Writers Festival Tentative Schedule (and your role in it)

Here's the tentative schedule for this year's Writers Festival.

Monday, March 14 -- Poet/memoirist Joan Jobe Smith -- craft talk at 4 p.m.; reading at 7 p.m. with reception and book-signing to follow

Tuesday, March 15 -- Poet Fred Voss -- craft talk at 4 p.m.; reading at 7 p.m. with reception and book-signing

Wednesday, March 16 -- Faculty/Alumni reading at 7 p.m. with reception and book-signing to follow

Thursday, March 17 -- Novelist Kathleen George -- reading and talk at 4 p.m. with reception and book-signing to follow; Poet John Repp -- reading at 7 p.m. with reception and book-signing to follow

Friday, March 18 -- The Art and Craft of New Media: a panel presentation featuring UPG bloggers and a professional guest blogger (TBA; hoping to confirm Virginia Montanez from Pittsburgh's popular blog, "That's Church!"), 4 p.m. with reception to follow; Bill Deasy -- talk on songwriting, followed by a performance and book-signing, 7 p.m.

Please let me know if you will be able to participate in the panel on Friday. I'd like each of you to present your blogs, talk about why you created them (other than "because Jakiela made me do it" :) ), and say a little something about your blogosphere/s and new media. Each presentation should be about 5 minutes (more if we have fewer folks). We'll project your blogs, of course, but feel free to be uber-creative. You can bring in props, use other media, whatever might tell your story best.

We won't have regular class during the festival week. I hope you'll be able to attend all the events, especially ours.