This Saturday, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (SCMAH), Bookshop Santa Cruz, and the Felix Culpa Gallery will host writers to help those less rhetorically-inclined pen letters for the ones they love.

UC Santa Cruz Literature professor Karen Tei Yamashita is nominated for the 2010 National Book Award for her fifth novel I Hotel. Experiences of her life around the Yellow Power Movement inspired her novel.

In wake of the radical actions taken against the recently passed 32.5 percent fee hike, creative writing students developed Stories for Solutions, a blog where students can post poems, narratives, letters and various writing supplements that depict their personal experience with the budget crisis.