[Crwt-undergrad-info] Students, alumni, This Festival is for You! Registration is open! Save your spot today!

Sat Jan 27 20:15:58 PST 2024

Please note the necessary correction for Host Veronica Vo's name, included
in roster on 2/15 10:00am below!

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Join us for the 47th annual UCR Writers Week Festival!!!!!!

https://writersweek.ucr.edu

https://writersweek.ucr.edu/schedule2024

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*47th UCR Writers Week Festival on Crowdcast *

*All Events are Free to Attend and All are Welcome!*

*FEB*

*10*

*1:00pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival : Noah Arjomand & Randi LeClair FILM
SCREENINGS | Prelude Session Saturday | Kali Veach, Host*

Bridge (Sundance) Short Film Racial tensions sizzle in small-town diner
Randi LeClair (Pawnee Nation) Filmmaker Eat your Catfish (PBS) Feature Film
A documentary about a mother with late-stage ALS "Dark humor and
extraordinary intimacy" Noah Amir Arjomand is an author and filmmaker at
UCR

Register for Virtual Screening https://www.crowdcast.io/c/5tqb5s5z5ibt

*FEB*

*12*

*3:00pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival**: MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for
the Performing Arts READING from study in fiction, poetry, nonfiction,
screenwriting, and playwriting | Session 1 Monday | Katie Ford, Host*

MFA Student & Candidate Readers TBA

*LIVE* in Interdisciplinary South (INTS) 1128

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/5bx2eptghf5q

*FEB*

*12*

*5:00pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival: **Jessica Johns, Marcie Rendon, Andrea
Rogers | Session 2 Monday | Gretchen Potter, Host*

Jessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty & author of Bad Cree. Marcie Rendon, White
Earth Ojibwe – author, poet, playwright – Cash Blackbear crime series –
Sinister Graves Andrea L. Rogers – Cherokee writer, horror, historical
fiction..– writes things moving and scary – Man Made Monsters

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/eq4e5im9sr18

*FEB*

*12*

*6:30pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival: **Tim Z. Hernandez, Maceo Montoya, Justin
Torres | Session 3 Monday | Victoria Hurtado-Angulo & Cixous LeCompte,
Hosts*

Tim Z. Hernandez' awarded in fiction, non-fiction, & poetry. Some of the
Light: New & Selected Poems Maceo Montoya – author, visual artist, UC Davis
prof. Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces Justin Torres – winner of
the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction for Blackouts

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/7uyhk49wqogo

*FEB*

*13*

*12:00pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival :**George M. Johnson | SPECIAL | SESSION 1
Tuesday | Steven L Mandeville-Gamble & BrandElsa Pereira, Hosts*

George M Johnson, Award-Winning Black Non-Binary Writer, Author, and
Executive Producer located in the LA area. New York Times Bestselling Young
Adult memoir All Boys Aren’t Blue, Salute to Excellence Award by the
National Association of Black Journalists – We Are Not Broken

*LIVE* in Interdisciplinary South (INTS) 1128

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/zo06t9aribrm

*FEB*

*13*

*2:00pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival: POETS PLACE/WRITERS RESIST READING |
Session 2 Tuesday | Frances McCann, Host*

Poets Place/WRITERS RESIST R'Garden Students read Louder Together for Free
Expression. Student & MFA Candidate Readers TBA

*LIVE* in Interdisciplinary South (INTS) 1128

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/hdisz7rdb60g

*FEB*

*13*

*3:30pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival: Rilla Askew, Lou Berney, Robert Roensch |
Session 3 Tuesday | Rae Whitfield, Host*

Rilla Askew, American Book Award, Arts & Letters Award novelist, essayist,
author of Prize for the Fire. Lou Berney Edgar, Hammett, Dagger, Anthony,
Barry, Macavity awards – November Road Rob Roensch, novel, In the Morning,
The City is the Prairie (Belle Point Press, 2023)

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/9nkteixckv8w

*FEB*

*13*

*6:30pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival**: Marie Alohalani Brown, Megan Kamalei
Kakimoto, Leah Myers | Session 4 Tuesday | Sheree Winslow, Host*

Marie Alohalani Brown (Kanaka ʻŌiwi) UHM Professor Ka Poʻe Moʻo Akua:
Hawaiian Reptilian Water Deities Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Every Drop Is a
Man’s Nightmare, USA Today bestseller Leah Myers, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe
in Washington, NYT notable memoir THINNING BLOOD

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/4afukim3rr3d

*FEB*

*14*

*11:00am*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival**: Laird Hunt, Matthew Shenoda, Eleni
Sikelianos, Marc Vincenz | Session 1 Wednesday | Hanna Pachman & Cait
Johnson, Hosts*

Laird Hunt 8 novels, NBA finalist for ZORRIE–FLOAT UP, SING DOWN Matthew
Shenoda quotidian beauty despite deep loss The Way of the Earth Eleni
Sikelianos' most recent book is Your Kingdom–her 12th Marc Vincenz 30+
books of poetry, fiction, translation–The Pearl Diver of Irunmani

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/vxpewem2qop1

*FEB*

*14*

*1:00pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival: Elena Karina Byrne, Marsha De La O,
Melissa Studdard, Lisa Teasley | Session 2 Wednesday | Allison Moon, Host*

Elena Karina Byrne celebrates poetry's cinematic propositions–If This Makes
You Nervous Marsha de la O–CREATURE in otherness, these poems stand
proximate to mystery Melissa Studdard–author Dear Selection Committee Lisa
Teasley–GLOW IN THE DARK, DIVE, HEAT SIGNATURE–FLUID Stories

