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2011 Events and Appearances

January 18-27, 2011
Writing Retreat
Hilo Hawaii

February 2-5, 2011
AWP Annual Conference
Washington DC
AWP 2011 Conference

Feb. 10-12, 2011
Petersburg AK
Reading/reception 7:00 Feb. 10 at the library.
Classroom visits Feb. 11 with middle school and high school students.
Community workshop at the library for adults and teens, 10:00-1:00, Feb. 11

Feb. 14-15, 2011 SNOWED OUT!
Angoon AK
Classroom visits, talk with community

February 26-27, 2011
Keynote speaker
Wildness Symposium
Iowa State University
Ames IA

March 3-6, 2011
Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College
Homer AK
Reading March 4
One-credit writing course
Personal Stakes and Wider Concerns: Upping the Emotional Ante
Thurs. evening, Saturday, Sunday

March 13-14, 2011
POET LAUREATI: A NATIONAL CONVERGENCE OF STATE POETS LAUREATE
Lawrence Arts Center
Lawrence KS
Ted Kooser, keynote speaker

March 17-19, 2011
Sitka Arti-Gras
Sitka AK
Reading March 17
Workshop March 19 Geographies of the Land and of the Heart

March 21-22, 2011
Pelican AK

March 28-April 1, 2011
Creative Writing Class, 10:00-12:00
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, UAF
Fairbanks AK
OLLI

April 8, 2011
Reading at Beyond Baroque
Anne Coray, Steve Kahn, Peggy Shumaker
681 Venice Blvd.
Venice CA 90291
310 822-3006
Beyond Baroque

April 10, 2011
Boreal Books at the Ruskin with Ron Carlson
800 S. Plymouth St.
Los Angeles CA 90005
(through Red Hen Press)
Anne Coray, Steve Kahn, Peggy Shumaker

April 15-16, 2011 POSTPONED -- STAY TUNED
Talkeetna AK
Workshops with young writers and with adults

April 16-17, 2011
Palmer AK
April 17 2:00-4:00, Sunday @ 2 Poetry Event and Book signing
8:30 Home reception
April 18 9:00-10:30 Youth Poetry Slam Workshop
1:00-2:00 Senior Center Presentation
6:30-8:00 Poetry Slam Competition

April 19-21
Healy AK
Potluck, 6:00 Apr. 19
Program for adults at the library, 7:00-8:30
Class visits at the school.

May 6-8, 2011
Cordova AK
Shorebird Festival Reading

June 1-4, 2011
Skagway Writers Symposium
Skagway AK

June 10-14, 2011
Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference
Homer AK
Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference

July 17-31, 2011
Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival
Creative Writing Class
Festival website

August 6-17, 2011
Rainier Writing Workshop
at Pacific Lutheran University
Rainier Writing Workshop website

August 19-21
guest speaker
Whidbey Island Writers' Association
Aug. 20 Constructing a Book workshop
Aug. 21 Craft talk/reading
Whidbey Island Writers' Association

September 11-17, 2011 POSTPONED UNTIL 2012
Dunrovin Ranch's This Montana Place Expedition
in cooperation with the Boone Crockett Club's Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch and the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area
With Lisa Flowers, Peggy Shumaker, Angela Swenberg, Michele Usibelli, Pam Voth
Writing, art, and ecology.
Dunrovin Ranch

September, 2011
Alaska State Writer Laureate
visits to Juneau and Ketchikan

October 2011
49 Writers Alaska Book Week

October 29, 2011
Cross-Border Pollination Reading
Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver B. C. Canada
Reading with Joan Kane, Sherry Simpson, Rachel Rose.

November 4, 2011
University of Arizona Homecoming
Alumna of the Year, College of Humanities

2011

July 17-31, 2011

Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival

Creative Writing Class

Festival website

August 6-17, 2011
Rainier Writing Workshop
at Pacific Lutheran University
Rainier Writing Workshop website

August 19-20

guest speaker

Northwest Institute of Literary Arts

Aug. 19   Constructing a Book workshop

Aug. 20  Craft talk/reading

NILA

September 3, 2011

FAIRBANKS SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL

CREATIVE WRITING CLASS

PUBLIC READING

7:00, Bear Gallery, Pioneer Park 

FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE

hosted by Fairbanks Arts Association

September 10, 2011

FAIRBANKS SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL

Fundraiser! 

Silver Gulch Brewery

September 20-21

Alaska State Writer Laureate Visit to Ketchikan

Classroom visits at UAS

Community workshop at Cape Fox

Reading at the Ketchikan Arts Council, 7:00 on Sept. 21

Sponsored by UAS Library, Ketchikan Arts Council

September 23-26

Alaska State Writer Laureate Visit to Juneau

Fall Evening at the Egan Lecture Series--Reading and Q & A

Sept. 23, 7:00, UAS

Sept. 24, 9:00-noon, Community Writing Workshop, Juneau Public Library (downtown)

Sept. 26, classroom visits, UAS

Sponsored by Egan Lecture Series, Juneau Public Library, UAS

Oct. 7-9 Great Talkeetna Festival of Books

Reception at the hangar  6:00  Oct. 7  Reading and Q & A to follow

Classroom visits

Sponsored by Denali Arts Council, Talkeetna Festival of Books, and Talkeetna Elementary School

49 Writers Alaska Book Week

October 29, 2011

Cross-Border Pollination Reading

SFU Harbor Centre

515 W. Hastings St., Rm 1415

Vancouver B. C. Canada

Reading with Joan Kane, Sherry Simpson, Rob Taylor, Maureen Hynes, Rhea Tregebov

November 4, 2011

University of Arizona Homecoming

Alumna of the Year, College of Humanities

November 5, 2011

Red Hen Press Board Meeting, reception

Nov. 6, 2011  11:00  Fundraiser