{"id":17111,"date":"2013-05-03T22:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=17111"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:48:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:48:15","slug":"2014-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/2014-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium \u201cFamily, Animal, Story\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"family_animal_story_WEB\"<\/a>Eugene Public Library
\n100 W. 10th St.
\n(10th & Olive)
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Our keynote writer is 2014 PEN\/Faulkner Award-winner and New York Times<\/em>\u2013bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler<\/a>, whose novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves<\/em> has opened up new ways of talking about family dynamics and the ethics of animal research.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s panels and workshops will meet at Eugene Downtown Public Library. All events are free and open to the public.\u00a0 Pre-register for limited spaces for Saturday afternoon workshops at: 541-682-5450 (Press 2). Spaces are still left in a new workshop, \u201cStory and Language,\u201d taught by Cecelia Hagen.
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Karen Joy Fowler \/ photo by Brett Hall Jones<\/p><\/div>\n

Saturday Panel 1: \u201cExpanding the Family Story,\u201d 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. Eugene Public Library<\/strong>
\nOn Saturday, the symposium will convene at the Downtown Eugene Library, with a panel of creative writers. The morning panel will include readings and discussion by featured presenters on the theme \u201cExpanding the Family Story,\u201d and in particular how this applies to Northwest communities, women writers and women artists. Our moderator, will guide the four panelists with questions about process and discipline. Panelists include:<\/p>\n