15th Annual Conference
September 11-13, 2009
University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA Conference Center, De Neve Plaza
Virtual Tour
Conference Collaborator: The Autry National Center to host a preview of their exhibition, Homelands: How Women Shaped the West
Note that the conference in 2009 will be one month earlier than our usual schedule.
Registration Forms:
Use this form to mail in a check
Use this form to pay by credit card or PayPal
Conference Registration deadline:
August 30, 2009 (Absolutely NO refunds after this date)
Friday Pre-Conference Tour
WWW members will facilitate our Friday bus
tour of Hollywood/Beverly Hills, which includes Grauman’s Chinese
Theatre, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Rodeo Drive, film stars’ homes. Cost: $53.
Throughout the Conference
8:30a–6:00p WWW Registration Table Open
9:00a–6:00p Conference Bookstore Open
All day Covel Commons Restaurant tickets available at Front Desk
Friday, September 11
9:00–11:00a Bus Tour of Hollywood/Beverly
Hills
Grauman’s Chinese, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Rodeo Drive, film stars’ homes.
(20 minute stops at Grauman’ s and Rodeo Drive)
11:00–11:15a Break
11:15–11:30a Green Dots meeting
First-time conference attendees
11:30–12:30p Lunch on your own
Tickets available at Covel Front Desk
12:45–1:00p Welcome by WWW President
Sheila Wood Foard
1:00–2:15p Panel 1: Who’s Buying?
Four Agents, Four Views
Paul S. Levine, Paul S. Levine Literary Agency
Kevan Lyon, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency, LLC
Andy Ross, Andy Ross Literary Agency
Elizabeth Trupin-Pulli, JET Literary Associates
2:30-4:00p Panel 2: Tips on California’s
Leading Collections
Facilitated by Cathy Luchetti, author of six groundbreaking studies on life
in the West
Peter Blodgett, Huntington Library, Curator of Manuscripts of the American
West;
Theresa Salazar, Bancroft Library, Curator of the Bancroft Collection of
Western Americana; Genie Guerard, Head, UCLA Manuscripts Division, Dept.of
Special Collections, and
Dace Taube, USC Regional History Librarian.
2:30–2:45p Break
2:45–4:00p Panel 3: Homelands: How
Women Made the West, An Autry National Center Traveling Exhibition, 2010-2012
Preview PowerPoint by curators
Virginia Scharff, Women of the West Chair, Autry National
Center of the American West/Professor of History, University of New Mexico
Carolyn Brucken, Autry Associate Curator for Western Women’s
History exhibitions and programs.
4:15–5:30p Panel 3: Homelands: How
Women Made the West.
An Autry National Center Traveling Exhibition, 2010-2012. Preview PowerPoint
by curators Virginia Scharff, Women of the West hair,
Autry National Center of the American West/Professor of History, University
of New Mexico Carolyn Brucken, Autry Associate Curator for Western Women’s
History programs and exhibitions.
5:30–6:00p Break
6:00–7:00p Social
Hour
Wine and beer with prepaid tickets.
7:00–9:00p WWW/Autry
Joint Buffet
Lisa See, Keynote Speaker
"All Things Not at Peace Will Cry Out: Finding Women’s Hidden Stories."
A Los Angeleno, half-Chinese, See has won international acclaim for her
deeply researched and evocatively rendered novels and histories on Chinese
culture.
9:00–9:15p Break
9:15–10:15p Readings by 2009 WILLA
Awardees
LAURA Awards announced
Saturday, September 12
7:00–8:30a Breakfast
Covel Commons Restaurant
8:30–8:45a President Sheila Wood Foard
8:45–9:45a Panel 4: Marketing the
New West: Proven
Strategies and Techniques
Mara Purl, novelist, radio dramatist, book coach, winner of the 2009 EVVY
Award for fiction, and winner of fourteen additional literary awards.
Wendy Wilkinson, freelance journalist, co-author (4 non-fictions), contributing
writer to Frontier Airlines’ in-flight Wild Blue Yonder, book publicist
9:45–10:00a Break
10:00–11:30a Panel
5: Book Publishing Today:
Independent, Corporate, University
Paddy Calistro, Angel City Press;
Teresa Fogarty, Independent Book Publishers Association;
Judith Keeling, Texas Tech University Press
Jessica Tribble, Poisoned Pen Press
11:30–12:00p Break
12:00–1:30p 2009 WILLA Awards Finalists
Luncheon
Welcome by Kathleen Ernst, Past President
Jane Kirkpatrick, Keynote Speaker “Literary Lives Before We Turn Fifteen.”
1:45–3:15p Workshop
1. Kathie Fong Yoneda
Story Analyst/Development Exec, veteran of major film studios, leader of
more than 160 workshops, master pitch coach, will speak on “From Book to
Screen: Strategies to get your book noticed by Hollywood,” and critique
3 attendee pitches.
3:15–3:30p Break
3:30–5:00p Workshop
2. Harryette Mullen
UCLA Professor of Creative Writing and African American Studies. Students
describe her as “amazing,” “interactive,” and “tough.” Her books, short
stories, and poetry appear on required reading lists. Her work has been
supported by leading western and national arts-oriented grants.
6:00–6:30p Social
Hour
Wine and beer with prepaid tickets.
6:30–9:00p WWW
WILLA Awards Banquet
Helena Maria Viramontes, Keynote Speaker
A native of East Los Angeles and youngest of eight, Viramontes has cleared
unimaginable obstacles to become a professor of Creative Writing, Cornell
University; and a celebrated explorer of her Chicana roots in novels, short
stories, essays, histories, lectures,and social activism. Mentored by widely
recognized
authors, praised by reviewers, and a recipient of awards and grants, she
continues to write and to teach with equal fervor.
9:00–9:15p Break
9:15–10:30p WILLA Award Winners
Announced by Kathleen Ernst and Jane Kirkpatrick
Sunday, September 13
Please note that everyone must check
out on Sunday, September
13. The campus will not be able to extend one room for this night as they
expect students to be returning to campus on Sunday.
7:00–8:30a Breakfast
Covel Commons Restaurant
8:30–10:30a WWW Annual Meeting
10: 30–11:00a Check-out
10:00–10:30a Check-out, board bus w/ luggage
10:30–1:30p Visit
Getty Center
Exhibition “In Focus: Making a Scene.” Staged photographs
from causually directed scenes to elaborate tableaux vivants. Early daguerreotypes,
platinum plate, also polaroids and chromogenic prints.
1:30p Board bus. Return stops include UCLA and LAX.
Contact Harriet Rochlin for more information.
Registration Forms:
Use this form to mail in a check
Use this form to pay by credit card or PayPal
Conference Registration deadline:
August 30, 2009 (Absolutely NO refunds after this date)
Past Conference Recaps
See what we've done in the past:
Contact Harriet Rochlin for more information.