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Creative Writing Reading Series
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MFA in Creative Writing
Showing all events beginning Saturday, July 24, 2021.
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Fiction Seminar with Lysley Tenorio and Anthony Doerr: SCENE-STEALING: Scenes by Contemporary Masters and What To Take From Them
Thursday, August 19, 2021 - 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Online
SCENE-STEALING: Scenes by Contemporary Masters and What To Take From Them
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An Afternoon Craft Conversation with Jamil Jan Kochai
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge, 1928 St. Marys Road, Moraga, CA 94575
The novelist Thomas Berger once suggested that the sentence was “the cell beyond which the life of the book cannot be traced, a novel being a structure of such cells.” Continuing this line of thought, one might argue that a great novel i
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Creative Writing Reading Series with Chris Feliciano Arnold
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Chris Feliciano Arnold has written essays and journalism for The Atlantic, Harper's, Outside, Vice News, The New York Times and more.
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An Afternoon Craft Conversation with Christopher Feliciano Arnold
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
“Post-Freudian Slips: How contemporary psychoanalytic thought can deepen the inner lives of your characters” by Christopher Feliciano Arnold
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Creative Writing Reading Series Jamil Jan Kochai
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 - 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar (Viking, 2019), a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
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Afternoon Craft Conversations with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Columbia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree won the Silver Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards.
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Afternoon Craft Conversation with Ruchika Tomar
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 2:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Ruchika Tomar is the author of A Prayer for Travelers, which won the 2020 PEN/Hemingway award for debut novel. She was a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
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Afternoon Craft Conversation with Brian Broome
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 2:30 p.m., On-campus, De La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge
Brian Broome, a poet and screenwriter, won the grand prize in Carnegie Mellon University's Martin Luther King Writing Awards. His debut memoir, Punch Me Up to the Gods is available through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.