Maggie Nelson Helms Sublevel, a New CalArts Literary Magazine
The magazine will have an annual print component and the first online issue will be released in February 2017.
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Tag: creative writing
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts on Publishers Weekly Best of 2015 List
Maggie Nelson, head of the MFA Creative Writing Program at CalArts, is on this month’s cover of Publishers Weekly (PW). Her latest book, The Argonauts, made PW’s Best Books of…
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Brian Evenson Joins Critical Studies Faculty
Noted writer Brian Evenson joins CalArts’ MFA Creative Writing Program faculty in January 2016. Evenson, who most recently served as the Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence in the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University, is…
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EventMay 14, 2015
Final Next Words Reading at REDCAT
Tonight (May 14), members of the graduating class of the CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program read from their works for the culmination of the Next Words Reading Series at Roy and…
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EventMarch 25 - 28, 2015
CalArts Hosts Literary Festival &Now 2015
From March 25-28, the MFA Program in Creative Writing hosts &NOW—the biennial traveling literary festival on the CalArts campus. This year’s theme is “Blast Radius: Writing and the Other Arts,” and…
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EventFebruary 5, 2015
Writing Now Reading Series Presents Roger Guenveur Smith
On Thursday (Feb. 5), CalArts’ MFA Creative Writing Program kicks off the Spring edition of its Writing Now Reading Series with a presentation by actor, director, writer and CalArts School of…
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Los Angeles Magazine Recommends Two CalArts Faculty for LA’s Poet Laureate
The city of Los Angeles is searching for a new poet laureate to succeed Eloise Klein Healy, the first artist to be named to the post. Residents of LA are…
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ReleaseMay 2, 2014
CalArts Critical Studies MA and MFA Students Release Collaborative Book
On Friday (May 2), students from the CalArts MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics and MFA Program in Creative Writing gather for readings at Stories Books and Cafe in the…
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New Online Magazine Entropy Seeks to House Literary Orphans
Entropy, a new online magazine co-founded by CalArts faculty and alumna Janice Lee (Critical Studies MFA 08) and writer Peter Tieryas Liu, does not lend itself to the label of…
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Q&A With Doug Kearney
**Update: Listen to a June 15 interview with Kearney about Patter on NPR. by Nicholas Katzban March 1 saw the release of Patter, the newest poetry collection from Critical Studies…
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