On Nov. 29, upwards of 50 people squeezed themselves into Collected Works Bookstore to hear Dr. Ron D. Hart in conversation with Gloria Abella Ballen. The topic of discussion was Hart’s latest book, Sephardic Jews: History, Religion, and People.

After spending his fall semester working as a production intern on the musical Sweet Charity, SFUAD student Triston P. Pullen is announcing his next major project—a stage adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s book It Ends With Us.

On Oct. 26, the Lannan Foundation hosted a reading at The Lensic Performing Arts Center—Anne Carson in conversation with Michael Silverblatt, an experience not soon to be forgotten and, as with Carson’s work, difficult to categorize.

Meet the Underground Correspondents—Todd Harris Jr., Italia Marie and Niko’a Salas—an eclectic trinity, bonded by a mutual love of performative self-expression.

Mike Sager’s resume reads less like a timeline and more like a greatest hits reel, with all his stories as steeped in history as they are.

Jackalope Magazine speaks with Michael J Wilson, Creative Writing and Literature faculty, about his first poetry collection, A Child Of Storm, publishing this week.

CWL faculty member Anne Valente’s novel publishes this coming week. Ultimately the story within is a stunning tale of the all-consuming nature of grief and the permanence of loss, in and of itself a statement about a society where mass violence is increasingly common.

Creative Writing and Literature students were welcomed to the new semester with games, conversation, character-building and cake.

Every Tuesday night in a cozy Alexis Hall lounge, members of the Student Writers Association gather to de-stress, improve their craft, and forge new friendships. SWA is the Creative Writing department’s flagship club, led by officers Amaya Hoke, Andrew Koss, Charlotte Renken, and Kylie Yockey.