Women Writing West

Copper Nickel will host a three-day symposium on "Women Writing the West" on October 15-17, 2008. With our friends at the Colorado Center for Public Humanities, The Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar, we'll present three days of readings and conversations, culminating in the release of Copper Nickel 10.

The schedule of events is posted below.

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Women Writing West Schedule

The symposium will be October 15-17, 2008. Most events will be held on the Auraria Higher Education Campus in downtown Denver, in St. Cajetan's Student Center. Exceptions are noted below Tivoli 440, unless otherwise noted.

All events are free and open to the public.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
3:00 PM -- Convocation and Introductions
3:30 PM -- Maria Melendez Reading
4:00 PM -- Pam Houston Reading
4:30 PM -- A Brief Conversation (Q & A)
7:00 PM -- Salon: What Does "West" Mean? at The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar

Thursday, October 16, 2008
2:30 PM -- Deirdre McNamer Reading
3:00 PM -- Lee Ann Roripaugh Reading
3:30 PM -- Salon: Forms of the West, featuring Alyson Hagy, Deirdre McNamer, Lee Ann Roripaugh, and Karen Volkman
4:15 PM -- Meet the Authors Reception
5:30 PM -- Teresa Jordan Reading
6:00 PM -- Page Lambert Reading
6:30 PM -- A Conversation

Friday, October 17, 2008
2:00 PM -- Student Scholarship Symposium ***CANCELED***
4:00 PM -- Karen Volkman Reading
4:30 PM -- Alyson Hagy Reading
5:00 PM -- A Conversation: The New West
6:00 PM -- Copper Nickel 10 Launch Party at the Denver Press Club

The symposium is presented or supported by the Department of English, UC-Denver Live, the College of Arts and Media, the Department of Communications, the Department of History, the Colorado Center for Public Humanities, the Women's and Gender Studies Track at UC-Denver, the Auraria Library, and Asian American Education Programs and Community Outreach, as well as the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar.