The annual Fall Reading Seriespresents a season of events celebrating literature, showcasing award-winning authors, and honoring the inspiration to write. Events are sponsored by the 英语系 and 创意写作计划 of Grossmont大学, as well as a variety of other campus agencies and programs.
周三,September19
小说家兼回忆录作家安东尼·斯沃福德
晚上7点到8点半，格里芬门
晚上7点，格里芬门
安东尼·斯沃福德回到了太阳城娱乐，宣读了他的新回忆录， 酒店、医院和监狱，由 《纽约时报书评》 as a “tale of post-traumatic success disorder.” Swofford was one of the headlining authors of the 2007 Literary Arts Festival at Grossmont大学, and his best-selling Gulf War memoir, 锅盖头, which received the 2004 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir, was adapted to an award-winning film starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
9月27日星期四
作家兼诗人艾米·格斯特勒
晚上7点，26-220房间
Los Angeles writer Amy Gerstler has authored numerous reviews and published eight
books of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, including 最亲爱的生物 (企鹅出版社,2009); 鬼的女孩 (企鹅出版社,2004); 医学 （企鹅出版社，2000年），入围Phi Beta Kappa诗歌奖； 杂草之冠 (企鹅出版社,1997); 神经风暴 (企鹅出版社,1995); 痛苦的天使 （卡耐基梅隆出版社，1990年），美国国家图书评论界奖得主； 过去的生活 （圣莫尼卡艺术博物馆，1989）； 和, 真正的新娘 (Lapis Press, 1986). Gerstler has taught at Antioch West and the University of California
at Irvine's graduate writing program. She teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars
program at Bennington College in Vermont, and at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,
California.
10月4日星期四,
禁书阅读庆祝活动
晚上7点，格里芬门
Join Joe Medina of the Grossmont大学 英语系 for an evening of school and scandal with this annual reading commemorating National Banned Books Week. Topics change annually in this thought-provoking and sometimes audacious event.
Past readings have featured the works of Sandra Cisneros, Susan Patron, Langston Hughes,
James Joyce, Sherman Alexie, Erica Jong, J.K. Rowling, Lenny Bruce, Toni Morrison,
Alice Walker, Dorothy Allison, banned children's literature, controversial fan fiction
and slash, censored anime and manga, and many others. For further info, contact Joe
Medina at joe.medina@gcccd.edu.
星期三,10月17日
远东：一切如其所
莱斯特·邦斯纪念朗读
晚上7点，格里芬门
A Grossmont大学 创意写作 alumna, editor Mindy Solis presents this first-of-its-kind
journal dedicated to the stories and people of San Diego’s East County. The first
installment, 远东：一切如其所， anthologizes works by writers across the generations, from Pushcart Prize winner,
poet Steve Kowitt, to the up-and-coming Enrique Cervantes, recipient of the 2012 James
Rodey Young Creative Writers Scholarship. A second anthology containing the written
and oral histories of San Diego’s East County promises to follow soon. The Far East
Project is produced under the aegis of San Diego’s So Say We All arts collective,
run by Justin Hudnall.
11月17日星期六
创意Write-a-Thon:
震撼页面！
早上9点到下午5点，格里芬门
The biennial event is back! The popular all-day fundraiser returns! Enjoy a full day
of inspirational writing prompts and literary activities in all four genres; win valuable
prizes; and, of course, write, write, and write!
Proceeds go to the Grossmont大学 创意写作计划’s fall and spring literary events--always free and open to the public. Look for pledge sheets and posters soon.
12月3日星期一
新声音：一个学生的阅读
晚上7点，格里芬门
The Grossmont大学 创意写作计划 rounds out the fall 2012 semester in tribute to its rising stars, with a reading and performance of their original poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama. Artful, evocative, and entertaining—the writers of the Fall 2012 New Voices Reading will surprise and inspire you and your students.
本学期的新声音阵容：
米兰达的交易
Shonna Gillis
博因顿Branden
以利沙茎
凯瑟琳·马里尼
克里斯托弗盎
玛丽Marandola
卡洛琳·巴德
乔尔特立尼达
奥黛丽阿特沃特
尼科尔马迪根