THE 2013 UW-STEVENS POINT WRITERS WORKSHOP Honoring high school junior and senior writers 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Thursday, December 5, 2013 Thanks to the Dean of the College of Letters & Science, Christopher Cirmo, for his sponsorship. 9:00 a.m. OPENING WELCOME - Theater, Dreyfus University Center (DUC) Welcome: Christopher Cirmo, Dean of the College of Letters & Science Discussion of opportunities in the English Department: Rebecca Sutherland Managing Editor, Cornerstone Press: Karissa Kay Gates Announcements: Patricia Gott, Workshop Director LOCATIONS: Unless otherwise noted, all workshop sessions and presentations are located in the DUC. Maps of the DUC are available at the registration table. A large campus-wide map is also posted on the easel next to the registration table. MORNING WRITING WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTS
2 9:45 10:50 P.M. (FACULTY: SEE NOTE BELOW) THE FAMILIAR ESSAY DUC-376 Rebecca Lorenz-Schumacher --Amber Brumer, Iola-Scandinavia --Jacob Englebert, Southern Door --Morgan Geary, Southern Door --Lauren Gibbs, Iola-Scandinavia --Barbara Haberli, Southern Door --Kayleen Hedberg, DeForest --Ian Knitter, Iola-Scandinavia --Janelle Nelson, SPASH --Michaela Thiry, Southern Door -- Nicolette Ullman, Southern Door --Amanda Wery, Southern Door POETRY DUC 374 -- Patricia Dyjak --Courtney Heckendorf, Lincoln --Dang Khang, Lincoln --Peter Khang, Lincoln --Sara Krueger, Rhinelander --Sierra Lindahl, Freedom --Nick Macomber, Lincoln --Sandy Martin, Freedom --Megan McGarvey, DC Everest --Brianna O Donnell, Rosholt --Tara Smith,Lincoln --Amanda Springob, Spencer --Megan Stankowski, Mosinee --Michaela Tierney, DeForest --Michaela Vela, Lincoln THE FORMAL ESSAY: Environmental Issues DUC 378 Larry Morgan --Russ Crofton, Kickapoo --Amy Jo Deringer, D.C. Everest --Daniel Shepard, Kickapoo --Lauren Young, Kickapoo
3 9:30-10:45: Observe a ballet class/nfac 130 Professor Pam Luedtke Professor Luedtke has generously offered to allow ten or so STUDENTS to sit in on her ballet class. If you would like to observe this class and interact with the dancers afterwards, please gather in the lobby and one of us will escort you to her class. 11:00 11:50 a.m. STUDENT LUNCH DUC Alumni Room Lunch will be provided for all invited students. 11:00-11:50 a.m. TEACHER LUNCH DUC Legacy Room Barbara Dixson will lead a discussion on best practices and assignments. FOR EVERYONE At 12:00 noon, we will meet in the DUC Theatre for a reading by Jill Sisson Quinn, a nature writer and high school teacher at SPASH, Stevens Point Area High School. Her essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Quarter After Eight, Ecotone, The Good Men Project, and American Nature Writing 2003. Quinn won the Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction in 2003 and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Most recently, she has received the prestigious Rona Jaffe award for emerging women writers. She will entertain questions from the audience after her reading..
