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09/08/2026

🎙️ On Episode 74 of LitCit, host Gabriela Revilla Lugo of the MFA in Dramatic Writing (Screenwriting) program sits down with writer, editor, and translator Mike Fu!

📚 Mike Fu is a Tokyo-based writer, editor, and translator. His Chinese-English translation of Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao was named a Favorite Book of the Year by the Paris Review and shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Prose. His debut novel, Masquerade, was published by Tin House in 2024. He has taught at Temple University Japan, Parsons School of Design, and the City University of New York, and received his PhD in cultural studies from Waseda University. He is a writer and editor for The Japan Times.

🎧 This episode was produced by Hylee Kim and mastered by Max Pearl.

🔗 Listen to Episode 74 of LitCit through the link in our bio!

09/07/2026

✨ This week, our Mentor Monday Spotlight goes to fiction faculty member Tomas Moniz!

📚 Tomas Moniz is a latinx writer living in East Oakland, CA. His debut novel, Big Familia, was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway and the LAMBDA. His new novel, All Friends Are Necessary, won the California Golden Poppy Award. He teaches at Berkeley City College and the Antioch MFA program.

💌 He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back.

🎓 Want to study with Tomas? Applications are accepted on a rolling basis!

09/04/2026

✨ This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our Creative Nonfiction faculty members, Edgar Gomez!

📚 Edgar Gomez is a q***r NicaRican writer born and raised in Florida. He is the author of the memoir High-Risk Homosexual, winner of the American Book Award, a Stonewall Israel-Fishman Nonfiction Book Honor Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. Their sophomore book, Alligator Tears, was released in February 2025 and has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. A graduate of the University of California’s MFA program, Gomez has written for The LA Times, Poets & Writers, LitHub, New York Magazine, and beyond. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Black Mountain Institute. He lives between New York and Puerto Rico. Find him across social media .

🎓 Want to study with Edgar Gomez? Applications are accepted on a rolling basis!

🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio.

09/03/2026

✨ Join us for a Virtual Info Session about Antioch’s MFA Program, Saturday, September 12th, at 10am PT/1pm ET, with Colette Freedman.

📚 Learn about our hybrid residencies in Los Angeles and online, our social justice mission, scholarships, and our fiction, YA, creative nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, and translation genres.

📅 Applications accepted on a rolling basis!

🔗 Register at link in bio.

09/02/2026

✨ This week, our Writer Wednesday Spotlight goes to one of our guests for the upcoming December Residency: Tananarive Due, Special Guest in Screenwriting!

📚 Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder’s groundbreaking documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her husband and collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote “A Small Town” for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone on Paramount Plus, as well as two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire. They also co-wrote the Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper.

🎬 A leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, also co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.

🎓 Want to study with Tananarive Due? We’re accepting applications and granting scholarships!

📅 Applications accepted on a rolling basis!

🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio.

09/01/2026

📚 On this episode of Antioch MFA’s LitCit, host Gina Rae Duran chats with acclaimed writer Bonnie Hearn Hill.

🎙️ They discuss her career, her writing and research process, and how she approaches storytelling through the exploration of the theme of misfits. Hill is the author of sixteen suspense novels, most recently the Kit Doyle Crime Blogger series and the novel The River Below. Her work also appears in The White Picket Fence, an anthology from Flower Song Press edited by host Gina Rae Duran.

This episode was produced by Bo Thomas Newman and mastered by David Nguyen.

🔗 Listen at the link in bio.

08/31/2026

✨ This week, our Mentor Monday Spotlight goes to one of our Poetry faculty members for the upcoming December Residency, Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo!

📚 Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and the author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications 2016), a poetry collection inspired by her family’s immigration stories and her time volunteering with the humanitarian aid organization, No More Deaths. She was also chosen as the first “Poet in the Parks” resident at Gettysburg National Military Park in partnership with the Poetry Foundation and the National Parks Arts Foundation.

✍🏽 A former Steinbeck fellow and Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange poetry winner, Bermejo has received residencies with Hedgebrook and the Ragdale Foundation and is a member of the Miresa Collective. She is co-founder and director of Women Who Submit, a literary organization fighting for gender parity by empowering women and non-binary writers to submit work for publication. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles.

🎓 Want to study with Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo? We're accepting applications and granting scholarships!

📅 Priority Deadline: September 1. After that, rolling admissions.

🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio.

08/28/2026

✨ This week, our Faculty Friday Spotlight goes to one of our Screenwriting faculty members for the upcoming December 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 and documentaries, for over twenty years. She has written and directed for the critically acclaimed HBO series, *The Wire,* and recently finished an incredible season as an Executive Producer on Apple TV+’s *Swagger.* Her feature, *All-In*, is in development with Maven Pictures. She has also served as a Co-Executive Producer on Nat Geo’s *Genius* series for the *MLK/X* season, FX’s *Kindred* and Freeform’s *Motherland: Fort Salem.* She was a Consulting Producer on the feature documentary, *The Biggest Little Farm*, which got on the Oscar doc shortlist. Her additional writing credits include *Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger, Tales* and *Homicide: Life on the Street.*

🎓 Want to study with Joy Kecken? We're accepting applications and granting scholarships!

📅 Priority Deadline: September 1. After that, rolling admissions.

🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio.

08/27/2026

🎬 Antioch MFA’s Dramatic Writing Genre and its amazing faculty, led by Teaching Faculty Colette Freedman, saw our program listed in MovieMaker Magazine’s 30 Best Film Schools in North America for the 4th year in a row! 🎉

🔗 Read the 2026 MovieMaker list: https://buff.ly/FXf0Riy

✍️ We are accepting applications in screenwriting and playwriting for our December residency! Students can also study fiction, YA, poetry, creative nonfiction, and literary translation.

📅 Priority deadline: September 1. After that, applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Scholarships available.

08/26/2026

✨ This week, our Writer Wednesday Spotlight goes to one of our guests for the upcoming December Residency: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Special Guest in Creative Nonfiction!

📚 Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which also won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, an Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Fiction. He is also the author of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Committed, the sequel to The Sympathizer. His other books include The Refugees and The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. His most recent books are Simone, a children’s book illustrated by Minnie Phan, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, from Harvard University Press in 2025. He is currently a Writer in Residence at USC, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Time, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and other venues.

🎓 Want to study with Viet Thanh Nguyen? We're accepting applications and granting scholarships!

📅 Priority Deadline: September 1. After that, rolling admissions.

🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio.

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