BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Writers Week 2021: John Jennings\, Millicent Borges Accardi\, Joseph Cassara  X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260809T172445Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_35662952003781 DTSTART:20210219T023000Z DTEND:20210219T040000Z DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 18\nSession 4 - 6:30 pm PST \nRegister here \n\nJohn Jennings \nMillicent Borges Accardi \nJoseph Cassara\n\nUNIVERS ITY OF CALIFORNIA\, RIVERSIDE\nDepartment of Creative Writing\n\n44th Annu al Writers Week Festival 2021\n\nAllison Adelle Hedge Coke\, Writers Week director\nWriters Week is the longest-running\, free literary event in Cal ifornia and features the most renowned authors of our day alongside those at the start of promising careers. writersweek.ucr.edu\n\nAllison Adelle H edge Coke \nDirector\, Writers Week\nDistinguished Professor\n\nTom Lutz \ nPublisher\, Los Angeles Review of Books \nUCR Creative Writing Department Chair \nDistinguished Professor \n\n_____________________________\n\nFebr uary 13 and 16-19\, 2021\nONLINE. Free and open to the public. \nCaptioned & ASL translated.\nFebruary 20 Post-festival ticketed celebration with ou r Lifetime Achievement Award partner LA Review of Books. Learn more\n\nDow nload the Interactive Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees Poster here\n\nD ownload the Interactive 44th Writers Week Poster here\n___________________ __________\n\nRita Dove\, Joy Harjo and Juan Felipe Herrera\n\n2021 LA Rev iew of Books (LARB) – UCR Department of Creative Writing \nLifetime Achi evement Award Honorees\, US Poet Laureates\n\nMike Davis – D. Charles Wh itney Reader \nKaren Tei Yamashita – Stephen Minot Lecture\n\n44th UCR W riters Week Featured Writers \nMillicent Borges Accardi • Kazim Ali • Francisco Aragón • Joseph Cassara • Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle • C amille T. Dungy • Carolyn Dunn • Steve Erickson • Kelli Jo Ford • Reyna Grande • Stephanie Elizondo Griest • Nalo Hopkinson • LeAnne H owe • John Jennings • Stephen Graham Jones • Laila Lalami • Brandy Nālani McDougall • Shin Yu Pai • Craig Santos Perez • Tommy Pico • Elizabeth Powell • Kamala Puligandla • Alison C. Rollins • Jane Smiley • Michael Torres • Melissa Valentine • Allison Benis White\n\ n_____________________________\n\nSCHEDULE \nThursday\, Feb 18: \nSession 4 – 6:30 pm PST\n\nJohn Jennings \nAfter the Rain (Abrams Comic Arts – Megascope\, 2021) \nJohn Jennings\, UC Riverside\n\nMillicent Borges A ccardi \nOnly More So (Salmon Poetry)\n\nJoseph Cassara\nThe House of Impo ssible Beauties (HarperCollins\, 2018)\n\n_____________________________\n\ nBIOGRAPHIES\n\nJohn Jennings\nJohn Jennings is a Professor of Media and C ultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Cons tructions of the Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. Jennings is also a 2016 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Jennings’ current projects include the horror antho logy Box of Bones\, the coffee table book Black Comix Returns (with Damian Duffy)\, and the Eisner-winning\, Bram Stoker Award-winning\, New York Ti mes best-selling graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic da rk fantasy novel Kindred. Duffy and Jennings recently released their graph ic novelization of Octavia Bulter’s prescient dystopian novel Parable of the Sower (Abrams ComicArts). Jennings is also founder and curator of the ABRAMS Megascope line of graphic novels.\n\nMillicent Borges Accardi \nMi llicent Borges Accardi\, a Portuguese-American poet\, is the author of thr ee books: Injuring Eternity\, Only More So (Salmon Poetry Ireland 2016) an d Woman on a Shaky Bridge. Her awards include the NEA\, Fulbright\, CantoM undo\, California Arts Council\, FLAD\, Money for Women (Barbara Deming). Millicent holds degrees in English and writing from CSULB and the Universi ty of Southern California. \n\nJoseph Cassara \nJoseph Cassara is the auth or of The House of Impossible Beauties\, which won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. He is the George & Judy Marcus Chair in Creative Writing and Ass istant Professor at San Francisco State University. \n\n__________________ ___________\n\nThe 44th Writers Week 2021 is made possible by support from Ken Crocker\, Inland Empire Magazine\, Thea Temple / Jack and Jacob Myers Literary Fund\, Riverside Latino Network\, African Student Programs\, Mid dle Eastern Student Center\, UCR Department of English\, UCR Department of Ethnic Studies\, UCR Department of Music\, UCR Department of Theatre\, Fi lm\, and Digital Production\, Center for Ideas and Society\, California Ce nter for Native Nations\, Dr. Michael Alexander\, Associate Professor and Maimonides Chair of Jewish Studies\, Dr. Melissa Wilcox\, Professor and Ho lstein Endowed Chair\, Pr. Alex Espinoza\, Associate Professor\, Tomás Ri vera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing and English\, Distinguished Profess or\, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke\, Dr. Clifford Trafzer\, Distinguished Prof essor of History and Rupert and Jeanette Henry Costo Chair in American Ind ian Affairs\, UCR ARTS\, College of Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Science s Dean’s Office\, our generous sponsors through #UCRGivingTues donors\, Native American Student Programs Office (NASP)\, Joshua Gonzales\, Directo r\, the Ratcliffe Family Creative Writing Endowment Fund and Los Angeles R eview of Books.\n\n#UCRGivingTues* donors include: Mark O. Bailie\, Meliss a A. Bartholomew\, Katherine Benouar\, Kathleen DeAtley\, Clyde D. Derrick III\, Terri L. Dunlap\, Pr. Alex Espinoza\, Diana Fontaine\, Katherine K. Fugate\, Jeffrey J. Girod\, Kimberly V. Gomez-Fraser\, Pr. Allison Hedge Coke\, Travis B. Hedge Coke\, Dr. Laila Lalami\, Malinn C. Loeung\, Michae l Lundell\, Jennifer Merrett\, Heather M. Morales\, LaSharon A. McLean Per ez\, Cati Porter\, Rachel L. Pulido\, Assistant Vice Chancellor Emily M. R ankin and Eveleen D. Samayoa.\n\nBook purchases\nA hyperlink is now availa ble for all attendees to purchase books from our own campus B & N bookstor e here. Cellar Door Books is our recommended local independent store. Be s ure to stop by their page.\n\nInformation: writersweek@ucr.edu \n\n• FB UCR Writers Week\n• FB UCR Writers Resist\n• IG @ucrwritersweek \n• Twitter @ucrwritersweek \n• Twitter #ucrwritersresist \n\nClick here to read UC Riverside's statement of support for Black Lives Matter and Nativ e Land Recognitions. \n\nView the 44th Writers Week Events Calendar Direct ory here LOCATION: SUMMARY:Writers Week 2021: John Jennings\, Millicent Borges Accardi\, Josep h Cassara  URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.ucr.edu/event/writers_week_2021_john_jennings_ millicent_borges_accardi_joseph_cassara CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Conferences CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR