by alicee • • Comments Off on 2017 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium: featuring Ayana Mathis
March 3 Light reception 2:30 – 3 p.m. JSMA Ford Lecture Hall March Panel with Ayana Mathis: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. JSMA Ford Lecture Hall March 3 Keynote talk with Ayana Mathis: 6 – 8 p.m. Downtown Eugene Public Library…
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Reyna Grande garnered critical acclaim and awards for her first two novels. Then she turned her focus on herself for a memoir about her illegal Source: Illegal Immigration, First-Person | Jefferson Public Radio May 5, 2016—Jefferson Public Radio interviewed author…
by alicee • • Comments Off on Immigrants’ struggle is really our struggle | Opinion | R-G
Source: Immigrants’ struggle is really our struggle | Opinion | Eugene, Oregon In the midst of this political season’s hateful hullabaloo about building a higher wall, all of us whose ancestors came to this country from other lands must in…
by alicee • • Comments Off on NWWS Panel “Crossing Borders: What It Means in the Life of a Child,” with keynote author Reyna Grande
Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. Eugene, OR 97403 UO campus Full Schedule: 2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “Crossing Borders: What It Means in the Life of a Child,” with keynote author Reyna Grande, Browsing Room, Knight Library.…
by alicee • • Comments Off on NWWS keynote by Reyna Grande, “From Iguala to El Otro Lado: A Young Girl’s Journey to the American Dream”
Downtown Eugene Public Library 10th and Olive 100 W. 10th St. Eugene, OR 97401 Takes place during First Friday Art Walk Full Schedule: 2016 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium “From Iguala to El Otro Lado: A young girl’s journey to…
by alicee • • Comments Off on Lidia Yuknavitch wins two 2016 Oregon Book Awards
Congratulations are due UO graduate Lidia Yuknavitch, who helped inaugurate the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium in May 2012 as a featured author at MemoirFest. Lidia, who earned her PhD in English at the University of Oregon, is the winner…