Ligiah Villalobos Rojas was an executive at The Walt Disney Company, where part of her job was to review scripts written by fellows in the Writing Fellowship Program, giving each…
Laurie Barton Publishes New Poetry Chapbook, Coco Sinatra
Laurie Barton ’08 (Los Angeles, MFA) has released Coco Sinatra, a deeply moving poetry collection. Coco Sinatra is a lyrical journey through solitude, aging, and loss—balanced by a reverence for life’s quiet wonders. With…
Cathy Linh Che receives the Short Film Jury Award for Non-Fiction at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
Cathy Linh Che, a Core Poetry Faculty of Antioch University at Los Angeles MFA Creative Writing Program, received the Short Film Jury Award for Non-Fiction at the 2025 Sundance Film…
Antioch MFA Earns Spot on MovieMaker Magazine’s Top Screenwriting Programs List for Second Year in a Row
For the second consecutive year, the dramatic writing concentration at the Antioch MFA in Creative Writing has been named one of MovieMaker’s 30 Best Film Schools. The prestigious annual list…
With “Poetry is Democracy” Event, Antioch’s MFA Brings Art to an Election Year
Last fall, the Antioch MFA in Creative Writing led an initiative known as Poetry Is Democracy that commissioned new poems from six working poets and then brought them and the…
“Poems Cost Nothing Except the Poet’s Life”: Antioch Hosts Conversation About Democracy Between Two Vietnamese American Writers
The Antioch MFA in Creative Writing recently hosted a conversation about democracy, war, and identity between the writer and scholar Viet Thanh Nguyen—author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sympathizer—and the…
Mid-Career MFA Leads a Documentarian Back to Fiction—and to the Stage
In April of 2023, the playwright and documentarian Dara Padwo-Audick made an ambitious request: that her community give $20,000 to underwrite staging her play, Onion Skin, as part of the…
Two Writers Discuss Democracy, War, and Identity
How do we make art in times of oppression? Do artists have a responsibility to explore questions of democracy, censorship, and human rights? In this conversation, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet…
LaToya Jordan Wins 2023 Shirley Jackson Award for Debut Novella
LaToya Jordan ’09 (Los Angeles, MFA) won the 2023 Shirley Jackson Award for her debut novella To the Woman in the Pink Hat (Aqueduct Press). The Shirley Jackson Awards were…
Sue Fagalde Lick Publishes Two Books and One Forthcoming
Sue Fagalde Lick ‘03 (Los Angeles, MFA) has just published a new poetry chapbook, Blue Chip Stamp Guitar (The Poetry Box) and a full-length collection, Dining Al Fresco with My…
Tim Cummings’ Young Adult Novel to be Published
Tim Cummings ‘18 (Los Angeles, MFA) will have his young adult novel, The Thistle, The I-H, & The 8 Hugging Snakes, will be published by Black Rose Writing in the…
We Are the Storytellers: How MFA Alum Ligiah Villalobos Is Changing Film and TV Writing
Ligiah Villalobos Rojas was an executive at The Walt Disney Company, where part of her job was to review scripts written by fellows in the Writing Fellowship Program, giving each…