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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
9:00-Noon WR 542, Justin Hocking, Multi Genre Seminar, Hoke 301
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
Wednesday 10/8
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
2:00-5:00 pm WR 541 Workshops Lidia Yuknavitch, Non-Fiction, Hoke 301; Carter Sickles, Fiction, ZH 201
7:30-9:00 pm Faculty Panel, Lidia and the Irregulars, Alumni Room
Thursday 10/9
9:00-Noon WR 542, Justin Hocking, Multi-Genre Seminar, Hoke 301
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
Friday 10/10
9:00-10:00 am Conferences by arrangement
11:00-Noon Craft Talk: “On Writing and Intimacy,” by Carter Sickels, ZH 109
2:00-5:00 pm WR 541 Workshops Lidia Yuknavitch, Non-Fiction, ZH 107; Carter Sickels, Fiction, ZH 201; Jennifer Boyden, Poetry, BH 148
7:30-9:30 pm Reading: Justin Hocking & Herman Melville, Alumni Room
Saturday 10/11
WEEK TWO
Monday 10/13
11:00-Noon Craft Talk: “The Poet’s Vision,” by Kerry James Evans, Alumni Room
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
7:30-9:00 pm Reading: Tavis Mossotti & Kerry James Evans, Library Reading Room
Tuesday 10/14
9:00-Noon WR 542, Justin Hocking, Multi-Genre Seminar, Hoke 305
Wednesday 10/15
9:00-Noon Conferences by arrangement
11:00-noon Guest Lecture: “The Elimination of Self Self-Portrait,” by Ian Boyden, ZH 256
2:00-5:00 pm WR 541 Workshops Carter Sickels, Fiction BH 148; Jennifer Boyden, Poetry, LH 130
7:00-8:00 pm Reading: Diane Raptosh, Looking Glass Books ( 1118 Adams Ave., La Grande downtown)
Thursday 10/16
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
7:30-9:00 pm Reading: Vanessa Veselka, Library Reading Room
Friday 10/17
11:00-Noon Guest Lecture: “Blogging of ‘Women in Ag’: Ethos, Ag Media, and the Gendered Production of food,” By Cori Brewster, Hoke 301
2:00-5:00 pm WR 541 Workshops Lidia Yuknavitch, Non-Fiction, Hoke 301; Carter Sickels, Fiction, ZH 201; Jennifer Boyden, Poetry, BH 148
7:30-9:00 pm Reading: MFA Student Reading, Alumni Room
Saturday 10/18
9:00-Noon WR 542, Justin Hocking, Multi-Genre Seminar, ZH 107
Noon La Grande Depart
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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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