Events

Join the Inlandia Institute and Ben Stoltzfus as he celebrates the launch of his new collection of short stories, Cat O’Nine Tails (Neo Literati Press, 2012).

Cat O Nine Tails consists of nine stories about cats and how cats have influenced certain characters. Although ostensibly about felines, the stories are also playful postmodern explorations of language, the creative process, images, sounds and cultural practices. The settings are international, and they range from California to New England, southern France, Istanbul and Cuba. The settings are as diverse as the stories. Beautifully written and exceedingly intricate, Cat O Nine Tails embraces the captivity of American literary fiction.

Ben Stoltzfus is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, and French at the University of California, Riverside. He is an internationally recognized Robbe-Grillet, Hemingway, and Magritte scholar; also a novelist, poet, and translator. His fiction, poetry, essays, scholarly articles, and reviews have appeared in some 150 journals and literary reviews, such as Chelsea, North Dakota Quarterly, PMLA, Comparative Literature, Mosaic, Modern Fiction Studies, New Novel Review, Fiction International, Symploke, Les Lettres Modernes, and many others. He has been honored with a variety of grants and fellowships (Fulbright, Camargo, Creative Arts, Humanities), is listed in Who’s Who, received an Honorary Doctor of Letters in 1974, from Amherst College, and, in 2006, was honored with the Distinguished Emeritus Award from the University of California, Riverside.

@ Riverside Public Library - 3581 Mission Inn Avenue - Riverside, California

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

The Creative Writing Workshops are part of the Inlandia Institute's Literary Professional Development Program. The purpose of the workshops is to support creative expression and encourage emerging writers who live, work or write about Inland Southern California. 

The Creative Writing Workshops began in Riverside the summer of 2008. There are now two additional workshops in Idyllwild and Palm Springs. The workshops provide honest but constructive criticism by intelligent readers and listeners. They also provide the fellowship of like-minded artists and an occasional push toward completing a piece of writing. The workshop environment offers the stimulus to stir our imaginations and the reassurance that the hard work is worthwhile.

Poets&Writers, Inc. supports the Inlandia Creative Writing Workshops through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. http://www.pw.org/

There is a $25 registration fee which covers the entire 10 week workshop series as well as a copy of the annual Creative Writing Workshops anthology, Writing from Inlandia.

Presenter: Alaina Bixon 

@ Smoke Tree Racquet Club Clubhouse - 1655 E Palm Canyon Dr - Palm Springs, CA 92262

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The Creative Writing Workshops are part of the Inlandia Institute's Literary Professional Development Program. The purpose of the workshops is to support creative expression and encourage emerging writers who live, work or write about Inland Southern California. 

The Creative Writing Workshops began in Riverside the summer of 2008. There are now two additional workshops in Idyllwild and Palm Springs. The workshops provide honest but constructive criticism by intelligent readers and listeners. They also provide the fellowship of like-minded artists and an occasional push toward completing a piece of writing. The workshop environment offers the stimulus to stir our imaginations and the reassurance that the hard work is worthwhile.

Poets&Writers, Inc. supports the Inlandia Creative Writing Workshops through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. http://www.pw.org/

There is a $25 registration fee which covers the entire 10 week workshop series as well as a copy of the annual Creative Writing Workshops anthology, Writing from Inlandia.

Presenter: Charlotte Davidson

@ Emporia Arts District - Paul R. Williams Gallery - 119 W. Transit Street Unit 3 - Ontario, CA 91764

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

The Creative Writing Workshops are part of the Inlandia Institute's Literary Professional Development Program. The purpose of the workshops is to support creative expression and encourage emerging writers who live, work or write about Inland Southern California. 

The Creative Writing Workshops began in Riverside the summer of 2008. There are now two additional workshops in Idyllwild and Palm Springs. The workshops provide honest but constructive criticism by intelligent readers and listeners. They also provide the fellowship of like-minded artists and an occasional push toward completing a piece of writing. The workshop environment offers the stimulus to stir our imaginations and the reassurance that the hard work is worthwhile.

Poets&Writers, Inc. supports the Inlandia Creative Writing Workshops through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. http://www.pw.org/

There is a $25 registration fee which covers the entire 10 week workshop series as well as a copy of the annual Creative Writing Workshops anthology, Writing from Inlandia.

Presenter: Mike Cluff

@ Riverside Public Library - 3581 Mission Inn Avenue - Riverside, California 92501 - Downstairs Reading Room/Upstairs Auditorium  - (alternating workshop sessions)

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

The Creative Writing Workshops are part of the Inlandia Institute's Literary Professional Development Program. The purpose of the workshops is to support creative expression and encourage emerging writers who live, work or write about Inland Southern California. 

The Creative Writing Workshops began in Riverside the summer of 2008. There are now two additional workshops in Idyllwild and Palm Springs. The workshops provide honest but constructive criticism by intelligent readers and listeners. They also provide the fellowship of like-minded artists and an occasional push toward completing a piece of writing. The workshop environment offers the stimulus to stir our imaginations and the reassurance that the hard work is worthwhile.

Poets&Writers, Inc. supports the Inlandia Creative Writing Workshops through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. http://www.pw.org/

There is a $25 registration fee which covers the entire 10 week workshop series as well as a copy of the annual Creative Writing Workshops anthology, Writing from Inlandia.

Presenter: Alaina Bixon 

@ Smoke Tree Racquet Club Clubhouse - 1655 E Palm Canyon Dr - Palm Springs, CA 92262

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The Creative Writing Workshops are part of the Inlandia Institute's Literary Professional Development Program. The purpose of the workshops is to support creative expression and encourage emerging writers who live, work or write about Inland Southern California. 

