Milvia Street Art and Literary Journal, first published in 1989, has featured creative work by Berkeley City College students–many who have gone on to university writing or art programs–recent alumni, faculty and staff. It is a student edited and produced publication that in 1996 won national first place in the Literary Magazine competition of the Community College Humanities Association, and since then has placed in the top three.

Current and back issues can be purchased at BCC’s Cashier’s Office, 2050 Center Street, Berkeley.  The current issue is also available at University Press Books in Berkeley and Diesel Books in Oakland. Past and current issues can also be seen in the Berkeley History Room and the Berkeley Public Library and in the Bancroft Library, U. C. Berkeley.

Submissions:  You must be a Berkeley City College student, recent alumnus, or member of the faculty, staff, or administration to submit work. Literary Submissions may be poems, short stories, plays, memoir, creative nonfiction, manifestos, etc.  Please send only three pieces per person, poems up to three pages double-spaced or prose up to ten pages double-spaced.  Please do not include your name on the manuscript; include a cover sheet with your name, address, phone, email, and the titles.    For more information: scoleman@peralta.edu

Art Submissions: any medium.  Please send no more than five pieces per person on a CD. Digital entries must be at least 300DPI @ 5 by 7 inches, JPEG or TIFF. Label each file with your name, title, size of original, and medium.  Also provide a short bio.  Please request an entry form: scoleman@peralta.edu.  Send all submissions to Sharon Coleman, Berkeley City College, 2050 Center Street, Berkeley CA, 94704.

Production:  If you are interested in selecting, editing, producing, or promoting Milvia Street, join the Milvia Street Club. We form prose and poetry selection committees at the beginning of the fall semester.  Contact Sharon Coleman (scoleman@peralta.edu) at the beginning of the semester to participate.

The Milvia Street Club is currently meeting.  Any students interested in being on selection committees, submitting work, or otherwise promoting the journal, as well as artistic and literary activity on campus, should contact Sharon Coleman at scoleman@peralta.edu

Each year, we organize a reading and art exhibit to celebrate the release of the new issue, and throughout the year there are often readings at different venues in the Bay Area.

For more information, please visit the Milvia Street website.

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Those who complete the Berkeley City College English AA-T (Associate of Arts for Transfer degree)  have taken all courses required for transfer to U.C. Berkeley, U.C.L.A., and other U.C. campuses as an English major and are guaranteed admission to a C.S.U. campus as an English major.  Berkeley City College’s English program offers a variety of literature and creative writing courses to serve students with diverse goals. 

Please see your counselor and/or one of the English department chairs (Jenny Lowood, jlowood@peralta.edu or Adán Olmedo, amolmedo@peralta.edu) for more information.

• A Focus on Academic Excellence and Student Learning. We value our students’ varied educational and experiential backgrounds and learning styles, as well as educational objectives.
• A Commitment to Multiculturalism and Diversity. We value diversity, which fosters appreciation of others, depth of understanding, insight, empathy, innovation and creativity, characteristics our institution seeks in its students, faculty and staff.
• A Commitment to Preparing Students for Citizenship in a Diverse and Complex Changing Global Society. We value the fact that students live and work in an increasingly complex society and world.
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• The Importance of Innovation and Flexibility. We value innovation because it encourages our students to question the typical and expand their thinking in a flexible manner that allows them to understand life’s dynamic potential.

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Congratulations to our alumna, Amy Clark, for her acceptance to Harvard’s English Ph.D. program (2015) with a full scholarship.

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Congratulations to our alumnus, Joseph Cadora, who published his book, Rilke: New Poems, with a foreword by Robert Hass, in 2014.

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Congratulations to our alumnus, Martin Zirulnik, who was awarded the UC Berkeley English Department Citation for Graduating Seniors in 2011; he was the sole recipient of this award.  Martin is currently earning a PhD in English Literature at UCLA.

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Congratulations to our alumnus, Jack Howells, who won the UC Berkeley English department’s 2011 “Bertrand Bronson Prize for the Outstanding Senior Honor’s Thesis,” as well as the Center for British Studies’ Kirk Underhill Undergraduate Paper Prize.  Jack  earned his BA in English literature at UC Berkeley.