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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SPRING EVENT 04.16.2024
SATURDAY 02.10.2024
Noah Arjomand
FILM SCREENING
2022 Best Documentary, Istanbul Film Festival & Antenna Documentary Festival
Eat Your Catfish
Fixing Stories: Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria
UCR Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow in Writing for the Performing Arts
Photo by Brett Umlauf
MONDAY 02.12.2024
MFA READING
study in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting, and playwriting
Hosted by Katie Ford
MFA CANDIDATES:
Cait Johnson, Rae Whitfield, Aaron Chan, Cixous Lecomte, Debbie Ou, Frances McCann, Hanna Pachman, Kristen Herbert, Kelsey Ferrell, Victoria Hurtado-Angulo, Elizabeth DeWolf, Lily Felsenthal, Corey Spanner
Monday, February 12th | Theatre INTS 1128
Jessica Johns
Bad Cree
Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
Session 2 | 5:00 PM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Loretta Johns
Marcie Rendon
Sinister Graves
McKnight Distinguished Artist
Session 2 | 5:00 PM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Ivy Vaino
Andrea Rogers
Man Made Monsters
Walter Award Winner
Session 2 | 5:00 PM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Hiba Tahir
Maceo Montoya
Mike Davis Reader
Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces
UC Davis
Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Director
Session 3 | 6:30 PM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Alejandra Perez
TUESDAY 02.13.2024
POETS PLACE/WRITERS RESIST READING
Vic Hurtado-Angulo, Reina Davis, Annalicia Aguilar, Imam Masri, Lola Olvera, Efren Castro, Selene Hofstetter, James Coats, Anastasia Fenald, Milly Itzhak
Tuesday, February 13th | Theatre INTS 1128
Rilla Askew
Prize for the Fire
University of Oklahoma
Session 3 | 3:30 PM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Shevaun Williams
Lou Berney
Dark Ride
Oklahoma City University
Edgar Award
Session 3 | 3:30 PM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Brett Deering
Robert Roensch
In the Morning, The City is the Prairie
Oklahoma City University
Session 3 | 3:30 PM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Carrie-Gardner
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare
Session 4 | 6:30 PM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Van-Wishingrad
Leah Myers
Thinning Blood: a Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
Session 4 | 6:30 PM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Blane Burroughs
WEDNESDAY 02.14.2024
Laird Hunt
Float Up, Sing Down
Brown University
National Book Award Finalist
Session 1 | 11:00 AM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Eva Sikelianos Hunt
Matthew Shenoda
The Way of the Earth
Brown University
Session 1 | 11:00 AM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Josephine-Sittenfeld
Marsha De La O
Creature
California State University at Channel Islands
Wednesday, February 14th | Theatre INTS 1128
Session 2 | 1:00-2:30 PM PST LIVE & VIRTUAL
Photo by Trinity Wheeler
Melissa Studdard
Dear Selection Committee
Lone Star College
Wednesday, February 14th | Theatre INTS 1128
Session 2 | 1:00-2:30 PM PST LIVE & VIRTUAL
Photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher
Lisa Teasley
Wednesday, February 14th | Theatre INTS 1128
Session 2 | 1:00-2:30 PM PST LIVE & VIRTUAL
Photo by Hector Martinez
Adrian Matejka
Last on His Feet
Poetry Magazine
Session 3 | 3:00 PM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Polina-Osherov - Vaughan Fielder
THURSDAY 02.15.2024
Katherine Vaz
D. Charles Whitney Reader
ABOVE THE SALT
Center for Fiction
Disquiet
Session 1 | 10:00 AM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Beowulf Sheehan
Jesse Nathan
Eggtooth
University of California at Berkeley
Session 2 | 1:30 PM PST VIRTUAL
Photo by Irena Yamboliev
Dave Eggers
Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Education
Pulitzer Prize
Thursday, February 15th | Theatre INTS 1128
Session 4 | 7:00-8:30 PM PST LivE & VIRTUAL
Photo by Brecht von Maele
Rigoberto Gonzalez
To the Boy Who Was Night
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
Shelley Memorial Award
