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2021 Preger Creative Idea Prize Winners

Alexandra Pierce took first place and $5,000 for “bRo” (borrow), an app for consumers to list and rent their personal items.

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Student Vaccination Requirements Announced for Spring Term

Per the NV Board of Public Health directive, all SNU students will be required to be fully vaccinated to enroll in courses or programs beginning Nov. 1.

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COVID Practices for a Healthy Semester

Laying the groundwork for a full and vibrant return to an in-person academic year.

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Art Exhibition “The Last Resort”

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Save this date! April 8 - 9 - Kim Addonizio @kimaddonizio is coming to Writers In The Woods! Register: www.sierranevada.edu/writersinthewoods Kim Addonizio's latest books are the poetry collections Mortal Trash and Now We’re Getting Somewhere (W.W. Norton), and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. In addition to her seven poetry collections, two novels, and two story collections, she is the author of two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. “Her poems are always accessible, sexy, sarcastic, and, at their core, deeply emotional and moving.” — Lilith Addonizio's word/music CDS are Swearing, Smoking, Drinking, & Kissing (with Susan Browne) and My Black Angel, the companion to My Black Angel: Blues Poems and Portraits, a collaboration with woodcut artist Charles D. Jones. Her poetry has been translated into multiple languages and published around the globe. Addonizio’s awards include two fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim, two Pushcart Prizes, and other honors. author website: www.kimaddonizio.com #writersofinstagram #writersinthewoods

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The Spring line-up for Writers in the Woods is amazing. Save these dates: March 4-5, 2022. Register: www.sierranevada.edu/writersinthewoods Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House. Her award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties was chosen by the New York Times in 2018 as one of "15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century." Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. "Machado’s writing is full of repressed physical energy and the raw juice of annihilating female fury. The body is the subject, the culprit, the innocent. ... She does unimaginable things with a prom dress." — Louise Erdrich, author of The Millions Machado has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Awards for Lesbian Fiction and LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. author website: carmenmariamachado.com/

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Save this date! February 4-5 - Gina Frangello @ginafrangello is coming to Writers In The Woods! Gina Frangello is the author of four books of fiction, most recently A Life With Men, which is now under development as a series on Netflix. Her debut memoir, Blow Your House Down, was released in April 2021 to a blaze of rave reviews. Every Kind of Wanting was included by both Chicago Magazine and The Chicago Review of Books as one of the “Best Books of 2016.” "Frangello astutely dissects the quandaries of female sexuality, adoption, terminal illness, and compound heartbreak in a torrent of tough-minded observations, audacious candor, and storytelling moxie." — Donna Seaman, Booklist Frangello is a regular contributor to Psychology Today magazine, and has published in Ploughshares, Fence, Salon, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and many other venues. She runs an international writing program, “Other Voices Queretaro” in the Central Highlands of Mexico. She recently teamed with Emily Rapp Black to launch Circe Consulting, a one-stop shop for a broad array of writing support—from editing, to ghost writing, to retreats and more. author website: www.ginafrangello.com/ register: www.sierranevada.edu/writersinthewoods

Yulisa Mendez received support through the Tahoe ...

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Yulisa Mendez received support through the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, as well as the committed donors and friends of Sierra Nevada University. From SNU she has gone on to pursue her graduate degree in social work. Thank you, @ttcfgives - for all that you do for students here in our Tahoe community. #sierranevadauniversity #tahoe #tahoetruckeecommunityfoundation

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Generosity creates change. Everyone has something to give. This holiday season, we encourage you to give to the change you want to see in the world. See the metamorphosis you can support. It's easy to show your generosity in a variety of ways during GivingTuesday⁠⁠—whether it’s helping a neighbor, advocating for an issue, sharing a skill, or giving to causes—everyone has something to give and every act of generosity counts. #sierranevadauniversity #givingtuesday #givingtuesday2021
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