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SPC Spring Conference Tickets available at the door on Saturday!

Our annual conference is a full day of workshops and readings with guests, local poets, and a chance to form connections with writers in the community. Lunch is provided as well as lite fair and coffee to start.

**All Of Our Amazing Conference Faculty and Local Authors Will Have Books For Sale!** Faculty & Featured Local Authors Will Sign Books at Their Respective Afternoon Readings

The Book Table is will be open for the duration of this event: Open 9:30-5:00 @ California Stage

The Schedule Of Events:

9:00 to 10:00
Registration; Coffee and Pastries ~ SPC Main Room

9:30 to 9:45
Conference Welcome ~ California Stage

10:00 to 11:15
Choose Your Workshop!

Creativity: Finding Sources of Inspiration for Your Poems
with Mary Mackey

OR
Where We Begin After Fire
with Maya Khosla

11:30 to 12:45
Choose Your Workshop!

Retweet, Reshare, Refrain: Form and the Conversations of Our Time
with Joshua McKinney

OR
The Doll and The Breadcrumb: Poems from Stories and Stories in Poems
with Katie Peterson

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12:45 Lunch Provided!
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1:30 pm
Hot Off The Press: Celebrating New Work from Local Authors, Presses and Magazines Reading and Book Signing
~ California Stage

Stuart Canton reads from his chapbook, A Field Guide for the Coming Extinction, published by Little M Press

River Rock Books Katie McCleary and Jan Haag present Seaworthy by Marie Reynolds

Levee Magazine shares new poetry, presented by Samantha Daniels and Eric Orosco

Random Lane Press presents Lawrence Dinkins Warrior Poet, his first full-length poetry collection

Join Lisa Dominguez Abraham in celebrating Coyote Logic, her first full-length poetry collection

2:30 to 3:45
Choose Your Workshop!

Writing as a Self-Healing Art
with Brad Buchanan

OR

Beauty Behind the Burden: Navigating Eras of Trauma Through Poetry
with Mai Der Vang

4:00 to 5:00

Faculty Reading, Book Signing and Conference Farewell ~ California Stage