Open House- USC Master of Professional Writing Program

The Open House will be held on Monday, November 1st at 5:30 pm in USC's Doheny Memorial Library, Intellectual Commons (Room 233).  The program would also like to invite you to a panel discussion on  Faith and the Writer: Inspiration and Practice, a discussion about the link between faith and creativity in both secular and non-secular work. It's at 7:00 pm also in the Doheny Memorial Library Intellectual Commons.  

Refreshments will be served!  

Also, please come to our free events in the coming weeks at USC:
Oct. 11 - Visiting Writer lecture with Rebecca McClanahan from 7-9 pm at Waite Philips Hall B27

Oct. 12 - "True Blood" writer Alexander Woo from 7-9 pm at Doheny Memorial Library Intellectual Commons 233

Oct. 27 - "Futurama" writer Bob Odenkirk from 7-9 pm at Taper Hall 102

Please RSVP for any and all of these events by e-mailing at mpw@college.usc.edu.  

You can also watch past events on  YouTube channel and be fan the  Facebook page.

For more info contact Howard Ho, Program Specialist, (213) 740-3250

Times Festival of Books will move to USC

USC President C.L. Max Nikias, left, and Times
Publisher Eddy Hartenstein USC's University
Park campus, future site of Times' Festival of Books.
(Steve Cohn/for the Times)

From: latimes.com

By: Larry Gordan

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books will move its weekend-long celebration of the written word to the USC campus next spring after 15 years across town at UCLA, officials announced Wednesday.

The change of venue to USC's main University Park campus south of downtown Los Angeles will offer a more central location, better access to public transportation, easier parking and the use of newly expanded university facilities for the annual event, leaders of the newspaper and USC said.

The decision came after negotiations between The Times and UCLA foundered over differences about how to reduce and share expenses, as well as some logistical issues, according to several people with knowledge of the talks. A UCLA spokesman said state budget cuts to the UC system also have made it more difficult in recent years for the campus to bear its share of festival costs.

Read more here.