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JUNE 14 - 28, 2008
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JUNE 14 (Saturday)
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5:00 Arrival in Seillans, FARMHOUSE
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7:30 pm Dinner/barbeque at the FARMHOUSE.
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2:00 – 4:30 Workshop with Agent: How to write a Query letter
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5:00 – 7:30 Up close and Personal with: Harrison Solow and Rebecca Walker.
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9:30 - 12:30 Workshop with Rebecca Walker.
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June 17 (Tuesday)
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For those who are interested, there's a Morning Market in the neighboring town, Montauroux.
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1:00 Scheduled meetings with authors and agent.
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2:00 – 3:00 Craft lecture: Susan Vreeland
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3:30 – 6:30 Workshop with Scott Bailey, Dan Chaon and Rebecca Walker.
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7:00 – 7:55 "An evening with Sheila Schwartz". Sheila Schwartz teaches creative writing at Cleveland State University. She has won an O'Henry Award (1999), a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and many other honors. Her stories have appeared in Pushcart Prize Anthology Volume XIV, Best of Crazyhorse, Ploughshares, and Atlantic Monthly. Schwartz has also published a collection of short stories Imagine A Great White Light which won the Pushcart Editors' Book Award, and has a novel forthcoming Lies Will Take You Somewhere... from Etruscan Press.
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June 18 (Wednesday)
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09:30 - 12:30 Workshops with Scott Bailey, Dan Chaon and Rebecca Walker.
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June 19 (Thursday)
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1:00 Scheduled meeting with authors and agent.
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2:00 – 3:00 Craft Lecture: Rebecca Walker
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3:30 – 6:30 Workshop with Scott Bailey, Dan Chaon and Rebecca Walker.
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6:30 – 7:55 The In's and Out's of the Literary Profession.
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9:30 - 10:30 Craft lecture with Sheila Schwartz
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10:30 – 1:00 Workshop with Scott Bailey, Dan Chaon and Rebecca Walker.
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7:00 – 7:55 An evening with National Book Award Finalist, Dan Chaon. Dan Chaon (born 1964) is an American author. His best-selling first novel was You Remind Me of Me (2004). His short-story collections Fitting Ends (1996) and Among the Missing (2001) were both well-received; the latter was a finalist for a National Book Award, and was also named one of the year's ten best books by the American Library Association and The New York Times. Chaon's short stories have also won the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award, and have been included in the Best American Short Stories of 1996 and 2003. He was awarded the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Chaon was adopted, and grew up in Nebraska. He is married to the writer Sheila Schwartz and has two teenage sons. He lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and teaches creative writing at Oberlin College
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6:15 - 7:00 Reading by Tanya Gupta
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7:00 – 7:55 An evening with Susan Vreeland, followed by a Q & A session. Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion. Never had history been more vibrant, its voices more resonating, its images more gripping. On this first trip to Europe, I felt myself a pilgrim: To me, even secular places such as museums and ruins were imbued with the sacred. Painting, sculpture, architecture, music, religious and social history--I was swept away with all of it, wanting to read more, to learn languages, to fill my mind with rich, glorious, long-established culture wrought by human desire, daring, and faith. I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart. My imagination exploded with the gaiety of the Montmartre dancers at Moulin de la Galette, the laborer whose last breath in his flattened chest was taken under the weight of a stone fallen from the Duomo under construction in Florence, the apprentice who cut himself preparing glass for the jeweled windows of Sainte Chapelle, the sweating quarry worker aching behind his crowbar at Carrara to release a marble that would become the Pietà.
In a fashion I couldn't imagine then, I have been true to this pledge. I have brought to life the daughter of the Dutch painter Vermeer who secretly yearned to paint the Delft she loved. I've given voice to the Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, raped at seventeen by her painting teacher, the first woman to paint large scale figures from history and scripture previously reserved for men. On my own continent, I've entered deep British Columbian forests with Emily Carr, whose love for native people took her to places proper white women didn't go. My imagination has followed Modigliani's daughter around Paris searching for shreds of information about the father she never knew. I've imagined myself a poor wetnurse, bereaved of her own baby so that a rich woman, Berthe Morisot, might paint. I've taken my seventeenth century Tuscan shoemaker to Rome to have his longed-for religious experience under the Sistine ceiling. I've followed Renoir's models to cabarets and boat races, to war and elopement, to the Folies-Bergère and luncheons by the Seine.
