Please come out to the Fall Writing Festival at Houghton if you can make it! Scott Cairns will be here!

“The Writer’s Journey”: Houghton College Writing Festival, 2009

Wednesday, September 16

10:15-10:55 a.m.           

Chapel: Matthew Dickerson, “Lessons on Christian Ecology from the Writings of C.S. Lewis” 

Location: Wesley Chapel

8:00-9:00 p.m.            

Debra Reinstra, “Body, Soul, and Body: Language and Spirituality in Three Dimensions”

Reading from her three books, Debra Rienstra will consider the difficulties and delights of describing spiritual experience in language, considering the embodied personal experience, theological reflection, and the communal life of the church.

Location: CFA 145 (Recital Hall)

Opening reception and book signing to follow in Adelmann Atrium.

 Thursday, September 17

10:00-10:50 a.m.           

Matthew Dickerson Reading

Location: Library 323

This reading will be a collection poems and essays (narrative non-fiction) about Appalachian rivers, ecology, wild trout, and fly fishing.

1:00-1:50 p.m.            

A Conversation with Debra Reinstra

Susan Bruxvoort Lipscomb, interviewer

Location:  Chamberlain Center 325

3:00-3:50 p.m.            

A Conversation with Scott Cairns

Matthew Dickerson, interviewer

Location: Library 323

6:30-7:45 p.m.            

Banquet for writers, faculty, majors, and prospectives

Remarks by Linda Mills-Woolsey

Location: Dining Hall, South End

8:00-9:00 p.m.            

Scott Cairns Reading, “Pressing the Word for a Glimpse”

Location: Library 323

Reading new poems and selections from his published works in poetry and nonfiction, Scott Cairns will entertain the notion that writers seldom write simply to share what they think they know, but in order to apprehend a sense of what they do not know, perhaps can never exactly know.

 Friday, September 18

10:15-10:55 a.m.           

Chapel: Scott Cairns, “A Short Trip to the Edge”

Location: Wesley Chapel

12:00-12:50 p.m.           

Luncheon with writers for majors, prospectives, and Department of English faculty

Location: Campus Center Dining Hall, South End

1:00-1:50 p.m.            

Faculty Readings

Daniel Bowman Jr., Lori Huth, and James Zoller

Location: CFA 145 (Recital Hall)

2:00-2:50 p.m.            

Panel: “The Writer’s Vocation”

Daniel Bowman Jr., Scott Cairns, Lori Huth, James Zoller

Laurie Dashnau, moderator

Location: CFA 145 (Recital Hall)

Refreshments will be served.