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[All Craft Talks, Panels, Guest Lectures, and Readings are free and open to the public]
WEEK ONE
Sunday 6/15
1:30-3:00 pm Faculty Meeting, Loso Hall 121
3:00-5:00 pm Students arrive, check-in, Alikut Hall
5:00-9:00 pm BBQ, 805 O Avenue
Monday 6/16
7:30-8:30 am Breakfast
8:30-10:30 am MFA Program Welcome, Inlow 108
11:00-noon Craft Talk: Christopher Howell, “Fad, Taste, and the Criminal Life,” Loso Hall 117
Noon-1:00 pm Lunch
1:30-4:30 pm WR 541 Workshops
Lidia Yuknavitch, Non-fiction, Badgley 110
Carter Sickels, Fiction, Ackerman 105
Chris Howell, Poetry, Ackerman 114
5:00-7:00 pm Dinner
7:30-9:00 pm Open
Tuesday 6/17
9:00-noon WR 542, David Axelrod, Multi-Genre Seminar, Loso Hall 130
1:30-4:30 pm WR 609, Susan Denning, Service Learning, Loso Hall 117
7:30-9:00 pm Reading: Lidia Yuknavitch, Ackerman 208
Wednesday 6/18
9:00-10:00 am Panel: “Building Community Through Arts Programming”
Susan Denning, Moderator
Mike Midlo, Program Director, Fishtrap
Lyn Craig, Executive Director, LEO Libraries
David Memmott, Publisher, WordCraft of Oregon
Will Bowman, Student Director, Ars Poetica Lecture Series
Loso Hall 117
11:00-noon Craft Talk: Kerry Cohen (Visiting Writer), “Subversive Narratives,” Loso Hall 117
7:30-9:00 pm Reading: Kerry Cohen, (Visiting Writer), Ackerman 208
Thursday 6/19
Friday 6/20
9:00-10:00 am MFA Faculty Meeting, Loso 121
11:00-noon Craft Talk: Lidia Yuknavitch, “The Voices Within Your Voice,” Loso Hall 117
7:30-9:00 pm Reading: Carter Sickels, Ackerman 208
Saturday 6/21
9:00-11:00 WR 542, David Axelrod, Multi-Genre Seminar, Loso Hall 130
11:00-noon Craft Talk: Jennifer Boyden, (Visiting Writer), “Logically, the Non Sequitur’s Place in Poetry,” Loso Hall 117
7:30-9:00 pm Reading: Jennifer Boyden, (Visiting Writer), Ackerman 208
WEEK TWO
Sunday 6/22
7:30 am – 9:00 pm Open
Monday 6/23
9:00-11:00 am Student Conferences
Yuknavitch, Library
Howell, Library
Sickels, Library
Axelrod Loso Hall 227
11:00-noon Craft Talk: Jodi Varon, “Meta-Memoir and Incomplete Truth,” Loso Hall 117
7:30-9:00 pm Reading: David Axelrod, Ackerman 208
Tuesday 6/24
1:30-4:30 pm Student Conferences (or study period as needed)
Wednesday 6/25
11:00-noon Craft Talk: Scott Elliot (Visiting Writer), “Anything Could Happen: Openness to the Unexpected in Structure, Word, and Deed,” Loso Hall 117
7:30-9:00 pm Reading: Scott Elliot, Ackerman 208
Thursday 6/26
Friday 6/27
9:00-10:00 am Guest Lecture: Nicole Howard (Historian): “On the History of the Book,” Loso Hall 117
11:00-noon Craft Talk: Carter Sickels, “Place in Fiction,” Loso Hall 117
7:30-9:00 pm Reading: Christopher Howell, Ackerman 208
Saturday 6/28
Noon-1:00 pm Lunch at 805 O Avenue, and Le Grande Départ
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Nick Neely MFA Co-director Phone: 541-962-3633 E-mail: nneely@eou.edu
Kayla Standley Administrative Program Assistant College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Phone: 541-962-3508 E-mail: kstandley1@eou.edu
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