The Creative Writing Workshops began in Riverside the summer of 2008. There are now two additional workshops in Idyllwild and Palm Springs. The workshops provide honest but constructive criticism by intelligent readers and listeners. They also provide the fellowship of like-minded artists and an occasional push toward completing a piece of writing. The workshop environment offers the stimulus to stir our imaginations and the reassurance that the hard work is worthwhile.

Poets&Writers, Inc. supports the Inlandia Creative Writing Workshops through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. http://www.pw.org/

There is a $25 registration fee which covers the entire 10 week workshop series as well as a copy of the annual Creative Writing Workshops anthology, Writing from Inlandia.

Presenter: Alaina Bixon 

@ Smoke Tree Racquet Club Clubhouse - 1655 E Palm Canyon Dr - Palm Springs, CA 92262

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The Creative Writing Workshops are part of the Inlandia Institute's Literary Professional Development Program. The purpose of the workshops is to support creative expression and encourage emerging writers who live, work or write about Inland Southern California. 

The Creative Writing Workshops began in Riverside the summer of 2008. There are now two additional workshops in Idyllwild and Palm Springs. The workshops provide honest but constructive criticism by intelligent readers and listeners. They also provide the fellowship of like-minded artists and an occasional push toward completing a piece of writing. The workshop environment offers the stimulus to stir our imaginations and the reassurance that the hard work is worthwhile.

Poets&Writers, Inc. supports the Inlandia Creative Writing Workshops through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. http://www.pw.org/

There is a $25 registration fee which covers the entire 10 week workshop series as well as a copy of the annual Creative Writing Workshops anthology, Writing from Inlandia.

Presenter: Charlotte Davidson

@ Emporia Arts District - Paul R. Williams Gallery - 119 W. Transit Street Unit 3 - Ontario, CA 91764

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

The Creative Writing Workshops are part of the Inlandia Institute's Literary Professional Development Program. The purpose of the workshops is to support creative expression and encourage emerging writers who live, work or write about Inland Southern California. 

The Creative Writing Workshops began in Riverside the summer of 2008. There are now two additional workshops in Idyllwild and Palm Springs. The workshops provide honest but constructive criticism by intelligent readers and listeners. They also provide the fellowship of like-minded artists and an occasional push toward completing a piece of writing. The workshop environment offers the stimulus to stir our imaginations and the reassurance that the hard work is worthwhile.

Poets&Writers, Inc. supports the Inlandia Creative Writing Workshops through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. http://www.pw.org/

There is a $25 registration fee which covers the entire 10 week workshop series as well as a copy of the annual Creative Writing Workshops anthology, Writing from Inlandia.

Presenter: Mike Cluff

@ Riverside Public Library - 3581 Mission Inn Avenue - Riverside, California 92501 - Downstairs Reading Room/Upstairs Auditorium  - (alternating workshop sessions)

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

The Creative Writing Workshops are part of the Inlandia Institute's Literary Professional Development Program. The purpose of the workshops is to support creative expression and encourage emerging writers who live, work or write about Inland Southern California. 

The Creative Writing Workshops began in Riverside the summer of 2008. There are now two additional workshops in Idyllwild and Palm Springs. The workshops provide honest but constructive criticism by intelligent readers and listeners. They also provide the fellowship of like-minded artists and an occasional push toward completing a piece of writing. The workshop environment offers the stimulus to stir our imaginations and the reassurance that the hard work is worthwhile.

Poets&Writers, Inc. supports the Inlandia Creative Writing Workshops through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. http://www.pw.org/

There is a $25 registration fee which covers the entire 10 week workshop series as well as a copy of the annual Creative Writing Workshops anthology, Writing from Inlandia.

Presenter: Alaina Bixon 

@ Smoke Tree Racquet Club Clubhouse - 1655 E Palm Canyon Dr - Palm Springs, CA 92262

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The Creative Writing Workshops are part of the Inlandia Institute's Literary Professional Development Program. The purpose of the workshops is to support creative expression and encourage emerging writers who live, work or write about Inland Southern California. 

The Creative Writing Workshops began in Riverside the summer of 2008. There are now two additional workshops in Idyllwild and Palm Springs. The workshops provide honest but constructive criticism by intelligent readers and listeners. They also provide the fellowship of like-minded artists and an occasional push toward completing a piece of writing. The workshop environment offers the stimulus to stir our imaginations and the reassurance that the hard work is worthwhile.

Poets&Writers, Inc. supports the Inlandia Creative Writing Workshops through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. http://www.pw.org/

There is a $25 registration fee which covers the entire 10 week workshop series as well as a copy of the annual Creative Writing Workshops anthology, Writing from Inlandia.

Presenter: Alaina Bixon 

@ Smoke Tree Racquet Club Clubhouse - 1655 E Palm Canyon Dr - Palm Springs, CA 92262

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The Creative Writing Workshops are part of the Inlandia Institute's Literary Professional Development Program. The purpose of the workshops is to support creative expression and encourage emerging writers who live, work or write about Inland Southern California. 

The Creative Writing Workshops began in Riverside the summer of 2008. There are now two additional workshops in Idyllwild and Palm Springs. The workshops provide honest but constructive criticism by intelligent readers and listeners. They also provide the fellowship of like-minded artists and an occasional push toward completing a piece of writing. The workshop environment offers the stimulus to stir our imaginations and the reassurance that the hard work is worthwhile.

Poets&Writers, Inc. supports the Inlandia Creative Writing Workshops through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation. http://www.pw.org/

There is a $25 registration fee which covers the entire 10 week workshop series as well as a copy of the annual Creative Writing Workshops anthology, Writing from Inlandia.

Presenter: Mike Cluff

@ Riverside Public Library - 3581 Mission Inn Avenue - Riverside, California 92501 - Downstairs Reading Room/Upstairs Auditorium  - (alternating workshop sessions)

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM