Julia Alvarez
@writerjalvarez.bsky.social
Writer of novels, essays, books for young readers, & poetry. THE CEMETERY OF UNTOLD STORIES available now: https://linktr.ee/jlalvarez
I was honored to to judge the @calyxpress.bsky.social 2025 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing, named in honor of one of Calyx’s founders, a magazine that celebrates diversity and excellence in women’s literature and arts. Read the winners work here: www.calyxpress.org/margarita-do...
MD Prize 2025 - CALYX
Read the winning short story from the 2025 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing: "Concerto" by Bryce M. O'Tierney.
www.calyxpress.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I was honored to to judge the @calyxpress.bsky.social 2025 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing, named in honor of one of Calyx’s founders, a magazine that celebrates diversity and excellence in women’s literature and arts. Read the winners work here: www.calyxpress.org/margarita-do...
My sincerest congratulations to Ian Baucom, 18th President of Middlebury College. It was a pleasure to speak at his inauguration, and celebrate the College that nurtured my soul as a student and teacher.
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My sincerest congratulations to Ian Baucom, 18th President of Middlebury College. It was a pleasure to speak at his inauguration, and celebrate the College that nurtured my soul as a student and teacher.
THE BIG M: 13 Writers Take Back the Story of Menopause.
We are here to lock arms and say embodied storytelling matters. We are not the story they made of us.
These are new stories, told on our terms, a long overdue reckoning.
Preorder here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lidia...
We are here to lock arms and say embodied storytelling matters. We are not the story they made of us.
These are new stories, told on our terms, a long overdue reckoning.
Preorder here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lidia...
The Big M
For readers of Kink and What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, an anthology from a bestselling author that redefines the way we think about menopause—"leav...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
THE BIG M: 13 Writers Take Back the Story of Menopause.
We are here to lock arms and say embodied storytelling matters. We are not the story they made of us.
These are new stories, told on our terms, a long overdue reckoning.
Preorder here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lidia...
We are here to lock arms and say embodied storytelling matters. We are not the story they made of us.
These are new stories, told on our terms, a long overdue reckoning.
Preorder here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lidia...
Latino Public Broadcasting will be screening “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined,” an American Masters film, tomorrow on PBS at 10 pm ET. I’m forever honored by this documentary and invite you to watch.
October 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Latino Public Broadcasting will be screening “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined,” an American Masters film, tomorrow on PBS at 10 pm ET. I’m forever honored by this documentary and invite you to watch.
Great visit in Salem as guest of the Salem Literary Festival, whose pick for One Book, One Salem this year was The Cemetery of Untold Stories. The warmth and cariño of the community, filled with Dominicans—¡Qué viva Quisqueya!—made up for the rain and chill and the cold wet feet.
September 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Great visit in Salem as guest of the Salem Literary Festival, whose pick for One Book, One Salem this year was The Cemetery of Untold Stories. The warmth and cariño of the community, filled with Dominicans—¡Qué viva Quisqueya!—made up for the rain and chill and the cold wet feet.
A lovely reading at Phoenix Books in Burlington, VT. We were a convivial group of fans of my old friend Judy Yarnall, who just published her debut collection of poems at 84.
September 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A lovely reading at Phoenix Books in Burlington, VT. We were a convivial group of fans of my old friend Judy Yarnall, who just published her debut collection of poems at 84.
The Center for Fiction is holding a reading group, “Reading Hispaniola: Edwidge Danticat and Julia Alvarez with Dr. Norrell Edwards”. I’m honored to be included in the curriculum along with one of my favorite writers.
The link to register is available here: centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...
The link to register is available here: centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...
September 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The Center for Fiction is holding a reading group, “Reading Hispaniola: Edwidge Danticat and Julia Alvarez with Dr. Norrell Edwards”. I’m honored to be included in the curriculum along with one of my favorite writers.
The link to register is available here: centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...
The link to register is available here: centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...
A lovely and lively afternoon at Strafford VT’s iconic Town House with the Justin Morrill Homestead Speakers Series: What Really Matters.
What really matters are gatherings like this in which over a hundred community members and friends came together.
What really matters are gatherings like this in which over a hundred community members and friends came together.
August 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A lovely and lively afternoon at Strafford VT’s iconic Town House with the Justin Morrill Homestead Speakers Series: What Really Matters.
What really matters are gatherings like this in which over a hundred community members and friends came together.
What really matters are gatherings like this in which over a hundred community members and friends came together.
A delightful evening at the 36th Annual American Literature Association Conference. Jim Nagel, Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia, was a gracious host to a wonderful, engaged audience of scholars, graduate students, and teachers from as far away as South Korea and Ukraine.
May 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A delightful evening at the 36th Annual American Literature Association Conference. Jim Nagel, Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia, was a gracious host to a wonderful, engaged audience of scholars, graduate students, and teachers from as far away as South Korea and Ukraine.
@wordupbooks.bsky.social will be hosting Ana Martínez and Heather Hennes as they introduce their English translation of Alive in Their Garden: The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom with Minou Tavárez Mirabal on May 22nd. You can RSVP here: withfriends.co/event/232900...
May 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
@wordupbooks.bsky.social will be hosting Ana Martínez and Heather Hennes as they introduce their English translation of Alive in Their Garden: The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom with Minou Tavárez Mirabal on May 22nd. You can RSVP here: withfriends.co/event/232900...
The Cemetery of Untold Stories was just released in Italian, translated by Marta Barone and published by Giunti Editore/Romanzo Bompiani. I'm a big fan of the tag line on the back: "There are stories even in silence."
www.bompiani.it/catalogo/il-...
www.bompiani.it/catalogo/il-...
Il cimitero delle storie non dette - Bompiani
Il sito ufficiale della casa editrice Bompiani: le novità in uscita, il catalogo, approfondimenti e appuntamenti con gli autori.
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May 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The Cemetery of Untold Stories was just released in Italian, translated by Marta Barone and published by Giunti Editore/Romanzo Bompiani. I'm a big fan of the tag line on the back: "There are stories even in silence."
www.bompiani.it/catalogo/il-...
www.bompiani.it/catalogo/il-...
And something that has NEVER happened before and will NEVER happen again, one of the women in the audience asked me to sign her book to “Julia Alvarez.” I said, of course, I’ll sign my name, but what’s yours?
May 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
And something that has NEVER happened before and will NEVER happen again, one of the women in the audience asked me to sign her book to “Julia Alvarez.” I said, of course, I’ll sign my name, but what’s yours?
Rainy and chilly Sunday in Vermont but a warm and lovely group of folks at @northshirebooks.bsky.social's annual Booktopia festival—don’t we all need a utopia right about now and what could be better than one stocked with books?—
May 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Rainy and chilly Sunday in Vermont but a warm and lovely group of folks at @northshirebooks.bsky.social's annual Booktopia festival—don’t we all need a utopia right about now and what could be better than one stocked with books?—
I was named poet laureate of Weybridge with Jay Parini several years ago. I decided that— like the national P.L.s— I should DO something, not just sit on laurels and let poetry languish. Thus the Weybridge Haiku Poetry Contest was born. www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture... @sevendaysvt.bsky.social
Weybridge Haiku Contest Entrants Share Poems for Our Times
The annual poetry competition, cofounded by author Julia Alvarez, drew 420 entries from across Vermont, many reflecting on turbulent modern life.
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April 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I was named poet laureate of Weybridge with Jay Parini several years ago. I decided that— like the national P.L.s— I should DO something, not just sit on laurels and let poetry languish. Thus the Weybridge Haiku Poetry Contest was born. www.sevendaysvt.com/arts-culture... @sevendaysvt.bsky.social
Reposted by Julia Alvarez
More new titles in the Free Student Library:
🦋 "In the Time of Butterflies" - Julia Alvarez (@writerjalvarez.bsky.social)
🔥 "Little Fires Everywhere" - Celeste Ng (@pronounced-ing.bsky.social)
🗺️ "The Lost Continent" - Bill Bryson
🐤 "The Goldfinch" - Donna Tartt
#WorldBookDay #reading #literature
🦋 "In the Time of Butterflies" - Julia Alvarez (@writerjalvarez.bsky.social)
🔥 "Little Fires Everywhere" - Celeste Ng (@pronounced-ing.bsky.social)
🗺️ "The Lost Continent" - Bill Bryson
🐤 "The Goldfinch" - Donna Tartt
#WorldBookDay #reading #literature
April 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
More new titles in the Free Student Library:
🦋 "In the Time of Butterflies" - Julia Alvarez (@writerjalvarez.bsky.social)
🔥 "Little Fires Everywhere" - Celeste Ng (@pronounced-ing.bsky.social)
🗺️ "The Lost Continent" - Bill Bryson
🐤 "The Goldfinch" - Donna Tartt
#WorldBookDay #reading #literature
🦋 "In the Time of Butterflies" - Julia Alvarez (@writerjalvarez.bsky.social)
🔥 "Little Fires Everywhere" - Celeste Ng (@pronounced-ing.bsky.social)
🗺️ "The Lost Continent" - Bill Bryson
🐤 "The Goldfinch" - Donna Tartt
#WorldBookDay #reading #literature
A shoutout for my longtime friend, Greg Djanikian, whose New & Selected poems, Nostalgia for the Future, was just published by Green Writers Press. Greg was my classmate at Syracuse University in MA in Creative Program. I’ve loved his poems ever since.