4 ADDITIONALLY: BOOK SALE - DUC Theater Copies of the UWSP Cornerstone Press current and past publications will be available for purchase, as will copies of Elizabeth Felt s children s book, The Stolen Golden Violin and her historical novel Syncopation: a Memoir of Adele Hugo, and Pat Dyjak s poetry chapbook. NOTES:
5 AFTERNOON WRITING WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTS 1:00-2:05 P.M. THE FAMILIAR ESSAY DUC 223 Ingrid Nordstrom --Dakotah Bork, Independence --Brooke Filtz, Pacelli --Joe Fuller, Pacelli --Miranda Hogan, DC Everest --Ian Knitter, Iola --Jack Lawlis, Pacelli --Megan Mader, Chequamegon --Hannah Raflik, Pacelli --Pat Rath, Pacelli --Gina Sayler, Freedom --Rachel Stuplich, DC Everest --Nolan Wagner, Southern Door --Courtney Weihing, Freedom FOR FACULTY: During the afternoon session, David Roloff will meet with interested high school faculty in room 376 to discuss a topic of interest to teachers. David is a an Assistant Professor of English at UW-Stevens Point where he teaches Methods of Teaching Composition for future 9-12 English educators and Methods of Teaching Reading and Composition for future 6-8 English teachers; he ll also be supervising many of our English student teachers this spring. Prior to his stint at UWSP, David taught high school English for nine years in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
6 AFTERNOON WRITING WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTS 1:00-2:05 P.M. SPECULATIVE FICTION DUC 378 Elizabeth Felt --Audrey Cheng, Xavier --Drew Christianson, Independence --Jacob Green, Freedom --Alexandra Huff, Independence --Austin Jensen, Freedom --Gabrielle LeBouton, Horicon --Ryan Lemmers, Freedom --Maryann Oates, Kickapoo --Jared Pahl, Freedom --Jenny Peterson, Freedom --Kyle Pluemer, DeForest --Matthew Vosters, Freedom --Taressa Wildenberg, Freedom --Bailey Williams, Lincoln FICTION/Short Story DUC 211 Jeff Snowbarger -- Monica Janz, Mosinee --Gabrielle Kitteredge, Freedom --Eric Lobner, Nekoosa --Morgan Mancl, Spencer --Megan Marvin, Rhinelander --Alexander Pickens, Freedom --Douglas Sands, Eleva-Strum --Victoria Shuler, SPASH --Nikki Shanahan, Kickapoo --Amanda Springob, Spencer --Erik Stojak, Nekoosa --Shea Tarnow, DC Everest --Emilie Williamson, Freedom
7 For STUDENTS not scheduled for an afternoon writing workshop session, HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY, PARENTS, and friends: 1:00-2:15 am PERCUSSION WORKSHOP - DUC 235 Joan Wiese Johannes will demonstrate how percussion instruments can be used to create pleasing rhythms when writing and how to use music to accompany writing. After a short demonstration of how she combines poetry and her original music for the Native American flute, participants will get a chance to try out the different instruments and use them to enhance their own writing. Joan was a beloved Language Arts teacher at Lincoln High School in Wisconsin Rapids and has won The Chisholm Award for the exemplary teaching of English and a Kohl Fellowship. Lincoln High School Teacher of the Year for 2003 and Wisconsin Secondary Teacher of the Year in 1993, she has been publishing poetry for over twenty years and music for five. She was also awarded a silver medallion from Carlos Nakai for publishing Native American flute/vocal duets and has released a duet CD, Heyoalinda, and presented flute/poetry workshops for Wisconsin flute circles and for the Pacific NW Flute Gathering in Washington.
8 FOR EVERYONE 2:10 p.m. CLOSING AWARDS CEREMONY: DUC Theater Announcement of Awards by the Workshop Faculty Presentation of Scholarships by Dean of the College of Letters & Science, Christopher Cirmo We would like to express our thanks to the following: Bernard Patterson, Chancellor, UWSP Christopher Cirmo, Dean of the College of Letters & Science Dona Warren, Assistant Dean of the College of Letters & Science Todd Good, Associate Dean of Students, College of Letters & Science Michael Williams, Chair of the English Department Barbara Dixson, former Director of the Writers Workshop Isabelle Stelmahoske, Founder of, and Advisor to, the Writers Workshop Kelly Thompson, English Department Program Assistant Kim Siclovan, English Department Program Assistant Doug Moore, UWSP Photographer Rebecca Sutherland, High School Writers Workshop Student Assistant The English Department s Student Volunteers Bill Jordan, Assistant Director of Admissions And a warm THANK YOU to all of our Writers Workshop readers, faculty, and presenters! Thank you for your participation and HAPPY WRITING!
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