Apr 18, 2019 | Success Stories
Longtime Creative Writing Instructor Jessica Barksdale Inclan recently had a book of poetry published. She told us, “Before I wrote short stories or novels, I wrote poems, and I continued to do so all through the writing of longer works. When We Almost Drowned is a...
Apr 11, 2019 | Success Stories
Former student Michele Wolfe has had multiple successes since taking her first class in the Writers’ Program. Her debut novel, The Three Graces, was published in 2014 and she is almost finished with her second novel, Atoms of Memory. In the meantime, she’s found other...
Apr 4, 2019 | Success Stories
Instructor Laurel Ollstein’s play, They Promised Her the Moon, is premiering at the Old Globe in San Diego, CA on April 11th. The play centers on Jerrie Cobb, the first American woman to be tested for space flight. Laurel says of the play, “They Promised Her the Moon...
Mar 28, 2019 | Success Stories
Former student Taneeka Bourgeois-daSilva has had several books and stories published since we previously did a success story on her in 2015. She has had stories/articles published in Merced Sun Star, VoyageLA Magazine, IBPA’s Independent Magazine, and in other...
Mar 21, 2019 | Success Stories
Writers’ Program Instructor (and Program Director) Charles Jensen recently published a new poetry book, Nanopedia, through Tinderbox Editions. He says, “My second collection of prose poems, Nanopedia, is the world’s smallest encyclopedia of American culture. Each poem...
Mar 14, 2019 | Success Stories
Instructor Lilliam Rivera recently published her second young adult novel Dealing In Dreams. The book is set in a near-future where girl gangs rule the streets. It is a story about violence, sisterhood, and the journey to find a home. Of her time teaching for the...
