November 5, 2011, Saturday - The 2011 Novel-Writing Conference at the Loft (2 days)
Times: Saturday, 10:00am - 7:00pm Pam Houston Reading; Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm
Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South
November 5–6, 2011, Featuring Keynote Speaker Pam Houston
Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness (W. W. Norton), which was the winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award and has been translated into nine languages, and Waltzing the Cat (W. W. Norton), which won the Willa Award for Contemporary Fiction.
Her stories have been selected for The Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. A collection of essays, A Little More about Me, was published by W.W. Norton in the fall of 1999. Her novel, Sighthound (W.W. Norton, 2005), received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which admired her gift “for capturing the dynamic of unorthodox webs of relationships.” Houston is the director of creative writing at U.C. Davis and she teaches at many summer writers’ conferences and festivals in the United States and abroad.
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