WRITING THAT RATTLES
February 27-29, 2012

A great gift for the reader in your life - a book by one of our authors and tickets to a Writer’s Symposium event!

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Writer’s Symposium by the Sea, February 27-29, 2012, is an annual event designed to inspire both the writer and the reader. The evening interviews, conducted by symposium founder Dean Nelson, feature lively conversations about the stories behind the author’s stories. The audience gets to eavesdrop on these exchanges and even interact with the writer during a Q&A session that follows. Specialized afternoon workshops, conducted by published writers, provide tips and insight into the writing process. You are invited to join us and listen in on what some of today’s cutting edge writers have to say!

Contact Us
(619) 849-2297
EdieChapman@pointloma.edu

The 2012 Events Include...

A Rare Interview with David Eggers
Wednesday, February 29, 6:00 PM

(note the early start time)
Hailed as the J.D. Salinger of this generation, the New York Times recently called Eggers “the magnetic center of a literary counter establishment.” His books—from his first, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, to Zeitoun, and his most recent, How We Are Hungry — put him in a sphere unlike any other modern writer. He has also written Hollywood, screenplays for Away We Go and Where the Wild Things Are. Eggers is also the founder and Editor of McSweeney’s which is both one of the country’s best-read and widely-circulated literary journals and a small publishing house committed to finding new voices.

Tues, February 28, 3:30-5:00
Caitlin Rother— “When the Truth Hurts—Writing about True Crime and other painful topics”
Rother is a best-selling investigative journalist and crime writer with books such as the New York Times best-seller, My Life, Deleted. She also wrote Poisoned Love about the Kristin Rossum murder case, and is working on a book about John Gardner, the San Diego man who raped and murdered two local high school girls. She has written eight books.

Rachel Held Evans
Monday, February 27, 7:00 PM
Rachel Held Evans is an award-winning author and popular blogger from Dayton, Tennessee—home of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. Rachel’s first book, Evolving in Monkey Town (Zondervan, 2010), explores the relationship between faith and doubt and recounts the challenges of asking tough questions about Christianity in the context of the Bible Belt. In October, Rachel finished a yearlong experiment in “biblical womanhood” in which she attempted to follow all of the Bible’s instructions for women as literally as possible. That experiment will be documented in a book published by Thomas Nelson in 2012.

Chris Hedges
Tuesday, February 28, 7:00 PM
Hedges has written for more than 20 years on wars around the world -- in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, and he won the Pulitzer Prize with the New York Times for his coverage of global terrorism. His provocative books, however, have given him even higher acclaim. They include War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning; American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America; I Don't Believe in Atheists; Losing Moses on the Freeway; and his most recent, The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.

Wed, February 29, 3:30-5:00
Elise Capron and Jill Marr, of the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency –"The Future of Publishing"
These two literary agents will spell out where the publishing world is going and how to prepare to participate in it. They can't see the future specifically, but they can see it better than you can! The Dijkstra Agency, based in Del Mar, is one of the top literary agencies in the world.

Tickets

Tickets for events may be purchased at www.pointloma.edu/writers, which also lists a complete schedule of both evening events and workshops. Or contact Event Coordinator, Edie Chapman, at 619-849-2297. All events are held in the Crill Performance Hall, in Cooper Music Center, located in the heart of the Point Loma Nazarene University campus in San Diego.

Sponsored by the Point Loma Nazarene University Department of Literature, Journalism and Modern Languages, and partially funded by the estate of Mery Olive Bangs.

Save the Date

The Point Loma/Hervey Friends of the Library in conjunction with a National Endowment of the Arts grant awarded to The School of Music and Dance Department at San Diego State University, will sponsor the following musical events:

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 at 7:00 P.M.
Cuedas del Mar Chamber Ensemble performing classical guitar and violin

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 at 7:00 P.M.
Girl and A Guy and a Piano present Broadway's Golden Age

Sunday, June 17th, 2012 at 2:00 P.M.
Afternoon outdoor concert by Dan Reagan Latin Jazz Quartet