Winter 2015 Student News

Joy Allen‘s story “The Frog-Faced Man” was published by The Molotov Cocktail.

M.R. Branwen has an essay forthcoming in the Adirondack Review.  This will be the journal’s first time publishing a piece of nonfiction.

Terry Carr’s essay “The One Lie You Really Shouldn’t Ever Tell Your Kids” was published on the Huffington Post--and went viral!

Candace Culp and Sara Fowler were both finalists for PEN Center USA’s Emerging Voices fellowship.

Jennifer Alise Drew’s essay “Lessons in Sign” was the grand prize winner of the Hippocampus Magazine “Remember in November” Contest for Creative Nonfiction.

Terrance Flynn is serving as a juror for the 2015 Sustainable Arts Foundation writing awards. He will be reading from his memoir-in-progress Dying to Meet You at the Roar Shack reading series at 826LA on December 14.

Elina Gorelik read her essay “Letter Beyond the Curtain” at the L.A. Storytelling Festival on October 15.

Creative nonfiction student Amanda McCraven won the 2014 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Best Director of a Play for “The Pliant Girls” (Fugitive Kind Theater Company).

Merna Skinner was accepted as Mark Doty’s student at the Tupelo Writing Conference in New Mexico.

In “Some Men Do” at Public Books, Megan Stephan reviewed Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me.