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LPC Literary Arts Festival
Las Positas College Literary Festival
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LPC Literary Arts Festival

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THANK YOU FOR MAKING OUR FIRST LITERARY ARTS FESTIVAL A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS! OVER 1000 TICKETS RESERVED

 

WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT YEAR

ARCHIVE RECORDINGS

 

Last Year's Event:

The Online LPC Literary Arts Festival 

May 8th, 2021All Events Are Free and Open to the Public
You Must Register to Attend
Tickets Are Limited

“Part of the beauty of all literature is that you discover your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong!  -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Authors:

Reyna Grande, Keynote Speaker---Paul Guay, Screenwriting---Regina Louise, Memoir/ Why Black Voices Matter

 

Reyna Grande
Paul Guay
Regina Louise

 

Additional Featured Authors:

Ariel Gore, Michelle Cruz Gonzales, Karin Spirn, L.S. Johnson, Patty Enrado, Jim Ott, Deborah Grossman, Connie Post, Cynthia Patton, Bri and Tri, Mary-Rose Hayes, Shawn Taylor, and Stuart McElderry.

For more about our featured authors, please visit our "Meet the Authors" page.

 

(Events Will Be Recorded for Archieval Purposes)

Schedule
Time Event Event Event Event

9:30 am – 10:00 am Registration

Check Out These Pages While You're Waiting: 

Author Biographies and Links

LPC Creative Writing Certificate 

Creative Writing and Literature Classes

Covid-19 Memorial Writing Wall

10:00 am – 10:45 am

Keynote Address:
Writing to Transform

Reyna Grande (A Dream Called Home, The Distance Between Us—National Books Critics Circle Awards finalist)

     

11:00 am – 12:15 pm

 

Memoir Writing Panel:

Facilitator: Michelle Gonzales(The Spitboy Rule)

Reyna Grande (A Dream Called Home)

Regina Louise (Someone Has Led This Child To Believe)

Shawn Taylor (33 1/3)

Fantasy/Speculative Fiction Writing Workshop:

L.S. Johnson (Leviathan, , Hawksworth Hall) Finalist for World Fantasy Award

The Art and Craft and Business of Screenwriting:

Paul Guay
(Liar, Liar; Heartbreakers; The Little Rascals)

12:15 pm – 12:45 pm Break

Check out these pages while you wait:

Author Biographies and Links

LPC Creative Writing Certificate 

Creative Writing and Literature Classes

Covid-19 Memorial Writing Wall

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

The Evolution of Filipino-American Literature

Patty Enrado (A Village in the Fields—Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing)

Why Black Voices Matter: A Perspective

Regina Louise (Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, Somebody’s Someone, Coming Soon: Permission Granted: Kick-Ass Strategies to Bootstrap Your Way to Unconditional Self Love)

Tri-Valley Poets Laureate Panel

Facilitator: James Ott

Deborah Grossman

Connie Post

Cynthia Patton

Kevin Gunn

Screenplay Outline Workshop

Paul Guay (Liar, Liar; Heartbreakers; The Little Rascals)

Read the Handouts and Outlines for the Workshop

2:15 pm – 4:00 pm

Havik: The LPC Anthology Publication and Awards Ceremony

     

4:15 pm – 5:30 pm

 

“SPEAK YOUR PEACE” 
Poetry Slam Workshop
:

Bri and Tri of SpeakEasy Open Mic

Novel Writing Workshop:

Get That Novel Written!

 

Mary-Rose Hayes (Amethyst Time/Life bestseller + 8 other novels)

Self-Publishing Panel:

Ariel Gore (We Were Witches, Hexing the Patriarchy, and founding editor of Hip Mama)

Karin Spirn (The Divine Sharpness in the Heart of God)
Stuart McElderry (The Barcelona File)

 

5:45 pm – 8:00 pm

 

“SPEAK YOUR PEACE” 
Poetry Slam

Open to All

Facilitated by Toby Bielawski, Bri and Tri

   

 

Find Out More about Creative Writing at LPC

Havik: The Las Positas College Journal of Arts and Literature
Creative Writing and Literature Courses
LPC Creative Writing Certificate


CONTACT US:

LPCLitFest@gmail.com 

Visit our Facebook Event Page to Register--Click "Going"

Click Here to Sponsor Our Festival

Made possible by generous grants from the Las Positas College Foundation, The City of Livermore Commission for the Arts, and the Dale and Ted Kaye Innovation Grant.

LPC Literary Arts Festival Founders: Professors Toby Bielawski, Richard Dry, and Martin Nash

Thank You To Our  Sponsors

LPC Foundation Decorative Image            City of Livermore Decorative Image             Milanese Family Gift Fund          Dale & Ted Kay Logo     

Poets & Writers 

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Livermore, CA 94551
(925) 424-1000

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