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SUMMARY:Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:A dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author\, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM from Mar 6 – Apr 10.\n\nCLA WRITERS WORKSHOPS are open to individuals of all backgrounds–including those who are exploring creative writing for the first time–as well as aspiring writers who want to prepare their work for publication. Workshops are modeled on graduate-level creative writing courses\, and may include short in-class writing assignments to jumpstart the writing process\, as well as work outside of class that will entail reading the work of select published writers\, critiquing the work of other workshop participants\, and writing a piece to be workshopped by the class. Each participant will receive written comments from the instructor. Workshops are led by accomplished local authors\, including students and alumni of the San Jose State University Creative Writing Program.\nTuition $250 // Eventbrite\n\nCOURSE DESCRIPTION:\nOne of the big things that makes us\, as readers of fiction\, read on into a book is mystery and\, very often\, that mystery comes in the form of a word or idea we don’t yet understand. As a writer\, one way to rope your readers in is to deliberately use words that you know your audience might not understand\, and then\, through context\, teach your readers the meaning of those words. This is a tool used frequently in fantasy as well as literary writing. In this workshop we will explore several examples of this invaluable literary tool and learn how we can best deploy this strategy in our own fiction.\nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, The White Review\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #52
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
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SUMMARY:HIGH DAWN 7: Ahsan / Montes / Low / Dennis
DESCRIPTION:Small Press Traffic and UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium present the seventh installment of HIGH DAWN\, a reading series featuring poets and musicians from the Bay Area and beyond. \nReadings by Bahaar Ahsan & Lara Mimosa Montes\nIntroduced by Trisha Low\nMusic by Ryanaustin Dennis\nArtist bios below \n## RSVP for Zoom link: spt-march.eventbrite.com \nAll upcoming Small Press Traffic events: https://www.smallpresstraffic.org/upcomingevents \n## Artist Bios:\nBahaar Ahsan is a poet in the Bay Area. Bahaar’s work is both speculative and deeply embedded in lineage(s). Recent work can be found in Berkeley Poetry Review\, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics(forthcoming from Nightboat Books)\, and elsewhere. \nLara Mimosa Montes is the author of THRESHOLES (Coffee House Press\, 2020). Her work has appeared in Fence\, BOMB\, Jacket2\, and elsewhere. She is a CantoMundo fellow and has been awarded residencies from Storm King: Shandaken\, Marble House Project\, and Headlands Center for the Arts. In 2018\, Lara was awarded a McKnight Fellowship in Poetry. Currently\, she is a senior editor of Triple Canopy. She lives in Minnesota. \nTrisha Low is the author of The Compleat Purge (Kenning Editions 2013) and Socialist Realism (Emily Books\, 2019). She lives in the East Bay. \nRyanaustin Dennis is an Oakland based art work and cultural strategist. Their practice is concerned with how 20th and 21st century experimental performance\, film\, and writing histories are shaped by the metaphysics of blackness. They have done curatorial work for Kadist\, SFMOMA Open Space\, Eastside Arts Alliance\, and Soundwave Biennial. They currently co-curate the Black Life series at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and Pro Arts Gallery & Commons.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Shira Spector and Phoebe Gloeckner
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON FRIDAY\, MARCH 26 AT 6PM PT WHEN SHIRA SPECTOR IS JOINED BY PHOEBE GLOECKNER TO DISCUSS HER GRAPHIC MEMOIR\, RED ROCK BABY CANDY\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81360595558\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81360595558#  or +12532158782\,\,81360595558#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/km5ajZW5S \nPraise for Red Rock Baby Candy \n“Using lithesome\, intricate drawings and mixed-media collages\, Spector debuts with a graphic memoir of desire and loss that expresses emotions viscerally and with a tactile immediacy.