PLACE FOR WRITERS

580 Split Launch Party This Thursday!

Come celebrate the launch of the latest issue of 580 Split! There will be food, drinks, and, most importantly, readings by some of the fabulous writers featured in the newest issue: LALEH KHADIVI, FOWZIA KARIMI, and JOEL TOMFOHR.

There will also be contests and raffles with prizes (and also, pssst, a DJ!). This event is open to the public, so bring a friend!

Details:
580 Split Launch Party
Mills Hall Living Room
Thursday, May 9, 2013
6:00 p.m.

A little about the journal: 580 Split is a journal of arts and letters published by graduate students of the English department at Mills College.

A little about the issue: The Spring 2013 issue was built around the theme of OBSESSION.

Interviews with Bhanu Kapil, Rikki Ducornet, Robert Grenier, and Erín Moure.

New work by Anne Waldman, Andrew Sean Greer, Rae Armantrout, Laleh Khadivi, and many more.

Copies of the journal will be available for purchase at the party or later through the Mills College Bookstore.

Can’t wait to see you all there!

Graduating CW MFAs Read Wednesday at the Mills Art Museum!

Let’s celebrate our graduating MFAs’ thesis projects!

In conjunction with the Fine Arts MFA exhibition, please join us for a thesis reading by graduating MFAs in Creative Writing at the Mills College Art Museum!

Details:
Graduating MFA Creative Writing Thesis Reading
Mills College Art Museum
THIS Wednesday, May 8, 2013
6:00 p.m.

ALSO! There is still time for graduating MFAs to sign up to read from their mind-blowing projects at this first-of-its-kind event. Please respond to Lauren or Maya if you’re interested.

Come out and celebrate with us!

EVERYBODY EVERYBODY OPEN MIC Tuesday, April 23!

Undergrads! Grads!
Everybody, Everybody!

It’s that time again!

On April 23, 2013, at 5:30 p.m., the Place for Writers is hosting our EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY open mic.

ONLY THIS TIME AROUND, WE’RE GETTING FANCY. 

Your lovely co-hosts, Unique and Rex, will be decked out, dolled up, and dressed to impress (think feather boas, lipstick, neon short-shorts), and we ask that y’all dress up, too! Weird, funky, fabulous, etc.

Sing a song/perform a poem/share a short story/etc./etc. with us in the sunshine on the Art Museum Lawn. 

Sign-up will take place at the event, so make sure to get to the lawn a little early to ensure you get a slot. 

3-5 minutes for your pieces, please!

Beverages, snacks, and desserts, as always. 

BRING YOURSELF, BRING YOUR TIARA, BRING YOUR FRIENDS (and of course your talents).

See you there,

Rex, Unique, & the Place for Writers

DETAILS:

EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY Open Mic (DRESS UP EDITION)
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Art Museum Lawn, Mills College
5:30 p.m.
*Please arrive a 5-10 minutes early to sign up to perform/read. Also, 3-5 minutes per person on stage.

Critical Works in Progress Finale 4/8

Hey everyone!

Our FINAL Critical Works in Progress event is coming up soon, on Monday, April 8th. MA candidate Kacy Takamoto will be giving a presentation entitled “Not to Have Seen It, Yet Inheriting It”: Fighting Against Historical Amnesia in The Quest to Reach The Freeing Word.

“Throughout time, traumatic memories of historical events have been subject to varying forms of disintegration, mutilation, and “amnesia.” What we choose to remember seems to hinge upon what we are asked to recall and what we are willing to revisit. Moreover, the common man or woman is bound by old forms of articulation, rigid structures of “understood telling” that restrict and ultimately extinguish the hope for anything close to original, authentic expression. Inspired by this struggle to “reach the freeing word,” this project seeks to explore the ways in which dominant cultural values influence the form and manner through which ineffable truths are finally granted articulation.” The presentation will take place in Mills Hall 322 from 12:20pm to 12:50pm. Tea and coffee will be served. Hope to see you there!

Last Works in Progress of the year!

THE FINALE of The Works in Progress Reading Series of the 2012–2013 academic term is approaching! 

Featuring:

EVAN Nichols: got writer’s block writing this

EMJI Spero Glen: mouth is full of bees

SANTIAGO Morrice: step one: bleed into typewriter

AUDACIOUS Wilson: spits milk and fire bombs

LENA O’neal: used to have six finger
OSA Reader….

FRANCESCA Pemberton: may be wearing mismatched socks
OSA Reader….

&
SUSAN Gevirtz: Susan Gevirtz believes in avocados
Mills College Faculty/Professor



YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS READING SERIES!
Snacks and beverages will be served.

the deets:

Tuesday, April 2nd

The Bender Room

5:30 p.m.