Name: The Inlandia Institute
Address: 4178 Chestnut Street, Riverside, CA, USA
Telephone: 951-369-1564

Announcing the winner of the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize

By cati on December 23, 2017

Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple by Malcolm Friend Selected by Cynthia Arrieu-King, Malcolm’s book will be published in 2018. About Malcolm: Malcolm Friend is a poet originally from the Rainer Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. He received his BA from Vanderbilt University and his MFA from the […]

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November 2018
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			1 7:00 pm: ARTS WALK FOR BOOK LOVERS NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH KICKOFF EVENT WITH BECCA SPENCE DOBIAS November 1, 2018 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Do you want to write a novel? Do you want to write a novel in 30 days? Every year, people around the world take on this ambitious adventure during National Novel Writing Month. Join Inlandia Institute at the Riverside Public Library downtown, upstairs, for a fun, friendly event to get your novel underway. In this workshop, Becca Spence Dobias, who has participated in and "won" NaNoWriMo several times, will explain how to participate, lead exercises, and share tips and tricks for making the most of it all. For those already in the know about NaNo, there will be a dedicated space for writing and some fun writing prompts. About Becca Spence Dobias Becca Spence Dobias is a mom, author, doula, and ukulele player. She is the author of Rock of Ages, currently in production with Inkshares, and one of the founding members of WritingBloc.com. The workshop will be held on Thursday, November 1st, starting at 7:00 p.m. The Riverside Public Library is located at 3581 Mission Inn Avenue in downtown Riverside. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided. More	2	3 N/A: BOOK CLUB BRUNCH November 3, 2018 N/A TBA More 10:30 am: POETRY CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH JAMES DUCAT November 3, 2018 10:30 am – 11:30 am Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Riverside workshop meets every other Saturday at the Riverside Public Library, located at 3581 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501. They can be reached at (951) 826-5201. More 1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN CORONA WITH ANDREA FINGERSON November 3, 2018 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Corona workshop meets every other Saturday at the Corona Public Library, located at 650 S Main St, Corona, CA 92882. They can be reached at (951) 736-2381. More	4 1:00 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER: FIRE AND RAIN: ECOPOETRY OF CALIFORNIA November 4, 2018 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm On November 4, please join us we celebrate the publication of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. Edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan, with a Foreword by Dana Gioia and an Introduction by Jack Foley, Fire and Rain includes more than 250 poems by 149 contributors, including Ellen Bass, Christopher Buckley, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Camille T. Dungy, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Rebecca Foust, Dana Gioia, Rafael Jesús González, Emily Grosholz, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lynne Knight, Stephen Meadows, A. D. Miller, Gary Snyder, and David St. John. Of Fire and Rain, Pattiann Rogers calls it “not only a beautiful and thorough anthology but an homage to California, its varieties of landscapes, and the amazing poetry it has evoked.” Malcolm Margolin of Heyday reminds us "[t]he battles environmentalists fight on land, in the legislatures, or in the courts are won or lost first in the human imagination, and the range, depth, and vitality of this selection of poems will take the imagination by storm.” "I went back to soulful, pristine, early James Taylor to make sure I was feeling the wet, cleansing urgency of Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan's burning anthology. Anthology, ecology, mythology, and all the ‘ologies’ boil down to four-letter words—sacred kissing cousins—love and life”, says Al Young, former California Poet Laureate. From the introduction, Dana Gioia, California’s current Poet Laureate, notes "Day and Nolan have done a considerable service to select and gather these poems. Their ample anthology provides a generous record of California poets’ love and concern for their common world. What more important theme can we in this golden land share?” About the readers: John Brantingham is Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park’s first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines and The Best Small Fictions 2016. He has ten books of poetry and fiction including The L.A. Fiction Anthology (Red Hen Press) and A Sublime and Tragic Dance (Cholla Needles Press). He teaches at Mt. San Antonio College. Thea Gavin is a native of Orange, CA, where she never gets tired of shoelessly exploring--and writing about--her local native plant communities. In 2011 she spent three life-changing weeks as National Park Service Artist-in-Residence at Grand Canyon's North Rim, where she now returns as often as possible, including each June to lead a creative writing workshop for the Grand Canyon Association Field Institute. After retiring in 2017 from twenty years of teaching writing at Concordia University Irvine, Thea has been enjoying more opportunities to wander, write, and inspire others to "think outside the shoe" via her poems, essays, and presentations. theagavin.com; @theagavin; instagram.com/theagavin/ Ruth Nolan is professor of English and creative writing at College of the Desert in Palm Springs, CA and is a scholar, author and lecturer focusing primarily on topics of California Desert environment, culture and literature. A former wildland firefighter for the US Forest Service and BLM California Desert District. She is the author Ruby Mountain (Finishing Line Press); editor of No Place for a Puritan: The Literature of California’s Deserts (Heyday Books); and co-editor of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California (Scarlet Tanager.) She is the winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Poetry Society Award and the recipient of a 2018 Love of Learning Award from the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society for her forthcoming book Fire on the Mojave: Stories from the Deserts and Mountains of Inland Southern California, for which she also won a 2017 California Writers Residency Award. Chad Sweeney is the author of six books of poetry, including Little Million Doors (Nightboat Books, 2019) and Parable of Hide and Seek (Alice James Books, 2010). His poems have been included in Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology and Verse Daily. He is an associate professor of creative writing at California State University San Bernardino and editor of Ghost Town Lit Mag. Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of three poetry collections: Little Spells, newly released from New Issues Press, How to Live on Bread and Music, which received the James Laughlin Award, the Perugia Press Prize and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, and Salt Memory. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, a Hedgebrook residency, the Elinor Benedict Poetry Award from Passages North and two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg awards. Recent poems have appeared in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Linebreak, Mid-American Review, New American Writing, Pleiades, and Verse Daily. liz gonzález is the author of the poetry collection Beneath Bone (Manifest Press 2000). Her awards include an Arts Council for Long Beach Professional Artist Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Foundation Artistic Grant, and residencies at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Lucas Artists Residency Program, and Hedgebrook. Find her at Lizgonzalez.com Reading will be followed by light refreshments and book sales and signing. The Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts is located at 3834 Main Street in downtown Riverside. This event is free and open to the public. More 5:00 pm: INLAND EMPIRE LITERARY ROUNDTABLE MEETING November 4, 2018 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Please join us for the next Poets & Writers' Inland Empire Literary Roundtable Meeting co-hosted by the Inlandia Institute at the Garcia Center for the Arts: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Garcia Center for the Arts Library Room 536 West 11th Street San Bernardino, CA 92410 This free, informal meeting is a great way to connect with fellow presenters, presses, teachers, and writers. Roundtable Meetings bring together people from all areas of the literary community to exchange ideas, news, and resources. It's also a chance to learn about P&W and how our Readings & Workshops program might support your literary events. Notes from past roundtable meetings (including Sacramento, San Bernardino, and South Pasadena) are publicly available online (http://at.pw.org/2Bdmwfg). Please RSVP to jfitzgerald@pw.org to reserve your seat, and feel free to share this event information with your networks. *** Poets & Writers is the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers. Learn more at pw.org. This activity is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov. More
