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November 8, 2011
Memoir Writing in New Mexico this Friday!
MEMOIR WRITING WORKSHOP IN ESPAñOLA THIS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11th. LAST CALL!
contact me at: anacastilloworkshops@gmail.com
3 hour workshop: $90: Introduction to memoir writing. We'll talk, we'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll write.
Join me for dinner in Española before we get to work!
November 1, 2011
SO FAR FROM GOD: Thought of the Day
(Excerpt) "During that time, she had lived with her boyfriend, Rubén (who, during the height of his Chicano cosmic consciousness, renamed himself Cuauhtemoc). This, despite her mother's opposition, who said of her eldest daughter's nonsanctified union: "Why should a man buy the cow when he can have the milk for free?" "I am not a cow," Esperanza responded, but despite this, right after graduation Cuauhtemoc dumped her.." SO FAR FROM GOD, Chapter 1, pp 25 -26, by Ana Castillo (WW Norton, NY, copyright).
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October 29, 2011
Paintings by Ana Castillo
HEADS UP: THESE THREE PAINTINGS WILL BE AUCTIONED OVER THE HOLIDAYS STARTING AT BARGAIN BASEMENT PRICES. I HAVE NO MORE THAN A DOZEN ORIGINAL PAINTINGS IN MY POSSESSION. I PAINT FROM ZERO PAINTINGS EACH YEAR TO MAX. FOUR.
Santa Lucia
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[/caption] SOLD IN 2011:
Congratulations to the 4 individuals who acquired pieces this year. Thank you to La Vida Loca Galeria and ChimMaya Gallery and Boutique in Los Angeles for featuring my works in 2011.
Posters and paintings can be viewed on home page and gallery of this web site. Queries: ac@anacastillo.com
October 25, 2011
Nov. 11: Memoir Writing Workshop
Northern New Mexico, near Santa Fe: Join us for another intimate, healing experience in how to write our stories
October 23, 2011
Anti-Immigrant (Read: Mexican (Latinos)
Dear Friends:
The nightmare scenario Latinos feared in Alabama has become a reality. Thousands of mothers, fathers and children, people who are honest, law-abiding men and women, are living in a state of constant terror.
Soon after Alabama passed horrific anti-Latino legislation, thousands of calls to a hotline (1-800-982-1620) came from Latino citizens, lawful immigrants, and undocumented immigrants detailing frightening stories of harassment, bullying and fear.
Attorneys from LatinoJustice PRLDEF, along with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ACLU, and a coalition of Civil Rights organizations have been manning the hotline (1-800-982-1620) set up to help Latinos and other immigrants in the state . We have received over 3,000 calls in just one week, and the stories we have heard are heartbreaking:
Law-abiding men and women are being stopped on the street and asked for their "papers" for no other reason than the fact that they have dark features. Children are being harassed at school by peers and teachers alike, and are being told that they do not belong here. Families are fleeing homes they have worked and saved so hard to be able to buy, often with no other place to go than a shelter in a neighboring state.
The federal court's ruling late last month on Alabama's anti-immigrant law has undermined the most fundamental American values of fairness and equality for everyone living there. We have vowed to continue our fight in the courts, and we will continue to help the people on the ground, but we need your help. Please consider showing your support for this fight by donating to LatinoJustice PRLDEF.
If you live in the New York area, another way to show your support for our work is to join us at our Annual Gala on November 4. This year's gala honorees include CASA de Maryland, a grassroots organization that has fought alongside us in Frederick County to make sure that victims of racial profiling like Roxana Santos receive protection. Last week's newsletter incorrectly stated that the Maryland Federal District Court had granted Roxana a one-year stay of her removal. It was not the court, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement who granted it.
We hope you will consider showing support for our work in places like Alabama and Frederick County, MD by buying a ticket to our gala or donating any amount. It is your support that allows us to continue to help Latinos across the country, and always completely free of charge.
