Living Writers Fall 2026 – OPEN SEASON: WRITING ENACTS features writers, performers and artists who explore what it means to encounter invisibility and silence, while simultaneously engaging with the insistent specters of hypervisibility and experiences of race, gender, and sexuality. These writers and artists work on the page, screen, stage and beyond. Often targeted, they create works that resist, taking aim back with intent, always remaining open, spirited and deeply alive in this complex season.

About the Living Writers Series
The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public.

Sponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Morton Marcus Poetry Reading Series, The Humanities Institute, The Laurie Sain Endowment, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Bay Tree Books.