Antioch University MFA Program

Are you interested in learning how to write fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or writing for young people? Check out Antioch's Low-Residency MFA Program. Our motto is: Community, Not Competition. Learn more here: https://www.antioch.edu//creative-wr/creative-writing-mfa/

#AntiochMFA November Shout Outs (Part 4) Philip Barragan's book, Fatizen: The Graphic Novel, Part Two, was released by Embonpoint Publishing. Yamini Pathak’s chapbook, Atlas of Lost Places, was published by Milk & Cake Press.... Antioch MFA Fiction Faculty Tananarive Due’s novel, My Soul To Keep, made Redbook’s list of scariest books of all time. Due's essay, "Black Horror Rising," won a 2020 Ignyte Award for Best in Creative Non-Fiction. Hazel Kight Witham, English teacher at Venice High School, was named an LAUSD Teacher of the Year. Books being published, making reputable lists, awards being wonwhat can’t our writers do? Let’s congratulate our writers for all their amazing and hard work! See more

#AntiochMFA November Shout Outs (Part 3) Antioch MFA CNF Faculty Sarah Manguso’s Poem for a Man I Never Thought I’d See Again appeared in The Sewanee Review. Antioch MFA Fiction Faculty Sarah Van Arsdale’s bilingual poem, Instructions for Surviving a Pandemic/ Instrucciones para sobrevivir una pandemia, appeared in What Rough Beast by Indolent Books.... Angela M. Brommel’s poem, The Water Bearer, was published in The Night Heron Barks. Jake Bailey’s poem, Portrait of the Marianas Trench, appeared in Split Rock Review. Kim Ellingson's poem, "Until Further Notice," was published in Cagibi. Karen Lewis’s poetry collection, Peace Maps, was published by Finishing Line Press. Would you look at all these poets! #WriteOn See more

#AntiochMFA November Shout Outs (Part 2) Robert Morgan Fisher’s short story, Song Pull, appeared in Cowboy Jamboree Magazine & Press. Fisher’s short story, Superlative, was included in Feral Cat Publishers's anthology Dear Leader Tales. LaToya Jordan’s short story, Offering, was published in Anomaly. Jordan's article, "The Clifton House," appeared in Poets & Writers.... Jesus Francisco Sierra’s short story, Expiring Candles, was nominated by Solstice Literary Magazine for Best of the Net 2020. Sierra’s short story, The Letter, appeared in The Caribbean Writer. Nathan Elias’s piece, Praying in the Motel Outside of Joshua Tree, was nominated for Best Microfiction by Pithead Chapel. Ben Lewellyn-Taylor’s piece, The Lone Star, was shortlisted for The Forge Literary Magazine’s Nonfiction prize. Gabriella Souza's piece, "Ships Come In," was published in BULL. Moving stories and thought pieces from our hardworking writers! Give them some in the comments below and read their amazing work! #WriteOn See more

#AntiochMFA November Shout Outs (Part 1) Wendy Fontaine’s essay, Badge, was nominated for Best of the Net 2020 by Jet Fuel Review. Fontaine’s essay, Stuck Birds, was published in Pithead Chapel. Antioch MFA Guest Fiction Faculty Garth Greenwell’s essay, Making Meaning, appeared in Harper’s Magazine.... Antioch MFA CNF Faculty Gayle Brandeis's essay, "Eating the Food of the Dead," was a notable selection in The Best American Essays 2020. Antioch MFA CNF Faculty Chris Feliciano Arnold’s op-ed, Captain Chain Saw’s Delusion, was published in The New York Times. A lot of nonfiction being published by our writers and we love it! #WriteOn See more

UPCOMING EVENT: Next Thursday, November 5, MFA Program Chair Victoria Chang and MFA Poetry Faculty Jaswinder Bolina will be in conversation about their latest books, hosted by Twenty Summers. Don’t miss it! Register to attend here: https://www.20summers.org//jaswinder-bolina-amp-victoria-c

#ForYourReading In Lunch Ticket, L. Shapley Bassen's fiction piece, "The Night Before the Snow Day," explores a daughter's resistance to certain aspects of her religion and culture. "... People should make their own laws that evolve, not blindly obey laws that oppress them because they call history God... In "Baldilocks," Shikhandin explores the physical and psychological effects of shaving off her hair: "For a few months after my head shave, I called myself 'Baldilocks'partly in jest, partly in defense, and partly in defiance." Read both fiction and nonfiction pieces by these wonderful authors on lunchticket.org

