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English Undergraduates: Writing Specialization

Writing Specialization
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Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series and other Special Events

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.

Reading Schedule

Tom King Tuesday, October 6, 7:30 p.m.
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.
Peter Pereria  Tuesday, November 3, 7:30 p.m.
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

Nancy Rawles Tuesday, February 23
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: To be announced

Allen Braden Tuesday, March 9
Allen Braden

Allen Braden, the author of the poetry collection, A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood from University of Georgia Press, has received fellowships from the NEA and Artist Trust as well as the Emerging Writers Prize, the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Dana Award in Poetry and other honors. He is one of ten family members to have attended CWU.
Location: To be announced

Mary Clearman Blew Tuesday, April 13
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

Kim-An Lieberman Tuesday, April 27
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

Crystal Williams Tuesday, May 18
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

Contact Information

English Undergraduates
400 E. University Way
Language and Literature Building, Room 423
Ellensburg, WA 98926
Phone: (509) 963-1546
email: stevenst@cwu.edu
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