April 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A shoutout for my longtime friend, Greg Djanikian, whose New & Selected poems, Nostalgia for the Future, was just published by Green Writers Press. Greg was my classmate at Syracuse University in MA in Creative Program. I’ve loved his poems ever since.
I want to give a shoutout to this truly dazzling gift I received from my former student, Vendela Vida www.vendelavida.com/about. Remembering that her old teacher loves Leaves of Grass, Vendela sent me the new deluxe two-volume edition of the poem just published by @mcsweeneys.net.
April 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I want to give a shoutout to this truly dazzling gift I received from my former student, Vendela Vida www.vendelavida.com/about. Remembering that her old teacher loves Leaves of Grass, Vendela sent me the new deluxe two-volume edition of the poem just published by @mcsweeneys.net.
Heartened to be quoted in this article from the United Church of Christ, and its call to action; “Now is the time to show up for justice, kindness, and love and get into good trouble.”
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April 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Heartened to be quoted in this article from the United Church of Christ, and its call to action; “Now is the time to show up for justice, kindness, and love and get into good trouble.”
www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa...
www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa...
With the paperback of The Cemetery of Untold Stories coming out this week, I’m thinking fondly on the launch event with Elizabeth Acevedo, Angie Cruz and Yariana Torres– extraordinary writers on an extraordinary night hosted by @wordupbooks.bsky.social and photographed by @eabreuvisuals.bsky.social.
April 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
With the paperback of The Cemetery of Untold Stories coming out this week, I’m thinking fondly on the launch event with Elizabeth Acevedo, Angie Cruz and Yariana Torres– extraordinary writers on an extraordinary night hosted by @wordupbooks.bsky.social and photographed by @eabreuvisuals.bsky.social.
Happy birthday to the paperback edition of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, out on April 1st in time for spring.
Plant one on your bookshelf and on the bookshelves of your friends and book clubs!
Plant one on your bookshelf and on the bookshelves of your friends and book clubs!
April 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Happy birthday to the paperback edition of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, out on April 1st in time for spring.
Plant one on your bookshelf and on the bookshelves of your friends and book clubs!
Plant one on your bookshelf and on the bookshelves of your friends and book clubs!
Mariposa’s second annual Global Studies semester was a huge success! This year, the entire organization focused on the continent of Africa, enabling the Mariposa girls to learn about the history, languages, cultures, food, music, and traditions of various countries.
March 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Mariposa’s second annual Global Studies semester was a huge success! This year, the entire organization focused on the continent of Africa, enabling the Mariposa girls to learn about the history, languages, cultures, food, music, and traditions of various countries.
I'm thrilled to share that this Thursday, the 27th, AARP will be hosting a virtual screening of "Julia Alvarez: A Life (Re)Imagined" at 8pm ET.
I've been so touched by the love for this film and hope you will join the screening. The link to register can be found here: local.aarp.org/vcc-event/mo...
I've been so touched by the love for this film and hope you will join the screening. The link to register can be found here: local.aarp.org/vcc-event/mo...
March 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I'm thrilled to share that this Thursday, the 27th, AARP will be hosting a virtual screening of "Julia Alvarez: A Life (Re)Imagined" at 8pm ET.
I've been so touched by the love for this film and hope you will join the screening. The link to register can be found here: local.aarp.org/vcc-event/mo...
I've been so touched by the love for this film and hope you will join the screening. The link to register can be found here: local.aarp.org/vcc-event/mo...
What a pleasure to attend the 2025 NeMLA convention as a keynote speaker. Dr. Alfonso-Short gave me a warm introduction, and the audience was lively and welcoming. I always love talking to teachers and to readers, and NeMLA conference abounds in them.
March 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
What a pleasure to attend the 2025 NeMLA convention as a keynote speaker. Dr. Alfonso-Short gave me a warm introduction, and the audience was lively and welcoming. I always love talking to teachers and to readers, and NeMLA conference abounds in them.
Loved this mention of Scheherazade, and storytelling through all mediums.
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Talking books, dreams, folk showcases with Schenectady's Buggy Jive - Upstate Beat
When Bryan Thomas — known musically as Buggy Jive — performed for the Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Awards at Proctors in 2022, the song he wrote for the occasion was “Make Me Water.”
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March 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Loved this mention of Scheherazade, and storytelling through all mediums.
www.dailygazette.com/nippertown/m...
www.dailygazette.com/nippertown/m...
Participating in this today— I hope you will too.
February 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Participating in this today— I hope you will too.