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Writers Week 2023: Life Achievement Award: Percival Everett

02/14/2023 - 5:00pm

Percival Everett is the celebrated author of twenty-three novels and eleven other books, and one of this year’s two UCR Creative Writing/Los Angeles Review of Books Lifetime Achievement Awards. He has won or been shortlisted for almost every major literary prize, often more than once. His latest is Dr. No (2023).

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Join the most celebrated authors in America and the best up-and-coming writers at the most important literary event in Southern California. writersweek.ucr.edu

The most diverse and longest-running free literary festival in California, UCR Writers Week will mark its 46th year in 2023. This February, we will honor two highly acclaimed writers, Percival Everett and Mike Davis, along with thirty-one other authors.

Writers Week is free to attend and open to the public. We hope you'll join us for another fantastic event!

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2023 UCR Writers Week

February 13-17, 2023

Free and open to the public.
Hybrid event (online with four in-person sessions that will be simulcast to the web).
Advance registration required.

Captioned & ASL interpreted.

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Book purchases

Books will be available for purchase from our own campus Barnes & Noble College Bookstore and Cellar Door Books, our recommended local independent store.

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Information: [email protected]

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Tom Lutz
Chair / Director, Writers Week
Publisher, Los Angeles Review of Books
Distinguished Professor
Department of Creative Writing

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Co-Director, Writers Week
Distinguished Professor
Department of Creative Writing / School of Medicine-Medical Humanities


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