The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards are heralded as the "Oscars of the comics industry." This month CCA's MFA in Comics and Writing and Literature faculty member Justin Hall received an Eisner Award nomination for No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics (Fantagraphics Books, 2013), which he edited.
Read the restPosted on Thursday, March 21, 2013 by Allison Byers
I was moved by Yu Hua’s personal views on copyright violations, an issue that affects writers throughout the world. I was touched especially because this term I am teaching one of his novels (“To Live”) in one of my literature seminars.
Read the restPosted on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 by Jim Norrena
Eleven Eleven is a biannual journal of literature and art produced by the MFA Program in Writing and other members of the California College of the Arts community.
We're excited to announce Eleven Eleven Issue 14 is now available.
Read the restPosted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 by Jim Norrena
Ishmael Reed is an internationally renowned, award-winning novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist with more than 25 published books and six plays to his credit.
He's also a visiting scholar in the MFA Program in Writing at California College of the Arts.
Recently, his article "Neo-Classical Republicanism" was published in the New York Times in the Opinion Pages section:
Read the restPosted on Monday, February 4, 2013 by Jim Norrena
The Tribeca Film Institute Filmmaker Programming Team has chosen CCA faculty member Cheryl Dunye as one of 10 finalists for its newest initiative -- the Heineken Affinity Award.
Dunye, a native of Liberia, has directed such feature films as My Baby's Daddy (Miramax), Stranger Inside (HBO Films), and The Watermelon Woman, which was awarded the Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1996.
Read the restPosted on Monday, January 14, 2013 by Jim Norrena
What does narrative mean to architects, artists, critics, designers, scholars, and writers? How can the unfolding of a story communicate, evoke, engage, and captivate audiences?
This exhibition and lecture/performance series explores narrative in a broad range of genres.
Narrative (Inter)Actions is a series of performances, lectures, and exhibition that comprise the spring Graduate Studies Symposium at California College of the Arts.
Please join us for these exciting events:
Read the restPosted on Sunday, January 6, 2013 by Lindsey Westbrook
So Many Mountains But This One Specifically
Carville Annex Press, 2012
Paperback, 60 pages, $10/$15/$20
This is Junior Clemons's (MFA Writing 2010) first book. For the project he was awarded a Poets & Writers reading grant through the James Irvine Foundation. Alexis Petty (MFA Design 2009) designed the book, and took the photographs that appear in it. It was edited by Sarah Fontaine (MFA Writing 2010) Molly Prentiss (MFA Writing 2010), and Emily Jern-Miller (MFA Writing 2010).
Read the restPosted on Friday, December 14, 2012 by Jim Norrena
Humble Pie, Volume 7, the undergraduate literary magazine of California College of the Arts, was released December 2012.
About Humble Pie
The literary journal features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. It's made for and by students, many of whom are Writing and Literature majors, but also features the work of other Bay Area undergraduate students.
Read the restPosted on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 by Jim Norrena
CCA MFA Program in Writing and Writing and Literature Program faculty member Gloria Frym recently was invited to read at the historic City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, a landmark independent bookstore and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
Read the restPosted on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 by Jim Norrena
The MFA Program in Writing proudly offers the Writers Series that features a continuum of talented writers who are scheduled throughout the academic year to come to CCA to share their experience and insights.
While these events comprise the Friday Seminar course requirement for all first-year students, all events are free and open to the public -- especially all interested CCA community members.
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