Apr 14, 2022 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Writing Now Reading Series: Sam Cohen Sam Cohen's fiction is published in Fence, Bomb, O Magazine, Electric Literature, and others. Her debut story collection Sarahland came out from Grand Central Publishing in 2021 and was a finalist for a Golden Poppy Award in Fiction and named Best Jewish Story Collection of 5781 by alma.com. She is a doctoral fellow in Creative Writing and Literature at USC. Event Details
Apr 7, 2022 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Writing Now: Javon Johnson A salon-style reading and conversation concerning Writing and Performativity with poet, actor, and African American Studies professor Javon Johnson. Event Details
Mar 17, 2022 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Writing Now Reading Series: Ben Ehrenreich A salon-style reading and conversation concerning Documentary Strategies with renowned non-fiction writer, journalist, and novelist Ben Ehrenreich. Event Details
Mar 10, 2022 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Writing Now Reading Series: Paolo Javier Join us for an intimate Masterclass Workshop and a Public Reading with Paolo Javier. In relation to the MFA Creative Writing Program’s Text + Image concentration, Paolo will be reading from his new book O.B.B., just out from Nightboat. Reading(s) will be streamed via the Creative Writing Program's YouTube Channel. Event Details
Writing Now Reading Series: Douglas Kearney Oct 14 Event DateEvent Date Oct 14, 2021, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Event LocationLocation CalArts Campus Generator Building 201/202 Share Tweet Share Export event Douglas Kearney has published seven collections, including the National Book Award-longlisted Sho (Wave Books, 2021), Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016), winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award, the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, and California Book Award silver medalist (Poetry). M. NourbeSe Philip calls Kearney’s collection of libretti, Someone Took They Tongues. (Subito, 2016), “a seismic, polyphonic mash-up.” Kearney’s Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press, 2015), was a Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection that Publisher’s Weekly called “an extraordinary book.” WIRE magazine calls Fodder (Fonograf Editions, 2021), a live album featuring Kearney and frequent collaborator, Val-Inc., “Brilliant.” Kearney is the 2021 recipient of OPERA America’s Campbell Opera Librettist Prize, created and generously funded by librettist/lyricist Mark Campbell. His operas include Sucktion, Mordake, Crescent City, Sweet Land (the Music Critics of North America’s Best Opera of 2021), and Comet / Poppea commissioned by AMOC (American Modern Opera Company). He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Altadena, CA, Kearney teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities and lives in St. Paul with his family. Reading(s) will be streamed via the Creative Writing Program's YouTube Channel.