Writer's Voice

Writer’s Voice is California State University, Chico’s literary arts reading series. Funded by contributions from alumni and friends, the Department of English, and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, Writer’s Voice introduces contemporary writers to citizens of the North Valley. All readings are free and open to the public.

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A Meeting in the Forest

Visiting Speaker: Author Jean Hegland with graphic novel artist Lomig

Tuesday, September 13 | 4-5:30 pm | PAC 134

Come immerse yourself in a forest of graphic and literary art! Watch projections of trees growing and characters coming into being beneath the pencil of award-winning French graphic novel artist Lomig as he creates original drawings inspired by his graphic novel adaptation of Jean Hegland's best-selling novel "Into the Forest."  

Lomig and Jean will begin with a brief discussion of graphic novels and Lomig's creative process as he adapted Jean's story. Then, as Jean reads aloud from her novel, Lomig will illustrate her reading live on-screen, starting with a blank piece of paper and ending with evocative and fully-realized pieces of art. This unusual event will offer audience members an hour of inspiration and meditation, as well as an invitation to consider diverse ways of storytelling, and how visual art and literature interact with and enhance each other. 

Anna B. Moore, Fiction

Alondra Adame, Poetry & Creative Nonfiction

Tuesday, September 27 | 7:30 p.m. | ARTS 150 Recital Hall

Anna B. Moore

For the last two decades, Anna B. Moore has been publishing creative nonfiction, essays, and short fiction in a variety of literary journals and magazines, including American Scholar, Smokelong Quarterly, and Hippocampus. This year, she had creative nonfiction nominated for Best of the Net; other work is forthcoming in The Offing and Identity Theory. Her first novel will be published by Unsolicited Press in 2024. Read more of her work—and understand that she is still working on an author photo—at https://www.annabmoore.com/.

Alondra Adame

Alondra Adame is a queer Xicanx poet, essayist, and educator. Their work articulates their experience as a first-generation child of Mexican immigrants raised in rural Northern California and imagines possibilities for the future, including their Pushcart Prize-nominated poem "La Santa Muerte Floats Between Bones and Flowers in Saturn's Rings". You can find their work in Alebrijes Review, The Nasiona, PALABRITAS, Pleiades, Lost Balloon, and elsewhere. Find out more about them and their work on Twitter @alondrathepoet.

Rae Gouirand, Poetry

Sarah Pape, Creative Nonfiction

Thursday, November 10 | 7:30 p.m. | PAC 134

Rea Gouirand

Rae Gouirand is the author of two collections of poetry, Glass is Glass Water is Water (Spork Press, 2018) and Open Winter (winner of the Bellday Prize, Bellday Books, 2011), the chapbooks Little Hour (winner of the Swan Scythe Chapbook Contest, Swan Scythe Press, 2022), Jinx (winner of the Summer Kitchen Competition, Seven Kitchens Press, 2019) and Must Apple (winner of the Oro Fino Competition, Educe Press, 2018), and a short work of nonfiction, The History of Art (winner of the Open Reading Competition, The Atlas Review, 2019). She leads several long running independent workshops in northern California and online, including the cross-genre workshop Scribe Lab, and lectures in the Department of English at UC-Davis.

Sarah Pape

Sarah Pape teaches English and works as the Managing Editor of Watershed Review at Chico State. Her poetry and prose has recently been published or is forthcoming in: The New York Times, New England Review, Passages North, Ecotone, Crab Orchard Review, The Pinch, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and others. Her chapbook, Ruination Atlas, was published by dancing girl press. She curates community literary programming at the 1078 Gallery and is a member of the Community of Writers. Check out her website for more: www.sarahpape.com

Graduate Student Reading

Monday, December 5th | 7:30 p.m.

PAC 134 | Rowland Taylor

Poetry & Fiction

Lily Anderson, Zachary Bennett, Jennifer Carter, Krystle Holzhauer, Brooke Kenney, Jonah Lindsey, Cody Roberts, Tim Wall

Free & open to the public.

The Writer’s Voice is California State University, Chico’s literary arts reading series. Funded by contributions from the Department of English and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Writer’s Voice introduces contemporary writers to citizens of the North Valley.

For more information about this reading, contact Jeanne Clark at jeclark2@csuchico.edu.

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