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February 9, 2017

WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JO SCOTT-COE

WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JO SCOTT-COE


February 9, 2017

Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule.
Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street.
Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period.
Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location.
All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff.
To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43
By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology.
Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only.
- To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org.
- To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501
Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute!
CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM

CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM


February 9, 2017

On Thursday February 9, 2017 from 7:00pm- 8:30pm, join the Inlandia Institute for Conversations at the Culver featuring a reading and conversation with author Jill Alexander Essbaum on her new book, Hausfrau.

 

The Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts is located at 3834 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501.

 

For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning.

 

Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno--a banker--and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zurich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her.

 

But Anna can't easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds it's difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back.

 

Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum's debut novel is unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we find ourselves.

 

 

Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of several collections of poetry and her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, as well as its sister anthology, The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800-Present. She is the winner of the Bakeless Poetry Prize and recipient of two NEA literature fellowships. A member of the core faculty at the University of California, Riverside's Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA program, she lives and writes in Austin, Texas.

 

Praise for Hausfrau

 

"Elegant...There is much to admire in Essbaum's intricately constructed, meticulously composed novel, including its virtuosic intercutting of past and present."--Chicago Tribune

 

"A powerful, lyrical novel...Hausfrau boasts taut pacing and melodrama, but also a fully realized heroine as love-hateable as Emma Bovary."--The Huffington Post

 

"Imagine Tom Perrotta's American nowheresvilles swapped out for a tidy Zurich suburb, sprinkled liberally with sharp riffs on Swiss-German grammar and European hypocrisy."--New York

 

Books will be available for signing and purchase. Light refreshments will also be served.

 

This event is free and open to the public.