Now some facts as to how I arrived there: After graduating from San Diego State University, I taught high school English in San Diego beginning in 1969 and retired in 2000 after a 30-year career. Concurrently, I began writing features for newspapers and magazines in 1980, taking up subjects in art and travel, and publishing 250 articles. I ventured into fiction in 1988 with What Love Sees, a biographical novel of a woman's unwavering determination to lead a full life despite blindness. The book was made into a CBS television movie starring Richard Thomas and Annabeth Gish. My short fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, Confrontation, Alaska Quarterly Review, Manoa, Connecticut Review, Calyx, Crescent Review, So To Speak and elsewhere.
My art-related fiction, products of my pledge on Pont Neuf:
Girl in Hyacinth Blue, 1999, and a Hallmark Hall of Fame production in 2003, tracing an alleged Vermeer painting through the centuries revealing its influence on those who possessed it.
The Passion of Artemisia, 2002, disclosing the inner life of Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian Baroque painter who empowered her female heroines with her own courage.
The Forest Lover, 2004, following the rebel Canadian painter, Emily Carr, seeking the spiritual content of her beloved British Columbia by painting its wild landscape and its native totemic carvings.
Life Studies, 2005, stories revealing Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters from points of view of people who knew them, and showing that ordinary people can have profound encounters with art.
Luncheon of the Boating Party, 2007, illuminating the vibrant, explosive Parisian world of la vie moderne surrounding Renoir as he creates his masterwork depicting the French art of living.
Selected awards:
New York Times Best Sellers: Girl in Hyacinth Blue, The Passion of Artemisia, Luncheon of the Boating Party.
Book Sense Pick, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 2007.
Book Sense Year's Favorites, for The Passion of Artemisia, 2002.
Book Sense Book of the Year Finalist, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, 1999.
International Dublin Literary Award, Nominee, for Girl in Hyacinth Blue, 2001.
Independent Publisher Magazine, Storyteller of the Year, for Girl in Hyacinth Blue, 1999.
Foreword Magazine's Best Novel of the Year, for Girl in Hyacinth Blue,1999.
San Diego Book Awards' Theodor Geisel Award and Best Novel of the Year, 1999, for Girl; 2002 for Artemisia, and 2005 for Life Studies.
My work has been translated into twenty-five languages.
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2:00 - 3:30 Craft lecture/workshop with Stephanie Staal. Stephanie is an independent editor, she has worked on books that garnered attention from major publications as The Washington Post, Newsweek, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and the Boston Globe, among others. She is currently an editorial consultant for Cyan Books, an independent publisher of non-fiction books based in London.
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4:00 – 5:30 Craft Lecture/workshop Brooke Scudder. Brooke Scudder is an internationally renowned illustrator with over fifteen years experience illustrating magazine articles, book covers, murals, children's books and advertising materials. She studied creative writing at Stanford University and has a BFA from the California College of Art. She has taught or lectured at writer/illustrator conferences, The California College of Art and the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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6:00 - 6:45 Reading by Stephanie Staal
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7:00 – 7:55 "An evening with Rebecca Walker", Rebecca is the daughter of famed novelist Alice Walker, she is a best-selling author and an acclaimed speaker and teacher, and an award-winning visionary and activist in the fields of intergenerational feminism, multi-cultural identity, enlightened masculinity, and transformational human awareness. When she was just twenty-five, Time Magazine named her one of the fifty most influential future leaders of America an award which has since been followed by many others, including the Women Who Could Be President Award from the League of Women Voters, the Champion of Choice Award from CARAL, and the Women of Distinction Award from the American Association of University Women. In 1995 Rebecca published To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism, an anthology that remains in print after more than ten years. Hailed a "foundational text of Third Wave feminism," To Be Real is taught in Women's Studies programs around the world. In 2002, Rebecca's memoir, Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, became an international bestseller and won the Alex Award from the American Library Association. People Magazine called Black, White, and Jewish, "A heartbreaking tale of self-creation, Walker's masterfully illuminates differences between black and white America." A second anthology, What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine The Future, was published in 2004 to similar acclaim: "Walker has done society at large a great service by bringing forth these voices, these views."
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9:30 - 12:30 Workshops with Russell Celyn Jones, Edward Humes and Stephanie Staal.
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June 24 (Tuesday)
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1:00 Scheduled meeting with authors.
