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Who: One student teacher team will be sponsored
to attend the Yosemite Winter Literary Conference
When:
February 24 - 28, 2002
Where:
Yosemite National Park, California
What: The Yosemite Association is proud to host its
Second Annual Yosemite Winter Literary Conference. Through
this conference, participants will be given the opportunity
to explore the literary landscape of California, the Sierra
Nevada, and the American West with a distinguished group
of writers, artists, photographers, and scientists. The
conference takes place in the landmark Ahwahnee Hotel in
Yosemite Valley.
Presenters
include:
- Francisco
X. Alarcon one of the nation's most prominent
Chicano poets
- Gerald
Haslam writer of Coming of Age in California
- Maxine
Hong Kingston author of Woman Warrior 1976)
and recipient of the United States Presidential Medal
in 1998
- Jane
Hirshfield a prize-winning poet, translator,
and editor. Her work has been called "radiant and
passionate" by the New York Times Book Review
The
winning student and teacher team will take part in workshops,
panel discussions, and informal sessions put on by these
and other premier environmental writers. A typical day consists
of a morning workshop, talk, or reading, and an afternoon
panel discussion or writing class in the out-of-doors. In
addition, the winning team will document their experience
with words and images on the WildLink website while attending
the conference.
The
winning team receives the following from the Central and
Southern Sierra Wilderness Education Project and the Yosemite
Association:
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two scholarships to attend the Yosemite Winter Literary
Conference($525.00 per person);
- lodging
in heated tent cabins ($303.00 per person);
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a food stipend ($45.00 per person per day);
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a matching grant for a substitute teacher.
Contest
Guidelines: Interested students and teachers are encouraged
to work together to submit a creative piece consisting of
no more than 250 words expressing the relevance of the Sierra
Nevada to the people of California. The piece need not consist
of purely written material. A panel of judges from the Yosemite
community will choose the winning entry on the basis of
creativity, enthusiasm, teamwork and quality of the submission.
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Deadline for receipt of all entries: January 31, 2002; Entries
must be submitted online via the submission
form on the "news" section or via e-mail to Jamie@sierranevadawild.net.
All submissions will have the potential of being posted
on the WildLink
website.
Other
presenters include Karen
Joy Fowler, Jack
Hicks, James
D. Houston, Pam
Houston , Tom
Killion, Earll
Kingston, Malcolm
Margolin, David
Mas Masumoto, Eldridge
Moores, Lewis
Owens, Lee
Stetson, Gary
Snyder , and Al
Young.
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