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Announcing the 2024 Recipient of the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Award

by | Dec 20, 2023 |

The Board of the Macondo Writers Workshop has selected long-time Macondista Rachel Jennings for the Macondo Writers Workshop 2024 Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Award. The award includes registration and fees at the Chuparosa level as well as a travel stipend to attend the Macondo Writers Workshop in the summer of 2024.

Named in honor of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, a queer South Texas writer and thinker, who did groundbreaking work and whose life as a writer exemplifies the tenets of the Macondo Writers Workshop, the award honors her life and work. Anzaldúa’s legacy is one of resilience and perseverance and she embodies a lifelong commitment to “the work.” For Anzaldúa, writing meant transformation and discovery. One of her more famous quotes is “By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.” We believe the award represents Macondo’s effort to empower a Macondista by offering a space to do the same.

The Macondo Writers Workshop board selects the annual awardee on the basis of an exceptional record of service and generosity to the Macondo Writers Workshop community. Jennings has embodied a spirit of generosity and this award seeks to honor her and support her as a writer and valued community member.

Rachel Jennings

teaches in the English Department at San Antonio College. She also serves on the board, or Conjunto de Nepantleras, of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center. She is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. She has published three volumes of poetry: Hedge Ghosts (2001), Elijah’s Farm (2008), and Knoxville Girl: The Walk to the River (2011). Her poems have appeared in a number of periodicals and anthologies.

MACONDO AT AWP 2024 Kansas City

by | Dec 20, 2023 |

Macondo Writers Workshop members Karina Muñiz-Pagán, Maria-Luisa Ornelas-June, Tisha Marie Reichle-Aguilera, and Norma Elia Cantú will be hosting an offsite reading at AWP in Kansas City, Missouri February 7-10, 2024. More details coming soon!

Macondista Readings: Join us for three nights of Macondista Readings. Free and open to the public.

by | Jul 18, 2023 | ,

MACONDO WRITERS WORKSHOP OPEN MIC READING

Thursday July 27, 2023 ; 7-8:30 p.m. CST
Trinity University, Dicke Hall, Room 104
1 Trinity Pl, San Antonio, TX 78212

MACONDO WRITERS WORKSHOP OPEN MIC READING

Friday, July 28, 2023 ; 7-9 p.m. CST
Trinity University, Dicke Hall, Room 104
1 Trinity Pl, San Antonio, TX 78212

MACONDO WRITERS WORKSHOP GUEST FACULTY READING AND PACHANGA

Featuring: Rigoberto González, Sharon Bridgforth, John Phillip Santos reading work by Ishmael Reed and Richard Blanco. The MC will be Nely Galán, with music by DJ Despeinada.
Saturday July 29, 2023 ; (doors open at 6:30pm) event begins at 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. CST
The Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, 922 San Pedro Ave, San Antonio.

Texas Public Radio feature on Macondo

by | Jul 1, 2023 | ,

Fronteras: ‘It’s a different kind of workshop’: Writers with conciencia gather at this month’s Macondo Writers Workshop

An annual workshop in San Antonio gathers select writers from across the country for an intensive and rewarding five-day experience.

The Macondo Writers Workshop was founded in 1995 at the kitchen table of famed writer, Sandra Cisneros.

The name stems from the fictional town at the center of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel, A Hundred Years of Solitude. 

Writers of all genres are able to attend seminars led by esteemed faculty and give public readings of their work. Over the years, featured writers — or Macondistas — have included John Phillip Santos, Richard Blanco, and Reyna Grande.

Read the full article at tpr.org

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