CCA Launches "Eleven Eleven," a New Literature and Arts Journal
San Francisco, May 28, 2004
The MFA Program in Writing at California College of the Arts (CCA), formerly California College of Arts and Crafts, introduces "Eleven Eleven," a new interdisciplinary literature and arts journal featuring fiction, poetry, interviews, criticism, visual art and more by writers and artists—both emerging and established.
Based at CCA's San Francisco campus, "Eleven Eleven" was founded by two graduates of CCA's MFA Program in Writing—editor in chief Youmna Chlala and editor Gayle Romasanta. The journal will be published annually each spring and is available for sale (as of June 1, 2004) at independent bookstores throughout the San Francisco Bay Area; plans are underway to secure national distribution for spring 2005.
A launch party for "Eleven Eleven," with readings and presentations by writers and artists in the spring issue, will take place Thursday, June 17, 6:30–8:30 p.m., at Den (849 Valencia Street, San Francisco).
"Eleven Eleven" seeks to create an accessible forum where writers and artists risk, experiment and find answers for and from their contemporaries. Works featured in the inaugural issue include fiction by National Magazine Award finalist Lysley Tenorio; an excerpt from Micheline Aharonian Marcom's new novel; poetry by acclaimed poet Michael S. Harper and poet Denise Newman; art by Harrell Fletcher (2004 Whitney Biennial) and San Francisco–based artist Rudy Lemcke; interviews with Adam Johnson, former Stegner fellow and author of "Emporium," and internationally renowned artist Claudia Bernardi; and a review of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts exhibition "Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists."
"Our goal is to provide a forum for artists and writers to exchange ideas, explore and reflect. The inaugural issue features contemporary, cutting-edge writing and visual art that tests the elements of craft, composition, language and illustration," says Chlala.
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