Have a Great Holiday!

A few holiday season characters around the Center

Koko with Santa hat greets you near our guess-what-book-inspire-this-ornament Christmas tree...

..a reading bear among our stacks and an elf perched near our entrance door..

... and of course, an homage to the celebration of Hannukah...

Have a great holiday season everyone, see you in 2010

Oz Conference Registration Info

At last...the registration information for Oz: The Books Conference (May 14-16, 2010) is now available!  Go to  Arne Nixon Center's website to download the form, read about the marvelous line-up of speakers, or to see the conference schedule.

Register Early! Discounted prices available for early registration, ANCA members, IWOC members, and students. Call 559.278.8116 for more information.

Lodging Information:
The Piccadilly Inn-University offers an “Oz Conference” rate of $98, per night, per room (includes tax and continental breakfast). Reserve early because room rate will increase after 4/14/2009. Call (800) HOTEL-US (468-3587) or (559) 224-4200

Oz: The Writing Contest

Calling all young writers!   

Write your way to Oz!

Create an original story based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the other Oz books by America’s foremost author of fairy tales, L. Frank Baum.



Rules:

• Contest open to all students, grades 4–12, residing in California.
• Submission must be accompanied by the Entry form and Permission form. (Find entry forms and rules at www.arnenixoncenter.org, call us at 559.278.8116, or visit your nearest Fresno County Public Library branch)
• Complete rules available at the www.arnenixoncenter.org

Division A 4th – 7th grade (500 words)

Division B: 8th – 12th grade (1500 words)

Awards for each Division:

• 1st Place: $150
• 2nd Place: $100
• 3rd Place: $50

All winners will receive ten copies of their stories, embellished with illustrations provided by art students at Fresno State. Winners will be honored at the “Oz: The Books” conference on Sunday morning, May 16th, at Fresno State. Their families will also be invited as special guests.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Fresno

The Arne Nixon Center and The International Wizard of Oz Club invite everyone to a national Oz conference, “Oz: The Books,” May 14-16, 2010, on the Fresno State campus.

Featured speakers will include Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked; Michael Patrick Hearn, author of The Annotated Wizard of Oz; John Fricke, co-author of The Wizard of Oz: An Illustrated Companion to the Timeless Movie Classic; Kathleen Krull, author of The Road to Oz: Twists, Bumps, and Triumphs in the Life of L. Frank Baum; and graphic novelist Eric Shanower, author/artist of Adventures in Oz.

The conference will feature a musical, “Time Again in Oz,” produced by the Fresno State Theatre Arts Department and directed by J. Daniel Herring. Playwright Suzan L. Zeder, who based this play on the third Oz book, Ozma of Oz, will also be a speaker.