wednesday, may 29 - thursday, june 6, 2013

Vol. 1, Issue 35

NEWS

Congratulations to Connor Maley (MFAW '11) for his fellowship to the Summer Literary Seminar in Vilnius, Lithuania and for his acceptance into the DISQUIET International Program in Lisbon, Portugal!

MEDIA

SFWeekly posted a great review of the documentary The Space Invaders by Jeff Von Ward (MFAW '12). Look below for screening details.

A little press for Live at 851 run by Janey Smith (MFAW).

PUBLICATION

Max Delgado (MFAW '07) has a post up about Gotham by Gaslight on The Longbox Project.

Jenn Virskus (MFAW '13) has a prose piece and Melissa Louise Kuhn (MFAW '13) has a poem posted on Samizdat Literary Journal.

Marissa Bell Toffoli (MFAW alum) interviews Jennie Shortridge for her Words With Writers blog.

The latest from the KQED Pop bloggers; David Aloi (MFAW '09) on the Cool of the Uncool; Laura Schadler (MFAW '07) on our obsession with cult stories.

ON-CAMPUS

SAT 1: Film Screening: "The Space Invaders: In Search of Lost Time" by Jeff Von Ward (MFAW '11), 6:30 - 8:30pm in Timken.

OFF-SITE

SAT 1 - SUN 2: The Latino Comics Expo, with Liz Mayorga (MFAW '13) 11am - 5pm at Cartoon Art Museum (655 Mission, SF)

WED 5: Radar Superstar with works by Jibz Cameron, Brian Freeman, Thomas Page McBee, Maryam Farnaz Rostami, 6pm at the San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium (100 Larkin, SF)

COMING UP  

6/7: Live at 851: featuring Joe Hall, Meri St Mary, Stuart Schuffman (Broke-Ass Stuart), Alyss Dixson, Nathan Keele Springer

6/8-9: CLMP 14th Annual Lit Mag Marathon NYC)

6/10: Reading: "Writing Outside the Box" with work by Claire Chafee (MFAW faculty) and Brian Thorstenson, 7pm in Z Below (470 Florida)

6/16: Reading: Jessica Wickens (MFAW alum), Alexandra Mattraw and Raina Leon, 2pm at Bird and Beckett (653 Chenery St, SF)

6/17: Release Party: Criminal Class Review: Volume 6 (Kevin Whiteley [MFAW '09], Editor in Chief) with contributors Mickey Leigh, Kimberly Warner-Cohen, Mykel Board, John Strausbaugh, George Tabb and the Criminal Class Band, 4 - 8pm at Otto's Shrunken Head, Tiki Bar & Lounge (538 East 14th Street, NYC)

6/29: Conference: Litquake: digi.lit, 9am - 5pm at SPUR Urban Center (654 Mission) STUDENT DISCOUNT IN CLASSIFIED BELOW

7/1: First Day of the MFA in Comics Residency!

7/5: Live at 851 featuring Marisa Crawford, Matt L. Rohrer, plus special guests.

7/5: Criminal Class Press will do an hour-long segment for UK radio

7/6: Pub Crawl: "Beast Crawl: Uptown Oakland's Annual Literary Event" with 125 poets, writers, and performance artists, 5 - 9pm MORE INFO

8/1: Submission: Octopus Magazine opens their submissions period (through August 31)

wednesday, may 22 - thursday, may 30, 2013

Vol. 1, Issue 34

NEWS

Cheryl Dunye (MFA/W/F Faculty) is host of CLEVER RADIO, a program of of the CLEVER Media Arts Think Tank on FCC Free Radio on Fridays from 12 - 2pm.

Elastic City, directed by Todd Shalom (MFAW '04), has their 2013 calendar up with great walks and ways in NYC.

MEDIA

Listen to CLEVER RADIO host Cheryl Dunye (MFA/W/F Faculty) with Lisa Hayes (MFAW '14), Sanaz Rezaei Sarabi (MFA '14), and Takeema Hoffman (VISCR '14) on FCC Free Radio.

Aimee Phan (MFAW Chair) was interviewed recently by Her Kind along with Julia Fierro about Writing and Motherhood.

Check out this review of Hugh Behm-Steinberg's (MFAW Faculty) new book of poetry The Opposite of Work in PANK.

