wednesday, october 24 - thursday, november 1

Vol. 1, Issue 8

NEWS

Interview with Aimee Phan (MFAW faculty), by Jim Norrena (MFAW '13) is up on the CCA website.


MEDIA

Tom Barbash's (MFAW faculty) story "Balloon Night" was featured on NPR's Selected Shorts, read by Tom Cavanaugh.

Marissa Bell Toffoli (MFAW alum) published an interview with Mark Arywitz on her site Words With Writers


ON-CAMPUS

WED 24: Notes from the Studio: Bryan Keith Thomas, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)

WED 24: TOWN HALL MEETING for current MFAW students // topic: Spring 2013 courses! 11 - 11:45am in the Writers Studio

FRI 26: WRITERS SERIES/FRIDAY SEMINAR: Sarah Shun-Iien Bynum, author of Hempel Chronicles and Madeleine is Sleeping, 3:30pm - 5pm in the Writers Studio (SF)

FRI 26: FRIGHT NIGHT: An evening of scary readings, with work by Liz Mayorga, Jim Kettner, Vernon Keeve, Susan Lin (all MFAW '13), Phil Lumsden (MFAW '14) and Faith McGee (MFAW alum),  5:30pm in the Writers Studio (SF)

TUE 30: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 3-4pm in Timken Reception Area (SF)

WED 31: Notes from the Studio: Serena Cole Halloween Special, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)

WED 31: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 11am-12pm in Timken Reception Area, (SF)


OFF-SITE

WED 24: Reading: Live at 851 featuring Michael Kimball, Lauren Becker, Justin Etc., Jesse Prado and Julia Crossman, 7:30pm at the Squat, ( 849 Haight Street, SF)

THU 1: NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month begins! Get to 50,000 words by November 30th.


ON GOING

November is National Novel Writing Month! Register and challenge yourself Nov. 1-30th.

"Original Weather: 1 Artist and 8 Poets" with work by Robert Tomlinson and Laura LeHew (MFAW '03) among others at Grants Pass Musuem of Art, Grants Pass, OR (through November 16)


COMING UP

11/2: WRITERS SERIES/FRIDAY SEMINAR: Michael Nye and Opal Palmer Adisa (MFAW faculty), 3:30pm in the Writers Studio (SF)

11/2: Franck André Jamme, 5:30pm, at the BAM/PFA Reading Room

11/2: Cathy Wagner and Kevin Killian (MFAW faculty), 7:00pm at Woolsey Heights, (1628 Woolsey Street, Apt. C, Berkeley)

11/2: Eleven Eleven: celebration of issue #13 with readings by Sophia Dahlin, Sean Labrador y Manzano, Linda Norton, Mira Pasikov, Francois Luong & Amy Glynn Greacen, 7:30 - 9:30pm at Press: Works on Paper, SF

11/3: BERNAL YOGA LITERARY SERIES: Opal Palmer Adisa (MFAW faculty), Michael Alenyikov, Sarah Griffin, Keely Hyslop, Tomas Moniz, Stephen Rosenshein, and Daniel Suarez, 8:00pm at Bernal Yoga Studio (908 Cortland, SF)

11/4: kathryn l. pringle, Erin Moure, Andrea Rexilius at ATA

11/4: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Solano County Library Foundation, Fairfield

11/5: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 3-4pm in A2 cafe (OAK)

11/7: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 3-4pm in A2 cafe (OAK)

11/7: Notes from the Studio: Christopher Brown, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)

11/7: Amanda Chiado (MFAW alum) will present and read her work at The Altered Barbie Poetry night, 7-9pm at 50 Shotwell SF.

11/8: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 6-7pm in Timken Reception Area (SF)

11/9: WRITERS SERIES/FRIDAY SEMINAR: Carol Edgarian, 5:30pm in the Writers Studio (SF)

11/9: Tisa Bryant, 5:30pm, at the BAM/PFA Reading Room

11/9: Della Watson and Jessica Wickens (MFAW alum), 7:30pm, Lone Glen Reading Series (293 Cotter Street, SF)

11/10: WRITERS WITH DRINKS: Shawna Yang Ryan, Francesca Lia Block, Randy Alfred, 7 - 9:30pm at the Make-Out Room

11/11: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Bluestockings (NYC)

11/13: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 6-7pm in A2 cafe (OAK)

11/14: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 5-6pm in Timken Reception Area (SF)

11:14: Notes from the Studio: Sally Elesby, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)

11/15: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Lafayette Library and Community Center (Lafayette, CA)

11/15: "Listen for Peace," a visual art, literary, and music benefit for Emergency USA, Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), and others TBA, 7–10pm, SF Main Library, San Francisco

11/15: Editors Meeting 11am-1:30pm in the Writers Studio (SF)

11/16: WRITERS SERIES/FRIDAY SEMINAR: Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), 3:30pm – 5:00pm, The Writers' Studio, CCA

11/16: MFAW STUDENT READING

11/16: Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, 5:30pm at BAM/PFA Reading Room

11/19: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Main Library (San Jose)

11/28: Notes from the Studio: Terri Friedmam, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)

11/30: Writing for Image (Grad Fine Arts class) Reading, 6:00pm in the Writers Studio (SF)

12/1: Alice Notley at the Unitarian Center

12/2: Tim Trace Peterson, J/J Hastain, Monica Peck at ATA

12/5: Notes from the Studio: Danielle Lawrence, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)

12/7: Sam Sax, 5:30 at BAM/PFA Reading Room

12/14: LAST DAY OF THE FALL SEMESTER

12/14: MFAW STUDENT READING

12/16: "iduna: an opera in one act" libretto by kari edwards, arranged and conducted by Tom Comitta (MFAW alum)