Vol. 2, Issue 5
PUBLICATION
Ishmael Reed (MFAW Visting Faculty) has a post on the New York Times blog Speakeasy about the banning of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man".
KQED Pop blogger Emmanuel Hapsis (MFAW '09) on cat versions of The Orange is the New Black characters and the government shutdown.
Israel Haros (MFAW '08) has created a chicano art coloring book, Waterhummingbirdhouse, for both children and adults.
MEDIA
Jim Norrena (MFAW '13) highlights Tom Barbash (MFAW faculty) and the Writer's Series on CCA's website.
Gloria Frym (MFAW faculty) is mentioned by Hoa Nguyen in "The Poet's Dinner Party" on the National Post.
Latasha Diggs (MFAW '08) and Dodie Bellamy (MFAW faculty) are both mentioned in the "2013 National Book Award Longlist (revised edition)" on HTMLGIANT.
Check out these great pictures from the Hugh Behm-Steinberg and Caroline Goodwin (both MFAW Faculty) reading as well as those from the subsequent student reading!
ON-CAMPUS
FRI 4: Reading: MFAW Writers Series presents Latasha Diggs (MFAW '08) and Hazel White (MFAW '05), 4:30pm at the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)
SAT 5: Comics Event: MFA Comics hosts a 24 hour Comics Day, around the clock comics drawing event open to all CCA students, faculty and staff, BYO art supplies and snacks, pizza and coffee will be provided, 10am Saturday-10am Sunday in the Writer's Studio (SF)
WED 9: Reading: Eleven Eleven #15 launch and reading, featuring Eleven Eleven #15 contributors Andrew Joron, Debra Bushman, Maisha Z. Johnson, and John Panzer, 7pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
OFF-SITE
THU 3: Reading: The Poetry Center presents Rachel Levitsky and Latasha N. Nevada Diggs (MFAW alum), 4:30pm at the Poetry Center, (1600 Holloway Ave, HUM 512, SFSU)
FRI 4: Reading: The Poetry Center presents Edward Dorn's Collected Poems, with Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, 7:30pm at Subterranean Arthouse (2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley) ($10/$5)
SAT 5: Reading/Panel: Regional Voices panel featuring Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty) with Frances Dinkelspiel, Ellen Ullman and Karen Tei Yamashita, moderator Anthea Hartig, 9:15-10:15am at San Francisco Public Library (100 Larkin St, Koret Auditorium)
SUN 6: Reading: Small Press Traffic featuring Rachel Levitsky and Heriberto Yepez 5:30pm at ATA (992 Valencia St, SF) ($6-$10 for non-members)
SUN 6: Reading: Bazaar Writers Salon, featuring Caroline Goodwin (MFAW faculty), Shanley Jacobs and Hugh Martin, hosted by Peter Kline, 6pm at Bazaar Cafe (5927 California St, SF)
WED 9: Conversations/Presentation: The Center for Art and Public Life at CCA celebrate this year's IMPACT award winners, 7pm at 350 Kansas St (SF)
THU 10: Reading: The Bloom Reading Series/14 Black Poppies: Witches & Bitches hosted by Lisa Gray, featuring Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty) with Brown People Don't Read, 7-9:30pm at Bayview
THU 10: Conversation/Q&A: Stories Breaking Through Silence: A Conversation with Aminatta Forna and Sarah Ladipo Manyika, 5:30pm at MoAD (685 Mission St, SF) (CCA students look in CLASSIFIEDS below for discount information)
COMING UP
10/11-12: Building an Artist's Life, a two-day symposium open to CCA students and alumni that will address what it means to be a working arts professional, focusing on career options and essential skills, RSVP to secure your spot! (OAK)
