Our Creative Writing Newsletter is here! We are excited to share with you the accomplishments and news from our students, alumni and faculty for 2025. Many thanks to our talented office worker, Jessica Lorraine Smith, who put together not one, but two versions of this year’s newsletter! Please open the attached Creative Writing Department Winter 2025 Newsletter to view the accessible copy of our newsletter. Please open our Winter CW Newletter-Compressed.PDF for the more decorative copy!
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Every gift to the Creative Writing Department helps students discover and strengthen their unique voices. Your tax-deductible support allows us to expand writing workshops, provide mentorship opportunities, and bring accomplished authors to campus. With your help, we can ensure our students have access to the tools, guidance, and community they need to thrive as storytellers. Help us nurture creativity that resonates far beyond the classroom.
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If you are generously interested in supporting scholarships or exploring planned giving: Please contact Soo Kim, Senior Director of Development, at soo.kim@sfsu.edu or 415-338-7113.
Are you a recent graduate, or current student? Creative Writing’s & Fourteen Hills’ Michael Rubin Award submissions are open until January 16th. The Michael Rubin Work-in-Progress Award is an annual award open to students and recent graduates of San Francisco State University. Alternating each year between poetry and fiction, the upcoming 2026 Award will be offered for Fiction. Submitters must be an enrolled student or recent graduate within the last 10 years at SFSU whose work shows exceptional accomplishment and promise. You can find more information and guidelines, as well as other Fourteen Hills awards, at https://www.14hills.net/submit-awards.
We hope you enjoy reading about what everyone is up to, as much as we love hearing about it! Happy Holidays!