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1:00 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER

1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS

5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN SAN BERNARDINO WITH ROMAINE WASHINGTON

6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN ONTARIO WITH TIM HATCH

6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH JO SCOTT-COE

N/A: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH JAMES DUCAT

1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN CORONA WITH ANDREA FINGERSON

6:00 pm: IN THE SUNSHINE OF NEGLECT: DEFINING PHOTOGRAPHS AND RADICAL EXPERIMENTS IN INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1950 TO THE PRESENT

5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN SAN BERNARDINO WITH ROMAINE WASHINGTON

6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN ONTARIO WITH TIM HATCH

5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN COLTON WITH JESSICA CARRILLO- BILINGUAL

12:00 pm: 5TH ANNUAL INDIE AUTHORS FAIR

6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH JO SCOTT-COE

1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN CORONA WITH ANDREA FINGERSON

1:00 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER

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6 1:00 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER January 6, 2019 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Justice in Plain Sight (nonfiction/journalism) with Dan Bernstein. More to be announced. More

8 1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS January 8, 2019 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Riverside Poetry in Motion workshop meets every Tuesday at the Janet Goeske Foundation & Senior Center, located at 5257 Sierra St, Riverside, CA 92504. They can be reached at (951) 351- 8800. More 5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN SAN BERNARDINO WITH ROMAINE WASHINGTON January 8, 2019 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Spring dates and availability. The San Bernardino workshop meets every other Tuesday at the Rowe Branch Library, located at 108 E Marshall Blvd, San Bernardino, CA 92404. They can be reached at (909) 883-3411. More

9 6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN ONTARIO WITH TIM HATCH January 9, 2019 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Spring dates and availability. The Ontario workshop meets every other Wednesday at the Ovitt Library, located at 215 E C St, Ontario, CA 91764. They can be reached at (909) 395-2004. More

17 6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH JO SCOTT-COE January 17, 2019 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Riverside workshop meets every other Thursday at the Riverside Public Library, located at 3581 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501. They can be reached at (951) 826-5201. More

19 N/A: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH JAMES DUCAT January 19, 2019N/A Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Riverside workshop meets every other Saturday at the Riverside Public Library, located at 3581 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501. They can be reached at (951) 826-5201. More 1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN CORONA WITH ANDREA FINGERSON January 19, 2019 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Registration required. Check back for Spring dates and availability. The Corona workshop meets every other Saturday at the Corona Public Library, located at 650 S Main St, Corona, CA 92882. They can be reached at (951) 736-2381. More 6:00 pm: IN THE SUNSHINE OF NEGLECT: DEFINING PHOTOGRAPHS AND RADICAL EXPERIMENTS IN INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1950 TO THE PRESENT January 19, 2019 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm 194 photographs, 54 artists, 2 museums, 1 region: that’s the shorthand description of a new exhibition set to open January 19, 2019. The simultaneous two-part exhibition at UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography and the Riverside Art Museum explores the idea that freedom can be found at the margins. It presents the work of groundbreaking photographers who for decades have used Inland Southern California as an tabula rasa laboratory for artistic experiment. The visions of these artists—experimental, hard-eyed, and imaginative—influenced the course of contemporary art and photography. In the Sunshine of Neglect is the first exhibition to survey this remarkable history. The Inlandia Institute, the region’s premier literary organization, publishes the full 274-page exhibition catalogue. The inland region is startlingly free of iconography: no Santa Monica Pier, no Hollywood sign, none of the signifiers of Los Angeles. “If you wanted to pick a defining symbol,” explains curator Douglas McCulloh, “it’d be hard to do so. Perhaps a standard stucco tract home? Pick any of ten thousand; they’re fairly interchangeable.” This lack of iconography leaves the artists free to look, and the strange expanses of Inland Southern California proved conducive to new vision. The “hugely varied topography—valleys, rivers, mountains, deserts, and urban sprawl,” sliced by fault zones and “ofttimes beset by fire or flood” offered a “tabula rasa strangeness,” comments McCulloh. The resulting alchemy allowed the artists discover new directions, and the landscape became “grounds for change” in photography itself. This history in particularly clear in the work of highly influential New Topographics photographers Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, and Joe Deal, who are well represented among the show’s 194 works. The artists’ work also helps define the aesthetic identity of America’s thirteeth most populous urban area, a region of 4.5 million people and 27,000 square miles. The opening reception will be Saturday, January 19 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. Opening festivities include music, refreshments, and prize drawings for original photographs by Sant Khalsa, Lewis deSoto, and Douglas McCulloh, plus a Lomo camera, and copies of the exhibition catalogue. UCR Arts: California Museum of Photography is located at 3824 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92501 and Riverside Art Museum at 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501. The exhibition sites are three and a half blocks apart. For more information about the partners see: ucrarts.ucr.edu, riversideartmuseum.org, inlandiainstitute.org. This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org. More

22 5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN SAN BERNARDINO WITH ROMAINE WASHINGTON January 22, 2019 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Spring dates and availability. The San Bernardino workshop meets every other Tuesday at the Rowe Branch Library, located at 108 E Marshall Blvd, San Bernardino, CA 92404. They can be reached at (909) 883-3411. More

