October 2023
September 2023
September 2022
A Meeting in the Forest Visiting Speaker: Author Jean Hegland with graphic novel artist Lomig
Come immerse yourself in a forest of graphic and literary art! Watch projections of trees growing and characters coming into being beneath the pencil of award-winning French graphic novel artist Lomig as he creates original drawings inspired by his graphic novel adaptation of Jean Hegland's best-selling novel "Into the Forest." Lomig and Jean will begin with a brief discussion of graphic novels and Lomig's creative process as he adapted Jean's story. Then, as Jean reads aloud from her novel, Lomig will illustrate her reading live on-screen, starting with a blank piece of paper and ending with evocative and fully-realized pieces of art. This unusual event will offer audience members an hour of inspiration and meditation, as well as an invitation to consider different kinds of story-telling, and how visual art and literature interact with and enhance each other.
Chico State University
A MEETING IN THE FOREST: A "LIVE" DRAWING AND READING JEAN HEGLAND WITH GRAPHIC NOVEL ARTIST, LOMIG
Come immerse yourself in a forest of graphic and literary art! Watch projections of trees growing and characters coming into being beneath the pencil of award-winning French graphic novel artist Lomig as he creates original drawings inspired by his graphic novel adaptation of Jean Hegland's best-selling novel "Into the Forest." Lomig and Jean will begin with a brief discussion of graphic novels and Lomig's creative process as he adapted Jean's story. Then, as Jean reads aloud from her novel, Lomig will illustrate her reading live on-screen, starting with a blank piece of paper and ending with evocative and fully-realized pieces of art. This unusual event will offer audience members an hour of inspiration and meditation, as well as an invitation to consider different kinds of story-telling, and how visual art and literature interact with and enhance each other.
Luther Burbank Auditorium, Studio Theatre, Santa Rosa Campus
October 2021
September 2021
Librairie La Manoeuvre
"Discussions, dédicaces, apéro, bonne humeur et passion de la littérature seront au rendez-vous !"
Librarie La Manoeuvre
May 2021
October 2019
Panel at Le Monde Festival
in conversation with Corinne Morel Darleux ("L’écologie, un combat pour l’émancipation" "Plutôt couler en beauté que flotter sans grâce" and Pablo Servigne ("Comment tout peut s’effondrer" and "Une autre fin du monde est possible. Vivre l’effondrement (et pas seulement y survivre)")
Opéra Bastille (Amphithéâtre), Paris
September 2019
Public Event
In conversation with Pauline Briand, as part of Fondation Jan Michalski's "L’écriture des lieux | Journées entre nature et littérature"
Fondation Jan Michalski
August 2019
Still Time Signing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Signing at Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Tudor Guild Gift Shop
15 S Pioneer St, Ashland, OR
February 2019
Prix littéraire des Lyceens & Apprentis de la Région Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
Daily meetings with teachers and students in the PACA Region. Evening public presentations
Avignon, Carpentras, Gap, Aix-en Provence, Nice, Marseille
September 2018
L'Amérique à Oron Festival
American Literature Festival in Oron-la-Ville, Switzerland, with Christian Keifer, Laura Kasischke, Michael Farris Smith, and Richard Russo
Festival America
Rendez-vous en Septembre 2018 avec la 9ème édition du Festival America pour découvrir des littératures et cultures d'Amérique du Nord à Vincennes. (Meet with us in September 2018 at the 9th edition of Festival America to discover North American literatures and cultures.)
August 2018
STILL TIME signing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
STILL TIME signing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Tudor Guild Gift Shop
June 2018
April 2018
Write Spot Writers' Forum Talk: "Helping Ourselves to Write Our Best"
There are only a few personal qualities and life circumstances that writers need to achieve their writing dreams. Jean will discuss some of the ways we can fan the spark, make the grit, keep the faith, create the community, and court the luck that will enable us to do our best work.
Copperfields Books
Nerd Novels: Fiction that Explores Ideas, Celebrates Facts, and Tells a Darn Good Story
What do art history, organic geochemistry, literary theory, astronomy, philosophy, and genetics all have in common? One answer is that they are a few of the many scholarly disciplines that have recently appeared in fiction. Presenter Jean Hegland and her colleague Susan M. Gaines have coined the term "Nerd Novel" to describe novels that incorporate a specific field of study or body of knowledge into their plots, conflicts, characters, and themes. Jean will describe this fascinating new trend in fiction and discuss some of the particular pleasures that Nerd Novels can offer to both experts and novices in the fields they explore. Expect to leave with lots of great suggestions for what to read next!
The Glaser Center
March 2018
Book Passage + ALTA Meet the Author Book Group
In the first hour of this long-running group, we discuss the book we’ve just read. In the second hour, we talk with the author about what it took to create it and other engrossing topics. Four Mondays: (THE WALKING - Laleh Khadivi), Jan 29; (KING OF CUBA - Cristina García), Feb 26; (STILL TIME- Jean Hegland), Mar. 26; (SWALLOWING MERCURY - Wioletta Greg and SUCH SMALL HANDS - Andres Barba), April
Book Passage Corte Madera
In Conversation with Gayle Greene, author of MISSING PERSONS
Jean Hegland and Gayle Greene will discuss Gayle's new memoir MISSING PERSONS, a beautifully written and deeply moving story about dealing with death in a culture that gives no help. http://www.gaylegreene.org/missing-persons.html
Copperfields Books
Books on Stage/Telling the Story
Join us for an evening with Sonoma County’s own Jean Hegland. Jean’s most recent novel, Still Time, is about a Shakespeare scholar’s attempts to come to terms with his life and reconcile with his estranged daughter as he struggles with Alzheimer’s disease. Booklist described it as “Heartbreaking in the best possible way.” Her first novel, Into the Forest, has been translated into over a dozen languages, was adapted into a movie that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2015, and has recently become a best seller in France. The event will be followed by wine, cheese and conversation in the lobby.
Cloverdale Performing Arts Center
November 2017
Festival Lettres du Monde
see specific details for events in Bordeaux, Saint-Jean-de_Luz, Biarritz, Marmande, Montauban, and Bergerac
Back to France for Dans la forêt
I'll be giving public presentations for the festival Lettres du monde and the festival Lettres d'automne and in a variety of bookstores and libraries. I will also be meeting with students in a number of schools around Bordeaux and Nice who have read Dans la forêt
October 2017
June 2017
"A Wild World" Panel at Festival Étonnants Voyagers
In conversation with Abby Geni, Ian McGuire, and Marcus Malte
Festival Étonnants Voyagers, Saint Malo
May 2017
Dans la forêt book tour
Events with media, in bookstores, & etc. to help promote Editions Gallmeister's French translation of Into the Forest
TBA