Events

Florida Writers Conference: Anthony Swofford, Q&A and Book Signing

Thursday, February 16, 2012; 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Campus Location: Student Union, Pegasus Grand Ballroom
Cost: Fee passes available to UCF students, faculty, staff, and alumni

Join Anthony Swofford for a featured reading, Q&A, and book signing.

Anthony Swofford is the author of Exit A: A Novel, and a memoir, Jarhead: a Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. He served in a U.S. Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper platoon during the Gulf War. After the war, he was educated at American River College; the University of California, Davis; and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Men's Journal, The Iowa Review, and other publications. Swofford is a Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient and currently lives in New York.

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Florida Writers Conference: Bob Morris, "How to Write Crime Fiction"

Friday, February 17, 2012; 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Campus Location: Student Union, Sand Key(220)
Cost: Available as a one-day conference registration

Bob Morris is the author of the Zack Chasteen series of mysteries set in Florida and the Caribbean, along with numerous nonfiction books and original e-books. He contributes to a number of travel and food magazines, including Islands, Caribbean Travel & Life, National Geographic Traveler, Virtuoso Life, Bon Appetit, Harbor Stye, and Edible Orlando. A fourth-generation Floridian, Bob lives in Winter Park, Florida, where he teaches creative writing at Rollins College. He is also founder and president of Story Farm, a custom publishing company.

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Florida Writers Conference: Joe David Bellamy, "How to Find Good Literary Presses for Submitting Your Writing"

Friday, February 17, 2012; 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Campus Location: Student Union, Pensacola(222)
Cost: Available as a one-day conference registration

Joe David Bellamy won the Editors' Book Award for his novel Suzi Sinzinnati, and his new novel Green Freedom is forthcoming from Narrative Library. He is also the author of fifteen other books, including Kindred Spirits, Atomic Love, Literary Luxuries, and The New Fiction. He is a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle and Editor-in-Chief of Bellamy House, an independent small press. His essays, fiction, poetry, and reviews have been published in: The Atlantic, The Nation, Harper's, Narrative, Paris Review, Story, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, and some seventy others. He has taught writing at several colleges and universities, including the University of Iowa.

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Florida Writers Conference: Bob Morris, "How to Create eBooks"

Friday, February 17, 2012; 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Campus Location: Student Union, Sand Key(220)
Cost: Available as a one-day conference registration

Bob Morris is the author of the Zack Chasteen series of mysteries set in Florida and the Caribbean, along with numerous nonfiction books and original e-books. He contributes to a number of travel and food magazines, including Islands, Caribbean Travel & Life, National Geographic Traveler, Virtuoso Life, Bon Appetit, Harbor Stye, and Edible Orlando. A fourth-generation Floridian, Bob lives in Winter Park, Florida, where he teaches creative writing at Rollins College. He is also founder and president of Story Farm, a custom publishing company.

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Florida Writers Conference: Nathan Holic, "How to Create Literary Comics"

Friday, February 17, 2012; 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Campus Location: Student Union, Pensacola(222)
Cost: Available as a one-day conference registration

Nathan Holic teaches writing courses at the University of Central Florida and works with The Florida Review as the Graphic Narrative Editor. He also works with Orlando-based Burrow Press as the editor and curator of the ongoing anthology series, "15 Views of Orlando," a literary portrait of the city featuring short fiction from Orlando authors. His fiction has appeared in Reunion: The Dallas Review, The Portland Review, and Limestone, and his serialized graphic narrative "Clutter" (a story structured as a home décor catalogue) appears at the online magazine Smalldoggies.

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Florida Writers Conference: Robert Venditti, "Writing for Comics and Graphic Narrative"

Friday, February 17, 2012; 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Campus Location: Student Union, Sand Key(220)
Cost: Available as a one-day conference registration

Robert Venditti is currently writing the graphic novel adaptations of Rick Riordan's international bestselling Percy Jackson & The Olympians series. His most recent book is the political/medical thriller The Homeland Directive.

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Florida Writers Conference: Joe David Bellamy and Rick Campbell, Book Signing

Friday, February 17, 2012; 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Campus Location: Student Union, Pensacola(222)
Cost: Available as a one-day conference registration

Join authors Joe David Bellamy and Rick Campbell for a reading, Q&A, and book signing.

Joe David Bellamy won the Editors' Book Award for his novel Suzi Sinzinnati, and his new novel Green Freedom is forthcoming from Narrative Library. He is also the author of fifteen other books, including Kindred Spirits, Atomic Love, Literary Luxuries, and The New Fiction.

