Authors on the Craft of Writing: A Rough Guide to the Mind and Heart

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Date/Time:Saturday, 26 Feb 2011 at 4:00 pm
Location:Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Cost:Free
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Phone:515-294-9934
Channel:Lecture Series
Categories:Lectures Live Green
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"Authors on the Craft of Writing: A Rough Guide to the Mind and Heart," a panel discussion with three authors who write from the trenches of experience, who treat landscape as a character and whose work wrestles with the mind and heart. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination.

Participants include the symposium keynotes. Pam Houston is the author of the collection of essays A Little More About Me and the award-winning Cowboys Are My Weakness. She is the director of creative writing at the University of California, Davis. Peggy Shumaker is the Alaska State Writer Laureate. Her work includes the memoir Just Breathe Normally and six collections of poetry, including her latest, Gnawed Bones. Michael Perry is a humorist and author of the bestselling memoirs Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time and the newly released Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting. He is also a contributing editor to Men's Health.

For more information about the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination, click here.