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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Kimberly Garza
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, Jan 15th\, 2025 online for a conversation with Kimberly Garza\, author of The Last Karankawas. Moderated by Elizabeth Gonzalez James.\n\n\n\n(Zoom Readings Monthly @ 7pm CST) \nRSVP for the Google Meet link\n“Beautiful\, complex\, and subversive\, The Last Karankawas is an important book about Texas from a powerful new voice in American fiction. I loved it. These characters and their stories will stay with me.”\n— Elizabeth Wetmore\, New York Times–bestselling author of Valentine \n“Garza debuts with an accomplished account of the ties between members of a Filipino and Mexican community… This is a worthy love letter to Galveston.”\n— Publishers Weekly \n“Devastating in its own clarity and nuance. The Last Karankawas has the power to change the way we see where we’ve been and what we may have left behind. A stunning debut from a talented writer.”\n— Oscar Cásares\, author of Where We Come From \nWelcome to Galveston\, Texas\, a popular tourist destination and major shipping port with a population of 50\,241. While millions visit each year\, few venture beyond the boulevards to Fish Village\, home to generations of island residents. Carly Castillo has only known Fish Village\, her grandmother claiming their family descended from the Karankawas\, an indigenous Texas people. As she grows older\, she dreams of a life undefined by her family’s history. Her boyfriend\, Jess\, a former all-star shortstop turned seaman\, cherishes the salty\, familiar air of Galveston and has turned down opportunities to leave. When news of Hurricane Ike spreads\, residents face a tough choice: stay and protect their homes or flee inland. The Last Karankawas weaves together the lives of these characters\, creating a powerful portrait of survival\, familial ties\, and the histories we create\, reminding us that true bonds are forged\, not by blood\, but by fire. \n\nKimberly Garza (she/her) is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Copper Nickel\, Puerto del Sol\, Creative Nonfiction\, TriQuarterly\, and elsewhere. She holds degrees in English\, Spanish\, and creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Texas\, where she earned a PhD in 2019. A native Texan—born in Galveston\, raised in Uvalde—she is the daughter of a Filipina immigrant mother and a Mexican-American father from the Rio Grande Valley. She lives in San Antonio\, where she is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio. The Last Karankawas is her first novel. \n\nElizabeth Gonzalez James is a screenwriter and bestselling author of the novels\, Mona at Sea and The Bullet Swallower\, as well as the chapbook\, Five Conversations About Peter Sellers. She has taught fiction writing at Grub Street\, Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop\, Story Studio\, and elsewhere. Originally from South Texas\, Elizabeth now lives with her family in Massachusetts.
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Ramona Reeves
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 17th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Ramona Reeves\, moderated Cassandra Lane\nRSVP\nAbout It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories\nWinner of the 2023 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction\, Texas Institute of Letters\n\n\nHappiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and Donnie. She is a thrice-divorced former call girl\, and he is a sobriety-challenged trucker turned yogi. Along with their community of exes\, in-laws\, and coworkers\, Babbie and Donnie share a longing to reforge their lives\, a task easier said than done in Mobile\, Alabama\, which bears its own share of tainted history. Despite overwhelming challenges and the ever-looming specters of status\, race\, and class\, the characters in It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories strive for versions of the American dream through modern and often unconventional means. Told with humor and honesty\, these stories remind us not only about the fallibility of being human and the resistance of some to change but also about finding redemption in unlikely places. \nIn linked short stories taking place across time\, Reeves offers up two characters finding their own form of redemption. . . . Both humorous and deeply emotional\, this collection shines for its beautifully written characters.\n–Booklist \nThese surprising\, wonderfully funny stories glow with comic energy. The eleven pieces in It Falls Gently All Around serve as chapters in a deeply satisfying portrayal of characters facing the expiration dates on their old beliefs and their newly acquired convictions. Ramona Reeves has fully brought to life a cast of flawed\, breaking people with bravery and resilience to spare. The book is a triumph of wise and compassionate storytelling.\n–Kevin McIlvoy\, author of One Kind Favor \nIt Falls Gently All Around when a character believes ‘He could make out ghosts swimming in the darkness\, like another life he might have lived. . . .’ It is one of several instances in the book when a story suddenly coalesces\, and the reader is both surprised and moved\, and this particular example speaks to a clear ambition of the author—to capture the elusive human moments that we all experience but for which we need an artist to genuinely see. This is a splendid book by an important new writer.\n–Robert Boswell\, author of Mystery Ride\, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards\, and Tumbledown \n\n\nRamona Reeves won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2022 for her collection\,It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories. She was a recent fellow at the San Ysidro Writers Residency and a 2024 judge for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Post Road\, The Southampton Review\, Pembroke\, New South\, Bayou Magazine\, Texas Highways and others. She teaches a course for writers working on their first manuscripts and will be teaching at the Desert Nights\, Rising Stars Writers Conference later this year. She and her wife currently call Austin home. \n\n\n\n\nCassandra Lane is winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and author of We Are Bridges (Feminist Press)\, which NPR called “a stunning contribution to what must become our collective memory.” Lane received her MFA from Antioch University LA. She formerly worked as a newspaper reporter\, high school English and journalism teacher\, college admissions advisor\, senior writer\, and community relations manager for the Dodgers. Her stories have appeared in the New York Times’s “Conception” series\, the L.A. Times\, the Times-Picayune\, the Atlanta Journal Constitution and multiple anthologies. She is the Editor-in-Chief of L.A. Parent magazine.
