Category: NW Women Writers Symposium

NWWS: A conversation with bestselling “Farm City” author Novella Carpenter

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[ May 8, 2015; 1:00 pm to 2:20 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_20199" align="alignright" width="200"] Novella Carpenter[/caption]

UO Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.

Best-selling journalist and memoirist Novella Carpenter will talk about her urban farm experience in downtown Oakland, California in a conversation moderated by award-winning food blogger Jennifer Burns Bright (UO Departments of English and Comparative Literature). Carpenter is the author of Farm City: The Education of […]

NWWS: The Language of Baklava, a panel discussion with and about Diana Abu-Jaber

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[ May 8, 2015; 2:30 pm to 4:15 pm. ] UO Knight Library
Browsing Room
1501 Kincaid St.

“Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father with talks of Lake Ontario cookouts and feasts under Bedouin tents in the desert. These sensuously evoked meals, complete with recipes, in turn illuminate the two cultures of Diana’s childhood—American and Jordanian—while helping to […]

Diana Abu-Jaber At Large | Jefferson Public Radio

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“We’re still trying to figure out what Diana Abu-Jaber does NOT do; she’s good at so many things. Novelist, cookbook author, teacher, speaker… and there…”
You can listen to this May 6 interview with Diana Abu-Jaber at: http://ijpr.org/post/diana-abu-jaber-large    /  Source: Diana Abu-Jaber At Large | Jefferson Public Radio

Karen Joy Fowler Wins PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize

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Karen Joy Fowler / photo by Brett Hall Jones
Karen Joy Fowler Wins PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize – NYTimes.com.
April 2, 2014—Best work of fiction by an American in the past year! Congratulations to author Karen Joy Fowler, who will headline this year’s CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium. Fowler is the 2014 winner of the PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize.
Fowler’s […]

Reviews of Karen Joy Fowler’s “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”

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Karen Joy Fowler’s ‘We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves’ – NYTimes.com.
NPR Review: “‘Beside Ourselves’ Explores Human-Animal Connections”
Karen Joy Fowler will be the featured author at the 2014 CSWS Northwest Women Writer’s Symposium, May 1 -3, 2014.
Locations: UO campus
Eugene Downtown Library
http://csws.uoregon.edu/2014-csws-northwest-women-writers-symposium/

5 Ways to Support Women’s Research and Creativity at CSWS

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How to Help
To support the work of CSWS, call (541) 346-5015 or email csws@uoregon.edu. To send a check, mail to: Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1201 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1201
1. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Over the past forty years, the Center for the Study of Women in Society […]