Writers Coming to Anoka Ramsey this Spring 2010


English Department Guest Speakers and Field Trip Spring 2010

A field trip to Open Book is scheduled for Thursday, March 18th. We will meet in the Coffee Gallery at 9:45 a.m. We will tour Open Book with Loft Program Director Jerod Santek from 10-11, then tour Milkweed Editions and talk with Editor-in-Chief Daniel Slager from 11-12. Plan to stay for lunch at the Coffee Gallery. This activity is open to all faculty and students, though keep me informed if you are coming and bringing students.

Fiction on a Stick: Legacy Room, Wednesday, March 3 1:00-3:00 p.m.John Reimringer’s first novel, Vestments, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in fall 2010. An excerpt, “Betty García,” appears in the Milkweed anthology Fiction on a Stick: Stories by Writers from Minnesota. The recipient of two Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowships and a residency at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, he has published short stories in Carolina Quarterly, Colorado Review, Louisiana Literature, and Gulf Stream Magazine. Reimringer has been a Susannah McCorkle Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and is currently a Loft-McKnight Fellow. Sarah Stonich is the author of the These Granite Islands and The Ice Chorus, both have been translated into eight languages. Her collection of short fiction, Vacationland will be released in 2011, along with a volume of essays, Shelter. She’s currently writing a third novel, Fishing with RayAnne, and has adapted it for screen. Her work has been short-listed for France’s Grand Prix de Lectrices d’Elle, won the Loft-McKnight Award for Fiction, and Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers. She has been writer-in-residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, County Monaghan, Art OMI Ledig House International Writers’ Program, and was a Drue Heinz Fellow at Hawthornden, Scotland.Diane Wilson is a prose writer who uses personal experience to illustrate broader social and historical context. Her memoir, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past (Borealis Books, 2006) won a 2006 Minnesota Book Award. Her work has been featured in the Fiction on a Stick Anthology (Milkweed), and Homelands: Women’s Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time, (Seal Press) and many other publications. She was recently awarded a residency at Hedgebrook Writers’ Residency.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

READ 990 Students: Reading Response

For students in Ms. Willcutt's READ 990 course, what are your reactions to one of the stories we've read so far in Fiction on a Stick? Pick one of the short stories ("Assimilation", "Zamboni Blues", "The Body Remembers", "Betty Garcia", "Xanadu") and write a paragraph in response to the events in the story. What did you think of it?
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