University of Arizona Press author Brandy Nālani McDougall, of Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature, will be part of California’s longest-running free literary event, which starts on February 13 and continues February 16-19, 2021.
The Writer’s Week in Riverside, California is a free online, but advance registration is required. For more info and to register, please visit writersweek.ucr.edu.
Headlining the event are U.S. Poet Laureates Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, and Juan Felipe Herrera, who will each be honored with the annual Los Angeles Review of Books-UCR Department of Creative Writing Lifetime Achievement Award during a special closing event at 6:30 p.m. on February 19. This is the first time there have been three honorees receiving this award.