Big Congratulations to the 2024 San Francisco Writers Conference Writing Contest Winners!
Grand Prize Winner Su Mon Han gets full registration to the 2025 conference!
Category Winners receive a Summit Registration or equivalent discount off the full registration for the 2025 conference.
Winners
Finalists
Kidlit Finalists:
Romilda Byrd for The Lives of Tomato
Jeffrey Carnett for Catie and the Dizzy Bees
Rick Cedar for Stacked Against Me
Kimberly Dunne-Robbins for Rainbow Power
Hank Fabian for Trouble on Moon 21
Chloe Kerr-Stein for A Scatter of Embers
Oscar King IV for Cogs and Caustics
Lily Shapiro for Psycho
E.B. Wagner for The Water Bank
Poetry Finalists:
Jamie Armstrong for Roadless, Motorless
Robin Gabbert for Invisible
Elizabeth Googe for Cheapskate Date
Alissa Larson for Capture
Michael Miller for Time and Space
Daniel Moreschi for Catatumbo Symphony
Angelica Recierdo for Wide Open to Sensation
Vanessa Shields for Post Loss Tyndall Effect
Paula Wagner for El Tapatio
Adult Fiction Finalists:
Mary Adler for In the Shadow of Lies
Michael J Cooper for Crossroads of Empire
Mimi Drop for Mother Earth
Suzanne Johnson for Double Trouble Cake
Jennifer Kennemer for The Messenger
Tracy Sand for The Meaning of Eli
Esther St. James for The Road to Damascus
Giselle Stancic for Spirits of the Grand Palace
Merry Zavala for The Circle of Grace
Adult Nonfiction Finalists:
Shanti Ariker for The Law of Return
Linda Ballou for Jack London and Me
Sharon Beck-Doran for Lights, Camera, Consent: How Women in Film Are Changing Our Minds about Sex
Elisa L. Bozmarova for Like Mother
Girish Gupta for Always Go
Alissa Larson for The Last Father’s Day
Rob Peters for Polk Street Hustler 1979
Alexandra Phillips for Chief Intuitive Officer: The Secret Guide to Unlocking the Chakras of Success
Giselle Stancic for Bleak but Marvelous
Finalists are listed alphabetically. All winners' and finalists' work will be published in the 2024 contest anthology, available at the end of November.