Marissa Bell Toffoli (MFAW alum) interviews Charles McLeod for her blog Words With Writers.

PUBLICATION

Anne Lesley Selcer (MFAW '13) has a post about language and image on the SFMOMA blog Open Space.

Max Delgado (MFAW '07) writes about the SpringCon Comic Book Carnival in St. Paul, MN for UnleashTheFanboy site.

Max Cherney (MFAW '11) has an article in the The Examiner about PG&E beginning reconstruction efforts in Foster City.

Laura Schadler (MFAW '07) takes on the prom phenomena for KQED Pop.

ON-CAMPUS

Summer Break!

OFF-SITE

WED 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)

THU 23: One Lone Pear Tree: A Backyard Reading with works by Maisha Z. Johnson, Frank Weisberg (MFAW '11), Amelia Whitcomb (MFAW '12), and Sarah Bushman (MFAW '13), 6pm at 1953 & 1955 McAllister (SF)

THU 23: Film Screening: "The Owls", a film by Cheryl Dunye (MFA/W/F Faculty), 7pm at the New Parkway (474 24th Street, Oakland). FACEBOOK / TICKETS

THU 23: Benefit: Elastic City (directed by Todd Shalom [MFAW '04]) Spring Benefit, 7:30 - 10:30pm at EFA Project Space (323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC) TICKETS

FRI 24: Reading: Adam Johnson and Anthony Marra, 7:30 - 9pm at The Booksmith (1644 Haight, SF)

FRI 24: Live at 851: Featuring Alex Dimitrov, Ben Mirov (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor), Cedar Sigo, and Erica Lewis, hosted by Janey Smith (MFAW), 8pm at The Squat (849 Haight Street, SF)

5/24-27: East Bay Poetry Summit: 4 days of readings, talks and BBQ at houses and haunts of the East Bay featuring Anne Boyer, Anna Vitale, Bhanu Kapil, David Wolach, Dolores Dorantes, Jen Hofer, Douglas Rothschild, Frank Montesonti, Sophie Sills, Matt Longabucco, and Uyen Hua (Berkeley & Oakland)

COMING UP  

6/7: Live at 851: featuring Joe Hall, Meri St Mary, Stuart Schuffman (Broke-Ass Stuart), Alyss Dixson, Nathan Keele Springer

6/8-9: CLMP 14th Annual Lit Mag Marathon NYC)

6/10: Reading: "Writing Outside the Box" with work by Claire Chafee (MFAW faculty) and Brian Thorstenson, 7pm in Z Below (470 Florida)

6/16: Reading: Jessica Wickens (MFAW alum), Alexandra Mattraw and Raina Leon, 2pm at Bird and Beckett (653 Chenery St, SF)

6/29: Conference: Litquake: digi.lit, 9am - 5pm at SPUR Urban Center (654 Mission) STUDENT DISCOUNT IN CLASSIFIED BELOW

7/1: First Day of the MFA in Comics Residency!

7/5: Live at 851 featuring Marisa Crawford, Matt L. Rohrer, plus special guests.

7/5: Criminal Class Press will do an hour-long segment for UK radio

7/6: Pub Crawl: "Beast Crawl: Uptown Oakland's Annual Literary Event" with 125 poets, writers, and performance artists, 5 - 9pm MORE INFO

8/1: Submission: Octopus Magazine opens their submissions period (through August 31)

wednesday, may 15 - thursday, may 23, 2013

Vol. 1, Issue 33

NEWS

Bay Area Poetry Marathon has announced their guest curators for their summer line up, Tom Comitta (MFAW '11) will take on June and Ryan Funk (MFAW '12) with take on July. Donna De la Perriere (MFAW faculty & BAPM co-founder) will continue with August and the 100 Thousand Poets for Change in September.

MEDIA

Michelle Richmond (former MFAW faculty) breaks it down in 10 steps on how to write a novel.

Check out these videos posted by Steffi Drewes (MFAW '06), curator of Featherboard Writing Series, one of Tom Comitta (MFAW '11) and one of Evan Karp.

PUBLICATION

Samizdat Literary Journal has recently published works by Stephen Leeper and Alexandra Leong (both MFAW '14) and Ben Bellizzi (MFAW '08).

