Vol. 1, Issue 24
NEWS
Issue 14 of Eleven Eleven has officially launched!
Graham Guest (MFAW '09) has been shortlisted for the 2013 Sceptre Prize awarded by the University of Glasgow for his work in fiction.
Big congrats to Jenny Goldsmith (MFAW '14) for being the next GSA Co-Director!
MEDIA
Joseph Lease's (MFAW faculty) Testify was reviewed by Thomas Fink on Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.
PUBLICATION
A poem by Jordan Karnes (MFAW '12) and art by Heather Watson (MFA '12) can be found together on Satellite Press - TRANSMISSION.
Hugh Behm-Steinberg (MFAW faculty) has a new book of poems available, The Opposite of Work.
Twerk, first book by Latasha N Nevada Diggs (MFAW '08) is available to order now.
Sarah Webb (MFAW '10) has a poem in the latest issue of OVS.
KQED Pop blog has a few notable alumni writing for them including Laura Schadler (MFAW '07) on Paul Rudd, and Emmanuel Hapsis (MFAW '09) on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Oscars, and Quvenzhané Wallis.
Kevin Killian (MFAW faculty) reviews the Oscars for Fanzine.
ON-CAMPUS
THU 28: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Juvenal Acosta (MFAW faculty), 7pm at Timken (SF)
FRI 1: Opening: "Evolutions Spectrum/Hyperbolic Brain Coral" by Zoe Farmer (MFA '14), 4:30 - 7pm in GC5 (SF)
FRI 1: WRITERS SERIES: Writers Remembered with tributes given by Tom Barbash, Caroline Goodwin, and Anne Marino (all MFAW faculty), 7 - 9pm at the Writers Studio (SF)
TUE 5: HearSay Reading Series: Malena Watrous and WRLIT Students, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)
THU 7: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Sister Spit, 7pm at Timken (SF)
3/8 - 15: THESIS CANDIDACY REVIEW MEETINGS
OFF-SITE
WED 27: Word Performances: with readings by Phil Lumsden (MFAW '14) and others, 7:15pm at Viracocha (998 Valencia Street, SF)
WED 27: Reading: Oakland School for the Arts students with Arisa White, Cave Canem, Kiala Givehand, 7:30pm at Pegasus Books (2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley)
THU 28: Reading: City Lights Bookstore, Penny-Ante Editions and Janey Smith (MFAW)'s 851 Reading Series present an evening with Steward Home, Jarett Kobek and John Tottenham, 7:30pm at Odd Fellows Hall (26 7th Street, SF)
SAT 2: Bernal Yoga Literary Series: Aimee Phan (MFAW Chair), Kristen Kadner (MFAW alum), Phil Lumsden (MFAW '14) and more, 8pm at Bernal Yoga Studio (908 Cortland, SF)
SAT 2: Gird Your 'Loin: reading by Vernon Keeve and Chloe Veylit (both MFAW '13) with others, 2pm at Celtic Coffee (142 McAllister St., Tenderloin, SF)
SAT 2: Babylon Salon: Terry Bisson, Tamim Ansary, Kate Durbin, Renee Thompson, Rashaan Alexis Meneses, 7pm at Cantina SF (580 Sutter, SF)
SUN 3: Live at 851: curated by Janey Smith (MFAW) works by Kate Durbin, Cassandra Troyan, Jason K Tallon, and Brandon Brown, 8:00pm at 851 Haight (SF)
3/7 - 3/9: AWP - Boston
THU 7: AWP: Panel: Writing the Ends of the Earth: Women Writers on the Arctic and Antartica with Leslie Carol Roberts (former MFAW faculty, current interim MFA Design Chair) as panelist, 10:30 - 11:45am in Room 309, Level 3, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
THU 7: AWP: Panel: Teaching the Writer and the Text - Writers of Color in the Creative Writing Workshop, Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty) panelist, 3 - 4:15pm at Room 104, Hynes Convention Center (Boston)
THU 7: AWP: Reading, Henry Miller Library/Ping-Pong Magazine with work by Hugh Behm-Steinberg (MFAW faculty) and others, 7 - 9pm at The Lansdowne Pub, 9 Lansdown Street, Boston
COMING UP
