U.C. Berkeley Summer Creative Writing Program

10/14/2013

Such Beautiful Liars: this Saturday, Oct 19, come listen to theSCWP Lit Crawl lineup at Density (593 Valencia St), from 6-7pm in Phase 1. Hosted by T. Geronimo Johnson, featuring readings by Faith Adiele, Terra Brigando, Safeena Leila Mecklai, Joseph Rios & Ryan Sloan. Don't miss it!
http://bit.ly/18fGTqghttp://litcrawl.org/sf/files/2013/09/Lit-Crawl-SF-Map-2013.pdf

10/07/2013

T. Geronimo Johnson, Tess Taylor, Kaya Oakes, Daniel Alarcon: among the SCWP faculty included in the SF Chronicle's gorgeous Bay Area Literary Map.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/books/item/Bay-Area-Literary-Map-23355.php

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09/19/2013

Come to Tess Taylor's book release party for The Forage House this Saturday 9/21! She writes: "We're putting out a spread and opening up 111 Minna Gallery for an evening of some poetry and a lot of fun - in honor of my book and in honor of Red Hen Press. A short reading, a toast, a bluegrass band, bourbon & biscuits-- you can't go wrong." 21+ only, RSVP with Tess in advance. 6.30-9.30pm
http://www.tess-taylor.com/events.html

09/19/2013

Catch Camille Dungy on her Fall 2013 reading tour through California, Virginia, Colorado and Iowa: http://conta.cc/187gdIb

A reading curated by the Poetry Society of America and Folger Shakespeare Library featuring Henri Cole, Camille Dungy, Terrance Hayes, and Marilyn Nelson,

09/17/2013

Support Kaya Oakes' new project, Limina, an online magazine of women talking about faith.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/limina-magazine

Limina: A Magazine of Women Writing About Faith and Religion

09/16/2013

Shane Book is delighted to announce that “Dust” will have its Caribbean premiere at the 2013 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. It will screen Wednesday, Sept. 25th at 6pm and Tuesday Oct. 1st at 3:30pm at MovieTowne in Port of Spain, Trinidad. After that it will air on the Flow cable TV channel nationwide across Trinidad and throughout Jamaica from September 2013 until February 2014.
http://www.ttfilmfestival.com/film-synopsis/dust/

Dust braids two memories from a poet’s youth. In one memory, the young man remembers a last moment with a lover. In the other memory, he recalls his final hours with his dying grandfather. Ultimately, this contemplative examination of the nature of grief becomes a poetic meditation of “water, skin a...

09/10/2013

Don't miss David Lau and Ed Pavlic read at Moe's Books in Berkeley as part of the Poetry Flash series on 10/10.

09/10/2013

It's official: for Lit Crawl 2013 we'll be hosted by the fine folks at Density (593 Valencia St), from 6-7pm in Phase 1. Don't miss it. http://litcrawl.org/sf/events/15-uc-berkeleys-scwp-presents-beautiful-liars/

In search of the lie that tells the truth: Six wry, dark readings featuring faculty and students from UC Berkeley’s six-week Summer Creative Writing Program. Hosted by T. Geronimo Johnson, author of Hold It ‘Til It Hurts. Featuring Faith Adiele, Terra Brigando, David Lau, Safeena Leila Mecklai, Anca...

09/06/2013

Mark your calendars -- the SCWP is hosting a kick-ass event at Litcrawl on October 19, 2013 [http://litcrawl.org/sf/].

Beautiful Liars, presented by theSCWP
Featuring faculty and students from U.C. Berkeley's six-week Summer Creative Writing Program [www.thescwp.com].

Hosted by T. Geronimo Johnson [author of Hold It 'Til It Hurts]
Lineup:
- Faith Adiele is the author of Meeting Faith (W.W. Norton & Co.), a travel memoir about becoming Thailand’s first black Buddhist nun, which received PEN Beyond Margins Award.
- David Lau is the author of Virgil and the Mountain Cat (UC Press) and the co-editor of the Lana Turner Journal.
- Ryan Sloan is the author of the forthcoming novel The Plagiarists. His work has appeared in LA Weekly, Nerve, O***m Magazine, and Painted Bride Quarterly.
- Terra Brigando (SCWP 2013) earned her MFA from Mills College in 2012. She can't write without coffee or wine, or some combination of both.
- Joseph Rios (SCWP 2012) is a poet, a film and music ju**ie, an amateur impressionist. He's from Fresno and lives in Oaklandia.
- Safeena Leila Mecklai (SCWP 2013) is a UC Berkeley senior working on her first non-fiction book about love, college, diet soda, and airplanes.
- Anca Roncea (SCWP 2013) writes poetry and is finishing up her PhD, after a Fulbright year in Berkeley, at the University of Bucharest in Romania.

“The striking thing about Lit Crawl, actually, was not the variegated writerly menu; nor was it the variety of venues—54 of them, including bookstores, bars, coffee shops, galleries and a bee-keeping supply store. Rather it was the specter of writing and literature—literature!—transforming an ordina...

09/05/2013

Our friends at Litquake are offering one hell of a mixer:
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Get Lit – Get Lucky!
September 20, 2013 - 7:00 PM
Verdi Club
2424 Mariposa Street
$15
Buy tickets online
Come to Get Lit – Get Lucky! and Date a Hot Writer

Crushing on Lisbeth Salander? Aching for Mr. Darcy? Obsessing over Katniss Everdeen? Fantasizing about Jay Gatsby?

Join Litquake for our first-ever literary singles night! Yes, this is a rare night to meet your fellow word nerds. Bring your buddy (for a $5 discount) and make a new friend— we guarantee you’ll go home with a fun prize, a date, or at least a good story!

Featuring a line up of bookish guests including Alia Volz, former host/producer of Literary Death Match, Litquake brings together the sexiest dorks in the Bay Area for your opportunities to meet a brainy girl in a wool cardigan or a cute boy in horn-rimmed glasses. We’ll provide excellent icebreakers, specialty cocktails, and most importantly, other unmarried folks who share your love of the written word.

The highlight of the evening will be our own spin on the Dating Game (let’s call it the Literary Dating Game), in which lucky contestants vie for a date with one of six hot authors of various ages and preferences. See our list of hotties below, and if you’d like to be a contestant (whether you’re straight, gay, or le***an), email us at [email protected].

For more info, go to http://www.litquake.org/calendar-of-events/get-lit-get-lucky or https://www.facebook.com/events/281973938610193/.
Hope to see you there!

Join Litquake for our first-ever literary singles night! Yes, this is a rare night to meet your fellow word nerds. Bring your buddy (for a $5 discount) and make a new friend— we guarantee you’ll go home with a fun prize, a date, or at least a good story!

08/20/2013

In which Camille Dungy justly raves about Brenda Hillman's 'Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire' at The Rumpus:
http://therumpus.net/2013/08/why-i-chose-brenda-hillmans-seasonal-works-with-letters-on-fire-for-the-rumpus-poetry-book-club/

Next post like this »« Previous post like thisWhy I Chose Brenda Hillman’s Seasonal Works With Letters on Fire for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club By Camille T. DungyAugust 9th, 2013I know I’m not supposed to dog-ear the pages of poetry books. It’s bad for the long-term health of the book. I know t...

07/20/2013

An excellent gathering -- thanks to ZYZZYVA and the National Books Critics Circle for hosting several faculty and students from the SCWP: http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/nbcc-parties-in-san-francisco

The National Book Critics Circle, founded at the Algonquin Round Table in 1974, honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism and literature.