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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.

Writing Now Fall 2024

10/3 CAConrad

10/31 Rachel Kushner

11/14 Robin Coste Lewis

12/5 Constance Debré

Upcoming events

  • Lecture / Reading School of Critical Studies

    Constance Debré left her career as a lawyer to become a writer. She is the author of the trilogy of novels Playboy, Love Me Tender, and What's in a Name, all published in English by Semiotext(e). Her other novels include Un peu là, beaucoup ailleurs (winner of the 2005 Prix Contrepoint), L'Offense, and Manuel pratique de l'idéal Abécédaire de survie.

    Thu, Dec 5 / 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
  • Anna Martine Whitehead
  • Myriam Gurba
  • Henry Hoke
  • Ronaldo Wilson
  • Jos Charles