wednesday, march 27 - thursday, april 4

Vol. 1, Issue 26

NEWS

Congratulations to Adam Fagin (MFAW alum) who was accepted into the University of Denver's PhD program!

Ben Costa (MFAW alum) has launched a Kickstarter to print the second volume of his graphic novel, Pang, The Wandering Shaolin Monk Vol. 2.

Benjamin Alire Saenz's (Eleven Eleven #13 contributor) book, Everything Begins and Ends at The Kentucky Club, has been named a finalist for this year's PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.

Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 contributor) will be on a book tour for his latest memoir, The End of San Francisco. See below for dates and locations.

MEDIA

Kevin Killian's (MFAW faculty) Spreadeagle is reviewed by John Bavoso on Lambda Literary.

Jessica Wickens (MFAW '07) and Della Watson's new book, Everything Reused in the Sea: The Crow and Benjamin Letters, is reviewed by Erin Heath on Erin in the Bay. The characters, Crow and Benjamin, correspond by handwritten letters and postcards, poetic emails, and carefully worded tweets.

Check out photos from the last Writers Series that featured Benjamin Anastas, courtesy of Jim Norrena (MFAW '13)

Max Delgado (MFAW '07) and friend Kevin Leslie have started The Longbox Project, "A memory project for comic geeks.  True to our passion, we rely on comic books as our inspiration and point of departure. Our goal: to create the most comprehensive anthology of collector-focused writings anywhere on the web."   

PUBLICATION

Juvenal Acosta (MFAW faculty) has a letter response in The New York Times on Yu Hua's "Stealing Books for the Poor".

Judith Serin (MFAW faculty) has a poem out in the spring issue of Catamaran Literary Reader. The founding editor is Catherine Seguson (MFAW '03), and Zack Rogow (MFAW alum) is the poetry editor.

Sarah L. Webb (MFAW alum) has two poems out in issue 11 of BRICkrhetoric.

Suzanne Barnecut (MFAW alum) has a new piece out, Bringing Up Baby In San Francisco, on the Bold Italic.

Katie Wudel (MFAW alum) has a blog about her 2013 AWP experience on MonkeyBicycle.

 

KQED Pop blog has a notable alumni writing for them: Laura Schadler (MFAW '07) on spring breakers, female directors and rereading old love letters, David Aloi (MFAW '09) on a tribute to Jason Molina, listening to music like a 19-year-old, Emmanuel Hapsis (MFAW '09) on music videos and Taylor Swift, Suzanne Barnecut (MFAW alum) dishes about New Girl.

The Longbox Project has Matthew Jent (MFAW alum) writing about The Punisher and Max Delgado (MFAW '07) writing about collecting comics.

ON-CAMPUS

3/25 - 3/29: SPRING BREAK

MON 1: All College Honors application due in the Writing Office

OFF-SITE

FRI 29: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 7pm at Elliott Bay Book Company (1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle)

FRI 29: Criminal Class Review: Volume 6 Release Party, receive a free copy of CCR Volume 6, live music from Rufis Roberts & the Smoking Rabbits with special guest and host Sam Weller, 8pm at The Galway Arms (2442 N. Clark Street Chicago, IL) ($25 cover charge)

MON 1: Beast Crawl: Hat Party: 2013 Beast Crawl fundraiser with live music by Wreck This Place and Titan Ups, 5pm-10pm at Telegraph Beer Garden (2318 Telegraph, Oakland)

MON 1: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 7:30pm at Powell's City of Books (1005 W. Burnside, Portland)

THU 4: Reading & Discussion: Russian author Mikhail Shishkin (Maidenhair) joined by his translator, Marian Schwartz, 7pm at Hotel Rex (526 Sutter Street, SF) TICKETS

THU 4: Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers co-edited by Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) and Persis Karim, 7pm at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library (San Jose)

THU 4: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 6pm at University of Oregon, (Ben Linder Room, EMU, Eugene)

COMING UP

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)

4/6: Memorial Event for Anselm Hollo, 4 - 7pm in the Writers Studio.

4/7: CCA Grad Open Studios

4/9: HearSay Reading Series: Senior WRLIT Students, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)

4/10: Discussion: David Shields visiting Dodie Bellamy (MFAW faculty)'s CNF Workshop, 4pm in the Writers Studio (SF) (Free and open to the CCA community)

4/11: Opening: Tear It Out in the Writers Studio (SF), 6pm - 8pm

4/11: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 4:30pm at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles)

4/12: FRIDAY SEMINAR: Publishing Panel, 3:30pm in the Writers Studio (SF)

4/12: STUDENT READING: curated by Stephen Leeper (MFAW '14), 5pm - 7pm

4/12: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 7:30pm at Skylight Books (1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles)

4/13: Bernal Yoga Literary Series

4/13: Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers co-edited by Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) and Persis Karim, Golestan Kids (Berkeley)

