Wordstock Festival 2011: Full Schedule

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8:00pm

The Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience – Portland* "We Read So You Don’t Have To"

Join a group of Northwest TNB Literati as they dazzle, entertain, and read to you. Libations and merrymaking will abound. More details to follow, so stay tuned. In the meantime, mark your calendars!

*Like AA, but with alcohol

http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/gharrison/2011/08/tnble-portland-10311/

Speakers

Vanessa Veselka has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, a student of paleontology, an expatriate, an independent record label owner, a train-hopper, a waitress, and a mother. ZAZEN is her first novel.

Monday October 3, 2011 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Bunk Bar (1028 SE Water Ave., Portland OR)

Public Event (Free), Reading

Tags Conversation, Reading

6:00pm

Portland Stories Reading Showcase

In honor of our Wordstock 2011 theme “American Stories,” three Portland-based festival authors will present three different takes on “Portland Stories.”

Tuesday October 4, 2011 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Central Library, US Bank Room (810 SW 10th Ave., Portland OR)

Public Event (Free), Reading

6:00pm

Children's Literature Reading Showcase

Bring your young readers to meet three of Portland’s most popular children’s literature authors who will also be appearing at Wordstock 2011 on the Knowledge Universe Children’s Stage.
•    Carmen Bernier-Grand, author of Alicia Alonso: Prima Ballerina
•    Carolyn Conahan, author of The Big Wish
•    Ann Cameron, author of Spunky Tells All

Speakers

Carmen Bernier-Grand

Carmen T. Bernier-Grand is the author of nine books for children and young adults. CESAR: YES, WE CAN!, ¡SÍ, SE PUEDE! and DIEGO: BIGGER THAN LIFE have been Oregon Book Award finalists. Those biographies and FRIDA: ¡VIVA LA VIDA! LONG LIVE LIFE have received Pura Belpré Author Honor Awards. In 2008, the Oregon Library Association‘s Children‘s Division gave her the Evelyn Sibley Lampman Award for her significant contributions to the children of Oregon in...
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Ann Cameron

Ann Cameron is the author of prize-winning fiction for children and young adults. Her most popular book with children, THE STORIES JULIAN TELLS, has become a classic. Julian Bates and his little brother Huey are imaginative, intelligent kids in a warm, caring African- American family. At Wordstock, Cameron will be presenting her newest book centered on the Bates family, SPUNKY TELLS ALL—a story Spunky the dog narrates. Dog and cat lovers from 6 to 90 love this very funny and touching...
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Carolyn Conahan

I make up stories and draw pictures to go with. It’s all I ever really wanted to do. I was told such dreams were pie in the sky. That was all the encouragement I needed! (I love pie). I write and illustrate my own stories, (most recently THE BIG WISH, published by Chronicle Books) I also illustrate books written by others, (such as BUBBLE HOMES and FISH FARTS, written by Fiona Bayrock, and THE DISCONTENTED GOPHER, written by L. Frank Baum) I am the staff illustrator for Cricket...
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Wednesday October 5, 2011 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Central Library, US Bank Room (810 SW 10th Ave., Portland OR)

Public Event (Free), Reading