Please join
us in San Antonio, Texas!
All events are free except the Sandra Cisneros Benefit Reading.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 6:30–8:30pm
Macondo 2018 Faculty Reading
Featuring:
Reyna Grande, Fiction Workshop Leader
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Poetry
Workshop Leader
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Creative
Nonfiction Workshop Leader
San Antonio Central Library
Latino Collection Resource Center
600 Soledad Street, San Antonio
THURSDAY, JULY 26, 8-10pm
Open Mic featuring Macondo participants
Viva Tacoland
103 W. Grayson St, San Antonio
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2018
2-5:30pm Seminars: The Act of Writing
2-3:30pm, Writing the Spirit: Spiriting
the Writer, Norma Cantú, Writer and Professor
4-5:30pm, Translation as a Generative
Strategy for Writing, John Pluecker, Poet
Modular B, Room B1G
Texas A&M University-San Antonio
One University Way
SanAntonio, Texas, 78224
7-9pm, Sandra Cisneros Benefit Reading
for the Macondo Writers Workshop
Suggested donation: $20
Books will be sold and signed by
Cisneros at the event. Credit cards only.
Auditorium
Texas A&M University-San Antonio
One University Way
SanAntonio, Texas, 78224
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2018
2-5:30pm, Seminars: Publishing and
Submitting Your Work
2-3:30pm, Publisher’s Panel, Juan
Tejeda, Aztlan Libre Press
4-5:30pm, Hitting Send: Literary
Submissions Strategies, Tisha Reichle, Writer
Modular B, Room B1G
Texas A&M University-San Antonio
One University Way
SanAntonio, Texas, 78224
ABOUT MACONDO WRITERS WORKSHOP
The Macondo Writers Workshop is an
association of socially-engaged writers working to advance creativity, foster
generosity, and serve community. Named after the town in Gabriel García
Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, the workshop gathers writers from all
genres who work on geographic, cultural, economic, gender, and spiritual
borders.
Macondo began in 1995 when Sandra
Cisneros, founder, gathered a group of 12 participants around her kitchen table
in San Antonio, Texas, to meet informally for rigorous writing workshops.
Today, Macondo has over two hundred lifetime members--affectionately referred
to as Macondistas. Macondo is a space for intense artistic and cultural creativity
where writers, artists, thinkers, scholars, and critics inspire and challenge
one another in order to incite change in their respective communities.
Macondo’s success is largely due to the
commitment of Cisneros, a literary champion who has worked tirelessly to foster
new voices—voices often overlooked by the established literary world. In
addition to the cultural and literary partners of the greater San Antonio
community, Macondo has also relied on the commitment of its previous
participants—many who return as teachers and volunteers each summer.
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