School of Critical Studies

Sublevel is a new online literary magazine devoted to the nexus of literature, poetics, art, criticism, philosophy, culture, and politics. Based in the MFA Creative Writing Program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Sublevel reflects the dynamism of contemporary Los Angeles as a...

Junot Díaz has been selected as California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) 2017 Katie Jacobson Writer-in-Residence. Díaz, who was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, will work with students in CalArts’ MFA...

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced that author Maggie Nelson is among the 23 MacArthur Fellows for 2016.  Chair of the Creative Writing Program in the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the...

George Saunders, one of foremost innovators of the contemporary American short story, has been selected as California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) 2016 Katie Jacobson Writer-in-Residence. 

Writer Brian Evenson joins the faculty in the MFA Creative Writing Program.

Black Clock commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Psychedelic Era with  Issue #20.

CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program hosts &Now, a biennial literary festival, on CalArts campus.