Events in November 2023
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- So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
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November 4, 2023Saturdays, September 9-November 11, 2023
12:00-2:00 PM
In person at Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 93501
Free and open to teens ages 13-19
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
(Teens ages 13-19)
Saturdays, 12 - 2 PM PT, 9/9/23-11/11/23, in person at the Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501
Free and open to teens ages 13-19
Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/Inlandia4Teens
This fall, Inlandia brings college-level creative writing workshops to teen-aged creatives thanks to a unique partnership with the City of Riverside Library. Led by James Coats, working writers drawn from the area community will lead teens through a ten-week progressive series. The program will be held at the Riverside Main Library on Saturdays beginning September 9, from 12:00 – 2:00 PM.
Workshop leader James Coats, himself an author, poet, and educator, will welcome a new guest writer each week, offering teens the opportunity to learn from professional working writers in a library environment. Topics will include: poetry, and the different modes of poetic expression; memoir and memory; fiction writing including micro fiction, flash, short stories, and long-form fiction; journalism and the newspaper industry; writing for magazines and periodicals; reading and performing your work for an audience; strategies for revising work toward publication; what it’s like to be an editor; and getting published. The final session will be a public reading and discussion.
Free and open to all interested teens but registration is required.
James Coats is an author, poet, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in the Inland Empire. He received his BFA from Cal Poly Pomona and his MBA from Cal State San Bernardino. As a creative change agent, he believes the arts can inspire youth and influence positive change in the world. His first poetry collection, If I had Lived, was published in 2018. In 2021, he founded Lift Our Voices Education, which hosts the monthly “Be The Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop.” His newest poetry collection, Midnight & Mad Dreams, is published by World Stage Press. Follow him on Instagram @MrLovingWords.
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- The Brothers Lee and Tod Goldberg: Crime Writers in Conversation with Susan Straight
The Brothers Lee and Tod Goldberg: Crime Writers in Conversation with Susan Straight
The Brothers Lee and Tod Goldberg: Crime Writers in Conversation with Susan Straight
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November 5, 2023The Brothers Lee and Tod Goldberg: Crime Writers in Conversation with Susan Straight
Sunday, November 5, 2023
1:30-3:00 PM
Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts
3834 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92501
Three award winning authors – one spectacular program! Inlandia Institute and UCR ARTS present “The Brothers Lee and Tod Goldberg: Crime Writers in Conversation with Susan Straight” on Sunday, November 5, from 1:30-3:00 PM, and invite you to celebrate the launch of Lee Goldberg’s new book, Calico.
Book sales will be provided by Mystery Ink. Refreshments will be served.
This event is free and open to the public, but please be aware that some content may not be suitable for all audience members.
Tod Goldberg is the author of more than a dozen books, including Gangsterland, a finalist for the Hammett Prize; Gangster Nation; and The Low Desert: Gangster Stories, named a Southwest Book of the Year and a finalist for several literary prizes. He lives in Indio, California, where he directs the low-residency MFA in creative writing and writing for the performing arts at the University of California, Riverside.
Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award and two-time Shamus Award nominee and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including Lost Hills, the Ian Ludlow trilogy, fifteen Monk mysteries, and five internationally bestselling Fox & O’Hare books co-written with Janet Evanovich. He has also written and/or produced many TV shows, including Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, and Monk, and is the co-creator of the hit Hallmark movie series Mystery 101.
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- So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
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November 11, 2023Saturdays, September 9-November 11, 2023
12:00-2:00 PM
In person at Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 93501
Free and open to teens ages 13-19
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
(Teens ages 13-19)
Saturdays, 12 - 2 PM PT, 9/9/23-11/11/23, in person at the Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501
Free and open to teens ages 13-19
Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/Inlandia4Teens
This fall, Inlandia brings college-level creative writing workshops to teen-aged creatives thanks to a unique partnership with the City of Riverside Library. Led by James Coats, working writers drawn from the area community will lead teens through a ten-week progressive series. The program will be held at the Riverside Main Library on Saturdays beginning September 9, from 12:00 – 2:00 PM.
Workshop leader James Coats, himself an author, poet, and educator, will welcome a new guest writer each week, offering teens the opportunity to learn from professional working writers in a library environment. Topics will include: poetry, and the different modes of poetic expression; memoir and memory; fiction writing including micro fiction, flash, short stories, and long-form fiction; journalism and the newspaper industry; writing for magazines and periodicals; reading and performing your work for an audience; strategies for revising work toward publication; what it’s like to be an editor; and getting published. The final session will be a public reading and discussion.
Free and open to all interested teens but registration is required.
James Coats is an author, poet, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in the Inland Empire. He received his BFA from Cal Poly Pomona and his MBA from Cal State San Bernardino. As a creative change agent, he believes the arts can inspire youth and influence positive change in the world. His first poetry collection, If I had Lived, was published in 2018. In 2021, he founded Lift Our Voices Education, which hosts the monthly “Be The Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop.” His newest poetry collection, Midnight & Mad Dreams, is published by World Stage Press. Follow him on Instagram @MrLovingWords.