SFSU Creative Writing Department

05/28/2026

05/28/2026

Dining services supplies, such as plates, cups and utensils should not be leaving the dining facilities. If you removed them, please return them. Thank you.

05/28/2026

You still have ONE MONTH to submit your work to our Best Emerging Writers 2026 Anthology!

Our anthology has been at the heart of our mission to provide a platform for emerging writers since day one, and we’re excited to share these stories and essays both in our printed book and on our website, where they will be highlighted for a full year. The book will be available for purchase at Bookshop.org and other online distributors.

Here's what Guest Judge Ramona Ausubel is looking for in your submission:

“I am so excited to read your dearest and truest work. I love stories of all kinds—ultra realistic, ultra-wild, quiet, loud, lush, sparse. What I want is to read work that feels bright with your own obsessions, your own way of seeing. I love a sentence that makes me want to stop and re-read. Bring me your particularity, your exact images, your surprises, and your care—it will be my great good luck to be on the other side.”

Submit your work: https://themastersreview.submittable.com/submit/352232/best-emerging-writers-2026-judged-by-ramona-ausubel-7-000-awarded

05/28/2026

Tonight is Literary Speakeasy at Martuni's! We have five amazing writers this evening, including Khalifa Mitchell!

Khalifa grew up in East Oakland, CA. He is self-described movie buff, poet, writer, novelist and screenwriter. His first full length book of poetry, “Liquid Tachyon Temples,” was recently published by Cherry Pie Press.

Doors open at 6:30pm, show starts at 7:00pm. No cover charge.
Join us tonight for an evening of words, martinis, and prizes!

05/28/2026

We're excited to share the 2026 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, judged by Maw Shein Win. We hope you will consider sending her your best work!

How to submit: https://omnidawn.submittable.com/submit

May 1 through June 16, 2026

Prize: $1000 and publication with 20 author copies

05/21/2026

Congratulations to our BA, MA, and MFA graduate class of 2026! We're so proud of you, and can't wait to see you tomorrow in Humanities room 133, with doors at 3:30 PM and the ceremony beginning at 4 PM Regalia is not required, but you are welcome to wear it!

05/21/2026

Talented makers of art, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews related to movement: Myo Magazine is looking for your work! Send your best by July 1st for an opportunity to be published!

🌟Myo is a small DIY literary magazine focused on movement-oriented writing. They accept writing related to yoga, fitness, movement, or non-literal interpretations of what it means to move.

📎To read guidelines and send your work, follow here: https://myo-magazine.super.site/submissions

Move gators, move! 🐊

05/21/2026

05/21/2026

For our East Bay poets, storytellers, and musicians: SnatchboxSF will be hosting another Q***r Open Mic Night at the Nomadic Bookshop ! This event will take place tomorrow, Fri. May 22nd at 6 PM.

🌟 Sign-ups open at 5:30, and masks are encouraged!

Nomadic Bookshop Address: 326 23rd Street, Suite C Oakland, CA 94612

If you have time or a work you'd like to share, get on over there!