

And Thereby Hangs a Tale
Congratulations to the multi-talented Anna Maconochie (UTV 2019, 2020 & 2021, fiction) on her gently surreal story of a marriage that takes the reader on a tour of the improbable.
Still time to apply! Last spaces still available in all 2024 master classes. | New deadline for Breen & Truthteller journalism fellowships: October 10.
Congratulations to the multi-talented Anna Maconochie (UTV 2019, 2020 & 2021, fiction) on her gently surreal story of a marriage that takes the reader on a tour of the improbable.
Tijuana-based writer Montserrat Rodríguez Ruelas, (UTV 2019, Beca La Güera Trigos), is touring Mexico with her first novel, Aunque es de noche, winner of the 2021 Amado Nervo National Short Novel Prize. A unique blend of reality and fantasy, the novel builds on short stories Montserrat brought to her master class in Tepoztlán with Alberto Chimal.
Simone Scriven (UTV 2019, journalism) has written a stunning, magisterial piece that traces the evolution of the word ecocide as a term analogous to genocide, a concept that is gradually moving into the world of international law.
Melissa Watkins (UTV 2022, Writing with a Sense of Wonder), aka Mel the Bookworm, reads deep and wide, with a collector’s eye for work that feeds her passion for science fiction and fantasy. She doesn’t just read, she reviews. Prolifically. And she writes. Also prolifically.
Mexican journalist Diego Courchay (UTV (2018 Robert L. Breen Fellow) is now an associate editor for the Delacorte Review, a joint project of the Columbia School of Journalism and the Delacorte Center.
You don’t get a review like this every day. According to Kirkus Review, Brittany Means (UTV, 2021), has written “a harrowing and soulful memoir to be read, savored, and reread.”
Izabela García-Arce (Writing of Witness, 2023), who calls herself a “longtime lover of water,” is now a proud graduate of the University of Montana with a masters of science in environmental studies.
La periodista Karla María Gutiérrez (San Cristóbal) y la poeta Enriqueta Lúnez (Chamula), ambas participantes en nuestra temporada de 2019, salieron al podio en Mujeres en el Arte y Cultura, un conservatorio llevado a cabo en San Cristóbal de las Casa, Chiapas, el 11 de marzo, en el marco del
Presenting our 20th season new format for poetry master classes
Congratulations to KTEP News Director Angela Kocherga (UTV Journalism faculty), who has won three categories of the 2022 Edward R. Murrow Awards
Announcing Javier Zamora as a guest presenter during our 20th Anniversary season in Tepoztlán.
Cyrus Cassells (UTV faculty, 2020 & 2021) has been named a 2022 Poet Laureate Fellow by the Academy of American Poets.