Forum Literary Magazine

05/27/2024

The launch party for the Spring 2024 edition of Forum, CCSF’s literary magazine, will be on Thursday, May 23, from 6 to 8pm at Medicine for Nightmares Books ...

05/26/2024

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.

My Involvement with Forum Magazine & How It Began

When I was sixteen I quit high school. I was a high junior. My brother was going to CCSF at the time. One afternoon when I was down in our family room my brother came in. He had just gotten home from his classes. He came up to me and said, “Here, I got you this, I think you might like it."

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 talk…

05/25/2024

Thank you to all of the Forum contributors who came to read on Thursday, for the Forum team and and for Medicine for Nightmares for hosting!

05/08/2024

Come write and workshop poems, stories, and non-fiction pieces with us! Become part of our community of creative writers! English Electives are a fun way to fulfill GE requirements!

CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES
FALL 2024

https://www.ccsf.edu/academics/class-schedule

Read more about our Creative Writing Certificate!

https://www.ccsf.edu/academics/schools/english-world-languages-and-cultures-and-communication-studies/english-department

Priority Registration for fall classes started last week, so it’s time to check your registration date in My Ram Portal and get ready to register! The schedule is live now so you can start looking at classes and building your schedule.

05/08/2024

Read and discuss stories, poems, plays, novels! Create and workshop your own! English Electives are fun way to fulfill GE requirements!

City College of San Francisco
LITERATURE • HUMANITIES • CREATIVE WRITING

FALL 2024

Priority Registration for fall classes started last week, so it’s time to check your registration date in My Ram Portal and get ready to register! The schedule is live now so you can start looking at classes and building your schedule.

https://www.ccsf.edu/academics/class-schedule

FUN WAYS TO FULFILL GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS!

Read and discuss stories, poems, plays, novels! Create and workshop your own!

All Literature and Humanities classes, as well as English 35G, fulfill the GE Area 3B (Humanities) requirement!

Literature Electives also fulfill requirements for AA and AA-T degrees in Literature!

Humanities Electives also fulfill requirements for our Humanities Certificate!

Creative Writing Electives also fulfill requirements for our Creative Writing Certificate!

04/24/2024

Lit (L)ight!

We hope you will come to read, listen, and talk to friends old and new! Looking forward to gathering in the garden with the LitNight community, this time, in the sunlight!

12PM at the Olmec head statue in Frida Garden (between Creative Arts and the Diego Rivera Theatre) at CCSF’s Ocean Campus, 50 Frida Kahlo Way, San Francisco

To get on the reading list, please email Chanté McCormick: [email protected]

04/24/2024

34 Trinity Arts & News is so excited to host our first poetry reading of the year with CCSF’s literary magazine, Forum. Followed by an open mic. Friday, May 3rd at 6pm. See you there!

04/17/2024

Thank you for the beautiful reading from Nightcrawling and woke upon light, and generous discussion tonight!

04/01/2024

Mark your calendars for the CCSF Creative Writing Program’s Visiting Writers Series! Come celebrate Poetry Month with us!

· Mission Poetas, Tuesday April 2nd, 10:30AM-12PM, Mission Campus 109: Xochiquetzal Candelaria, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, Josiah Luis Alderete

· Leila Mottley, Tuesday April 16th, 6-8PM, Ocean Campus, MUB 140

· Maw Shein Win, Tuesday April 23, 1:10-2:00PM on Zoom: Please visit forumccsf.org on the day of the event for the Zoom link.

02/08/2024

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

SUBMIT BY FRIDAY FEBRUARY 23!

Forum, the literary magazine of City College of San Francisco, gives voice to the talented authors, poets, and visual artists in our community.

Forum is looking for poetry, short stories, non-fiction, screenplays, comics, interviews, and all artistic media.

To learn more about Forum and submission guidelines visit: forumccsf.org Please email submissions to: [email protected]

02/05/2024

The first Lit Night of the year will be held on Thursday 2/22 from 6:00-7:30 at CCSF’s Mission campus, Room 109. This kick-off event will be hosted by this semester’s Forum Magazine team.

