April 11, 2006 == MEDIA ADVISORY
A stunning lineup of keynote and public addresses will highlight the 2006
Festival of Faith & Writing at Calvin College, slated to run April 20-22 on
campus.
One such highlight will be a Festival-opening address, titled "The Thumbprint
on the Clay," by acclaimed author Luci Shaw.
That talk - free and open to all - is scheduled for noon on Thursday, April 20
in the Calvin Fieldhouse and will kick off the 2006 Festival, which will draw
almost 2,000 registrants from around the globe for workshops, seminars,
lectures, networking, conversations and more around the intersections of faith
and writing.
Shaw is the author of several collections of poetry and a variety of
non-fiction books, including God in the Dark and The Crime of Living
Cautiously: Hearing God's Call to Adventure. She has been a frequent Festival
presenter in the past and was a natural fit to kick off the 2006 event says
Festival director Shelly LeMahieu Dunn.
In addition to Shaw's free address, keynote talks open to the public will be
given by Alice McDermott, Salman Rushdie, Marilynne Robinson and Walter
Wangerin, Jr.
McDermott won the National Book Award for Fiction for her novel Charming
Billy, while Rushdie has written numerous books, most famous of which is The
Satanic Verses, which led to a bounty being placed on his head. Almost 25
years after she published her first novel, Housekeeping, Robinson released her
second novel, Gilead, which won a Pulitzer Prize. And Wangerin is the author
of over 30 books of fiction and nonfiction, and currently holds the Jochum
Chair at Valparaiso University in Indiana, where he teaches literature and
creative writing.
Tickets for the keynote addresses are $15 (or $12 if more than one talk is
purchased). In addition students get discounted rates for all the keynote
addresses.
Another Festival highlight open to the public will be an address by Don
Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz. His talk will be at 9 pm on Saturday, April
22 in the Fine Arts Center Auditorium and is $5 (or $3 for groups of 10 or
more).
Bios of all the speakers can be found at
http://webapps.calvin.edu/academic/english/festival/speakers/speakers.php
NOTES FOR MEDIA
*Media can interview Festival director Shelly LeMahieu Dunn at 616-526-8720.
*Members of the public interested in tickets for the keynote talks can call
the Calvin College Box Office at 616-526-6282. Or tickets can be ordered online
at https://authenticator.calvin.edu/cgi-bin/tickets.pl
*For the complete Festival schedule see
http://webapps.calvin.edu/academic/english/festival/conference/schedule-t.php
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