Autumn Residency 2014

WEEK ONE

Sunday 10/5

3:00-5:00 pm Students Arrive

5:30-8:00 pm Gathering (and dinner), 805 O Avenue

Monday 10/6

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

9:00-10:00 MFA Program Welcome for New and Returning Students, TBA

Noon-1:00 pm Lunch

2:00-5:00 pm WR 541 Workshop Lidia Yuknavitch, Non-Fiction, Hoke 301; Jennifer Boyden, Poetry, Ackerman 103

5:00-7:00 pm Dinner

7:00-9:00 pm Oregon East Gala, Alumni Room

Tuesday 10/7

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

9:00-Noon WR 542, Justin Hocking, Multi Genre Seminar, Hoke 301

Noon-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00-2:00 pm Craft Lecture: “White Space and Collaboration,” By Jennifer Boyden, Alumni Room

2:00-5:00 pm WR 541 Workshop Carter Sickels, Fiction, BH 148 Jennifer Boyden, Poetry, ACK 114

5:00-7:00 pm Dinner

Wednesday 10/8

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

9:00-11:00 am Conferences by arrangement

11:00-Noon Guest Lecture: “Write Now: Youth and Community Writing Activities,” By Nancy Knowles, Hoke 301

Noon-1:00 pm Lunch

2:00-5:00 pm WR 541 Workshops Lidia Yuknavitch, Non-Fiction, Hoke 301; Carter Sickles, Fiction, ZH 201

5:00-7:00 pm Dinner

7:30-9:00 pm Faculty Panel, Lidia and the Irregulars, Alumni Room

Thursday 10/9

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

9:00-Noon WR 542, Justin Hocking, Multi-Genre Seminar, Hoke 301

Noon-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00-2:00 pm Craft Lecture: “Truth Stands Naked: Poetry and ‘Philosophical Faith,’” by David Axelrod, Alumni Room

2:00-5:00 pm Lidia Yuknavitch, Non-Fiction, BH 148

5:00-7:00 pm Dinner

Friday 10/10

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

9:00-10:00 am Conferences by arrangement

11:00-Noon Craft Talk: “On Writing and Intimacy,” by Carter Sickels, ZH 109

Noon-1:00 pm Lunch

2:00-5:00 pm WR 541 Workshops Lidia Yuknavitch, Non-Fiction, ZH 107; Carter Sickels, Fiction, ZH 201; Jennifer Boyden, Poetry, BH 148

5:00-7:00 pm Dinner

7:30-9:30 pm Reading: Justin Hocking & Herman Melville, Alumni Room

Saturday 10/11

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

9:00-Noon WR 542, Justin Hocking, Multi-Genre Seminar, Hoke 301

WEEK TWO

Monday 10/13

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

9:00-11:00 am Conferences by arrangement

11:00-Noon Craft Talk: “The Poet’s Vision,” by Kerry James Evans, Alumni Room

Noon-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00-2:00 pm Craft Lecture: “The Poet’s Market,” By Travis Mossotti, Alumni Room

2:00-5:00 pm WR 541 Workshops Carter Sickels, Fiction, BH 148; Jennifer Boyden, Poetry, Hoke 301

5:00-7:00 pm Dinner

7:30-9:00 pm Reading: Tavis Mossotti & Kerry James Evans, Library Reading Room

Tuesday 10/14

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

9:00-Noon WR 542, Justin Hocking, Multi-Genre Seminar, Hoke 305

Noon-1:00 pm Lunch

5:00-7:00 pm Dinner

Wednesday 10/15

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

9:00-Noon Conferences by arrangement

11:00-noon Guest Lecture: “The Elimination of Self Self-Portrait,” by Ian Boyden, ZH 256

Noon-1:00 pm Lunch

2:00-5:00 pm WR 541 Workshops Carter Sickels, Fiction BH 148; Jennifer Boyden, Poetry, LH 130

5:00-7:00 pm Dinner

7:00-8:00 pm Reading: Diane Raptosh, Looking Glass Books ( 1118 Adams Ave., La Grande downtown)

Thursday 10/16

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

9:00-Noon WR 542, Justin Hocking, Multi-Genre Seminar, Hoke 305

Noon-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00-2:00 pm Craft Lecture: “Beyond Sympathy; Writing Past the Clichés of Class, Race, and Subculture,” By Vanessa Veselka, Alumni Room

2:00-5:00 pm Lidia Yuknavitch, Non-Fiction, LH 130

5:00-7:00 pm Dinner

7:30-9:00 pm Reading: Vanessa Veselka, Library Reading Room

Friday 10/17

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

9:00-11:00 am Conferences by arrangement

11:00-Noon Guest Lecture: “Blogging of ‘Women in Ag’: Ethos, Ag Media, and the Gendered Production of food,” By Cori Brewster, Hoke 301

Noon-1:00 pm Lunch

2:00-5:00 pm WR 541 Workshops Lidia Yuknavitch, Non-Fiction, Hoke 301; Carter Sickels, Fiction, ZH 201; Jennifer Boyden, Poetry, BH 148

5:00-7:00 pm Dinner

7:30-9:00 pm Reading: MFA Student Reading, Alumni Room

Saturday 10/18

7:30-8:30 am Breakfast

9:00-Noon WR 542, Justin Hocking, Multi-Genre Seminar, ZH 107

Noon La Grande Depart