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

How to apply
Please submit your CV, a short writing sample and two professional references along with brief responses to the questions below. The application is designed to query both your current writing pursuits as well as challenges and opportunities the residency can address. (Please limit responses to all questions to a maximum of two pages.) 
 
Timeline
Application deadline: July 13, 2018
Start or residency: August 15, 2018
End of residency: June 30, 2019

Full  Application: 

Brown Handler Residency Application
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File Type:	pdf

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​If you have additional questions, please contact: Marie Ciepiela at residency@friendssfpl.org