Let’s open the year with words and good cheer. There will be snacks! We hope to see you there!

Please email Chanté McCormick ([email protected]) if you would like to read:

• Readers will have approximately 5-8 minutes at the mic, depending on the number of readers.
• No need to know yet what you will read-you can just let me know you plan to and I’ll put you down on the list!

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

01/12/2024

CCSF is thrilled to announce that Forum Magazine, our English Department’s literary magazine, has been named a Superior magazine in the 2023 NCTE Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines (REALM) contest!

Congratulations to Faculty Advisors John Isles and Chanté McCormick and the Spring 2023 student team: Miriam Soto, Co-Managing Editor; Joel Alas, Co-Managing Editor; Alana Rodrigues, Poetry Editor; Poetry Readers Regina Gunderson, Kata Piedra, Yenia Jimenez; Ace He, Fiction Editor; Fiction Readers Connie C. Chu, Lateisha Howe, Bryce Shepherd; Petra, Art Editor; Art reader Yedid Rodriguez-Reader; Irene Fuchshuber, Nonfiction Editor; Kima ng, Nonfiction Reader!

Forum Magazine has been selected to receive the rank of Superior in the 2023 NCTE Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines (REALM) program.

In the words of Forum Magazine Poetry Editor Alana Rodrigues, “The NCTE recognition not only highlights the beautifully crafted pages of Forum Literary Magazine but also underscores the dedication and passion for writing instilled in the students and instructors, contributing to its realization. Forum is a platform that gives voice to incredible writers and artists, standing for the power of literature to inspire and provoke thought.”

Established in 1937, Forum Magazine is a student-run literary and visual arts magazine that serves the City College of San Francisco community, greater Bay Area, and beyond. Dedicated to providing a platform for the contemporary, urban voices of our institution, Forum collects, edits and publishes quality works of literature and the visual arts as produced by the CCSF family.

https://ncte.org/awards/program-to-recognize-in-student-literary-magazines/

https://forumccsf.org/

CCSF is thrilled to announce that Forum Magazine, our English Department’s literary magazine, has been named a Superior magazine in the 2023 NCTE Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines (REALM) contest!
 
Congratulations to Faculty Advisors John Isles and Chanté McCormick and the Spring 2023 student team: Miriam Soto, Co-Managing Editor; Joel Alas, Co-Managing Editor; Alana Rodrigues, Poetry Editor; Poetry Readers Regina Gunderson, Kata Piedra, Yenia Jimenez; Ace He, Fiction Editor; Fiction Readers Connie C. Chu, Lateisha Howe, Bryce Shepherd; Petra, Art Editor; Art reader Yedid Rodriguez-Reader; Irene Fuchshuber, Nonfiction Editor; Kima ng, Nonfiction Reader!
 
Forum Magazine has been selected to receive the rank of Superior in the 2023 NCTE Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines (REALM) program.
 
In the words of Forum Magazine Poetry Editor Alana Rodrigues, “The NCTE recognition not only highlights the beautifully crafted pages of Forum Literary Magazine but also underscores the dedication and passion for writing instilled in the students and instructors, contributing to its realization. Forum is a platform that gives voice to incredible writers and artists, standing for the power of literature to inspire and provoke thought.”
 
Established in 1937, Forum Magazine is a student-run literary and visual arts magazine that serves the City College of San Francisco community, greater Bay Area, and beyond. Dedicated to providing a platform for the contemporary, urban voices of our institution, Forum collects, edits and publishes quality works of literature and the visual arts as produced by the CCSF family.
 
https://ncte.org/awards/program-to-recognize-in-student-literary-magazines/
 
https://forumccsf.org/
 

 

11/30/2023

The last Lit Night of the year is next Monday 12/4 7:00-8:30 at the Ocean Ale House!

Let's close out 2023 with words and good cheer. I hope to see you there!

Please email Chanté McCormick ([email protected]) if you would like to read.

Readers will have approximately 5-8 minutes at the mic, depending on the number of readers.

