wednesday, july 31 - thursday, august 8, 2013

Vol. 1, Issue 44

wednesday, july 31- thursday, august 8

NEWS

Claire Chafee (MFAW Faculty) has won the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award for her play, Full/Self. She will receive the award in Orlando at the ATHE conference in early August. Congratulations, Claire!!

PUBLICATION

Ishmael Reed (MFAW Visiting Faculty) has a timely post on the Zimmerman verdict, "Confessions of a Neighborhood Watch Captain," on The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog

KQED Pop bloggers continue the critique; David Aloi (MFAW '09) on the power of summer nostalgia, and Laura Schadler (MFAW '07) on pop culture economics.

MEDIA

The San Francisco Chronicle has an article on Matt Silady (MFA Comics Chair) creating  a dream graphic graduate program.

ON-CAMPUS

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OFF-SITE

THU 1: Reading: Poetry Flash with work by Hugh Behm-Steinberg (MFAW Faculty) and Larry O. Dean, 7:30pm at Moe's Berkeley (2476 Telegraph, Berkeley)

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

SAT 3: Reading: Featherboard Writing Series presents Christine Choi (MFAW '09), Farnoosh Fathi, and Writer-in-Residence Christoper Reiger, 5pm at Aggregate Space Gallery (801 W. Grand Ave, OAK)

SUN 4: Reading: City Lights Books & Janey Smith's 851 Reading Series Present: City Lights Books 60th Anniversary Reading featuring Ken Baumann, Matthew Simmons, Chelsea Martin, Andrea Kneeland,  Ben Mirov (Eleven Eleven #14 contributor) and Mike Kitchell, 2pm-4pm at Jack Kerouac Alley (outside City Lights Bookstore, SF)

COMING UP  

8/29: Reading: Writing Without Walls: SECOND CHANCES, hosted by Jeff Von Ward (MFAW Alum) and Autumn Darbrow (MFAW '13), 6:30-9pm at Cafe du Soleil (200 Fillmore St, SF)

9/21: Reading: Jai Bhim International presents An Evening of Poetry and Prose, readings to benefit Dalit Youth in India, featuring Pia Chatterjee, Genny Lim, Kenneth Wong, and Nellie Wong, 8pm at The San Francisco Buddhist Center (37 Bartlett Street near 21st and Valencia, SF)

9/28: Reading: 100, 000 Poets For Change: hosted by Caroline Goodwin (MFAW faculty), featuring California Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young (MFAW faculty) , Linda E Norton, Mary Mackey, 4:30pm at Ocean Art Gallery and  Laura Masko, Sherri Rose-Walker and Matt Shears (MFAW faculty), 6pm at Florey's Book Company (150 Eureka Square, Pacifica)

10/12 - 13: APE - Alternative Press Expo, Concourse, San Francisco