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This Week In Napa Valley: Napa Valley Writers' Conference, More

Annual Napa Valley Writers' Conference attracts writers and poets from all over the world.

The annual Napa Valley Writers' Conference kicked off Sunday night and will continue all this week with readings and lectures.

Here's a schedule:

Monday, 29 July 2013

Beringer Vineyards, 2000 Main St., St. Helena| Map
Wine reception at 7:o0 p.m., reading at 7:30

  • Linda Gregerson
  • Lan Samantha Chang

Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Robert Mondavi Winery, 7801 St. Helena Highway (Highway 29), Oakville | Map
Wine reception at 7:00 p.m., reading at 7:30

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  • Camille Dungy
  • Christopher Tilghman

Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Educational Center for the Performing Arts, Napa Valley College Main Campus, Napa| Map and Campus Map
Wine reception at 6:30 p.m., reading at 7

  • Jane Hirshfield
  • Yiyun Li

 

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Lecture Schedule

Lecture titles will be added as they are received. All lectures take place at the Napa Valley College Upper Valley Campus, 1088 College Ave., St. Helena. | Map

Monday, 29 July 2013

  • Poetry — 9–10 a.m.: Camille Dungy, “Repetition, Repetition, Another Repetition, and Reward”
  • Fiction — 1:30–2:30 p.m.: Christopher Tilghman, “Who Sees and Who Speaks”

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

  • Poetry — 9–10 a.m.: Jane Hirshfield, “Poetry Is A Kind of Lying, Or, Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant”
  • Fiction — 1:30–2:30 p.m.: Yiyun Li, “Rx for a Story Worth the Telling”

Wednesday, 31 July 2013

  • Poetry — 9–10 a.m.: Major Jackson, “Thinking Inside the Poem”
  • Fiction — 1:30–2:30 p.m. — Peter Ho Davies, “On Historical Fiction”

Thursday, 1 August 2013

  • Poetry — 9–10 a.m.: Linda Gregerson, “The Girl in the Tree: Metamorphosis and the Contemporary Lyric”
  • Fiction — 1:30–2:30 p.m.: Lan Samantha Chang, “The Art of Storytelling: A Discussion of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby”
  • Participant Reading — 2:45-4:15 p.m. (Free and open to the public)

 OTHER:
Napa County Supervisors meet 9 a.m. Tuesday

Napa City Council meets 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Napa Parks & Rec Advisory Committee meets Wednesday at 7 p.m. for special meeting on new public boat dock.




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