{"id":24821,"date":"2016-08-26T11:27:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T18:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?page_id=24821"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:48:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:48:32","slug":"nwws-northwest-women-writers-symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/events-2\/nwws-northwest-women-writers-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"NWWS: Northwest  Women Writers Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">History of the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The Northwest Women Writers Symposium (NWWS) program began as a CSWS Research Interest Group in 2011. It was so successful that it migrated into CSWS Special Project status as the&nbsp;<a title=\"Women Writers\" href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?page_id=10220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women Writers Project<\/a> in 2012, and became integrated into CSWS as an internal program in spring 2014. The final symposium was held in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The NWWS and Women Writers Program sought to foster and enhance opportunities for women writers on campus, in the community, and throughout the Pacific Northwest; to bring distinct voices of published women writers to campus; and to support the work of creative writing by bringing together writers from different disciplines. This program was aimed toward exploring local, regional, and university collaborations, most notably through an evolving annual women writers conference. From 2013 to 2018, CSWS collaborated with Eugene Public Library to host a portion of the symposium in its downtown facility to increase public access to events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/nwws2017\/mathis_\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24920\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24920\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/mathis_.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"239\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Symposiums: 2012-2018<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/7th-annual-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium<\/a>, \u201cThe Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories,\u201d held April 25, 2018, featuring Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/nwws2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium<\/a> \u201cWomen and Work: Stories of the Great Migration,\u201d held March 3, 2017, featuring Ayana Mathis as keynote.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/events-2\/2014-nwws\/2016-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium<\/a>: \u201cCrossing Borders: Women\u2019s Stories of Immigration, Migration, and Transition,\u201d May 6 \u2013 8, 2016, featured Reyna Grande as keynote.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium<\/a>:\u201cOur Daily Bread: Women\u2019s Stories of Food and Resilience,\u201d held May 7 \u2013 9, 2015, featured Diana Abu-Jaber as keynote.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/2014-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3rd annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium<\/a> \u2014 \u201cFamily, Animal, Story,\u201d held May 1 \u2013 3, 2014, featured Karen Joy Fowler as keynote. About 275 people attended events over this three-day period.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?page_id=15687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2nd annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium<\/a> \u2014 Common Ground: Land, Language, Story \u2014 was held May 9 \u2013 11, 2013, and featured Ruth Ozeki as keynote. More than 250 people attended this series of events, which took place over three days on the University of Oregon campus and at the Eugene Downtown Library.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"MemoirFest\" href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=12685\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MemoirFest<\/a>, the first annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium, held May 12, 2012 was attended by about 100 women and men.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Coordinator<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Alice Evans\" href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/?page_id=487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alice Evans<\/a>, CSWS Research Dissemination Specialist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Advisory Group<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Freedman\" href=\"http:\/\/eall.uoregon.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/freedman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alisa Freedman<\/a>, Associate Professor, Japanese Literature &amp; Film (EALL)<\/li>\n<li>Barbara Corrado Pope,&nbsp;Professor Emerita, Women\u2019s and Gender Studies<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gradschool.uoregon.edu\/people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandy Teel<\/a>, Engagement &amp; Opportunities Manager, UO Graduate School<\/li>\n<li>Lauren Kessler, Professor, School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC)<\/li>\n<li>Linda Long, Associate Professor, Manuscripts Librarian, UO Libraries<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.uoregon.edu\/profile\/mgershow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Miriam Gershow<\/a>, Senior Instructor, Department of English (<a href=\"http:\/\/media.uoregon.edu\/channel\/archives\/834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>UO Today<\/em> interview<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.uoregon.edu\/profile\/mewood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mary E. Wood<\/a>, Professor, Department of English<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pw.org\/content\/robert_hill_long\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Hill Long<\/a>, Poet; Adjunct Research Assistant\/Anthropology<\/li>\n<li>Ursula Crawford, Editor &amp; Journalist, UO alumna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium The Northwest Women Writers Symposium (NWWS) program began as a CSWS Research Interest Group in 2011. It was so successful that it migrated into CSWS Special Project status as the&nbsp;Women Writers Project&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/events-2\/nwws-northwest-women-writers-symposium\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8616,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24821","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33499,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24821\/revisions\/33499"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}