MACONDO
A HOMELAND FOR WRITERS
2026 Macondo Writers Workshop
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas July 20-26, 2026
FEATURING:
Mixed-Genre: Jan Beatty
Fiction: Robert Jones, Jr.
Mixed-Genre: Marilyn Chin
Playwriting: Jessica Hagedorn
Mixed-Genre: Luis J. Rodriguez
Sponsors
Supported in partnership with the James R. Wilson Endowment for Excellence at the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame.
EVENTS & NEWS
2025 Class of Macondistas
Michelle Otero’s community workshop
Creative Writing Workshop with Kelly Grey Carlisle and Dr. Amelia María de la Luz Montes
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
LETRAS LATINAS COLLABORATION IN 2026
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 2026.
GIVE BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY
Our community is sustained by generosity. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support the Macondo Writers Workshop.
ABOUT US
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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