3/8: AWP: Panel: Art School Writing Faculty Caucus with Hugh Behm-Steinberg (MFAW faculty) on panel, 6 - 7:15pm in Room 109, Plaza Level, Hynes Convention Center (Boston)
3/8: AWP: Reception: Hosted by CCA MFA Writing Program, MFA in Comics, and Eleven Eleven, 7 - 8:15pm in Room 202, Hynes Convention Center (Boston)
3/9: SAT: Writers Studio closed for CCA Advancement event
3/9: AWP: Panel: Found in Translation: Great Nonfiction, Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty) panelist, 1:30 - 2:45pm at Room 109, Hynes Convention Center (Boston)
3/9: AWP: Panel: From the Ground Up: New Ways of Conceiving the BA/BFA in Writing with Hugh Behm-Steinberg and Eric Olson (both MFAW faculty) as panelists, 3 - 4:15pm in Room 204, Level 2 Hynes Convention Center (Boston)
3/14: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Scott Snibbe, 7pm at Timken (SF)
3/15: THESIS WEBSITE: prepare & upload artist statement, writing selection, and image
3/15: WRITERS SERIES: Benjamin Anastas, 3:30 - 5pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
3/16: Cirque du Work Annual Professional Development Conference, 10am - 5:15pm at Mills College (OAK) SCHEDULE
3/18 - 3/22: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Exhibition: Ray'n-Gah--Linked Elegance at Oliver Art Center (OAK)
3/20: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Opening: Ray'n-Gah--Linked Elegance, 5:30 - 7:30pm at Oliver Art Center (OAK)
3/22: MFA Writers Be Mixin' It: The Sequel: with open mic sign up at 6:30, reading at 7pm with mingling until 10:30pm at the Writers Studio (SF)
3/25 - 3/29: SPRING BREAK
4/5: Admitted Students Day
4/5: Word.World with readings by MFA Writing graduates Gabriel Kaufman, Anne Lesley Selcer, Julian Quisquater, Maggie Heaps, Liz Mayorga, Jim Kettner (all MFAW '13), 7pm at Timken (SF)
4/7: CCA Grad Open Studios
4/9: HearSay Reading Series: Senior WRLIT Students, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)
4/11: Opening: Tear It Out in the Writers Studio (SF)
4/13: Bernal Yoga Literary Series
4/16: HearSay Reading Series: Senior WRLIT Students, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)
4/18: 2013 Sceptre Prize Nominees Reading with Graham Guest (MFAW '09) and other shortlisters, Glasgow
4/19: Word.World with readings by MFA Writing graduates Kate Chianese, Amal Hassan Chloé Veylit, Susan L. Lin, Sarah Bushman, Erin Ginder-Shaw (all MFAW '13) 7pm at Timken (SF)
4/19: THESIS: Final unbound draft due
4/19: WRITING BOOK: 20 page sample of work due
4/20: Voices Carry with Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) and others, 5:30 - 8:30pm at the Center for the Art of Translation (582 Market, SF)
4/26: Word.World, with readings by MFA Writing graduates Jim Norrena, Jenn Virskus, Samina Chaudhry Hitch, Bill Hughes, Jill Tydor, Kristin Adochio (all MFAW '13) 7pm at Timken (SF)
5/3: Word.World, with readings by MFA Writing graduates Ariel Cohen, Jordan Rice-Sarantis, Ryan Buresh, Melissa Louise Kuhn, Jayo Miko Macasaquit, Autumn Darbrow, Vernon Keeve III (all MFAW '13) 7pm at Timken (SF)
5/3 - 9: THESIS FINAL REVIEW MEETINGS
5/7: HearSay Reading Series: Humble Pie Volume 8 Launch Party
5/10: ENGAGE: Oakland School of the Performing Arts student Reading, 2:30pm (SF)
5/10: Last Day of the Spring 2013 semester
5/16: Reading: Readings at the Bookstore- Tales of The San Francisco Cacophony Society Launch Party, with Kevin Evans, Carrie Galbraith, John Law and more, 7pm at City Lights Bookstore (261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway, SF)
5/18: CCA Commencement Ceremony
NEWS
Issue 14 of Eleven Eleven has officially launched!
