Valerie Miner

Calendar.

Upcoming Readings, Workshops, & Appearances

Forthcoming Appearances:

DECEMBER, 2010-JANUARY, 2011
READINGS, LECTURES, WORKSHOPS IN INDIA

16, 17 December, Kolkata

16 December, Jadavpur University, Department of English
10:30 am—1:00 pm
"Spirit of Place Workshop"

17 December, Statesman Print Journalism School (SPJS).
9:30 am—noon
Creative Writing Workshop

21, 22 December, Trivandrum

21 December—University of Kerala
“Forms of Fiction” a lecture for literature students of the University of Kerala

22 December, Trivandrum Book Fair
Kanakakkunnu Palace, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

“Take Place” a lecture for children about using the senses in describing the world around them. The 100 children were selected through a creative writing competition conducted by Malayala Manorama, the most popular daily of Kerala.

“Writing Fiction Across Generations,” a lecture to South Indian authors about writing in historical context.

5 January, 2011, New Delhi

The American Library
Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Connaught Place
Delhi, India
011 23316841

10:30am—Workshop on Narrative Writing

4pm—“Finding The Shapes of Our Stories,” a lecture on forms of fiction.

6, 7 January, 2011, Mumbai

6 January-- University of Mumbai
MA Program in English
Workshop on "Spirit of Place"

American Center, Mumbai
Evening Lecture "To Look Again"

7 January--Mumbai International Book Fair 2011
Bandra - Kurla Complex Road, Mumbai, India 400 051

Morning Lecture, "The Role of the Contemporary American Book Reviewer"

Afternoon Reading

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