General Blog

• January 29, 2014

  Accepting Submissions for Spring 2014

  Forum is now accepting submissions for the Spring 2014 edition! Submit your fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, photography, art and comics to submissions@forumccsf.org by February 18th for your chance to be published! Please visit our submissions page for more info on submission guidelines. We’re looking forward to another great issue thanks to your talented work.  Please…
• January 26, 2014

  Our Fall 2013 issue is out!

  It’s finally time for everyone else to see the magazine in print! Come celebrate our new issue with us on Sunday, February 9th at Cafe La Boheme (3318 24th Street, San Francisco) from 5pm to 8pm. Here are the top five reasons why you should come to this event: 1. We want to meet you,…
• November 29, 2013

  “If a writer were a free man…”

  “If a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button…
• November 14, 2013

  The Ambivalent Protaganist

  by Casey Baker Recently, Huffington Post published an article (link:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/claire-fallon/great-male-protagonists-w_b_4044741.html) naming a few male protagonists from famous novels that no one would really wish to befriend if they existed in the real world. While the piece is an interesting, rather pro-feminist examination of generally brutish male characters, it leaves out an entire gender and examination therein.…
• October 21, 2013

  “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” ― Oscar Wilde
• October 15, 2013

  “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
• October 11, 2013

  Forum Magazine Presents…Fiction and Poetry from CCSF at Lit Crawl 2013.

  For the first time ever, Forum Magazine will have a presence at Lit Crawl!  Our readings will take place at the Latin American Club (3286 22nd St.) from 6pm to 7pm, and feature artists from our Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 issues including Charlotte Hull, Real Lapalme, Seth Luther, Natalie Saunders, John Silverman, and Jerome Steegmans. If you don’t…
• October 7, 2013

  “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” ― Lloyd Alexander
• September 29, 2013

  “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ― Stephen King
• September 26, 2013

  Post-Apocalyptic Top 3

  Post-Apocalyptic is a big genre right now, especially in current television shows and movies.  From zombie outbreaks to alien invasions, post-nuclear attacks to worldwide technological crashes, and even natural disasters that destroy modern civilization – you have access to your favorite end-of-the-world scenario in many forms. However, when recommending post-apocalyptic as a genre, what are…