Workshop Series Fall 2018
- The Workshop Series features emerging and established writers from the Spanish speaking world.
- It constitutes an aesthetic manifesto in progress
- All events are free and open to the community
For registration and materials: agendauh.ece@gmail.com
09.19//Guadalupe Nettel
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Location: 3581 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Agnes Arnold Hall 207
About Guadalupe Nettel
In 2006, Guadalupe Nettel was voted one of thirty-nine most important Latin American
writers under the age og thirty-nine at the Bogotá Hay Festival. She has lived in Montreal and Paris, and is now based in Mexico City.
Her books include After the Winter, winner of the Premio Herralde 2014 and recently translated into English, Natural Histories, and The Body Where
I Was Born, among others. Since 2017 is director of the Revista Universidad de México.
10.04// Gabriela Wiener - Lecture & Workshop
Workshop: 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: 3581 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Agnes Arnold Hall 207
Topic: Cuerpos, Gozo y Feminismo
Lecture: 5:00pm
Location: Kyle Morrow (Fondren Library)
at Rice University
Topic: Ensayar La Experiencia
About Gabriela Wiener
Gabriela Wiener is a writer and journalist. She has published the books Sexographies,
Nueve Lunas, Llamada perdida, Dicen de mí and the book of poems Ejercicios para el endurecimiento del espíritu. Her first pieces were published in >Etiqueta Negra magazine and periodically writes for El País and the New York Times, among others. She has a video column in lamula.pe and tweets
@gabrielawiener.
10.05//Gabriela Wiener - Workshop
11:00am - 6:00pm
Location: 3581 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Agnes Arnold Hall 207
Topic: Cuerpos, Gozo y Feminismo
About Gabriela Wiener
Gabriela Wiener is a writer and journalist. She has published the books Sexographies,
Nueve Lunas, Llamada perdida, Dicen de mí and the book of poems Ejercicios para el
endurecimiento del espíritu. Her first pieces were published in Etiqueta Negra magazine
and periodically writes for El País and the New York Times, among others. She has
a video column in lamula.pe and tweets @gabrielawiener.
10.29// Cristina Burneo Salazar
4:00pm-5:30pm
Location: 3581 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Agnes Arnold Hall 207
11.07// Carmen Giménez Smith
2:30pm-4:00pm
Location: 3581 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Agnes Arnold Hall 207
About Carmen Giménez Smith
Carmen Giménez Smith is a publisher of Noemi Press, co-director for CantoMundo, a
national poetry workshop for Latinx, and professor of English at Virginia Tech. Author
of seven books including Milk and Filth -a finalist for the 2013 National Books Critics Circle Award in poetry-, and Cruel Futures published by City Lights. Her next poetry collection, Be Recorder, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2019.
11.08// Daniela Rea - Screening and Workshop
Workshop: 12:00pm-3:00pm
Location: 3581 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Agnes Arnold Hall 207
Topic: Sobre las preguntas y espacios de escucha
Screening: 5:00pm
Location: Sewall Hall, Room 309
at Rice University
Film: Eternity Never Surrendered
About Daniela Rea
Daniela is a reporter, member of the Periodistas de a Pie network. Author of the book Nadie les pidió perdón (2015) and the documentary No sucumbió la eternidad (2017). She has collaborated in journalistic projects such as Entre las cenizas, Cadena de mando, Buscadores, Mujeres ante la guerra, Resistencias y Matar en México.
11.07// Sylvia Aguilar Zeleny
2:30pm-4:00pm
Location: 3581 Cullen Blvd, Houston, TX 77004
Agnes Arnold Hall 207
Topic: Quilt Poetics: Construir personajes que crucen géneros literarios (sin visa)
About Sylvia Aguilar Zeleny
Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny es narradora. Su obra se ha publicado en México, Estados Unidos
y ha sido incluída en antologías en Australia, Perú y Corea. Tiene un MFA en Escritura
Creativa por la Universidad de Texas donde actualmente es profesora. Coordina Casa-Octavia,
residencia para escritoras en El Paso y colabora con el proyecto Enjambre Literario.