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Julia Alvarez

@writerjalvarez.bsky.social
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Writer of novels, essays, books for young readers, & poetry. THE CEMETERY OF UNTOLD STORIES available now: linktr.ee/jlalvarez

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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Heartened to be included in the new Sojourners Anthology, titled, Light for the Way: Seeking Simplicity, Connection, and Repair in a Broken World, coming out January 13th. The collection feels especially timely right now in sustaining our resistance and repairing our world. sojo.net/light
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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...
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MD Prize 2025 - CALYX
Read the winning short story from the 2025 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing: "Concerto" by Bryce M. O'Tierney.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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...
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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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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
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.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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...
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
@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...
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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-...
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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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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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?
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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?—
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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
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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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U of R English Department @urenglishdept.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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...
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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!
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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...
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Loved this mention of Scheherazade, and storytelling through all mediums. www.dailygazette.com/nippertown/m...
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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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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Participating in this today— I hope you will too.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The Mariposa girls took their Blues poems home and then created their own revised poems and recited them. Only one on this video, but very impressed by how they took the prompt and ran with it! And a stellar recitation.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Another visit to Mariposa DR Foundation: Tricia, founder and president, welcomed me and Patria, owner of Patria Libre Bookshop in Puerto Plata, and granddaughter of Patria Mirabal. We stood in front of the classrooms named after her abuela.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The Mariposas have been studying all the continents, each semester they focus on a different one, including some sample of the literatures, the music, the cuisine (they make the recipes in their teaching-kitchen), the dances, visual arts, a total immersion.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Cemetery of Untold Stories - out in paperback on April 1st, 2025. Thank you for your continued amor and support for stories. More than ever now we need them to inspire us and connect us to each other.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I had the pleasure of visiting Casa de las Artes in Sosua with my cousins and receiving a warm welcome (and the gift of a painting!) by the president of the foundation, visual artist, Adolfo Faringthon, as well as local writers and artists.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Always a treat to be with the Mariposas at Mariposa DR Foundation. I gave a workshop to the older girls on pinning wings on our dreams. Wings on dreams of studying to be orthodontists, doctors, marine biologists, engineers, lawyers, and two writers. May they all fly as high as they dream of going.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
To finish yesterday’s post, Marte, in the same heritage as Elizabeth’s Acevedo’s The Poet X, is a fierce, proud, no-B.S.-er, a warrior woman poet.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
To continue my reading recommendations, it's long been my practice to start my writing day reading poetry, and every January I make an annual "reading pilgrimage" by rereading T.S. Eliot's The Four Quartets.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
When I'm between books, listless and a little lost, what keeps me nourished is my reading. I've been enjoying a feast recently. Let me share the goods:
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
As the year closes, I'm touched to see The Cemetery of Untold Stories on best of 2024 lists, including @npr.org's Books We Love and @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social's Best Audiobooks of 2024. Thank you to all who lent an ear to TCOUS, and in doing so, gave it life.
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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thinking of all the Mariposas, including the living ones, male & female, who continue to inspire us, every day and especially today, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
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Algonquin Books @algonquinbooks.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thrilled to see THE CEMETERY OF UNTOLD STORIES by @writerjalvarez.bsky.social on @npr.org's Books We Love list!
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