No need to know yet what you will read-you can just let me know you plan to and I'll put you down on the list!


Looking forward to seeing you there!

11/30/2023

Take part in the creation of Forum Magazine, our Creative Writing Program’s student- made magazine!
 
Be part of the poetry, fiction, non- fiction, or visual art group to choose selections for publication.
 
Work alongside Visual Media Design students to design the cover and layout!
 
Take Intro. to (35L) or Intermediate (35M) Literary Magazine with instructors Chanté McCormick and Steven Mayers!
 
Hybrid, Thursdays 6:10pm-8pm, 1/29 - 5/22
meets in person one or two Thursday a month
Mission Campus, Room 213
 
CRN’s: 32170 (35L) and 32171 (35M)
 
MEETS GE REQUIREMENTS: FULLY TRANSFERABLE

11/28/2023

Come write and workshop poems, stories, and non-fiction pieces with us!  Become part of our community of creative writers! English Electives are a fun way to fulfill GE requirements!

CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES
SPRING 2024
 
Priority Registration for fall classes starts this week, so it’s time to check your registration date in My Ram Portal and get ready to register! The schedule is live now so you can start looking at classes and building your schedule.

https://www.ccsf.edu/academics/class-schedule
 
Read more about our Creative Writing Certificate!

https://www.ccsf.edu/academics/schools/english-world-languages-and-cultures-and-communication-studies/english-department

09/21/2023

09/04/2023

Here are some more photos from the Forum launch event at Medicine for Nightmares last May!

09/03/2023

Celebrate Latin America Heritage Month with an author event with novelist Margo Candela!

Come meet award-winning SF-based novelist Margo Candela, and hear her talk about her latest novel, The Neapolitan Sisters, and ask her about how she started writing and her writing process.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 11AM-12PM
CCSF’s MISSION CAMPUS, 1125 VALENCIA STREET, ROOM 109

“Candela delivers a funny, poignant story … richly layered.” — BOOKLIST

“There’s love behind this book – and painful honesty, too.” — THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

“Margo Candela was born and raised in Los Angeles and began her writing career when she joined Glendale Community College’s student newspaper. She transferred to San Francisco State University as a journalism major, and upon graduation began writing for websites and magazines before writing her first two novels, Underneath It All and Life Over Easy. She returned to Los Angeles to raise her son and wrote More Than This and Good-bye to All That. The Neapolitan Sisters, a 2023 International Latino Book Award winner, is her fifth novel and her first after a decade-long hiatus from writing. She now lives in San Francisco.”

SPONSORS: CCSF'S CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM, PUENTE PROGRAM, WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES DEPARTMENT

08/29/2023

Our Creative Writing Program and Forum Magazine got a nice shout out in Etc. Magazine’s special 50th Edition, which you can pick up around campus or read here online!

https://issuu.com/etc.mag

The article features poems by student poets Yenia Jimenez, Amanda Barrows, Oliver, and Lorrie Chang! The article also features interviews with poetry professors John Isles and Chanté McCormick, who teach both poetry and the literary magazine class in which students, from English and VMD, produce Forum Magazine. “[Professor John Isles] took his first poetry class at CCSF after finishing a degree in English. ‘The poetry classes are like a model for making friends with other poets and reading books together, showing each other poems. It’s a lifelong thing,’ he says.” The article pays tribute to Professor Lauren Muller, who we lost last semester.

08/26/2023

What: Bay Area Maya Festival!
Where: CCSF Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street!
When: Saturday, September 16, 9AM to 1:30PM!
https://www.mayawomeninart.org/
 
The Maya Culture Festival, a single-day festival on the Mission Campus of CCSF, shares the ancient knowledge and the contemporary concerns of the Maya community. It is the only event in the Bay Area that brings together Maya people across various Maya regions, languages, and traditions. The festival aims to unify people across Maya traditions and educate the community. The festival not only offers workshops on Maya weaving and fashion, but also includes presentations on the Maya calendar and their indigenous world view. Today’s pressing issues will be addressed in workshops on earth healing and immigrant rights. In years past, we have had an estimated audience of 600 Yucatec and Mayan people from throughout the Bay Area.
 
