Literary Events (Page 36)

Prose Café’s January Treat: Three Bay Area Writers

On January 2, its first event of 2020, Prose Café will feature three accomplished writers from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Marianne Rogoff is the author of the Pushcart-nominated story collection Love Is Blind in One Eye, the memoir Silvie’s Life, and numerous travel stories, short fictions, essays, and book reviews. Since 2018, her writing has been a Finalist in Narrative magazine’s Spring Story Contest, Top 10 for the Tillie Olsen Story Award, on the Short List for the Bath International Novella-in-Flash Award, Top 10 for Sequestrum’s Editor’s Reprint Award, Finalist for ScreenCraft’s Cinematic Short Story Award, Semifinalist for the Tamaqua Award from Hidden River Arts for a book of essays, and Finalist for the Ernest Hemingway Flash Fiction Prize. She teaches Writing & Literature at California College of the Arts and in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Dominican University. During winter and summer breaks she leads weeklong Studio-Workshop Trips for Writers to exotic locales, including SMA. Next trip is June 2020 to Porto, Portugal. For details: mariannerogoff.com

Audrey Ferber grew up in Brooklyn before it was cool, then moved to San Francisco during the Summer of Love. She stayed and made it her home. She teaches at City College of San Francisco and OLLI, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Her essays, stories and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, LILITH Magazine, MORE Magazine, the Cimarron Review, Fiction International, the San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers GROTTO.

Molly Giles is the author of four prize winning story collections and a novel. She taught Creative Writing for many years at San Francisco State University and the University of Arkansas and now lives in West Marin. She has new and forthcoming work in Midnight Oil, Short-form Creative Writing, Story/Houston, Two Sisters Writing and Wigleaf.

Prose Café Bellas Artes is run by volunteers and offers monthly readings of excellent prose, September to April. Please arrive a few minutes early; seating is limited.