Writing

Building Latino digital collections means building a collective of practitioners, scholars, students and community members in a democratized relationship to the cultural production of a collection. Through the work of these two organizations, this talk will present the processes and policies crafted to center community-based knowledge and experience through the transformative act of intergenerational witness as applied to the materials collected and articulated.

Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the forthcoming novel Flight Risk, two literary thrillers set in post-Katrina New Orleans: Hell or High Water and Nearer Home, the short fiction collection How Winter Began, the memoir The Truth Book, and the essay collection Island of Bones. She has been the winner of the Nebraska Book Award and an International Latino Book Award, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and the editor of the anthology Family Trouble. She teaches creative writing, literature, and Latinx studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Liz Tigelaar '98 and Mikko Alanne '97 will share their stories of how they established themselves as film and TV writers in Hollywood. This webinar will be moderated by Steve Ginsberg, IC Los Angeles Program screenwriting professor and Pendleton Endowed Chair. It is the first of three webinars marking 25 years of the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program. We'll feature ICLA alumni working in the Hollywood communications industry. Registration is required through this link: tinyurl.com/HollywoodWritersRoom

Tuesday, November 17 - 6:00 p.m.:

Thursday, October 8 - 6:00 p.m.:

Tuesday, October 27 - 6:00 p.m.:

Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the memoir The Truth Book, two literary thrillers set in post-Katrina New Orleans: Hell or High Water and Nearer Home, the essay collection Island of Bones, and the short fiction collection How Winter Began. Castro teaches creative writing, literature, and Latinx Studies at the University of Nebraska.