This year’s Visiting Writers program will welcome back to campus graduates of CSULB’s Creative Writing program.
Come help celebrate their publishing successes at four very special events.

All events are free and open to the public
and will take place in the Soroptimist House, beginning at 7:00 pm.

For a map, click here.

Thursday, OCTOBER 4, 2012        

Kristen-Paige Madonia, author of the novel Fingerprints of You (Simon and Schuster, 2012)

Thursday, NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Paula Priamos and James Brown. Paula is author of the memoir The Shyster’s Daughter (Etruscan Press, 2012). Special Guest James Brown is the author of several novels and two acclaimed memoirs, The Los Angeles Diaries and This River.

Thursday, MARCH 7, 2013               

Christina Adams, author of the memoir A Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention and Recovery (Berkley Books/Penguin USA, 2005)

Thursday, APRIL 11, 2013

An Evening of Poetry, Short Fiction, and Independent Publishing Talk, featuring poet John Brantingham, author of East of Los Angeles (Anaphora Press, 2011); short story writer Mike Buckley, author of Miniature Men (World Parade Books, 2011); and poet Paul Tayyar (publisher of World Parade Books).  

All readings in the 2012-13 Visiting Writers program are co-sponsored by CSULB’s Department of English, English Students’ Association, and HipPoetics Creative Writing Club.

This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.