Graham Guest (MFAW '09) has been shortlisted for the 2013 Sceptre Prize awarded by the University of Glasgow for his work in fiction.
Big congrats to Jenny Goldsmith (MFAW '14) for being the next GSA Co-Director!
MEDIA
Joseph Lease's (MFAW faculty) Testify was reviewed by Thomas Fink on Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.
PUBLICATION
A poem by Jordan Karnes (MFAW '12) and art by Heather Watson (MFA '12) can be found together on Satellite Press - TRANSMISSION.
Hugh Behm-Steinberg (MFAW faculty) has a new book of poems available, The Opposite of Work.
Twerk, first book by Latasha N Nevada Diggs (MFAW '08) is available to order now.
Sarah Webb (MFAW '10) has a poem in the latest issue of OVS.
KQED Pop blog has a few notable alumni writing for them including Laura Schadler (MFAW '07) on Paul Rudd, and Emmanuel Hapsis (MFAW '09) on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Oscars, and Quvenzhané Wallis.
Kevin Killian (MFAW faculty) reviews the Oscars for Fanzine.
ON-CAMPUS
THU 28: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Juvenal Acosta (MFAW faculty), 7pm at Timken (SF)
FRI 1: Opening: "Evolutions Spectrum/Hyperbolic Brain Coral" by Zoe Farmer (MFA '14), 4:30 - 7pm in GC5 (SF)
FRI 1: WRITERS SERIES: Writers Remembered with tributes given by Tom Barbash, Caroline Goodwin, and Anne Marino (all MFAW faculty), 7 - 9pm at the Writers Studio (SF)
TUE 5: HearSay Reading Series: Malena Watrous and WRLIT Students, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)
THU 7: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Sister Spit, 7pm at Timken (SF)
3/8 - 15: THESIS CANDIDACY REVIEW MEETINGS
OFF-SITE
WED 27: Word Performances: with readings by Phil Lumsden (MFAW '14) and others, 7:15pm at Viracocha (998 Valencia Street, SF)
WED 27: Reading: Oakland School for the Arts students with Arisa White, Cave Canem, Kiala Givehand, 7:30pm at Pegasus Books (2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley)
THU 28: Reading: City Lights Bookstore, Penny-Ante Editions and Janey Smith (MFAW)'s 851 Reading Series present an evening with Steward Home, Jarett Kobek and John Tottenham, 7:30pm at Odd Fellows Hall (26 7th Street, SF)
SAT 2: Bernal Yoga Literary Series: Aimee Phan (MFAW Chair), Kristen Kadner (MFAW alum), Phil Lumsden (MFAW '14) and more, 8pm at Bernal Yoga Studio (908 Cortland, SF)
SAT 2: Gird Your 'Loin: reading by Vernon Keeve and Chloe Veylit (both MFAW '13) with others, 2pm at Celtic Coffee (142 McAllister St., Tenderloin, SF)
SAT 2: Babylon Salon: Terry Bisson, Tamim Ansary, Kate Durbin, Renee Thompson, Rashaan Alexis Meneses, 7pm at Cantina SF (580 Sutter, SF)
SUN 3: Live at 851: curated by Janey Smith (MFAW) works by Kate Durbin, Cassandra Troyan, Jason K Tallon, and Brandon Brown, 8:00pm at 851 Haight (SF)
3/7 - 3/9: AWP - Boston
THU 7: AWP: Panel: Writing the Ends of the Earth: Women Writers on the Arctic and Antartica with Leslie Carol Roberts (former MFAW faculty, current interim MFA Design Chair) as panelist, 10:30 - 11:45am in Room 309, Level 3, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
THU 7: AWP: Panel: Teaching the Writer and the Text - Writers of Color in the Creative Writing Workshop, Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty) panelist, 3 - 4:15pm at Room 104, Hynes Convention Center (Boston)
THU 7: AWP: Reading, Henry Miller Library/Ping-Pong Magazine with work by Hugh Behm-Steinberg (MFAW faculty) and others, 7 - 9pm at The Lansdowne Pub, 9 Lansdown Street, Boston
COMING UP
