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California Institute of the Arts

Writing Now Reading Series

Back to Creative Writing

Structured around the work of several visiting contemporary writers, the Writing Now Reading Series and Seminar is a required course for CalArts MFA creative writing graduate students that showcases vibrant new modalities for writing that refresh today’s interconnected creative fields. Writing Now offers inspiring points of contact and critical conversation about writing process and practice between visiting writers, students and local audiences, with an eye for fostering the collaborative, the future-forward, and the unexpected in literature.

Upcoming events

Past speakers

2024-2025

  • CAConrad
  • Rachel Kushner
  • Robin Coste Lewis
  • Constance Debré
  • dg nanouk okpik

2023-2024

  • Writing Now Symposium: Becoming the Archive, featuring Chiwan Choi of Writ Large Projects, Carribean Fragoza of Huizache and the South El Monte Art Posse, Hailey Loman of the Los Angeles Contemporary Archives, and Jimmy Vega of Beyond Baroque
  • Deborah Taffa, Raquel Gutiérrez, and Layli Long Soldier
  • Anna Martine Whitehead
  • Myriam Gurba
  • Henry Hoke
  • Ronaldo Wilson
  • Jos Charles