45th UCR Writers Week Festival
February 12 and 14-18, 2022
Online. Free and open to the public
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February 19 Post-festival ticketed celebration with our Lifetime Achievement Award partner LA Review of Books. Learn more
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Sandra Cisneros, Linda Hogan and Ishmael Reed
2022 LA Review of Books (LARB) – UCR Department of Creative Writing Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees
Luis J. Rodriguez
D. Charles Whitney Reader
Cornelius Eady
Stephen Minot Lecture
45th UCR Writers Week Featured Writers
Emily Rapp Black, Kate Bonnici, Joy Castro, Anthony Cody, Lewis deSoto, Steve Erickson, Molly Fisk, Carribean Fragoza, Elizabeth Frances, Sesshu Foster, Edgar Gomez, Kimberly Guerrero, Daisy Hernandez, Gordon Lee Johnson, John Kinsella, Diane Lefer, Antonio de Jesús López, Tom Lutz, Isabella Madrigal, Sophia Madrigal, Juanita Mantz, Chloe Martinez, Rupa Marya, Rajiv Mohabir, Amanda Moore, Ibrahim Nasrallah, Daniel Olivas, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Kalani Queypo, Jasmine Elizabeth Smith, Susan Straight, Kim Shuck, Moheb Soliman, Richard Van Camp, Elissa Washuta, Kyle Lucia Wu, Luo Ying, anthology contributors from XLA Poets & Tlaculix, and musical guests The Cornelius Eady Trio & Rupa & the April Fishes!
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Saturday, February 12th
Monday February 14th
Tuesday, February 15th
Luis J. Rodriguez
From Our Land to Our Land: Essays, Journeys &
Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer,
Seven Stories Press
UCR MFA Candidates Creative Writing
& Writing for the Performing Arts
Hosts: Glaydah Namukasa, Gennyvera Pacheco
Readers: Rodolfo Avelar, Esther Banegas Gatica, Aron Brown, Efren Castro, Eileen Elizabeth, Lily Hart, Sarah Helms, Kristen Herbert, Victoria Hurtado-Angulo, Hannah Roberts, Yoselin Saucedo
Event Support: Anthony Shemaria
Wednesday, February 16th
Writers Resist
Readers include: Ashley Nicole Diaz, Eduardo Brandi, Sheree Winslow, Victoria Hurtado-Angulo, Celeste Alyssa Gomez, Cuauhtemoc Peranda, Michelle Nadine Martinez, Ruth Veronica Madrid, Efren Castro Assisted by Efren Castro, Marisela De La Mora & Brenda Delfino
Kimberly Guerrero
Film/Script
IMDB: Reservation Dogs, Rutherford Falls,
Catch the Fair One, Montana Story
Thursday, February 17th
Kate Bonnici
Night Burial,
Winner of the 2020 Colorado Prize for Poetry,
Colorado State University Press
Friday, February 18th
Juanita Mantz
Portrait of a Deputy Public Defender,
or how I became a punk rock lawyer,
Bamboo Dart Press
Daisy Hernandez
The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family,
an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease,
Tin House
Sandra Cisneros
LA Review of Books (LARB) – UCR Department of Creative Writing Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo, a story in English and Spanish, paperback,
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Books by Sandra Cisneros
Photo Credit: Keith Dannemiller
Linda Hogan
LA Review of Books (LARB) – UCR Department of Creative Writing Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree
History of Kindness, Torrey House Press
Photo Credit: Larry Henderson
Ishmael Reed
LA Review of Books (LARB) – UCR Department of Creative Writing Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree
The Terrible Fours, Baraka Books
Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico, Baraka Books
Bigotry on Broadway, Baraka Books
Why The Black Hole Sings The Blues,
Dalkey Archive Press
The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda,
Simon & Schuster
Photo Credit: Jason Henry
Saturday, February 19th
Sandra Cisneros
LA Review of Books (LARB) – UCR Department of Creative Writing Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo, a story in English and Spanish, paperback,
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Books by Sandra Cisneros
Photo Credit: Keith Dannemiller
Linda Hogan
LA Review of Books (LARB) – UCR Department of Creative Writing Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree
History of Kindness, Torrey House Press
Photo Credit: Larry Henderson
Ishmael Reed
LA Review of Books (LARB) – UCR Department of Creative Writing Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree
The Terrible Fours, Baraka Books
Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico, Baraka Books
Bigotry on Broadway, Baraka Books
Why The Black Hole Sings The Blues,
Dalkey Archive Press
The Haunting of Lin Manuel Miranda,
Simon & Schuster
Photo Credit: Jason Henry
SPECIAL THANKS
The 45h Writers Week 2022 is made possible by Inland Empire Magazine; Inequities in Health Faculty Commons; UCR Department of English; Thea Temple; UCR Department of Ethnic Studies; Asian Pacific Student Programs; UCR Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production; Dr. Melissa Wilcox, Professor and Holstein Family and Community Chair in Religious Studies; Endowed Chair Center for Ideas and Society; Dr. Michael Alexander, Associate Professor and Maimonides Chair of Jewish Studies; Associate Professor and Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing and English, Pr. Alex Espinoza; our generous sponsors through #UCRGivingTues; UCR Department of Political Science; Dr. Alfonso Gonzales Toribio, Advanced Associate Professor and Ronald H. Chilcote Chair; Distinguished Professor Emeritus Jane Smiley; UCR Department of Music; LGBT Resource Center; Distinguished Professor, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke; Reclamation and Native American Communities Faculty Commons; California Center for Native Nations; Center for Health Disparities Research; Dr. Clifford Trafzer, Distinguished Professor of History and Rupert and Jeanette Henry Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs; College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Dean’s Office; Native American Student Programs (NASP), Joshua Gonzales, Director; the Ratliff Family Creative Writing Endowment Fund; UCR ARTS and Los Angeles Review of Books.