Events

Work on your academic projects, an article, a chapter, final research paper, memoir, or screenplay at Doe Library during National Novel Writing Month.

At the 2017 UC Student Veterans Summer Writing Workshop, student veterans from all 10 UC campuses gather to study and practice the art of storytelling.

Joseph Harris leads the Art of Teaching Writing Faculty Workshop, a condensed and tailored version for UC Berkeley faculty of Art of Writing’s Summer Institute.

Lyn Hejinian and Daniel Benjamin‘s Art of Writing seminar, Collaborations, closes the semester with a public performance of their works.… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing

Award-winning poet, novelist, translator, and scholar Sinan Antoon discusses writing and translation with Art of Writing Director Ramona Naddaff, with an… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing

Jonathan Franzen speaks to undergraduate students on April 28, 2016, in UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library. In examining his New Yorker article “Carbon Capture,”… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing

Television and film critics Lili Loofbourow and David Thompson engage in conversation about the state of contemporary media.

Cuban wrtier Víctor Rodríguez Núñez has published more than 30 books of poetry throughout Latin America and Europe, and has received major awards all over the Spanish-speaking world.

Widely published cultural critics Hua Hsu and Jeff Chang and discuss music, race, and popular culture.

Writer, filmmaker, multimedia artist, composer, and UC Berkeley Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Rhetoric, Trinh Minh Ha reads from her newest work, Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared.

Geoffrey Nunberg, Professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, is the 2016 featured writer in the “Berkeley Writers at Work”… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing

Sign up for upcoming Doe Library write-ins on the NoNoWriMo website.

Joseph Harris, leader of the Art of Writing Summer Institute, considers the representation of writing teachers and instruction in popular culture. 

An end-of-semester reception and reading for Art of Writing students. Writers participating in this semester’s seminars read from works-in-progress and… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing

We had the pleasure of hosting Professor Robert Reich for our second annual Art of Writing Lecture on February 23,… Continue reading Robert Reich on Writing