wednesday, november 20 - thursday, november 28, 2013

Vol. 2, Issue 12

NEWS

Jonathan Lyons (MFAW '05)'s short story "Minnows," in the Writing That Risks anthology, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Congratulations Jonathan!

PUBLICATION

Donna de la Perriere (MFAW faculty) has a new chapbook out, First Love, on Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange.

Max A. Cherney (MFAW '11) has a post, "The Long Walk Home: Safe Passage Watches Over The Tenderloin's Children", on The San Francisco Appeal and an article in the San Francisco Examiner about Drug Kingpins on the Peninsula.

Janey Smith (MFAW) has a post on a Michael Davidson poetry reading via a car wash in Austin, TX on HTML GIANT.

KQED Pop blogger Emmanuel Hapsis (MFAW '09) on A-List exes The Real World San Francisco Should Have Cast and life lessons from Mrs. Doubtfire.

Dodie Bellamy (MFAW faculty) has an essay "The Feraltern" available to download as part of ON Contemporary Practice's new PDF Archive series.

Suzanne Barnecut (MFAW '07) writes a guide to alternative health-care options for The Bold Italic with design by Sasha Gainor.

MEDIA

View Joseph Lease (MFAW faculty) reading at the Studio One Reading Series on YouTube.

Check out photos from last Thursday and Friday's MFAW Writers Series with Rick Moody and Anthony Marra, and our fourth student reading!

Marissa Bell Toffoli (MFAW '06) posted a Q&A with writer Eliot Pattison and Lisa Borders on her W³ Sidecar blog.

ON-CAMPUS

WED 20: Forum: VCS Forum presents Bernice Bing, 10am-12pm in the Boardroom (SF)

THU 28: THANKSGIVING [CCA will be closed both Thursday and Friday]

OFF-SITE

WED 20: Open mic: Smack Dab 10th Anniversary Show, host Larry bob-Roberts, bidding a farewell to Kirk Read as a co-host for ten years, open mic begins at 7:30 at Magnet (4122 18th Street, SF)

THU 21: Reading: MFA Mixer 2.0, featuring Patrick VanNevel (MFA '14), Sara Bushman (MFAW '13), Abbie Amadio, Warren Buchanan, Marygrace Burns, Stephanie Cieplinski, Inge Lamboo, Charlie Kennedy, Jared Roehrig and Nate Waggoner, 7pm at the Cat Club (1190 Folsom St, SF)

THU 21: Reading: 851-in-Exile, featuring Kevin Sampsell, Elaine Kahn, Carleen Tibbetts and Lucy Tiven, at 9pm at Vacation (651 Larkin St, SF)

THU 21: Reading: INTERROBANG!?- An Evening of Poetry & Cumbia, featuring  Pamtastic Benjamin, Nora Toomey (MFAW '14), Ryan Nash, Zoe Meints, Matt Heittland, KC Wassner, Grey Tolhurst, Justin Robinson and Michael Warren Grant and Paul Corman-Roberts, 7pm-12am at The Convent (660 Oak St, SF)

FRI 22: Reading: Under the Influence-Round 9 featuring Nicole Trigg, Jennifer Moxley, Miranda Mellis, Marcel Proust + Nanni Balestrini, Kevin Devaney, Brian S. Ellis and Lorelei Lee, Donna de la Perrière (MFAW faculty), 7:30pm at The Emerald Tablet (80 Fresno St, SF)

MON 25: Reading: Bay Area Generations featuring Norma Cole + Candy Shue, Mary Cisper + RJ Ingram and Cassandra Dallett + Julia Vinograd, 7pm at the Sports Basement Bryant (1590 Bryant St, SF)

COMING UP  

11/30: Reading: Press Works on Paper presents Anvhu Buchanan, Donald Dunbar, Geraldine Kim and Joseph Lease (MFAW faculty) 7:30pm at Press: Works on Paper (3108 24th St, SF)

11/30: Reading: Saturday Night Special: A Feasting, featuring Sarah Fran Wisby and Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene, with open mic sign up, 7pm at Nick's Lounge ( 3218 Adeline St, Berkeley)

12/1: Reading: Small Press Traffic featuring Jared Stanley and Christian Hawkey 5:30pm at ATA (992 Valencia St, SF) ($6-$10 for non-members)

12/4: Forum: VCS Forum presents Julian Carter, 10am-12pm in the Boardroom (SF)

12/4: Reading: Moe's Books presents Trinh T. Minh-ha discussing her new book,

D-Passage: The Digital Way, 7:30pm at Moe's Bookstore (2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley)

12/5: Lecture: CCA Graduate Studies Lecture Series presents Amy Seimetz and Miriam Bale, 7pm in Timken (SF)

12/5: Release Party: Zabrisky's Debut Novel Book Release: WE, MONSTERS, Zarina Zabrisky's (Eleven Eleven #13 contributor) debut novel, 7:30pm at Pegasus Books Downtown (2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley)

12/7:  Release Party: Zabrisky's Debut Novel Book Release: WE, MONSTERS, Zarina Zabrisky's (Eleven Eleven #13 contributor) debut novel, 7pm at Viracocha (998 Valencia St, SF)

12/7: Reading: Bernal Yoga Literary Series featuring Anhvu Buchanan, Heather June Gibbons, Scott Hutchins, Jesse Loesberg, Nina Schuyler, Moazzam Sheikh, Susanna Solomon and Monica Wesolowska, 8pm at Bernal Yoga (908 Cortland Ave, SF)

12/11: Release Party: Humble Pie Vol. 9 release party, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)

12/12: Reading: Writing Without Walls: SPIRITS, readers TBA, 7pm at Cafe du Soleil (200 Fillmore St, SF)

12/13: Last day of the Fall 2013 semester

12/15: Reading: Small Press Traffic featuring Amanda Davidson and Jaime Cortez, 5:30pm at ATA (992 Valencia St, SF) ($6-$10 for non-members)