Vol. 1, Issue 12
PUBLICATIONS
"True Faith", a poem by Joseph Lease (MFAW faculty) was recently featured by The Academy of American Poets / Poets.org as part of their Poem-A-Day feature.
MEDIA
There's an article on Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) and her novel Equal of the Sun online via Spartan Daily.
Check out this interview conducted by Janey Smith (MFAW) with Eric Raymond for the SFWeekly.
There's an interview with the fabulous Polly Conway (MFAW alum) on the Work It, Berk blog about writing and crafting.
ON-CAMPUS
THU 22 - FRI 23: THANKSGIVING BREAK
WED 28: Wattis Small Talk: Leigh Markopoulos (CURP Chair), 7 - 8pm in the Wattis (SF)
WED 28: Notes from the Studio: Terri Friedman, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)
OFF-SITE
WED 28: Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review Release Party for the 2012 MRBA Fiction winner Stoyan Vassilev, at The Booksmith (1644 Haight, SF)
THU 29: Peter Orner in Conversation with Michelle Richmond (former MFAW faculty), 7:30pm at the Booksmith (1644 Haight, SF)
THU 29: InsideStorytime FUGITIVES with readings by Aimee Phan (MFAW Chair), Joe Clifford, Albert Flynn DeSilve, Nora Boxer, and Shideh Etaat with MC James Warner, 7 - 9pm at The Space Between Gallery (1 Columbus, SF)
ON GOING
November is National Novel Writing Month! Register and challenge yourself Nov. 1-30th.
COMING UP
11/30: Writing for Image (Grad Fine Arts) Reading, 6:00pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
12/1: Alice Notley at the Unitarian Center
12/2: Tim Trace Peterson, J/J Hastain, Monica Peck at ATA
12/5: Notes from the Studio: Danielle Lawrence, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)
12/5: Word Performances Reading Series with readings by Doug Cordell, Joshua Mohr, Jonathan Hirsch, Casey Childers, Valerie Chavez, Nate Waggoner, Nick Johnson (MFAW alum), Crystal Reiss, Todd Siegel and Cybele Zufolo, 8pm at Viracocha (998 Valencia, SF)
12/7: Sam Sax, 5:30 at BAM/PFA Reading Room
12/14: LAST DAY OF THE FALL SEMESTER
12/14: MFAW STUDENT READING
12/15: Native American Poetry Series: L. Frank, Sherry Wilson, Nazbah Tom, and Indira Allegra at the de Young Museum
12/16: "iduna: an opera in one act" libretto by kari edwards, arranged and conducted by Tom Comitta (MFAW alum)
Vol. 1, Issue 11
wednesday, november 14 - thursday, november 22
PUBLICATIONS
Les Gottesman (MFAW alum) announces his new chapbook, "Misuses of Poetry and other poems", released from Finishing Line Press. Order a copy of the chapbook HERE.
Twerk, a new book of poetry by Latasha N. Nevada Diggs (MFAW alum), will be published by Belladonna* Books in February 2013.
ON-CAMPUS
WED 14: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 5 - 6pm in Timken Reception Area (SF)
WED 14: Notes from the Studio: Sally Elesby, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)
WED 14: Film Program's Cinema Visionaries series: Barbara Hammer, 7 - 9pm in Timken (SF)
THU 15: Q&A with Magazine Editors, 1:30 - 2:30pm in the Writers Studio [CCA students only] (SF)
THU 15: TA Applications Due [CCA students only] (SF)
FRI 16: WRITERS SERIES/FRIDAY SEMINAR: Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), author of Meeting Faith, 3:30pm – 5:00pm, in the Writers Studio (SF)
FRI 16: MFAW STUDENT READING, readers TBD, 5:30 - 7:30pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
TUE 20: HEARSAY: Senior Reading and Literary Festival, 7:30pm in Nahl Hall (OAK)
THU 22 - FRI 23: THANKSGIVING BREAK
OFF-SITE
WED 14: 30th Issue of New American Writing celebration with readings by Marco Lean, Ben Black, Scott Lambridis, Shruti Swamy, Peter Orner, Laura Walker, Richard O. Moore, Joseph Lease (MFAW faculty), and Paul Hoover, 3 - 4:30pm at the Poetry Center at SFSU (HUM 512 1600 Holloway Ave, SF)
THU 15: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Lafayette Library and Community Center (3491 Mt. Diablo Boulevard, Lafayette, CA)
THU 15: "Listen for Peace," a visual art, literary, and music benefit for Emergency USA, Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), and others TBA, 5:30 - 7:30pm, San Francisco Main Library, SF Francisco
THU 15: Reading: coordinated by Erin Ginder-Shaw (MFAW '13), 6:30pm at Dogpatch Wineworks (2455 3rd Street, San Francisco)
THU 15: Book Launch and Reading: Iron, first book by Zarina Zabrisky (Eleven Eleven #13), 7:30pm at Pegasus Books Downtown (2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley)
FRI 16: Reading: Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, 5:30pm at BAM/PFA Reading Room (Room 2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley) (Tickets $7)
FRI 16: Co-Launch Party for Beeswax Magazine [co-founded by Laureen Mahler (MFAW alum)] and Monday Night [co-founded by Jessica Wickens (MFAW alum)] with readings by Hugh Behm-Steinberg (MFAW faculty), Diana Aehegma, Sean Craven, and Valerie Witte, 7pm at Diesel (5433 College Ave, OAK)
FRI 16: Book Launch and Reading: Iron, first book by Zarina Zabrisky (Eleven Eleven, #13), 7pm at Viracocha (998 Valencia Street, SF)
MON 19: Reading: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Dr. Martin Luther King, 7pm at Jr. Main Library (1 Washington Square, 225/229, 2nd Floor, San Jose)
ON GOING
November is National Novel Writing Month! Register and challenge yourself Nov. 1-30th.
