Writers Week is the longest-running, free literary event in California and features the most renowned authors of our day alongside those at the start of promising careers. writersweek.ucr.edu

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Director, Writers Week

Distinguished Professor

Department of Creative Writing / School of Medicine-Medical Humanities

Tom Lutz 

Publisher, Los Angeles Review of Books 

Distinguished Professor 

Department of Creative Writing

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February 12 & 14 - 18, 2022

ONLINE. Free and open to the public. 

Captioned & ASL interpreted.

Full 2022 Schedule 

Post-Festival Ticketed Event on February 19 with Los Angeles Review of Books

Download the Interactive 44th Writers Week Poster here

Download the Interactive Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees Poster here

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Wednesday, February 16

• SESSION 3: 6:30 p.m. PST Richard Van Camp, Isabella Madrigal & Sophia Madrigal 

Richard Van Camp (richardvancamp.com)

Gather: Richard Van Camp on the Joy of Storytelling

Publisher: University of Regina Press

Athabasca University

Richard Van Camp is a proud Tlicho Dene from Fort Smith, NWT. He is the best selling author of 26 books. His novel, Three Feathers, is now a feature film with First Generation Films and you can watch it on CBC Gems and Amazon. You can visit Richard on Facebook, Twitter, SoundCloud, YouTube and at www.richardvancamp.com He is best known for his 1996 novel The Lesser Blessed, which was adapted into a film by director Anita Doron in 2012.

Isabella Madrigal & Sophia Madrigal

Management: Artistic Endeavors

Instagram: @indigenoustorytelling

Isabella Madrigal is a enrolled member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians and is of Turtle Mountain Chippewa descent. An avid writer and storyteller, Isabella is the co-director of the Indigenous Storytelling Project, which seeks to reclaim the narrative surrounding the Indigenous experience and produced the original play Menil and Her Heart, designed to bring awareness to the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and center community performance. Nineteen year old Isabella is a recent graduate of the Orange County School of the Arts, and is currently attending Harvard College.

Sophia Madrigal is an actress, writer, and a senior at the Orange County School of the Arts. Recipient of the Inaugural GSUSA Gold award for work within the Luke Madrigal Indigenous Storytelling nonprofit.

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The 45th Writers Week 2022 is made possible by support from:

Inland Empire Magazine, UCR Department of Ethnic Studies, UCR Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production, Center for Ideas and Society, Dr. Melissa Wilcox, Professor and Holstein Endowed Chair, Dr. Michael Alexander, Professor and Maimonides Chair in Jewish Studies, Pr. Alex Espinoza, Associate Professor, Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing and English, Distinguished Professor, UCR Department of Music, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, California Center for Native Nations, Dr. Clifford Trafzer, Distinguished Professor of History and Rupert and Jeanette Henry Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs, UCR ARTS, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Dean’s Office, Native American Student Programs Office (NASP), Joshua Gonzales, Director, the Ratcliffe Family Creative Writing Endowment Fund, Los Angeles Review of Books, and our great Giving Tuesday donors!

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Information: writersweek@ucr.edu & allisonh@ucr.edu