Melissa Pritchard: Event Archives


	News & Event Archives a list of past events featuring Melissa Pritchard
	MP Events JULY 2009 Reading with Ivan Klima "Pelagia, Holy Fool" Prague Summer Program Theme: The Nature of Mother Nature: Women, Power and the Environment Ypsilon Theater Prague, Czech Republic JULY 2009 Lecturer "The Oblivion of Beauty: Women in Panjshir Province, Afghanistan" Prague Summer Program Theme: The Nature of Mother Nature: Women, Power and the Environment Prague, Czech Republic JULY 2009 \| various times Distinguished Guest Speaker & Teaching Faculty Prague Summer Program Theme: The Nature of Mother Nature: Women, Power and the Environment Prague, Czech Republic MAY 2009 Guest Speaker Southwestern Literature class, Professor Mario Materassi University of Florence Florence, Italy APRIL 18, 2009 \| 5:00-9:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker Sounds of Spring, International Dinner and Silent Auction Tempe Montessori School benefit TEMPO (Tempe Parents’ Montessori Organization) Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church 2121 S. Rural Rd. Tempe, AZ MARCH 27-28, 2009 \| various times Keynote Speaker Cochise Community Creative Writing Celebration Sierra Vista, AZ FEBRUARY 11-14, 2009 \| Time TBA Panelist "The Fourth Wall: The Academy in the Community" with Cynthia Hogue, Alberto Ríos, Sheila Britton, & Sean Nevin AWP 2009 Hilton Chicago 720 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL JANUARY 2009 \| various times Invited Writer Kalam:Margins Write Calcutta, India JANUARY 2009 \| various times Workshop Leader STOP (Stop Trafficking and Oppression of Women and Children) New Delhi, India JANUARY 10-19, 2009 \| various times Embedded Interviewer Meetings with U.S. Air Force women pilots & members of Provincial Reconstruction Team Bagram, Afghanistan NOVEMBER 15-23, 2008 \| various times Invited Writer Medical Mission Team, Women For World Health Cuenca, Ecuador JUNE 25, 2008 \| 10:00 a.m. Invited Speaker Young Adult Writing Project (YAWP) Department of English Arizona State University Tempe campus Tempe AZ MAY 25-JUNE 20, 2008 Hawthornden Fellow Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers Hawthornden Castle Lasswade, Midlothian Scotland (UK) APRIL 9, 2008 Featured Speaker 2008 Spring Humanities Series Columbia Gorge Community College The Dalles, OR APRIL 3, 2008 \| 7:30 p.m. Featured Reader MFA Faculty Reading with Jay Boyer and Norman Dubie Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing's Distinguished Visiting Writer Series Tempe Center for the Arts, Lakeside Room 700 W Rio Salado Pkwy Tempe, AZ MARCH 19, 2008 \| 12 Noon-1:30 p.m. Panelist "Art Matters: The Arts as a Form of Political Engagement and Social Responsibility" Engaged artist roundtable with Kate Gale, Eloise Klein Healy, Terry Hummer, Drew Matott, Drew Cameron, Alberto Ríos, and Peggy Shumaker, part of "Warrior Poets & Papermakers" events Piper Writers House, ASU Tempe, AZ FEBRUARY 21, 2008 \| 2:15-3:15 p.m. Invited Faculty Desert Nights, Rising Stars: 2008 ASU Writers Conference. Panel: "Writing and Social Activism," with Lee Gutkind and Carolyn Forche. ASU Tempe Campus Tempe, AZ NOVEMBER 9-11, 2007 \| Time TBA Featured Reader Third Annual Wordstock Festival Oregon Convention Center, Exhibit Halls A, A1, & B 777 NE MLK, Jr Blvd Portland, OR OCTOBER 20, 2007 \| 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Honoree & Keynote Speaker "In the Spirit of Mater" Alumni Brunch, Feast of St. Madeleine Sophie Convent of the Sacred Heart High School 150 Valparaiso Ave Atherton, CA SEPTEMBER 24, 2007 \| Time TBA Featured Reader PEN/Faulker Award for Fiction Gala Folger Shakespeare Library 201 E Capitol St SE