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review) \n“There are so many styles\, so many layers to both the art and the story. Open it up to any page and you’re met with an explosion of color\, images\, and words.” – Book Riot \n“Every page of this formally inventive\, kaleidoscopic graphic memoir is a work of art in and of itself. … [A] book that will change the literary landscape in 2021.” – O The Oprah Magazine \n“Shira Spector’s deeply moving graphic memoir is about love and sorrow\, and the wondrousness of being alive despite everything. The inventive combination of text and drawing works perfectly to draw the reader in.” – Roz Chast\, Can’t We talk About Something More Pleasant? \n“Shira Spector has created an ecstatic book about a life lived deeply\, fully\, and with the extreme bravery we must all have if we want to truly love and be loved.” – Eleanor Davis\, How To Be Happy \nAbout Red Rock Baby Candy \nSelf-described as “an infertile\, high-femme\, low income\, non-biological Jewish mom\, dyke drama queen\, and ectopic pregnancy survivor\,” the author tells her story in this formally innovative graphic memoir. \nShira Spector literally paints a vivid portrait of the most eventful 10 years of her life\, encompassing her tenacious struggle to get pregnant\, the emotional turmoil of her father’s cancer diagnosis and eventual death\, and her recollections of past relationships with her parents and her partner. Set in a kaleidoscope of Montreal and Toronto\, Red Rock Baby Candy unfolds as one of the most formally inventive comics in the history of the medium. It begins in subtle\, tonal shades of black ink\, introduces color slowly over the next 50 pages until it explodes into a glorious full color palette. The irreverent characters begin to bloom and to live life fully\, resurrecting the dead in order to map the geography among infertility\, sexuality\, choice\, and mortality. The drawing is visceral\, symbolic\, and naturalistic. The visual storytelling eschews traditional comics panels in favor of a series of unique page compositions that convey both a stream of consciousness and the tactile reality of life\, both the subjective impressions of the author at each moment of her life and the objective series of events that shape her narrative. It is the most formally revolutionary visual storytelling since Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing is Monsters.
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SUMMARY:Eastwind Book Club: The Sympathizer
DESCRIPTION:Eastwind Book Club is a community of readers connected by Asian and Asian American literature. Members gather once a month through a virtual meeting to discuss the month’s book selection. March’s book club pick is The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. This month’s selection is part of a two-part series featuring works by Viet Thanh Nguyen.\nThe book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Friday\, March 26 at 7pm PST. Register to receive the meeting link.\nBook Club members can use coupon code EWBOOKCLUB21 for a 10% discount.\nCopies of The Sympathizer are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704.\nJoin our Book Club Facebook group to engage in conversation throughout the month: www.tinyurl.com/ewclub\nSAVE THE DATE!\nSpecial Series Part 2 will feature The Committed\, sequel to The Sympathizer and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s newest release. Save the date for April\, 2021.\n~\nThis event is co-sponsored by DVAN – Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network\, UNAVSA – the Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations) OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, and AsAmNews (www.asamnews.com).\nAbout the book:\nThe winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction\, as well as seven other awards\, The Sympathizer is one of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Vladimir Nabokov\, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator\, a communist double agent\, is a “man of two minds\,” a half-French\, half-Vietnamese army captain who comes to America after the Fall of Saigon\, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America\, a gripping spy novel\, and a powerful story of love and friendship.\nAbout the author:\nViet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Committed\, which continues the story of The Sympathizer\, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction\, alongside seven other prizes. He is also the author of the short story collection The Refugees; the nonfiction book Nothing Ever Dies\, a finalist for the National Book Award; and is the editor of an anthology of refugee writing\, The Displaced. He is the Aerol Arnold Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. He lives in Los Angeles.\nPraise for The Sympathizer:\n“A layered immigrant tale told in the wry\, confessional voice of a ‘man of two minds’—and two countries\, Vietnam and the United States.”—Pulitzer Prize Citation\n“[A] remarkable debut novel . . . [Nguyen] brings a distinctive perspective to the war and its aftermath. His book fills a void in the literature\, giving voice to the previously voiceless . . . The nameless protagonist-narrator\, a memorable character despite his anonymity\, is an Americanized Vietnamese with a divided heart and mind. Nguyen’s skill in portraying this sort of ambivalent personality compares favorably with masters like Conrad\, Greene\, and le Carré. . . . Both thriller and social satire. . . . In its final chapters\, The Sympathizer becomes an absurdist tour de force that might have been written by a Kafka or Genet.”—Philip Caputo\, New York Times Book Review (cover review)\n~~~\nEastwind Book Club is co-sponsored by OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD) and AsAmNews
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