MFA Writing Program

Housed in an arts college whose hallmark is creative experimentation, this multifaceted program is designed for advanced writers to explore many forms and styles of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, writing for performance, essay writing, criticism, translation, and hybrid composites of these. The program’s non-tracking curriculum and wide latitude allows students to extend the range of their skills and methods, and to incorporate understanding of historical, conceptual and social contexts into their writing practices.

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News and Updates

Upcoming Faculty Events

Sept. 19: Reading for Black Clock 12 at Skylight bookstore at 5 pm, with Richard Rayner, Nina Revoyr, Samantha Dunn, Tod Goldberg, Paul Cullum and Monica Carter
Sept. 19: Reading for Not Content at Los Angeles Contemporary Events (6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles), with Christine Wertheim, Marco Antionio Huerta and Sawako Nakayasu. 4-6 pm.
Sept. 26: West Hollywood Book Fair – Readings by Jen Hofer and Christine Wertheim.
Sept. 30: Maggie Nelson reading at Cal State San Marcos, 7 pm.
Oct. 2: The Future of Writing – Symposium at MOCA, LA – participants include John Keene, Marc McGurl, Juliana Sphar and Heriberto Yepez. Curated by Christine Wertheim and hosted in conjunction with the MA in Politics and Aesthetics. From 12:30–5:30 pm.
In October Jon Wagner will be a Visiting Scholar in Film Theory at Beijing Normal University, China.
Nov. 7: EATLACMA! day with over fifty artists and collectives activating, intervening, and re-imagining the museum's campus and galleries. Curated by Matias Viegener and Fallen Fruit
Nov. 16: Maggie Nelson Reading at LACMA, as part of William Eggleston Exhibition. Time TBA.
Nov. 19: Launch of Encyclopedia Volume 2, ed. Tisa Bryant, Miranda Mellis and Kate Schatz at 2905 Elm St., Los Angeles.
Dec. 18: Maggie Nelson reading at Beyond Baroque, Venice, LA, with Uljana Wolf. Time TBA.

Summer 2010 Faculty News

We Welcome MFA Writing Program alum Jon Rutzmoser as our new Admissions Coordinator.
Tisa Bryant was a Milay Writer’s Colony Fellow
This summer Maggie Nelson was a Visiting Writer at the Summer Writers Colony of the New School Graduate Writing Program. She also attended the RADAR Lab -- a new writing retreat in Akumal, Mexico -- where she finished her forthcoming book The Art of Cruelty, due out August 2011.
Matias Viegener and Fallen Fruit opened their show EATLACMA! The multi-media exhibition continues through December with a day of events in which over fifty artists and collectives will activate, intervene, and re-imagine the museum's campus and galleries on November 7.
In July Christine Wertheim travelled on the Trans-Siberian Railway as part of the AMI Summer Retreat. During the journey she began a monograph on Mongolia. Through the month of September she has a residency and wall-installation at LACE, with a reading on Sept. 19.
Bruce Bauman was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In July, he sold his novel-in-progress Broken Sleep to Other Press (NY, NY), to be published in 2012.
Jen Hofer co-coordinated the Language Justice Team at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, and taught a bilingual workshop with Dolores Dorantes at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.

MFA Writing Program