Here's a fun opportunity to showcase and/or sell your art, all while supporting our Bridge community! The 13th annual Artistic Uprising is now a week-long virtual event! Art Up 2020 will be online and filled with beautiful and affordable art. The site will go live on November 14th and our featured art will be available to purchase from November 14th-21st. A minimum of 15% of the proceeds will support Bridge. Last call to submit! See poster for details and make sure to submit before the 31st! #ArtisticUprising

And 2/2 for #WriterWednesday we’re putting the spotlight on Faculty Fiction Guest Garth Greenwell! Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His new novel, Cleanness, was published in January 2020, and was named an In...dieNext Selection and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Greenwell's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in Iowa City with his partner, poet Luis Munoz. Find Greenwell's interview with Ilya Kaminsky for The Paris Review at: https://www.theparisreview.org//promiscuity-is-a-virtue-a/ #GarthGreenwell #TheParisReview

For #WriterWednesday we’re putting the spotlight on TWO of our Faculty Fiction Guests, starting off with Tananarive Due! Tananarive Due (tah-nah-nah-REEVE doo) is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband/collaborator Steven Barnes wrote "A Small Town" for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone on CBS All Access. A leading ...voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: a Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights. WATCH THE TRAILER FOR HORROR NOIRE feat. Jordan Peele here: https://www.shudder.com/play/77793d79eacbd540 and read more about the project below! Due’s groundbreaking documentary: Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror traces the untold history of Black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre. #TananariveDue #HorrorNoire #Shudder

Antioch MFA Program hosts the Fall Literary Uprising TOMORROW, Oct 27, featuring Jose Hernandez Diaz! See poster for details and register at antioch.edu/los-angeles/event/literary-uprising-reading-3

Today at 4pm! Register here: https://antioch.zoom.us//tJIqdumprDgjHd2uFhO0rrlwNGvHRloME

EVENTS: Today and Tomorrow! (Oct 22 & 23) Alum Jessica Abughattas will read from her debut poetry collection, Strip, hosted by White Whale Bookstore. Oct 22 4PM PT Alum Kimberly Mack will deliver the keynote address, A Sort of Homecoming: U2 and a Black American Fan’s Rock & Roll Belonging, for U2Con 2020. ... Oct 22 3PM PT Unbuild the Wall: Self, Society and Writing Antiracism - a workshop with Erin Aubry Kaplan Rescheduled Oct 23 4 to 5:30 pm PT All events are open to everyone! You can register to attend any or all three of these events here: https://linktr.ee/aulamfa

#AntiochMFA October Shout Outs (Part 6) Jake Bailey's poem, "Hallucinatory Experiment No. 8," was published in The Ilanot Review. Kimberly Burwick was named Poetry Daily's Featured Poet.... Jose Hernandez Diaz's poem, "Pan Dulce," appeared in the Los Angeles Times. Antioch MFA Translation and Poetry Faculty Dan Bellm's translations from Balam Rodrigo’s book, Central American Book of the Dead, appeared in Asymptote Journal. Our poets just don’t stop! Check out all that’s been published in our latest MFA Citizen! See more

#AntiochMFA October Shout Outs (Part 5) Adrian Ernesto Cepeda's interview, "When Inspiration Calls, You Have to Answer," appeared in Pine Hills Review. Antioch MFA Nonfiction Faculty Gayle Brandeis' photo essay, "Going to Seed: On Losing and Finding Voice in the Age of COVID," appeared in Humanities Heart to Heart. ... Sarita Sidhu's essay, "Life After Attempted Suicide," (trigger warning) was featured in the Riverside Art Museum's Suicide Prevention Online Exhibition 2020. Sidhu's short piece, "Dear Mum and Dad, Thank you for Preparing me for COVID-19," appeared in Medium. Gabriella Souza was interviewed by the Johns Hopkins MFA in Creative Writing. This fall, Andrea Auten will be teaching the course "A Million Little Lies: Dishonesty & Deception in Creative Nonfiction" for Antioch Los Angeles' undergraduate department. Some hard-hitting pieces and insightful interviews in this round of shout outs! Our writers are creating change and shifting culture! See more