The festival is scheduled for Saturday, September 16, 2023, and includes readings by noted poets, writers, professors, as well as a parade of traditional clothing from various Maya villages, an exhibit of Maya art, and workshops on Mayan languages. Festival events are open to community members from young adults to elders.

07/18/2023

Check out former Forum editor Stephanie Johnson’s new chapbook! You can download a copy for free.

'People, Places and Things: Selected Poems', explores the experience of living in different countries, observing the world, and the aging process. With elegant and evocative language, S. L. Johnson captures the beauty, nostalgia, and sadness of the human experience. Each poem is a window into a n...

06/13/2023

This poem published by was a gift for my stepbrother, a medical doctor. He turned fifty last year and we were all being asked to say something at his celebratory dinner in New Orleans. Unscripted, I can be hard to follow—lots of changes in subject…with too many “ums”—and I thought it best to try for a poem. This was around Christmastime and we were experiencing a rare, hard freeze in New Orleans so I really felt the winter in this poem. This one’s for anyone with achy knees. age Enjoy!!

06/05/2023

My second poetry publishing ever. ✨️
Title:Ofrenda
So much gratitude to the team for selecting my piece and to the other lovely contributors.

San Francisco was kind to us❤️‍🔥

05/03/2023

We are back! On Wednesday, May 24th from 6-8pm, we are hosting the launch of our new Spring issue and we want you to be there!

Who: YOU coming to hang out with us

What: For the launch of our Forum Literary Magazine, Spring 2023 Issue

When: May 24th, 6-8pm

Where: Medicine & Nightmares, Bookstore & Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco CA

Why: Because its going to be an amazing Spring issue and you don’t want to miss it

https://forumccsf.org/2023/05/01/new-issue-of-forum-magazine-2023-edition/

05/03/2023

Greetings Lit Night Friends and Fans,



Lit Night is fast approaching! Please join us May 8th from 7:00-8:30 at the Ocean Ale House!

Here are a few notes about the evening:

For now, we will just keep the evening open topic. We might bring a theme back later, but presently we are open to all themes.

Until we get the Lit Night site up and running again, you can just email me if you would like to read. You can include the information you know such as the genre and title, but you are welcome to just let us know the night of as well.

Readers will have approximately 5-8 minutes at the mic, depending on the number of readers.

Thank you and hope to see you next week!

04/26/2023

Come write and workshop poems, stories, and non-fiction pieces with us! Become part of our community of creative writers! English Electives are a fun way to fulfill GE requirements!

Priority Registration for fall classes starts next week on Monday May 1, so it’s time to check your registration date in My Ram Portal and get ready to register! The schedule is live now so you can start looking at classes and building your schedule. https://www.ccsf.edu/academics/class-schedule

Read more about our Creative Writing Certificate!
https://www.ccsf.edu/academics/schools/english-world-languages-and-cultures-and-communication-studies/english-department

04/26/2023

Read and discuss stories, poems, plays, novels! Create and workshop your own! English Electives are fun way to fulfill GE requirements!

Priority Registration for fall classes starts next week on Monday May 1, so it’s time to check your registration date in My Ram Portal and get ready to register! The schedule is live now so you can start looking at classes and building your schedule. https://www.ccsf.edu/academics/class-schedule

• Read and discuss stories, poems, plays, novels! Create and workshop your own!
• All Literature and Humanities classes, as well as English 35G+H, fulfill the GE Area E (Humanities) requirement!
• Literature Electives also fulfill requirements for our Literature AA and AA-T degrees!
• Humanities Electives also fulfill requirements for our Humanities Certificate!
• Creative Writing Electives also fulfill requirements for our Creative Writing Certificate!

Read more about our English Major and our Humanities and Creative Writing Certificates!
https://www.ccsf.edu/academics/schools/english-world-languages-and-cultures-and-communication-studies/english-department