Washington, DC MAY 9, 2007 \| 3:30 p.m. Honoree Graduate Reception and Awards Ceremony Department of English Arizona State University Memorial Union Alumni Lounge (MU 202) Tempe, AZ APRIL 27, 2007 \| 1:00-3:30 p.m. Invited Lecturer Prison Library & Education Project Guest Lecture Series GEO Central Arizona Correctional Facility 1401 E Diversion Dam Rd Florence, AZ FEBRUARY 15, 2007 Keynote Speaker "Passion and Creation, Joy and Service." Celebration of Writing Week Jess Schwartz Jewish Community High School (JSJCHS), 4645 E. Marilyn Rd. Paradise Valley, AZ FEBRUARY 9, 2007 \| Noon Featured Speaker Hosted by the CU English Dept. Cameron University, 2800 W Gore Blvd Lawton, OK JANUARY 2-14, 2007 Piper Fellowships Trip MP accompanied a group of four MFA students on fellowships to the Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi, India, and to the Daywalka Foundation to work with Kalam: Margins Write Delhi & Calcutta, India OCTOBER 16-DECEMBER 4, 2006 \| Wednesdays 6:30-8:30 p.m. Piper Writers Studio Workshop MP will teach fiction for the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing's community workshop series Piper Writer's House (PWH), ASU Tempe campus Tempe AZ OCTOBER 21, 2006 \| 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Pocket Sanctuary Writer's Retreat MP is invited faculty at this southern Arizona writer's retreat. Kenyon Ranch, HC 65 Box 278 Tumacacori AZ OCTOBER 13, 2006 \| 8:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Panel Member MP will speak on sex trafficking in India, in relation to Kalam: Margins Write, as invited panel member. Slavery & Antislavery: A New Research & Teaching Workshop Memorial Union Fiesta Rm (MU 080), ASU Tempe campus Tempe AZ SEPTEMBER 16, 2006 \| 1:00-3:00 p.m. Writing Workshop MP will lead a workshop as Guest Speaker for Professional Writers of Prescott -- "Passion and Restraint, Vision and Design: A Writer's Strengths" Sharlott Hall Museum Prescott AZ JUNE 17, 2006 \| Time TBA Craft Talk & Writing Workshop MP leads these sessions for the MA Writing in Consciousness Program, Sarah Stone, Director New College of California Cultural Center 766 Valencia St San Francisco CA MAY 6, 2006 \| 7:00 p.m. Washington DC MP will help present E.L. Doctorow with the 2006 Pen/Faulkner Award Folger Shakespeare Library 201 E Capitol St SE APRIL 8, 2006 \| 7:30 p.m. Tempe AZ Witness Salon MP will host a reading by ASU MFA students and a reception for a new ASU faculty member in her home MARCH 24, 2006 \| 7:30 p.m. Tempe AZ A Reading by ASU Creative Writing Faculty MP is featured along with Jeannine Savard, Cynthia Hogue & T.M. McNally. Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing's Distinguished Visiting Writers series Arizona State University Old Main Carson Ballroom (MAIN) MARCH 9, 2006 \| 3:00-4:15 p.m. Austin TX Panel: "ASU's MFA Program Turns 21" MP participates in this panel with Ron Carlson, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Cynthia Hogue, & T.M. McNally at the 2006 Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference. Austin Convention Center Meeting Rm 400 500 E. Cesar Chavez St. FEBRUARY 15, 2006 \| 2:00-3:00 p.m. Tempe AZ Outreach Presentation with Sean Nevin MP discusses her recent trip to Nepal & India with Daywalka in this forum for ASU MFA creative writers. Language & Lit Bldg Rm 165 (LL 165) Arizona State University JANUARY 29, 2006 \| 6:30 p.m. Los Angeles CA WordTheatreLA: Dinner with Melissa Pritchard & Her Stories. MPs work will be read by actors in this salon setting MBAR in Hollywood 1253 N Vine JANUARY 2006 Nepal & India MP travels with the Daywalka Foundation to help establish outreach partnerships SEPTEMBER 23, 2005 \| 6:00-9:00 p.m. Tempe, AZ Hurricane Benefit Reading Melissa Pritchard hosts in her home a reading by ASU Creative Writing students to benefit recent hurricane victims. SEPTEMBER 16, 2005 \| 7:00 p.m. Tempe, AZ Lost Boys Dinner Melissa Pritchard hosts in her home a benefit for Phoenix's AZ Lost Boys Center. JULY 27, 2005 \| 7:30 p.m. Prescott, AZ Reading & Discussion Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing (7/25-7/29/05) Yavapai College JULY 26, 2005 \| 3:00-6:00 p.m. Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN An Interview with MP The Lori & Julia Show WFMP Talk Radio, FM 107 APRIL 27, 2005 Sedona, AZ Invited Speaker Sedona Welcomers Hilton Sedona Resort & Spa APRIL 17, 2005 \| 2:00-4:00 p.m. Flagstaff, AZ Reading Northern Arizona Book Festival (4/15-4/17/05) Orpheum Theatre APRIL 17, 2005 \| Noon-1:30 p.m. Flagstaff, AZ Authors in Schools Q&A Session Northern Arizona Book Festival (4/15-4/17/05) Coconino Community College MARCH 31, 2005 \| Noon-1:15 p.m. Vancouver B.C., Canada Panelist: "Women and Obsession in the 21st Century" AWP 2005 Conference and Bookfair (3/30-4/2/05) Hyatt Regency Vancouver MARCH 10, 2005 \| 10:30-11:45 a.m. Tempe, AZ Session: "The Art of Observation" Desert Night s, Rising Stars ASU Writer's Conference (3/9-3/12/05) Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing Arizona State University Main Campus FEBRUARY 23, 2005: Noon-1:45 p.m. Coolidge, AZ Invited Author Visiting Writers Series Rm M101, Student Service Bldg Signal Peak Campus Central Arizona College through-DECEMBER 2004: Visiting Writer Coventry, UK Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing's International Writer's Exchange Program MP was in residence Sept-Dec. in London teaching Creative Writing The University of Warwick NOVEMBER 23-25, 2004: Visiting Author Warwick University's Southwestern Literary Festival (along with colleagues Jay Boyer, Jewell Parker Rhodes and Ron Carlson) Coventry, UK AUGUST 29, 2004: Invited Author Phoenix, AZ MP will speak about Late Bloomer at a Phoenix Book Club AUGUST 26-29, 2004: (Times TBA) Phoenix, AZ The Lost Boys and Girls National Conference and Reunion MP will support and attend this gathering of former Sudanese refugees Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center AUGUST 26, 2004 7:00 p.m.: Invited Author "Mysterious Voices in Fiction," The Unexplainable series Glendale, AZ hosts a talk by Melissa Pritchard Glendale Public Library JULY 25, 2004 9:30-10:00 a.m.: TV Interview Phoenix, AZ "Arizona Daybreak," ABC, Channel 15 MP will be interviewed about her recent article in Metro AZ magazine on the Lost Boys of Sudan JUNE-JULY, 2004: Italy: ASU Summer Program in Florence Florence, Italy Melissa Pritchard is a sponsoring faculty member and travels with ASU faculty and students for this six week session. For more information visit: http://asu.edu/florenceitaly MAY 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m. : Radio Interview Los Angeles, CA with Michael Silverblatt. Melissa Pritchard is a guest on this nationally syndicated book review program. "Bookworm," on KCRW (www.kcrw.com) 89.9 FM MAY 10, 2004, 6:30 p.m.:TV Interview with MP Tucson, AZ Melissa Pritchard is a guest on "Arizona Illustrated," a nightly newsmagazine. Interviewer: Pam White. KUAT-TV 6 (PBS affiliate) MAY 9, 2004 (6:00 & 6:30 a.m., check stations for time): Radio Interview Tempe, AZ Mother’s Day broadcast, with Dee Dee Sturr, Interviewer on "Valley Views," KNIX Radio, 102.5 FM ; KYOT Radio, 95.5FM; & KOY Radio, 1230 AM APRIL 22, 2004, 7:00 p.m.: A Reading Tempe, AZ Help Melissa Pritchard celebrate Changing Hands Bookstore's 30th Year Changing Hands Bookstore APRIL 16, 2004: A Reading and Discussion Prescott, AZ Melissa