{"id":1746,"date":"2009-03-11T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T21:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/bsutoday\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2021-11-01T15:46:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:46:26","slug":"20090320-dandf-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2009\/03\/11\/20090320-dandf-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Public reading and reception for Dust and Fire set for March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEMIDJI, Minn.<\/strong> &mdash; Sheila O&rsquo;Connor will headline a Friday, March 20, reading and reception for women whose works were published in the 2009 edition of &ldquo;Dust and Fire,&rdquo; Bemidji State University&rsquo;s anthology of women&rsquo;s writing and art.<\/p>\n<p>O&rsquo;Connor is the author of &ldquo;Tokens of Grade: A Novel in Stories&rdquo; and the novel &ldquo;Where No Gods Came,&rdquo; winner of the 2003 Michigan Award for Literary Fiction and the 2004 Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. She is a Bush Fellowship winner and teaches at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn.<\/p>\n<p>The reception will begin at noon at Bemidji State&rsquo;s American Indian Resource Center, and will feature a reading by O&rsquo;Connor. Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p>After 11:30 a.m., parking for the reading will be available in the parking lot of Bangsberg Hall on the Bemidji State campus.<\/p>\n<p>From 7-9 p.m., a reading and reception for &ldquo;Dust and Fire&rdquo; contributors will be held at the American Indian Resource Center. Following an introduction by O&rsquo;Connor, authors featured in the anthology are invited to read their entries to the group.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of individuals had works selected for the 23rd &ldquo;Dust &amp; Fire,&rdquo; which was produced by the BSU Department of English and the women&rsquo;s studies program.&nbsp; The anthology features fiction, non-fiction, poetry and art from women residing in Minnesota or its contiguous states and provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Copies of the 2009 edition of &ldquo;Dust and Fire&rdquo; will be available for purchase at the reception.<\/p>\n<p>Both the noon reading at the Crying Wolf Room and the 7 p.m. reading and reception at the AIRC are open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the reception, please contact <a title=\"Michelle Hawkins at Bemidji State University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/students\/michelle_hawkins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelle Hawkins<\/a>. Information regarding &ldquo;Dust and Fire&rdquo; is available on the Web at http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/academics\/publications\/dust_and_fire, or by contacting Faculty Editor <a title=\"Maureen Gibbon at Bemidji State University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/mgibbon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maureen Gibbon<\/a> at (218) 755-4021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR YOUR CALENDAR<br>\nMarch 20<\/strong> &ndash; noon &ndash; Public reception for &ldquo;Dust and Fire,&rdquo; an anthology of women&rsquo;s writing published by Bemidji State University. Reading by Sheila O&rsquo;Connor, Hamline University. Reception for artists included in anthology to follow at 7 p.m. Location: American Indian Resource Center. Information: <a title=\"Michelle Hawkins at Bemidji State University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/students\/michelle_hawkins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelle Hawkins<\/a>, (218) 755-4021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. &mdash; Sheila O&rsquo;Connor will headline a Friday, March 20, reading and reception for women whose works were published in the 2009 edition of &ldquo;Dust and Fire,&rdquo; Bemidji State University&rsquo;s anthology of women&rsquo;s writing and art. O&rsquo;Connor is the author of &ldquo;Tokens of Grade: A Novel in Stories&rdquo; and the novel &ldquo;Where No Gods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44242,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/44242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}