MACONDO
A HOMELAND FOR WRITERS
THE WORKSHOP
Announcing faculty for our in person workshop at Trinity University July 21-27, 2025
FEATURING:
- Multi-Genre: Cristina Rivera Garza
- Fiction: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Poetry: Kevin Young
- Nonfiction: Sarah Schulman
Applications are open Jan. 6, 2025 to Feb. 23, 2025.
EVENTS & NEWS
Macondo Writers Workshop at the Texas Book Festival
Nov. 16-17, 2024: Meet Macondo at the Hablemos Escritoras tent. Texas Book Festival is held in and around the Capitol and Downtown Austin, Texas Free and Open to All.
https://texasbookfestival.org
Macondo Writers Workshop at AWP LA 2025
Macondo Writers Workshop will be at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) in Los Angeles, California, March 26-29, 2025 (Exhibit Booth 1027). You can also attend our Macondo AWP Off-Site Reading on March 27, 2025 at 7 p.m. sponsored by LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes.
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Words on a Wire
Macondistas Carla Trujillo, Erasmo Guerra and Board member Miguel Angel Ramirez talking about the Macondo Writers Workshop featured on “Words on a Wire”
LETRAS LATINAS COLLABORATION IN 2025
Letras Latinas is a literary initiative at Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies and a partner and collaborator for the Macondo Writers Workshop in 2025.
GIVE BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY
Our community is sustained by generosity. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support the Macondo Writers Workshop.
The Macondo Writers Workshop is an association of socially-engaged writers working to advance creativity, foster generosity, and serve community. Founded in 1995 by writer Sandra Cisneros and named after the town in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, the workshop gathers writers from all genres who work on geographic, cultural, economic, gender, and spiritual borders and who are committed to activism in their writing and work.
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