The full schedule and bios for Cass and Kirby are below. All events listed are free and open to the public.

“Seeing what published writers work on, working with them on one’s own writing and listening to the final results of that work—these are the most inspiring and insightful experiences a budding fiction writer can have,” says Dr. Antje Anderson, Professor of English at ���Ĵ�ý and an organizer of the event. “Our Creative Writing Fiction course this fall prompted us to put together this conference for the the students in the class and for all other interested writers on campus and in the community who want this kind of experience.”

This conference was made possible with funding from ���Ĵ�ý’s Artist Lecture Series Committee.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Thursday, September 24

Fiction Reading

Meagan Cass, William Kirby and Eric Tucker will read from their recent works. The public is invited to this free event. A reception will follow the readings.

6 pm at The Lark (809 W. 2^nd Street)

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Friday, September 25

Fiction-Writing Workshops

After a brief opening event with Cass, Kirby, and Tucker, the workshop will divide into three concurrent 2-hour fiction-writing sessions with different emphases.

Interested community members should register for the workshop by e-mailing Antje Anderson, aanderson@hastings.edu, by Wednesday, September 22.�� Participants will choose between the three sessions after the opening.

2 pm-5 pm at Hazelrigg Student Union Rooms A, B and C (705 E. 9^th Street)

Fiction “Speed Reading” by Workshop Participants

Workshop participants are invited to read short (3-minute) samples from their workshop projects. Cass and Kirby will judge the readings. There will be book prizes!

5-6:30 pm at Perkins Library (705 E. 7^th Street)

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Bios

Meagan Cass is the author of Range of Motion (Magic Helicopter Press, 2014). Her fiction has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Pinch, DIAGRAM, PANK, and Puerto del Sol, among other places. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois Springfield, where she founded the Shelterbelt Reading Series. She also serves as assistant editor for Sundress Publications, where she edits fiction for the Best of the Net anthology. Over the last ten years, she has done editorial work for a range of national literary journals, including Stirring, Harpur Palate, and Rougarou, of which she is a founding editor.

Blog: meagancass.wordpress.com

William Kirby has been writing since 1993, when Ace/Berkley picked up his Science fiction novel, Iapetus. He has written for local newspapers as well as national publications such as Mental Floss.�� Irrationally attempting to defend historic landmarks against Denver’s urban sprawl, he wrote and researched the multiple Heartland Emmy-winning video series Legends and Oddities.�� His new mystery novel, Vienna (TOR/Macmillan), was just released, and William is on a reading tour of Colorado, Texas, and Nebraska. William makes his home in Louisville, CO, with the world’s most patient wife and the world’s most destructive cats.

Twitter: @WS_Kirby

Blog: wskirby.com

“As recipient of the HC First Faculty Development Fund Award, I want to say thanks for opportunity to make true one of the dreams of my scholarly life,” Vizoso said. “It is about recovering and republishing the work of the Jewish Venezuelan poet Elías David Curiel (1871-1924) — in my opinion one of the most appealing of the Hispanic modernist age, but only locally known and almost forgotten. It is about to have the world discover the intensity and beauty of work and to bestow it the importance it deserves.”

The award, coordinated by ���Ĵ�ý’s Academic Affairs Office and given on an annual basis, broadly defines faculty development as related research, professional service in one’s discipline, or instructional development. In keeping with the donors’ wishes, each grant will allow, or subsidize, a faculty member to do something that he/she would otherwise not be able to do.

Vizoso is grateful the anonymous donors established the fund.

He said: “It is difficult to find words to describe to what extent [their] generosity is going to change lives.”

Bio for Dr. Pedro Vizoso

Pedro J. Vizoso, born in Xinzo de Limia (Ourense), Spain, in 1959, holds a Master of Arts degree from New Mexico State University (2006) and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona (2010). He lived in Venezuela for ten years. Since 2004, he lives and works in the United States, and has been teaching Spanish language and culture in ���Ĵ�ý since the fall of 2010. His specialty is Hispanic Modernism and Transatlantic Studies. His doctoral dissertation —a cultural approach to Madrilenian bohemianism mainly focused on Spanish poetry from the Elizabethan period to the heyday of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship (1864-1927)— has been accepted recently for publication by Universitas Castellae and is currently in print (2015). He is the author of several books of poetry and wrote also a monograph on the work of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini. Since 1995 he has been translating nineteenth-century French poetry into the Spanish. In this field, his major achievement is his Spanish edition of Gérard de Nerval’s poetical works, published in 1999. He is happily married to Bea, now a para-educator in Longfellow Elementary School, and is the proud and happy father of two (16 and 9).