Writers on Writing: Jim Nelson
Sunday, October 14, 2012, 5:00 pm
Jim Nelson is a writer and SF State alum who created the audio tour and book Everywhere Man, an existential mystery experienced aboard San Francisco's historic cable cars. Free.
Location:
Humanities Building, Humanities Auditorium
Directions:
Sponsor:
Creative Writing Department
E-mail:
Phone:
415-338-1891
Event extras:
Nelson’s work has been published in Confrontation, We Still Like, North American Review, Instant City, Cosmopsis Quarterly, The Loin’s Mouth, Switchback, SmokeLong Quarterly, Watchword, Transfer, Red Wheelbarrow and other literary venues. Awards include honorable mention in the San Francisco Browning Society Dramatic Monologue Competition, first prize in the Clark College Fiction Contest and a Webby nomination for his now-abandoned webzine Ad Nauseam.
The Creative Writing Department opens its Writers on Writing course to the public every Monday evening of the semester. Taught by Professor Robert Glück, the course features faculty and visiting writers reading from their works and discussing their creative process.