About this Event
No man is an island, and no writer should go it alone. Joining a writing community, such as a writer’s workshop, critique group, or co-working space, can not only offer inspiration and companionship, but also ongoing feedback from other writers who can improve your craft. We’ve gathered leaders at Left Margin Lit, Kearny Street Workshop, The Ruby, Write Now! SF Bay, and the San Francisco Writers Workshop to talk about how you can take advantage of the rich literary communities in the Bay Area.
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Panelists:
Mihee Kim (she/her) is a writer, artist and intuitive practitioner. She works across disciplines and traditions, foraying between language, multi-modal collage, energy traditions and craft forms. Her poetry has been nominated for multiple Best of the Nets, a Pushcart Prize, and her manuscript was named a finalist for the Bergman Prize. Mihee is currently seeking publication for her first book of poetry, The Closing Petal at Night. She earned a BA from UC Berkeley, and an MFA at California College of the Arts. Mihee is the Managing Director of Kearny Street Workshop, a longstanding arts nonprofit for Asian Pacific Americans.
David Roderick’s first book of poems, Blue Colonial, won the APR/Honickman Prize. The Pitt Poetry Series published his second collection, The Americans. His writing has been awarded an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, the James Boatwright III Prize from Shenandoah, the Julie Suk Award, and the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. David has taught creative writing and literature classes at Stanford, University of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University. With poet Rachel Richardson, he co-directs Left Margin LIT in Berkeley.
Shizue Seigel is the director of Write Now! SF Bay, which has served over 400 writers and artists of color since 2015 through free or low-cost creative writing workshops, readings, and anthologies, including Uncommon Ground: BIPOC Journeys to Creative Activism (2022) and Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color (2021). She is a five-time VONA fellow whose poetry, memoir, essays and visual art have been published in anthologies like (Her)oics: Women's Lived Experience of the Pandemic, We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health, and All the Women in My Family Sing, as well as in literary journals like Soundings East, sPARKLE + bLINK, Eleven Eleven, AWAY Journal, Persimmon Tree, Whirlwind Magazine, Poor Magazine, and others.
Shruti Swamy is author of the story collection A House Is a Body, which was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize, the LA Times First Fiction Award, and longlisted for the Story Prize. Her novel The Archer won the California Book Award for fiction. The winner of two O. Henry Awards, her work has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney's, AFAR Magazine, and The New York Times. Her introduction to Ursula K Le Guin’s masterpiece Always Coming Home is forthcoming in the novel’s 2023 reissue. She is the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University, and grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation, San Francisco Arts Council, and Vassar College. She is a Kundiman Fiction Fellow, and lives in San Francisco.
Olga Zilberbourg (moderator) was born in Leningrad and grew up in St. Petersburg. She has published four story collections in Russian, and one in English, Like Water and Other Stories (WTAW Press). Her writing has appeared in World Literature Today, The Believer, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and she serves as a consulting editor at Narrative Magazine. Together with Yelena Furman, she co-founded Punctured Lines, a feminist blog about literature from the former Soviet Union. She makes her home in San Francisco.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The American Bookbinders Museum, 355 Clementina Street, San Francisco, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 20.00