Featured: Shandy Walton, Kat A. Croswell, Zane Hawley, Felicia M. Hayes, Sam Cavedon Word. World. is the culminating event of the MFA Program in Writing at California College of the Arts that features graduating students reading from their thesis. An evening of poetry, prose, and writings in between, this night is also a community celebration as these students enter a new phase of their writing careers.