Paths to Publishing: From the Big Five to DIY
These days, there are so many ways to get your book out into the world, choosing the best option can be daunting.
Join us as a published author from each pathway — the Big 5 (Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan,…
How to Find (& Create) Your Writing Community
Being a writer can be very isolating. You spend hours alone in a room with a bunch of imaginary people, and it's next to impossible to explain to anybody who isn’t a writer, exactly what you're doing there.
That's why having a writing…
The Power of Voice: Writing for Social Change & Personal Truth
This workshop is for those who write toward justice, toward liberation, toward the excavation of personal and collective truth. There are as many ways to write politically as there are stories in the body, as many ways to resist as there are…
Revisions and the Muse
How can revision be part of a creative process? What do you do when your revision births a whole new turn of events in your poem or novel or essay? Join Kate Folk, Preeti Vangani and Laleh Khadivi, all USF MFA faculty, in thinking our way through…
Panel: We Will Not Disappear: Queer/Trans Voices in a Time of Backlash
Community members of the Bay Area's beloved LGBTQ+ collaborative, Foglifter Journal and Press, discuss the role of queer and trans publishing in a time when the nation has further precluded being a place of support and comfort, and shape a vision…
Becoming an Authorpreneur
Do you have an idea for a reading series, literary podcast, website, or game? Maybe you've imagined starting your own literary nonprofit, magazine, bookstore, or (gasp) book festival. Chances are, if you've dreamed it up, Brooke Warner and Grant…
The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre—Turning Obsession into Art with Aesthetic Force
Great writing doesn’t start with form—it starts with obsession. But how do we transform raw obsession into something that stuns, unsettles, and compels? How do we move beyond reason to aesthetic force—the power that makes art unforgettable?
Join…
A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis
Poetry has long offered a mode for humans to engage with the more-than-human world. How does poetry grapple with the accelerating environmental crisis and point the way toward a sustainable future? After discussing a couple of poems, we’ll…