CUIP Internship for the Creative Writing Program

Read the Creative Writing Program internship description

Apply on-line!

Application deadline: Thursday, February 18th, 2010. Letters of recommendation required. Please allow time.

Questions? Contact: cuip@ucsc.edu; (831) 459-3973

 

Creative Writing Goes Viral!

Updates and news about the 2009-10 Creative Writing Program at UCSC can now be found easily on Facebook, Twitter, and Wikia (maintained by the Creative Writing Intern):

 

Kresge Writers' House

CONTRIBUTE! Please e-mail your work, questions and comments to: kwhpresents@gmail.com

The best work will be published in the annual edition of the Kresge Town Krier. Other submissions will be featured in the "Kresge Witers' House Presents..."on-line blog.

Visit the blog @ http://kwhpresents.tumblr.com/

Join the Facebook group!

 

Call For Submissions: Matchbox Magazine!

Matchbox Magazine, the only UC-wide literary arts magazine is now accepting submissions in art, poetry and prose.

Email submissions to matchboxmagazine@gmail.com by February 13th, 2010. Find us on Facebook and join the group for updates.

 

Matchbook Story

"Matchbook Story is a literary magazine that publishes one brilliant short story inside of many, many matchbooks. Submissions are made online--Matchbooks are found everywhere" - Kyle Petersen, Matchbook Story editor (Creative Writing alum)

Visit matchbookstory.com for more information!

 

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Winter 2010 Living Writers Reading Series

• Featured article on UC Santa Cruz News & Events: Award-winning women writers to be featured in UCSC's 2010 Living Writers Series

Wednesdays, 5:00 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall 206
Free and open to the public

January 13:
Ana Menendez
In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd, Loving Che

January 20:
Brent Weinbach
Stand Up Comic

January 27:
Rebecca Goldstein
Mazel

February 3:
Karen Joy Fowler
The Sweetheart Season

Karen Yamashita
I Hotel

February 10:
Beth Lisick
Everyone Into the Pool

February 17:
Judith Freeman
Red Water

Nina Revoyr
The Age of Dreaming

February 24:
Debra Earling
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

Aja Couchois Duncan
Nomenclature, Miigaadiwin, a Forked Tongue

March 3:
Student Reading

March 10:
Elizabeth Bradfield
Approaching Ice

 

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News from Creative Writing Alum

KAT BAILEY has published a short story in the winter 2009 issue of the Lakeview Review. The story is titled "Think of a Tree" and it was the second place winner of the winter short fiction contest. It has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

 

JACOB CRIBBS, a creative writing and theater arts alum at UCSC, was the 2009 recipient of the Dharma Grace Award for his play, “The Animals of Omaha." Read more at City on a Hill Press.

 

CECILIA FAIRCHILD (Creative Writing alum 2006) recently wrote a one-woman show, and is performing it at the Next Stage Theatre in Los Angeles. The show is called "Stripping in L.A.," a collection of monologues, poems, and a little bit of dance about a girl moving back to L.A. after living by the ocean for several years, trying not to lose herself in the craziness of the city.

 

DANIEL MIRK is a senior staff writer for The Onion News Network, an online web video series which has won a Peabody Award as well as numerous Webby Awards.

 

KATIE QUARLES has recently published poems in the following magazines:

The King's English
We Are Not

Cahoots Magazine
River Road
Seven Kinds Prescribed

APOCRYPHALTEXT
4 Poems

 

When ZOË RUIZ graduated from UC Santa Cruz, she moved to the Bay Area and obtained a internship at 826 Valencia, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting students with their writing skills. She also worked as a Production Assistant and Morning News Writer for KPIX CBS in San Francisco. A year later, she moved to Los Angeles and used her writing skills as a Development Assistant at a nonprofit that offered free services for homeless women on Skid Row. During this time, she also became a volunteer for 826LA and recently obtained a position as a Volunteer Coordinator and Programs Assistant. Zoë practices yoga, makes stationary, and designs street literature projects. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Utne.com, and you can find her self-published books at Occidental College Library. She's grateful that she had the opportunity to study creative writing at UC Santa Cruz, because learned so much from her professors and peers.

 

Read more about Creative Writing Alum!

Help us update and add to our alumni page! Send photo and/or short bios to litdept@ucsc.edu

 

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Student Awards and Honors

2008-09 Deans' Undergraduate Award

2008-09 Humanities Undergraduate Research Award

2008-09 Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize

Faculty Awards and Honors

Lecturer Dion Farquhar

Dion Farquhar's manuscript Feet First was one of two finalists for the Sinclair Prize at Evening Street Press and will be published in early 2010

 

Professor Nathaniel Mackey

2008 Stephen Henderson Award, African American Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association

2007 Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize, Archive for New Poetry at UCSD

2007 Northern California Book Award in Poetry for Splay Anthem

2007 Individual Artist's Grant in Poetry, Foundation for Contemporary Arts

2006 National Book Award in Poetry for Splay Anthem

Associate Professor Micah Perks

2008 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship
The Captivity And Restoration Of Mary Rowlandson, My Mother And Me

Associate Professor Micah Perks and Professor Georges Van Den Abbeele

National Endowment for the Arts - Access to Artistic Excellence
The Big Read - Celebration of Central Coast Poet Robinson Jeffers

 

Professor Rob Wilson

2009 Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Title for Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics

 

Lecturer Gary Young

2010 Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate

2009 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America

 

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