SPECIAL RESOURCES
The Poetry Center and The American Poetry Archives
Fourteen Hills
Fourteen Hills, a literary journal of national circulation published by Creative Writing graduate students, had its first issue in fall, l994. It is open to all writers, non-students as well as SFSU.
Transfer
Transfer, a student literary magazine which has been published at
Awards
Students are eligible for a number of awards, some of which involve cash prizes, offered by the department: the Wilner Award in Short Fiction, the Clark-Gross Award in the Novel, the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, and the Highsmith Award for a play with a gay or lesbian theme. Several students recently have been selected for the Associated Writing Program Intro Journals Project. Students can also enter the competition for our Michael Rubin Award offered in either poetry or fiction each year. The winner's work is published in a handsome book.
In addition, the
Every year in May we have a celebratory reading for our award winning students. There is a second celebration for the Transfer and Fourteen Hills writers. Students are also invited to attend and participate in a number of student/faculty readings held throughout the semester. We also offer a yearly forum on publishing or play production, presenting professional editors, publishers, agents, and writers to our students. These focus on a different genre each year.
Scholarships
There are three scholarships of $500 each for entering graduate students: one from the Miriam Ylvisaker Fiction Scholarship Endowment, and two from the William Dickey Poetry Scholarship Endowment, funded through generous bequests from the estates of Miriam Ylvisaker, a graduate of our M.A. program, and William Dickey, for many years a Professor in the English and Creative Writing Departments. All applicants to the M.A. and M.F.A. programs in fiction or poetry are automatically considered for these fellowships, which are announced at the beginning of the spring semester after admission. There is no special application process.
These awards and scholarships are administered by the Creative Writing
Department, so please contact us with
any questions you may have about them. For information about other scholarship
opportunities at SFSU, please visit the SFSU Office of Student Financial
Aid scholarships web page and the