Once again, Writers Week is here!  There are many who help make this tremendous reading series possible, and among them I am particularly indebted to those who have helped shape this year's program.  Professor Rob Latham, UCR Associate Professor of English, is curating a terrific colloquium devoted to Science Fiction, a first for Writers Week.  And it seems most fitting that, thanks to Melissa Conway, Head of Special Collections, this event is being held in the Rivera Special Collections Library, home to the Eaton Collection, which is the premier public repository of Science Fiction literature in the world.  I also appreciate the efforts of Maria De Varenne, Editor and Vice President of News at the Press-Enterprise, as well as her staff, to continue to sharing their Hays Lecture with the UCR community.  The same appreciativeness extends to Marion Mitchell-Wilson, Executive Director of the Inlandia Institute, who have once again partnered with Writers Week to help provide a closing event at the downtown branch o! ! f the Riverside Public Library.  As the rest of this brochure suggests, the year's edition of Writers Week promises to be full of fascinating fiction authors, poets, investigative journalists, memoirists, novelists, and so on.  I do hope you can join us. 

-- Michael Jayme, Assistant Professor, Creative Writing | Campus Map | Driving Directions | Writers Week Brochure

SCIENCE FICTION

Greg Benford

Bio

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Tomas Rivera Library, Special Collections
  12:00 p.m.

SCIENCE FICTION

Larry Niven

Bio

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Tomas Rivera Library, Special Collections
12:30 p.m.

SCIENCE FICTION

Shelia Finch

Bio

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Tomas Rivera Library, Special Collections
  1:00 p.m.

POETRY

Tim Geiger

Bio

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

1128 CHASS Interdisciplinary Studies Building (INTS)
  10:30 a.m.

POETRY

Michelle Boisseau

Bio

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

1128 CHASS Interdisciplinary Studies Building (INTS)
  12:00 p.m.

POETRY

Jon Veinberg

Bio

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

1128 CHASS Interdisciplinary Studies Building (INTS)
 2:00 p.m.

POETRY

Dixie Salazar

Bio

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

1128 CHASS Interdisciplinary Studies Building (INTS)
  4:00 p.m.

KEYNOTE READING

Janet Fitch

Bio

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

University Lecture Hall 1000 (UNLH)
  7:30 p.m.

Photo courtesy of Claudia Kunin

NONFICTION

Vicki Forman

Bio

Thursday, February 11, 2010

1128 CHASS Interdisciplinary Studies Building (INTS)
  12:00 p.m.

NONFICTION

Distinguished Alumnus Reading

Rebecca O'Connor

Bio

Thursday, February 11, 2010

1128 CHASS Interdisciplinary Studies Building (INTS)
  2:00 p.m.

NONFICTION

Laila Lalami

Bio

Thursday, February 11, 2010

1128 CHASS Interdisciplinary Studies Building (INTS)
  4:00 p.m.

HAYS PRESS-ENTERPRISE LECTURE & WRITERS WEEK KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Larry Wright

Bio

Thursday, February 11, 2010

University Theater
  7:30 p.m.

FICTION

Distinguished Alumnus Reading

Victoria Patterson

Bio

Friday, February 12, 2010

1128 CHASS Interdisciplinary Studies Building (INTS)
  12:00 p.m.

FICTION

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Bio

Friday, February 12, 2010

1128 CHASS Interdisciplinary Studies Building (INTS)
  2:00 p.m.

FICTION

Heidi Durrow

Bio

Friday, February 12, 2010

1128 CHASS Interdisciplinary Studies Building (INTS)
  4:00 p.m.

INLANDIA INSTITUE AT THE RIVERSIDE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Tod Goldberg and Deanne Stillman

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Riverside Public Library
  2:00 p.m.