2026 Fiction Workshop at Yale Writers' Workshop

What a fantastic 2026 Fiction Workshop I had at the Yale Writers’ Workshop! Thank you to my students: Richa Agarwal, Laura Cantu, Pinar Comezoglu, Kim Hernández, Arianna Ruhoy, Emily Sforza, Deepti Solanki, Nancy Spalding Gray, Valentina Tapia, True Walker, Yan Zhang, Camila Moreno. One of my best classes ever!

New Work in Prairie Schooner

I have a new short nonfiction work, “A Temporary Border,” forthcoming in the great literary review from the Midwest PRAIRIE SCHOONER!

https://prairieschooner.unl.edu/about-prairie-schooner/

Prairie Schooner, an international literary magazine, publishes poetry, short fiction, and essays from around the world. Historically, it is one of the nation’s five oldest quarterlies and will celebrate its centennial with the Spring 2027 issue.

Wicked Book Project: Sergio Troncoso and Crime and Punishment

At the Connecticut Literary Festival, I and other authors were interviewed about books that had an
influential and foundational impact in our lives. I chose Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment to talk about in the Wicked Book Project. Take a listen for a few minutes and enjoy!

https://soundcloud.com/ct-lit-fest/sergio-troncosos-wicked-book

Book Signing and Troncoso Reading Prizes- December 2025

Friends, I'll be in El Paso, Texas for two events in December of 2025:

A Book Signing at the Barnes & Noble-The Fountains, 1:00-5:00 PM, Thursday, Dec. 18.

For the Troncoso Reading Prizes at the Sergio Troncoso Branch Library in Ysleta, 5:00 PM, Friday, Dec. 19.

Please stop by and say hello and get your books signed for the holidays! I also have some exciting news, which I will reveal ONLY to those who come and chat! Let's celebrate our young readers with the Troncoso Reading Prizes, with a total of six prizes for middle-school and high-school students from Ysleta who have read the most books this season.

2025 Troncoso Reading Prizes

Please join us for the 2025 Troncoso Reading Prizes at Sergio Troncoso Branch Library in El Paso, Texas! Encourage high school and middle school students to read! I can't wait to meet the winners in December. Follow the link to enter. 

https://www.elpasolibrary.org/attend/troncoso-reading-pri/

'New' Book Review of Nepantla Familias

This is a book review I had never seen before of the book I edited, Nepantla Familias. Thank you, Josh Cook, for a thoughtful read and review. Texas A&M University Press tells me it's a bestseller!

"Nepantla Familias explores life in the liminal spaces between borders. The essays, poems, and short stories in this anthology, all by Mexican American writers, present the conflicts — internal and external — that occur in these spaces between nations, cultures, and languages. They raise questions like: How does someone who straddles two worlds fit into either? Is it possible to live in both? What is lost when someone chooses, or is forced to choose, one world over the other? The answers vary, but in the attempts to find them, a main theme emerges: the power of storytelling to work through pain and forge identity."

https://smashingtreasuredcrockery.medium.com/book-review-nepantla-familias-and-the-power-of-storytelling-1fcd018af837

Troncoso Writing Workshop at Mark Twain House, July 1

Please join us for a one-day workshop at the Mark Twain House & Museum, Tuesday, July 1, 5-7:30 PM, in Hartford, Connecticut. Thank you for helping to spread the word to those in the Hartford area! 

The author of eight books, Sergio Troncoso graduated from Harvard College and received two graduate degrees from Yale University. A Fulbright scholar and past president of the Texas Institute of Letters, he has been inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. The El Paso City Council voted to rename the Ysleta public library branch as the Sergio Troncoso Branch Library. His work has appeared in CNN Opinion, Houston Chronicle, Other Voices, New Letters, Yale Review, Pleiades, Michigan Quarterly Review, Texas Highways, and Texas Monthly. He teaches at the Yale Writers' Workshop.

 

https://marktwainhouse.org/event/writers-workshop-with-sergio-troncoso-in-person/

2025 Yale Writers' Workshop-Work-in-Progress Intensive

What a terrific group of writers I had at the 2025 Yale Writers’ Workshop-Alumni Intensive! They made my year! Cynthia Johnstone, Victoria Hunt, Lisa Ann Dulin, Bruce Parker, Bettina Meade, Pranjal Shirwaikar, Robin Harris. We got so much work done, and I’m proud of them. 

 

Yale Writers’ Workshop 2025

Faculty at 2025 Yale Writers’ Workshop and Faculty reading. Thank you to my colleagues (and friends): Jotham Burrello, Lisa Page, Kirsten Bakis, Molly Gaudry, Trey Ellis, Sybil Baker, Jennifer Maritza McCauley, Mary Collins, Mishka Shubaly.

https://summer.yale.edu/academics/yale-writers-workshop

Sergio Troncoso Visits Harvard/Radcliffe Raza

Thank you Harvard/Radcliffe Raza for inviting me to give a talk at Harvard Hall and to answer questions from your members! I loved it! Raza was so important to my surviving Harvard as a poor Mexican American student from the border. Always give back to your community to help the next generation and to strategize with them about how to empower themselves. These students are from all across the country. So proud of all of them!