Released: February 27, 2025
Register once at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WriGenSp2025
Readings and writing generation sessions by esteemed writers
Adele Oliveira – March 19 reading; April 2 creative session
Alfredo Celedón Luján – April 23 reading; April 30 creative session
End of semester participant reading – May 7
Santa Fe Community College’s Library and Creative Writing program present the free online Spring 2025 Writing Generation (Wri-Gen) Series beginning March 19. Each author will read at an introductory session. In a follow-up Zoom meeting the author will engage the participants in a writing exercise/creative session. Attendees can go to any of the sessions by registering just once at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WriGenSp2025. The sessions begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesdays and will feature these writers: Adele Oliveira (March 19 reading; April 2 creative session) and Alfredo Celedón Luján (April 23 reading; April 30 creative session.) Participants at the end of the semester will have an opportunity to share their work during the final Zoom session on May 7. Registrants will receive a Zoom link via email the morning of each event.
Valerie Nye, SFCC Library Director and associate professor Austin Eichelberger from SFCC’s Creative Writing program are coordinating the Writing Generation Series, which began in Spring 2024. The sessions are free and open to the public.
SFCC Library Director Valerie Nye said, “The Writing Generation series has created excitement in the writing community this past year. Since this dynamic series began in the Spring 2024 semester, we’ve attracted participants from throughout the community, state and across the country. About 100 individuals have joined at least one session since we launched the series. Many others have viewed the recordings we’ve made available after the sessions. In today’s hectic world, the SFCC Library is happy to create this free online space that gives people time and inspiration to write, build community and amplify writers’ voices. I’ve personally been touched to hear the writers present their own work and inspired by their approaches to creative writing.”
Stanley (Austin) Eichelberger added, “Our featured authors and poets have been so generous while sharing insight into their unique creative writing processes. Both beginning and advanced writers have expressed thanks for this online community space and the time it provides to write. Each of our participants has been encouraged to discover and develop their own writing voice through the exercises and ideas our featured writers share.”
Adele Oliveira
Adele Oliveira
Bio: Adele Oliveira (she/her) grew up in Santa Fe and lives here with her family. A freelance journalist and fiction writer, her nonfiction appears regularly in local and national publications including Vulture, Dwell, The New Republic, and Longreads. Her fiction appears in Caigibi, Texlandia and the Santa Fe Literary Review. Adele has an MFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MA in journalism from NYU. Please visit adeleoliveira.com.
Session Description: Adele loves writing in groups and cultivating shared creative space, and looks forward to doing so for SFCC’s Wri-Gen series.
Alfredo Celedón Luján
Alfredo Celedón Luján
Bio: Alfredo Celedón Luján is a career teacher. He has an MA/English and MLitt/Creative Nonfiction from the Bread Loaf School of English. He advocates for equity in the classroom. Alfredo is former President of the National Council of Teachers of English.
He is a proud member of the Chicanx/Latinx communities. He identifies as a Chicano writer. His writing amplifies familiarity and place. He has published stories, essays, and poems in various journals and books. He believes in the written and/or digital preservation of family cuentos/stories by capturing place, textures, sounds, and colloquial language. He is Norteño. He lives in Eldorado. He is from Nambé.
Session Description: In the creative session, Alfredo will give prompts that offer insights to self-identity, heritage, place, and the preservation of family vignettes through freewriting and childhood maps.
For additional information, please contact SFCC Library Director Valerie Nye via email at valerie.nye@sfcc.edu or by calling 505-428-1506. For more information about SFCC’s Creative Writing program visit sfcc.edu/programs/creative-writing/.
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