3/8: AWP: Panel: Art School Writing Faculty Caucus with Hugh Behm-Steinberg (MFAW faculty) on panel, 6 - 7:15pm in Room 109, Plaza Level, Hynes Convention Center (Boston)
3/8: AWP: Reception: Hosted by CCA MFA Writing Program, MFA in Comics, and Eleven Eleven, 7 - 8:15pm in Room 202, Hynes Convention Center (Boston)
3/9: SAT: Writers Studio closed for CCA Advancement event
3/9: AWP: Panel: Found in Translation: Great Nonfiction, Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty) panelist, 1:30 - 2:45pm at Room 109, Hynes Convention Center (Boston)
3/9: AWP: Panel: From the Ground Up: New Ways of Conceiving the BA/BFA in Writing with Hugh Behm-Steinberg and Eric Olson (both MFAW faculty) as panelists, 3 - 4:15pm in Room 204, Level 2 Hynes Convention Center (Boston)
3/14: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Scott Snibbe, 7pm at Timken (SF)
3/15: THESIS WEBSITE: prepare & upload artist statement, writing selection, and image
3/15: WRITERS SERIES: Benjamin Anastas, 3:30 - 5pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
3/16: Cirque du Work Annual Professional Development Conference, 10am - 5:15pm at Mills College (OAK) SCHEDULE
3/18 - 3/22: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Exhibition: Ray'n-Gah--Linked Elegance at Oliver Art Center (OAK)
3/20: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Opening: Ray'n-Gah--Linked Elegance, 5:30 - 7:30pm at Oliver Art Center (OAK)
3/22: MFA Writers Be Mixin' It: The Sequel: with open mic sign up at 6:30, reading at 7pm with mingling until 10:30pm at the Writers Studio (SF)
3/25 - 3/29: SPRING BREAK
4/5: Admitted Students Day
4/5: Word.World with readings by MFA Writing graduates Gabriel Kaufman, Anne Lesley Selcer, Julian Quisquater, Maggie Heaps, Liz Mayorga, Jim Kettner (all MFAW '13), 7pm at Timken (SF)
4/7: CCA Grad Open Studios
4/9: HearSay Reading Series: Senior WRLIT Students, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)
4/11: Opening: Tear It Out in the Writers Studio (SF)
4/13: Bernal Yoga Literary Series
4/16: HearSay Reading Series: Senior WRLIT Students, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)
4/18: 2013 Sceptre Prize Nominees Reading with Graham Guest (MFAW '09) and other shortlisters, Glasgow
4/19: Word.World with readings by MFA Writing graduates Kate Chianese, Amal Hassan Chloé Veylit, Susan L. Lin, Sarah Bushman, Erin Ginder-Shaw (all MFAW '13) 7pm at Timken (SF)
4/19: THESIS: Final unbound draft due
4/19: WRITING BOOK: 20 page sample of work due
4/20: Voices Carry with Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) and others, 5:30 - 8:30pm at the Center for the Art of Translation (582 Market, SF)
4/26: Word.World, with readings by MFA Writing graduates Jim Norrena, Jenn Virskus, Samina Chaudhry Hitch, Bill Hughes, Jill Tydor, Kristin Adochio (all MFAW '13) 7pm at Timken (SF)
5/3: Word.World, with readings by MFA Writing graduates Ariel Cohen, Jordan Rice-Sarantis, Ryan Buresh, Melissa Louise Kuhn, Jayo Miko Macasaquit, Autumn Darbrow, Vernon Keeve III (all MFAW '13) 7pm at Timken (SF)
5/3 - 9: THESIS FINAL REVIEW MEETINGS
5/7: HearSay Reading Series: Humble Pie Volume 8 Launch Party
5/10: ENGAGE: Oakland School of the Performing Arts student Reading, 2:30pm (SF)
5/10: Last Day of the Spring 2013 semester
5/16: Reading: Readings at the Bookstore- Tales of The San Francisco Cacophony Society Launch Party, with Kevin Evans, Carrie Galbraith, John Law and more, 7pm at City Lights Bookstore (261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway, SF)
5/18: CCA Commencement Ceremony
