Essay Daily: Take One Daily and Call Me Every Morning: 12/20: Faith Adiele on the multicultural essay as ...

Essay Daily: Take One Daily and Call Me Every Morning: 12/20: Faith Adiele on the multicultural essay as ...: Arguing With My Husband, Or The Multimedia Essay as Multicultural Performance, Part 1 In Nigerian boarding school my husband’s peers nick...

Study Creative Writing for 6 Weeks at Berkeley

I'll be teaching in Berkeley's new summer writing program this summer with some of my oldest pals: Sam Chang (who read countless early drafts of Meeting Faith), Andrew Lam (my PBS buddy), Camille Dungy and Shane Book. 

And I'm very excited to get to know the talented Justin Torres, whom I saw read from We the Animals just seconds before he became huge.

The program has everything: master classes, readings, panels, portfolio prep, novel sessions - you name it! Check out the brochure. Applications due ASAP.

Monday deadline!

Working on a mixed or 1st-generation memoir? Monday is the deadline to apply to work with Faith Adiele and Stacyann Chin this summer at VONA!

http://voicesatvona.org/Applying_for_VONA_Voices.html

Fwd: The Upcoming Events I Mentioned

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From: "Faith Adiele" <fadiele@cca.edu>
Date: Nov 8, 2012 7:35 PM
Subject: The Upcoming Events I Mentioned
To: "Zane Hawley" <zhawley@cca.edu>, "Jennifer Goldsmith" <jgoldsmith@cca.edu>, "Jayo Miko Macasaquit" <noypi1@gmail.com>, "Kristin Adochio" <adochio.k@gmail.com>, "Samiat Salami" <ssalami@cca.edu>, "Felicia Hayes" <fhayes@cca.edu>
Cc: "Faith Adiele" <faith.adiele@gmail.com>

FRIDAY 11/8 - CCA Seminar Series 

Carol Edgarian, Editor of Narrative Magazine

Writers Studio, 195 DeHaro, SF

5:30 - 7:00 PM

MONDAY 11/12 - Weekday Wanderlust 

Travel Writing Reading Series featuring Laura Fraser, Andy Isaacson & Mary Jo McConahay 

Free snacks and cash bar

Hotel Rex, 562 Sutter St, SF

6:00 - 8:00 PM

TUESDAY 11/13 - Mills College Reading Series

Erin Mouré (Montreal poet and translator has published 17 books of poetry and a volume of essays)

5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland

5:30 - 6:30 PM Reading

6:45 - 9:00 PM African Food Reception, Faith's House, Faculty Village #5

THURSDAY 11/14 - Workshop and Read for Peace Benefit Reading 

SF Public Library, SF, Civic Center BART

4:00 - 5:30 PM Workshop

5:30 - 7:30 PM Reading

FRIDAY 11/15 - CCA Seminar Series 

Me!

Writers Studio, 195 DeHaro, SF

3:30 - 5:00 PM

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Faith Adiele

Associate Professor

MFA Program in Writing 

BA Writing & Literature Program

California College of the Arts

1111 - 8th Street

San Francisco, CA 94107

fadiele@cca.edu

http://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/fadiele

Buddha in the West: Even Bill Clinton Turns Toward Meditation - NAM EthnoBlog

My pal and fellow PBS documentary subject Andrew Lam analyzes the spread of Buddhism in a globalizing world:

...For if Americanization is a large part of globalization, the Easternization of the West, too, is the other side of the phenomenon.

I take it as some cosmic law of exchange that if Disneyland pops up in Hong Kong and Tokyo, Buddhist temples can sprout up in Los Angeles, home of the magic kingdom.

Buddha in the West: Even Bill Clinton Turns Toward Meditation - NAM EthnoBlog

My Igbo Sisters Initiate Interesting Model/Partnership

Umu-AdaIgbo, a social cultural organisation, has concluded plans to establish a specialist hospital in the South-eastern part of the country.

The group's Coordinator, Philomena Nnamani, stated this during the August home-coming meeting in Abia State.

The home-coming event is a biennial meeting of Igbo women at home and in the Diaspora...

She said that Umu-AdaIgbo was an initiative that would serve as a rallying point for all black women across the globe, who could trace their roots to the Southeast of Nigeria.

"We encourage all blacks in the Diaspora to establish links with their people at home..." 

Women plan mega hospital in the south-east | Daily Times Nigeria

The Many Forms of Exile

The Anglo-looking check-out clerk at Trader Joe's just said to me, "I grew up in Indiana, where they fed me instant rice! Can you imagine if I had stayed with my birth mom in Korea?"

For every answer you get right, the UN's World Food Programme donates 10 grains of rice to end world hunger

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Words & Pizza: Watch Faith Be Humiliated

Words & Pizza: Watch Faith Be Humiliated

If you're in San Francisco, come to Haight Street Tuesday to see me get trounced (pizza and beer extra)! I am famous for drawing a blank whenever asked the title of a book, any book, even my own.

WORDS & PIZZA: Game Night at The Booksmith!

1644 Haight St.

San Francisco, California

94117-2816

Tuesday, August 14 at 7:00 PM

African Lives: An Anthology of Memoirs and Autobiographies

This is the first crowd-funding project I've ever championed, because (1) I've been dying to have such a book published, and (2) funders get chocolate!

African Lives: An Anthology of Memoirs and Autobiographies: African Lives is the first anthology to showcase memoirs from across Africa. Your help with permission fees will make this the best book possible.

The first book of its kind

As far as I know, no one has ever before published an anthology that brings
together a collection of African authors — men and women of all ethnic groups,
born and raised on the continent — telling the stories of their own lives in
their own words.

It’s not because there’s any lack of material. Some African memoirs are famous, like Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka, The Dark Child by Camara Laye, and No Easy Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela. Many more are just as dramatic and well-written, yet hardy known.

Why hasn’t a book like this appeared before?

One reason is permission fees. Some works are out of copyright and can be
reprinted for free, but the rights to many others are held by publishers,
agents, or the authors themselves. In some cases it’s necessary to pay three
separate fees for the US, the Commonwealth, and the rest of the world.

It’s a lot of work to chase down permissions. In one case I followed a trail
from Heinemann (the original publisher) to Pearson to Allison & Busby to
W.H. Allen to Virgin Books to Random House. And it’s expensive. I would also
like to translate sections of three memoirs that have never appeared in
English.

My publisher has generously offered a grant toward the cost of permissions,
and I am adding my entire advance for the book. But that still leaves an
estimated $3,000 for me to raise.

If you're interested in Africa...

If you’re interested in Africa, or in memoir, or if you’re just an
adventurous reader, I hope you’ll want to support this project — and I hope
you’ll want to read the book for yourself.

Whether or not I reach my goal, you will get a modest reward for your
generosity. And you will know that you’re doing your part to bring the voices
of some amazing African writers to light.

On the radio Monday

Elmaz Abinader and I will be on The Women's Magazine on Public Radio in the Bay, Monday between 1 and 2 pm.

Tara Dorabji sits down with faculty of the Voices of Our Nations writing workshop, the only multigenre workshop for writers of color in the U.S.

June 25, 2012 - 1:00pm on KPFA, 94.1 FM and online at www.kpfa.org
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