5	6 1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS November 6, 2018 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Riverside Poetry in Motion workshop meets every Tuesday at the Janet Goeske Foundation & Senior Center, located at 5257 Sierra St, Riverside, CA 92504. They can be reached at (951) 351- 8800. More 5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN SAN BERNARDINO WITH ALLYSON JEFFREDO November 6, 2018 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The San Bernardino workshop meets every other Tuesday at the Rowe Branch Library, located at 108 E Marshall Blvd, San Bernardino, CA 92404. They can be reached at (909) 883-3411. More	7 10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER November 7, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Redlands workshop meets every Wednesday at the Joslyn Senior Center, located at 21 Grant St, Redlands, CA 92373. They can be reached at (909) 798-7550. More 6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN ONTARIO WITH TIM HATCH November 7, 2018 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Ontario workshop meets every other Wednesday at the Ovitt Library, located at 215 E C St, Ontario, CA 91764. They can be reached at (909) 395-2004. More	8 5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN COLTON WITH JESSICA CARRILLO- BILINGUAL November 8, 2018 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Colton workshop meets every other Thursday at the Advance to Literacy Center, located at 656 N 9th Street, Colton. They can be reached at (909) 370-5083. More 6:30 pm: PROSE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH JO SCOTT-COE November 8, 2018 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Riverside workshop meets every other Thursday at the Riverside Public Library, located at 3581 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501. They can be reached at (951) 826-5201. More	9	10 10:00 am: HENRY L.A. JEKEL BOOK LAUNCH! November 10, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm At long last, Henry L.A. Jekel's legacy publication is a reality. Thanks to all of our donors and supporters and friends, this book will be made available to the public on Saturday November 10 at 10 a.m. This book was published in partnership with California Baptist University, home to an original Jekel structure, the James Complex, aka Neighbors of Woodcraft Home. We will be holding this long-awaited launch event, also sponsored by CBU, in the Staples Room of the James Complex. This event will feature a presentation by authors Dr. Vince Moses and Catherine Whitmore on Jekel and his work, as well as light refreshments and book sales/signing. *If you pre-ordered a copy or sponsored the publication through our GoFundMe campaign, you may pick up your book and swag at this event.* Please help us celebrate with Vince and Cate! RSVP today for this very special event. Hope to see you there! More	11
12	13 1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS November 13, 2018 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Riverside Poetry in Motion workshop meets every Tuesday at the Janet Goeske Foundation & Senior Center, located at 5257 Sierra St, Riverside, CA 92504. They can be reached at (951) 351- 8800. More 5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN SAN BERNARDINO WITH ALLYSON JEFFREDO November 13, 2018 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The San Bernardino workshop meets every other Tuesday at the Rowe Branch Library, located at 108 E Marshall Blvd, San Bernardino, CA 92404. They can be reached at (909) 883-3411. More	14 10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER November 14, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Redlands workshop meets every Wednesday at the Joslyn Senior Center, located at 21 Grant St, Redlands, CA 92373. They can be reached at (909) 798-7550. More 5:00 pm: POETS AND WRITERS' INLAND EMPIRE LITERARY ROUNDTABLE MEETING November 14, 2018 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Please join us for the next Poets & Writers' Inland Empire Literary Roundtable Meeting co-hosted by the Inlandia Institute at The Garcia Center for the Arts: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Garcia Center for the Arts Library Room 536 West 11th Street San Bernardino, CA 92410 This free, informal meeting is a great way to connect with fellow presenters, presses, teachers, and writers. Roundtable Meetings bring together people from all areas of the literary community to exchange ideas, news, and resources. It's also a chance to learn about P&W and how our Readings & Workshops program might support your literary events. Notes from past roundtable meetings are publicly available online (http://at.pw.org/2Bdmwfg). Author Isabel Quintero (https://laisabelquintero.com/) will join us as a special guest to talk about her experience as a writer from the Inland Empire and her work with PoetrIE. Please RSVP to jfitzgerald@pw.org to reserve your seat, and feel free to share this event information with your networks. *** Poets & Writers is the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers. Learn more at pw.org. This activity is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov. More	15	16	17 N/A: BARNES AND NOBLE BOOK FAIR November 17, 2018 N/A TBA More	18 2:00 pm: MEMORIES OF MIGRATION: DIVERSE JOURNEYS LED BY FRANCES J. VASQUEZ November 18, 2018 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm From September 30th to November 18th, Inlandia Institute in partnership with Riverside Art Museum will present writing workshops using inspirations by current exhibitions at RAM to give voice to the migration stories of our multicultural community. Workshop participants will view artworks and with guided writing prompts reflect on their family's migration stories, or imagine their own creative immigration adventure. Join Frances J. Vásquez on September 30, 2:00 p.m. -- 4:00 p.m. for a workshop inspired by the exhibition of authentic ancient treasures, Uncovering Ancient México: The Mystery of Tlatilco. Join Frances again on November 18, 2:00 p.m. -- 4:00 p.m. for a workshop focusing on two art exhibitions as the spark for writing stories of migration and immigration, Codex Rodriguez-Mondragon by Sandy Rodriguez who makes powerful historical and visual linkages to present day ICE agents... and Refugee Stories by Kathryn Clark who, in a series of embroidery panels and works on paper that follow the journey of Syrian refugees into Europe. The workshops are free for RAM members; included with paid general admission. About Frances J. Vásquez Frances J. Vásquez facilitates Tesoros de Cuentos writing workshops in Casa Blanca and is a contributor to the Inlandia Literary Journeys column in The Press-Enterprise and The Sun. She Graduated from UCR with BS and MBA Degrees. Frances serves on the Inlandia Institute Board and is a member of the Multicultural Council of the Riverside Museum Associates. More
19	20 1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS November 20, 2018 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Riverside Poetry in Motion workshop meets every Tuesday at the Janet Goeske Foundation & Senior Center, located at 5257 Sierra St, Riverside, CA 92504. They can be reached at (951) 351- 8800. More	21 10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER November 21, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Redlands workshop meets every Wednesday at the Joslyn Senior Center, located at 21 Grant St, Redlands, CA 92373. They can be reached at (909) 798-7550. More	22	23	24	25
26	27 1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS November 27, 2018 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Riverside Poetry in Motion workshop meets every Tuesday at the Janet Goeske Foundation & Senior Center, located at 5257 Sierra St, Riverside, CA 92504. They can be reached at (951) 351- 8800. More	28 10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER November 28, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Redlands workshop meets every Wednesday at the Joslyn Senior Center, located at 21 Grant St, Redlands, CA 92373. They can be reached at (909) 798-7550. More	29	30

