On Saturday, the symposium will convene at the Downtown Eugene Public Library in the Bascom \/ Tykeson rooms with a panel of our featured writers on the theme \u201cCrossing Borders: Women\u2019s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition.\u201d Each author will read selections from her work and answer questions about her writing life.<\/p>\n
Panelists include:<\/strong><\/p>\n Miriam Gershow<\/p><\/div>\n Setting: More Than Just a Backdrop, a fiction workshop led by Miriam Gershow.<\/strong> In this workshop, we will investigate how to use the place of your story to bring a scene to life. \u00a0A vivid and specific setting can convey mood, develop character and highlight the themes of your story. \u00a0Join us for an afternoon of writing exercises that play with place in order \u00a0to build convincing, evocative scenes. This workshop experience can be applied to all genres.<\/p>\n Miriam Gershow is a writer and teacher living in Eugene, Oregon. Her debut novel, The Local News<\/em>, was called \u201cdeftly heartbreaking\u201d by the New York Times<\/em>. Her short stories appear in The Georgia Review<\/em>, Quarterly West<\/em>, Black Warrior Review<\/em>, Nimrod International Journal<\/em>, The Journal<\/em>, and Gulf Coast<\/em>, among others. She is the recipient of a Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, as well as an Oregon Literary Fellowship from Literary Arts. She has taught fiction writing to everyone from first graders to adults.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Jennifer Burns Bright<\/p><\/div>\n Spicing Up Travel and Migration Narratives with Food, <\/strong>led by Prof. Jennifer Burns Bright. Workshop Description:<\/strong> Some of the best stories of visiting foreign lands or starting a new life as an immigrant include vivid descriptions of encountering different food cultures. In this workshop, we will analyze and mimic the techniques of several masters of traveling food writing who illustrate landscape and life transitions with delectable dishes. Bring recipes and your own drafts, if you have them, for class exercises.<\/p>\n Jennifer Burns Bright is a food and travel writer based on the Southern Oregon coast who also teaches humanities and food studies courses at the University of Oregon. Her stories and interviews have appeared in various print and recorded media and in her award-winning food blog, Culinaria Eugenius<\/a>. She has been a columnist at Eugene Magazine<\/em> and a contributor to AAA\u2019s Via<\/em> magazine, NPR, and other publications and radio programs. She has traveled everywhere\u2014from Amsterdam to write about Dutch pickles, to a Hamtramck bakery to write about her own family\u2019s migration to Detroit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Saturday Afternoon Workshops: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.<\/span><\/h4>\n
Saturday afternoon workshops will be limited to 20 participants each. <\/span>Although all events are FREE & open to the public, starting April 11, you will be able to preregister for limited spaces in Saturday afternoon workshops by calling Eugene Library at 541-682-5450 (Press 2). Please do not call before this date.<\/span>
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<\/a>Saturday, May 7 at 4 p.m. Reading by Ariel Gore at Eugene Downtown Public Library.<\/span><\/h4>\n
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<\/a>Saturday, May 7 at 5 p.m. Reading by Debra Gwartney<\/a><\/span>
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