PEN/Faulkner Award Winner Karen Joy Fowler to headline the 2014 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: “Family, Animal, Story” May 1 – 3
You’re invited to the third annual CSWS Northwest Women Writer’s Symposium — “Family, Animal, Story” — a 3-day symposium on women writers held on the UO campus and at the downtown Eugene Public Library (10th & Olive). “Family, Animal, Story” will feature a Thursday evening panel discussion focused on New York Times–bestselling novelist Karen Joy Fowler’s latest novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves; a Friday evening reading & booksigning with Karen Joy Fowler; and a full day on Saturday including two morning panels and four afternoon workshops. Fowler is the winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, which has opened up new ways of talking about family dynamics and the ethics of animal research. The novel is narrated by a young woman who was raised until age five with a chimpanzee as her sister..
Panels and workshops are FREE & open to the public. Starting April 12 (please do not call sooner!), you must pre-register for limited spaces in Saturday afternoon workshops by calling Eugene Public Library at: 541-682-5450 (Press 2).
The Northwest Women Writers Symposium is the yearly centerpiece of the Women Writers Project at the Center for the Study of Women and Society at University of Oregon. Other sponsors for this event include the Eugene Public Library, Oregon Humanities Center, UO Department of English, UO Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, UO Libraries, and the UO School of Journalism and Communication.
Find out more here.
NW Women Writer’s Symposium: Panels and Workshops
Saturday, May 3, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th & Olive
Print Your Book Tuesday, May 6, 6:00 p.m., Sheldon Branch of Eugene Public Library, 1566 Coburg Road
Tuesday, May 13, 6:00 p.m., Bethel Branch of Eugene Public Library, 1990 Echo Hollow Road
Blogging: Next Steps
Saturday, May 10, 10:00 a.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th & Olive
Windfall Reading: John Yau
Tuesday, May 20, 5:30 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th & Olive
Writer Lynn Ash
Wednesday, May 21, 6:00 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th & Olive
Tween Scene Book Group
Thursday, May 29, 4:00 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th & Olive
Teen Book Group
Thursday, May 29, 4:00 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th & Olive