(Bronx, NY) The Bronx Writers Center (BWC) has announced that Charlie Vázquez—author, editor, publisher, and the New York organizer for Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra literary celebration—has accepted the position as its new director. BWC serves the borough with workshops, consultations, book presentations, and the Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Awards, announced each June. The BWC is the literary wing of the Bronx Council on the Arts.
“I’m thrilled to bring all of my experience to the Bronx Writers Center and to the Bronx itself because it inspires me more than any other place in the world—it’s where I was born and raised. I feel honored and excited to serve my people, to help launch new and serious writers of fiction and poetry,” says Vázquez.
Charlie Vázquez will lead a free two-hour workshop—“Activating Scenes”—on Monday, January 13, at the Bronx Council on the Arts’ future home at 2700 E Tremont Avenue near Westchester Square. Info: www.bronxarts.orgContact: bronxwriters@bronxarts.org or 718-931-9500 (x21)
Phil Cardone (x33)Contact:
718-931-9500
The Bronx Writers Center supports and develops the appetite for writing and reading in the Bronx, and searches for and promotes new community voices and audiences via literary and literacy programs. The Bronx Council on the Arts is celebrating 50 years as a private, non-profit membership organization that is the official cultural agency of Bronx County. Recognized nationally as a leading arts service organization in providing cultural services and arts programs, BCA serves a multicultural constituency of almost 1.4 million residents. BCA provides an array of services to 5,000 artists and more than 250 arts and community-based organizations.
The Bronx Writers Center, a program of the Bronx Council on the Arts, is supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Robert A. Bowne Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts’ Literature Program, NYC Council Member James Vacca, New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, Arts Midwest, the Scherman Foundation, the Lambent Foundation, NYC Department of Small Business Services/Avenue NYC and the Westchester Square Branch of the New York Public Library.
Charlie Luis Vázquez
Editorial Trance CCO &
NYC Coordinator for Festival de la Palabra de Puerto Rico
Trance: http://www.editorialtrance.com
Palabra: http://www.festivaldelapalabra.net
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/charlievazquez
Twitter: https://twitter.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/chuchivelazquez
NYC Coordinator for Festival de la Palabra de Puerto Rico
Trance: http://www.editorialtrance.com
Palabra: http://www.festivaldelapalabra.net
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/charlievazquez
Twitter: https://twitter.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/chuchivelazquez
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