in July 2019. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
July 6 \u201cIn Search of Ghosts in Paso del Norte\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Flores will read a selection from his short story \u201cYellow Flowers,\u201d after which participants will write in response. Flores plans to also discuss characterization in terms of setting, ghosts versus demons, and Alain Robbe-Grillet\u2019s lessons on writing the \u201cnew novel.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJuly 13<\/span><\/span><\/strong> \u201cWhy Don\u2019t You Write Something Positive?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Flores will read a selection from Our House on Hueco,<\/em> a YA novel, followed by participants writing and reading aloud in response. Flores plans to mention history as character, the silenced \u201cself,\u201d and the enduring presence of Octavio Paz in Chicano literature.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
July 20<\/span><\/span><\/strong> \u201cA Trivial Satire for Serious Readers\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Flores will read a selection from Sex as a Political Condition, a Border Novel,<\/em> followed by the participants writing and reading aloud. Flores hopes to address the writing of political satire, ideology as protagonist and antagonist, and the \u201cthe cultural wars\u201d on the Mexican-American border. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
July 27<\/span><\/span><\/strong> \u201cWork-in-Progress, Existentialism, and Future Landscapes\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
After reading a selection from The Pillars of Creation,<\/em> a work-in-progress,<\/em> participants will write and read aloud in response. There will be mention of writing the short novel as long-term strategy, the search for the post-modernist God amid the cartel wars, and Hart Crane\u2019s influence on border literature.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
A native of El Paso with a master’s degree in English from the University of Texas at El Paso, Flores teaches English at Laredo College. In the ’70s, his decision to teach a course on Black and Chicano literature led to a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at Dartmouth College, where he embarked on a study entitled “A Chicano Looks at a Black: A Comparison and Contrast of Chicano and Black Literature.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
In 1977, with a grant from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, he established the Revista Rio Bravo<\/em>. Rudolfo Anaya, Cecilio Garcia Camarillo, Reymundo “Tigre” Perez, Alurista, Angela de Hoyos, and Carlota Cardenas de Dwyer are a handful of the writers interviewed or published during the magazine’s two-year stint. In 1989, a year’s sabbatical provided Flores time to live and travel in Mexico as well as work on a collection of short stories, which later morphed into a novel entitled Friend of a Minor Poet. <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
In 1990 the short story \u201cBlack and White\u201d won second place in a fiction contest sponsored by the City of Albuquerque’s Cultural Achievement Project and Mesa Azul Review<\/em>. In that same year, another story, “Cantina del Gusanito,” won <\/em>first place in the Sixteenth Chicano Literary Contest sponsored by the University of California at Irvine. Flores’s stories have been anthologized in Passing Through: An Anthology of Southwestern Writers<\/em> (Santay Publishers), Cuentos Chicanos<\/em> (UNM Press), Pieces of the Heart<\/em> (Chronicle Books), Texas Short Fiction: A World in Itself, Vol. I<\/em>. (Ale Publications), North of the Rio Grande: the Mexican American Experience in Short Fiction<\/em> (American Library), and others.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Friend of a Minor Poet <\/span><\/span><\/em>was a finalist in the 2002 Mid-List First Series Award for the Novel and a quarter finalist in a 2003 contest sponsored by Florida Community College at Jacksonville’s First Coast Writers’ Festival. In 2003, a second novel, Sex as Political Condition, <\/em>won third place in the 29th Chicano\/Latino Literary Prize in Irving, California, and was published by Texas Tech University Press (TTUP) in 2015. In 2006, Our House on Hueco<\/em>a\u2014a 2006 ForeWord Book of the Year Award, Silver Winner in the Juvenile Fiction\u2014was published by TTUP. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Currently, Flores is finishing The Pillars of Creation<\/em>, a novel about a gifted but rebellious young Chicano in search of God amid the cartel wars on the Texas-Mexico border. This year his essay \u201cMexican Bandit or the Last Bandido: Ilan Stavans\u2019s Notorious Raid on the Chicano Literary Canon\u201d will appear in an anthology of critical essays, Stavans Unbound<\/em>, edited by Bridget Kevane and published by Academic Studies Press. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Tumblewords Project workshops are held on Saturdays from 12:45 to 2:45 p.m. at the main branch of the <\/span><\/span>El Paso Public Library, 501 N. Oregon, El Paso. The workshops are free, but donations are encouraged for the presenter.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
For more information call (915) 328-5484 or email tumblewordsproject@yahoo.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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