"Original Weather: 1 Artist and 8 Poets" with work by Robert Tomlinson and Laura LeHew (MFAW '03) among others at Grants Pass Musuem of Art, Grants Pass, OR (through November 16)
COMING UP
11/28: Notes from the Studio: Terri Friedman, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)
11/28: Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review Release Party for the 2012 MRBA Fiction Winner Stoyan Vassilev, at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street, SF)
11/29: Peter Orner in Conversation with Michelle Richmond (former MFAW faculty), 7:30pm at the Booksmith (SF)
11/30: Writing for Image (Grad Fine Arts class) Reading, 6:00pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
12/1: Alice Notley at the Unitarian Center
12/2: Tim Trace Peterson, J/J Hastain, Monica Peck at ATA
12/5: Notes from the Studio: Danielle Lawrence, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)
12/7: Sam Sax, 5:30 at BAM/PFA Reading Room
12/14: LAST DAY OF THE FALL SEMESTER
12/14: MFAW STUDENT READING
12/16: "iduna: an opera in one act" libretto by kari edwards, arranged and conducted by Tom Comitta (MFAW alum)
Vol. 1, Issue 10
wednesday, november 7 - thursday, november 15
NEWS
Minnows, a new novel by Jonathan Lyons (MFAW '05) will be out August 2013 published by The Journal of Experimental Fiction.
MEDIA
Watch Gloria Frym (MFAW faculty) read from the banned Iranian novel, The Blind Owl, in honor of City Lights banned book week celebration. Presented by The City Lights Booksellers & Publishers Blog.
There's an article about Gloria Frym's (MFAW faculty) contribution to City Lights Bookstore's Banned Books Week celebration written by Jim Norrena (MFAW '13).
Check out this clip of Jonathan Lyons (MFAW '05) constructing his upcoming novel Minnows.
ON-CAMPUS
THU 8: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 6 - 7pm in Timken Reception Area (SF)
FRI 9: WRITERS SERIES/FRIDAY SEMINAR: Carol Edgarian, author of Three Stages of Amazement, 5:30pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
FRI 9: MFA Program in Writing Info Session, 6:30 - 8pm in the Writers Studio (195 De Haro, SF)
MON 12: Panel discussion and information session on the Fulbright Scholars program, 6:30 - 8pm in Nahl Hall (OAK) RSVP to careers@cca.edu
TUE 13: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 6 -7 pm in A2 cafe (SF)
TUE 13: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 6 - 7pm in A2 cafe (OAK)
WED 14: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 5 - 6pm in Timken Reception Area (SF)
THU 15: Editors Meeting 11am - 1:30pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
WED 14: Notes from the Studio: Sally Elesby, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)
OFF-SITE
WED 7: The Altered Barbie Poetry Night with readings by Amanda Chiado (MFAW alum), 7 - 9pm at 50 Shotwell, SF.
FRI 9: Reading: Tisa Bryant, 5:30pm, at the BAM/PFA Reading Room (Room 2575 Bancroft Way between College and Telegraph, Berkeley) (Tickets $7)
FRI 9: Della Watson and Jessica Wickens (MFAW alum), 7:30pm at Lone Glen Reading Series (293 Cotter Street, SF)
SAT 10: WRITERS WITH DRINKS: Shawna Yang Ryan, Francesca Lia Block, Randy Alfred, 7 - 9:30pm at the Make-Out Room (3225 22nd Street, SF) ($5-$10 sliding scale)
SUN 11: Presentation: "Equal of the Sun" with Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Bluestockings (NYC)
SUN 11: Reading: kathryn l. pringle, Erin Moure, Andrea Rexilius, 5pm at ATA (992 Valencia Street, SF) (Tickets $6-$10)
WED 14: 30th Issue of New American Writing celebration with readings by Marco Lean, Ben Black, Scott Lambridis, Shruti Swamy, Peter Orner, Laura Walker, Richard O. Moore, Joseph Lease (MFAW faculty), and Paul Hoover, 3 - 4:30pm at the Poetry Center at SFSU (HUM 512 1600 Holloway Ave, SF)
THU 15: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Lafayette Library and Community Center (3491 Mt. Diablo Boulevard Lafayette, CA)
THU 15: "Listen for Peace," a visual art, literary, and music benefit for Emergency USA, Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), and others TBA, 7–10pm, SF Main Library, San Francisco
ON GOING
November is National Novel Writing Month! Register and challenge yourself Nov. 1-30th.
