Mills' graduate programs in creative writing, literature, and book art place you at the cutting edge
Located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mills College is at the center of a vital artistic and literary community. Our graduate programs in English are distinguished by their long-established reputations, innovation, outstanding faculty, intimate community of writers and scholars, and commitment to a vision of the literary arts as socially transformative. We offer a wide range of profe
04/25/2023
For the past few weeks, our graduates have amazed us with their takeovers and WIPs. This Thursday we get to come together to celebrate them as they complete their journeys.
We invite all friends, family, and fans of the Class of 2023 MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Literature and Languages to celebrate with us. A wonderful night of food, thesis presentations, and congratulations is planned.
04/21/2023
Our poets have some amazing work they are ready to send out to the world. Join us, hear them, love it all. Sunday, April 23 at the Art Museum Plaza. We start at 2:00 with food and drinks, and readings will begin at 2:30.
MFA Creative Candidates:
Caroline Gasparini reading “Dirt & Other Beautiful Things”
Dana DeFranco reading “Place in Space”
Em Marie Kohl reading “un/common time”
Griffin Jing Martin reading “[to be] The Malevolent Form”
AND we are very lucky to have MFA Book Art candidate Lyn Patterson joining us as well reading “revolutionary love letters”
Link to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/works-in-progress-tickets-618498745397
04/17/2023
Don't forget to come to the Mills Hall Living Room tomorrow night to hear our MFA Creative Writing, Prose candidates read their Works in Progress!
Doors will open at 5:30pm with catered food and drinks. Readings will begin at 6:00pm. Registration link can be found in our bio.
Writer, mother, teacher, pickle lover
Catherine Plato
Lover of consensual head games
Kimberly Wainscoat
Hey, I’m here now
Lindsay Krumbein
Writer, teacher, reader, creative. Spicy.
three little birds on my doorstep
04/16/2023
Next Sunday will be the Poets turn! We are so excited to hear our MFA Creative Writing, Poetry candidates read their Works in Progress next weekend!
Sunday, April 23, on the Arts Steps Plaza is where you want to be. Catered food and drinks will begin at 2:00pm. Readings will begin at 2:30pm.
Registration link is in our bio.
04/15/2023
We are so excited to hear our MFA Creative Writing, Prose candidates read their Works in Progress Tuesday night. We also have the amazing Patricia Powell reading some of her newest work!
Tuesday, April 18, in the Mills Hall Living Room is where you want to be. Doors open at 5:30pm with catered food and drinks. Readings will begin at 6:00pm.
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/works-in-progress-tickets-617456498007
04/14/2023
Please join us next Tuesday as our MFA Creative Writing, Prose candidates read from their current work. Help us celebrate our final MFA class. Doors will open at 5:30pm with a catered reception, and the readings will begin at 6:00pm.
Registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/works-in-progress-tickets-617456498007
04/12/2023
Join us tonight for Jessica Hairston’ official chapbook reading: Power of our Wombs. Doors will open at 5:00pm with catered food from iLava Hawaiian BBQ and thank you gifts. The reading will begin at 5:45pm and include a writing activity. We can't wait for you to join us!
Registration is required. Link is in our bio.
Are you interested in topics such as: ‘The Power of Wombyn’, ‘The Wounded Womb’, ‘the Chaotic Erotic’, the way ‘bodies’ store memory, and misogynoir? Come celebrate Black Women’s Appreciation Month with fellow Mills student —Jessica “Je’mani” Hairston— who has published their first chapbook Power of Our Wombs (Nomadic Press, 2023).
Power Of Our Wombs is a part of the spring 2023 Nomadic Press chapbook cohort. Je’Mani invites you to come and celebrate the birth of their first book. Please join us for a night of readings from their new book, as well as accompanied readings from Mimi Tempestt, author of Monumental Misrememberings, and Tureeda Mikell author of Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine.
04/08/2023
Here I end my takeover for the day! Thank you for following along ❤️
04/08/2023
Temple is one of my favorite coffee shops to do work. Living with kids can sometimes be distracting so I always make sure I have some time for myself.
04/08/2023
I live with both my nephews and every day they surprise me with what they do. They’re both very artistic and the older one who is 7 made this book 🥹 he inspired me to create my reading program for my thesis.
04/08/2023
This is Camden. She’s my study buddy and helps me stay on task!
04/08/2023
I’ve written critical essays on children’s literature, how children learn different from adults and how children read and understand text.
These are the text books that have helped me with those essays and that can also help with my thesis in addition to the books about publishing a children’s book. Authors use a variety of languages and literary devices to help make stories for children engaging and an easy read. These books has helped me with those sections in my thesis!
In the end of my thesis, I write about a reading program that I would create If I could. The name of the program is “Little Reader’s Club” and there are 3 rooms dedicated for different reading experiences. The reading tutoring program room, Open area space for a circle time read out loud and a publishing room where kids can create their own books, drawing out their illustrations and writing out the story.