The annual Fall Reading Series presents a season of events celebrating literature, showcasing award-winning authors, and honoring the inspiration to write. Events are sponsored by the English Department and Creative Writing Program of Grossmont College, as well as a variety of other campus agencies and programs.This year's Fall Readings Series is sponsored by WACC, the World Arts & Cultures Committee of Grossmont College. Check out our season of events.
Click HERE to download our 2022 FRS flier:
All events free of charge and open to the public. Attend in person or by Zoom, or watch live-streamed. Advance registration required for participation via Zoom; please use the link the registration links provided for each event in the calendar below.
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Banned Books/Lives: author Lizz HuertaWednesday, September 21, 2022, 7-8:15PMLocation: Griffin Gate (Bldg. 60) Register for this event: tinyurl.com/2lkfhbvr Lizz Huerta is a widely admired Mexi-Rican short story writer and essayist. Named by Buzzfeed as "Most Anticipated 2022" selection, her debut book, The Lost Dreamer (Macmillan, 2022), is a YA fantasy inspired by ancient Mesoamerica. Huerta's short story, “The Wall,” is anthologized in A People’s Future of the United States. She is also published in Lightspeed, The Cut, The Portland Review, The Rumpus, Miami Rail, and more. Huerta has also been a 2018 Bread Loaf Fellow, a five-time VONA Fellow, and the winner of the LUMINA fiction contest, selected by Roxane Gay, who called her writing “a menacing inescapable seduction.” She has appeared on CSPAN’s BookTV to discuss the erasure of Mexican American Studies in Arizona, and has taught creative writing to homeless youth through San Diego nonprofit So Say We All. Lizz Huerta's official author website: lizzhuerta.com.
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poet Diana Marie DelgadoTuesday, October 4, 2022, 7-8:15PMLocation: Griffin Gate (Bldg. 60) Register for this event: tinyurl.com/2mcmaoyj Diana Marie Delgado is the author of Late-Night Talks With Men I Think I Trust (Center for Book Arts, 2015), and Tracing the Horse (2019). Delgado is the literary director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona and has advanced social justice and the arts by her more than twenty years of work in not-for-profits, including The Clinton Foundation, Coalition for Hispanic Family Services, and now the University of Arizona Poetry Center. A published poet, her first collection, Tracing the Horse, was a New York Times Noteworthy Pick and follows the coming-of-age of a young Mexican-American woman trying to make sense of who she is amidst a family and community weighted by violence and addiction. Her chapbook, Late-Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust, was the 2018 Center for Book Arts winner. Delgado's many published poems appear in Ploughshares, Ninth Letter, New York Times Magazine, Colorado Review, Tin House, and others. Her literary interests are rooted in her experiences growing up Chicana in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California. She carries a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Breadloaf, and the James D. Phelan Foundation. She is a CORO leadership fellow and member of the Iyengar Foundation. A playwright as well, Delgado had directed plays at both INTAR and La MaMa. She is a member of the CantoMundo and Macondo writing communities. She is the editor of the upcoming poetry anthology, Like a Hammer Across The Page, Poets Writing Against Mass Incarceration (Haymarket Books, Spring 2024). Diana Marie Delgado's official author website: dianamariedelgado.com.
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Lester Bangs Memorial Faculty ReadingThursday, November 10, 12:30-1:45PMLocation: Griffin Gate (Bldg. 60) Register for this event: tinyurl.com/2lv2t7yj A reading of original poetry and prose by Grossmont College faculty: • Raul Sandelin (an introduction to Lester Bangs) • Candace Hartsuyker (flash fiction) • Enrique Cervantes (fiction) • Sarita Tanori (creative nonfiction) • Karl Sherlock (poetry)
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About Lester Bangs:Held annually during the fall semester, the Lester Bangs Memorial Reading honors Grossmont College alumnus and El Cajon native, Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs, recognized by most as “America’s Greatest Rock Critic” and considered one of the most influential voices in rock criticism. (Bangs is widely credited for coining the terms "punk" and "heavy metal.”) Born in Escondido, California, Bangs and his mother moved to El Cajon when he was eleven years old. After attending Grossmont Junior College from 1966 to 1968, he moved to Detroit to work for CREEM Magazine, and later to New York City to write for Rolling Stone. He has come to be regarded as among the best American rock journalists of all time. Lester Bangs died in 1982. In 2010, he was officially recognized as a Grossmont College celebrity alumnus and honored with his own bronze "Walk of Fame" plaque, located in the Main Quad, in front of the Tech Mall.
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New Voices: A Student ReadingMonday, December 5, 2022, 7-8:15PMLocation: Room 220, Bldg. 26 Register for this event: tinyurl.com/2o3236cs In this crowd-pleasing final event of the 2022 Fall Readings Series, talented students from the semester’s Creative Writing courses perform their original works of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, and hybrid forms. Selected exclusively by this semester’s instructors of creative writing classes and workshops, participants are also invited to submit their work for consideration in the next issue of Acorn Review, Grossmont College's own student-operated literary arts journal. Info and submission details: grossmont.edu/acorn. |