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KUDOS: Cynthia Guardado

Last year Cynthia Guardado worked with Adam Braver and Molly Gessford to transcribe AND translate interviews with the exiled Cuban journalist, Normando Hernandez Gonzalez, a project that has now become a published book from UNO Press. HUGE congratulations to Cynthia for all your amazingly hard work and dedication to this project! This book would not exist if not for Cynthia. Wow. Very cool. Check it out. Order your copy today through the link below!

KUDOS: Cynthia Guardado

Cynthia Guardado’s poem, “The Only Apartment in the Building without a Back Door,” will be coming out in the next issue of Crate Literary Magazine! Congratulations Cynthia!

KUDOS: Cynthia Guardado

Great news! Cynthia Guardado’s poem, “An Old Indio’s Tango,” has been accepted by PALABRA and will be published in their upcoming issue.

Congratulations, Cynthia!

SJLA’s Rogue Reading Series in Pictures

Jake Kelly (Poetry) & Kristofer Whited (Fiction)

Ashley Wells (CNF), Rafael Sanchez (Fiction) & Brandi Spaethe (Poetry)

Tiffany Crum (Fiction) & Andrea Mele (CNF)

Jackie Heffron (CNF), Cynthia Guardado (Poetry) & Gavin McCall (Fiction)

Peter Driscoll (Fiction) & Michelle Brittan (Poetry)

All photographs ©2011 Joe Osejo Photography

CWAA’s Rogue Poetry and Prose Readings

Do you like diversity? Do you like writers? Would you like to hear diverse readers share their art? Then look no further than Spectrum Art Gallery in the Tower District for this year’s CWAA Rogue performance.

Friday March 4th – 8:45pm
Nancy Hernandez, Erin Alvarez, Burlee Vang, Yinka Reed-NolanSunday March 6th – 7:30pm
Rolando Paez, Michelle Brittan, Gabe Ibarra, Mario Rosado

Wednesday March 9th – 8:45pm
Xai Lee, Rafael Sanchez, Andre Yang, Miguel Jimenez

Saturday March 12th – 5:00pm
Cynthia Guardado, Marisol Baca, Alex Espinoza

We will change your life.
Si Se Puede.

SJLA Readings at the Rogue Festival

The San Joaquin Literary Association is at it again, this time at Fresno’s coolest fringe festival.  Please come hear MFA students and members of SJLA read their poetry and prose at the 2011 Rogue Festival.  All readings will be held at the amazing CIty Arts Gallery in the tower district (1475 N. VanNess). Each of four dates (March 4, 5, 6, and 12) features four readers.  Admission is five dollars.  We hope to see you there!

KUDOS: 2010 Summer Workshop Edition

Many of our MFA students are headed to prestigious nationwide summer workshops in the next few months, and we’d like to take a moment to recognize their accomplishment in being accepted, and to wish them luck. Way to represent the Fresno State MFA Program!

Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, Portland, OR

We’re proud to recognize the following SEVEN students who were accepted to Tin House this summer: fiction writer Rafael Sanchez, poet Jake Kelly, fiction writer Kristofer Whited, poet Andre Yang, fiction writer Tiffany Crum, poet Michelle Brittan, and recent fiction graduate Elizabeth Martin. That’s quite a formidable contingency– look out, Portland!

Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sewanee, TN

Fiction writer Tiffany Crum has also been accepted to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in Sewanee, TN. Congratulations, Tiffany!

Voices of Our Nation Writing Workshop, San Francisco, CA

Congratulations to fiction student Miguel Jimenez, who has been accepted to the Advanced Writing Workshop offered by the VONA Writers Workshop. Congratulations are also in order for poet Cynthia Guardado, who was also accepted to VONA this summer. Way to go, Miguel and Cynthia!

Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Port Townsend, WA 

And congratulations again to Cynthia Guardado for also being accepted to the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference in Port Townsend, WA! 

Congratulations to our intrepid summer workshop crew, and please keep an eye on the blog for more updates about the summer writing opportunities our students are exploring!

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