Community of the Imagination
Urgency and Agency
When everything seems like an emergency, how can writers keep control of their own narratives? A conversation with novelists Elizabeth Rosner (US) & Jennifer Clement (Mexico/US)
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Alumni News
Alumna Reyna Grande Launches a Historical Novel
Reyna Grande, A Ballad of Love and Glory
Alumni News
UTV 2022 Alumna Alex Jennings Stuns With Debut Novel
Alex Jennings, A ballad of Perilous Graves
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Events
Volcánicas
Reading and conversation between UTV Sandra Cisneros Fellows Ana Portnoy, Red Samaniego and Gina Balibrera. Hosted by Pilsen Community Books (Chicago).
Events
Race Matters
A freewheeling conversation with Los Angeles Times Presidential Campaign Reporter (UTV 2016, journalism) on the intersection of the pandemic, race and the US Presidential campaign.
Events
Writing from Life
Australian writer and anthropologist Kavita Bedford will speak about her forthcoming novel Friends and Dark Shapes
Events
Claiming Your Voice, Voicing Your Story
Novelist Devi Laskar, an alumna of Under the Volcano’s fiction master classes, and Elizabeth Rosner
Community of the Imagination
The Art of the Interview
Novelist Adam Biles (UK) interviews writers for a living. But who interviews Adam Biles? UTV Founder and Director Magda Bogin asks Biles how he comes up with questions that take his featured authors by surprise.
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Speculative Matters
Sheree Renée Thomas (US), a guiding light of the Afro-futurist literary community, and young Mexican writer Jumko Ogata discuss the role of speculative fiction in portraying and expanding the African diaspora experience on both sides of the border with writer and essayist Gabriela Damián Miravete (Mexico).
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Writing in the Time of Corona
Novelists from four countries–Francisco Goldman (Guatemala/US), Luisa Valenzuela (Argentina), Gina Apostol (Philippines/US), Jonathan Levi (US),–weigh in on how the epic experience of the pandemic has shaped their writing.
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Black Holes and The Lure of the Unknown
As science unveils the mysteries of the universe, astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan (India/US) and novelists Alberto Chimal (Mexico), Victor LaValle (US), Annalee Newitz (US) explore the shifts that ripple through the imagination when the unknown becomes known.