Season 16 Kickoff

By Daniel Chacón,

Published September 1, 2024 at 12:00 PM MDT

Hosts Daniel Chacón and Tim Z. Hernandez kick off season 16 of Words on a Wire. The longtime co-hosts celebrate the publication of their recent and forthcoming books, talk about some of their upcoming guests this season, and share the exciting news of being invited to this fall’s prestigious Texas Book Festival in Austin.

The Texas Book Festival connects authors and readers through experiences that celebrate the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination. Held each fall in and around the majestic State Capitol in downtown Austin, the annual Festival Weekend features a rich variety of author presentations and panels, book signings, cooking demonstrations, programs and activities for kids of all ages, food trucks, and exhibiting vendors from across the state and country.

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For more information on the Texas Book Festival you can visit: https://www.texasbookfestival.org/

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Originally aired on August 1, 2024

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Daniel Chacón

Daniel Chacón’s collection of stories, Unending Rooms, was the 2007 winner of the Hudson Prize. He has also been awarded the American Book Award, the Chris Isherwood Foundation Grant, and the Southwest Book Award. His first collection of stories, Chicano Chicanery was a finalist in the Patterson Fiction Prize and his novel and the shadows took him is available from Simon and Schuster. His new book is a collection of stories called Hotel Júarez: Stories, Rooms and Loops. He’s a professor of Fiction Writing, Kafka, and Latino/a literature in the Creative Writing Department at UTEP.

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Tim Z. Hernandez

Tim Z. Hernandez is a poet, novelist and performance artist. He is the recipient of an American Book Award for poetry, the Zora Neal Hurston Award, the Premio Aztlan Prize for fiction, a Colorado Book Award for poetry, and the International Latino Book Award for historical fiction.

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Will Rose

Will Rose is a longtime technology and marketing executive based out of NYC and Texas. He is the co-founder of Words on a Wire’s publishing imprint, eRadical Books, and now spearheads marketing strategy for the Words on a Wire podcast. He also serves as Chief Technology Officer at the EdTech startup, Student Select, and as Head of Data Science at the artificial intelligence company, Harqen AI.

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