KQED Pop has a feisty crew in their stable: David Aloi and Emmanuel Hapsis (both MFAW '09) take on Mothers' Day with Music and the Moms of American pop culture;

Emmanuel then takes on the Before... film trilogy; Laura Schadler (MFAW '07) gives her May music insights and urban biking.

ON-CAMPUS

WED 15: Career Development Bootcamp, open to CCA Undergrad and CCA Grad students from the graduating classes of 2010 through 2013, 9am - 5pm (SF) [REGISTER]

THU 16: Reception for Teresa Walsh (former MFAW program manager), 3-5pm in the Writer's Studio (SF) RSVP

THU 16: MFA EXHIBITION OPENING, 6 - 10PM, (SF)

FRI 17: The Fashion Design Program 2013 Annual Fashion Show, 8pm (SF) TICKETS

SAT 18: CCA Commencement Ceremony

OFF-SITE

WED 15: Fourteen Hills 19.2 Release Party with Dan Langton, Dana Teen Lomax, Ron Nyren, Zara Raab, and Elizabeth Treadwell with Lisa Cattrone and Hobie Anthony, 7pm at Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, SF)

THU 16: MFA Mixer 2.0: featuring readings by Vernon Keeve (MFAW '13), Phil Lumsden (MFAW ' 14), Nanor Abkarian, Jon Boulier, Matt Carney, Tony DeGenaro, Alisa Dodge, Caroline O'Connor, Aaron Rose, Daniel Suarez, and Adrienne Villa-Stanley, hosted by Jeff Von Ward and Nick Johnson (both MFAW alums), 6:30pm at the Cat Club (1190 Folsom St, SF)

THU 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)

FRI 17: Reading: Jessica Wickens (MFAW alum), Della Watson, Valerie Witte, and Stephen Vincent, 7pm at Canessa Park Gallery Reading Series (708 Montgomery Street @ Washington, SF)

SAT 18: BANG OUT Volume XXI: "Bridges and Tunnels" at the Make Out Room (SF)

SAT 18: Film Screening: "The Space Invaders: In Search of Lost Time", a film by Jeff Von Ward (MFAW '12), 7:30pm at 9th Street Independent Film Center (145 9th, SF)

MON 20: Reading: As/Us: A Space for Women of the World, featuring Julie Lythcott-Haims (MFAW '14), Cherrie L. Moraga, Tria Andrews, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Justine Kao, Casandra Lopez, Juanita Mantz, and Tanaya Winder, 4:30 to 6:30pm at Cecil H. Green Library, Bing Wing, Albert M. Bender Room (Fifth Floor Standford University)

WED 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)

THU 23: One Lone Pear Tree: A Backyard Reading with works by Maisha Z. Johnson, Frank Weisberg (MFAW '11), Amelia Whitcomb (MFAW '12), and Sarah Bushman (MFAW '13), 6pm at 1953 & 1955 McAllister (SF)

COMING UP  

5/24: Reading: Adam Johnson and Anthony Marra, 7:30 - 9pm at The Booksmith (1644 Haight, SF)

5/24: Live at 851: Featuring Alex Dimitrov, Ben Mirov (Eleven Eleven #14 Contributor), Cedar Sigo, and Erica Lewis, hosted by Janey Smith (MFAW), 8pm at The Squat (849 Haight Street, SF)

5/24-27: East Bay Poetry Summit: 4 days of readings, talks and bbq at houses and houses and haunts of the east bay featuring Anne Boyer, Anna Vitale, Bhanu Kapil, David Wolach, Dolores Dorantes, Jen Hofer, Douglas Rothschild, Frank Montesonti, Sophie Sills, Matt Longabucco, and Uyen Hua (Oakland)

6/7: Live at 851: featuring Joe Hall, Meri St Mary, Stuart Schuffman (Broke-Ass Stuart), Alyss Dixson, Nathan Keele Springer

6/16: Reading: Jessica Wickens (MFAW alum), Alexandra Mattraw and Raina Leon, 2pm at Bird and Beckett (653 Chenery St, SF)

7/1: First Day of the

7/5: Live at 851 featuring Marisa Crawford, Matt L. Rohrer, plus special guests

8/1: Submission: Octopus Magazine opens their submissions period (through August 31)