4/14: Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers co-edited by Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) and Persis Karim, Kepler's Books, (Menlo Park)

4/16: HearSay Reading Series: Senior WRLIT Students, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)

4/17: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 5pm at Cal State Fullerton (Fullerton)

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: 25 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)

4/28: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 7:30pm at Bookshop Santa Cruz (1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz)

4/30: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 7pm at City Lights Bookstore (261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway, 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

5/9: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 7:30pm at GLBT History Museum (4127 18th Street, SF)

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

5/22: Book Tour: Mattilda B. Sycamore (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor) touring for The End Of San Francisco, 7:30 at Olympia Timberland Library (313 8th Ave SE, Olympia)

wednesday, march 6 - thursday, march 14

Vol. 1, Issue 25


NEWS

Rachelle Barnes (BFA Ceramics) is in need of writers to help construct her social project. For full post please see "Classifieds" below.

Ben Costa (MFAW '08) started a Kickstarter campaign to publish the second volume of Pang, The Wandering Shaolin Monk an award-winning, kung fu adventure graphic novel series.


MEDIA

Jeff Von Ward (MFAW alum) interviews Zarina Zabrisky about her debut short story collection, IRON, on Samizdat Literary Journal.

Megan Taylor (MFAW '09) dishes on the contents of her Clare Vivier bag in an interview on Clare Vivier studio blog.

Phil Lumsden (MFAW '14) reading in a video performance at Viracocha is up now on YouTube.


PUBLICATION

KQED Pop blog has a few notable alumni writing for them: David Aloi (MFAW '09) on Englightened, Laura Schadler (MFAW '07) on The Bachelor and Emmanuel Hapsis (MFAW '09) on the Bon Jovi and Whitney Houston- goat edition.

Faith McGee (MFAW '07) has a new piece, The Foot, featured in Samizdat Literary Journal.

Laura Schadler (MFAW '07) has a story in the latest issue of The Colorado Review.


ON-CAMPUS

WED 6: Invisible Art Lab: artists Daniel Bouthot, Marion Cousin, Lex Kosieradzki, Leora Lutz, Monte Masi, Zoe McCloskey, Omar Mismar, and Andrea Roberts will present their own perceptions of invisibility through performances, information, and sound and multimedia installations, 7:15-8:45pm in the Graduate Center (SF)

THU 7: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Sister Spit, 7pm at Timken (SF)

FRI 3 -  FRI 15: THESIS CANDIDACY REVIEW MEETINGS

SAT 9: Writers Studio closed for CCA Advancement event

THU 14: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Scott Snibbe, 7pm at Timken (SF)


OFF-SITE

WED 6: RADAR Reading Series: Amber Dawn, Bruce Isaacson, Stacey Waite, Chavisa Woods, 6pm at the San Francisco Public Library (100 Larkin Street, 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

FRI 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)

FRI 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)

FRI 8: AWP: Reading: Bay City Rollers with Andrew Altschul, Cornelia Nixon, Tom Barbash (MFAW faculty), Lysley Tenorio and Peter Orner, 12-1:15pm in Room 209, Level 2, Hynes Convention Center (Boston)

SAT 9: AWP: Panel: Found in Translation: Great Nonfiction, Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty) panelist, 1:30 - 2:45pm at Room 109, Hynes Convention Center (Boston)

SAT 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)


COMING UP

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

3/16: Actually People Quarterly Launch and The Necessary Narrative by Molly Prentiss, 7pm at the Carville Annex (4037 Judah Street in the Outer Sunset, SF)

3/16: whites and linens: two selections from the series of Stephen Beal (CCA President) will be showing at George Lawson Gallery, reception 5-8pm (780 Sutter Street, SF)

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)

3/21: The launch of Anita Amirrezvani's (MFAW faculty) Equal of the Sun in paperback, 7:30pm at Mr's Dalloways' Bookstore (2904 College Ave, Berkeley)

3/21: Reading & Discussions: Andrew Lam and Aimee Phan (MFAW Chair), 5:30 - 7:30pm at Mechanics' Institute, 4th Floor Meeting Room (57 Post, SF) RSVP Required

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)

3/24: Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers co-edited by Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) and Persis Karim, 3pm at The Booksmith (SF)

3/25 - 3/29: SPRING BREAK

4/2: All College Honors application due

4/4: Reading & Discussion: Russian author Mikhail Shishkin (Maidenhair) joined by his translator, Marian Schwartz, 7pm at Hotel Rex (526 Sutter Street, SF) TICKETS

4/4: Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers co-edited by Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) and Persis Karim, 7pm at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library (San Jose)

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

4/13: Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers co-edited by Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) and Persis Karim, Golestan Kids (Berkeley)

4/14: Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian American Writers co-edited by Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) and Persis Karim, Kepler's Books, (Menlo Park)

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: 25 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