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BART short fiction contest

May 16, 2022 By Elisabeth Kauffman 1 Comment

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

October 21, 2020 By Elisabeth Kauffman

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

October 21, 2020 By Elisabeth Kauffman

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 - by Elisabeth Kauffman

The World Needs Your Story

June 8, 2020 By Elisabeth Kauffman

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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The San Francisco Writers Conference (“SFWC”) enjoys a rich literary culture. Over the course of four days, over 500 attendees and renowned keynote authors, presenters, editors, and agents, attend SFWC, combining the best of both the traditional publishing industry with the latest technology to empower authors to publish anywhere. Situated just north of Silicon Valley, the SFWC is truly a one-of-a-kind celebration of craft, commerce, and community.

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