Books

Announcing the winner of the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize

6:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN PALM SPRINGS WITH MARJ CHARLIER

10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER

7:00 pm: ARTS WALK FOR BOOK LOVERS NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH KICKOFF EVENT WITH BECCA SPENCE DOBIAS

N/A: BOOK CLUB BRUNCH

10:30 am: POETRY CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH JAMES DUCAT

1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN CORONA WITH ANDREA FINGERSON

1:00 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER: FIRE AND RAIN: ECOPOETRY OF CALIFORNIA

5:00 pm: INLAND EMPIRE LITERARY ROUNDTABLE MEETING

1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS

5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN SAN BERNARDINO WITH ALLYSON JEFFREDO

10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER

6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN ONTARIO WITH TIM HATCH

5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN COLTON WITH JESSICA CARRILLO- BILINGUAL

6:30 pm: PROSE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH JO SCOTT-COE

10:00 am: HENRY L.A. JEKEL BOOK LAUNCH!

1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS

5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN SAN BERNARDINO WITH ALLYSON JEFFREDO

10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER

5:00 pm: POETS AND WRITERS' INLAND EMPIRE LITERARY ROUNDTABLE MEETING

N/A: BARNES AND NOBLE BOOK FAIR

2:00 pm: MEMORIES OF MIGRATION: DIVERSE JOURNEYS LED BY FRANCES J. VASQUEZ

1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS

10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER

1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS

10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER

1:30 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER FEATURING MALCOM FRIEND