*LIVE* in Interdisciplinary South (INTS) 1128

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/18c3l5oa4g8d

*FEB*

*14*

*3:00pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival**: Aaron Boothby, Lizzie Davis, Tanya
Frank, Adrian Matejka | Session 3 Wednesday | Debbie Ou & Chianne Rhodes
Carrier, Hosts *

Aaron Boothby–poet– author of Continent Lizzie Davis–writer, editor,
translator–The Devil of the Provinces, NBA Longlist Tanya Frank–ZIG ZAG
BOY: MEMOIR OF MADNESS & MOTHERHOOD Adrian Matejka–Anisfield-Wolf Book &
NBA awarded poet, Editor of Poetry Magazine–LAST ON HIS FEET

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/08766qpp5avu

*FEB*

*15*

*10:00am*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival**: Emily Marie Passos Duffy, Katherine Vaz
| Session 1 Thursday| Veronica Vo & Zite Ezeh, Hosts*

Emily Marie Passos Duffy–poet, performing artist, co-founder of Working
Girls Press, author of Hemorrhaging Want & Water KATHERINE VAZ’S recent
novel is ABOVE THE SALT, People Magazine Book of the WeekTop 15 for
November, 2023 from Good Morning, America

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/tdwdy3t9zcpr

*FEB*

*15*

*1:30pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival**: Jose Hernandez Diaz, Sandra Meek, Jesse
Nathan | Session 2 Thursday  | Kati Ford, Host*

Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of The Fire Eater, Bad Mexican, Bad American (+
in 2025 The Parachutist) Poet, editor, professor, Sandra Meek is the author
of Still Jesse Nathan's first book of poems, Eggtooth, September 2023
(foreword Robert Hass)

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/zczo5rypz2l5

*FEB*

*15*

*3:30pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival**: Brendan Shay Basham, Erik Bitsui, Stacie
Denetsosie | Session 3 Thursday | Rachell Enriquez & Joaquin F. Tarango,
Hosts*

Brendan Shay Basham (Diné) poet, novelist–SWIM HOME TO THE VANISHED Erik
Bitsui–Navajo Headbanger Extraordinaire 3000–Mosh PIt Etiquette Vol 1:
Secrets of a 21st Century Navajo Headbanger Stacie Denetsosie–Navajo Nation
citizen–Debut–The Missing Morningstar and Other Stories

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*FEB*

*15*

*7:00pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival**: LARB–UCR Dept of Creative Writing 9th
Annual Lifetime Achievement Awards Ceremony, celebrating honorees Dave
Eggers, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Quincy Troupe | Session 4 |Thursday  Allison
Adelle Hedge Coke & Tom Lutz, Hosts*

Dave Eggers–founder of McSweeney's–author of many books–The Honor of Your
Presence, The Eyes and the Impossible Esteemed poet & biographer of iconic
American figures, Quincy Troupe–Duende Rigoberto González–award-winning
author & distinguished professor–To the Boy Who Was Night

*LIVE* in Interdisciplinary South (INTS) 1128

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/vyhe26vwpry1

*FEB*

*16*

*11:00am*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival**: Kate Bolton Bonnici, Donato Martinez,
Cati Porter, Jason Magabo Perez | Session 1 Friday | Kelsey Ferrell, Host*

Kate Bolton Bonnici–Pepperdine Univ–Night Burial, A True & Just Record
Donato Martinez–teaches for Santa Ana College–Touch The Sky Cati Porter,
author of small mammals and executive director of Inlandia Jason Magabo
Perez–San Diego Poet Laureate–I ask about what falls away

*LIVE* in Interdisciplinary South (INTS) 1128

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*FEB*

*16*

*1:00pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival**: Reza Aslan, Minda Honey, Vickie Vértiz,
Issam Zineh | Session 2 Friday | Misha Choudhry, Host*

Reza Aslan–James Joyce award–An American Martyr in Persia Minda Honey
(Mindahoney.com)–author of The Heartbreak Years Vickie Vértiz–Ernest
Sandeen Prize in Poetry Notre Dame–Auto/Body Issam Zineh
Palestinian-American poet and scientist–Unceded Land

*LIVE* in Interdisciplinary South (INTS) 1128

Register for Virtual attendance https://www.crowdcast.io/c/15szr11kfexx

*FEB*

*16*

*3:00pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival**: Kimberly Blaeser, Daisy Ocampo Diaz,
Randi LeClair | Session 3  Friday | Michelle Raheja, Host*

Kimberly Blaeser–Anishinaabe, In-Na-Po founder, 6 poetry books–Ancient
Light. Dr. Daisy Ocampo Diaz–Decolonize Public History–Where We Belong:
Chemehuevi and Caxcan Preservation of Sacred Mountains Randi LeClair
(Pawnee Nation) Filmmaker–Native stories based in rural Oklahoma

*LIVE* in Interdisciplinary South (INTS) 1128

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*FEB*

*16*

*6:30pm*

*47th UCR Writers Week Festival**: Farnaz Fatemi, Cindy Yuyoung Ok,
Prageeta Sharma | Session 4 Friday | Carlina Perna & Sara Fowler, Hosts*

Farnaz Fatemi, Iranian American poet and writer and Santa Cruz County Poet
Laureate for 2023 & 2024–SISTER TONGUE Cindy Juyoung Ok’s Ward Toward won
the Yale Younger Poets Prize Prageeta Sharma is the author of five poetry
collections, most recently Grief Sequence

*LIVE* in Interdisciplinary South (INTS) 1128

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