Mom’s Weekend Lit Fest Set for April 9

PULLMAN, Wash. — The first WSU Mom’s Weekend Lit Fest is scheduled for Saturday, April 9, from 1-4 p.m. at the Museum of Art on the Pullman campus.

The literature festival is co-sponsored by the WSU Museum of Art and the Department of English.

The schedule is as follows:

1 p.m. — Joy Passanante, associate director of creative writing at the University of Idaho, will read from a collection of her poems, essays and stories. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, including The Gettysburg Review, Xavier Review and Alaska Quarterly Review. A fine-press collection of her poems, “Sinning in Italy,” was published by Limberlost Press, 1999. Her novel “My Mother’s Lovers” (University of Nevada Press) was a finalist for the ForeWord Magazine Award for best fiction in 2002 and for the Idaho Book of the Year. The Art of Absence” (Lost Horse Press), a collection of her stories, appeared in 2004.

1:40 p.m. — Pamela Yenser’s manuscript “Bundle of Nerves” was a 2004 finalist at the Minnesota State University New Rivers Press. Her work has been honored in a number of national contests and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and an Association of Writers and Writing Programs award.  Her work has been published in Kansas Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, The Midwest Quarterly, Shenandoah and more.

2:20 p.m. — Rebecca Goodrich has published nonfiction essays published in the Potomac Review, Idaho Magazine and several anthologies. She is currently working on a collection of environmental writing exercises and a book on the Klondike gold rush.

3 p.m. — Charles King began writing at age 15. Writing in a self-designed homespun, humorous style, with complete disregard for form and a nostalgic fondness for rhyme, he depicts common people, places and things encountered in his extensive travels. King has authored three books, “A View from Under the Tree,” “A Walk in the Light” and his newest book, “Unheralded Notions.”

3:40 p.m. — Paula Coomer has been teaching in the WSU English department since 1999. Her fiction, poetry and nonfiction have appeared in various journals and anthologies, most recently the anthology “Northwest Edge II-Fictions of Mass Destruction” (Chiasmus Press) and “Meghbarta: A Journal of Political and Social Activism.” Her essay “The Good Red Road” will appear in the anthology “Forged in Fire” (University of Oklahoma Press) and the short story “Pajamas in the Moon” will appear in the 25^th anniversary issue of Gargoyle.

Some authors will have books available for purchase and signing.
For more information, contact Coomer at (509) 335-6846.