Pritchard introduces Prescott to Late Bloomer! Prescott College APRIL 13, 2004, 7:00 p.m.: A Reading Tempe, AZ Melissa Pritchard reads from Late Bloomer Changing Hands Bookstore APRIL 12, 2004, 9:00-10:00 a.m.: TV Interview Phoenix, AZ on “Your Life A to Z” KTVK-TV (Channel 3) APRIL 9, 2004, 7:30 p.m.: A Reading Scottsdale, AZ with Alexs Pate, Melissa Pritchard and Alberto Rios "Solo Voices -- Times Three," Tickets $10 Scottsdale Center for the Arts MARCH 30, 2004, 7:00 p.m.; A Reading Tempe, AZ Melissa Pritchard reads from Late Bloomer Borders Bookstore MARCH 26, 2004, 7:00 p.m.: A Salon Reading Phoenix, AZ Melissa Pritchard reads from and discusses Late Bloomer . Spirit of the Senses at a private home MARCH 25, 2004: 7:00 p.m.; Booksigning and Reading Los Angeles, CA Melissa Pritchard reads from and signs copies of Late Bloomer Dutton's Brentwood Bookstore -- more info. click here. MARCH 25, 2004: Radio Interview with Michael Silverblatt Los Angeles, CA Melissa Pritchard is a guest on this nationally syndicated book review program. Will air on a Thursday in May, 2:30 p.m. "Bookworm," on KCRW (www.kcrw.com) 89.9 FM MARCH 17, 2004: Televised interview Redlands, CA MP is interviewed by Denis La Bine GNN Broadcasting MARCH 17, 2004: Booksigning and Reading Redlands, CA Melissa Pritchard reads from and signs copies of Late Bloomer The Frugal Frigate Bookstore MARCH 11-13, 2004: Arizona State University Writer's Conference Scottsdale, AZ "Desert Nights, Rising Stars" Annual conference sponsored by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing Hilton Resort March 11; 8:30 a.m. - Melissa speaks at the opening of the conference March 13; 1:15 p.m. - Melissa introduces author Joyce Carol Oates' guest reading March 13; 3:45 p.m. - Melissa performs a closing reading from Late Bloomer FEBRUARY 24, 2004: Reading and Discussion Tempe, AZ ASU Creative Writing Club, Bryon Meyerowitz, President Melissa Pritchard is a guest at this discussion group Arizona State University FEBRUARY 19, 2004, Noon: Author's Luncheon Paradise Valley, AZ Melissa Pritchard will read from her work and discuss the writer's life, as well as visiting a classroom and talking with students. Phoenix Country Day School FEBRUARY 6, 2004, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.: Art and Prose Show Chandler, AZ The artwork of Joseph Wolves Kill will be accompanied by interpretive prose pieces written by Melissa Pritchard. Vision Gallery OCTOBER 27, 2003, 7:00 p.m.: A Book Discussion Group at "Community Talking About Books" Tempe, AZ Melissa Pritchard leads a discussion of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. Changing Hands Bookstore OCTOBER 22, 2003: A Salon Reading Phoenix, AZ Melissa Pritchard reads from and discusses her critically acclaimed, new collection of short stories Disappearing Ingenue. Spirit of the Senses at a Private Home	M.P. News Trip to India: MP accompanied a group of four MFA students on fellowships to the Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi, India, and to the Daywalka Foundation to work with Kalam: Margins Write, from January 2-14, 2007. Click here for Kalam's new website MP gave a presentation on the relation of fiction writing to social justice, and the pursuit of balance and understanding within communities at the 2008 Spring Humanities Series at Columbia Gorge Community College in The Dalles, Oregon on April 9, 2008. MP's "Writing Exercises"appeared in Naming the World and Other Creative Writing Exercises, ed. Bret Anthony Johnston (Random House). Other contributors include Richard Bausch, Dorothy Allison, Elizabeth McCracken, Mark Windegardner, Joyce Carol Oates, Margot Livesey, Alan Cheuse, Russell Banks, January 