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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Fall 2018 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Fall 2018 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until November 7th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/MarySubmissionForm
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays "Central America: Why the Surge in Asylum Seekers?"
DESCRIPTION:We have all seen the horrific recent images of children separated from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border and heard stories of people from Central American countries seeking asylum in the U.S. because of dangerous conditions back home. But what are those conditions and why have so many asylum seekers been coming of late? \nActivist Trebor Healey\, Professor Susanne Jonas\, and journalist Mary Jo McConahay will discuss this topic and read a bit of their writing on the issue Monday\, October 29\, 7pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Admission and refreshments are free. A book signing will follow the event. \nHere is more about the panelists:\nTrebor Healey is the recipient of a Lambda Literary award\, two Publishing Triangle awards and a Violet Quill award. He is the author of three novels\, a book of poetry and three collections of stories. He co-edited the anthologies Beyond Definition and Queer & Catholic. www.treborhealey.com. \nTrebor works for Scalabrinianas Mision Con Migrantes Y Refugiados\, which houses about 50 Central American refugees at a time for a period of 3 months and helps them gain asylum from the Mexican Government. https://www.facebook.com/Scalabrinianas-Misi%C3%B3n-con-Migrantes-y-Refugiados-1709823382589599/ \nSusanne Jonas has been an internationally recognized writer/expert on Latin America\, particularly Guatemala/ Central America\, for five decades. She has taught Latin American & Latino Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz for 24 years and received a Distinguished Teaching Award. Since 1967\, she has written and co-edited 22 books and over 100 articles and OpEds — many translated into Spanish. Her book Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process was designated a Choice “Outstanding” book. Since the 1990s\, she is also a specialist on Central American migration and broader Latino immigration issues\, and co-authored Guatemala-U.S. Migration: Transforming Regions (2014). She collaborates with Latin American colleagues and U.S.-based Latino community rights organizations. Her colleagues have honored her long writing/advocacy career at conferences in Latin America and the U.S. \nMary Jo McConahay is an award-winning reporter who covered the wars in Central America and economics in the Middle East. As a journalist\, her work has appeared in Time\, Newsweek\, Vogue\, Rolling Stone\, Ms.\, Salon\, Sierra\, Los Angeles Times Magazine\, Parenting\, The Progressive\, National Catholic Reporter\, and more than two dozen other magazines and periodicals. Most recently\, she has written on emotional border issues for The Texas Observer. Her books include Maya Roads: One Woman’s Journey among the People of the Rainforest\, Ricochet: Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship under Fire\, and the just-released The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts\, Minds and Riches of Latin America during World War II. Maya Roads received the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. She covers Latin America as an independent journalist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-central-america-why-the-surge-in-asylum-seekers/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Anne-Marie Kinney / Coldwater Canyon
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Los Angeles-based Anne-Marie Kinney (Radio Iris) for her new novel Colwater Canyon. More details to be announced — please save the date and join us! \n  \nShep has been dealt a bad hand in life. Halfheartedly raised by a cold grandmother and chronically ill following his deployment in Desert Storm\, he self-medicates with alcohol and daydreams of salvation at the hands of women—ultimately landing on one woman in particular: Lila\, the young actress he believes is his daughter despite all evidence to the contrary. As Shep navigates the mystically rendered streets and strip malls of the San Fernando Valley with his only companion\, his dog Lionel\, he takes increasingly desperate measures to insinuate himself into her life. Kinney’s precise and considered prose examines the insistence on reshaping the past through the lens of one’s own trauma and conceived desires as a means of moving forward. Why do we so often look for solace and redemption through others\, pushing ourselves to do anything for them\, even when it harms everyone involved? \n  \n\n  \n“Hot\, gritty\, swirling\, hypnotic and sensual… an unhinged\, sweetly sinister sun-baked noir; all danger\, doomed love\, and compassion.” – Ben Loory\, author of Tales of Falling and Flying \n  \n“A stunning journey through the hard-beating heart of a California everyone needs to see and know\, and now they can through Anne-Marie Kinney’s evocative\, heartbreaking\, hopeful and hilarious novel. Her landscape is singular\, and her voice a welcome new addition to American fiction. I loved this book – and the people\, and dog\, in it.” – Susan Straight\, author of Highwire Moon and Between Heaven and Here \n  \n“Kinney’s beautiful writing propels this story of a traumatized Nebraska man navigating the diffuse loneliness of Los Angeles. Coldwater Canyon is haunting.” – J. Ryan Stradal\, author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest \n  \n\n  \nAnne-Marie Kinney is the author of two novels\, Radio Iris (2012\, Two Dollar Radio) and Coldwater Canyon (forthcoming from CCM in 2018). A New York Times Editor’s Choice pick\, Radio Iris was called “a spiky debut” and “‘The Office’ as scripted by Kafka” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Her shorter work has been published in journals including Joyland\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Rattling Wall\, The Collagist\, Fanzine and Black Clock\, for which she also served as Production Editor from 2011-2016. She lives in Los Angeles. \n  \n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-anne-marie-kinney-coldwater-canyon/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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