Kathryn's AWP 2015 Schedule
Wed, Apr 8 2015 06:29
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Here's my events, signings, readings, and appearances at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Minneapolis April 9-11.
Panels:
Thursday, April 9 9:00-10:45
a.m. Room M100, Mezzanine Level How to Write a Book While Teaching Five Classes
Panel 120. A More Deliberate (and Desperate) Life: How to Write and Publish a Book
While Teaching Five Classes. (Ryan Stone, Katheryn Kysar, Kris Bigalk, Thomas Montgomery Fate, John Reimringer) A likely teaching
job for a newly-minted MFA is at a community college. But how does one teach
five classes per term (more if an adjunct), serve on committees, engage in
scholarship, and find time to write and publish a book of poems, a novel, or a
memoir? This panel of Midwestern community college faculty will discuss how
they negotiate a life of writing while adhering to academic
responsibilities
and reflect on how they were able to write and publish their recent books amid
the chaos.
Saturday, April 11
3:00-4: 15 Room H and I level two S241. Byte by Byte: Teaching Creative Writing Online. (Cass Dalglish, Wendy Call, Athena Kildegaard, Kate Kysar, LouAnn Muhm) Five writers—who teach online
in a public university, a community college AFA, an arts nonprofit, and in
private BFA and MFA low-residency programs—offer a candid and guided tour of
the online creative writing classroom. Stops on the circuit: cleaning out the
correspondence course feel; using technology for web-based fine arts studios
and readers’ salons; maintaining trust, establishing community, setting
boundaries; and nourishing creativity and improvisation. Ample audience
engagement.
Book Signing:
Thursday 2:00-3:00 p.m. Signing Pretend the World books and CDs at Holy Cow!
Press table 1625
Art Opening: Thursday 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Unforeseen Art Opening, Gallery One TractorWorks, 800 Washington Avenue North,
Minneapolis
Booth: Saturday 11:00-12:00 and
1:00-2:00 Twin Cities Two Year Colleges AFA Booth
Reading: Saturday 4:00-7:00 Write On, Door County
Cocktails (reading 5:30-6:00) Engine
Room/Devil’s Advocate on the corner of 10th and Marquette (across from the
Hilton, the main conference hotel).
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