Antioch University’s MFA in Creative Writing has received the honor of being named one of MovieMaker’s 25 Best Film Schools for 2023, with the magazine recognizing it as one of three standouts for the category of Outstanding Screenwriting Training, alongside Emerson College and UCLA.
Antioch’s MFA Program in Creative Writing recently touched base with three alumni who have achieved recognition for their work in the first half of 2023 and asked them: what did…
Consuelo Flores ’06, ‘08 (Los Angeles, BA, MFA) was showcased in a KCET story on the 50th Anniversary Biennial Paper Fashion Gala & Runway Show which featured 13 designs of…
Arielle Silver ’16 (Los Angeles, MFA), adjunct faculty in the Los Angeles Undergraduate Studies Department, joined the team at The SONA Foundation, which develops programs, resources, and grants to support…
Carrie Lynn Hawthorne ‘22 (Online, UGS), a candidate in the MFA in Creative Writing program, had her nonfiction piece, “The House That Zillow Built,” published in the seventh volume of…
Words have power. This might be easy to forget in our day-to-day conversations with family and friends, where we often don’t consider how our language affects others. But when we…
It can be hard to find time and emotional space within our busy lives to sustain a creative writing practice. At the same time, writing offers a key space to process and make sense of our experiences. Navigating the writing life is a productive challenge, says this week’s guest Lisa Locascio Nighthawk, the Chair of the Antioch MFA in Creative Writing.
When I had my brother on the phone a few months ago, he asked me out of the blue if I was proud to be Jewish. I told him, of course, I was. My first book of poetry, which hadn’t been released yet, would be titled Kosher, a title that I chose to pay homage to my Jewish roots (despite not keeping kosher during my meals).
Many writers dream of having their book developed into a TV show. For Leslie Lehr, a 2005 alum of the Antioch MFA in Creative Writing, this dream is coming true. Her 2021 memoir A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me… and You was optioned by HBO Max Comedy.
Victoria Chang, the prominent poet and Antioch MFA core faculty is a longtime advocate for “literary citizenship”—she says we ought to create writing worlds full of collaboration, generosity, and mutual…
“If you love a tree, you will be more beautiful than before!” – Amit Ray.
This year, the theme for the International Day of Forests, “Forests and Health,” is an invitation and an opportunity to reflect on what these expansive ecosystems do for us and how we can, in turn, serve them through conservation, species preservation, mindful nutrition, and ecological awareness.
Victoria Chang has won the 2023 Chowdhury Prize in Literature, the prestigious international award given to a mid-career writer both for their body of work and for their future potential…