THE ROLE OF THE SMALL LITERARY JOURNAL

1 p.m. The Spokane Center. 705 W. 1^st Ave. Second Floor.

IRIS GRIBBLE-NEAL acts as co-editor and -publisher of the journal Heliotrope: a Writer’s Summer Solstice, now in its eighth year of publication. She is also a writer and last year her chapbook, Aristotle’s War, was a finalist in the Floating Bridge Chapbook Contest. She has had numerous poems and essays accepted for publication in literary journals. Her job is teaching English at Eastern Washington University, the best job in the world.

TOM GRIBBLE has received the Artist Thrust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship for Literature and the Associated Writing Programs’ Intro Journal Project award for poetry. His work has appeared in numerous journals. He has a chapbook, Interest Free Karma. For eight years, he has co-published and edited the journal journal Heliotrope: a Writer’s Summer Solstice. He is the academic adviser to Spokane Community College’s Literary and Arts journal, Legends, and Tom teaches English at Spokane Community College.

MICHELLE BONCZEK is a co-founder and co-editor of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. Her works have appeared in or are forthcoming in Crazyhorse, Cimmaron Review, New Zoo Poetry Review, The Midwest Quarterly, and Talking River Review. She also has two poems nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

LAURA STOTT is the managing editor of Willow Springs. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Quarterly West, Weber Studies, Diner, and Redactions: Poetry & Poetics.



AMERICAN LITERATURE AFTER 9/11

2 p.m. The Spokane Center. 705 W. 1^st Ave. Second Floor.

Currently, as a recipient of its 1990 Distinguished Scholar Award, PATRICIA GOEDICKE teaches in the Creative Writing Program of the University of Montana. She is also the recipient of numerous literary award including: The H.G. Merriam Award for Distinguished Contribution to Montana Literature, April 16, 2003; Rockefeller Foundation Residency at its Villa Serbelloni, in Bellagio, Italy, Spring, 1993; a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship; a Pushcart Prize; the William Carlos Williams Prize from New Letters; and many others. Her most recent publication, As Earth Begins to End (Copper Canyon Press,2000), was the American Library Association Booklist’s choice for one of its “Top Ten Poetry Books”, 3/15/2000.

JONATHAN JOHNSON’s poems, stories, and critical essays are forthcoming or have appeared in Best American Poetry 1996, Alaska Quarterly, Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review and numerous other national journals. His first collection of poems, Mastodon, 80% Complete was published in 2001 by Carnegie Mellon University Press and his nonfiction book, Hannah and the Mountain: Notes Toward a Wilderness Fatherhood will be published in 2005 by the University of Nebraska Press in their American Lives series.

CHRISTOPHER HOWELL is the author of seven collections of poems, including, most recently Just Waking. He has received grant awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the Massachusetts Council for the Arts. He is also recipient of the Washington State Governor's Award. His poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in many journals, including Harper's, Hudson Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, and The Gettysburg Review.

Author of over a dozen poetry collections, PAUL ZIMMER ranks as one of America’s best known poets. He has received two NEA fellowships, the Helen Bullis Memorial Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. In 1998, his book, The Great Bird of Love, was selected for the National Poetry Series. Also an editor, Zimmer has directed the university presses at Georgia, Iowa, and Pittsburgh, and was instrumental in the foundation of the Pitt Poetry Series (which has published most of the poets appearing in the Poetry-in-the-Round series in recent memory). His latest book is Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems, a substantial retrospective of his most famous work.



ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY

3 p.m. The Spokane Center. 705 W. 1^st Ave. Second Floor.

Includes the panel from American Literature after 9/11 and:

NANCE VAN WINCKEL is the author of three collections of short fiction: Limited Lifetime Warranty, Quake, and most recently Curtain Creek Farm (Persea Books, 2000). Quake received the 1998 Patterson Fiction Prize. Nance has also published four collections of poems, including After a Spell, which won the 1998 Washington Governor’s Award for Literature, and the newly released Beside Ourselves (Miami University Press 2003). She has new stories in Agni, Georgia Review, and Colorado Review, and new poems in Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Field, New Letters, and Doubletake. She teaches in EWU’s MFA program and is the founder of its Writers in the Community program and a former editor of Willow Springs.

Panel Moderator for The Role of the Small Literary Journal, American Literature after 9/11, and Issues in Contemporary American Poetry will be TOM HOLMES. Mr. Holmes is a co-founder and co-editor of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics and is the Assistant Marketing Director for EWU Press. His works have appeared in a handful of journals and anthologies, and he has edited numerous literary works.



DISCUSSIONS ON SCIENCE FICTION

4 p.m. The Met. 901 W. Sprague Ave.

JAMES GLASS had a thirty five year career as a professor of physics, department head and dean at North Dakota State University and Eastern Washington University. The writing during this time was seventy five technical papers on his research in molecular biophysics and superconductivity. But the fiction writing bug bit hard again when Jim was well into his forties. His first published story was in “Aboriginal S.F.” and soon after he won the 1990 grand prize in the Writers of the Future Contest. He retired from his academic job in 1999 and now writes full time. His most recent book is The Creators, an e-book published in 2002 by e-reads. His newest book Matrix Dreams and Other Stories is due out in May 2004 from Fairwood Press.

JOHN DALMAS has had several careers (not including military service, 1944-46).  The first was itinerant laborer, primarily merchant seaman and logger, selling timber for the Forest Service, a Ph.D. in ecology, and 17 years as a research ecologist.  Eventually he settled into writing SF.  His most recent of 28 novels are The Second Coming (April 2003) and The Helverti Invasion (2003), both from Baen.  A collection of short fiction, Otherwhens, Otherwheres: Favorite Tales by John Dalmas, was released in February 2003 by RAP Books.

VICKI MITCHELL has been involved with science fiction publishing and fandom for twenty years. She has sold four Star Trek novels, and two other media tie-in novels for Nickelodeon during the nineties, and has short fiction published in magazines such as Amazing Stories. She started out by winning the national Amazing Stories Contest in 1986. Vicki is a full-time geologist for the Idaho Geological Survey.