writing
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Spring 25 Visiting Writers Series
Mark your calendars for some readings in our Visiting Writers Series! We have a robust schedule of visiting writers this semester and will be updating this post! Join us for our first reading in our spring Visiting Writers Series! Professor Xochiquetzal Candelaria will host poet Joseph Lease for an online reading! Wednesday, March 5, 2025,…
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Forum & Me: How I Got Involved
Following the release of its Spring 2024 issue, Forum is proud to share this special blog post by long-time contributor to the magazine (and former CCSF student and teacher) Gloria Keeley, who talks about how her relationship with Forum began.
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Queer Writing+AIDS Crisis Call For Submissions
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Hi all! Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is looking to collect stories that narrate the queer experience in association with the AIDS crisis! Below is a description of the project, as well as guidelines, and Mattilda’s…
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“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…
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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.…
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
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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…
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“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” ― Lloyd Alexander
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