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 2: 1:30 p.m. PST Chloe Martinez, Emily Rapp Black & Susan Straight

Chloe Martinez (chloeavmartinez.com)

Ten Thousand Selves

Publisher: The Word Works

Claremont McKenna College

Chloe Martinez is a poet and scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works) and the chapbook Corner Shrine. A former Mellon Mays Fellow and Holden Scholar, her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah and elsewhere. She works at Claremont McKenna College.

Emily Rapp Black (emilyrappblack.com)

Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg

Sanctuary

Publishers: Notting Hills Editions & Penguin Random House

Associate Professor at University of California, Riverside

Emily Rapp Back is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir; The Still Point of the Turning World, which was a New York Times bestseller; Sanctuary; and Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg

Susan Straight

Susan Straight has published eight novels, including the national bestseller Highwire Moon, and one memoir, In the Country of Women, a Best Book of the year for NPR, Code Switch, and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence.  Her new novel, Mecca, will be released on March 15, 2022.  She has received the Edgar Award for Mystery, the Lannan Prize for Fiction, an O Henry Prize, and a Guggenheim Award.

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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