Rutgers University
Thursday, February 15th | Theatre INTS 1128
Session 4 | 7:00-8:30 PM PST LIVE & VIRTUAL
Photo by Masha Hojjati
Quincy Troupe
Duende Poems, 1966–Now
American Book Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement
The Furious Flower Lifetime Achievement
Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement
Thursday, February 15th | Theatre INTS 1128
Session 4 | 7:00-8:30 PM PST LIVE & VIRTUAL
Photo by Chester Higgins
FRIDAY 02.16.2024
Kate Bolton Bonnici
A True & Just Record
Pepperdine University
Colorado Prize
Friday, February 16th | Theatre INTS 1128
Session 1 | 11:00-12:30 PM PST LivE & VIRTUAL
Photo by Ariella Maman
Jason Magabo Perez
I ask about what falls away
California State University San Marcos
San Diego Poet Laureate
Friday, February 16th | Theatre INTS 1128
Session 1 | 11:00-12:30 PM PST LIVE & VIRTUAL
Photo Courtesy of Cal State University San Marcos
Reza Aslan
An American Martyr in Persia
University of California at Riverside
James Joyce Award
Friday, February 16th | Theatre INTS 1128
Vickie Vértiz
Auto/Body
Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry
University of California at Santa Barbara
Friday, February 16th | Theatre INTS 1128
Kimberly Blaeser
Kimberly Blaeser - Native American Writer, Photographer, and Scholar
Stephen Minot Lecture
Ancient Light
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
In-Na-Po
Friday, February 16th | Theatre INTS 1128
Session 3 | 3:00-4:30 PM PST LIVE & VIRTUAL
Photo by John Fisher
Daisy Ocampo Diaz
Where We Belong: Chemehuevi and Caxcan Preservation of Sacred Mountains
California State University San Bernardino
Friday, February 16th | Theatre INTS 1128
Session 3 | 3:00-4:30 PM PST LIVE & VIRTUAL
Photo by LeeAna Salas Espinoza
Randi LeClair
2 Sundance Fellowships
Winner, 2023 Storytellers Initiative (with Tod Fuller)
Friday, February 16th | Theatre INTS 1128
Farnaz Fatemi
Sister Tongue
Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate
Friday, February 16th | Theatre INTS 1128
Session 4 | 6:30-7:00 PM PST LIVE & VIRTUAL
Photo by Paul-Skenaz
Cindy Juyoung Ok
Ward Toward
Yale Younger Poets Prize
Lambda Literary
Friday, February 16th | Theatre INTS 1128
Session 4 | 6:30-7:00 PM PST LIVE & VIRTUAL
Photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey
Event hosts, in order of appearance: Kali Veach, Katie Ford, Gretchen Potter, Victoria Hurtado-Angulo & Cixous LeCompte, Steven L Mandeville-Gamble & BrandElsa Pereira, Frances McCann, Rae Whitfield, Sheree Winslow, Hanna Pachman & Cait Johnson, Allison Moon, Debbie Ou & Chianne Rhodes Carrier, Veronica Vo & Zite Ezeh, Rachell Enriquez& Joaquin F. Tarango, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke & Tom Lutz, Kelsey Ferrell, Misha Choudhry, Michelle Raheja, and Sara Fowler.
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.
SPECIAL THANKS
The 47th Writers Week 2024 is made possible by support from the UCRArts; UCR Department of Ethnic Studies; UCR Department of English; UCR Department of Music; UCR Department of Sociology; UCR Department of Media and Cultural Studies; African Student Programs (ASP); UCR Department of Political Science; Center for Ideas in Society Faculty Commons Reclamation and Native American Communities, Pr. Wesley Leonard, Chair; UCR Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production; UCR Department for the Study of Religion; Holstein Family and Community Chair In Religious Studies, Pr. Melissa Wilcox; Asian Pacific Student Programs; Poets & Writers; Associate Professor and Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing and English, Pr. Alex Espinoza; UCR Center for Ideas and Society; California Center for Native Nations; UCR LGBT Resource Center; Native American Student Programs (NASP), Joshua Gonzales, Director; Dr. Clifford Trafzer, Distinguished Professor of History and Rupert and Jeanette Henry Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs; UCR Library; College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Dean’s Office; the Ratliff Family Creative Writing Endowment Fund; our partner the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), and is hosted by the UCR Department of Creative Writing.