This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our faculty members in Fiction for the upcoming December Residency, Lisa Locascio Nighthawk, program chair in Fiction. Her debut novel, Open Me, was published by Grove Atlantic in 2018. A New York Times Editor’s Choice, Open Me was a

This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our faculty members in Poetry for the upcoming December Residency, Cathy Linh Che, Core Poetry Faculty! Cathy Linh Che is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Becoming Ghost (Washington Square Press, 2025),

We’re so excited to announce the lineup for our December 2025 Antioch MFA residency! Some faculty and guests include Cathy Linh Che (Poetry Core Faculty) and Colette Freedman (Teaching Faculty), Ellie Eberlee (Criticism), and Rita Bullwinkel (Fiction). We are accepting applications! Study Poetry,

One-on-one attention from faculty mentors. Warm and inclusive creative atmosphere. Community, not competition @antiochmfa. A lifelong community. What are you waiting for? Priority app deadline for our December 2025 residency is 9/1. After that, apps are accepted on a rolling basis.

Commit to your writing practice. Refine your process. Become the writer you already are. Become the writer you want to be. Priority app deadline for our December 2025 residency is 9/1. After that apps are accepted on a rolling basis. Scholarships available. Learn more at link in bio.

Interested in creative writing? Join us this Saturday to get a taste of our MFA Program! We're accepting applications for December! Attend our Post-MFA in the Teaching of Creative Writing Info Session Saturday, August 16th @ 10am PT/1pm ET with Josh Roark, and

August Shoutouts from the Antioch MFA Community. Congratulations! We are accepting applications for December. Learn how to apply to our program at the link in bio.

Nurture your writing practice with our world-class faculty at our low-residency MFA, @antiochmfa, the only program with a core commitment to social justice. Priority app deadline for our December 2025 residency is 9/1. After that, apps are accepted on a rolling basis. Scholarships available.

Learn more about our MFA in Creative Writing program! We’re hosting an Info Session for our MFA program this Saturday, August 9th, at 10am PT/1pm ET, with Cathy Linh Che. Learn about our hybrid residencies: Students have the flexibility of attending in-person at our LA campus, online, or both!

Join us on Wednesday, August 6, to get a taste of our MFA Program! We're accepting applications for December! The Art of Subtext: The Unspoken Soul Matter, with Victoria Patterson Wednesday, August 6, 2025, at 3:00 - 4:15pm PT/ 6:00 - 7:15pm ET

Pedagogy + Community = Joy. Priority app deadline for our @antiochmfa December 2025 residency is 9/1. After that apps are accepted on a rolling basis. Click the link in bio to find out more about the magic.

On this episode of Antioch MFA's LitCit, host Alejandra Alexander chats with writer, director, producer, teacher, and esteemed Antioch faculty member Joy Kecken. They discuss her career, which spans being the co-founder of The Film Foundry, a Culver City-based media company, writing and directing

Join us this Summer and Fall to audit online seminars from our brilliant faculty and get a taste of our MFA Program! We're accepting applications for December! To find out more information about each seminar and register, visit the link in our bio 🖇️

Learn more about our MFA in Creative Writing program! We’re hosting an Info Session for our MFA program next Wednesday, July 23rd at 5pm PT/ 8pm ET with our program chair, Lisa Locascio Nighthawk.

Submissions sought for the second annual AULA MFA Alumni Circle Dorland Arts Prize. One winner will receive a week-long stay at a Dorland Mountain Arts cottage in Temecula, California. Apply by July 15, 2025. Email questions to [email protected]. More info and link to application in the bio!

On this episode of Antioch MFA’s LitCit, host Brenda Fantroy-Johnson chats with acclaimed author, essayist, activist, and esteemed Antioch faculty member Anjali Enjeti. Together they discuss in detail her debut novel, The Parted Earth, her essay collection, Southbound, what writing as activism

Submissions sought for the second annual AULA MFA Alumni Circle Dorland Arts Prize. One winner will receive a week-long stay at a Dorland Mountain Arts cottage in Temecula, California. Apply by July 15, 2025. Email questions to [email protected]. More info and link to application in the bio!

