Valerie Miner

Upcoming Readings, Workshops, & Appearances

Forthcoming Appearances:

21 August, 2010; 4:00pm - 5:30 pm Laughing Dog Books, the new bookstore in Boonville; 14125 Highway 128, Boonville, CA 9541, www.laughingdogbooks.com

4-6 November, 2010- NONFICTIONOW CONFERENCE, Iowa City,
The Person Within Myself
Michael Steinberg; Valerie Miner; Jane Bernstein; Lise Funderburg; Hattie Fletcher, Elizabeth Kadetsky
A panel about Constructing the Narrative Persona in Creative Nonfiction

December, 2010—Readings and lectures in Maharashtra, West Bengal and New Delhi, India. Specifics To Be Announced.

2-5 February, 2011 - AWP CONFERENCE, Washington, D.C.,
A Convenient Truth: Writing and Teaching Ecofiction
Benette Whitmore, Susan Hubbard, Valerie Miner, Liza Wieland, Paul Griner
Ecofiction--literary practice connected to nature and environment--has implications for all fiction writers and teachers. Three award-winning teachers/writers of fiction discuss those implications and present techniques for incorporating eco-fiction in literary work. Environmental ethics can inform fiction without making it didactic or dull. Considering writing as a social process driven by relationships of identity and place helps us create complex characters and reach diverse audiences.

Imagining Ourselves: The Narrative Stance in Memoir
Judith Barrington, Dustin Beall Smith, Nancy Lord, Allison Hedge Coke, Valerie Miner, Sherry Simpson
A diverse group of memoirists, who also write and teach in other genres, will discuss how they create personas for themselves and how these identities are freshly created and shaped to the work in hand. Exploring what Vivian Gornick calls the glory of an achieved persona, they will share examples of versions of themselves they have used in memoir, consider how persona functions in other genres, and assess how each identity is central to the authenticity and depth of the writing.

Archived Appearances

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