The Creative Writing Program at Grossmont College

Come join us for the 30th Annual Literary Arts Festival, April 27th through 30th, 2026! 🎉

We have an incredible line-up of speakers and panelists. Check out grossmont.edu/laf for more details! 👏

The schedule:

Mon., 4/27:
11-12:20 in Griffin Gate: Jason Schneiderman (Poet & Essayist)
6-7:30 p.m. in PVAC: New Voices: Student Reading

Tues., 4/28:
12:30-1:50 in PVAC: Why Literature Matters (Coordinated by Julie Cardenas and Sarah Steliga)
2-3:20 in Griffin Gate: Ivy Pochoda (Novelist)

Wed., 4/29:
9:30-10:50 in Griffin Gate: Phillip B. Williams (Poet & Novelist)
2-3:20 in Griffin Gate: Aaron Burch (Fiction & Nonfiction Writer))

Thurs., 4/30:
2-3:20 in 26-220: Deborah Taffa (Author, Poet, & Playwright)

Would love to see you there!

The LAF event series is supported by and in collaboration with:

Grossmont College

Foundation for Grossmont & Cuyamaca Colleges

LAF 30 The official website of the current or latest Literary Arts Festival, sponsored by the English Department’s Creative Writing Program and the Creative Writing Fund of the Foundation for Grossmont and Cuyamaca Colleges.

Mark your calendars for the 30th Annual Literary Arts Festival at Grossmont College (April 27th-30th, 2026)! More details at: grossmont.edu/laf

Mark your calendars for the 30th Annual Literary Arts Festival at Grossmont College (April 27th-30th)! Hope you can attend these events! More details at: grossmont.edu/laf

Thank you to everyone who participated in and attended our Acorn Review reading last week!

Sam Sax's event in September 2025! Photography credit: Stephen Harvey

Join us tonight at 6 p.m. for the Acorn Review reading event, hosted by English instructor Julie Cardenas! Register here for the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/acornrev

More info. on our Fall Readings Series: grossmont.edu/frs

The English Department & Creative Writing Program invite you to attend our 2025 Fall Readings Series!

🎤 Sept. 18th - 11 a.m. in Griffin Gate
Sam Sax, poet & novelist
q***r writer and poet, Sam Sax, author of Yr Dead, longlisted for The National Book Award, and Pig, named one of the best books of 2023 by New York Magazine

🎤 Oct. 1st - 6 p.m. via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/acornrev
Acorn Review - Issue Launch Reading
poets and writers help launch and promote the newest issue of Acorn Review with a reading of their original work

🎤 Oct. 15th - 12:30 p.m. in Griffin Gate
Natashia Deón, novelist
author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Perishing, and the novel Grace, named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times and awarded Best Debut Novel by the American Library Association’s Black Caucus

🎤 NOV. 18TH - 12:30 p.m. in Griffin Gate
Chad Stroup, musician and horror writer
San Diego drag artist, rock vocalist, and author of horror novels Teeth Where They Shouldn’t Be and Sexy L***r

🎤 Dec. 8th - 6 p.m. in Griffin Gate
New Voices: Student Reading
a showcase of original works by exceptional student writers from the Fall 2025 semester's CWP courses

Fall Readings Series The official site of the Creative Writing Program's annual Fall Readings Series