MACONDO CELEBRATES NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

 

From Macondo Workshop, www.MacondoWriters.com

 

 

 

Please join us virtually on April 22, 2022 at 6:30pm CT for our fundraiser to support this year's Macondo Writers Workshop.  

 

We have a stellar lineup: 

Natalia Treviño

Willie Perdomo

Kay Ulanday Barrett

jo reyes-boitel 

Reggie Scott Young  

 

Emcee:  Urayoán Noel.

 

Zoom Link:

https://trinity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_s4H9B8vxQiaMNUz7wifRNg

 

Donations:

https://web.cvent.com/event/a3efdc44-631d-46a4-976f-3378da2a20b0/summary

 

 

See you there!

 

 

The Macondo Writers Workshop is an association of socially-engaged writers working to advance creativity, foster generosity, and serve community. Founded in 1995 by writer Sandra Cisneros and 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 Public Reading

Please join us this Friday, July 25, from 7:00-9:00pm, at the historic Guadalupe theater in San Antonio Texas for a FREE PUBLIC READING by notable "MACONDISTAS" (a group of socially engaged professional writers and participants of this year's Summer Macondo Workshop) 

Confirmed readers include: San Antonio poet laureate, Laurie Ann Guerrero, former San Antonio poet laureate Carmen Tafolla, Gabriela Lemmons, Joe Jimenez, Jose B. Gonzalez, Ben Olguin, Rene Colato Lainez and more talented writers.

About The Macondo Workshops: 

The Macondo workshops started in 1995 at the kitchen table of the poet and writer Sandra Cisneros in San Antonio. These yearly workshops aimed to bring together a community of poets, novelists, journalists, performance artists, and creative writers of all genres whose work is socially engaged. Their work and talents are part of a larger task of community-building and non-violent social change. What united them was a commitment to work for under-served communities through their writing. 

With the blessing of its founder and the board of the Macondo Foundation, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center administers the summer Macondo workshops.

This unique environment is unlike any other literary initiative in the United States. It is premised in Cisneros’ vision to create a homeland for writers who are working in underserved communities. Macondo has fostered a vibrant and growing community of writers who view their writing as way of giving back to the community and changing lives by fostering literacy.