WEDNESDAY | February 8th
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Tell Your Story Better Critique Workshop | Catharine Bramkamp
Additional $40 fee. Location: Nevada City
*Address will be communicated after ticket purchase and prior to the event.
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Story Structure: How to Keep Your Plot from Unraveling | Jennieke Cohen
THURSDAY | February 9th
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Learning, Writing, Publishing: Academic Avenues and Ways to Work in Writing | Iven Lourie
Free Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84480912498
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Free Zoom link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84480912498
FRIDAY | February 10th
In-person, on-campus events:
Please mask indoors.
Parking is free.
9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. | Room W-110
Standing Guard: From Concept to Creation | Rebecca Gregg & Tom Fillebrown
10:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. | Room W-110
How to Create Characters Who Are Different from You and Get It Right | C.S. Lakin
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Room W-110
Writing Our Inner and Outer Landscapes | C.E. Shue
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
“Those Winter Sundays”: Tackling Difficult Topics in Poetry | Paul Tran
To view this online event at the Rocklin campus, go to the library building, room LRC-201.
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Japanese Incarceration Poetry Reading and Discussion | Christine Kitano
To view this online event at the Rocklin campus, go to the library building, room LRC-201.
SATURDAY | February 11th | (NCC) Nevada County Campus
In-person, on-campus events:
Please mask indoors.
Parking is free.
9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. | Multipurpose Center N-12
The Cold Canyon Fire Journals: Green Shoots and Silver Linings in the Ashes | Robin Lee Carlson
10:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. | Multipurpose Center N-12
Storytelling and Indigenous Futurism | Rose Soza War Soldier
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Multipurpose Center N-12
Campus Time Travel Tour & Short Writing | Lisa Redfern
A short stroll across campus with history and site-inspired writing prompts.
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
SPECIAL GUEST: Maxine Hong Kingston with Kathleen Taylor
To view this online event at the Nevada County Campus, go to the multipurpose center, N12.
THURSDAY | Feb. 16th
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Stories of the High Sierra | Kim Stanley Robinson with Joe Medeiros
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
“Do the Research, Tell the Story”: The Nuts-and-Bolts and the Value of Historical Nonfiction Storytelling: A Conversation with author Gary Noy and Sierra Writers Conference Organizer Lynette Vrooman.
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