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I am honored to have been selected for induction into the Texas Institute of Letters. Here’s the press release link: http://www.texasinstituteofletters.org/news/2020-TIL-Honorees-News-Release.pdf

 

Retablos

Word for Word Performing Arts Company present “Retablos”, an evening of performed selections from Octavio Solis’ book RETABLOS. At Z Below, San Francisco CA, 
from February 19-March 15 
 
http://www.zspace.org/retablos-word-for-word
 
 

Tucson Festival of Books

 
Octavio Solis serves on two panels for the Tucson Festival of Books. March 14, 15 Campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ
 
“Journeys of Self-Discovery” with Oscar Cásares 
 
“El Paso Knows” with Daniel Chácon
 
https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org
 
 

The Book: Retablos

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“In this uniquely framed memoir, playwright Octavio Solis channels his youth in El Paso, Texas. Like traditional retablos, the rituals of childhood and rites of passage are remembered as singular, dramatic events, self-contained episodes with life-changing reverberations.
 
Release date: October 16, 2018 Order now from City Lights Bookstore.
 
As part of San Francisco’s renown Litquake Literary Festival, the author will be celebrating the release of his book with Word For Word Theatre Company in a staged reading of selections from Retablos. The event takes places at the Elbo Room (647 Valencia Street) in San Francisco’s Mission District on October 18th at 7 pm. The performance will be followed by a conversation with Octavio Solis and Oscar Villalon, with a book-signing immediately after. $15 donation suggested.
 

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For more information, contact Jack Boulware at jb@litquake.org
 
Here is the link for the release of the book.
 
Retablos selected for the Great Group Reads List for 2019 by the Women’s National Book Association!
 
http://www.nationalreadinggroupmonth.org/ggr_selections.html
 
A new Howlround essay on Todd London’s “A Lover’s Guide to American Playwrights”
 
https://howlround.com/lovers-guide-american-playwrights-18

 
 

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MOTHER ROAD GOES TO THE ARENA STAGE!

 
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of my play Mother Road will transfer at the end of its run this year to the Arena Stage in Washington DC, where it will open on February 7th and run till March 8th, 2020.
 
https://www.arenastage.org/tickets/1920-season/mother-road/

 
 

A new essay published for concord Theatricals:
 
https://www.breakingcharacter.com/home/2019/9/9/the-in-betweenness