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Kevin Brockmeier will give a talk on the craft of writing fiction titled "An Animal Within to Give Its Blessing: On the Value of Nonhuman Creatures in Fiction," as part of the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. The event will take place at Napa Valley College, Main Campus, Performing Arts Center.Lecture tickets cost $25 per person and may be purchased at the door. Students with valid ID are admitted for $15 per lecture. Napa Valley Writers' Conference attendees, supporters, and community housing hosts are admitted for free.
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In addition to his latest book, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories, Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Illumination, The Brief History of the Dead, and The Truth About Celia; the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer; the children’s novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery; and a memoir of his seventh-grade year called A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He has published his stories in such venues as The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope, Tin House, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and New Stories from the South. He has received the Borders Original Voices Award, three O. Henry Awards (one, a first prize), the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. In 2007, he was named one of Granta‘s Best Young American Novelists. He teaches frequently at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised.
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The conference is hosted by Napa Valley College and is a program of the college’s District Auxiliary Services Foundation. For more information, visit napawritersconference.org.
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Napa Valley College Performing Arts, 2277 Napa-Vallejo Highway,Napa,CA,United States
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