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Brown  Handler  Writer's  Residency  ​

​ At Friends  Of  The 
​San  Francisco  Public  Library ​
Applications are open for the next round of Brown Handler Writer’s Residents 
Friends is excited to announce plans for the next round of writers to join the Residency. As Lisa and Daniel say, this is no time to reduce support for artists. While Friends has undergone some adjustments to the COVID era, our commitment to providing the Residency is unchanged. However, there are some logistical changes, the most significant of which is the location. Friends is no longer occupying its office space on Van Ness Avenue and has moved all operations to its Book Donation Center in sunny Portero Hill. The writing studio is coming along with us and will now have a beautiful view of Jackson Park. The second change, of course, is that we are operating under all health and safety guidelines of the San Francisco Health Officer. Details of the location and health guidelines are contained in the application (link here).  

Applications are due on November 10th with the Residency starting in December 2020 and running through December 2021. ​
Click here to download application

Thank you and farewell to our amazing Residents of 2020.

2020, 
a year we will never forget for the challenges it has thrown in our path. Our dear Residents had to roll with the changes that left them unable to access the studio during the shelter in place order. Thank you for your patience. We will miss seeing you, but you are always part of the Residency family! ​

​​​Earle McCartney - Earle McCartney's short stories have appeared in Zyzzyva, The Common, Meridian, Big Fiction, and The Greensboro Review. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a recipient of The San Francisco Foundation's 2013 Joseph Henry Jackson Award. A native of rural southern New Jersey, Earle has lived in San Francisco for the last twelve years.

Amanda Moore - Amanda Moore's poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including ZZYZVA, Cream City Review, and Best New Poets, and her essays have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Hippocampus Magazine, and on the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s blog. She is a Contributing Poetry Editor at Women’s Voices for Change, a Board member for the Marin Poetry Center, and a high school teacher. Amanda lives by the beach in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco with her husband and daughter.

Mia Paschal - Mia Paschal is an actress and playwright who moved to San Francisco from Milan, Italy to study with Ed Hooks. Along with her ensemble theater and film work, she has written and performed four award-winning solo shows: "some life", "This Lily Was (Fontana)”, "Along the Path of Larks and Swallows", and "Heartbreak Velocity." The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Oakland Museum of California have also commissioned her to write site-specific works, “My Jim Dine Valentine” and “Trevlig.” Writing in Italian, French, Danish, and English, her poetry will be next featured in the winter issue of The Copenhagen Review.

Maddy Raskulinecz - Maddy Raskulinecz is a fiction writer from Maryland, now living in San Francisco. Her fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva, Guernica, Joyland, Tin House Online, and elsewhere, and was recently included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019. She holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins University.
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Shruti Swamy - The winner of two O. Henry Awards, Shruti Swamy's work has appeared in The Paris Review, the Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman fiction fellow, a 2017 – 2018 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, and a recipient of a 2018 grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. Her story collection A House Is a Body is out from Algonquin Books.
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Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler
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From left Shruti Swamy, Amanda Moore, Earle McCartney (not pictured Mia Paschal, Maddy Raskulinecz)

Podcast  Interviews

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Former Brown Handler Writer's Residents: 
(2018-2019)
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Chaney Kwak, fiction. chaney.kwak.in 
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Kathleen McClung, poetry. kathleenmcclung.com

Susie Nadler, young adult fiction. FriendsSFPL.org/SusieNadler

Kevin Simmonds, poetry and memoir. kevinsimmonds.com/#bioBox

K-Fai Steele, children’s book author and illustrator . k-faisteele.com

About

Friends & Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Public Library announce the creation of the Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler Writer’s Residency. Made possible by the generosity of Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown, the residency is designed to provide writers with free, adequate and accessible space in which to produce creative work, and to connect writers with the San Francisco Public Library in the course of producing and sharing their work in the community. 

Friends and the San Francisco Public Library have multiple interests in creating this residency: to nurture the creative expression of diverse writers; to engage writers with the Library as partners in creating and sharing work with the community; and to assist writers by providing writing studio space available at no cost at the Friends’ office.  
 
Reflecting the Library’s mission as a democratic, public and accessible institution, we are committed to supporting writers from a wide spectrum of ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, ability and genre.  
 
Eligibility and Requirements Residencies will be offered to five writers for a period of one year, open to: 
• Fiction writers 
• Nonfiction writers 
• Children’s writers and illustrators 
• Poets 
​• Playwrights/screenwriters

Apply!

Click here to download application
​​If you have additional questions, please contact: Marie Ciepiela at residency@friendssfpl.org
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James  C.  Hormel LGBTQIA Fellowship

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