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):

 

Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize

The UC-wide Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize contest is now accepting submissions!

The Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize contest offers a total of $500 in prize money and is open to undergraduate students.

READ MORE: SUBMISSION AND DEADLINE INFORMATION

 

Kresge Writers' House

Each year, the Kresge Writers' House puts together the Kresge Town Krier. We want to involve all of you not only by eventually publishing the best of your work, but by posting other submissions on our blog.

Visit our blog! http://kwhpresents.tumblr.com/

Join our Facebook group!

CONTRIBUTE to the blog. E-mail your work, questions and comments to: kwhpresents@gmail.com

 

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.

THE RED WHEELBARROW

Red Wheelbarrow is now accepting submissions of fiction, art, and poetry for our 2010 edition! If you are interested in submitting please send all submissions as attachments to ucscredwheelbarrow@gmail.com - the deadline is January 31st, 2010. Also, if you want experience working for an on campus literary arts journal, please send an email to the above email address indicating your interest!

CHINQUAPIN

Chinquapin is UCSC's longest running literary publication and would like to review your work to be published. Please email short fiction, poetry and high quality images of photographs or artwork to chinquapin@gmail.com with the artist's name and the title of the piece in the subject line. The submission deadline is January 31st, 2010.

 

Creative Writing Semester in Israel

Bar-Ilan University is inaugurating Creative Writing Semester in Israel (CWSI), the first and only fully-accredited creative writing undergraduate program in English in Israel.

The Program: CWSI is a highly selective program open to beginning and emerging writers that combines the nurturing of students' creative talents with an intensive exploration of the connections between writing, personal identity, and the experience of living in Israel. Through coursework, trips, cultural performances, lectures by artists and authors, students will be encouraged to discover, react, and find ways to express in writing what they perceive and learn.

Eligibility: Undergraduate beginning and emerging writers

Program Dates: February 2010-June 2010

The program is currently accepting applications for this Spring semester. For details and application go to: www.cwsiprogram.org

 

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Fall 2009 Living Writers Reading Series

Fall 2009 Living Writers Series
Wednesdays, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall 206

September 30
Kip Fulbeck

October 7
Monique Truong

October 14
Sesshu Foster

October 21
Lucille Clifton

October 28
Dead Writers Night

November 4
Mark Nowak

November 11
Veterans Day

November 18
Maxine H. Kingston
CANCELED

November 25
Thanksgiving

December 2
student reading

 

Winter 2010 Living Writers Reading Series

Winter 2010 Living Writers Series
Wednesdays, 5:00 - 6:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall 206

Another Look: Women Writers Re-Vision History

January 13
Ana Menendez

January 27
Rebecca Goldstein (co-sponsored by Jewish Studies)

February 3
Karen Joy Fowler

Febraury 3
Karen Yamashita

February 10
Nina Revoyr

February 17
Judith Freeman

February 24
Debra Magpie

February 24
Aja Couchois Duncan

March 10
Elizabeth Bradfield

 

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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.

 

The Animals of Omaha is an innovative new play by JACOB CRIBBS that expands and warps the meanings of home and family. Through Jonas, a young man desperate to get out of Omaha; Abbot, his wheelchair-bound WWII Vet of a grandfather; Jake, their violent and volatile tenant; and Marian, Jake's troubled but powerful girlfriend; Animals of Omaha magnifies, critiques, and even celebrates the cruel habits we pick up and save for the people closest to us. With a randomly generated ending each night, it's anybody's game — and may just redefine what victory looks like.

Congratulations to Jacob on the production of his play!

 

KATIE QUARLES has recently published poems in the following magazines:

The King's English
http://home.comcast.net/~wapshot1/spr09/Poems.Quarles.html

Cahoots Magazine
http://www.cahootsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=485
http://www.cahootsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=486

APOCRYPHALTEXT
http://www.apocryphaltextpoetry.com/apocryphal_text_3/katie_quarles.htm

 

Read more about Creative Writing Alum!

 

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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

Lecturer Gary Young

2009 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America

 

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