Additional Information & Schedule of Workshops

2011 Artist in Residence

Wendy Call's residency at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller coincides with the publication of her second book, No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy (Nebraska, 2011). Publishers Weekly says of her new book, "[Call] writes lively narrative, detailed description, and engaging scenes that render her subjects--a schoolteacher, fishermen, activists--three-dimensional. By relating the lives and concerns of isthmus dwellers and the struggles they face, the author raises awareness of globalization's effects on the village economy." During her two months in Vermont, Call will offer readings, talks, and writing workshops throughout the state:

 ″ Presentation: Biting the Snake: Ecological Consequence
Bookstock: Green Mountains Festival of Words
Town Hall ″ Woodstock, Vermont
Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 11:00 am

″ Reading, Slideshow, Discussion: No Word for Welcome
Shiretown Books ″ 9 Central Street, Woodstock, Vermont 05091
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 7:00 pm

″ Writing Workshop: Twenty Ways to Tell the Story
Writer's Center ″ 58 North Main Street ″ White River Junction, Vermont 05001
Thursday, August 18, 2011 from 6:00 to 8:30 pm (there is a fee for the this workshop)

″ Book Reading & Writing Workshop: Global Stories with a Local Heart with Midge Raymond, author of Forgetting English
Galaxy Bookshop ″ 7 Mill Street, Hardwick, Vermont
Saturday, September 10, 2011, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm

″ Book Reading & Writing Workshop: Global Stories with a Local Heart with Midge Raymond, author of Forgetting English
Northshire Books ″ 4869 Main Street, Manchester Center, Vermont
Sunday, September 11, 2011 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm

″ Artist in Residence Reading: Forest Festival
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park ″ Woodstock, Vermont
Saturday, September 24 and Sunday, September 25, 2011 (exact time and place TBA)

″ Reading from No Word for Welcome at the Burlington Book Festival
Burlington, Vermont
Saturday, September 24, 2011 in the afternoon (time TBA)

While in Vermont, Wendy will also give radio interviews on community/college stations in Montpelier, Plainfield, and Burlington.

Wendy Call is a recent writer in residence at Cornell College, Harborview Medical Center, New College of Florida, and Seattle University. She is co-editor of Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide (Penguin, 2007). Before becoming a full-time writer and editor in 2000, she devoted a decade to grassroots organizing on ecological issues in Seattle and Boston.