Creative Nonfiction Week, 2001

The Fiction Writing, English, and Journalism Departments invite you to join us for any or all of the events scheduled for Creative Nonfiction Week, November 12-15, 2001. The week's events feature nationally prominent writers as well as students and faculty from Columbia's Creative Nonfiction writng programs. All events are free and open to the public.

November 12-15, 2001
Featuring Diane Ackerman, Li-Young Lee, James Alan McPherson, Dinty Moore, and others. The English, Fiction Writing, and Journalism Departments present readings, panel discussions, book signings.

Monday, 12 November

2:00 p.m. Faculty Reading
Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash;

7:00 p.m. James Alan McPherson
Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash;
author of A Region Not Home and Crabcakes: a Memoir, Hokin Auditorium, 623 S. Wabash

Tuesday, 13 November

2:00 p.m. Journalism interviewing panel
Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash
featuring Bill Zehme (Esquire), Achy Obejas (Tribune), Mary Mitchell (Sun-Times), Jim DeRogatis (Sun-Times), Grant Pick (Reader), Jan Parr (Chicago magazine), and Rosalind Cummings-Yeates (freelancer and Columbia faculty).

Wednesday, 14 November

2:00 p.m. Diane Ackerman
Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash
author of A Natural History of the Senses, reads from her new book, Cultivating Delight

3:30 p.m. Student Reading
Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash

7:00 p.m. Li-Young Lee
Residence Center, 731 S. Plymouth Court.
poet and author of The Winged Seed: a Remembrance, reads with Dinty Moore, and The Accidental Buddhist

Thursday, 15 November

2:00 p.m. Michael Steinberg and Joe Mackall
Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash
Steinberg is the author of Those Who Do, Can, and Mackall is an NPR essayist

7:00 p.m. Editors panel
Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash
with Michael Steinberg (Fourth Genre), Joe Mackall (River Teeth), Dinty Moore (Brevity, Creative Nonfiction), Sam Weller (Secret Chicago), and others discuss publishing in literary magazines and online.

All events are free and open to the public. Call (312)344-8100 or (312)344-7611 for information.