Links to online broadcasts will be available through Eventbrite or the schedule below. Access the Eventbrite online event page here.

1st Weekend (Nov 6-8)

• • Friday, November 6th

    9:00-10:30am

    Opening Culturama and how to get into a creative habit with Melissa Macias, Lloyd Aquino, Robert Piluso, Daniel Wheeler, and John Brantingham

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    11:00am-12:30pm

    Scott Noon Creley - Getting Started in Science Fiction

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    1:00-2:30pm

    Kareem Tayyar - Feet on the Ground, Head in the Clouds: Using Daydreams to Inspire Your Poetry

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    5:00-6:30pm

    Writing for an Income with Yi Shun Lai

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

  • Saturday, November 7th

    9:00-10:30am

    Using Writing to Work Through Trauma, Part One with Ken Johnson and John Brantingham

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    11:00am-12:30pm

    Two Sessions! Choose either:
    Ron Husband -- Quick Sketching in Illustration and Animation

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/96181813783

    
    or Lynda Hoggan -- Writing about Sex

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    1:00-2:30pm

    Saturday afternoon with Anders Carson -- Prompts for Poetry and Prose

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    5:00-6:30pm

    Creating a Career in Book Publishing -- Tobi Harper and Monica Fernandez

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

  • Sunday, November 8th

    9:00-10:30am

    Bonnie Hearn Hill - Special Session with limited spaces with a book editor. The first 5 students who request this session will have their work analyzed by book editor, Bonnie Hearn Hill

    Submit requests to have your work analyzed to:jbrantingham@mtsac.edu

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    11:00am-12:30pm

    Stephanie Hammer - A Crash Course in Magical Realism

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    1:00-2:30pm

    Michaelsun Knapp: Let the Music Take Control - Using Lyricism to Develop Poems

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    5:00-6:30pm

    Keynote Reading with Lynne Thompson and liz gonzález 

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

     

2nd Weekend (Nov 13-15)

• • Friday, November 13th

    9:00-10:30am

    Waking up to Creativity with Scott Noon Creley - Poetry from Your Past, Using Proust

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    11:00am-12:30pm

    Syd Bartman - Finding your Story

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    1:00-2:30pm

    Two Sessions! Choose either:
    Michael Torres -- Repetition and Echo: A Generative Writing Workshop

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/6777468613

    
    or Rich Soos and Francesca Terzano talking about publishing

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    5:00-6:30pm

    Crystal Lane Swift - Reconstruction in Pieces:  Memoir in Vignettes

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

  • Saturday, November 14th

    9:00-10:30am

    Brian Cuban: The Art of Promotion Before and After Publication

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    11:00am-12:30pm

    The Query and Pitch Workshop with Yi Shun Lai

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    1:00-2:30pm

    Saturday afternoon with Anders Carson - Prompts for Poetry and Prose

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    3:00-4:30pm

    Mastermind Your Zines with Mt. SAC Library Resources with Eva Rios-Alvarado

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/98435434706

    5:00-6:30pm

    Artists and Writers of Color Talk about the Professional World - Yi Shun Lai, Shonda Buchanan, Matt Sedillo, Ron Husband, Luis Mendoza Padilla

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

  • Sunday, November 15th

    9:00-10:30am

    Using Writing to Work Through Trauma, Part Two with Ken Johnson and John Brantingham, Note, you do not need to have gone to part one to go to part two

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    11:00am-12:30pm

    Two Sessions! Choose either:
    Stephanie Hammer -- A Crash Course in Magical Realism

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    
    or Katie Queen--(Ceramics) Large Thrown Bowl-trimmed and decorated with nature themes

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/96181813783

    1:00-2:30pm

    Robert Piluso - Moving forward with Your Writing

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

    3:00-4:30pm

    Mastermind Your Zines with Mt. SAC Library Resources with Eva Rios-Alvarado

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/91286376276

    5:00-6:30pm

    Michaelsun Knapp -- What Contemporary Native American Poets and Writers You Should be Reading

    Join us via zoom: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/7264573543

3rd Weekend (Nov 20-22)

• • Friday, November 20th

    9:00-10:30am

    Waking up to Creativity with Jude Higgins: Using Dreams to Find Your Stories

    11:00am-12:30pm

    Lloyd Aquino - Writing a Poetry Collection

    1:00-2:30pm

    eBook Design and Publishing with Mark Givens

    5:00-6:30pm

    Agents and Publishers Panel - Mark Givens and Elise Capron

  • Saturday, November 21st

    9:00-10:30am

    Tim Hatch - Writing Poems from Memory

    11:00am-12:30pm

    Kareem Tayyar - Looking Back: Writing Era-Specific Fiction

    1:00-2:30pm

    Saturday Afternoon with Anders Carson - Prompts for Poetry and Prose

    5:00-6:30pm

    Kareem Tayyar - Live from the City of Angels: Poems About Los Angeles

  • Sunday, November 22nd

    9:00-10:30am

    Bonnie Hearn Hill - Confessions of a Contest Judge

    11:00am-12:30pm

    Scott Noon Creley - Ekphrastic Poetry, Writing about Art

    1:00-2:30pm

    Conceptualizing, Crafting, and Pitching the Long Essay with Yishun Lai

    5:00-6:30pm

    Robert Piluso - Creating Comics: From Scratch to Sketch and Beyond

4th Weekend (Nov 27-29)

• • Friday, November 27th

    9:00-10:30am

    A.J. Orona and Jeffrey Graessley -- How to Make a Living as a Writer

    11:00am-12:30pm

    Informal conversation with publishers: Ask whatever you like about small press publishing with Thomas Thomas, Shannon Phillips, and Andrew Turner

    1:00-2:30pm

    Stephanie Hammer - The Late Show, Starting and Restarting Your Writing Career after 50

    5:00-6:30pm

    Reading with Yi Shun Lai

  • Saturday, November 28th

    9:00-10:30am

    Shonda Buchanan -- The Function of Memory in Memoir: Writing Your Truth

    11:00am-12:30pm

    Nikki Lewis - (Ceramics) The Virtual Vessel: Throwing and Decorating Large Scale Forms Live

    1:00-2:30pm

    Saturday afternoon with Anders Carson - Prompts for Poetry and Prose

    5:00-6:30pm

    KEYNOTE: Shonda Buchanan, Author, Black Indian (www.shondabuchanan)
    Presentation: Afro-Native Intersections and American Erasure

  • Sunday, November 29th

    9:00-10:30am

    Jennifer King - How to draw your houseplant

    11:00am-12:30pm

    How to get your stories, poems and essays published when you're just starting out, with John Brantingham

    1:00-2:30pm

    Melanie Florio - Painting Clouds

    5:00-6:30pm

    Cuyler Smith - Dynamic Sketching