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February
16, 2010
San Miguel
de Allende, Mexico
International
PEN San Miguel Center, PEN Reading Series.
C.M. Mayo to read from and sign
The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire.
6 pm
San Miguel PEN 2010 Winter Lecture Series
Miguel Malo auditorium in Bellas Artes.
February
22 - 23, 2010
San Miguel
de Allende, Mexico
Techniques of Fiction 2 Day Workshop with C.M. Mayo
San
Miguel Workshops
 February 27, 2010 Columbia
MD|
Fundraiser
for the Howard County Library: Evening in the Stacks "¡Caliente!"
7:00 to 11:00 pm
Howard County
Library, East Columbia Branch
6600 Cradlerock Way, Columbia, MD 21045.
Join the party and support the Library. Escape the February chill
and revel in a warm Latin ambiance - full of bright flowers,
flamenco, a silent auction, and a literary conversation with
Francisco Aragón,
H.G.
Carrillo, and C.M. Mayo, facilitated
by Bill Thompson. Dance the night away to the sounds of Latin
Grammy Award winners, Afro Bop Alliance. Delicious cuisine from
Azul 17, Elkridge Furnace Inn, El Nayar, La Prima Catering, On
the Border, Parfections, and Lincoln College of Technology Columbia
Campus in conjunction with Holly Poultry and Martin Seafood.
New this year - Celebrity Bartenders! Some of Howard County's
favorite people will be putting their spin on a signature cocktail
for a limited time during the evening. Make sure to stop by and
say hello to State Senator Jim Robey, Howard County Executive
Ken Ulman, Stacie Hunt and Kevin Kelehan, Donna Richardson, Rachelina
Bonacci, and Dick Story. Proceeds benefit the Library's educational
initiatives, including A+ Partners in Education, Project Literacy,
and Cultural Connections. To purchase tickets, visit: http://hclibrary.org/index.php?page=330
March
5, 2010 Leesburg
VA
Leesburg
First Friday www.writer.org
"Staying Focused:
Researching and Writing the Longer Book Project"
C.M. Mayo to talk about what she learned in writing her novel,
The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire and her travel memoir, Miraculous
Air,
with plenty of Q & A.
To finish the marathon of writing a long book, more than talent,
more than free time, more than anything, in fact, a writer needs
mental toughness to avoid the myriad distractions, damaging self-talk,
frustrations, and sometimes just plain old boredom along the
way. C.M. Mayo, a long-time Writers Center workshop leader and
author of several books, including a deeply researched travel
memoir and, most recently, an epic historical novel based on
the true story (and many years of original archival research),
offers tips, tricks and more to inspire you to start, stay with,
and finish your book.
March 7,
2010 Bethesda MD
The
Writers Center
10 - 5 pm. (one
hour break for lunch)
Dialogue Intensive
One day only workshop
with C.M. Mayo.
One of the most powerfully
vivid ways to show character, relationship, conflict and/or mood
is through the use of dialogue. For both beginning and advanced
fiction and nonfiction writers, this workshop focuses on the
use and misuse of dialogue, with a series of mini-lectures interspersed
with brief exercises. The goal is that by the end of the workshop,
your dialogue will be of notably higher quality. For more information
and to register on-line, click
here.
 March 19, 2010
Charlottesville
VA
Virginia
Festival of the Book
True
Stories of Fact & Fiction:
2 pm
A panel
with C.M. Mayo (The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire): Lenore Hart (Nevermore); A.
Roger Ekirch (Birthright); modertaor: Larry Baker.
Central JMRL Library, 201 E. Market St, Charlottesville VA. Full
details about this event here.
March
25-28, 2010
Rehoboth
Beach MD
Writers
at the Beach Writers Conference
C.M. Mayo to read
and also offer a mini-workshop on Point of View.
Schedule to be announced.
The choice of Point of View (POV) is, as many writers have
argued, the most important single decision that the novelist
has to make. It is also, for many writers, even experienced writers,
a source of confusion, and at times seems almost random. Third
person, first person…it seems like a simple pronoun choice,
yet it affects everything, plot, character develpment, the pacing
of the story—everything. In this workshop for intermediate
or advanced writers, discuss the nuance of point of view and
explore in your work, how different POV’s result in different
story structures, plots, even the use of flashback and flash
forward.
April
8, 2010 Denver
CO
Associated
Writing Programs Conference
Panel discussion: Class
and Conflict On The Other Side of the World
10:30 AM to 11:45 AM
Scheduled Room: 210, 212 - Colorado Convention Center
R137. Class and Conflict on the Other Side of the World. (Masha
Hamilton, Thrity Umrigar, C.M. Mayo,
Rishi Reddi) As we become more globally linked, the role of fiction
in providing a human and humane glimpse of "the other"
becomes more important. But it is a challenging task. How do
writers develop confidence to tell stories of cultures and countries
where they don't reside? Why are such stories critically important?
Authors—who between them write about everywhere from Asia
to the Middle East to Africa to Mexico—explore this issue.
October
15, 2010
College of
Southern Maryland
Reading,
dicussion and book signing. for The Last Prince
of the Mexican Empire.
Details to be announced.
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