A panel of three UCR MFA graduates. Ashanti Anderson’s Black Under (2021) won the Black Lawrence Press Black River Chapbook Competition. Ruben Quesada is the founder of Mercy Street, a monthly online poetry reading series begun as a response to the CoVid pandemic. His latest work is Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry (2022). Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ] (2022), winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.

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Join the most celebrated authors in America and the best up-and-coming writers at the most important literary event in Southern California. writersweek.ucr.edu

The most diverse and longest-running free literary festival in California, UCR Writers Week will mark its 46th year in 2023. This February, we will honor two highly acclaimed writers, Percival Everett and Mike Davis, along with thirty-one other authors.

Writers Week is free to attend and open to the public. We hope you'll join us for another fantastic event!

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2023 UCR Writers Week

February 13-17, 2023

Free and open to the public.
Hybrid event (online with four in-person sessions that will be simulcast to the web).
Advance registration required.

Captioned & ASL interpreted.

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Book purchases

Books will be available for purchase from our own campus Barnes & Noble College Bookstore and Cellar Door Books, our recommended local independent store.

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Information: writersweek@ucr.edu

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Tom Lutz 
Chair / Director, Writers Week
Publisher, Los Angeles Review of Books 
Distinguished Professor
Department of Creative Writing

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Co-Director, Writers Week
Distinguished Professor
Department of Creative Writing / School of Medicine-Medical Humanities