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Announced on: Wednesday, Oct. 01, 2025
Humanities Center Visiting Scholar: Dr. Fred Arroyo, Creative Nonfiction Reading, Wednesday, October 15th, ARTS 150, 7:30pm Dr. Arroyo will read selections from new and published work, including his most recent collection: Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging. Fred Arroyo is the author of Alba and Other Songs, winner of the 3rd Gunpowder Press Alta California Chapbook Prize, published in a bilingual edition (2024). His Sown in Earth:Essays of Memory and Belonging was shortlisted for 2021-2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He is also the author of Western Avenue and Other Fictions (also shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize), and The Region of Lost Names—all three of these titles with the University of Arizona Press. His writing has appeared in the anthologies Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing and The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World. Fred's Emigrant Creek and Other Songs (poems) will appear with Letras Latinas / Red Hen Press Collaborative in 2027. He's also working on a collection of short fictions, The Book of Manuels. This event is co-sponsored by the Chico State Women's Philanthropy Council and The Writer's Voice. For more information on the Humanities Center, please contact Erin Kelly at ekkelly@csuchico.edu.
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