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October 22, 2011
October 17, 2011
Ana Castillo Poet and Writer in Residence Fall, 2012
Prof. Ana Castillo will be teaching two courses Fall, 2012. Westminster College English Department Salt Lake City, UT www.westminstercollege.edu
October 8, 2011
Ana Castillo at Institute of American Indian Arts College
November 10, 2011
7 p.m., Reading and Signing
Sponsored by Creative Writing Department
IAIA's College of Contemporary Native Arts
Santa Fe, NM 87508 
September 18, 2011
Ana Castillo at NIU-DeKalb Oct. 3rd
Latino Heritage Month begins Thursday
Novelist and poet Ana Castillo
Novelist and poet Ana Castillo
Every fall semester from Sept. 15 through Oct.15, the Latino Resource Center (LRC) and the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) organize academic, social, cultural and professional events for the NIU student body and community to celebrate Latino Heritage Month.
Latino Heritage Month recognizes the richness and diversity of Latino culture and history in the United States and Latin America. This year's activities will highlight Latino music, art and history.
All events are free and open to the public.
The celebration kicks off with "El Grito," the traditional commemoration of Mexican independence, from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, at the Latino Center, 515 Garden Road. The event features food, games and prizes.
This year's keynote speaker is the critically acclaimed novelist and poet Ana Castillo, who will speak from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3, in the Visual Arts Building.
September 16, 2011
Call for work from Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase
Acentos is a community-based organization fostering audiences for Latino/a literature through the discussion, promotion, teaching, performance, and publication of work by Latino and Latina writers. In our various incarnations, we have been a reading series, an online journal, and a poetry workshop.
This book will document the history of the organization and showcase the depth of Latino poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in the years since Acentos was founded. The writers represented in the archive of Acentos participants—in its readings, workshops, and public events—represent the deepest possible cross-section of genres, styles, and ethnicities; from the academic to the non-academic; from text to ear; to all schools of creative writing. The book will seek to complicate and deepen the narratives that make up the labels Latino and Latina literature; it will provide an alternative piece of scholarship for students and teachers of literature to (re)consider the American literary canon; and it will remind its readers that pan-Latino/a identity and solidarity in the literary world and the world at large has a home in Acentos.
If you have been a featured reader for the Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase from 2003 to the present, if you have written poetry in the Acentos Writers' Workshops, if you have been a participant on an Acentos reading or panel, or if you have been published in The Acentos Review, we invite you to send your work to the editors, Rich Villar, Oscar Bermeo, and Raina Leon, at the email address acentosanthology@gmail.com.
Deadline for all submissions is DECEMBER 23, 2011.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
-For your work to be considered for publication, you must have a) been a featured reader at the Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase between 2003 and the present; b) published work in The Acentos Review; c) attended at least four sessions of the Acentos Writers' Workshops or been a fellow in one of its two intensive workshops, OR d) been a participant in a public reading or panel sponsored by Acentos.
-Your cover letter is the body of the email you use to submit work. In it, please indicate where you fall in the above rubric.
-All submissions must be emailed, submitted as an attachment in .doc, .docx, or .pdf formats only.
-In the subject line, please indicate the genre you are submitting to, followed by a comma, followed by your full name. (Example: POETRY, John Doe)
-Submissions in multiple genres are okay, BUT please send your submissions to each genre in separate emails.
-Please include your name, snail mail address, email address, and daytime telephone number on the header of each page of the submission, and number each page.
-Though we definitely prefer unpublished work, we will consider previously published work, as outlined below:
FOR POETRY: Three to five poems in a manuscript no more than ten (10) pages in length. Poems submitted may either be unpublished poems, or poems previously published with the Acentos Review, or work published within the last two years from the date of this call, properly attributed.
FOR FICTION: One or two pieces, 500-7500 words in length. Pieces may either be unpublished pieces, or pieces previously published with the Acentos Review, or pieces published within the last two years from the date of this call, properly attributed.
FOR NONFICTION: One or two pieces, 500-2000 words in length. Pieces may either be unpublished pieces, or pieces previously published with the Acentos Review, or pieces published within the last two years from the date of this call, properly attributed.
Thank you all in advance for your time and talent, and we look forward to hearing from each and every one of you. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the editors anytime at acentosanthology@gmail.com.
Saludos,
Rich Villar, Oscar Bermeo, and Raina Leon
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