Left Margin LIT: A Creative Writing Center in Berkeley

Congratulations to ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER for being named the 2020 California Nonprofit of the Year. Such important recognition for a vital community organization.

LML instructor Maw Shein Win sharing some poems from her new book, STORAGE UNIT FOR THE SPIRIT HOUSE.

Hey there! We still have spots in Hannah Michell's short story class. It begins on Monday night. Details below... https://www.leftmarginlit.org/do-more-with-less-michell

Our literary pal Sunisa Manning's book, A GOOD TRUE THAI is now available. Order one today from your favorite indy bookstore!

Litquake looms! On Wednesday, October 14th, we're co-sponsoring "Good Things in Small Packages: Writing Short Stories," with Yazlita Ferreras, Rachel Khong, Mimi Lok, Shruti Swami, and C. Pam Zhang. We heart Litquake. Don't miss it. https://litquake2020festival.sched.com/event/djV2

LML instructor Jay Deshpande has a new chapbook out. Congratulations, Jay!

This Sunday we'll be tuning in to the Bay Area Book Festival's #UNBOUND mini-festival, featuring Steve Kerr, W. Kamau Bell, Alice Waters, Ishmael Reed, and our very own Shanthi Sekaran. Many more authors too. What a lineup! https://www.baybookfest.org/berkeleyunbound/

Here’s our mascot’s debut. Send along a woof to Lucas, AKA Left Margin Luke! . . . .... . #dogsofinstagram #leftmarginlit #eastbay #berkeley #woof #writingbuddy See more

Here's a poem by LML co-director David Roderick in the latest Los Angeles Review: http://losangelesreview.org/call-day-david-roderick/

Hey LMLers, MK Chavez will team-teach ENTERING THE HOUSE THROUGH THE WINDOW (poetry and fiction) with Maw Shein Win this Saturday on Zoom. You don't want to miss this class! We just posted a new interview with MK on our website. In it MK talks about identity, her writing process, and how those things are inspired by horror movies. https://www.leftmarginlit.org//writers-on-writing-volume-1

Incredible poets MK Chavez and Maw Shein Win are teaching a poetry (and fiction) class on Saturday. It has the best course name ever: ENTERING THE HOUSE THROUGH THE WINDOW. Also visit our website to see a new interview we've posted with MK. https://www.leftmarginlit.org/entering-the-house-chavez-she

Novelist Hannah Michell is back at LML teaching fiction beginning October 12th. Take her "More with Less" (Zoom) class, which will show you how to fiction that is efficient and powerful. Here's part of the course description: "We will seek inspiration for our own writing by examining newspaper headlines, fairy tales, and myth, and apply lessons learned from exemplar short stories." https://www.leftmarginlit.org/do-more-with-less-michell

LML welcomes Tommy Mouton to our instructional corps. His first class, THE MEMOIR OF CHILDHOOD, runs for four weeks next month. "Come and write (and share) your childhood/adolescent memories with us, their joys, failures, and mysteries." https://www.leftmarginlit.org/memoir-of-childhood-mouton