2013

DRAMATIC WOMEN WHO PLAY WRIGHT

Mary Hall Surface Jennifer L. Nelson Renee Calarco

Extraordinary women playwrights will discuss their craft of interweaving writing with staging. Mary Hall Surface's plays have included 15 productions with the Kennedy Center's Theatre for Young Audiences. Jennifer L. Nelson is director of Special Programs at Ford's Theatre. Renee Calarco teaches playwriting at GWU, and authored a play which received the MacArthur Award in 2007.

The Dramatic Women Who Play Wright panel will be at noon, Wed June 5, in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20045.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public.
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50-state Project honors women writers from:Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

SWEET HOME ALABAMA

Dr. Trudier Harris Dana Williams

As part of AWWNM's 50 state Project to showcase women writers from each state, the Alabama Center for the Book will cosponsor a Wed May 15, 2013 presentation by Alabama writer Dr. Trudier Harris, Professor of English at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

"Bama Bones: A Black Southerner Talks Place & Creativity" will be noon-1 p.m. May 15 in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20045.

Dana A. Williams, Chair and professor of African American Literature in the Department of English at Howard University, will introduce Dr. Harris.

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50-state Project honors women writers from:Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

FOIA WOMEN: THRU the LOOKING GLASS

Lucy Dalglish

Angela Greiling Keane

Angela Canterbury

How much information can federal agencies be forced to surrender? Wed April 17, women who know their FOIA will explain how to best use FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) to extract information. Nationally heralded FOIA expert, attorney Lucy Dalglish, Dean of Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland;
Angela Greiling Keane, President of the National Press Club and transportation reporter for Bloomberg News; Angela Canterbury, public policy director at the Project on Government Oversight, will headline.

The FOIA panel will be noon-1 p.m. Wed April 17 in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. N.W. 20045.

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50 State Proejct honors women writers in: Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, District of Columbia For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

Poetry in an Age of Images

Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia, chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from 2003-2009--now a USC professor-- will speak Wed March 27 noon-1 p.m. in the McLendon room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20045, sponsored by AWWNM. www.danagioia.net

Gioia, a poet, opera librettist, and jazz enthusiast, will speak of his new poetry book, his fifth: "Pity the Beautiful", which has garnered national acclaim. His book will be available for sale and signing.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public.
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50-state Project will honor women writers from: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

ONE OF OURS: WILLA CATHER
PIONEER & PULITZER WINNER

Lora Black
Dr. Martha (Max) Despain
Dr. Joseph R. Urgo	Leslie Levy

Three national experts on American woman Pulitzer winner Willa Cather (1873-1947) will speak Tuesday, March 26, 2013 noon-1 p.m. in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C., sponsored by American Women Writers National Museum (AWWNM).

AWWNM Panelists include popular, long-time Nebraska Public Radio announcer--and Cather fan-- Lora Black, (traveling from Nebraska), Dr. Martha (Max) Despain of Silver Spring, board member of the Willa Cather Foundation; and Dr. Joseph R. Urgo, President of St. Mary's College of Maryland, the editor of widely-used teaching texts on Cather.

Moderator will be Leslie Levy, executive Director of the Willa Cather Foundation.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public.
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50-state Project will honor women writers from: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware
For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

11:30 p.m.-noon Meet & Greet

American Women Writers National Museum
National Press Club Building
529 14th Street NW, Suite 960-C
Washington, D.C. 20045

BOFFO! FIRST LADIES' FIRST LADIES
CELEBRATE with a VALENTINE to
AWWNM's FIRST LADIES FIRST ANNIVERSARY!

Kathleen Graddy

Maurine Beasley

To celebrate AWWNM's Boffo! First Anniversary year, a distinguished panel of national First Lady experts will speak at noon Valentine's Day, Thursday, February 14, 2013 in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 13th Floor, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20045.

Nationally known "First Ladies" themselves--- panelists include: Lisa Kathleen Graddy, curator of the internationally famous First Ladies Exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, where she also serves as Deputy Chair of the Divison of Political History; Patricia Krider, executive director of First Ladies Library in Canton, Ohio; and Maurine Beasley, Eleanor Roosevelt biographer; author or co-author of four books, and professor emerita of journalism at the University of Maryland.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public at the National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, 13th Floor, McLendon Room, Washington, D.C. 20045. A buffet lunch is available for purchase.
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50-state Project honors women writers from: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona and Arkansas For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

A Journey of MIrrors: Latina Literary Landscapes.
Oprah Winfrey- featured poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Maritza Rivera

Carmen Calatayud

Oprah Winfrey- featured poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths will join D.C. area Latina poets Carmen Calatayud, Maritza Rivera and Neida Perez Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 for readings and a panel discussion entitled: A Journey of Mirrors: Latina Literary Landscapes.

The noon-1:15 p.m. event is cosponsored by American Women Writers National Museum (Janice Law, founder) and Letras Latinas of the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, (Francisco Aragón, director)

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public at the National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, 13th Floor, McLendon Room, Washington, D.C. 20045. (Program will be in both Spanish and English)
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Also on January 29...

WEST VIRGINIA TAKE ME HOME

Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck, first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature (1938) who also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932, is one of four premier West Virginia women writers to be honored at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, Jan 29 including: poet Irene McKinney, songwriter Hazel Dickens, and novelist Denis Giardina.

The 1:15-2 p.m. event is cosponsored by West Virginia Center for the Book and AWWNM will be in the McLendon room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C All AWWNM events are free and open to the public.
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