23 6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN ONTARIO WITH TIM HATCH January 23, 2019 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Spring dates and availability. The Ontario workshop meets every other Wednesday at the Ovitt Library, located at 215 E C St, Ontario, CA 91764. They can be reached at (909) 395-2004. More

24 5:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN COLTON WITH JESSICA CARRILLO- BILINGUAL January 24, 2019 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Spring dates and availability. The Colton workshop meets every other Thursday at the Advance to Literacy Center, located at 656 N 9th Street, Colton. They can be reached at (909) 370-5083. More

26 12:00 pm: 5TH ANNUAL INDIE AUTHORS FAIR January 26, 2019 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Are you an Indie Author? Do you want to be? Join us! New this year: We are honoring our veterans by offering some writing tips just for them. Do you have a book project to pitch? Have you struggled with whether or not you might need an agent? What is a micro press and how can you get published with one? Authors with published books are invited to host a table in the book fair. Current Inlandia members are free, or join Inlandia at the Indie Author special rate of $25 for a full year’s membership. Confirmed author appearances include: Dave Gamboa, Lelia Kirkconnel, Robert Kirkconnel, Jose Chavez, Paulina Jaramillo, liz Gonzalez, Larry Burns, Michelle Gonzalez, Dr. Pat Spencer, and... you? Also, take part in our Sound Bites segments throughout the day to give a three-minute elevator pitch about your work! Join us at 1 pm Keynote talk by veteran writer and UCR professor emeritus of history Dr. Carlos Cortes, “Reliving Your Past: The Many Faces of Memoir Writing”. Breakout sessions include: The Author/Agent Relationship with Jill Marr What does it take to get an agent interested, keep them interested, and make the most of your relationship? In this workshop you’ll get an A-Z look at the publishing process that starts with getting an agent. You'll get tips about how to search for the perfect agent and learn what an agent does for authors. You'll also learn how to get an agent’s attention through polished and ready submission, as well as how to navigate the process of working successfully with an agent. Crowdfunding for Writers with Becca Spence Dobias Learn the options for crowdfunding your writing and best practices for doing so successfully. You will leave with a clear idea of whether or not crowdfunding is for you and, if so, what clear action steps to take to get started. Getting Published by a Micro Press with liz gonzalez What is a micro press? Learn what a micro-press is and the pros and cons of getting published by one. Reliving Your Past: Memoir Writing Tips for Veterans Join Dr. Carlos Cortes and special guest Aurelio Sanchez who will lead a discussion on how veterans can best share their stories, and why they should. About the presenters: Carlos E. Cortés is a professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of "The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity" and is a creative/cultural advisor for Nickelodeon's Peabody Award-winning children's television series "Dora the Explorer" and its spinoff, "Go, Diego, Go!", for which he received a 2009 NAACP Image Award. He performs his one-man autobiographical play, "A Conversation with Alana: One Boy's Multicultural Rite of Passage," across the country and has lectured widely throughout the world. He is General Editor of the "Sage Encyclopedia of Multicultural America," due out in 2013. Becca Spence Dobias successfully crowdfunded her novel, Rock of Ages, with Inkshares, gaining 750 pre-orders in 60 days. The book is currently in production. She is the Project Manager for WritingBloc.com, which realeased its premier short story anthology, ESCAPE! on January 1st. Find her at beccaspencedobias.wordpress.com or on Twitter at @totallynotbex. iz gonzález grew up in the San Bernardino Valley. She is the author of “Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds: Poems y Cuentos New and Selected” (Los Nietos Press 2018) and the poetry collection “Beneath Bone” (Manifest Press 2000). Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have been published widely and have recently appeared in or are forthcoming in Voices de la Luna, the City of Los Angeles 2017 Latino Heritage Month Calendar and Cultural Guideand Litbreak Magazine, and in the anthologies, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California and Voices from Leimert Park Anthology Redux. liz lives in Long Beach, California. She directs Uptown Word & Arts, promoting literacy and the arts, and is an instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers Program. For more info: lizgonzalez.com Jill Marr is a senior agent at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. She graduated from SDSU with a BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing and a minor in history. In a former life Jill worked in the creative services department at a local television station. She began her publishing career as Sandra Dijkstra's assistant the week after 9/11. Jill also wrote features and ads for Pages, the literary magazine for people who love books and continues to write book ads for publishing houses. Building her own list now for the past 10 years, Jill is interested in adult commercial fiction, with an emphasis on mysteries, thrillers, and horror, women's commercial fiction and historical fiction. She is also looking for non-fiction projects in the areas of science, history, narrative non-fiction, sports, politics, current events, health & nutrition, pop culture, humor and music. Aurelio Sanchez is a clinical therapist focused on service to veterans. He is a retired Navy Senior Chief with nine overseas deployments, including having participated in the war responding to the attacks of 9/11, while flying Navy Hover Crafts (LCACs) and participating in the amphibious assault on Kuwait. This event is FREE and open to the public. Camp Anza is located at 5797 Picker St, Riverside, CA 92503. Ample parking is available but take care not to park in resident parking. More

31 6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WITH JO SCOTT-COE January 31, 2019 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Registration required. Check back for Winter dates and availability. The Riverside workshop meets every other Thursday at the Riverside Public Library, located at 3581 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501. They can be reached at (951) 826-5201. More