RECENT EVENTS

November 9, 2017 Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Museo de la Revolución en la Frontera
9 AM C.M. Mayo on her book Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and his Secret Book, Spiritist Manual. En español.

Thursday September 21, 2017 Club de Industriales, Mexico City
C.M. Mayo to comment on Mexican historian Luis Reed Torres's new book, El Libertador sin Patria.
6 PM
Views of Agustín de Iturbide in the words of leading 19th century Mexican politicians and intellectuals.
Read the prologue in English or in Spanish.

Saturday May 27 and Sunday May 28, 2017 Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas
Pine Springs Visitor Center
9 am - 10 am (Mountain Time)
As the park's artist-in-residence C.M. Mayo will offer a free writing workshop:
Travel and Nature Writing for the Vivid Dreamer
Whether writing for your personal journal, your blog, or for publication in a book or magazine, take it to another level: giving the reader the sense of the "vivid dream" of traveling there with you into these mountains, under these skies. For writers young and old, this workshop covers little known but powerful techniques from fiction and poetry than you can apply to your writing for delicious effects.
View some notes and the handout from this workshop

May 15-30, 2017 Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas
C.M. Mayo will be artist-in-residence. There will be a workshop, probably Memorial Day weekend. Details to be announced.

November 11-12, 2016 Alpine, Texas
Center for Big Bend Studies Conference
Sul Ross State University
Friday November 11, 2016
10:30 AM Panel on the Mexican Revolution with C.M. Mayo, Heribert von Feilitzsch, and Roy "Ben" Brown
C.M. Mayo to discuss her book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual

Read the edited and expanded transcript of this talk

October 13-16, 2016 Santa Fe NM
Women Writing the West Conference
Drury Plaza Hotel

Saturday October 15
9:40 - 10:40 am
Podcasting for Writers
Audio podcasts, on-line digital files, not only serve as an important promotional tool for writers, but they can be storytelling vehicles themselves, whether as stand-alone works or complements to text. This workshop provides an introduction and overview of podcasting for writers, from basic concepts to nuts-and-bolts tips. The goal is that by the end of the workshop, you will be able to go home and use your iPhone or digital recorder and computer to generate and then post a simple podcast on-line.

View the handout for this workshop, "Podcasting for Writers: To Commit or Not (or Vaguely?)"


10:50 - 11:50 am
Writing Across Borders and Cultures
C.M. Mayo, Kathryn Ferguson, Dawn Wink

Read the transcript of C.M. Mayo's remarks for this panel: "On Seeing as an Artist or, Five Techniques for a Journey to Einfühling"

View the handout for C.M. Mayo's remarks, "A Reading List for Writing Across Borders and Cultures"


October 6-9, 2016 Oakland CA
American Literary Translators Association Conference
Marrott Oakland City Center
1001 Broadway

Friday, October 7
11:am - 12:15 pm
Grand Ballroom
C.M. Mayo to participate on panel
"Whereabouts Press: A Retrospective of the Literary Traveler's Companion Series"

Roundtable:
Whereabouts Press: A Retrospective of The Traveler's Literary Companion Series
This roundtable discussion will celebrate a series to which many ALTA members have contributed since the first volume on Costa Rica published in 1994 to the latest volume on France (French Feast).

Editors: Jill Gibian, Alexis Levitin, Ann Louise Bardach, William Rodarmor, C.M. Mayo, and John Balaban compilers of the volumes on Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, France, Mexico, and Vietnam respectively, will come together to discuss lessons learned from editing theme-based anthologies intended for literary travelers. They will be joined by the founder of Whereabouts Press, David Peattie, who will discuss his vision for the series as well as the challenges that face small presses today.

View the blog post about this event and the conference.

Sunday October 9
11:15 am - 12: 30 pm.
Junior Ballroom
Bilingual Reading of Mexican Poetry and Prose
C.M. Mayo will read her translation of work by Agustín Cadena

July 1, 2016 Cuernavaca, Mexico
Presentation of anthology by José N. Iturriaga, Otros cien forasteros en Morelos.
Casa Cultural Jardín Borda
6 PM mezcal de honor.
Blog post about this event.

April 16, 2016 Bethesda MD
(Saturday, one day only)
The Writer's Center
10 am - 1 pm
Literary Travel Writing
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 workshop covers the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously vivid effects.

Questions about this workshop? Email me here.

 February 10-14, 2016 San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference


Feb 10
@ 3:30 - 5 PM
"Podcasting for Writers" Workshop

View the handout for this workshop, "Podcasting for Writers: To Commit or Not (or Vaguely?)"

Feb 11
@ 11 AM - 12:30 PM Taller de "Podcasting para escritores"
@ 12:45 PM Tent A
C.M. Mayo to read from Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution

Feb 13
@ 11 AM - 12:30 PM
C.M. Mayo to moderate panel on "Global Migration: People and Their Stories"
With Juan Villoro, Luis Alberto Urrea, Elizabeth Hay and Lisa See.
Read the transcript of my introduction (perhaps surprisingly crunchy)

Feb 14
@ 11 AM - 12:30 PM
C.M. Mayo on Panel on Historical Fiction
with Sandra Gulland, Anne Easter Smith & Mary Novik
"Into the Heart of the Story: Truth & Lies in Historical Fiction"

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January 29, 2015, La Jolla, California
University of California San Diego
Center for US-Mexico Studies
3:30 PM - 5 PM
Free and open to the public
C.M. Mayo provides a rich introduction and the first English translation of “Spiritist Manual,” the secret book by revolutionary and former Mexican President Francisco I. Madero.
Register online

The podcast of this event is now available. Listen in anytime on podomatic or on iTunes (free).

C.M. Mayo at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD: Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual
Recorded on January 29, 2015 in La Jolla, CA, at the University of California San Diego Center for US-Mexican Studies: C.M. Mayo discusses her new book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual. (Approx 1 hr 11 minutes)

 January 13, 2015, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
(in English)
PEN San Miguel.
The Miguel Malo Audtorium at Bellas Artes
6 pm.
Admission is 100 pesos, which includes a complimetary glass of wine with dinner at Vivali's across the street.

Madero's Secret: C.M. Mayo talks about her latest book of nonfiction, plus a translation, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual. The podcast of this event is now available. Listen in anytime on podomatic or on iTunes (free).