READING | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 | 6:30 PM | FREE
Summer Latinx Writing Group: Cuentos After Dark
NOTE: Start time has been updated to 6:30 PM!
Horizon Review invites you to an evening of cafecito, cuentos, and comunidad as we celebrate the final event of ¡Escribamos Juntos! at FUSION | The Cell on Friday, October 2, at 6:30 PM!
Join us for an intimate literary reading featuring Albuquerque poet Sara Daniele Rivera, who will be joined by past workshop facilitators.
In the second half of the evening, the event will turn into an open mic, where your voices can be heard!
It will be a night filled with stories, poems, café con pan, and conversation to welcome the spooky season.
¡Nos vemos en octubre!
Sara Daniele Rivera is a Cuban/Peruvian artist, writer, translator, and educator from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, Solstice, Waxwing, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of a 2017 St. Botolph Club Emerging Artist Award, the winner of the 2018 Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry, and a 2022 Tin House resident. She is a co-translator of The Blinding Star: Selected Poems by Blanca Varela (Tolsun Books, 2021) and co-editor of Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope (Mouthfeel Press, 2025). Her debut book of poetry, The Blue Mimes (Graywolf Press, 2024), won the 2023 Academy of American Poets First Book Award.
Sara's poetry and fiction use both speculative and realist lenses to explore themes of grief, migration, memory, and the liminal spaces between language and silence. Her drawings, sculptures, and installations focus on text-in-space as social intervention and draw on practices of communal storytelling to bring moments of curiosity and tenderness to public art. She often develops projects through community-based collaborations. She translates between Spanish and English, focusing primarily on Peruvian poetry. She lives in Albuquerque with her husband, cats, and turtles.
PAST WORKSHOP FACILITATORS BIOS
Lucas Garcia is a writer and educator from Albuquerque, New Mexico. They have worked as an arts journalist, editor and dramaturg, and their creative writing can be found most recently in Breakfast..Two? from Secret Restaurant Press and Blue Mesa Review. They received their MFA in poetry from the University of New Mexico.
John Hardberger is a Texpat writer, editor, and DJ living in New Mexico. He is an MFA candidate at the University of New Mexico and an alum of the 2025 Clarion Writers Workshop. His fiction straddles the mundane and the weird, exploring liminal spaces between identities, cultures and landscapes. His work has appeared in Helicon, Chicago magazine and Edible New Mexico, and he once held down the hot dog beat for the Chicago Tribune.
Victoriano Cárdenas (he/him) is a New Mexican writer and poet, author of Portraits as Animal (2023) and Eminent Domain (2021). He is the winner of the inaugural Stephen Graham Jones Horror Novella Competition, and he has written for Meow Wolf, Edible NM Magazine, and Blue Mesa Review.
ABOUT SUMMER LATINX WRITING COMMUNITY
Introducing our Summer Latinx Writing Community! Whether you're working on a novel, writing poetry, drafting essays, journaling, or just looking for a reason to put words on the page, you're welcome here!
Born from a desire to connect local writers, the Summer Latinx Writing Workshop Series is the newest step toward nurturing a lasting creative community in Albuquerque. Special thanks to Horizon Review staff, Jas Colorado, for fostering connections among the writing community in Albuquerque through this new initiative.
Centering Latinx voices, histories, and experiences while welcoming participants of all backgrounds, the series provides a supportive environment for writers to develop their craft and find community through the written word.
Through writing prompts, discussion, peer feedback, collaborative learning, and dedicated co-writing sessions, participants will have opportunities to generate new work, strengthen their creative practice, and build accountability alongside fellow writers.
Creating a supportive, culturally grounded space for Latinx writers to develop their creative voices through collaboration, community, and storytelling. ¡Escribamos juntos!