LJWL EVENTS
FALL 2024 EVENTS
LJWL DEPARTMENT CHAPEL
Friday, September 20
9:45am in The Greek
Join us in The Greek for our full LJWL department chapel. We will provide donut holes and orange juice!
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26TH ANNUAL POETRY DAY: TAYLOR BYAS, PHD
Wednesday, September 25
3pm - Craft Lecture & Writing Workshop
7pm - Reading
Fermanian Conference Center
Join us for our 26th Annual Poetry Day featuring award-winning poet Dr. Taylor Byas, PhD. Dr. Byas will join us on Wednesday, September 25 to lead a craft lecture/writing workshop (3pm) and an evening reading (7pm). Book sales courtesy of La Playa Books.
Poet Bio: Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. (she/her) is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she is a Features Editor for The Rumpus, a Poetry Acquisitions Editor for Variant Literature, an Editorial Board Member for Beloit Poetry Journal, and an Editorial Advisor for Jackleg Press. She is the author of two chapbooks, her debut full-length, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, from Soft Skull Press, which won the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award and the 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award in Poetry, and Resting Bitch Face, forthcoming in Fall of 2025. She is also a co-editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol X: Alabama from Texas Review Press, and of Poemhood: Our Black Revival, a YA anthology on Black folklore from HarperCollins.
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VISITING WRITERS SERIES: ANNA GAZMARIAN
Wednesday, October 2
3pm - Craft Lecture & Writing Workshop
7pm - Reading
Fermanian Conference Center
Join us for our 2nd Annual Visiting Writers Series featuring Anna Gazmarian. Gazmarian will join us on Wednesday, October 2 to lead a craft lecture/writing workshop (3pm) and an evening reading (7pm). Book sales courtesy of La Playa Books. Learn more and purchase tickets here.
Visiting Writer Bio: Anna Gazmarian, author of Devout: A Memoir of Doubt, holds an MFA in creative writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her essays have been published in The Rumpus, Longreads, The Sun, and The Guardian. Anna works for The Sun Magazine and lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina.
DRIFTWOOD CREATIVE ARTS SERIES
Wednesday, October 9
4:30pm at The ARC
Driftwood Creative Arts Journal presents their fall creative arts series hosted by the Driftwood staff! Come join this evening of creative celebration held from 4:30pm to 5:30pm in The ARC. More info to come!
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FILM SCREENING & GUIDED DISCUSSION
Friday, October 11
3-5pm in Latter Hall 101
Interdisciplinary Women's Studies presents a film screening guided discussion of For Our Daughters, the latest documentary from Kristin Kobes Du Mez (author/creator of Jesus and John Wayne). The event will include a screening of the film, a viewing of a recorded interview with Kristin Kobes Du Mez about the film, and a guided discussion with PLNU faculty. Free and open to all! Join us on Friday, October 11 from 3-5pm in Latter Hall 101.
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VISITING WRITERS SERIES: KIERSTEN WHITE
Wednesday, October 16
3pm - Craft Lecture & Writing Workshop
7pm - Reading & Conversation
Fermanian Conference Center
Join us for our 2nd Annual Visiting Writers Series featuring Kiersten White. White will join us on Wednesday, October 16 to lead a craft lecture/writing workshop (3pm) and an evening reading and conversation (7pm). Book sales courtesy of La Playa Books. Learn more and purchase tickets here.
Visiting Writer Bio: Kiersten White is the #1 New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of many books for readers of all ages, including the And I Darken trilogy, the Sinister Summer series, the Camelot Rising trilogy, Star Wars: Padawan, Hide, Mister Magic, and Lucy Undying. Her books have been published in over twenty territories, and her novel Hide is currently in development with Universal Television and Peacock.
LJWL ADVISING CHAPEL
Friday, October 18
9:45am in The Greek
Join us in The Greek for our full LJWL advising chapel. Meet with your advisors and learn important information for Spring 2025. We will provide donut holes and orange juice!
POETRY ON POINT
Wednesday, November 6
4:30pm in Fermanian Conference Center
Join LJWL for our annual Poetry on Point celebration! Come enjoy works of poetry recited by the "hidden" faculty and staff poets across campus.
GUEST LECTURE: JASON DE LEÓN
Thursday, November 7
3:30pm in Fermanian Conference Center
LJWL's Committed to Diverse Perspectives Series presents a guest lecture from anthropologist and MacArthur Fellow Jason De León. De León will present on his new book Soldiers & Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling. More info coming soon!
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VISITING WRITERS SERIES: MATT BELL
Wednesday, November 13
3pm - Craft Lecture & Writing Workshop
7pm - Reading
Join us for our 2nd Annual Visiting Writers Series featuring Matt Bell. Bell will join us on Wednesday, November 13 to lead a craft lecture/writing workshop (3pm) and an evening event (7pm). Book sales courtesy of La Playa Books. Learn more and purchase tickets here. Event hosted by the PLNU Honors Program.
Visiting Writer Bio: Matt Bell is the author most recently of the novel Appleseed (a New York Times Notable Book) and the craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur's Gate II, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Tin House, Fairy Tale Review, American Short Fiction, Orion, and many other publications. A native of Michigan, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University.
DRIFTWOOD CREATIVE ARTS SERIES
Wednesday, November 20
4:30pm at The ARC
Driftwood Creative Arts Journal presents their fall creative arts series hosted by the Driftwood staff! Come join this evening of creative celebration held from 4:30pm to 5:30pm in The ARC. More info to come!
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WRITERS GONNA WRITE
Last Saturday of every month
Join Dr. Katie Manning, LJWL students, alumni, and faculty for a time to write in community.
These casual, drop-in style events take place the last Saturday of each month from 9am-12pm PST.
Contact us for the Zoom link!
DRIFTWOOD CREATIVE ARTS SERIES
October 9 & November 20
4:30pm in The ARC
Join the Driftwood staff for an open mic session once a month in The ARC! Participants are welcome to share any creative piece (writing, artwork, music, etc.). You are also welcome to just come listen, watch, & support!
FEATURED ONGOING EVENTS
FEATURED PREVIOUS EVENTS
MAY 2022 TRIP: ZETA
Check out these pictures from the combined JRN4040 and Spanish trip to Tijuana to visit Zeta Magazine on May 2, 2022!
LJWL's Katie Morris also published an article in PLNU's the Viewpoint about the trip to Zeta. You can read the story here.
GUEST LECTURE, JASON DE LEÓN
10.27.22 | Fermanian Conference Center
Dr. Jason De León is a professor of anthropology and Chicano/a Studies at UCLA, a recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award, and the executive director of the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP). His current installation project is Hostile Terrain 94, which PLNU has been completing in collaboration with the UMP. His lecture is titled "The Land of Open Graves: Visualizing Migrant Death Along the U.S./Mexico Border."
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LECTURE RECORDING.
25TH ANNUAL POETRY DAY
9.28.23 | Crill Performance Hall