Write from the Gut!
SF Creative Writing Institute
Leg Three | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Classic Cars West
Event Description
Event info TBA
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Co-Curators: Alexandra Kostoulas & Paul Corman-Roberts
Alexandra Kostoulas is an award-winning writer of poetry, fiction and journalism. She is the founder of the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute. She has performed her work on stage locally and nationally at Los Angeles Festival of Books, UC Berkeley, Beyond Baroque Bookstore in Venice, CA, Mills College, June Jordan’s Poetry for the People in Berkeley, and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York and more. She teaches people to find their voice and unblock themselves creatively every day as an instructor in The Jack Grapes METHOD WRITING Program and at the SF Creative Writing Institute.
Paul Corman-Roberts is an original core-founder of the Beast Crawl Lit Fest. He works extensively with SF Creative Writing Institute, Nomadic Press and his most recent collection of poems is We Shoot Typewriters (Nomadic Press 2015.)
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Event Readers
Kim Shuck
Kim Shuck became the 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco on June 21st, 2017. She is a Tsalagi (Cherokee)/Euro-American poet, author, weaver, and bead work artist who draws from Southeastern Native American culture and tradition as well as contemporary urban Indian life. A native of San Francisco, she belongs to the northern California Cherokee diaspora and is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Her most recent works include Sidewalk NDN, Clouds Running In and Rabbit Stories.
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Marien Villafaña
Marien Villafaña is a math tutor by day and a writer by night. She is from Puebla, Mexico and has a degree in Mathematics. She found her voice while studying creative writing with Alexandra Kostoulas at the SF Creative Writing Institute. When she is not writing or teaching, you can find her at any film festival in the City.
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Tracey Lien
Tracey Lien is a Los Angeles Times journalist who lives in Oakland, California. She was born in Australia, her parents were refugees of the Vietnam War, and she likes to write about those things from time to time.
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Nancy P. Davenport
Nancy P. Davenport’s poems have appeared in The Burning Grape, Mountain Gazette, The Bicycle Review, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, The Lilliput Review, Blue Fifth Review, Poetry Quarterly, Red Fez, Full of Crow, Mayday, City Lit Rag, The Lake, and Yellow Chair Review. She’s had poems included in three anthologies, and poems translated into Spanish and German. Nancy’s chapbook, LA Briizna, was published in May, 2014; she is currently working on her second book, Smoked Glass.
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K.R. Morrison |
Raymond Hobbs |
When she’s not writing poems or drumming in an all-girl garage rock band, K.R. Morrison teaches English Literature and Creative Writing to inner city high school students at Galileo in San Francisco, CA. She has featured twice in Bay Area Generations, Saturday Night Special, and at Nomadic Press’ Get Lit, Oakland’s Liminal Series, and the Lunada Literary Lounge at the Galeria de la Raza. She’s currently working on a poetry collection entitled, From Her Wrist, and once the manuscript is finished, she hopes to have it published by a press that reflects the priorities she voices in her writing.
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Raymond Hobbs is a writer, actor, and comedian out of Oakland, California. He got is B.A. from UC Berkeley in English Literature, and has been a producing partner with PianoFight Productions from almost the very beginning in 2008. He co-founded the sketch comedy group Mission CTRL with some college buddies, and has appeared numerous times in the SF Sketchfest and the SF Improv Festival to name a few.
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