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Writer-in-Residence at Pasadena City College: Cinelle Barnes (2021)

Research guide dedicated to present and past Writers-in-Residence at Pasadena City College

Writer-in-Residence 2021 Information

Join us live at https://facebook.com/PccEnglishDepartment for the following live events:

  • Zoom Reading / Q&A, October 12th, 2:00-3:00pm PST
  • Zoom Workshop, October 14th, 2:00-3:00pm PST

Cinelle Barnes is a formerly undocumented memoirist, essayist, and educator from Manila, Philippines, and is the author of MONSOON MANSION: A MEMOIR (Booklist starred review) and MALAYA: ESSAYS ON FREEDOM, and the editor of the New York Times New & Noteworthy book, A MEASURE OF BELONGING: 21 WRITERS OF COLOR ON THE NEW AMERICAN SOUTH. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina.

Links - Cinelle Barnes

Amazon Publishing: Cinelle Barnes

Cinelle Barnes: PCC Writer-in-Residence 2021

Poster for Writer in Residence program with photograph of Cinelle Barnes and program information which is also included on this page in an accessible format.

About the Writer-in-Residence Program

PCC’s Writer-in-Residence Program aims to enrich the cultural environment of the College and the larger community by bringing to campus for a period of three days a distinguished local writer to interact with students, faculty, staff, and community members.  

Writer-in-Residence events include classroom visits, writing workshops, a faculty luncheon, and a public reading. Writers-in-Residence are interviewed by editors of PCC’s literary magazine Inscape, the interview to be published in the magazine. The residency also offers our visiting writer a wonderful opportunity to promote a recent publication.

The Writer-in-Residence Program is funded by the Pasadena Festival of Women Authors and by several groups on campus, including the Student Services Division and the English Division.