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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Thursday, February 17

• SESSION 1: 10:00 a.m. PST Diane Lefer & Ibrahim Nasrallah

Diane Lefer (dianelefer.weebly.com)

Out of Place

Publisher: Fomite Press  

Diane Lefer writes, advocates for social justice, and works with non-human animals. Her most recent novel, Out of Place, looks at how the War on Terror changed the lives of people far from the attacks and the battlefield – and includes rattlesnakes, bears, one good dog, and lots of cats.

Ibrahim Nasrallah (Facebook)

Time of White Horses

A Palestinian Odyssey

Born in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were uprooted from their land in 1948; he writes in Arabic and has published to date 14 poetry collections, 22 novels, and books in literate and film critics. Nasrallah has received many literature awards including the Booker Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2018, the Katara Prize for Arabic Novels in 2016 and 2020. Many of his books are published in other languages including English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Turkish and Farsi.

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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