You know I don't post many press releases - except when it comes to Solstice Summer Writers' Conference, holding its fifth session next week. Solstice sponsors readings where extraordinary writers, who are also extraordinary readers, hold forth, sometimes sharing their most recent work. What better thing do you have to do on a warm summer evening? And, yes, I'm teaching blogging again during this conference on Monday, June 22, at 4:30. Come!
PINE MANOR COLLEGE ANNOUNCES ITS ANNUAL SOLSTICE SUMMER WRITERS’ CONFERENCE READING SERIES
[Chestnut Hill, MA, May, 2009] Pine Manor College announces its annual Solstice Summer Writers’ Conference Reading Series, to be held June 22–26, 2009. All readings begin at 7:30 p.m. and are held in the Founder’s Room of Pine Manor College — unless *otherwise noted — located at 400 Heath Street in Chestnut Hill. The President’s Dining Room is in the Rosemary Ashby Campus Center. Copies of the authors’ books will be available for sale after all readings, and there is plenty of free parking!*Monday, June 22 at 8:00 p.m.: David Yoo (author of Girls For Breakfast and Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before); Martha Rhodes (founding editor of Four Way Books, and author of three poetry collections, including At the Gate); & Pablo Medina (author of Points of Balance/Puntos de Apoyo, The Cigar Roller, and co-translator of García Lorca’s Poet in New York).
*Tuesday, June 23 at 3:30 p.m. in the President’s Dining Room:
Past Conference participants Ching-In Chen, Dave Zeltserman, Laura McCullough, &
Michael Sussman read from their recently published books.
Tuesday, June 23 at 7:30 p.m.: Solstice Programs Director Meg Kearney (author of An Unkindness of Ravens and The Secret of Me); Stephanie Elizondo Griest (author of Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines and Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana); & A. Manette Ansay (author of eight books, including Vinegar Hill — an Oprah Book Club Selection — and the forthcoming Good Things I Wish For You).
Wednesday, June 24 at 7:30 p.m.: Marie Myung Ok-Lee (author of five award-winning young-adult novels including Finding My Voice); Nickole Brown (author of the poetry collection Sister, and longtime marketing director of Sarabande Books); & Peter Selgin (author of Drowning Lessons, Life Goes to the Movies, and two books on the craft of fiction writing).
Thursday, June 25 at 7:00 p.m.: Tanya Whiton (published in literary journals including Northwest Review and Crazyhorse); Kevin Boyle (National Book Award winner for Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age) & Mark Turcotte (author of The Feathered Heart and Exploding Chippewas).
*Friday, June 26 at 4:00 p.m. in the President’s Dining Room:
2009 Solstice Conference Participant Reading.
Friday, June 26 at 7:30 p.m.: Lee Hope (winner of the Theodore Goodman Award for Fiction); A. Van Jordan (author of Rise, M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, and Quantum Lyrics); & Special Guest
Andre Dubus III (author of four books, including the recent New York Times bestselling novel The Garden of Last Days, and House of Sand and Fog —an Oprah Book Club Selection adapted for an eponymous Academy Award-nominated motion picture).
