Congratulations to Edgar Gomez!<div><br></div><div>(Also other Writers Week authors, Bojan Louis’ in his second ABA, first was in poetry, this is fiction and Maxine Hong Kingston! </div><div><br></div><div>Yay, EDGAR!</div><div><br></div><div>The 2023 American Book Award winners will be formally recognized on Sunday, October 1, 2023, from 2:00–4:30 p.m., Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/100+Larkin+St.,+San+Francisco,+CA.+94102?entry=gmail&source=g">100 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA. 94102</a>. This event is free and open to the public.<br><div><br></div><div>The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America’s diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions. There are no categories, no nominees, and therefore no losers. The award winners range from well-known and established writers to under-recognized authors and first works. There are no quotas for diversity, the winners list simply reflects it as a natural process. The Before Columbus Foundation views American culture as inclusive and has always considered the term “multicultural” to be not a description of various categories, groups, or “special interests,” but rather as the definition of all of American literature. The Awards are not bestowed by an industry organization, but rather are a writers’ award given by other writers.</div><div><br></div><div>The 2023 American Book Award Winners</div><div><br></div><div>Ayanna Lloyd Banwo</div><div>When We Were Birds: A Novel (Doubleday)</div><div>Edgar Gomez</div><div>High Risk Homosexual: A Memoir (Soft Skull)</div><div>Kelly Lytle Hernández</div><div>Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (W. W. Norton & Company)</div><div>Everett Hoagland</div><div>The Ways: Poems of Affirmation, Remembrance, Reflection and Wonder (North Star Nova Press)</div><div>Anne F. Hyde</div><div>Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West</div><div>(W.W. Norton & Company) </div><div>Jamil Jan Kochai</div><div>The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories (Viking)</div><div>Aidan Levy</div><div>Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins (Hachette Books)</div><div>Bojan Louis</div><div>Sinking Bell: Stories (Graywolf Press)</div><div>Leila Mottley</div><div>Nightcrawling: A Novel (Knopf)</div><div>Darryl Pinckney</div><div>Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan</div><div> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)</div><div>Sherry Shenoda</div><div>Mummy Eaters (University of Nebraska Press)</div><div>Mosab Abu Toha</div><div>Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza (City Lights Books)</div><div>Javier Zamora</div><div>Solito: A Memoir (Hogarth)</div><div>Lifetime Achievement Award</div><div>Maxine Hong Kingston</div><div>Anti-Censorship Award</div><div>Neta C. Crawford</div><div>The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions</div><div>(MIT Press)</div><div>Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism</div><div>bell hooks</div><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="1"><br></font></div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><span>In the end, our actions and inactions are our measure and our grace –</span><em><font size="1"><br></font></em></font></span></div><div><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><span><br></span></font></span></div><div><i style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Weird Times, Be Kind</i><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif"><i><br></i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Allison</i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif"><i>She/her</i></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif"><a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/allisonh" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Allison Adelle Hedge Coke</a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:garamond,serif"><a href="http://writersweek.ucr.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Writers Week</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/shop/products/look-at-this-blue" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:garamond,serif" target="_blank">Look at This Blue </a></div></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1" color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.allisonhedgecoke.com" target="_blank">www.allisonhedgecoke.com</a><br></font><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>
<br></div><br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, </i></font><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Distinguished Professor of </i><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Creative Writing</i></div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif">**She/her & </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Surname is Hedge Coke, no hyphen**</span></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="1"><i><br></i></font></div><div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><i> Weird Times, Be Kind</i></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><i><br></i></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/allisonh" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Allison Adelle Hedge Coke</a></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Director, </span><a href="http://writersweek.ucr.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Writers Week 2021, 2022</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">, Co-Director in Spring 2023 </span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Director, Medical Health and Humanities DE, UCR School of Medicine</div></i></font><div><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Director, </i><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Along the Chaparral, Sandhill Crane Fest</i></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity (SEHE), affiliated faculty</i></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>author/editor of 18 books<br></i></font></div><font face="georgia, serif"><div><i><font color="#222222">Most recent release, National Book Award Finalist, winner Emory Elliot Book Award, Finalist for the Firecracker Award and ASLE Book Award</font></i> </div><div><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/shop/products/look-at-this-blue" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Look at This Blue </a></i></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="tel:(951)+827-5421" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">(951) 827-5421</a> department staff<br></div></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif">(909) 848-3803 messages - VM/text</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>