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Rubén Degollado
DESCRIPTION:RSVP for the Zoom link.\n  \n\nWednesday\, August 16th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Novelist Rubén Degollado’s The Family Izquierdo (W.W. Norton\, 2022). Moderated by Marcela Fuentes.\n\n  \n\nAbout The Family Izquierdo\nA Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2022\nLonglisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award\nA masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love\, and a curse.\n\nThe tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse and is dying; eldest son Gonzalo’s marriage is falling apart; daughter Dina\, beleaguered by the fear that her nightmares are real\, is a shut-in. When Gonzalo digs up a strange object in the backyard of the family home\, the Izquierdos take it as proof that a jealous neighbor has cursed them—could this be the reason for all their troubles? As the Izquierdos face a distressing present and an uncertain future\, they are sustained by the blood that binds them\, a divine presence\, and an abiding love for one another. Told in a series of soulful voices brimming with warmth and humor\, The Family Izquierdo is a tender narrative of a family at a turning point. \nRubén Degollado is an educator from Texas and the author of The Family Izquierdo: A Novel and the young adult novel Throw. His fiction has appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal\, Gulf Coast\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, and Image.\nVisit www.rubendegollado.com \nMarcela Fuentes is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer and essayist. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was the 2016-2017 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Review\, The Rumpus\, Texas Highways Magazine\, Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and other journals. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Texas Christian University. She was born and raised in Del Rio\, Texas. \nHer debut novel MALAS (June 2024) and linked story collection MY HEART HAS MORE ROOMS THAN A WHOREHOUSE (Summer\, 2025) are forthcoming from Viking Books.
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SUMMARY:Reading Deeply\, Writing Deeply: 3 Women Poets Talk to the Gods with Veronica Golos
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, March 8\, 15 & 22\, 6:30-8:30pm\, CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Veronica Golos\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n\n \nI absolutely loved the workshop with Veronica Golos. Even with a larger turnout\, she kept the community of the class intact. We had a great time reading deeply and sharing our own works. —Cathlin Noonan\, previous student of Reading Deeply\, Writing Deeply \nWhether a writer is talking directly to God or using religious reflection to try and make sense of humanity\, poetry is shrouded in spiritual mystery and is often used to explore both concrete and intangible concepts of a higher power. \nIn this three-week workshop\, we will study impactful poems from three women poets who invoke ideas of God or the gods. Louise Gluck’s book The Wild Iris enlists flowers from the garden of eden to help tell a story. Lucille Clifton’s “brothers” is an eight-poem conversation between an aged Lucifer and God. Natalia Toledo’s body of written work speaks to the Zapotec gods in three languages: Zapotec\, Spanish\, and English. \nClass readings and suggestions on how to write your own response poem to these poets (and these gods) will be shared prior to the workshop. \nParticipants will: \n\nStudy and analyze the work of 3 contemporary poets\nWrite poems that follow the selected poet’s structure and theme\nReceive on-the-spot feedback for written work\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVeronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: GIRL\, awarded the Naji Naaman Honor Prize\, 2019 (Beirut\, Lebanon); Rootwork\, winner of the Southwest Book Design Award in Poetry\, 2016; Vocabulary of Silence\, winner of the New Mexico Book Award\, translated into Arabic and Persian; and A Bell Buried Deep\, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Former co-editor of the Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art\, she is an instructor for SOMOS in Taos\, NM\, and Hugo House in Seattle\, WA. Plume Magazine recently featured her work-in-progress\, The Changing Same. Plume Poetry Feature: Veronica Golos. She lives in Taos\, New Mexico\, with her husband\, David Pérez.
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