Rick Campbell is the director of Anhinga Press and teaches English at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. His newest book of poems is Dixmont, from Autumn House Press.

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Florida Writers Conference: Bob Shacochis, Q&A and Book Signing

Friday, February 17, 2012; 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Auditorium(132)
Cost: Available as a one-day conference registration OR individual event

Bob Shacochis is an award winner fiction writer, essayist, and journalist. His first collection of stories, Easy in the Islands, won the National Book Award, and his second, The Next New World, was awarded the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Swimming in the Volcano, the first novel in a projected trilogy, was a 1993 National Book Award Finalist.

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Florida Writers Conference: "How to Launch a Writing Career"

Saturday, February 18, 2012; 9:00am - 10:30am

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Room 109
Cost: Available as a one-day conference registration

Join David James Poissant, Ilyse Kusnetz, and Vanessa Blakeslee as they present "How to Launch a Writing Career."

David James Poissant is the author of Lizard Man, winner of the RopeWalk Press Fiction Chapbook Prize.

Ilyse Kusnetz' poetry has been published in journals such as Rattle, Crazyhorse, the Atlanta Review, Stone Canoe, Poetry Review, the Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, MiPOesias, and Connotation Press: An Online Artifact.

Vanessa Blakeslee's fiction, essays, and book reviews have been published in The Paris Review, The Southern Review, The Florida Review, and Green Mountains Review.

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Florida Writers Conference: Amy Gorelick, "The Book Publishing Process and Trying to Publish in a Recession Economy"

Saturday, February 18, 2012; 9:00am - 10:30am

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Room 113
Cost: Available as one-day conference registration

A seminar with Amy Gorelick, editor-in-chief of University Press of Florida

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Florida Writers Conference: Paige St. John, "Prize-Winning Journalism in the Era of Austerity"

Saturday, February 18, 2012; 9:00am - 10:30am

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Room 111
Cost: Available as a one-day conference registration

Paige St. John joined the Sarasota-Herald Tribune in 2008 as an investigative reporter. She has been a working journalist for more than three decades, covering Florida politics, the environment and natural disasters. Starting out as a roving feature reporter, she now specializes in database-driven projects, graphics and web sites, narrative writing and investigative journalism.

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Florida Writers Conference: Ryan Rivas, "How to Create Chapbooks"

Saturday, February 18, 2012; 10:30am - 12:00pm

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Room 113
Cost: Available as one-day conference registration

A seminar with Ryan Rivas of Burrow Press

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Florida Writers Conference: Scott Joseph, "How to Write About Food and Make it Your Career"

Saturday, February 18, 2012; 10:30am - 12:00pm

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Room 111
Cost: Available as one-day conference registration

A seminar with Scott Joseph, food critic

Scott Joseph has been reviewing restaurants in Central Florida and beyond for more than 20 years. In that time he established himself as the most trusted, reliable and comprehensive source of restaurant information in the region. During his career at the Orlando Sentinel, Scott wrote thousands of reviews.

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Florida Writers Conference: "How to Start a Literary Journal"

Saturday, February 18, 2012; 10:30am - 12:00pm

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Room 109
Cost: Available as one-day conference registration

A seminar with Katie Riegel and Ira Sukungruang, publishers of Sweet literary magazine

Katherine Riegel grew up in White Heath, Illinois on a small farm. She received her B.A. in Writing and Rhetoric from the University of Illinois and her MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. She currently lives in Brandon, Florida where she teaches poetry, fiction and composition at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Katherine also works as the poetry editor for Sweet: a literary confection (www.sweetlit.com) as well as on the board for Yellow Jacket Press. Katherine just recently published her debut collection of poetry, Castaway (available from Future Cycle Press, 2010) where she writes of the "secrets that lurk in the wide-open spaces of the Midwest." She has also published works ranging in genre from poetry to essays in magazines such as Crazyhorse, The Gettysburg Review, West Branch, Cream City Review, Flyaway and So To Speak.

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Florida Writers Conference: Rick Campbell, "How to Prepare and Format Your Poetry Collection for Contests"

Saturday, February 18, 2012; 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Room 113
Cost: Available as one-day conference registration

A seminar with Rick Campbell, publisher with Anhinga Press.

