One-on-One Writing Workshops

Masterclasses

Panel Discussions

Readings

 

Schedule for Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Allen Chapman Activity Center, The University of Tulsa

9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

 

9:30-10:00 a.m.   

 

10:00-10:40 a.m.  

John Balaban, Andrea Hollander Budy, Natalie Diaz, Gretchen Flesher, Keetje Kuipers, A. G. Mojtabai, Carol Roh-Spaulding, Sharon Shinn, Mark Singer, Leonard Tourney

 

10:45 a.m.-12:00 noon  

Morning Masterclasses (Concurrent Sessions)*

 

 

Fiction I: Mining Character — A. G. Mojtabai, Carol Johnson

 

Fiction II: Excavating Story from Site — Claudia Nogueira, Kate Adams

 

Poetry I: Prospecting for Poetry — John Balaban, Manly Johnson

Mystery Writing: When Plot is Not Enough — Leonard Tourney, Will Thomas

 

Nonfiction: Spade Work— Mark Singer

 

Memoir: Digging Into Your History — Francine Ringold, George Odell

 

12:00-1:30 p.m.   

 

1:35-2:50         

Afternoon Masterclasses(Concurrent Sessions)*

 

Fiction III: The Persistent Search for the Right Narrative Voice — Carol Roh-Spaulding, Gretchen Flesher

 

Poetry II: Tools for Jump-Starting a Poem — Andrea Hollander Budy, Keetje Kuipers

 

Poetry III: Handling the Truth Deborah Hunter, Natalie Diaz, Lisa Ransom

 

Writing Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Fiction: The Stratified Writer — Sharon Shinn, K. D. Wentworth

 

Writing from Photos: Deep on the Surface — Diane Burton, Teresa Valero

 

Performance of Literature — Judith Olauson Tourney

2:50-3:00 p.m.    

Break: Bread & Butter and Tea

 

3:00-4:00 p.m.

 

Invitational Readings: Andrea Hollander Budy,Deborah Hunter, Sharon Shinn, Will Thomas, Leonard Tourney

 

 

The full Saturday conference package ($50) includes workshops, panel discussions, readings, lunch, tea, and one-on-one editing sessions.

 

 

 

John Balaban, Judge of the 2007 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, is the author of 12 books of poetry and prose, including four volumes which together have won The Academy of American Poets’ Lamont prize, a National Poetry Series Selection, and two nominations for the National Book Award. His Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selection Poems won the 1998 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. In 2003, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He is also a translator of Vietnamese poetry, and a past president of the American Literary Translators Association. Balaban is Poet in Residence and Professor of English in the creative writing program at North Carolina State University at Raleigh.

A. G. Mojtabai, Judge of the 2007 Nimrod/Hardman Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, author of Mundome, The 400 Eels of Sigmund Freud, A Stopping Place, Autumn, Ordinary Time, Called Out, Soon: Tales from Hospice, and the forthcoming All That Road Going, as well as the nonfiction account Blessed Assurance: At Home With the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas. Among her awards are the Lillian Smith Award for the best book about the American South, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has taught at Harvard and New York University. Recently retired as Writer in Residence from The University of Tulsa in 2006, she makes her home in Texas.

Natalie Diaz, first-prize winner of the 2007 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. After playing professional basketball in Europe and Asia, she returned to Old Dominion University to pursue an MFA in poetry and fiction. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The North American Review, The Southeast Review Pearl Magazine, and Touchstone.

 

Gretchen Flesher, second-prize winner of the 2007 Nimrod/Hardman Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction in fiction in 2007, has lived in Washington, in the Puget Sound area, her whole life. Five years ago she left reluctantly for school. She didn’t like leaving home much, and never believed she would want to travel to foreign countries as she has done now. She finished school at Pacific Lutheran University.

 

Keetje Kuipers, second-place winner of the 2007 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, has received fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. She is also the recipient of the 2007 Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, which is currently providing her with a year of solitude in Oregon’s Rogue River Valley. There she is completing work on her manuscript, Beautiful in the Mouth. It contains poems currently published or forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Faultline, among others. 

