlearning to Fly

September 13, 2007

3:00-5:00 Craft Talk , University of Alaska Anchorage

Library Dean's Conference Room, 302A

7:30 p.m.,  Title Wave Bookstore

Reading by Peggy Shumaker from Just Breathe Normally

Reading by Jennifer Brice from Unlearning to Fly

1360 W. Northern Lights Blvd.   (Northern Lights at Spendard)

907 278-6283  Katie Hecker, Events Coordinator

September 14, 2007

Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series

University of Alaska Fairbanks

7:00 p.m., University of Alaska Museum of the North

Reading Peggy Shumaker from Just Breathe Normally

Reading by Jennifer Brice from Unlearning to Fly

September 15, 2007

Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College

Brief Nonfiction, Prose Poems, Essays-- a class with Peggy Shumaker and Jennifer Brice

Saturday 12:00-5:30, Sunday 10:00-5:30  College credit available

7:30 Reading Peggy Shumaker from Just Breathe Normally

Reading by Jennifer Brice from Unlearning to Fly

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September 19-20, 2007

Pacific Nortwest Booksellers' Association Conference

Medenbauer Center and Bellevue Coast Hotel

Bellevue WA

September 21, 2007

11:00-1:30

UAF Alumni Association

Luncheon Book Signing

(with Debbie Miller)

Princess Riverside Lodge

Fairbanks AK

September 27, 2007

7:00 p.m., University of Arizona Poetry Center

Alumni Reading with Kit McIlroy, Spring Ulmer, Peggy Shumaker

1508 E. Helen St. (S/E corner Helen and Vine

Tucson AZ 85721

Parking at Highland Garage, NW of the Poetry Center

for more info call 520 626-3765 or email poetry@u.arizona.edu

September 28 , 2007

7:00 p.m., Changing Hands Bookstore

Peggy Shumaker reading from Just Breathe Normally

Hershman R. John reading from I Swallow Turquoise for Courage

6428 S. McClintock Dr.

Guadalupe and McClintock

Tempe, AZ  85383

480 730-0205

Oct. 3, 2007

Guest Speaker

Professor Paul Morris's

Graduate Creative Nonfiction Class

Piper Center

Arizona State University

Tempe AZ

Oct. 8, 2007

12:00  Brownbag Craft Talk

on Creative Nonfiction

with ASU Graduate Students

1:40  Guest speaker

Professor Cynthia Hogue's

writing class

October 14, 2007

12:00-5:00

Dedication ceremonies

Helen S. Schaefer Building

University of Arizona Poetry Center

1508 E. Cherry

Tucson, Arizona 85721

520 626-3765

October 16, 2007

Paradise Valley Community College

18401 N. 32nd St.

Phoenix AZ  85032

10:30 Professor Lois Roma-Deeley's writing class

2:00 Panel

Studio Theatre, M Building, East Wing,

West end of campus

The Artist's Life: Dialogue Across the Arts

panel with artists from several disciplines

October 25, 2007

University of Nebraska Lincoln

both events in Andrews Hall, Room 228

2:30-5:30  Seminar with graduate students

7:30  Reading from Just Breathe Normally

October 26-27, 2007

Nebraska Book Festival

2:20 Reading on Oct. 27

Freedom Commons

Andersen Hall

on the Mall at 15th and P Streets

Lincoln NE

October 29, 2007

7:00 Reading

Gallery, Memorial Union

Iowa State University

Ames, IA

515 294-9934

October 30, 2007

4:00 Presentation from Blaze

8:00 Reading from Just Breathe Normally

Cowles Library Reading Room

Drake University

Des Moines IA

November 1-3, 2007

NonfictioNow Conference

Sheraton Iowa City

Iowa City, IA

Reading with University of Nebraska Press authors

5:00 Nov. 1

November 15, 2007

7:00 p.m., Burton Barr Central Library

1221 North Central Avenue

Phoenix, AZ  85004

Reading from Just Breathe Normally

2006

Jan. 14, 2006

8:00 a.m., Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu

2006 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities

Panel with Sherry Simpson, Jo-Ann Mapson, Ernestine Hayes

"Scratch a Wilderness, Find a Homeland:

The Confluence of Identity, Culture, and Landscape in Alaska's Literature"

Feb. 7, 2006

On Being Ill

Panel with Peggy Shumaker, Cynthia Hogue, Kenneth McClane, Ron Grant, Nancy Mairs, Dan Shapiro

Center for Creative Photography Auditorium, 6:00 p.m.

