Each residency we welcome a slate of guest faculty members from all sides of the writing world -- authors, screenwriters, journalists, editors, agents, producers, and industry professionals -- to lead seminars, read our graduating students' work, and provide expert insight into what it takes to lead a life in the arts. Our Spring residency touches off on June 2...and these [...]
Since 2015, the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Riverside has been proud to be the home of the Barbara Seranella Award, an honor given to an incoming MFA student who best exemplifies the indomitable spirt, tenacity, and boundless generosity of the late writer Barbara Seranella. The award is [...]
Are you coming to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books? So are we. We'll be in booth 134 both days - April 22nd & 23rd -- on the campus of USC And our people -- our faculty, our students, and our alums -- will be on panels and signing in booths all weekend long. Here's where you can find [...]
We're proud to announce our new class of writers! Interested in joining them? Applications for Fall 2017 are due August 1st. For more information contact us at palmdesertmfa@ucr.edu Sarah Brogren currently lives on the Central Coast of California. Not a California native, she was born in northern Illinois and grew up surrounded by family and enjoyed making weekly visits to the [...]
Each residency, we’re joined by a slate of guest writers, producers, agents, publishers, editors, and industry professionals. Here’s who will be joining us from December 2-11th in beautiful Rancho Mirage. http://palmdesertmfa.ucr.edu/residency/ Interested in applying? Want to visit for the day? We’d be happy to have you. Please contact Agam Patel at agam.patel@ucr.edu or 760-834-0926. Lauren Barnett is a glasses-donning, pro-plaid, cat-owning [...]
September 25th-October 1st is Banned Books Week, so in honor (or, shall we say, dishonor) of the continuing practice of banning books, we asked a few of our students, alums, and professors to talk about some of the most regularly banned & challenged books that have meant the most to them over the years. Stephen Graham Jones: Had Stephen King's [...]
We're proud to announce our new class of writers! Interested in joining them? Applications for Spring 2017 are due February 1st. For more information contact us at palmdesertmfa@ucr.edu Jorge Alvarado holds two bachelor degrees, a BA in English-Spanish and a BS in Civil Engineering. Jorge practices engineering in Los Angeles, which he alternates with his writing career. In Colombia, [...]
Program director Tod Goldberg's new novel, The House of Secrets, co-authored with Brad Meltzer, had a big opening week, debuting on the top of bestseller lists across the country: #2 in the Washington Post #4 in the Chicago Tribune #4 in Publishers Weekly #5 in Bookscan #6 in the New York Times (in all three lists: hardcover fiction, ebooks, and combined!) #8 [...]
Leave it to Stephen Graham Jones to see a genre -- werewolf fiction -- and completely reinvent it, as he did this summer with his novel Mongrels. His werewolves aren’t the howling lunatics of the movies — “Mongrels” presents an innovative, comprehensive new guide to werewolves, one that nods at tradition (silver is still killer) but becomes something wholly original [...]
Our students and alums publish constantly. It's almost impossible to keep up with it all. So, here's what happened over 30 days in May, an average month: - Larry Handy has his story "1000 Paper Cranes" published in Quiddity. - Michele Lombardo has a short story called "Sublime Bosoms" in Permafrost Magazine. - Ruth Nolan's story from LA Fiction Anthology, [...]
