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.
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal's latest book MAGICAL / REALISM: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders crosses borders in multiple registers, blending cultural criticism and memoir in innovative ways that have been heaped with excited praise.
dg nanouk okpik's books Corpse Whale and Blood Snow blend science, myth, human and non-human in a continual destabilization of person and place.
Thu, Feb 13 / 6:00 PM
CalArts Campus
Past speakers
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