1030 N. Olive Rd.

Tucson, AZ

sponsored by the UA Poetry Center and the Tucson Writers' Project

www.coh.arizona.edu/poetry

Feb. 8, 2006

Reading, 8:00

University of Arizona

Modern Languages Auditorium
sponsored by University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson AZ

www.coh.arizona.edu/poetry

Feb. 10, 2006

Reading, 7:30

Poet's Voice Project

Bisbee Central School

Bisbee, AZ

aztoxics@mindspring.com

Feb. 21, 2006

Celebration Reading, 7:30

Hayden's Ferry Review

La Paz Room

Memorial Union

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Feb. 22-25, 2006
Desert Nights, Rising Stars

Arizona State University Writing Conference

Tempe, AZ

http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/conference/2006/

Feb. 22 

12:00-2:00  Small group instruction, poetry

Feb. 23 

10:45  Class: The Hook, The Door, The Invitation: Strong Titles

12:00-2:00  Small group instruction, poetry

4:45  Meet the Writers Booksigning and Tea

Feb. 24 

9:30  Class: Prose Poems, Paragraphs, Brief Lyric Nonfiction

12:00-2:00  Small group instruction, poetry

Feb. 25 

1:45  Panel:  Collaborations

3:00  Reading

Mar. 3-5, 2006

Whidbey Island Writers' Conference

Whidbey Island, WA

www.writeonwhidbey.org.conference

Mar. 8-11, 2006
AWP in Austin, TX

http://awpwriter.org/conference/2006awpconf.htm

Presenter:

Thurs., 12:00-1:15

So Much With So Little: Nonfiction Shorts

Fri., 1:30-2:45

Prairie Schooner 80th Anniversary Reading and Celebration

Mar. 23, 2006
University of Utah Visiting Writers Series

Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery

1325 E. 100 South (in Reservoir Park)

Salt Lake City

Reading, 7:00

kathryn.cowles@comcast.net 

Mar. 24, 2006

Colloquium with graduate students, University of Utah

Mar. 23, 2006
Outreach with high school students in SLC

Mar. 25, 2006

2:00, Community Writing Activities, poetry and prose, for teens and adults

Salt Lake City Public Library

210 East 400 South

May 19-20, 2006

Skagit River Poetry Festival

La Conner WA

Friday:

              Workshop: Where Poems Begin at Library, 10:10-11:10 AM.

              Alice Derry, Peggy Shumaker

              Eco Poetry at Senior Center, 11:40-12:40PM.

              Peggy Shumaker, Tod Marshall, Tim McNulty

Saturday:

              Poetry and Painting at MoNA, 10:00 AM.

              Peggy Shumaker, K. Woodward

              Sense of Place, Place of Sense at MoNA, 12:30 PM.

              Lorraine Ferra, Tim McNulty, Peggy Shumaker

www.skagitriverpoetry.org

June 3, 2006

Reading to Benefit Creamer's Field

10:00-2:00 

July 16-30, 2006

Fairbank Summer Arts Festival

Creative Writing Class

www.fsaf.org

August 6-16, 2006

Rainier Writing Workshop

MFA Residency

www.plu.edu/~mfa/residencies.html

September 18-20, 2006

National Association of State Arts Agencies Annual Meeting

Anchorage, AK

9:00 a.m., Sept. 19, 2006

Presentation of poetry and art from Blaze

Sydney Laurence Theater

Performing Arts Center

Anchorage

aksca_info@eed.state.ak.us

September 28, 2006

Arts Building

University of Alaska Anchorage

4:30  Poetry Workshop, with Eva Saulitis

7:00  Fundraising reading to benefit YWCA

(Several readers)

Nov. 9, 2006

10:30-11:30  Blaze Reading and slide show

Paradise Valley Community College

Paradise Valley AZ

2005

June 10-14, 2005

Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference

Land's End

Homer AK

July 17-31, 2005

Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival

Creative Writing Class

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Fairbanks AK

Aug. 7-17, 2005

Rainier Writing Workshop MFA Residency

Pacific Lutheran University

Tacoma WA

Aug. 21-23, 2005

Whidbey Island Writers' Association MFA Residency

Fort Casey WA

Sept. 4, 2005
Bumbershoot, reading, 5:30, Starbucks Literary Stage, Alki Room

Oct. 7, 2005

Alaska Quarterly Review

First Friday Reading, 7:00 

Bernie's

626 D Street

Anchorage, AK

907 276-8808

Oct. 28, 2005
Release party for Blaze

Fairbanks, Alaska
University of Alaska Museum of the North, 7:00
Reading, art show, book signing. With Kesler Woodward.

www.uaf.edu/museum

Oct. 29, 2005
Release party for Blaze

Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage Museum of History and Art, 2:00
Reading, art talk, book signing. With Kesler Woodward.

www.anchoragemuseum.org

Oct. 30, 2005

Blaze

Reading, art talk, book signing  2:00

Peggy Shumaker and Kesler Woodward

Kachemak Bay East Campus, Room 201

Homer, Alaska 

907 235-7743

Nov. 1, 2005

Craft Talk, 3:00-5:00

Brief Lyric Nonfiction

University of Alaska Anchorage

Campus Den, UAA Bookstore Building, Lower Floor

Nov. 1, 2005
Title Wave Books, Anchorage, Alaska, 7:30
Reading, slide show, signing for Blaze
With Kesler Woodward.

www.wavebooks.com

Nov. 21, 2005

Cross-Border Pollination

Canadian and American Poets

Reading, 7:00

Central Library

350 W. Georgia Street

Vancouver, B.C.

604 331-3602

www.vpl.ca

Dec. 2, 2005

Changing Hands Bookstore

Tempe AZ

First Friday Poetry Reading, 7:00

www.changinghands.com