News Listing
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May 02, 2025The Creative Writing Department in partnership with Crowded Fire Theater and the Theatre Arts Department are proud to presen…
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April 17, 2025So proud of our creative writing MFA alumni Joshua Harris, on the publication of his new book: Eyes of Iris! This book is av…
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April 11, 2025Our detailed Fall 2025 class schedule is now available in the Resources Tab on our website, and linked below, This schedule…
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February 24, 2025Creative Writing major Theresa Thompson promotes literary excellence to children A San Francisco State University student wh…
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February 12, 2025The Creative Writing Summer 2025 Class Schedule is now available.
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November 22, 2024Creative Writing and literature and language professor Dan Langton has passed away at the age of 97. Dan taught at SFSU s…
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October 24, 2024For everyone who has access to New York Times, we invite you to follow this link to read Grappling with the Talmud in the Mi…
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September 12, 2024Immigrants-eat-pets trope is a century-old stereotype and "very old racism." When May-lee Chai was in high school in the ea…
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July 25, 2024Professor Caro De Robertis is releasing a new novel! Please read their message below for all the details. Congratulations to…
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June 10, 2024Join CW BA Alumni for the launch of their debut novel, DANCE OF THE STARLIT SEA Location: Books Inc. 2251 Chestnut St., San…
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March 05, 2024Congratulations to MFA Alumni Lara Coley on her debut poetry collection, ex traction! Lara Coley delivers her debut poetry…
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February 06, 2024Our wonderful professor — Dr. Tonya Monique Foster — has accomplished quite a few feats within the past year and has more op…
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December 13, 2023We are announcing our Creative Writing 2023 scholarship winners! Competition was fierce, and we are proud to announce the fo…
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December 12, 2023SF Creative Writing professors and lecturers have participated in a historic strike on Tuesday December 5th, 2023. Read blow…
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November 15, 2023Long time Creative Writing lecturer, Matthew Clark Davison, has had the first chapter of his memoir-in-progress Hott Lipps p…
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September 29, 2023Graduates, faculty of SF State’s Creative Writing program share powerful stories and poetry that reflect the diversity of th…
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May 25, 2023Alumnus Benjamin Walker was interviewed about his new novel, “When the Old World Was New.” Read the article.
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March 15, 2023Poetry graduate student and Iraqi native Zêdan Xelef and other poets discuss the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Ir…
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March 02, 2023San Francisco State University students, faculty and alumni are coming together for two events this month supporting women’s…
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February 28, 2023Author and alumna Cal Orey wrote an article about how author John Steinbeck inspired her to write her book “Soulmates with P…
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February 01, 2023Gaines (B.A., ’57) is most known for his novels ‘The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman’ and ‘A Lesson Before Dying’ A San F…
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January 31, 2023U.S. Postal Service honors the work of author and alumnus Ernest J. Gaines with new stamp as part of its Black Heritage Seri…
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January 25, 2023Associate Professor, Carolina De Robertis named 41st John Dos Passos Prize winner. Read the article.
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December 29, 2022Associate Professor and Chair of Creative Writing May-lee Chai’s book “Tomorrow in Shanghai: And Other Stories” was included…
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December 08, 2022Creative Writing Department alumnus John Caldon is the first-ever executive director for the San Francisco-based music festi…
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December 01, 2022Congratulations to our Scholarship winners! Clark-Gross Award in the Novel $100 External judge, Tameka Latrece Cage Conley W…
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November 29, 2022Listen to Creative Writing long time lecturer Matthew Clark Davison speak about his new novel ‘Doubting Thomas’ probes false…
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November 18, 2022Faculty Lecturer of Creative Writing Matthew Clark Davison discussed his novel “Doubting Thomas” Read the article…
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November 04, 2022Commencement 2023 - May 26, 2023 at Oracle Park! San Francisco State University’s 122nd Commencement ceremony will be Friday…
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October 19, 2022Alumnus K.M. Soehnlein was interviewed about his new book “Army of Lovers.” Read the full article.
