Native Voices: Youth Writers from the 2025 Graton Writing Project
We’re excited to again present the talented youth of the annual Graton Writing Project, a series of writing workshops designed for middle and high school Native students from Sonoma County, California. The program culminates in a published…
Embrace Furiously This Burning World: Writers Reckon with Now
Taking inspiration from Barry Lopez’s urgent call, this event features CCA faculty working across fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to explore how contemporary writers confront the crises and transformations defining our moment—climate change,…
A Revolution of Raised Voices
Join authors Devi S. Laskar and Elizabeth Stark for a generative writing workshop! Play with voice, practice putting your vision and truth (even fictional truths) into words. Live out loud! Try out some new writing techniques and strategies.…
Storming the Gatekeepers: Past, Present, & Future Publishing Alternatives
Long before politicians weaponized book bans across the country, mainstream publishers have controlled which books get published, carrying out “soft book bans” through gatekeeping. For as long as books have been published (and censored),…
Essay as Form
The essay’s subjective and fragmented nature enables writers to grapple with complexities without the restrictions of systematic, traditional approaches to writing (Theodor W. Adorno, “The Essay as Form”). It liberates the essayist to…
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…