 

 

Carol Roh-Spaulding is the first-prize winner of the 2007 Nimrod/Hardman Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in several journals, including Ploughshares, Beloit Fiction Journal, and the Pushcart Annual XVI, and have been anthologized in several collections, including Writing Fiction, Love Stories for the Rest of Us, Other Sides of Silence: New Fiction from Ploughshares, and Asian American Literature. Her awards include the Heathcote Award from the National Society of Arts and Letters, a Cohen Award from Ploughshares for the best story of the year, a Pushcart Prize, and the 2000 A. E. Longman Prize for Long Fiction for her chapbook The Brides of Valencia. She is assistant professor of English at Drake University, where she teaches fiction writing and American ethnic literature.

 

Kate Adams, a member of Nimrod’s Advisory Board,is a writer of fiction and Assistant Professor of English at TU.  She was also awarded an Oklahoma Humanities Council Research Scholar Award for research on the regionalist writing of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, part of a larger study of race and spatial representation tentatively entitled “Racial Locations: Geography, Culture and Place in Black American Writing.” Her book, Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in U.S. Women's Life Writing, 1840-1890, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2008.

Andrea Hollander Budy’s full-length poetry collections are Woman in the Painting, The Other Life, and House Without a Dreamer, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Her many other awards include the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize for memoir, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has published more than 200 poems and essays in such literary journals as Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and Sou’wester. Her work also appears in more than 30 anthologies and textbooks. Since 1991 she has worked as the Writer in Residence at Lyon College, where she was awarded the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

 

Diane Burton, Associate Editor of Nimrod, teaches writing and literature at TU. Her areas of teaching and scholarly interest include the intersection of photography and writing, especially in twentieth-century nonfiction, and the ethical implications of representation in words and images.

 

Deborah J. Hunter has facilitated poetry workshops and worked as a poet-in-residence since 1997. She was presented with the Jingle Feldman Award in 2000. Hunter has acted in numerous local stage productions and was a member of Theatre North’s award-winning 2000-2001 ensemble cast of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. Her one-woman, spoken-word performance piece, Amazons, Gypsies and Wandering Minstrels, about women dealing with mental illness, homelessness and other trauma, has received critical and audience praise. Her poetry has appeared in numerous publications, including Nimrod.

Carol Johnson, a member of the Nimrod Editorial Board, has published short stories, essays and articles, as well as a non-fiction book. Her first novel, Everlasting, was published in 2006 by HAWK Press. She teaches Composition and Creative Writing at Tulsa Community College.

 

Manly Johnson, poet, artist, photographer, and professor emeritus of English at TU, is Nimrod’s poetry editor. His most recent book of poems is Holding Out for What Is: New and Selected Poems.

Claudia Nogueira, a fiction editor for Nimrod, is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and comparative literature at TU.Her short story, “Bicho,” appeared in the spring 2007 issue of Nimrod.  She has also been awarded a Faculty Development Summer Research Grant from TU to support the writing of short stories towards a compilation entitled Rosary.

George Odell, Professor of Anthropology at TU,specializes in physical anthropology, withresearch interests inMidcontinental North America, Western Europe, Lithic Analysis, Use-Wear Analysis, and Archaeological Methodology.

Lisa Ransom, a poet anda member of Nimrod’s Editorial Board, has published work in the Mid-America Poetry Review, Creosote, Redbud and others. She was the winner of the Edgar Lee Masters prize.

Francine Ringold is the Editor-in-Chief of Nimrod.She recently completed her second term as Oklahoma’s Poet Laureate (2003-2005, 2005-2007). Her historical play, Mercy, was presented at a National Chautauqua conference under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her most recent book of poems, Still Dancing, won the Oklahoma Book Award in 2005. Her books include The Trouble with Voices: Poetry, another Oklahoma Book Award winner; Every Other One, with Manly Johnson; and Making Your Own Mark: Writing and Drawing for Senior Citizens.

 

Sharon Shinn, author of 16 science fiction, fantasy, and young adult novels, is best known for her science fiction set in the world of Samaria. She was winner of the William Crawford Award for Achievement in Fantasy, the IAFA Fantasy Award (1996), and the Dell Award for the best new science fiction writer of ’95/’96, and was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her most recent novel for adults, set in a new fantasy world, is Dark Moon Defender. A new YA novel, General Winston’s Daughter, has just been published.

