Creative Nonfiction Week, 2005

24-27 October 2004, various locations
co-sponsored by English, Journalism, and Fiction Writing Departments
all events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted

Call the English Dept. at 312-344-8100 or email Sam Weller to confirm location and other details.

Featuring:
Mimi Schwartz,  Joel Garreau,  Andrew Meldrum,  Alan Burdick,  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Monday, 24 October
7 PM

    Mimi Schwartz

    Reading and Discussion with the author of Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed.
    Film Row Cinema
    1104 S. Wabash

Tuesday, 25 October
12 PM

    Student Reading

    with Bobby Biedrzycki, Meochia Blount, Maria Sultemeier, Molly Each, Jennifer Weinshenker Lieto, and Tami Wilm.
    Ferguson Theater
    600 S. Michigan

2 PM

    Faculty Reading

    with Norma Green, Amy Hawkins, Laurie Lawlor, Eric May, Doug Reichert-Powell, and Dan Weissman.
    Ferguson Theater
    600 S. Michigan

7 PM

    Journeys Abroad
    with Andrew Meldrum and Steve Asma

    Readings and discussion with the authors of Where We Have Hope (Meldrum) and The Gods Drink Whiskey (Asma).
    Hokin Annex
    623 S. Wabash

Wednesday, 26 October
11 AM

    Travel Writing

    With panelists Andrew Causey, Lisa Lenoir, and Patty McNair. Moderated by Michael Bartlett.
    Ferguson Theater
    600 S. Michigan

1 PM

    Alan Burdick

    Readings and discussion with the author of Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion.
    Ferguson Theater
    600 S. Michigan

7 PM

    Into the Brave New World
    with Alan Burdick, Joel Garreau, and Sam Weller

    A conversation about where we're going, featuring Alan Burdick [author of Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion ], Joel Garreau [author of Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human], and Sam Weller [author of The Bradbury Chronicles : The Life of Ray Bradbury]. Moderated by Marianne Murciano.
    Ferguson Theater
    600 S. Michigan

Thursday, 27 October
11 AM

   Joel Garreau

    Reading and discussion with the author of Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies--and What It Means to Be Human.
    Ferguson Theater
    600 S. Michigan

2 PM

    The Path to Publication

    Editors describe the journey to publication, and provide a map. Featuring Martha Bayne [writer, associate editor, Chicago Reader ], Sylvia M. Ewing [Producer, Eight Forty-Eight ], Jonathan Messinger [editor, Time Out Chicago ], and Ian Morris [managing editor, TriQuarterly ]. Moderated by Jotham Burrello.
    Ferguson Theater
    600 S. Michigan

7 PM

    Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

    Readings and discussion with the author of Random Family:  Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx.
    Film Row Cinema
    1104 S. Wabash