Rick Campbell is the director of Anhinga Press and teaches English at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. His newest book of poems is Dixmont, from Autumn House Press. His other books are The Traveler's Companion (Black Bay Books, 2004); and Setting The World In Order (Texas Tech 2001) which won the Walt McDonald Prize and A Day's Work (State Street Press 2000);. He's won a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and two poetry fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. He's published poems and essays in many journals including The Georgia Review, The Florida Review, Prairie Schooner and many others. He was born on the Ohio River twenty miles downriver from Pittsburgh and now lives now in Gadsden County, Florida.

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Florida Writers Conference: Scott Joseph, "How to Create a Web Presence as a Writer"

Saturday, February 18, 2012; 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Room 111
Cost: Available as one-day conference registration

A seminar with Scott Joseph

Scott Joseph has been reviewing restaurants in Central Florida and beyond for more than 20 years. In that time he established himself as the most trusted, reliable and comprehensive source of restaurant information in the region. During his career at the Orlando Sentinel, Scott wrote thousands of reviews.

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Florida Writers Conference: Pat Rushin, "How to Write Screenplays"

Saturday, February 18, 2012; 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Room 109
Cost: Available as one-day conference registration

A seminar with Pat Rushin

Pat Rushin's stories have appeared in The North American Review, Kansas Quarterly, Crescent Review, Zoetrope, Quarterly West, Sudden Fiction, Indiana Review, The North Atlantic Review, and elsewhere. A couple of years ago, his story "Vow" (American Literary Review) was short-listed for the O. Henry Prize Stories (no cigar, but they do print a cool summary of the story in the back of the book.) His collection of stories, Puzzling through the News, was published by Galileo Press (Baltimore: 1991), and he has another collection (Quantum Physics & My Dog Bob) currently making the rounds. His original screenplay, The Zero Theorem, is now in development with The Zanuck Company, and he has two more screenplays, Prime and Dreambeamers, on his own development table. That and stories. Lots of stories.

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Florida Writers Conference: South Florida Sun-Sentinel and The Orlando Sentinel

Saturday, February 18, 2012; 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Room 111
Cost: Available as one-day conference registration

"The Making of a Video Star: Making the Newsroom Multimedia Transition," a panel discussion with editors and reporters from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, and elsewhere

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Florida Writers Conference: "How to Get Published and Noticed by Agents: Editors' Roundtable"

Saturday, February 18, 2012; 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Room 109
Cost: Available as one-day conference registration

A roundtable discussion with editors from The Florida Review and other journals

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Florida Writers Conference: Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing with The Florida Review

Saturday, February 18, 2012; 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Room 111
Cost: Available as one-day conference registration

The writers and editors from The Florida Review present a reading, a Q&A on writing and getting published, and a book signing.

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Florida Writers Conference: Jacki Lyden, Q&A and Book Signing

Saturday, February 18, 2012; 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Campus Location: Visual Arts Building, Auditorium(132)
Cost: Available as one-day conference registration or individual session

Jacki Lyden is an NPR correspondent and Host as well as the author of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, a memoir.

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Ecocritical Lecture Series: "Sarah Kemble Knight's Nonhuman and Human Encounters"

Tuesday, February 21, 2012; 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Campus Location: Colbourn Hall, Room 401

The Tuesday Ecocritical Lecture Series II presents "Sarah Kemble Knight’s Nonhuman and Human Encounters: Hazzardos Rivers, Terrifying Darkness, and Surly Old Shee Creatures" and "Hearing the Nonhuman Other in William Bartram's Travels" by Jay Jay Stroup and Blake Vives.

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Ecocritical Lecture Series: "The Evolution of Humanity and the Environment"

Tuesday, March 13, 2012; 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Campus Location: Colbourn Hall, Room 401

The Tuesday Ecocritical Lecture Series II presents "From Intimacy to Alienation: The Evolution of Humanity and the Environment" by Samantha Krop.

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Ecocritical Lecture Series: "Real American Food Memex"

Tuesday, March 27, 2012; 10:00am - 11:45am

Campus Location: Colbourn Hall, Room 401

The Tuesday Ecocritical Lecture Series II presents "Real American Food Memex: An Associative Approach to the Hamburger" by Marcy Galbreath.

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Ecocritical Lecture Series: "Environmentalism and Science Fiction"

Tuesday, April 10, 2012; 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Campus Location: Colbourn Hall, Room 401

The Tuesday Ecocritical Lecture Series II presents "Whose Planet Is It Anyway: Environmentalism and Science Fiction" by Patrick Murphy.

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