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October 05, 2022Litquake Operations Manager Hunter Thomas, an alumnus, was quoted in an article about the event’s 23rd anniversary. Read the…
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September 21, 2022Associate Professor of Creative Writing May-Lee Chai latest book "Tomorrow In Shanghai: And Other Stories" was reviewed by t…
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September 21, 2022Journalist and poet Michael Waterson, an alumnus, was interviewed about publishing his first book of poetry, “Cosmology of H…
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September 14, 2022Associate Professor of Creative Writing May-lee Chai was interviewed by alumna Shelby Hinte about her perspectives on creati…
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August 30, 2022Associate Professor and Chair of the Creative Writing Department May-Lee Chai listed seven tips for short story writing. Rea…
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August 24, 2022Professor Emerita of Creative Writing and alumna Toni Mirosevich is the new poet laureate for Pacifica, California. Read the…
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August 22, 2022Associate Professor of Creative Writing May-Lee Chai’s book “Tomorrow in Shanghai” was reviewed. Read the review.…
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August 16, 2022Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Joseph Cassara reviewed three debut novels. Read the story on The New York Times.…
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August 11, 2022The acclaimed poet joined SF State’s Creative Writing faculty last fall Tonya M. Foster uses all types of words in her poetr…
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June 22, 2022"In those days, I didn’t know about the spoken-word circuits for teenagers. We’d go to readings whenever the legendary poets…
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May 27, 2022Novelist and journalist Vanessa Hua’s new book “Forbidden City” is a historical fiction set in 1960s China. It’s the story o…
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May 18, 2022Congratulations are in order for MFA student Charles Byrne, winner of this year's Ann Fields Poetry Contest! "Ghosted" beau…
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May 11, 2022A big thank you to everyone who came out to our Transfer Magazine Issue 123 and made it a rousing success! The event had alm…
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May 09, 2022Thanks to everyone who came out to see the Creative Writing Department at the bay area book festival!
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May 09, 2022You don’t have to put on airs around Toni Mirosevich, whose new book explores the people of a seaside pier Jobs in truck d…
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April 26, 2022Congratulations to MFA student Leila Easa for receiving the ACLS 2022 Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellows! Project…
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April 18, 2022Congratulations to Creative Writing Student Amanda Mei Kim for being awarded a spot in the the 2022-2023 Steinbeck Fellows P…
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April 14, 2022Congratulations to student Edward Gunawan! His chapbook The Way Back has won the Foglifter Capbook Prize and has been select…
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April 04, 2022Congratulations to Creative Writing MFA student Allie Riby on being a 2022 Fulbright Scholar! Allie Rigby is a graduate stu…
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March 07, 2022Creative Writing Associate Professor Carolina De Robertis is one of 10 Baldwin-Emerson Fellows selected to develop oral hist…
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December 08, 2021Creative Writing would like to congratulate our Fall 2021 scholarship winners! Clark-Gross Award in the Novel Congratulatio…
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December 04, 2021Detailed course descriptions and schedules for the Spring 2022 semester are available on the Course Descriptions page.…
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November 22, 2021The “Otherppl” podcast featured Creative Writing Lecturer Matthew Clark Davison on its Nov. 3 episode, in conversation with…
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October 20, 2021Creative Writing Associate Professor Chanan Tigay contributed a longform article to the November edition of Smithsonian Maga…
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September 30, 2021Please enjoy this poem by Assistant Professor Tonya M. Foster, in poets.org poem of the day; Listen to it here! March, like…
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September 23, 2021Datebook, by SF Chronicle, has written a piece with our beloved Professor Michelle Carter. Read about her play here: An abor…
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May 21, 2021Creative Writing would like to congratulate the winners of the Ann Field Award and of the Tillie Olsen Prize for Spring 2021…
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May 18, 2021Please enjoy this snapshot of Assistant Professor Joseph Cassara, available on Youtube; Joseph Cassara: Marcus Endowed Chair…
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April 13, 2021Creative Writing will be offering the following courses this Summer 2021 semester. Schedule and course descriptions are avai…
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March 24, 2021On this episode of Your Call is a discussing the ongoing attacks against the Asian American community from the recent Atlant…
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March 18, 2021LOS ANGELES TIMES -- May-lee Chai, an associate professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, is the auth…
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February 23, 2021In its second year, the College of Liberal & Creative Arts’ Marcus Early Career Research Award will help five faculty me…
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January 19, 1023An essay by alum Eric Maisel revisits an occasion when he met with Professor Herb Wilner at his home. Read the article.…