SFSU Creative Writing Department

Octavia Books is hosting an event for San Francisco State Creative Writing Alumni and winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction Patrick Earl Ryan, who will be in conversation with Roxane Gay for the debut of his short story collection IF WE WERE ELECTRIC. The conversation will be held via Zoom at on October 20th at 5 p.m. To register for the event, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/if-we-were-electricpatrick-ear

Small Press Traffic is hosting the High Dawn Reading Series in partnership with the UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium. The second event will feature Jameson Fitzpatrick, Kimberly Alidio. With an intro from Eric Sneathen and music by Danishta Rivero. The second reading will be on October 16th at 6 p.m. To RSVP, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/high-dawn-2-fitzpatrick-alidio

The Lambda Litfest is a free, weeklong celebration of Black LGBTQ excellence and abundance. LitFest features 20+ Black, Indigenous, and POC LGBTQ writers, artists, and activists engaged in dynamic, heart-driven conversations centering the Black LGBTQ experience. The remaining events on October 8th and 9th are via zoom at 6 pm PT / 9 pm ET. All events include ASL interpretation. To register, visit: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/litfest/

The Brooklyn Public Library is hosting the event Poetry Master Class: Let Unity Do the Work led by Tongo Eisen-Martin. The goal of the workshop is to share strategies for writing, editing, and reciting poems generated by the idea that your poetry is a part of your one human experience taking place in and revealed by an interconnected reality. The event is on October 24th at 2 p.m. and free to the public To RSVP, visit: https://www.bklynlibrary.org//poetry-master-class-let-virt

The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series welcomes poet Prageeta Sharma, author most recently of Grief Sequence (Wave Books), appearing from Los Angeles, together with Dodie Bellamy, whose book When the Sick Rule the World (Semiotext(e)) collects recent essays, here in San Francisco, reading and in conversation. With emcee, Norma Cole. The event is on October 1st via Zoom and Youtube and starts at 7 p.m. To register to attend, visit: https://sfsu.zoom.us/web/register/WN_Tb9Jn-OXSO-2g9RcV1F1pg

The Advising Resource Center is offering an online workshop to learn how to write strong statements of purpose, and approach the letter-writers who will be submitting recommendations on your behalf. The workshop is on October 1st at 12 p.m. via zoom. Zoom information can be found on the flyer below.

The SF State Political Science Department Faculty will be hosting a roundtable discussion on the politics of the Supreme Court, the 2020 election, and the future of American politics. The roundtable is on September 29th at 11 a.m. via Zoom. Zoom information can be found on the flyer below.

BOMB will host its first virtual Gala & Art Auction, BOMB: Reenvisioned! The annual art auction features one-of-a-kind, iconic pieces by Mike Cloud, Bob Colacello, Jerrell Gibbs, Hugh Hayden, Janet Olivia Henry, Johnathan Herrera Sota, Dindga McCannon, Seth Price, Dread Scott, Heidi Hahn, and Kenny Scharf, among many others. A portion of the funds will go towards supporting the Trans Women of Color Collective. The auction will take place October 2nd at 3:30 p.m. ... To RSVP for the event visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bomb-gala-auction-reenvisioned

Cave Canen is hosting a virtual reading and conversation with poets Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatahil September 30th at 6 p.m. via Zoom, Youtube, and Facebook live. If you would to RSVP for the event, visit: https://kundiman.formstack.com/forms/aimee_ross_reading

The Undergrad Liaison is inviting Creative Writing undergraduate students to a weekly free-write session via zoom. The free-write is every Monday at 6 p.m. until October 12th. For the zoom link, email Zac Russi at [email protected]

SFSU’s College of Liberal & Creative Arts invites you to attend the event Dear America, Notes of and Undocumented Citizen: Jose Antonio Vargas in conversation with SFSU Creative Writing Professor Carolina de Robertis. SF State Alum Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and Tony-nominated producer and will be discussing his best-selling memoir Dear America, Notes of and Undocumented Citizen The event is on October 28th at ...3 p.m. via zoom. To register via zoom, visit: https://sfsu.zoom.us//1615986302/WN_sfSjtzOsQpC5QG1FtubDNA The event is is open only to SFSU students, faculty, and Staff.

Take Place is back for their first reading of the Fall Semester! The reading will feature Black Queer writer and SFSU Creative Writing MFA student Lillian Giles, and Poet and translator Neha Bagchi. The reading is today, September 24th at 6 p.m. via zoom. The Zoom link can be found as a part of the Take Place emailing list.