2008. MP's review of the book The Beautiful Miscellaneous, by Dominic Smith (Atria Books) appeared in the Summer 2007 issue of Paste Magazine. Fall 2007: MP and Sean Nevin, Director of The ASU Young Writers Program, set-up an ASU outreach program with the Phoenix Children's Hospital. Katie Capello, MFA student, was one of the first writing workshop volunteers. Late in 2006 MP was appointed an Honorary Board Member for WordTheatre (Los Angeles, New York, and London), Cedering Fox, Director. MP traveled to India in January 2006 to observe the workings of the Daywalka Foundation's Kalam Project. Read: "Notes from Kolkata, India, January 2006: Kalighat," MP's essay about her experiences in India. Read: "The Leap of the Pen," a story by Kristen LaRue about MP's involvement with Daywalka and the Kalam project. MP judged the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, along with George Garrett and Ana Menendez. RELATED: MP's citation of the book written by finalist Karen Fisher, A Sudden Country (Random House). MP's citation of the book written by finalist William Henry Lewis, I Got Somebody in Staunton (Amistad Press). Washington Post article (7 May 2006) about the May 6, 2006 awards ceremony, in which finalists Karen Fisher and William Henry Lewis are spotlighted. MP's comments about the winning submission, The March by E.L. Doctorow, exerpted on the PEN/Faulkner website. MP's quotes in The Washington Post (21 February 2006), talking about the finalists. MP was elected an Executive Board Member of The Daywalka Foundation, an anti-trafficking agency based in Portland, OR., working to end sex trafficking and violence against women and children in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. MP ended her term with Daywalka September 2009. In Spring 2006, MP agreed to serve on the Advisory Board of the Lost Boys Center in Phoenix, which has a new Executive Director, Ralph Serpico. http://www.azlostboyscenter.org. MP's short story "Salve Regina" was reprinted, along with her essay on revisions, in the writing textbook, Behind the Short Story: From First to Final Draft. eds Ryan Van Cleave and Todd Pierce. Pearson/Allyn and Bacon/Longman, 2006. MP's short story "Patricide" appeared in Boulevard, a literary review, April 2006. MP in Hollywood! MP was in attendance when her work was read by actors at WordTheatreLA on January 29, 2006. Readers included Marin Hinkle (Two and a Half Men), Victor Williams (King of Queens), & Caroline Rhea (The Perfect Man) -- as well as MP herself! "The Hauser Variations," a short story by Melissa Pritchard, was published in Conjunctions magazine, Fall 2005. A short interview with MP appeared in the Winter 2006 issue of Heart of the Matter: Sacred Heart Alumni Magazine, pg. 28. On September 16, 2005, Melissa Pritchard hosted at her home a benefit dinner for the AZ Lost Boys Center, a recreational facility which exists to assist Sudanese refugees. Spring 2005 Melissa Pritchard was named Director of Creative Partnerships for the Daywalka Foundation, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization committed to ending human trafficking and modern day slavery. MP's short story "A Private Landscape" was reprinted in A Garden of Forking Paths: An Anthology for Creative Writers (Pearson/Prentice Hall 2006), eds. Beth Anstandig and Eric Killough. MP's book of stories, Disappearing Ingenue: The Misadventures of Eleanor Stoddard was featured in a funny little article in The New York Times, July 6, 2005. Summer 2005 MP was selected for inclusion in the AcademicKeys Who's Who in Humanities Higher Education (WWHHE). ASU Research Magazine published an article about MP in June 2005 entitled, "Driven to Write." MP