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Vickie Vértiz

Writer, Educator, Advocate

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Tag: Chicana writers

AWP 2020 in San Antonio: events!

Join Vickie in San Antonio at these events! Thursday, March 5, 2020, 6pm to 7:30 pm, One Poem Festival Reading: … More

AWP, AWP2020, Canto Mundo, Chicana poetry, Chicana writers, dignidad literaria, kidlit, Latinx poetry, Letras Latinas, Macondo, own voices, queer poetry, San Antonio

Southeast Los Angeles writing featured at AWP 2016

  Join me as I moderate two panels at the #AWP16 writers’ conference happening in LA this year! Latinx writers … More

AWP16, AWP2016, AWPLA, Chicana writers, Chicano writers, Latino fiction, Latino music, Latino poetry, Latino writers, Latinos and New Wave, Los Angeles writers, Punk and Latinos, punk queer Chicana

Lost Girl: Tales of Loving and Leaving El Monte

Having narrowly escaped death, what Benita had to say couldn’t wait. The day she found her old journal in a … More

7-Eleven, Benita Morgan Bishop, Bob Mackie vintage, Chicana writers, El Monte, El Monte writers, Latino writers, Los Angeles women writers, Los Angeles writer, Mexican-American writers, South El Monte Arts Posse, Toni Margarita Plummer

Recent writing, news, and posts

  • On family violence and waiting for the Big One
  • “1989 Caprice Classic,” a poem
  • KCET Story: Third-annual Southeast L.A. River Arts Festival held entirely online
  • Teaching online? Don’t panic. Seriously.
  • AWP 2020 in San Antonio: events!
  • Yesika Salgado and I chop it up: video from 2019 LitLit Conference: Latinx/L.A. Poetics
  • Vickie in New York (and Vermont)!
  • To Collage, To Carry: A Fragmented Essay Writing Workshop, Sat. 8/24, NYC
  • Upcoming readings: April and May 2019
  • AWP 2019– Portland
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