"Original Weather: 1 Artist and 8 Poets" with work by Robert Tomlinson and Laura LeHew (MFAW '03) among others at Grants Pass Musuem of Art, Grants Pass, OR (through November 16)
COMING UP
11/16: WRITERS SERIES/FRIDAY SEMINAR: Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), author of Meeting Faith, 3:30pm – 5:00pm, in the Writers' Studio (SF)
11/16: MFAW STUDENT READING
11/16: Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, 5:30pm at BAM/PFA Reading Room
11/16: Co-Launch Party for Beeswax Magazine [co-founded by Laureen Mahler (MFAW alum)] and Monday Night [co-founded by Jessica Wickens (MFAW alum)] with readings by Hugh Behm-Steinberg (MFAW faculty), Diana Aehegma, Sean Craven, and Valerie Witte,
11/19: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Main Library (San Jose)
11/28: Notes from the Studio: Terri Friedman, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)
11/28: Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review Release Party for the 2012 MRBA Fiction Winner Stoyan Vassilev, at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street, SF)
11/29: Peter Orner in Conversation with Michelle Richmond (former MFAW faculty), 7:30pm at the Booksmith (SF)
11/30: Writing for Image (Grad Fine Arts class) Reading, 6:00pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
12/1: Alice Notley at the Unitarian Center
12/2: Tim Trace Peterson, J/J Hastain, Monica Peck at ATA
12/5: Notes from the Studio: Danielle Lawrence, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)
12/7: Sam Sax, 5:30 at BAM/PFA Reading Room
12/14: LAST DAY OF THE FALL SEMESTER
12/14: MFAW STUDENT READING
12/16: "iduna: an opera in one act" libretto by kari edwards, arranged and conducted by Tom Comitta (MFAW alum)
Vol. 1, Issue 9
NEWS
Sarah Fontaine (MFAW '10) is publishing Junior Clemons's (MFAW '10) first book, with Carville Annex Press along with Alexis Petty (MFA Design alum). Look below for release party info.
An article about Paul Blumer (MFAW '12) and his novel Death or Quarter was published in SFGate.
Big Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants on winning the 2012 World Series!!
ON-CAMPUS
WED 31: Notes from the Studio: Serena Cole Halloween Special, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)
WED 31: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 11am-12pm in Timken Reception Area, (SF)
WED 31: Happy Halloween!
THU 1: TA Applications Accepted
FRI 2: MFAW Cheryl Dunye's (MFAW faculty) Screenwriting Workshop: Michelle Tea showing her film Valencia: The Movie, open to the CCA community, 12 - 3pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
FRI 2: WRITERS SERIES/FRIDAY SEMINAR: Michael Nye and Opal Palmer Adisa (MFAW faculty), 3:30 - 5:30pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
MON 5: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 3 - 4pm in A2 cafe (OAK)
WED 7: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 3 - 4pm in A2 cafe (OAK)
WED 7: Notes from the Studio: Christopher Brown, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)
THU 8: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 6 - 7pm in Timken Reception Area (SF)
OFF-SITE
THU 1: NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month begins! Get to 50,000 words by November 30th.
