We're hosting a sharing space via Instagram Live next Thursday at 2pm in collaboration with the @MaddenLibrary! Join our conversation about the impact and issues raised from #COVID19. #Leadership #SocialJustice #Discussion

Given that large gatherings are discouraged right now, we felt it was prudent to continue Queer Talks virtually via Zoom. We would love for you to join us every Monday from Noon - 1:00 p.m. on the provided link below. Join Zoom Meeting fresnostate.zoom.us/j/506720099

Weird time to celebrate, but I'm very excited to share the cover for my short story collection. Out this fall with City Lights Books. #GracielaIturbide #Dignidadliteraria

Celebrate our new issue next Saturday with Emerging Writer Fellows Too Classy To Be Touched and Ali Cannon, groundwater griot 🍉🫒 @VenitaBlackburn @kazumiochin @CassieGarison Muriel Leung, PhD (she/they) i Am Jill’s Reckless Abandon and more! And we're happy to say that this event will be live-captioned for accessibility!

Working on a paper? Need a second set of eyes? Make an appointment with a Fresno State writing consultant for a virtual appointment. Schedule now: fresnostategsc.setmore.com or email: [email protected]

Are you Latinx and involved in organizing and/or providing mutual aid during this pandemic? If so, please contact me! I'd very much like to interview you. 🖤

Women's Studies Professor Dr. Larissa Mercado-López has created a guide aimed at helping her fellow faculty members support student parents during the pandemic. Check it out! Fresno State Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies @FresnoState calmatters.org/education/high…

Our co-editors Romeo Guzmán & fragoza have a new book. East of East offers a radical new history of Greater El Monte and claims that El Monte's official history is nothing more than a myth. Catch them at Vroman's Bookstore next week. #California #West #ElMonte

We are so proud of these amazing students. They are 6 of many students that enrich our department. Congratulations, graduates!

EVERYONE: Stop what you are doing right now and listen to Fresno native Joseph Rios read his poem “An Ode to the Essential” for The Poetry Society and metro..art..la Link: bit.ly/3bXJR8b

I'll be hosting SF & F Poetry Assn's first COSMIC OPEN MIC. facebook.com/events/2301242… With readings by yours truly and thaoworra Jeannine Hall Gailey @JReinhartPoet Saba Syed Razvi @rawqeli Come through! We also need readers so please feel free to fill out our form: bit.ly/SFPAOpenMic050…

NEW: Meet our 2020 Creative Writing Prize winners for Fresno Creative Nonfiction Prizes, Fresno Fiction Prizes, Mireyda Barraza Martinez Prizes for Social Justice Writing, Soul Vang Poetry Prize, Larry Levis Poetry Prize, Ernesto Trejo Poetry Prize. Story: bit.ly/3ddAWQ8

We hope you'll join us in celebrating the work of Writing Studies Students from this bizarre Spring 2020! All are welcome. Open to all! ow.ly/oTsD50zwUWQ

Go @ginnybarnes_ and @VenitaBlackburn! 💖 Thank you for your hard work for our community.

I got a lovely acceptance email to have my story, “Manual for Manuel” in the new issue of ⁦@drylandlitla⁩. Editors are truly one of my favorite kinds of humans. 💗 drylandla.org

New in Community Alliance this month, a heartfelt tribute for the late Ellie Bluestein, longtime Fresno WILPF organizer, forever friend of Fresno State Creative Writing and Fresno State English Department, whose passion for the arts and social justice will long be remembered. Link: bit.ly/35MiNGt

My flash essay, “Black Licorice”, is up today ⁦Yes Poetry⁩. I wrote about regret and love and family here. Thank you to the editors! 🖤 yespoetry.com/news/black-lic…

Correction: Let's celebrate @patricia_ayala3 's thesis, which was titled, Writing ‘Equity’ is Not Enough! A Case Study of the Graduation Initiative 2025 Implementation on a California State University Campus. Thank you for your equity work, Patricia!

Look at these beautiful zines! Volume 2 of the (559) JOU-RNAL has arrived, a special Arts in Corrections issue in collaboration with Fresno Arts Council and California Arts Council. Congrats to @VenitaBlackburn and her undergrad editorial volunteers. Watch for distribution details this fall.

New on YouTube: A virtual reading from contributors to hais: a literary journal, the first student publication of its kind from the Fresno State Hmong American Ink & Stories club. Watch: youtu.be/CQk8H8XH4n4