10/12: Reading: Telling Haiti's Story Through Two Lenses, featuring Opal Palmer Adisa (MFAW faculty), 2-4pm at Lakeview Branch Library Meeting Room (550 El Embarcadero, Oakland)
10/13: Reading: Litquake Event, "Off the Richter Scale: Iranian Voices", featuring Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty), Persis Karim, Jasmin Darznik, Shideh Etaat, and Ari Siletz, 11am at Hotel Rex (562 Sutter Street, SF)
10/13: Workshop: Litquake Event, Bagels & Bloodies: Sunday Morning "Hair Of The Dog", featuring The Short Story with Tom Barbash (MFAW faculty) 9am at San Francisco Writers' Grotto (490 2nd Street, 2nd Floor) ($85) (TICKETS)
10/14: Reading: Litquake Event, Quiet Lightning's 50th show with Sean Labrador y Manzano, Kelly Egan, Ken Grobe, Naomi Goldner, Davy Carren, Charlie Getter, Jennifer Cheng, Neil Carman, Kai Carlson-Wee, Chloe Veylit (MFAW '13), Janet Frishberg, Mira Martin-Parker and Jason Schenheit, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers (100 John F Kennedy Dr, SF)
10/14: Discussion: MFA Comics presents Anders Nilsen, 12pm in The Writer's Studio (SF)
10/15: Reading: Litquake Event, Write On! curated by Matthew James DeCoster, works by Nick Johnson (MFAW '11), Martha Grover (MFAW '11) and SB Stokes, Zarina Zabrisky, and Hollie Hardy (all Eleven Eleven contributors) and Juli C. Lasselle, Amy Thigpen, Tim Toaster Henderson, and Joel Landmine, 8pm at the Emerald Tablet (80 Fresno, SF)
10/17: Reading: Litquake Event, "Flight of Poets" with Kazim Ali, Sophie Cabot Black, Xochiquetzal Candelaria, Maxine Chernoff, Keith Ekiss, and Joseph Lease (MFAW faculty), 7pm at Hotel Rex (562 Sutter St, SF)
10/17: Reading: Litquake Event, MFA Mixer 2.0: Litquake Edition, featuring Carolyn Abram (MFAW alum), Scott Newton (MFAW alum), Molly Daniels, Rex Leonowicz, Robert Andrew Perez, Mary Paynter Sherwin, Sarah Broderick, Yume Kim, Jessy Goodman, Erik White, Chris Carosi and Kate Folk, 6:30pm at the Cat Club (1190 Folsom St, SF)
10/18: Reading: MFAW Writers Series with LitQuake presents Mary Gaitskill, 7pm in Timken Lecture Hall (CCA 1111 8th St, SF)
10/18: Reading: The Poetry Center presents Yusef Komunyakaa, 7:30pm at McRoskey Mattress Company (1687 Market St at Gough, SF) ($10/$5)
10/19: Reading/Panel: Litquake Event, The Art of the Memoir presents "The Art of Writing" featuring Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), Jeff Greenwald, Will Lutwick, Louise Nayer and Julia Scheeres, 12:30pm at Z Space (450 Florida St, SF) (TICKETS) ($5 for each panel; $9 for two; $12 for all three)
10/19: Reading: Litquake Event, The Art of the Memoir presents "The Art of the Short Story"panel featuring Aimee Phan (MFAW chair), Lucy Corin, Carolyn Cooke, Valerie Fioravanti, and Jason K. Friedman, 2pm at Z Space (450 Florida St, SF) (TICKETS) ($5 for each panel; $9 for two; $12 for all three)
10/19: Reading: Litquake Event, The Art of the Memoir presents "The Art of the Novel" panel featuring Carol Edgarian, Karen Joy Fowler, Gail Tsukiyama, Susan Straight and Chris Baty, 4pm at Z Space (450 Florida St, SF) (TICKETS) ($5 for each panel; $9 for two; $12 for all three)
10/19: Reading: LitCrawl with Aimee Phan (MFAW chair), Gloria Frym (MFAW faculty), Matthew Iribarne (MFAW faculty), Steffi Drewes (MFAW '06), Nana Twumasi (MFAW '07), Ryan Funk (MFAW '12), 6pm at Mission Cheese (736 Valencia) MORE INFO
10/19: Reading: LitCrawl, The Catamaran Literary Reader with Judith Serin (MFAW faculty) and others, 8:30 - 9:30pm at the Red Poppy Art House (2698 Folsom, SF)
