Xicanerati @AWP -- Chicanao Events in Austin -- C Y'all in Tejas!

AWP Conference, Austin, Tejas
March 9-11, 2006
Chicano/Latino Events*


Thursday, March 9, 2006

9:00-10:15AM

Translation as a School for Writers. (Liliana Valenzuela & others) Austin Hilton Salon D, 4th floor

10:30-11:45AM

1 Market, 2 Tongues: Bilingual Writing in the United States. (Alicia Partnoy) Austin Hilton Salon D, 4th floor

The Formlessness of Form in Fiction. (Rigoberto Gonzá lez & others) Austin Hilton Salon E, 4th floor

CLMP Keynote Address (Nicolá s Kanellos) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 6AB, 3rd floor south

1:30-2:45PM

Poetry Santa Fe. (Valerie Martí nez & others) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 406, 4th floor

Writing the Border: Fiction from the Lower Rio Grande Valley. (José Skinner, René Saldañ a, Juan Ochoa) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 5ABC, 3rd floor south

3:00-4:15PM

Mysticism, Medicines, and the Other: Writing Traditions in Place. (Norma Cantú , J. Michael Martinez, Pat Mora, Alexander Parsons, Alberto Rí os, Margaret Yocom) Austin Hilton Salon A, 4th floor

Desde el Volcá n: Momotombo Press Reading/Discussion. (Francisco Aragó n, Steven Cordova, Brenda Cá rdenas, Paul Martí nez-Pompa, Lisa Gonzales, Michelle Otero) Austin Convention Center Mtg Rm 5ABC, 3rd floor south

Under a Western Sky: A Collaborative Reading from Four New Mexico Presses. (Lisa D. Chá vez & others) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 7, 3rd floor south

4:30-6:15PM

The Virginia G. Piper Center Presents: A Reading by Dagoberto Gilb & Chitra Divakaruni

Austin Convention Center Grand Ballroom

6:00 - 8:30 PM
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Con Tinta Celebration

Achievement Awards to Rolando Hinojosa-Smith & raúlrsalinas.

The Quetzal Quill Reading by Diana Delgado, Brenda Cárdenas, & Lorna Dee Cervantes.

Doña Emilia's South American Bar and Grill -- 101 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, TX

(512-478-2520 / www.donaemilias.com)

Open buffet Cash bar

No Admission Public is Invited
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Friday, March 10, 2006

9:00-10:15AM

Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft. (Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Gustavo Perez Firmat, Steven G. Kellman) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 8ABC, 3rd floor south

10:30-11:45AM

Camino del Sol: University Presses and Latino Voices. (Ray Gonzalez, Maria Melendez, Virgil Suarez, Gina Franco) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 410, 4th floor

A Blue School in a Red State. (Valerie Martinez & others) Austin Convention Ctr Mtg Rm 9ABC, 3rd floor south

12:00-1:15PM

Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say Brings You The Latino Literary Renaissance. (Alvaro Saar Rios, Elisa Garza, Tony Diaz, Russel Contreras, Armando Gonzalez, Carolina Monsivais) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 410, 4th floor
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Chicano Politics and the Activist-Writer in American Literature. (Rigoberto Gonzá lez, Helena Maria Viramontes, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Benjamin Alire Saenz) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 9ABC, 3rd floor south
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1:30-2:45PM

Prairie Schooner Reading and Celebration. (Judith Ortiz Cofer) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 410, 4th floor

3:00-4:15PM

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Reading. (David Hernandez) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 404, 4th floor

Fiesta! A Reading in Celebration of the New MFA at the University of New Mexico. (Lisa D. Chá vez, Joy Harjo & others) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 4ABC, 3rd floor south

Primeros Libros: A Reading. (Sheryl Luna, Francisco Aragó n, Lidia Torres, Blas Manuel De Luna, Urayoá n Noel) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 5ABC, 3rd floor south

7:00PM

Red Salmon Arts presents a Reading and Book Signing by Sylvia Torti, author of The Scorpion's Tail.

Resistencia Bookstore casa de Red Salmon Arts, 1801-A South First St., Austin, Tejas, 512-416-8885.


Saturday, March 11, 2006

12:00-1:15PM

Twenty Mexican Poets. Austin Hilton Meeting Room 410, 4th floor

Our Word/Nuestra Palabra: Getting More Color in MFA Programs. (Tony Diaz, Amanda Marie Pennelly, Denise Victoria Burrell-Stinson, Russell Contreras) Austin Hilton Salon B, 4th floor

Multi-versities: Women Poets from Korea, Austria, Romania, & Latin America. (Rosa Alcala & others)

Austin Hilton Salon D, 4th floor

Crossing Americas. (C.M. Mayo, Jose Skinner) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 10AB, 3rd floor south

Saturday, March 11, 2006 (contd.)

12:00-1:15PM

Border (W) rites: The Risks and Rituals of Voices Rooted in a Texas-Mexico Landscape. (Norma Cantú , Carolina Monsivais, René Saldañ a, Jr., Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Richard Yañ ez)

Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 9ABC, 3rd floor south

1:00-1:45PM

Emerging Latina Voices. (Kathleen de Azevedo, Christine Granados, Margo Tamez) Austin Convention Center Bookfair Amphitheater, 1st floor

1:30-2:45PM

Writing the West: A Discussion of Writers’ Geographic Proximity to Vast and Complex Subject Matter. (Daniel Mueller, Michelle Brooks, Emmy Pé rez, Gregory Martin, Jack Trujillo, Grady Jaynes) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 602, 6th floor

We Bring You the Border: Writers of the Rio Grande Valley. (Deborah Wardlaw Pattillo, Xavier Garza, Diana Lopez, Kim Henkel, David Rice, Marisa Taylor Molina) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 4ABC, 3rd floor south

BOA Editions 30th Anniversary Reading. (Michael Waters, Lola Haskins, Richard Garcia, Mary Crow) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 8ABC, 3rd floor south

3:00-4:15PM

Maetros y Protegidos: A Reading by Latino Mentors and Their Proteges. (Richard Yañ ez, Helena Maria Viramontes, Manuel Muñ oz, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lorraine Marie Lopez) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 410, 4th floor

Lone Star Literature: Texas Writing Today. (Oscar Casares, Stephen Harrigan, Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Betsy Berry, Don Graham) Austin Hilton Meeting Room 412, 4th floor

Macondo:The Workshop de las Fronteras. (Pablo Miguel Martinez, Belinda Acosta, Sandra Cisneros, Anel Flores, Leslie Larson, Vincent Lozano) Austin Hilton Salon E, 4th floor

Mother Countries/Other Countries: Imagined Geographies. (Ruth Knafo Setton, Janice Eidus, Ilya Kaminsky, Jessica Treat, C. M. Mayo) Austin Convention Center Meeting Room 10AB, 3rd floor south

8:30-10:00PM

Academy of American Poets Reading (Alberto Rí os, Mark Jarman, Marilyn Nelson, B.H. Fairchild, Marie Howe) Austin Hilton Governor’s Ballroom, 4th floor

* Based on information from the AWP Program: www.awpwriter.org

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c/o Richard Yañez

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Santa Teresa NM 88008

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