AboutThe 2007 Bedell NonfictioNOW
Conference Schedule
EVENTS - FREE - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
See schedule and locations below:
- Thursday, Nov. 1st:
- 8:45 am - Patricia Hampl, Keynote Address, IMU/2nd Floor Ballroom
- 1:45 pm - The Lyric Essay: a Reading by Sarabande Press Authors, IMU/2nd Floor Ballroom
- 5:00 pm - Readings by authors from University of Nebraska Press, IMU/2nd Floor Ballroom
- 8:30pm - Ross McElwee, Screening/Talk, IMU/2nd Floor Ballroom
- Friday, Nov. 2nd:
- 3:30 pm - Readings by authors from University of Georgia Press, IMU/Main Lounge
- 4:30 pm - Afternoon of Stand-Up Tragedy and Comedy with Jonathan Ames, Main Library,Shambaugh Auditorium, Sponsored by the Writers' Workshop
- 8:30 pm - Patricia Hampl Reading, IMU/2nd Floor Ballroom
- Saturday, Nov. 3rd:
- 8:45 am - Forum with Editors from the New York Times etc, IMU/2nd Floor Ballroom
- 10:30 am - Reading by authors from Graywolf Press, IMU/2nd Floor Ballroom
- 3:30 pm - A Tribute to Carl Klaus, Old Capitol/2nd Floor Senate Chamber
- 5:00 pm - Readings by authors from University of Iowa Press, IMU/2nd Floor Ballroom
- 8:30 pm - Richard Rodriguez, Reading, 8:30 pm, IMU/2nd Floor Ballroom
Conference Schedule
Admission to meals and panels requires registration >>
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 1st
8:00-8:30AM REGISTRATION (IMU Lobby)
[registration will continue throughout the day]
Patricia Hampl, keynote speaker
10:15-10:30 BREAK
Creating the New Nonfiction Canon
Ned Stuckey-French, Lynn Z. Bloom, Rebecca Blevins Faery, Doug Hesse
Creative Nonfiction Writing as Therapy
Ann McCutchan, Vicki Lindner, Emily Fox Gordon
The Political Essay and Literary Quandary
Donald Morrill, Gayle Pemberton, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Patricia Foster
Square, Plumb, Level, True: The Ethical Dilemmas of Creative Nonfiction
Mimi Schwartz, Philip Gerard, Richard Hoffman, Dinty W. Moore
12:00-1:45 LUNCH BREAK (Meal Not Provided)
The Lyric Essay a Reading by Sarabande Press Authors
Sarah Gorham, Lia Purpura, Patricia Vigderman, Jenny Boully, Molly McQuade, Deborah Tall (read by Stephen Kuusisto)
3:15-3:30 BREAK
Trauma, Truth, and Trash: Public and Critical Takes on Memoir
Rebecca Walker, Sue William Silverman, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Sonya Huber, Mindy Lewis
Composition = Creative Nonfiction: When Writers Teach Writers
Lad Tobin, Mike Steinberg, Robert Root, Mimi Schwartz
Nonfiction Writing About Disability
Maura Brady, Dan Roche, Cassandra Kircher, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Stephen Kuusisto
The Death of the Scholarly
Jennifer Sinor, Mary Clearman Blew, Susanne George Bloomfield
Nebraska Press Reading
Jennifer Brice, Hilda Raz & Aaron Raz Link, Dinah Lenney, David Shields, and Peggy Shumaker
6:00-7:00 CASH BAR
Jazz Combo, featuring Richard Terrill, Tenor Saxophone; William Minor, Piano
click for menu requires registration >>
Screening/Talk by Ross McElwee
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2
What Is It? The Problem and Promise of The Spiritual Memoir
Tom Montgomery-Fate, Scott Cairns, Joe Mackall, Diane Glancy, S.L. Wisenberg
"That’ll Be $1000 for that Epigram”: Copyright, Fair Use, and Writing with One Hand Tied Behind Your Back
Kembrew McLeod, Christina Bohannan, Robin Hemley
Travel Writing: To Simmer or Not to Simmer
Philip Graham, LeAnne Howe, Roy Kesey, Michele Morano, Xu Xi
Always the Fourth Genre?