was a featured author at the Northern Arizona Book Festival. Flagstaff, AZ, April 2005 MP recently accepted a formal offer made by the Trustees of the Virginia G. Piper Foundation to write a biography of Virginia G. Piper, in conjunction with the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. The Changing Hands Book Stories magazine featured MP's essay, "A Room in London" in its February 2005 issue. MP was a nominee for the Arizona State University Commission on the Status of Women 2005 Outstanding Achievement and Contribution Award. MP hosted a "Hurricane Benefit Reading," Friday, September 23, 2005 in her home. Students from the Creative Writing Program at ASU performed from their work to aid survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Spring 2005 MP co-taught (with Dr. Cynthia Hogue) a course at Arizona State University entitled, "The Poetics of Bearing Witness." The course also featured an optional internship working with 6th graders at a Phoenix inner city school or in a Tempe care facility for brain-injured adults. Melissa Pritchard's short story, "Photograph of Luisa" appears in the textbook, Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers (Allyn & Bacon/Longman 2004) by Sarah Stone of New College of California and Ron Nyren, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Late Bloomer was named one of the best books of 2004 by the Chicago Tribune (December 19, 2004 issue). MP was the fiction judge for the Sonoran Prize for Fiction, March 2005. Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., published a paperback edition of Late Bloomer in March 2005. Melissa Pritchard was in London fall 2004 semester to teach Creative Writing for one term at The University of Warwick, in conjunction with the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing's International Writer's Exchange Program. *AUGUST 2004: Late Bloomer* published in LARGE PRINT** by Thorndike Press, Waterville, ME Melissa's article about the Lost Boys of Sudan was published in the Phoenix-based magazine Metro AZ in its June/July 2004 issue. The July 2004 issue of BookPage, America's Book Review Magazine, recommends Late Bloomer along with two other novels for the best "serious chick lit" summer reading. The webzine Empowerment 4 Women raved about Late Bloomer in its May/June 2004 issue. To check out the review, click here. The Washington Post reviewed Late Bloomer Sunday, April 11. Click here to read it! Melissa Pritchard was interviewed by Betty Webb from the East Valley Tribune, April 4, 2004. April 1, 2004: "Tag Team Fiction: New You" by Melissa Pritchard and Erin McGraw appeared in NY's The Journal News in "The Line: How You Know About Entertainment" section. *MP and Late Bloomer* were featured in an Arts & Entertainment Section cover story** in The Arizona Republic, March 14, 2004. The Chicago Tribune reviewed Late Boomer March 7, 2004 . . . click here to read the front page review that called the book "electric and exciting." *A Starred Review of Late Bloomer* and a 'Q & A' interview with Melissa Pritchard** both appeared in Publishers Weekly, February 23, 2004 Late Bloomer received a four star "Mainstream Fiction" review in the March 2004 issue of Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine Late Bloomer was featured in Vanity Fair magazine's March 2004 issue under "Hot Type." From the review . . . "In Melissa Pritchard's ravishing Late Bloomer (Doubleday), a strapped divorcee with a teenage daughter stumbles into ghostwriting Native American romance novels, only to find life imitating art." by Elissa Schappell *Late Bloomer* was favorably reviewed in both the Library Journal and Booklist magazine

	updated: August 10, 2009