Tuition and Fees for San Miguel: $2300 (not including housing, transportation, or meals)
Morning
Classes: 9:30 AM -- 12:30 PM (Writing Workshops)
Afternoon
Classes: 2:00 PM -- 5:00 PM (Literature Classes, Etc.)
Note:
Items in blue text are part of the
Mexican History and Culture Lecture series, open to all but required
of those taking the series for credit. These items and
times are tentative and subject to change.
Items in red text require pre-registration. Please email for details.
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
June
22 |
23
Arrival
in San Miguel, check in.
Neighborhood Orientation:
6:30 pm |
24
Walking Tour of San Miguel
(10 AM)
Orientation
(5 PM)
Opening Reception
(7
PM)
|
25
Class
Day 1
Mexican
Lit & Culture
Orientation session for credit students
1:45 PM
|
26
Class
Day 2
Reading:
Dinty Moore
Amanda Boyden
6
PM
|
27
Class
Day 3
Reading:
Bill Lavender
TBA
| 28
Lecture and Excursion to Guanajuato
(8:30
AM assembly)
|
June 29
Finishing Your Manuscript: A Workshop with Gale Walden
Salsa Dancing Lessons: 6 pm
| 30
Class
Day 4
FILM: TBA
8
PM
| July 1
Class
Day 5
Reading:
Joseph Boyden
Susan Schultz
6 pm
| 2
Class
Day 6
Reading 6 pm:
CM Mayo
Gale Renee Walden
Jim Grimsley
| 3
Lecture
and Excursion to Teotihuacan
(6:30
AM assembly)
| 4
Lecture
on Mexican Revolution
(10 AM)
Finishing Your Manuscript: Session 2 |
5
Finishing Your Manuscript: Session 3
|
July 6
Cooking Class
(4 PM)
| 7
Class
Day 7
Film
TBA
8
PM
| 8
Class
Day 8
Reading:
Steven Church
Alex Espinoza
6
PM
| 9
Class
Day 9
Reading:
Young Smith
Peter Thompson
6
PM
| 10
Lecture and Excursion to Dolores Hidalgo and Hot Springs
(9:30 am Assembly)
| 11
On Your Own
|
12
On Your Own |
|
July 13
On Your Own
Publishing Today, Talk by Ron Hogan (6 PM)
| 14
Class
Day 10
Panel
on Expatriate Writers (4
PM)
Film
TBA
8
PM
|
15
Class
Day 11
Reading 6 pm:
Christian Bök Hank Lazer Janice Eidus
|
16
Class
Day 12
Reading 6 pm: Closing Day Open Mic
| 17
Getting it Across: A Symposium on Publishing and Performing
(see schedule below)
9:00am - 4:30pm
Farewell
Dinner 6:00
PM
| 18
Departures
|
19
Departures
|
 |
Schedule for Getting it Across: A Symposium on Publishing and Performing, July 17th 9:00am to 5:00 pm
9:00 am On Your Way to a Book: Journals, Broadsides, Chapbooks, and Books, with Hank Lazer
10:15 am How to BE a Publisher, with Susan Schultz
Break for Lunch 11:30 pm to 1:00 pm
1:00 pm The Do's and Don'ts of Successful Query Letters, with Joseph and Amanda Boyden
2:15 pm UnCreative Writing, with Christian Bok
3:30 pm Life After the MFA: Keeping Community, the Conspiracy of Publishing, and the MFA Malaise,
with UNO Low-Res Grads Doug Bradburd, Jesse Loren, and Jennifer Stewart
