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photos by Richard Allen THE WRITER IN WEST MARIN PROGRAM: CALL FOR WRITERS The Writer in West Marin Program was conceived as one way to deal with our national crisis of literacy, and as one community’s commitment to giving its students and residents the opportunity to explore the wider world through the practice and honing of the written word. We are soliciting applications from Northern California writers for a residency of five weeks beginning March 20, 2009, during which the writer will conduct creative and environmental writing classes and workshops for students of West Marin. We will provide room and board and a stipend of $3,000. For an application and more information, please visit the WIWM page on our website.
Author and peach farmer David Mas Masumoto will chair the 2009 Geography of Hope: A Conference Celebrating Writing on Farming & Rural Life, in Point Reyes Station from March 20 to 22, 2009. The first Geography of Hope: A conference celebrating Wallace Stegner, held in 2008, was one of the most exceptional literary events ever to take place in northern California. Building on that theme, this year’s event will take as its focus writing on farming and the rural life featuring authors who are farmers, ranchers, and growers. Joining Masumoto will be leaders in publishing, arts, culture, conservation, and literature, including Malcolm Margolin, Wendy Johnson, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Patricia Klindienst, Stanley Crawford, Rose Castillo Guilbault and Greg Sarris (partial list). Field trips to nearby family farms and ranches, art installations, spirited panels and conversations, and delicious meals prepared with food from local farms and ranches will be hallmarks of the weekend as attendees gather in barns, gymnasiums, and community buildings, on farms and in parklands to explore the relationship between people and the land. For more information please follow this link. For more information, or to receive an invitation, please call: (415) 663-1003, or write books@ptreyesbooks.com Sponsored by: Point Reyes Books, Marin Agricultural Land Trust, Tomales Bay Library Association, Marin Organic and Heyday Press to benefit the Tomales Bay Library Association Writers-in-the-Schools Program
Literary renaissance of national import in tiny Point Reyes Where can you perch on a bale of hay in a feed barn and listen to a reading by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry? It's the same place, redolent of straw and rope and leather, where the Zen poet Gary Snyder, another Pulitzer Prize winner, told a sellout crowd, "This place smells so good." On another night, Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient," read from his new novel, "Divisadero," with its Marin references to Rancho Nicasio, the Druid's Hall and party dresses from San Rafael. All of these events and other major literary gatherings, such as talks by Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma," and Robert Reich, secretary of labor under Bill Clinton, happened recently in West Marin - specifically in Point Reyes Station, often at Toby's Feed Barn, a quaint combination farm store, art gallery, tourist stop and literary salon. A literary renaissance has quietly evolved over the past decade in this unlikely rural setting. It might be the most exciting cultural development in West Marin since the hippie Diaspora of the late '60s and early '70s. [Read the full article here] |
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