FRI 2: Reading: Franck André Jamme, 5:30pm, at the BAM/PFA Reading (Room 2575 Bancroft Way between College and Telegraph, Berkeley) (Tickets $7)
FRI 2: Reading: Cathy Wagner and Kevin Killian (MFAW faculty), 7:00pm at Woolsey Heights, (1628 Woolsey Street, Apt. C, Berkeley)
FRI 2: Eleven Eleven: Celebration of issue #13 with readings by Sophia Dahlin, Sean Labrador y Manzano, Linda Norton, Mira Pasikov, Francois Luong & Amy Glynn Greacen, 7:30 - 9:30pm at Press: Works on Paper (3108 24th Street, SF)
SAT 3: BERNAL YOGA LITERARY SERIES: Opal Palmer Adisa (MFAW faculty), Michael Alenyikov, Sarah Griffin, Keely Hyslop, Tomas Moniz, Stephen Rosenshein, and Daniel Suarez, 8:00pm at Bernal Yoga Studio (908 Cortland, SF)
SAT 3: Release party for Junior Clemon's (MFAW '10) first book, published by Sarah Fontaine (MFAW '10), with Carville Annex Press along with Alexis Petty (MFA Design alum), at 7pm at Carville Annex (4037 Judah Street @46th, SF)
SUN 4: Reading: Small Press Traffic presents: Dana Ward, Julian Brolaski and Cynthia Sailers, 5pm at ATA (992 Valencia Street, SF) (Tickets $6-$10)
SUN 4: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Solano County Library Foundation (601 Kentucky Street, Fairfield) TICKETS
MON 5: Reading: Quiet Lightning event featuring Caroline Goodwin (MFAW faculty), Stacy Carlson, Candy Shue, Ratty St. John, Kyle Metzner, Jose Luis Gutierrez, Karen Penley, Lisa Gordon (MFAW alum), Adam Hofbauer, Stacy Magner Barrett, Jennifer Lynn Roberts (MFAW alum), and Matthew Sherling at 7:30pm, Viracocha (998 Valencia @21st, SF) (Tickets $5)
WED 7: Amanda Chiado (MFAW alum) will present and read her work at The Altered Barbie Poetry night, 7-9pm at 50 Shotwell SF.
ON GOING
November is National Novel Writing Month! Register and challenge yourself Nov. 1-30th.
"Original Weather: 1 Artist and 8 Poets" with work by Robert Tomlinson and Laura LeHew (MFAW '03) among others at Grants Pass Musuem of Art, Grants Pass, OR (through November 16)
COMING UP
11/9: WRITERS SERIES/FRIDAY SEMINAR: Carol Edgarian, author of Three Stages of Amazement, 5:30pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
11/9: Tisa Bryant, 5:30pm, at the BAM/PFA Reading Room
11/9: Della Watson and Jessica Wickens (MFAW alum), 7:30pm, Lone Glen Reading Series (293 Cotter Street, SF)
11/10: WRITERS WITH DRINKS: Shawna Yang Ryan, Francesca Lia Block, Randy Alfred, 7 - 9:30pm at the Make-Out Room
11/11: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Bluestockings (NYC)
11/11: Reading: kathryn l. pringle, Erin Moure, Andrea Rexilius at ATA
11/12: Panel discussion and information session on the Fulbright Scholars program, 6:30 - 8pm in Nahl Hall (OAK) RSVP to careers@cca.edu
11/13: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 6-7pm in A2 cafe (OAK)
11/14: Panel discussion and information session on the Fulbright Scholars program,
11am-1pm in GC7 (SF)
11/14: 30th Issue of New American Writing celebration with readings by Marco Lean, Ben Black, Scott Lambridis, Shruti Swamy, Peter Orner, Laura Walker, Richard O. Moore, Joseph Lease (MFAW faculty), and Paul Hoover, 3 - 4:30pm at the Poetry Center at SFSU
11/14: IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Information Session, 5-6pm in Timken Reception Area (SF)
11/14: Notes from the Studio: Sally Elesby, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)
11/15: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Lafayette Library and Community Center (Lafayette, CA)
11/15: "Listen for Peace," a visual art, literary, and music benefit for Emergency USA, Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), and others TBA, 7–10pm, SF Main Library, San Francisco
11/15: Editors Meeting 11am-1:30pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
11/16: WRITERS SERIES/FRIDAY SEMINAR: Faith Adiele (MFAW faculty), author of Meeting Faith, 3:30pm – 5:00pm, in the Writers' Studio (SF)
11/16: MFAW STUDENT READING
11/16: Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, 5:30pm at BAM/PFA Reading Room
11/16: Co-Launch Party for Beeswax Magazine [co-founded by Laureen Mahler (MFAW alum)] and Monday Night [co-founded by Jessica Wickens (MFAW alum)] with readings by Hugh Behm-Steinberg (MFAW faculty), Diana Aehegma, Sean Craven, and Valerie Witte,
11/19: Anita Amirrezvani (MFAW faculty) at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Main Library (San Jose)
11/28: Notes from the Studio: Terri Friedman, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)
11/29: Peter Orner in Conversation with Michelle Richmond (former MFAW faculty), 7:30pm at the Booksmith (SF)
11/30: Writing for Image (Grad Fine Arts class) Reading, 6:00pm in the Writers Studio (SF)
12/1: Alice Notley at the Unitarian Center
12/2: Tim Trace Peterson, J/J Hastain, Monica Peck at ATA
12/5: Notes from the Studio: Danielle Lawrence, 4pm in The Drawing Room (SF)
12/7: Sam Sax, 5:30 at BAM/PFA Reading Room
12/14: LAST DAY OF THE FALL SEMESTER
12/14: MFAW STUDENT READING
12/16: "iduna: an opera in one act" libretto by kari edwards, arranged and conducted by Tom Comitta (MFAW alum)
