Midwinter Writing Festival Schedule

Here is the schedule for the festival.  A final version along with program descriptions and a map of campus will be available at the door. 

Time           Session            Room

9:00-9:50

10 habits to Jumpstart Your Creative Writing  A2556
Art About Writing  C2042
Shakespeare  C2038
What Haiku Can Teach You  S2322
Before You "Send"  C2018
Avoiding Plagiarism Because Big Brother Always Knows  C2018

10:00-10:50

Performing a Poem A2556
Crazy English:  The How, the Why, and You C2018
How to Write a Scholarship Application C3145
Zombies Attack:  Essay Skills C3053
Land of 10,000 Writers C3147
How to Write about a Movie C3101
Getting an "A" on Essay Exams C3061

11:00-11:50

How to Find a Poem Anywhere A1550
What Does the Professor Want? L1785
Freelance Writing S1326
Thunderstorm Sentences Sc1410
Jane Austen C3145
Writing for Math F2231

12:00-12:50

Writing for a Living A1550
Memoir and the Personal Essay A1550
Finding the Deep Magic in Your Fantasy and Sci-fi Story C3145
Arguing Strategies C1101
Letters of Recommendation C1105
Hamburgers and Ice Cream:  Essays  C2042
Exploring World Cultures F2231

1:00-1:50

Kao Kalia Yang, The Late Homecomer, a Keynote Presentation F1265

2:00-2:50

How an Idea Finds its Form C2032
Research:  Beyond the Classroom C2018
Intercultural Communication L1785
Thunderstorm Sentences C1107
Young Adult Literature at the Movies C1105
Writing a Theatre Review F2231
Writing As Political Resistance F2264

3:00-3:50

Against the Odds:  Getting Published C2032
Grant Writing C1107
Reading TBD
Fairytales C2040
Making Your Journal F2231

Exciting Things Happening at Normandale!

On February 11, 2010, Normandale Community College will host its first ever Midwinter Writing Festival. Sponsored by the Normandale Writing Center and the Normandale Reading Series, the daylong event will feature hourly presentations on all aspects of writing. Panel presentations will take place between 9:00 and 4:00, including a keynote discussion from Kao Kalia Yang, author of the award-winning memoir The Late Homecomer at 1:00.

There will be over forty panels by professional instructors and authors with topics such as “Memoir: Writing Your Life Story,” “How to Find a Poem Just About Anywhere,” “Jane Austen is not Just for Zombies,” and “Intercultural Communication.” The emphasis of the writing panels will be cross-curricular, including professional, literary, and creative modes of thinking.

A full schedule is coming soon!