University of California, Riverside
Department of Creative Writing

presents:

D.A. Powell

part of

49th UCR Writers Week Festival 2026

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

Josh Emmons, Professor
Allison White, Professor
Co-Directors, Writers Week

Download the 2026 Writers Week Poster

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BIO

D. A. Powell is the author of five collections, including Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His honors include two Northern California Book Awards, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and the John Updike Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is a Professor at University of San Francisco and lives in San Francisco.

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Tuesday - Friday, May 5 - 8, 2026

Free and open to the public

In-person: INTS 1113 (unless otherwise noted below)

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PARKING

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49th UCR Writers Week Featured Writers 

Caro De Robertis, Anel Flores, A.M. Sosa, Emily Weinstein, Jose Valdi, Emily Doyle, Johnathan Lethem, Ilya Kaminsky, D.A. Powell, Viet Nguyen, and more.

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SCHEDULE
subject to change
 

Tuesday, May 5:

• 11 a.m. Caro De Robertis (Fiction writer)

• 1 p.m. Anel Flores (Fiction writer)

• 3 p.m. A.M. Sosa (Fiction writer)

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Wednesday, May 6

• 11 a.m. Emily Weinstein (Nonfiction writer) CANCELED

• 1 p.m. Jose Vadi (Essayist and Poet)

• 3 p.m. Prageeta Sharma (Poet)

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Thursday, May 7

• 11 a.m. Mosaic Reading (UCR literary journal-affiliated undergraduates)

• 1 p.m. Emily Doyle (Fiction writer and UCR MFA alum)

• 3 p.m. Jonathan Lethem (Fiction writer)

• 5 p.m. "Mija" film screening (INTS 1128)

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Friday, May 8

• 11. a.m. Ilya Kaminsky (Poet)

• 1 p.m. D.A. Powell (Poet)

• 3 p.m. Viet Thanh Nguyen (Fiction writer)

• 4:45 p.m. – 6 p.m. MFA Students Reading

• 7 p.m. - UCR alumnus Ching-In Chen (at the Heritage House)

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SPECIAL THANKS

The 49th Writers Week 2026 is hosted by the UCR Department of Creative Writing.

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SPONSORS

CHASS Dean’s Office, the Center for Ideas & Society, Inland Empire magazine, the National Book Award Society

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BOOK PURCHASES
Cellar Door Books is our recommended local independent store. Be sure to stop by their page.

Information: writersweek@ucr.edu

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