Vol. 1, Issue 23
PUBLICATION
Ishmael Reed (MFAW visiting faculty) recently had an Op-Ed article published in The New York Times.
Max Cherney (MFAW '11) has a tech related Op-Ed published in BYTE.
MEDIA
Kate Haskell (MFAW '11) was recently featured on Refinery29 for being a fashionable employee for Pandora.
ON-CAMPUS
THU 21: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Paul Miller (DJ Spooky), 7pm at 350 Kansas (SF)
FRI 22: Narrative (Inter)Actions class meets, 12 - 3pm at the Writers Studio (SF)
FRI 22: WRITERS STUDIO closed for faculty meeting, 3:30 - 9pm (SF)
MON 25: Career Tips: Using Social Media as a Writer with Adam Bluestein, the usefulness of social media and the importance of networking as a writer, 11 - 1pm in the Writer's Studio (SF)
THU 28: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Juvenal Acosta, 7pm at Timken (SF)
OFF-SITE
MON 25: Weekday Wanderlust with Don George (Global Travel Editor for Lonely Planet): Tales and cocktails with Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), Christopher Hall, and April Orcutt, 6 - 8pm at Hotel Rex (562 Sutter, SF)
WED 27: Word Performances: with readings by Phil Lumsden (MFAW '14) and others, 7:30pm at Vircocha (998 Valencia Street, SF)
THU 28: Reading: City Lights Bookstore, Penny-Ante Editions and Janey Smith's 851 Reading Series present an evening with Steward Home, Jarett Kobek and John Tottenham, 7:30pm at Odd Fellows Hall (26 7th Street, SF)
COMING UP
3/1: WRITERS SERIES: Writers Remembered, TBD
3/2: Bernal Yoga Literary Series: Aimee Phan (MFAW Chair), Kristen Kadner (MFAW alum), Phil Lumsden (MFAW '14) and more, 8pm at Bernal Yoga Studio (908 Cortland, SF)
3/2: Reading: Vernon Keeve and Chloe Veylit (both MFAW '13) with others at Celtic Coffee (SF)
3/2: Babylon Salon: Terry Bisson, Tamim Ansary, Kate Durbin, Renee Thompson, Rashaan Alexis Meneses, 7pm at Cantina SF (580 Sutter, SF)
3/5: HearSay Reading Series: Malena Watrous and WRLIT Students, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)
3/7 - 3/9: AWP - Boston
3/7: 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)
3/7: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Sister Spit, 7pm at Timken (SF)
3/8 - 15: THESIS CANDIDACY REVIEW MEETINGS
3/15: THESIS WEBSITE: prepare & upload artist statement, writing selection, and image
3/9: SAT: Writers Studio closed for CCA Advancement event
3/9: AWP: Panel: Found in Translation: Great Nonfiction, Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty) panelist, 1:30 - 2:45pm at Room 109, Hynes Convention Center (Boston)
3/14: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Scott Snibbe, 7pm at Timken (SF)
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
3/18 - 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)
3/25 - 3/29: SPRING BREAK
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
4/16: HearSay Reading Series: Senior WRLIT Students, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)
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: 20 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
PUBLICATION
Ishmael Reed (MFAW visiting faculty) recently had an Op-Ed article published in The New York Times.
Max Cherney (MFAW '11) has a tech related Op-Ed published in BYTE.
MEDIA
Kate Haskell (MFAW '11) was recently featured on Refinery29 for being a fashionable employee for Pandora.
ON-CAMPUS
THU 21: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Paul Miller (DJ Spooky), 7pm at 350 Kansas (SF)
FRI 22: Narrative (Inter)Actions class meets, 12 - 3pm at the Writers Studio (SF)
FRI 22: WRITERS STUDIO closed for faculty meeting, 3:30 - 9pm (SF)
MON 25: Career Tips: Using Social Media as a Writer with Adam Bluestein, the usefulness of social media and the importance of networking as a writer, 11 - 1pm in the Writer's Studio (SF)
THU 28: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Juvenal Acosta, 7pm at Timken (SF)
OFF-SITE
MON 25: Weekday Wanderlust with Don George (Global Travel Editor for Lonely Planet): Tales and cocktails with Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), Christopher Hall, and April Orcutt, 6 - 8pm at Hotel Rex (562 Sutter, SF)
WED 27: Word Performances: with readings by Phil Lumsden (MFAW '14) and others, 7:30pm at Vircocha (998 Valencia Street, SF)
THU 28: Reading: City Lights Bookstore, Penny-Ante Editions and Janey Smith's 851 Reading Series present an evening with Steward Home, Jarett Kobek and John Tottenham, 7:30pm at Odd Fellows Hall (26 7th Street, SF)
COMING UP
3/1: WRITERS SERIES: Writers Remembered, TBD
3/2: Bernal Yoga Literary Series: Aimee Phan (MFAW Chair), Kristen Kadner (MFAW alum), Phil Lumsden (MFAW '14) and more, 8pm at Bernal Yoga Studio (908 Cortland, SF)
3/2: Reading: Vernon Keeve and Chloe Veylit (both MFAW '13) with others at Celtic Coffee (SF)
3/2: Babylon Salon: Terry Bisson, Tamim Ansary, Kate Durbin, Renee Thompson, Rashaan Alexis Meneses, 7pm at Cantina SF (580 Sutter, SF)
3/5: HearSay Reading Series: Malena Watrous and WRLIT Students, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)
3/7 - 3/9: AWP - Boston
3/7: 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)
3/7: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Sister Spit, 7pm at Timken (SF)
3/8 - 15: THESIS CANDIDACY REVIEW MEETINGS
3/15: THESIS WEBSITE: prepare & upload artist statement, writing selection, and image
3/9: SAT: Writers Studio closed for CCA Advancement event
3/9: AWP: Panel: Found in Translation: Great Nonfiction, Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty) panelist, 1:30 - 2:45pm at Room 109, Hynes Convention Center (Boston)
3/14: GRAD SPRING SYMPOSIUM: Narrative (Inter)Actions: Scott Snibbe, 7pm at Timken (SF)
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
3/18 - 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)
3/25 - 3/29: SPRING BREAK
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
4/16: HearSay Reading Series: Senior WRLIT Students, 7:30pm at Nahl Hall (OAK)
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: 20 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
