Genre: Poetry

Joy Harjo and Camille T. Dungy on Nature Poems

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In this 2023 National Book Festival event, Joy Harjo, author of Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years (Norton, 2022), and Camille T. Dungy, author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023), read from their work and discuss writing about nature in a conversation moderated by NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe. Dungy’s essay “Manifest Some Magic: Get Out of Your Own Way and Do the Darn Thing” is included in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Genre: 
Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
Tags: 
Joy Harjo
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light
Camille T. Dungy
Soil
National Book Festival
Library of Congress
2023
reading
conversation
nature
January/February 2024

UCR Writers’ Week Festival

January/February 2024

The 47th annual UCR Writers’ Week Festival, sponsored by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), was held from February 10 to February 16 at the University of California campus in Riverside (UCR) and online. The festival’s programming features author readings and talks, panel discussions, book signings, Q&A sessions, and a Lifetime Achievement Award presentation for poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and translators.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
February 10, 2024
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
May 31, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 31, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

UCR Writers’ Week Festival, University of California in Riverside, Department of Creative Writing, Interdisciplinary North Building 3012, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Director.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Director
Contact City: 
Riverside
Contact State: 
CA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
92521
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
Cross-Genre

Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency

January/February 2024

The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, administered by PEN Northwest, offers a seven-month residency from April through October to a poet or prose writer, or pair of writers, at Dutch Henry Homestead in the Rogue River Canyon of southwest Oregon. Residents are provided with private lodging, including two small bedrooms, a sleeping loft, a living room with a kitchen, a bathroom, and a roof-deck, on 92 acres of forest and meadow. One hour of general homestead maintenance is required each day. Residents will also receive a stipend of at least $3,500.

Type: 
RESIDENCY
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
April 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
no
Application Deadline: 
March 15, 2024
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
May 31, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, PEN Northwest, c/o John Daniel, 23030 W. Sheffler Road, Elmira, OR 97437.

Contact City: 
Elmira
Contact State: 
OR
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
97437
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

5 Over 50: 2023 Virtual Reading

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In this virtual reading and conversation, Poets & Writers editor in chief Kevin Larimer introduces the 2023 cohort of “5 Over 50” debut authors, Alma García, author of All That Rises (University of Arizona Press, 2023); Bernardine “Dine” Watson, author of Transplant (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2023); Tommy Archuleta, author of Susto (Center for Literary Publishing, 2023); Chin-Sun Lee, author of Upcountry (Unnamed Press, 2023); and Donna Spruijt-Metz, author of General Release From the Beginning of the World (Parlor Press, 2023).

Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Tags: 
Kevin Larimer
5 Over 50
November/December 2023
Alma García
Bernadine Watson
Tommy Archuleta
Chin-Sun Lee
Donna Spruijt-Metz
reading
conversation
Poets & Writers Live

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