In celebration of BART’s 50th anniversary this September, BART is proud to announce our first-ever short fiction contest: BART Lines. With BART Lines, BART will shine a light on the literary voices that make the Bay Area unique, diverse, and creative. Our riders keep BART moving, and we want to highlight the best writing that
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SFWC Staff updates
SFWC Director Laurie McLean has had a challenging year to be sure. In addition to producing the successful, but labor intensive, virtual 2020 San Francisco Writing for Change: Worldwide during the pandemic, Laurie’s home in LaHonda was in the middle of the horrific CZU Lightning Complex fire this summer. A volunteer firefighter herself, she was
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SFWC Gets a Grant
The San Francisco Writers Conference was the beneficiary of a generous grant from the Literary Arts Emergency Fund last month. We discovered the program thanks to Submittable. The unrestricted $5,000 grant will go a long way in helping the SFWC meet its ongoing expenses financially and let us offer programing for writers during the Covid-19
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The World Needs Your Story
Hello writing community. It’s been an eventful 2020, hasn’t it? I hope that you’re all staying safe and centered and grounded this week. It can be easy to feel we’ve come untethered from reality when we’re stuck at home with nothing but the Twitter feed for company. And speaking of that Twitter feed, how’s your
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