lisa locascio One of the many reasons I am honored and excited to be the new core faculty member of the AULA MFA in Creative Writing is my deep admiration…
Write to Learn
steve brown Recently, I’ve become curious about the river that runs behind my house. I want to know where it comes from, and where it goes. I want to learn…
Demi Espinoza: Bringing Representation and Environmental Justice to the Table
Demi Espinoza is an advocate who believes in the power of narratives. Her own story starts with her parents, people who she describes as working-class Mexican immigrants. Growing up as…
Revising for Your Favorites
Jeri Frederickson After years of writing short creative pieces for myself and for publication, I had a hard time initially in my graduate program shifting back to writing academic papers….
Julie Sayres
An Interview with Julie Sayres, Affiliate Faculty, MFA in Writing & Contemporary Media Julie Sayres is an award-winning screenwriter whose experience includes a successful career as a writer for television…
Lisa Locascio Joins MFA in Creative Writing Program
Author and Academic Lisa Locascio has joined the MFA in Creative Writing program as a Core Faculty in Fiction. Locascio comes to Antioch with a decade of teaching experience at…
Caroline Ailanthus: Antioch graduate blends fact and fiction to create post-apocalyptic novel
Growing up surrounded by a family and community of writers, Caroline Ailanthus began writing and taking her craft seriously at an early age. “My parents are both writers, storytellers, and…
But What About Open-ended Essays?
Teresa Hoffman In the grind of student life, I often forget that I chose to be in grad school because I wanted to learn something interesting. How many papers have…
Adrien Kade Sdao ’19
Adrien Kade Sdao ’19 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing) had an essay “Dear Glitch” published in Lady/Liberty/Lit, and “Homeless/Hopeless/Helpless,” appeared in Unlikely Stories. Sdao was accepted into the MA in…
An evening with Award-Winning Writer and Producer Felicia D. Henderson
The MFA in Writing & Contemporary Media Program hosted a conversation with award-winning writer and producer Felicia D. Henderson. After beginning her writing career in sitcoms like Family Matters, Moesha,…
MFA Chair Featured on “The Creative Community 2.0”
Chair of the MFA in Writing & Contemporary Media Program Ross Brown was featured on TV Santa Barbara for the show The Creative Community 2.0 with David Starkey. Ross talks…
Victoria Chang Awarded a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship
Victoria Chang, Chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program was awarded a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship for 2020. The Lannan Residency Fellowship provides uninterrupted writing time for poets, writers, essayists,…