Sergio Troncoso

The literary contests from the Texas Institute of Letters are open for submissions! Please consider submitting your work for many different literary categories for Texas writers or writers writing about Texas subjects. Deadline, Friday, January 9, 2026.

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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.

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Laura and I are having a great time celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary in Nova Scotia: Halifax, Lunenburg, Cheticamp, Cabot Trail, Ingonish, and other parts of Cape Breton Island!🍁🇨🇦

Chicago Cubs win, 3-1! So much fun visiting Isaac and Rayna who live in Chicago. What a great Saturday to go to a baseball game and eat hot dogs and sing songs with 40,000 other fans! 😃#chicago #chicagocubs

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!

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Beautiful Sunday morning at Kent Falls! Laura and I hiked up the falls to the top. A great way to start the day. 🌲#kentconnecticut

I had a great writing workshop at the Mark Twain House and Museum in #Hartford, #Connecticut. The students were engaged and ready to work. We’re following up our in-person workshop with Zoom discussions. Thank you, @themarktwainhouse and Omar Acevedo for the friendly welcome!

Please join me 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 me to spread the word to those in the Hartford area! 😊

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What a terrific group of writers I had at the 2025 Yale Writers’ Workshop-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. 😊

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.

I remember my mother today and I miss her. One of the last photos of Bertha Estela Troncoso in her kitchen in Ysleta, a Mexican immigrant who had a near-photographic memory, who cared for her family sometimes at the cost of her own health, and who was an inspiration as a moral force in our family. ♥️

Join me at the Troncoso Library in Ysleta on Thursday, May 15, 4:30 pm! It’s an Open House and I can’t wait to chat with the neighborhood and friends. #elpasotexas #elpasotx #ysleta

The conversations I have with writers are always my favorite part of getting together with the Texas Institute of Letters, this time in Brownsville. (Elizabeth Crook, Octavio Quintanilla, Ruben Degollado, Chris Tomlinson.)Thank you for the camaraderie and inspiration. #texaswriters #texas

Thank you Harvard/Radcliffe Raza for inviting me to give a talk and to answer questions from members! 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 to empower themselves.

Please encourage friends to stop by for a talk on my literary work, being a poor kid from the Mexican American border at Harvard, with only Eagles and Led Zeppelin t-shirts, becoming a writer, and surviving to tell that and many other stories!

Friday, 3-28, 6:00 PM
Harvard Hall 101 (Harvard Yard)

So excited to see SUMO with Laura at the Public Theatre in New York last night! Action-packed and exciting! Loved it.

Autumn's review of Nepantla Familias 5/5: My first word to describe this book is, wow. I am in awe about this book, because of the many heartfelt and heart-wrenching essays, poems, and short stories. Sergio Troncoso did an amazing job cr...

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Fun on Broadway watching the British musical Operation Mincemeat, with Laura and Isaac, who is visiting from Chicago. What a funny, fantastic spectacle!

Rest in peace, Jimmy Carter. When I was seventeen in 1978, I wrote a paper analyzing Carter’s presidential campaign victory in 1976. I liked that he was a farmer from rural Georgia, which appealed to me in Ysleta. I admired the work he did even more after leaving the White House. What a good man.

I was so thrilled to meet the winners of the Troncoso Reading Prizes at the Sergio Troncoso Public Library. In the photo are Nathaniel Sanchez, Jorge Manjarrez, Celine Guevara, Ariya-Jade Rojas. Not in photo: Robert Guevara and Layla-Sol Burciaga. #elpasotexas

Today at 4:30 pm, we give out the Troncoso Reading Prizes at the Sergio Troncoso Branch Library! Join us to celebrate our young readers in our community. I can’t wait! #elpasotexas

So loved my PowerPoint talk at historic Magoffin Home in downtown El Paso! What a fantastic staff. I want to thank Danielle Brissette and Martin López. We had a great discussion with excellent questions about storytelling, family history and why they matter. I love being back home. 🏠 #elpasotexas

Join me at the historic Magoffin Home in downtown El Paso to listen to a lunchtime talk on my literary work and my family’s personal connection to the Magoffin Home and neighborhood. Wednesday, Dec. 18, noon. The event is free, and don’t forget to bring your own lunch (BYOL)! #elpasotexas #elpaso

Book Review of Nobody’s Pilgrims written by Sergio Troncoso by Rey M. Rodríguez — Chapter House Journal Book Review of Nobody’s Pilgrims written by Sergio Troncoso by Rey M. Rodríguez At a time when a majority of the US electorate has elected a candidate who scapegoats the immigrant community for al...

Thank you Rey M. Rodriguez for reviewing NOBODY’S PILGRIMS in IAIA Chapter House Journal:

“A masterfully wrought thriller road trip from El Paso, Texas to Kent, Connecticut... Troncoso writes about the new pilgrims of this country….”

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Fronteras: ‘Nepantla Familias’ explores identity, hybridity of the Mexican American experience "Nepantla Familias" compiles 30 poems, short stories, and essays from Mexican American authors to highlight what it means to live between two cultures, families, and languages.

I recently did an interview on the anthology I edited, NEPANTLA FAMILIAS, for Texas Public Radio. It's probably one of the best radio/podcast interviews I've given on this book and the concepts behind my work. I hope you enjoy it. #texas

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