Events

Make plans to drop by the English Reading Room on this Thursday, November 29th for light refreshments and readings by some of our very talented creative writing students.

This Summer Travel Study program examines the experiences of some of the most important American writers and artists who spent time in Florence, the beautiful Tuscan city where the Italian Renaissance originated. This info session is led by Program Director and English Department Faculty, Professor Chris Looby. He will discuss everything you need to know...

Drop by the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room (235 Kaplan Hall) on Thursday, January 24th @5pm for Westwind’s Open Mic Night. Light refreshments will be provided.  

Please join us for a reading and Q&A with award winning author in residence Angela Flournoy.  Refreshments will be served. Hailed as an “assured and memorable novel” by the New York Review of Books, Flournoy’s book brings us a colorful, complicated brood full of love and pride, sacrifice and unlikely inheritances. It's a striking examination...

Lecture with Kyle Grady

Ismail Khalidi in Conversation with Saree Makdisi

What happens in a creative writing workshop?  Find out on Tuesday, February 19th in Kaplan 193 at 4pm. Open workshop session featuring 2019 Author in Residence, Professor Angela Flournoy and creative writing students and Westwind Fiction Editor Taylor Harper discussing a short story by Taylor. For advance copies of the story, please email creativewriting@english.ucla.edu.  Refreshments...

Lecture by Professor Lynda Nead

Talk with Ray Ryan

Bag O’ Diamonds, the title of Susan Wheeler’s first book of poems, was predictive of all to follow thus far, as long as one understands that the poet herself is never predictable, as long as one understands that she will always be vivid and musical and edgy at once.  Her work has won many honors,...