Mills College MFA & Lit Programs

We at the Place for Writers will be hosting an Open Mic this Thursday, November 12th from 12:15-1:00pm PST! Join us for the chance for 5 people to win $25 Visa gift cards and a live game of renga poetry in the chat! Anyone can attend! To RSVP, go to our Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sit-back-an-open-mic-tickets-1 Performance slots are still available until the end of Wednesday! All Mills students are welcome to perform, whether it be poetry, prose, a musical piece, etc. - whatever you want! Simply fill out our google form and we will get back to you: https://forms.gle/M3SoKPotiaTRue2bA

Come join the Place for Writers for another Open Mic on Thursday, November 12th @ 12:15 pm PST! Along with student performances, we will be holding a raffle of $25 Visa gift cards to 5 attendees and a game of renga poetry like we did during the previous Open Mic! All Mills students are welcome to perform live on Zoom or with a prerecorded video - we invite all forms of creative expression! Preregister through our google form with your Mills email to get a performance slot before they run out: https://forms.gle/M3SoKPotiaTRue2bA RSVP to attend here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sit-back-an-open-mic-tickets-1

Get to know Jordy Rosenberg and Susan Stryker before their conversation this Thursday! The Contemporary Writers Series hopes to see you there at 5:30pm! RSVP here: http://ow.ly/FxFz50C9FSW

Presented by Contemporary Writers Series, We Are The Voices, and the Mills College Trans Studies Speaker Series: Jordy Rosenberg is the author of Confessions of the Fox, a love story set in the eighteenth-century London of notorious thieves and queer subcultures. Jordy will be in conversation with Susan Stryker, whose fall seminar at Mills is Trans-Historical Meta-Fictional Narrative in Jordy Rosenberg’s Confessions of the Fox. Jordy Rosenberg in Conversation with Susan Str...yker Thursday, November 5 from 5:30 PM 7:00 pm RSVP here: http://ow.ly/CjA950C48HU See more

This Week! Place for Writers hosts author and artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle as she discusses her two publications, turning her thesis into her first public book, and what to look for when publishing. There's still time to register for our Thursday event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kenyatta-achinkle-interdiscipl

We at Place for Writers want to invite you to hear author Kenyatta Hinkle speak about her experiences in publishing her book, SIR, a work of poetry, literary nonfiction, and African & African American Studies. You can register for this event here! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kenyatta-hinkle-interdisciplin To learn more about Kenyatta and her work, please visit her website: https://www.kachstudio.com/

Our third Contemporary Writers Series event features the writers of the West Oakland to West Africa project. Their book, Our Spirits Carry Our Voices, describes, a reflection of both the process and the journey. Within the exchange one can feel the force of the Oral tradition in the spoken word poetry of our Ghanaian partners who sometimes wrote in their second or even third language." West Oakland to West Africa... Thursday, October 22 from 12:15 - 1:00 pm RSVP here: http://ow.ly/uOsR50BWEbu See more

On behalf of the Place for Writers staff, we are excited to announce the start of our Works in Progress: Instagram Takeovers!! Allowing students to takeover offers a glance into the minds and the works of our students in such an intimate way. You'll have an opportunity to understand what current graduatestudents are working on and will get an idea of what drives their focus! Our first Friday takeover takes placeTomorrow, Friday Oct. 16th,andfeatures JoAnna Matys. You will not want to miss! Feel free to follow the hashtags #MillsMFAtakeover and #MillsMAtakeover to make sure you never miss a post!

The Place for Writers' Open Mic will be happening tomorrow, October 15th starting @ 12:15 pm PDT! We will be doing $25 Visa gift card giveaways to 5 attendees! If you'd like to attend, remember to register through our Eventbrite so you get the Zoom link for the event - this will be sent out 30 minutes before it starts: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/no-pressure-an-open-mic-ticket And if you're a Mills student still considering doing a performance, sign up quickly through our G...oogle Form - we have a few spots left and will be closing submissions early tomorrow morning: forms.gle/qg7kKYKg1G3Z91at6 We hope you're excited to hear all of tomorrow's amazing performances!

Our third Contemporary Writers Series event this semester features the writers from the West Oakland to West Africa project. This special event welcomes poets and alumni of the Mills MFA in Creative Writing program where this international exchange first began and celebrates the new anthology Our Spirits Carry Our Voices. Join us for a reading from West Oakland to West Africa Thursday, October 22, 12:15 - 1:00pm Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/west-oakland-to-west-africa-ti

We at the Place for Writers will be hosting an Open Mic this Thursday, October 15th from 12:15-1:00pm PDT! Join us for a live game of renga poetry in the chat and the chance for 5 people to win $25 Visa gift cards! Anyone can attend! To RSVP, go to our Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/no-pressure-an-open-mic-ticket Performance slots are still available! All Mills students are welcome to perform, whether it be poetry, prose, a musical piece, etc. Simply fill out our google form here and we will get back to you: https://forms.gle/qg7kKYKg1G3Z91at6

Today! Fowzia Karimi! It's not too late to RSVP. Fowzia Karimi is a writer, illustrator, and alumni of the Mills MFA in Creative Writing Program. As Publishers Weekly describes, her illuminated debut novel Above Us the Milky Way renders a family’s wartime emigration through a polyphonic mix of voices and genres along with evocative color illustrations and photographs. Karimi also illustrated The Brick House by Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Vagrants & Uncommon Visitors by A. Kendra Greene. She is the recipient of The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and lives in Texas.

Mills MFA faculty Juliana Spahr will be reading October 29, 8pm for The Poetry Project. Julianna will be reading along with writer and critic Yanyi https://www.poetryproject.org/events/yanyi-juliana-spahr