UCR Writers Week Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
UCR Writers Week on X
46th Annual Writers Week: Feb. 13-17, 2023 @UCRiverside. The longest-running & most diverse FREE literary festival in California.

Black Under
Ashanti Anderson
Black Queer Disabled poet, screenwriter, and playwright Ashanti Anderson's debut short poetry collection, Black Under, won the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition. Ashanti will present at Writers Week on February 17 at 1pm RSVP https://t.co/LHCbcV4M9P 📷Ashanti Anderson https://t.co/eIeVG1wVPM
Paperback, 2021
$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A River of Stars
Vanessa Hua
Vanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and author of A River of Stars, Deceit and Other Possibilities, and Forbidden City. Vanessa will present at Writers Week on Feb. 13 at 1 p.m. Register at https://t.co/LHCbcV4M9P Photo by Andria Lo https://t.co/D4GIA3DsNY
Paperback, 2019
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Flight Risk
Joy Castro
Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the new novel Flight Risk, the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thrillers Hell or High Water, which received the Nebraska Book Award, and Nearer Home, and the story collection How Winter Began, as well as the memoir The Truth Book a
Paperback, 2021
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Grief Logic
Crystal Ac Salas
Feb. 16 at 2:30pm Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo: founder of Women Who Submit, author of Posada @UCRiverside alumni: David Campos: American Quasar Crystal AC Salas: Grief Logic Register to attend at https://t.co/LHCbcV4M9P https://t.co/ga79OSQwSH
Paperback, 2022
$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Nemesis
Charmaine Craig
Charmaine Craig is the author of the novels My Nemesis, Miss Burma, and The Good Men, a national bestseller. Charmaine will present at Writers Week on Feb. 15 at 2:30 p.m. Register to attend at https://t.co/LHCbcV4M9P 📷Inta Krukle https://t.co/Mqhf6ocnEO
Paperback, 2024
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Heroes of an Unknown World
Ayize Jama-Everett
Feb 17 at 2:30pm LIVE in 1128 INTS Allison Adelle Hedge Coke: National Book Award finalist, Look at This Blue Jan Beatty: American Bastard: A Memoir, The Body Wars: Poems. Ayize Jama-Everett: Heroes of an Unknown World, Box of Bones: Book Two Register at https://t.co/LHCbcV4M9P https://t.co/azsSwf8VIE
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sinking Bell: Stories
Bojan Louis
Bojan Louis is Diné of the Naakai dine’é, born for the Áshííhí. He is the author of Sinking Bell: Stories and a book of poetry, Currents, which received an American Book Award. Bojan will present at Writers Week on Feb. 13 at 1 p.m. Register at https://t.co/LHCbcV5jZn 📷Sara Sams https://t.co/d6BPsQ1VCn
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Telephone
Percival Everett
Percival Everett is the author of more than 30 novels & story collections, including Dr. NO, The Trees, Telephone, So Much Blue, I Am Not Sidney Poitier and more. On Feb. 14 at 5 p.m. we honor Percival with a Lifetime Achievement Award. https://t.co/LHCbcV4M9P 📷Michael Avedon https://t.co/tz4AAIEKl0
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Dress a Fish
Abigail Chabitnoy
Abigail Chabitnoy is the author of In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful, How to Dress a Fish, and Converging Lines of Light. Find her at https://t.co/dnviEFiYiq. Abigial will present at Writers Week on February 16 at 1 p.m. Register at https://t.co/LHCbcV4M9P https://t.co/fJ61aiv3Fv
Paperback, 2019
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gentefication
Antonio de Jesús López
Friday February 18, 2022 at 1:00 pm PST. Antonio de Jesús López (LinkedIn)(https://t.co/AZP2EGVFAi) Gentefication Publisher: Four Way Books
Paperback, 2021
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book