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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:Claudio Saunt & Mickey Huff: Unworthy Republic: A Zoom event
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nCLAUDIO SAUNT & MICKEY HUFF: A Zoom Event \nUnworthy Republic: Dispossession of Native Americans\nand the Road to Indian Territory\nFinalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction\nPublishers Weekly “Top 10” Best Book of 2020 \n“One of the most important books published on U.S. history in recent years and should be required reading for all Americans.”-Sven Beckert\, author of Empire of Cotton \n“”Unworthy Republic” is a powerful and lucid account\, weaving together events with the people who experienced them up close….Saunt has written an unflinching book that reckons with this history and its legacy.”-Jennifer Szalai\, New York Times \n“There has been insufficient ‘reckoning with the conquest of the continent\,’ Claudio Saunt relays in this excellent new book. In many accounts of U.S. history\, the discussion of the mass deportation of native nations during the 1830s remains far too brief. Deportation’s legacies in law\, culture\, and community continue to this day and find powerful exploration in this important addition to the field.” \n-Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone)\, professor of history and American studies\, Yale University \n“Unworthy Republic offers a much-needed corrective to the American canon\, showing how a heavy-handed president\, a deadlocked Congress\, and a lust for profit combined to construct a shameful national legacy. This book is timely\, provocative\, heart-wrenching\, and original?a riveting story that invites us all to reflect on how we got where we are today.” \n-Elizabeth Fenn\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World \nClaudio Saunt is the author of award-winning books\, including West of the Revolution\, A New Order of Things\, and Black\, White\, and Indian. He lives in Athens\, Georgia. \nMickey Huff is the currently Director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/claudio-saunt-mickey-huff-tickets-137141043553
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SUMMARY:Book Passage Presents: Martha Hall Kelly - Sunflower Sisters
DESCRIPTION:Martha Hall Kelly’s million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. Now\, in Sunflower Sisters\, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday’s ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey\, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross paths with Jemma\, a young enslaved girl who is sold off and conscripted into the army\, and Anne-May Wilson\, a Southern plantation mistress whose husband enlists. \nGeorgeanna “Georgey” Woolsey isn’t meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when war ignites the nation\, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. In proving them wrong\, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington\, D.C.\, to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort. \nIn the South\, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland\, where she lives with her mother and father. Her sister\, Patience\, is enslaved on the plantation next door\, and both live in fear of LeBaron\, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. When Jemma is sold by the cruel plantation mistress Anne-May at the same time the Union army comes through\, she sees a chance to finally escape—but only by abandoning the family she loves. \nAnne-May is left behind to run Peeler Plantation when her husband joins the Union army and her cherished brother enlists with the Confederates. In charge of the household\, she uses the opportunity to follow her own ambitions and is drawn into a secret Southern network of spies\, finally exposing herself to the fate she deserves. \nInspired by true accounts\, Sunflower Sisters provides a vivid\, detailed look at the Civil War experience\, from the barbaric and inhumane plantations\, to a war-torn New York City\, to the horrors of the battlefield. It’s a sweeping story of women caught in a country on the brink of collapse\, in a society grappling with nationalism and unthinkable racial cruelty\, a story still so relevant today. \nMartha Hall Kelly is the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls and Lost Roses. She lives in Connecticut\, where she spends her days filling legal pads with stories and reading World War II books.
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