U.C. Berkeley Summer Creative Writing Program

Shane Book is delighted to announce that “Dust” will have its Caribbean premiere at the 2013 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. It will screen Wednesday, Sept. 25th at 6pm and Tuesday Oct. 1st at 3:30pm at MovieTowne in Port of Spain, Trinidad. After that it will air on the Flow cable TV channel nationwide across Trinidad and throughout Jamaica from September 2013 until February 2014.
http://www.ttfilmfestival.com/film-synopsis/dust/

Dust | trinidad+tobago film festival Dust braids two memories from a poet’s youth. In one memory, the young man remembers a last moment with a lover. In the other memory, he recalls his final hours with his dying grandfather. Ultimately, this contemplative examination of the nature of grief becomes a poetic meditation of “water, skin a...

Don't miss David Lau and Ed Pavlic read at Moe's Books in Berkeley as part of the Poetry Flash series on 10/10.

Mark your calendars -- the SCWP is hosting a kick-ass event at Litcrawl on October 19, 2013 [http://litcrawl.org/sf/].

Beautiful Liars, presented by theSCWP
Featuring faculty and students from U.C. Berkeley's six-week Summer Creative Writing Program [www.thescwp.com].

Hosted by T. Geronimo Johnson [author of Hold It 'Til It Hurts]
Lineup:
- Faith Adiele is the author of Meeting Faith (W.W. Norton & Co.), a travel memoir about becoming Thailand’s first black Buddhist nun, which received PEN Beyond Margins Award.
- David Lau is the author of Virgil and the Mountain Cat (UC Press) and the co-editor of the Lana Turner Journal.
- Ryan Sloan is the author of the forthcoming novel The Plagiarists. His work has appeared in LA Weekly, Nerve, O***m Magazine, and Painted Bride Quarterly.
- Terra Brigando (SCWP 2013) earned her MFA from Mills College in 2012. She can't write without coffee or wine, or some combination of both.
- Joseph Rios (SCWP 2012) is a poet, a film and music ju**ie, an amateur impressionist. He's from Fresno and lives in Oaklandia.
- Safeena Leila Mecklai (SCWP 2013) is a UC Berkeley senior working on her first non-fiction book about love, college, diet soda, and airplanes.
- Anca Roncea (SCWP 2013) writes poetry and is finishing up her PhD, after a Fulbright year in Berkeley, at the University of Bucharest in Romania.

Lit Crawl | San Francisco » October 19, 2013 “The striking thing about Lit Crawl, actually, was not the variegated writerly menu; nor was it the variety of venues—54 of them, including bookstores, bars, coffee shops, galleries and a bee-keeping supply store. Rather it was the specter of writing and literature—literature!—transforming an ordina...