C. M. MAYO Author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, etc.

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December 1, 2007 Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico C.M. Mayo to autograph Miraculous Air for Cabo Humane Society benefit. Details to be announced. November 10, 2007 Richardson, Texas Reading, American Literary Translators Association Conference 2:00-3:15 p.m. As part of the American Literary Translators Conference: C.M. Mayo to read a story by Mexican writer Mónica Lavín, as part of a reading (with Peter Bush and Barbara Paschke) to celebrate the anthology New World / New Words: Recent Writing from the Americas. October 27, 2007 Mexico City Techniques of Fiction Workshop A special one day workshop in Mexico City 10 am - 2 pm Location: MM Studio, Dinamarca 50, Col Roma, Del Cuauhtemoc, Mexico City. Closest Metro: Insurgentes. Parking around the corner (one block from Benjamin Franklin Library). Cost: M.N. $1,000 (pesos) plus tax per person >>>To apply, click here. For both beginning and experienced fiction writers working in English, "Techniques of Fiction" focuses on generating new material with exercises addressing specificity, point of view, synesthesia, imagery, image patterning, plot, rhythm, and the use and misuse of dialogue. More information about this workshop here. October 4, 2007 San Diego, California Book Presentation / Reading and Book Signing Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico. 6 p.m. San Diego Museum of Man (co-sponsored by the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies, University of California, San Diego) Free and open to the public. RSVP gmallinger (at) ucsd (dot) edu Tel. 858-822-1696 --->Also, another talk at lunchtime: Center for US-Mexico Studies, University of California San Diego. September 17, 2007 Washington DC Reading and Discussion 4 - 5:30 pm Woodrow Wilson Center, Mexico Institute. "Many Mexicos: A Literary Landscape": A Talk with author and literary translator C.M. Mayo about her widely-lauded memoir of Baja California, Miraculous Air, and anthology Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, a collection of fiction and literary prose by some of Mexico's most outstanding writers. RSVP to Diana Rodriguez at mexico@wilsoncenter.org September 12, 2007 New York City Reading and Book Signing Edited by C.M. Mayo @ 6 p.m. King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU Free admission Reading and discussion of Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, an anthology of Mexican fiction and literary prose with works by some of Mexico's best-known authors. With editor C.M. Mayo, writers Monica Lavin and Pedro Angel Palou, and translators Harry Morales and Daniel Shapiro. King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU is located at 53 Washington Square South (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets) For more information please call 212-998-3650 www.nyu.edu/kjc This event is part of Celebrate Mexico Now, a citywide festival of contemporary art and culture. www.mexiconowfestival.org Co-presented with the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, with the generous support of Dos Equis. July 23, 2007 Queretaro, Mexico Literary Translation Publishing Workshop Mundo al Mundo / World to World Translation Workshop. C.M. Mayo to present Tameme, Mexico: Traveler's Literary Companion, and talk about publishing literary translations. Details to be announced. >>>For updates by e-mail, click here. July 8, 2007 Tepoztlan, Morelos, Mexico Reading and Book Signing @ 1 p.m. La Sombra del Sabino bookstore and cafe. C.M. Mayo to read from and sign Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California the Other Mexico (Milkweed Editions)-- the new paperback edition. Day of the Dead, Los Cabos and Todos Santos, spectacular cave art of the remote interior, gray whales, Sea of Cortez, the Jesuit conquest, Tijuana, and more. La Sombra del Sabino: tel. (01 739) 395-0369 Av Revolucion No. 45, Barrio de San Jose, Tepoztlan, Morelos July 2007 Coyoacan, Mexico City Travel Writing Workshop Take your travel writing to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you. For both beginning and advanced writers, this three hour workshop covers the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously vivid effects. FILLED. June 23, 2007 Washington DC Book Signing American Library Association Conference. 11 am-12:30 pm in the Convention Center At Milkweed Editions, my publisher's booth in the bookfair. June 22, 2007 Washington DC Reading American Library Association Conference. 7-10 pm "Many Voices, One Nation: Washington DC" Dinner program. C.M. Mayo, Anosh Irani, and others read from their books. C.M. Mayo to sign Miraculous Air. JW Marriot Hotel, Salon I & II, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave NW. June 17, 2007 Washington DC Reading, Slide Show, Book Signing Candida's World of Books, 1541 14th Street, NW Washington DC 20005 (202) 667-4811; toll-free (866) 667-4811 5 pm: Reading, slide show, and book signing for Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California the Other Mexico (Milkweed Editions)-- the new paperback edition. Day of the Dead, Los Cabos and Todos Santos, spectacular cave art of the remote interior, gray whales, Sea of Cortez, the Jesuit conquest, Tijuana, and more. June 16, 2007 Bethesda MD Travel Writing Workshop Writers Center 1-4 pm Special one afternoon travel writing workshop with C.M. Mayo. Take your travel writing to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you. For both beginning and advanced writers, this three hour workshop covers the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously vivid effects. To register, click here. June 9, 2007 Washington DC Travel Writing Panel Discussion Washington Independent Writers Conference. C.M. Mayo to participate on a travel writing panel with L. Peat O'Neil and Sara Mansfield Taber. Details to be announced. C.M. Mayo to sign books--- Sky Over El Nido; Miraculous Air; Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion--- 20 minutes after panel concludes. April 2007 Mexico City, Mexico Writing workshop with C.M. Mayo. Has been filled. March 15-17, 2007 Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Pure Sea Glass Writers Conference C.M. Mayo to offer a writing workshop, two panel discussions and a reading. For the complete schedule, click here. March 3, 2007 @ 3:30 pm Atlanta GA Book Signing C.M. Mayo to sign books at the Tameme Chapbooks ~ Cuadernos table #239 at the AWP bookfair. March 3, 2007 @ 1:30-2:45 pm Atlanta, GA Associated Writing Programs Conference Panel Discussion: "Beyond the Book" C.M. Mayo, chair, with Richard Beban, Joseph Bednarik, Urayoan Noel, Richard Peabody, and Nancy Zafris. "The music industry experienced a major revolution in the distribution of content. What are the lessons for publishers and creative writers trying to deliver words to an audience? Are books the be-all and end-all "delivery system"? This panel examines a variety of content delivery systems, including websites, podcasts, audio CDs, DVDs, and "vidlit", as well as time-tested print technologies such as chapbooks, pamphlets, and broadsides. Panel participants discuss the benefits, costs, synergies, and suprises of publishing in these ways." March 2, 2007 @ 10:30 am- 11:45 am Atlanta, GA Associated Writing Programs Conference Panel Discussion: "Translation as Collaboration (With the Living and the Dead)" C.M. Mayo to participate on panel chaired by Mark Statman. C.M. Mayo will discuss Tameme and her translations of Mexican literature. February 28 - March 3, 2007 Atlanta, GA Associated Writing Programs Conference C.M. Mayo will be at table # 239 Tameme Chapbooks ~ Cuadernos at the AWP bookfair. February 18, 2007 @ 12 pm San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico Baja Books & Maps 2nd Annual Baja Book Event C.M. Mayo to discuss Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, her new collection of Mexican fiction and literary prose, and Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California the Other Mexico. Directions: Baja Books & Maps is located at Camino al La Playa y Calle S/N y Calle S/N. This is just across the arroyo from centro San Jose on the way to La Playita and the new marina Puerto Los Cabos. Baja Books & Maps is just across the street from the new parque and the large banderas. A brown three story tower in the style of the Flatirion building. February 2007 Mexico City, Mexico Writing workshop in Coyoacan with C.M. Mayo. FILLED. January 2007 Mexico City, Mexico Writing workshop with C.M. Mayo Filled.