Join UC Irvine creative writing fiction and poetry alums and Community of Writers participants and staff for a joyful reunion commemorating parallel success stories over five decades. This spring 2020 appreciation includes archival photographs, artifacts and documents, special guests, a panel, and an addresses from outstanding alumni of both programs celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the long-running Community of Writers summer writing workshops by novelist and UC Irvine MFA writing program founder and CoW workshop co-founder Professor Oakley Hall (Warlock, The Corpus of Joe Bailey). The early evening event on the UC Irvine campus — open to the public — features a keynote by writer Elizabeth Rosner, and closing talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon. This event will also feature a conversation among several other writers –all who’ve been both participants at Squaw Valley, and who also earned their MFAs at UCI including Lisa Alvarez, Meriwhether Clarke, Lorene Delany-Ullman, Alex Espinoza, Glen David Gold, Rhoda Huffey, Louis B. Jones, Michael Jaime-Becerra, Michelle Latiolais, Kem Nunn, Robin Page, Andrew Tonkovich, and others, TBA. Free. Refreshments.
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