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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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/using-invented-and-foreign-languages-as-tools-for-world-building-a-fiction-workshop-with-rita-bullwinkel/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Shane McCrae
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Lunch Poems\nA noontime poetry reading series\nReadings will take place remotely for the 2020-2021 academic year. Zoom links will be available approximately two weeks before the event. All readings will be recorded and posted to youtube. To keep up to date\, please join our list by emailing poems@library.berkeley.edu. \nLink for all readings: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96370640480 \n\nShane McCrae\nShane McCrae’s most recent books are The Gilded Auction Block (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2019) and Sometimes I Never Suffered (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2020). He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award\, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Lannan Literary Award\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-lunch-poems-shane-mccrae/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salons: Tom Perrotta
DESCRIPTION:Seismic Salon: Tom Perrotta\nThu Apr 1st 5:00pm – 6:30pm\nBuy Tickets \n\n\n\nIf you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to have your fiction translated to the screen not once but many times\, to be nominated for numerous awards including the Oscar and the Golden Globe\, and to walk a red carpet\, join us for a fascinating conversation with Tom Perrotta. This Seismic Salon features the bestselling author of nine works of fiction\, including Election and Little Children\, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films\, and The Leftovers\, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed\, Peabody Award-winning HBO series. His other books include Bad Haircut\, The Wishbones\, Joe College\, The Abstinence Teacher\, Nine Inches\, and his newest\, Mrs. Fletcher. His work has been translated into a multitude of languages. Perrotta grew up in New Jersey and lives outside of Boston. \nBuy Tom Perrotta’s books at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salons-tom-perrotta/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Andrea Bajani and Jhumpa Lahiri Writers discuss Bajani's novel\, If You Kept a Record of Sins
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Bajani is joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri to celebrate the publication of his novel\, If You Kept a Record of Sins (translated by Elizabeth Harris for Archipelago Books). \n“One of Italy’s greatest writers . . . An elegy\, a requiem\, a reckoning\, a broken portrait of an absent mother\, If You Kept a Record of Sins is a jewel of a book. You will hold it to your heart when you are done.” — Andrew Sean Greer\, winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Less \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout If You Kept a Record of Sins\nA prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she’s building in Romania. Lorenzo\, just a young boy when his mother leaves\, recalls the incisive fragments of their life – when they would playfully wrestle each other\, watch the sunrise\, or test out his mother’s newest scientific creation. Now a young man\, Lorenzo travels to Romania for his mother’s funeral and reflects on the strangeness of today’s Europe\, which masks itself as a beacon of Western civilization while iniquity and exploitation run rampant. With elliptical\, piercing prose\, Bajani tells a story of abandonment and initiation\, of sentimental education and shattered illusions\, of unconditional love. \nAbout the participants\nANDREA BAJANI is an Italian novelist\, journalist\, and poet whose work has been translated into many languages. His novel\, Ogni promessa (Every Promise)\, won the oldest and most prestigious Italian literary award\, the Bagutta Prize. His collection of short stories\, La vita non è in ordine alfabetico\, won the Settembrini Prize in 2014. Se consideri le colpe (If You Kept a Record of Sins) won the Super Mondello Prize\, the Brancati Prize\, the Recanati Prize\, and the Lo Straniero Prize. He teaches at Rice University in the Department of Classical and European studies. \nJHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies\, The Namesake\, Unaccustomed Earth\, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction\, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards\, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal\, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia\, for In altre parole. \nAbout the translator\nElizabeth Harris’s translations from Italian include Mario Rigoni Stern’s Giacomo’s Seasons\, Giulio Mozzi’s This Is the Garden\, and Antonio Tabucchi’s Tristano Dies\, For Isabel: A Mandala\, and Stories with Pictures. Her prizes include a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant\, an NEA Translation Fellowship\, The Italian Prose in Translation Award\, and the National Translation Award for Prose.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrea-bajani-and-jhumpa-lahiri-writers-discuss-bajanis-novel-if-you-kept-a-record-of-sins/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, Brent Awa Jensen \nSupported by the National Endowment for the Arts \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youmna-chlala-and-ken-chen-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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