Writer's Week
47th UCR Writers Week Festival
February 10 and 12-16, 2024
Free and open to the public
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Hybrid: Virtual and In-Person Events
LIVE In-Person events will be held in Interdisciplinary South (INTS) 1128
February 16 Post-festival ticketed celebration with our Lifetime Achievement Award partner LA Review of Books
Register Here to Hold Your Space! General Parking (Lot 1 Blue) VIP Parking (Lot 1 Red)
2024 LA Review of Books (LARB) – UCR Department of Creative Writing
Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees
Dave Eggers
Quincy Troupe
Rigoberto González
Thursday, February 15th | Theatre INTS 1128
Session 4 | 7:00-8:30 PM PST LIVE & VIRTUAL
Kimberly Blaeser
Stephen Minot Lecture
Katherine Vaz
D. Charles Whitney Reader
Tim Z. Hernandez and Maceo Montoya
Mike Davis Readers
47th UCR Writers Week Featured Writers
Noah Arjomand, Rilla Askew, Reza Aslan, Brendan Shay Basham, Lou Berney, Erik Bitsui, Kimberly Blaeser, Kate Bolton Bonnici, Aaron Boothby, Marie Alohalani Brown, Elena Karina Byrne, Lizzie Davis, Marsha De La O, Stacie Denetsosie, Daisy Ocampo Diaz, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Emily Marie Passos Duffy, Dave Eggers, Farnaz Fatemi, Tanya Frank, Rigoberto González, Tim Z. Hernandez, Minda Honey, Laird Hunt, Jessica Johns, Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Randi LeClair, Donato Martinez, Adrian Matejka, Maceo Montoya, Sandra Meek, Leah Myers, Jesse Nathan, Cindy Juyoung Ok, Cati Porter, Jason Magabo Perez, Marcie Rendon, Robert Roensch, Andrea Rogers, Prageeta Sharma, Matthew Shenoda, Eleni Sikelianos, Melissa Studdard, Lisa Teasley, Quincy Troupe, Katherine Vaz, Vickie Vértiz, Marc Vincenz, Issam Zineh
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Meet the Directors
Tom Lutz
Distinguished Professor and Chair, Creative Writing
Publisher, Los Angeles Review of Books
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing
Director, PI, Along the Chaparral
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Book Purchases
Books can be purchased from our own campus B&N bookstore.
Visit Cellar Door Books to support our recommended local independent store.
UCR Library features Writers Week authors & acquired all 2024 authors' books.
Click here to read UC Riverside's statement of support for Black Lives Matter and Native Land Recognition.
The Writers Week emblem, designed from the Agave americana Marginata in our local flora, was created to demonstrate our support for initiatives that create a more sustainable campus, community, and state that includes indigenous plants on campus and region. We also support the work of the UCR Office of Sustainability and the UCR Botanic Gardens.
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