The Poetry Coalition, a national alliance of nearly thirty organizations working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture, including @bblitarts here in Los Angeles, is accepting applications for its 2025–26 Fellowship Program, open to individuals interested in literary arts

We’re so excited to announce the lineup for our June 2025 Antioch MFA residency! Some faculty and guests include Ross Brown (Screenwriting/Playwriting), John Cariani (Playwriting), Mike Fu (Translation), and Josh Roark (Post-MFA Teaching Certificate)!

Antioch MFA students, alumni, and faculty were represented at AWP in over 30 panels and numerous off-site readings. Here are a few glimpses. We accept applications on a rolling basis. Learn how to apply to our program at the link in bio. @awpwriter

Submissions sought for the second annual AULA MFA Alumni Circle Dorland Arts Prize. One winner will receive a week-long stay at a Dorland Mountain Arts cottage in Temecula, California. Apply by July 1, 2025. Email questions to [email protected]. More info and link to application in the bio!

This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our Affiliate Faculty in Playwriting, John Cariani! John Cariani is an actor and a playwright. As an actor, he has appeared in plays and musicals on and off-Broadway and at regional theaters across the country. He’s been nominated for a Tony

We’re so excited to announce the lineup for our June 2025 Antioch MFA residency! Some faculty and guests include Michelle Penaloza (Poetry), Joy Kecken (Screenwriting/Playwriting), Jenny Factor (Poetry), and Ligiah Villalobos (Dramatic Writing)! We are accepting applications!

This week, our Writer Wednesday Spotlight goes to one of our guests for the upcoming June Residency: Purvi Shah, Special Guest in Arts, Culture & Society! Purvi Shah (Arts, Culture & Society guest) sees art and social justice advocacy as portals for healing and transformation. With Charlene Allen,

At Antioch’s MFA Program, as we intern on Lunch Ticket, we also study with some amazing writers. This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our Faculty members in Poetry, Piotr Florczyk! Piotr Florczyk is an award-winning poet, scholar, critic, and translator of Polish poetry. His

We’re so excited to announce the lineup for our June 2025 Antioch MFA residency! Some faculty and guests include Ross Brown (Screenwriting/Playwriting), John Cariani (Playwriting), Mike Fu (Translation), and Josh Roark (Post-MFA Teaching Certificate)! We are accepting applications!

This week, our Writer Wednesday Spotlight goes to one of our guests for the upcoming June Residency: Shernold Edwards, Special Guest in Screenwriting! Shernold Edwards (screenwriting guest) has written and produced for a number of streaming, cable, and network series, including Haven,

We’re so excited to announce the lineup for our June 2025 Antioch MFA residency! Some faculty and guests include Michelle Penaloza (Poetry),

This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our Affiliate Faculty in Creative Nonfiction, Cleyvis Natera! Cleyvis Natera is an award-winning author, essayist, and critic. Her debut novel, Neruda on the Park, was a New York Times Editor's Choice and was awarded a Silver Medal by the

This week, our Writer Wednesday Spotlight goes to one of our guests for the upcoming June Residency: Kate Folk, Special Guest in Fiction! Kate Folk is the author of a novel, Sky Daddy (Random House '25), and a story collection, Out There, which was a finalist for the California Book Award in

📣 May Shout Outs 📣 Leonora Simonovis's poem, “Little Bruja,“ was featured in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day _ Malia Márquez's novel, City of Smoke and Sea, was included in Alta's "13 New Books for April.” _ Jonathan C Chou's poem, “Hearth,” was published in Asymptote _

Learn more about our MFA in Creative Writing program! We’re hosting an Info Session for our MFA program next Wednesday, May 21st, at 5pm PT/8pm ET with our Teaching Faculty, Alistair McCartney!