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2:00 – 3:00 Craft lecture: Edward Humes
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3:30 – 6:30 Workshops with Edward Humes, Russell Celyn Jones and Stephanie Staal.
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7:00 – 7:55 An evening with Russell Celyn Jones. Russell Celyn Jones is a novelist and critic, a Booker Prize Judge (2002), John Llewellyn Rhys Prize judge (1998) and is a staff reviewer for The Times. His novels are: Surface Tension, Little, Brown (2001), The Eros Hunter, Little, Brown (1998), An Interference of Light, Viking Penguin (1995), Small Times, Viking Penguin (1992), Soldiers and Innocents, Jonathan Cape (1990) and Little, Brown (1998). His short fiction has been anthologised in Summer Magic, Bloomsbury (2003), Time Out Book of London Short Stories, Penguin (2000), The Ex-Files, Quartet (1998), Time Out Book of New York Stories, Penguin (1997). Non-fiction: “Standards in Creative Writing Teaching”, The Creative Writing Coursebook, Macmillan (2001), “Dylan Thomas’s Wales”, The Atlas of Literature, Ed. Malcolm Bradbury, De Agostini (1996). He has been awarded the Society of Author’s Award (1997), Welsh Arts Council Fiction Prize (1991), David Higham Prize (1990).
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9:30 - 12:30 Workshops with Russell Celyn Jones, Stephanie Stall and Edward Humes.
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2:00 - 3:00 Craft workshops with Dan Chaon.
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3:30 - 6:30 Workshops with Edward Humes, Russell Celyn Jones and Stephanie Staal.
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7:00 - 7:45 "An Evening with Rob Swigart", Rob Swigart’s most recent books are two teaching novels for
archaeology, Xibalba Gate: A Novel of the Classic Maya, published by AltaMira Press and Stone Mirror: A Novel of the Neolithic, published by Left Coast Press and distributed by University of Arizona Press. He has had a lifelong passion for the subject and an interest in using
narrative to tell the stories of the past as found in the material record. He is presently a visiting scholar at the Stanford University.
Archaeology Center. His eight other novels include Little America, The
Time Trip and The Book of Revelations. An interactive novel, Portal,
was published by Activision in 1986 on computer disk, and two years
later in ‘hard copy’ by St. Martins Press. He co-authored, with Robert
Johansen, Upsizing the Individual in the Downsized Organization, a
book about the changing role of the individual in the new global
business climate. His CDROM of short fiction, Down Time, is available
from Eastgate.com, as is Directions, an electronic poem. An
interactive fiction titled About Time can be found at www.wordcircuits.com
. He was a founding member of the board directors of the Electronic
Literature Organization (eliterature.org), and spent 33 years teaching
literature and creative writing at San Jose State University, twelve
years developing stories and scenarios for the Institute for the
Future in Palo Alto, and has written journalism, essays and done
technical writing, mostly for Apple Computer. He divides his time
between Menlo Park, California, and Paris, France.
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9:30 - 10:30 Craft lecture with Rob Swigart
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10:30 - 1:00 Workshops with Edward Humes, Russell Celyn Jones and Stephanie Staal.
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7:00 - 7:55 "An evening with Edward Humes". A journalist and author of nine narrative nonfiction books, Edward Humes has received the Pulitzer Prize for his newspaper reporting on the military and a PEN Center USA Award for his book NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT: A Year In the Life of Juvenile Court. His latest book is MONKEY GIRL: EVOLUTION, EDUCATION, RELIGION, AND THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA’S SOUL (Feb. 2007). MONKEY GIRL is under development with HBO Films, while his bestselling true-crime thriller, MISSISSIPPI MUD, is being developed by Cappa Productions, with Martin Scorsese as executive producer. Humes has written for numerous magazines and newspapers and is presently writer at large for Los Angeles Magazine. He teaches literary journalism at the University of California, Irvine, and has conducted workshops for the masters program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon. His specialty is literary nonfiction and his method for several books has been immersion journalism, in which he was “embedded” in such diverse places as a neonatal intensive care unit, the top public high school in California, a town mired in police corruption and wrongful convictions, and a modern-day version of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. His other honors include the Casey Medal, the Investigative Reporters & Editors Book Award, an LA Times Best Book, and he has twice been a finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe Award.
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June 28 (Saturday)
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10:00 Departure
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