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Writing Specialization Program
The English: Writing Specialization sponsors the Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series of readings. These readings occur every quarter
and feature nationally known writers reading their own work. We have hosted two winners of the MacArthur Genius Award, as well
as the WA State Poet Laureate, and recipients of NEA Fellowships and other major prizes. Each spring, students enrolled in ENG 468:
Contemporary Writers Colloquium (an upper level multi-genre writing workshop), meet with three visiting writers from the Lion Rock
Visiting Writers Series. We also sponsor talks by professional editors and publishers, readings by faculty and students, including
open mics, and an annual reading for students who have their work published in CWU’s literary magazine, Manastash.
Past readers in the Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series include Lucia Perillo, Anthony Doerr, Major Jackson, Kim Barnes, Linda Beirds,
David Guterson, David Wojahn, Prageeta Sharma and Sam Green.
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Thomas King
Writing and the World: A Wasted Evening with Thomas King
Thomas King is a noted novelist and broadcaster who most often writes about Canada’s First Nations and is
an outspoken advocate for First Nations causes.
Location: SURC Ballroom
There will also be a screening of King’s Medicine River on Monday, October 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall.
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Peter Pereira
Peter Pereira is a family physician in Seattle. His books of poetry include What's Written on the Body
(Copper Canyon 2007), Saying the World (Copper Canyon 2003), and The Lost Twin (Grey Spider 2000).
Location: Mary Grupe Center
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Kathy Whitcomb
Katharine Whitcomb is an associate professor of English at CWU, where she coordinates the English Writing Specialization.
She recently won the 2009 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award for her manuscript, Lamp of Letters (Floating Bridge Press,
2009). She is the author of a collection of poems, Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems, which was chosen by Lucia Perillo
as the winner of the 2000 Bluestem Award (Bluestem Press, 2001), and another poetry chapbook, Hosannas (Parallel Press, 1999).
Location: Sarah Spurgeon Gallery - Randall 141
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Nancy Rawles
Nancy Rawles is the author of three critically-acclaimed and award-winning novels: Love Like Gumbo, which won an
American Book Award, Crawfish Dreams, which was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers
Program, and My Jim. My Jim is the winner of an American Library Association’s Alex Award and the Legacy Award
in Fiction from the Hurston/Wright Foundation. She lives in Yakima.
Location: SUBREC Theatre
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Mary Clearman Blew
Mary Clearman Blew has authored over eight books of essays, memoir, short stories and novels, including All But
the Waltz: Essays on a Montana Family, Jackalope Dreams, Balsamroot and Runaway. She was born and raised on a small
Montana cattle ranch that was her great-grandfather's original homestead. She is a Professor of English at the
University of Idaho in Moscow.
Location: To be announced
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Kim-An Lieberman
Kim-An Lieberman is a writer of Vietnamese and Jewish American descent, born in Rhode Island and raised in the
Pacific Northwest. Her first collection of poetry, Breaking the Map, was published in 2008 by Blue Begonia Press.
Her poems and essays have also appeared in Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Threepenny Review,
and the anthology Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace. She lives in Seattle with her family.
Location: To be announced
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Crystal Williams
Crystal Williams is the author of three collections of poetry, including Troubled Tongues, which was the winner
of the 2009 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award, Kin and Lunatic. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Money
for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and the Oregon Arts Commission. Williams is currently an associate professor
at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
Location: To be announced
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