{"id":1090,"date":"2016-04-11T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/sickpilgrim\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2016-04-10T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T20:46:36","slug":"festival-of-faith-and-writing-come-meet-us-sick-pilgrim-hootenanny-grand-rapids-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sickpilgrim\/2016\/04\/festival-of-faith-and-writing-come-meet-us-sick-pilgrim-hootenanny-grand-rapids-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Faith and Writing: Come Meet Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Sick Pilgrims! Come hang with us at the Festival of Faith and Writing<\/a>\u00a0next week.\u00a0Jess and Jonathan will both be speaking on panels (schedule below). And if you\u2019re interested in hanging out\u00a0Friday night\u00a0after we all listen to Tobias Wolf, let us know on our Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0We\u2019ll be posting details there.<\/p>\n

During the week, we\u2019ll be posting quick thoughts, reflections and other things. Maybe even a few quick interviews.<\/p>\n

Plus, Jonathan will be at the Ave Maria booth occasionally, so come pitch your book idea to him.<\/p>\n

Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:15 P.M. Weird Fiction as Sacramental Practice, \u00a0<\/strong>Jonathan Ryan and Cina Pelayo<\/p>\n

Commons Annex, Lecture Hall<\/p>\n

How can the literary genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal act as sacramental literature? This panel will explore how the \u201cweird fiction\u201d of writers including Charles Williams, Gene Wolfe, and Stephen King can strip off our naturalistic blinders and invite us to \u201cbehold,\u201d in the Old Testament sense, the unseen world around us.<\/p>\n

Thursday Night: The Mountain Goats<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ll be there, will you? Come listen with us.<\/p>\n

Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n

8:30 A.M.\u00a0How Chronic Conditions Challenge and Enrich the Writing Life<\/strong>, Jessica Mesman Griffith<\/a>, Daniel Bowman<\/a>, and Ellen Painter Dollar<\/a><\/p>\n

Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 115<\/p>\n

Writers who live with a variety of chronic physical, mental, and neurobiological conditions talk about how their experiences of disability impart hard-earned insight around issues including health, technology, and thriving within our limits. Jess will be talking about mental illness and creativity, but this discussion is for all writers invested in compassion, humility, creativity, and how our gifts can grow from what we see as weakness.<\/p>\n

11:30 A.M. Memoir as Feminist Testimony,<\/strong> Jessica Mesman Griffith<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0Amy Julia Becker,<\/a>Alison Hodgson<\/a>, Katherine Willis Pershey<\/a> and Rachel Marie Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium.<\/p>\n

We\u00a0live in a world where women still struggle to be heard and believed about their own lives. Perhaps that\u2019s why memoir, as a genre, is particularly resonant for women writers despite the very real danger of being branded as navel-gazers. This panel will discuss how memoir functions differently than other forms of non-fiction,\u00a0and Jess will talk specifically about why spiritual memoir can be a call to communion and relationship, rather than a sign of self-absorption.<\/p>\n

Friday Night: After Tobias Wolfe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meet up with us for a beer or something. Look for us wearing our matching (temporary) tats. We have one\u00a0for you too!<\/p>\n

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