Resources and Opportunities

The Department of Creative Writing has many resources for your education, and the entire SFSU campus community is here to help you. We support your educational and professional pursuits through scholarships, internships, publications, events, service learning and many more opportunities.

Our Community Projects in Literature course (CW 675/875) gives you the opportunity to gain experience in publication, teaching and arts administration, which will make valuable additions to your resume. Each community project is customized for you, with a commitment of at least six hours a week for the length of the semester to earn three units. We maintain a list of organizations as a guide to finding a community project, or you can find one on your own.

Student Opportunities

<h2>Awards in Creative Writing</h2>

  • Clark-Gross Award in the Novel
  • James Milton Highsmith Drama Award
  • Daniel Langton Poetry Prize
  • Anne Fields Poetry Contest
  • Elizabeth June Madden-Zibman Scholarship
  • Wilner Short Fiction Prize
  • Marcus Second-Year Graduate Student Scholarship
  • Kathryn A. Manoogian Scholarship
  • Joan Gelfand Creative Writing Scholarship
  • Tillie Olsen Prize
  • Marcus Recruitment Scholarship
  • Joe Brainard Fellowship
  • The William Dickey Fellowship in Poetry
  • Miriam Ylvisaker Fellowship
  • Bernice Ruben Arnold Scholarship Fund

Among the world’s literary capitals, the San Francisco Bay Area offers a rich variety of
resources to foster community and help you grow as a writer.

<h2>Classes and Individual Writing Instruction</h2>

<h2>Bookstores with Events</h2>

<h2>Reading Series and Other</h2>

Voices from Creative Writing