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September 27, 2015
September 25, 2015
New Works by Ana Castillo
2014 20th anniversary update edition
Also coming up Fall, 2016 updated, revised edition, Northwestern University release:
September 22, 2015
LA TOLTECA ZINE fall equinox 2015
Celebrate with us as La Tolteca Zine enters its 5th year with issuu.com.
We feature workshop participants from through the world with Ana Castillo and showcase established writers and artists.
Check it out. It’s free.
September 16, 2015
September 2, 2015
August 27, 2015
July 29, 2015
Forthcoming Book Announcement: May, 2016
FEMINIST PRESS Catalog Copy:
BLACK DOVES: Essays on Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me
by Ana Castillo
“Paloma Negra,” Ana Castillo’s mother sings the day her daughter leaves home, “I don’t know if I should curse you or pray for you.” BLACK DOVES: Essays on Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me explores the writer’s life as the intellectually spirited daughter of a Mexican-Indian mother and how such a daughter made her way to becoming the cherished Chicana feminist novelist, poet, and non-fiction writer she is today. Ana Castillo speaks from the heart about the challenges and difficulties of growing up brown in Chicago in the late 1960s and 1970s.
A generation later, raising a son on her own, the mariachi lyrics resonate when Ana Castillo’s son spirals after college. The heated immigration debate and random attacks on youth of color are addressed with an unflinching focus on social injustice. Regardless of color or class, every parent in the United States today, can take comfort in and heed of Castillo’s poignant, often funny, stories of her life.
(Previous working titles for this collection: ‘MY Mother’s Mexico.’ and ‘Swimming with Sharks.’)
July 28, 2015
Indian American Institute of the Arts, Santa Fe, NM
MFA Low Residency Program, Summer Edition 2015
Spiritual Activism Writing Workshop and Craft Talk
July 22, 2015
July 19, 2015
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