This week, our Writer Wednesday Spotlight goes to one of our guests for the upcoming June Residency: Stacey Waite, Special Guest in Pedagogy! Stacey Waite is a poet, educator, and scholar originally from Long Island, New York. Earning a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing in 2002 and a PhD in

This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our Affiliate Faculty in Creative Nonfiction and Fiction, Reyna Grande! Reyna Grande is an acclaimed author whose powerful memoirs, The Distance Between Us (Atria, 2012) and A Dream Called Home (Atria, 2018), illuminate the realities of

We’re so excited to announce the lineup for our June 2025 Antioch MFA residency! Some faculty and guests include Piotr Florczyk (Poetry), Morgan Parker (Poetry/Creative Non-Fiction), Stacey Waite (Pedagogy), and Seema Yasmin (Young people)! We are accepting applications!

This week, our Writer Wednesday Spotlight goes to one of our guests for the upcoming June Residency: Allegra Martschenko, Special Guest Agent! Allegra is a literary agent at BookEnds Literary Agency, where they represent adult, YA, and crossover speculative fiction of all kinds with...

Learn more about our MFA in Creative Writing program! We’re hosting an Info Session for our MFA program next Wednesday, May 7th at 5pm PT/ 8pm ET with our program chair, Lisa Locascio Nighthawk.

Antioch MFA students, alumni, and faculty were represented at AWP in over 30 panels and numerous off-site readings. Here are a few glimpses. We accept applications on a rolling basis. Learn how to apply to our program at the link in bio. @awpwriter

📣 April Shout Outs 📣 Esther Belin was guest editor for the March issue of Poetry Magazine and its focus on Diné poetics. _ Sara Phoebe Miller's young adult graphic novel, You Belong Here, was published by First Second.

This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our Affiliate Faculty in Playwriting and Screenwriting for the upcoming June Residency, Joy Kecken! Joy Kecken is a showrunner, producer, and librettist, as well as a playwright and director, who has worked in television productions, films,

We’re so excited to announce the lineup for our June 2025 Antioch MFA residency! Some faculty and guests include Sharman Apt Russell (Creative Non-Fiction), Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo (Poetry), Wendy C Ortiz (Alum at Work), and Purvi Shah (Arts/Culture & Society)! We are accepting applications!

This week, our Writer Wednesday Spotlight is on Seema Yasmin, one of our Special Guests in Writing for Young People for the upcoming June Residency. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, professor, and the author of five books and three forthcoming books.

Come visit the Antioch University Booth # 206 at the L.A. Times Festival of Books, which takes place April 26-27, 2025, at the USC Campus in Los Angeles. Free General Admission and Ticketed Events. There will be book selling and signing from Antioch MFA alumni, students, and faculty.

Learn more about our MFA in Creative Writing program! We’re hosting an Info Session for our MFA program next Saturday, April 26th, at 10am PT/1pm ET with our Teaching Faculty, Alistair McCartney!

This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our Affiliate Translation Faculty for the upcoming June Residency, Mike Fu!

We’re so excited to announce the lineup for our June 2025 Antioch MFA residency! Some faculty and guests include Edgar Gomez (Creative Non-Fiction), Sarah Manguso (Creative Non-Fiction), Myriam Gurba (Creative Non-Fiction/Criticism), and Allegra Martschenko (Agent)! We are accepting applications!

This week, our Writer Wednesday Spotlight is on Charlie Jane Anders, one of our Special Guests in Speculative Fiction for the upcoming June Residency. Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, coming August 2025 from Tor Books. Her other novels include...

This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our Affiliate Poetry Faculty for the upcoming June Residency, Michelle Peñaloza! Michelle Peñaloza is the author of All The Words I Can Remember Are Poems, winner of the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award and the James Laughlin Award,

We’re so excited to announce the lineup for our June 2025 Antioch MFA residency! Some faculty and guests include Victoria Patterson (Fiction), Anjali Enjeti (Creative Non-Fiction), Safia Elhillo (Poetry), and Kate Folk (Fiction)! We are accepting applications!

Learn more about our MFA in Creative Writing program! We’re hosting an Info Session for our MFA program next Wednesday, April 16th, at 5pm PT/8pm ET with our Teaching Faculty, Alistair McCartney!