10/19: Panel: LitCrawl, a panel of translators featuring Denise Newman (MFAW faculty) 8:30-9:30pm at Love & Luxe (1169 Valencia St, SF)
10/19: Reading: LitCrawl, Bang Out Volume XXII: "Song" with works by Shandy Walton (MFAW '14) and others TBA, 7:15-8:15pm at Deepistan National Parklet (937 Valencia St, SF)
10/19: Reading: LitCrawl, "Beautiful Liars", dark readings featuring faculty and students from UC Berkeley's Summer Creative Writing Program, hosted by T. Geronimo Johnson, Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), Terra Brigando, David Lau, Safeena Leila Mecklai, Anca Roncea and Ryan Sloan, 6-7pm at Density (593 Valencia St, SF)
10/19: Reading: LitCrawl, Numina Press featuring Tamim Ansary, Kemble Scott, Joe Quirk, Ransom Stephens, Yanina Gotsulsky, James Warner, Andy Dugas, Zarina Zabrisky (Eleven Eleven #13 contributor), 6-7pm at Dalva (3121 16th St, SF)
10/20: Reading: Small Press Traffic featuring Christopher Russell and Matthew Gordon, 5:30pm at ATA (992 Valencia St, SF) ($6-$10 for non-members)
10/20: Reading: Bernal Yoga Literary Series featuring Elizabeth Costello, Keith Ekiss, Maria Hummel, Matthew Iribarne (MFAW faculty), Glori Simmons and Jean Baudin, 8pm at Bernal Yoga (908 Cortland Avenue, SF)
10/22: Lecture: CCA Graduate Studies Lecture Series presents Prem Krishnamurthy, 7pm in Timken
10/24: Reading: The Poetry Center presents George Stanley "Open Workshop", 4:30pm at the Poetry Center, (1600 Holloway Ave, HUM 512, SFSU)
10/24: Reading: Writing Without Walls: Magic, 7pm at Cafe du Soleil (200 Fillmore St, SF)
10/25: Reading: Fright Night 2: The Revenge, readers TBA, time TBA (Writers Studio)
10/26: Reading: The Poetry Center presents George Stanley and Leish Ellingham, 7:30pm at the Meridian Gallery (535 Powell St, SF) ($10/$5)
10/31: HALLOWEEN
11/1: Reading: MFAW Writers Series presents Tom Barbash (MFAW faculty), 4:30pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)
11/3: Reading: The Poetry Center presents Fred Moten, 5pm TBD (SF)
11/8: Reading: MFAW Writers Series presents Sheri Fink, 4:30pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)
11/9: Reading: Rolling Writers' Flash Flood, featuring Ethel Rohan, Meg Pokrass, Tony PRess, Townsend Walker, Zarina Zabrisky (Eleven Eleven #13 contributor) and Jon Sindell, 7-9pm at Rolling-Out (1722 Taraval St, SF)
11/13: Reading: Hearsay Reading Series presents the Senior Reading and Literary Festival, 7:30pm in Nahl Hall (OAK)
11/14: Reading: The Poetry Center presents a Tribute to Jayne Cortez with Robin D.G. Kelley in conversation with Justin Desmangles, 4:30pm at the Poetry Center, (1600 Holloway Ave, HUM 512, SFSU)
11/15: Reading: MFAW Writers Series presents Tom Bissell, 4:30pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)
11/17: Reading: Small Press Traffic featuring Robert Kocik, 5:30pm at ATA (992 Valencia St, SF) ($6-$10 for non-members)
11/19: Lecture: CCA Graduate Studies Lecture Series presents Hito Steyerl, 7pm in Timken (SF)
11/28: THANKSGIVING
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)
12/5: 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)
12/6: Reading: MFAW Writers Series presents Max Posner, 4:30pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)
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)
12/13: 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)
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