Mark Singer has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1974. In what his publisher, Houghton Mifflin, calls “a dream job,” he travels the country in search of under-the-radar stories, unusual but emblematic tales of American lives, and writes about them in The New Yorker column “U.S. Journal.” His recent books, Somewhere in America and Character Studies, collect several of these essays, while Mr. Personality, an earlier collection, includes profiles and “Talk of the Town” pieces written for The New Yorker. His other books include Funny Money, an account of the financial and human shenanigans that led to the downfall of Penn Square Bank, and Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin, about the conman who claimed to have sold marijuana to former Vice President Dan Quayle. Singer, originally from Oklahoma, lives in New York City.

Will Thomas, a longtime Oklahoma resident, lives in Broken Arrow with his wife, Julie, and their two daughters.   He was awarded the 2005 Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction for his first novel, Some Danger Involved, the first of a series of mysteries featuring detective Cyrus Barker and his apprentice, Thomas Llewelyn, and including To Kingdom Come, The Limehouse Text, and The Hellfire Conspiracy.

 

Judith Olauson Tourney, actress and theatre director, was a founding member of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Theatre Artists Group. She recently retired from UCSB after a 30-year career of teaching, directing, and performing, and moved to Provo, Utah, with her husband, Leonard Tourney. Her plans for a very active retirement include directing and teaching directing classes at BYU.

 

Leonard Tourney has taught at Western Illinois University, the University of Tulsa, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and now teaches at Brigham Young University. Author of nine novels set in Elizabethan England, numerous scholarly articles, and a critical biography of the seventeenth-century essayist Joseph Hall, at BYU he teaches creative writing and composition. His most recent novel is Time’s Fool: A Mystery of Shakespeare. Tourney lives in Provo, Utah, with his wife, actress and director Judith Olauson Tourney.

 

Teresa Valero is Applied Associate Professor at TU’s School of Art and Director of Third Floor Designs, an internship program matches TU student designers with clients from the Tulsa non-profit community. She recently completed three years as Chair of the School of Art. She conceived and curated Journey to America, a project that involved local photographers in recording images and stories of people who have come to the Tulsa area from all over the world. A selection of photographs from the project is now on display at the Allan Chapman Activity Center.

 

K. D. Wentworth, a Tulsa native,is an active member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and Coordinating Judge for the L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest.  She has sold over fifty short stories to such markets as Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Pulphouse, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy.  Her novels include The Imperium Game, Moonspeaker, House of Moons, Black on Black, and Stars Over Stars. Her most recent book was The Course of Empire, with Eric Flint. Three of her short stories have been Nebula finalists: “Tall One,”  “Burning Bright,” and “Born Again.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

___ I wish to receive more information regarding the Nimrod/Hardman Awards Presentation Dinner and Keynote Speech on Friday, October 19.

 

___ I wish to attend the entire Nimrod/Hardman Conference, Digging In, Saturday, October 20, 9:30 a.m-4:00 p.m., Allen Chapman Activity Center, TU, 5^th & Gary. The cost for the all-day Saturday conference includes masterclasses, workshops, panels, readings, and lunch.

 

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Panel: Marking Time and Place—All registrants welcome

Masterclasses—Morning and afternoon concurrent sessions:

Each registrant may attend all panels, readings, and lunch and tea, but only one morning and one afternoon masterclass. Please indicate your first and second choice for morning and afternoon masterclasses. Early registration will help to assure first choice. 

 

___ Digging for Diamonds: Hands-on One-on-One Editing Workshops I

___I have included a sample of my writing (2-3 pages of poetry or 4-5 pages of fiction) for pre-review by my editor. (Materials must be received by October 16th.)

___Fiction I: Mining Character

___Performance of Literature

 

___Digging for Diamonds:Hands-on One-on-One Editing WorkshopsII

___I have included a sample of my writing (2-3 pages of poetry or 4-5 pages of fiction) for pre-review by my editor. (Materials must be received by October 16th.)

 

Email: nimrod@utulsa.edu

Online: www.utulsa.edu/nimrod

Call: (918) 631-3080

 

 

Staff development credit is available for teachers.

 

The University of Tulsa is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution. For EEO/AA information, contact the Office of Legal Compliance at (918) 631-2423; for disability accommodations, contact Dr. Jane Corso at (918) 631-2334.