2018 Macondo Writers Workshop, July 24-29, to include Sandra Cisneros reading
Macondo Writers Workshop will hold their annual event July 24–29, 2018, at Texas A&M University–San Antonio. Events include a special reading and book signing with Sandra Cisneros on Friday, July 27, at 7 p.m. at the university auditorium. Suggested donation is $20, and all funds raised will benefit Macondo.
Founded in 1995 by writer Sandra Cisneros, who gathered a group of writers, artists, scholars, and activists in her San Antonio home for informal writing workshops, Macondo is now a master’s level workshop for professional writers in all genres, with a formal, blind, peer-review application process. Once a writer has been accepted into Macondo they become Macondistas and are welcome to return annually. The workshop currently counts more than two hundred lifetime members.
Named after the town in Gabriel García Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, Macondo Writers Workshop gathers writers who work on geographic, cultural, economic, gender, and spiritual borders. An essential aspect of the Macondo Workshop is a global sense of foster community; participants recognize their place as writers in our society and the world, and to this end the workshop seeks a diverse array of perspectives and aims to engage in a dynamic conversation on the many ways the literary arts can be a catalyst for transformation in our contemporary American society.
This year’s workshop leaders are Reyna Grande, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. Seminar instructors include Norma Cantú, John Pluecker, Juan Tejeda of Aztlan Libre Press, and Tisha Reichle.
For more information, a complete schedule of events, and volunteer opportunities, visit www.macondowriters.com.
(Information Compiled from Macondo Writers Workshop website)
4th Annual Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop set for Oct. 13-14
Now in its fourth year, the Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop annual event will feature writing coaches, agents, and publishers from around the country, October 13-14, 2018.
The two-day workshop event will be held in Midland, at the Marie Hall Academic Building at Midland College.
The workshop will feature ten speakers, including Margie Lawson, Christie Craig, Manning Wolfe, David Farland, Reavis Z. Wortham, Kristen Marten, Stephen Graham Jones, Donna M. Johnson, B. Alan Bourgeois and Arlene Gale.
Twenty-one workshop topics will be covered, including deep editing techniques, character building, writing a thriller, how to launch your writing career quickly and marketing, renegade style.
The Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and is organized by the Permian Basin Bookies in collaboration Midland College.
For more information, visit www.permianbasinwritersworkshop.org
(Information from organization’s press release)
Texas Sports Hall of Fame to hold second annual Book Festival August 11
WACO — The Texas Sports Hall of Fame has announced its second annual book festival for August 11, 2018, starting at 10 a.m.
Presented by Waco City Cable Channel, the festival will feature authors and athletes from across the state. A limited number of VIP tickets are available (email jay.black@tshof.org to reserve). VIP ticket holders are entitled to preferred seating and signed book drawings.
Featured authors include:
• John A. Wood, Beyond the Ballpark: The Honorable, Immoral, and Eccentric Lives of Baseball Legends (Rowman & Littlefield)
• Michael Hurd, Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas (University of Texas Press)
• T.G. Webb, Battle of the Brazos: A Texas Football Rivalry, A Riot and a Murder (Texas A&M University Press)
• Chad Conine, Texas Sports: Unforgettable Stories for Every Day of the Year (University of Texas Press)
• Jon Peters, When Life Grabs You by the Baseballs: Finding Happiness in Life’s Changeups (Author Academy Elite)
• Dr. Jorge Iber, More Than Just Peloteros: Sport and U.S. Latino Communities (Texas Tech University Press)
“Part of the mission of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame is to promote literacy and scholarship through Texas sports history. We are excited to bring in top writers from around the state. Many of the books deal with important issues like race relations and how athletics have impacted integration,” said Jay Black, TSHOF vice president of operations.
The format of the festival will be broken down into one-hour slots, during which each of the authors will have the option to present their work and have time for a Q&A session. There will be tables set up in the Red McCombs Great Hall, where the authors will have book signings.
The festival will be hosted at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in Waco from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.
For more information about the book festival or the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, visit tshof.org or call 254-756-1633.
About the Texas Sports Hall of Fame
The Texas Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, located in Waco, Texas, chronicles the heroes and legends of Lone Star State sports at all levels, including high school standouts, Olympians and professionals. Established in 1993, the organization’s mission is to preserve the legacies of all inductees and the history of sports in Texas to educate and inspire guess of all ages. Home to over 300 Texas Legends, the museum the Texas Tennis Museum and Hall of Fame and Texas High School Football Hall of Fame.
(Information from organization’s press release)
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