Dan Roche, Cassandra Kircher, John
Price, Mary Swander, James McKean
10:15-10:30 BREAK
Truth in Other Tongues: Nonfiction in Translation
Emily Weirich, Becka Mara McKay, Diana Thow, Russell Valentino, Jay Vithalani
Pulling the Real: A Workshop On Research Strategies, Opportunities, Challenges, and Conundrums
Leila Philip, Le thi diem thuy, Bill Roorbach, Lucy Ferriss
Will the Scaffolding Hold? Building the Nonfiction Book Out of Disparate Pieces
Andrea Hollander Budy, Heidi Hart, Barbara Hurd, Erica Bleeg, Gregory Martin
Documentary Theatre: Nonfiction Takes to the Stage
Allison Schuette-Hoffman, Kari-Anne Innes, Zachary Davis
Richard Rodriguez keynote speaker requires registration >>
The Ontology of the Nonfiction Anthology
Dale Rigby, Patricia Foster, Daniel Jones, Hope Edelman, Faith Adiele
Autobiography and Critique
Greg Bottoms, David Shields, Gayle Pemberton, Sven Birkerts
Where Essays Get the Drama: When There Is No Drama
Nicole Walker, Ander Monson, Anne Panning, Steve Fellner, Matthew Batt
3:15-3:30 BREAK
University of Georgia Press Reading
Patricia Foster, Barbara Hurd, Sue William Silverman
Afternoon of Stand-Up Tragedy and Comedy with Jonathan Ames - Sponsored by the Writers' Workshop
5:30-7:00 Cash Bar -
University of Iowa Press Reception.
Jazz Combo, featuring Richard Terrill, Tenor Saxophone; William Minor, Piano
7:00-8:30 DINNER BREAK (Meal Not Provided)
Patricia Hampl keynote reading
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3
"The Infinite Suggestiveness of Common Things”: Essaying the Quotidian
Patrick Madden, Michael Danko, Shannon Lakanen, Desirae Matherly, David Lazar
The Painful Truth: Nonfiction and Trauma
Holly Welker, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Will Jennings
Perception as Muse: Nonfiction Collaborations between Image and Text
Dave Griffith, Jill Christman, Ander Monson, Lia Purpura
Forum with Editors • Free & open to public
Daniel Jones, John Glassie, Bruce Tracy, Alex Postman
10:15-10:30 BREAK
Sven Birkerts, Albert Goldbarth, Barrie Jean Borich, Robin Hemley, Paul Lisicky, Ander Monson
Ross McElwee keynote speaker
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Genre Jumping: Writing Both Nonfiction and Fiction
Porter Shreve, Lee Martin, Cathy Day, Ira Sukrungruang, Bich Minh Nguyen
Of Thumbs: An Essay with Five Obstructions
Dinty W. Moore, Brenda Miller, Eula Biss, Donald Morrill, Sue William Silverman, Patrick Madden
Bodies. Spaces. Memories.
Barrie Jean Borich, David Shields, Suzanne Paola, Paul Lisicky, Mary Cappello
Beauty and Power: The Art of the Political Essay
Natalia Rachel Singer, William Bradley, David Griffith
3:15-3:30 BREAK
Tell Me Something Human and Profound
Julene Bair, Marilyn Krysl, Ann McCutchan, Gwen Roland
The Changing Faces of Creative Nonfiction: An Editor’s Panel
Mike Steinberg, Debra Marquart, Brenda Miller, Sven Birkerts
Writing about Sacred Spaces and Sites of Memory
James Silas Rogers, Karen Babine, Rachael Hanel, Brian Nerney
A Tribute to Carl Klaus
Jocelyn
Bartkevicius, Maura Brady and Dan Roche, Hope Edelman, Rebecca Blevins
Faery, Miriam Gilbert, Doug Hesse, Laura Julier, Cassandra Kircher,
Michele Morano, John Price, Dale Rigby, Bob Root, Ned Stuckey-French
University of Iowa Press Reading
Jeff Porter, David Lazar, Michele Morano, Dan Roche
6:00-7:00 Cash Bar
7:00-8:30 DINNER BREAK
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Richard Rodriguez keynote reading
Riffs, Chords, and Prose: Shaping the Future of Music Writing
Brian Goedde, Craig Eley, Andre Perry, Jessica Suarez, Evan Sult
(Also featuring live music (tbd) at The Mill in Iowa City: Free to conference attendees, $5 general public) .
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