Pandemic Poetry: Poetry of social movements In May, 2023, we hosted this amazing event in-person on the poetry of the pandemic. We focussed on the social movements during the Pandemic and the […]
Dispatch #100
Dispatch #099
Pitching During the Pandemic How has the Coronavirus Pandemic and its surrounding cultural turbulence affected a generation of creative writers, specifically Hollywood screenwriters, and how will it continue to affect storytelling in […]
Dispatch #098
Messages by Pete Mladinic In the city messengers in long black coats scuttled across an avenue. Lizard asked Uncle Baxter what were the messages. You are alone, as I am; we are […]
Dispatch #093
Making Sense of Pandemic Era as a Writer – May 12, 2023 – So yesterday, May 11, was the day that Covid-19 Public Health emergency in the United States ended. I sit […]
Dispatch #085
HOW TO BE HUMAN – Letting Go by Elisa Stancil From the early days of this sea change April 2020 Yesterday a package arrived from China, elastic I sourced from Etsy months […]
Dispatch #084
So Long to a Sorry Year by Barbara Kazdan I feel blah. Not sad. Not anything. Think I’ve depleted my reserve of good cheer. Which for me is saying a lot. All […]
Dispatch #083
Third Wave by Brenda Gunn I stare at the sock and dust bunny peeking from just far enough under the couch; a solo Cheerio, strayed somehow from the breakfast table almost made […]
Dispatch #082
Dispatches Update By Alexandra Kostoulas Well, dear readers. Here I am. Back again after a long hiatus. I keep not adding to this blog. Keep hoping that the pandemic will be over […]
Dispatch #081
The evolution, April by J.I. Kleinberg For a while, in the first months of the pandemic, you feared your hands: that they might be the engine of your destruction, grab from the […]
We Were Awarded a California Arts Council Local Impact Grant
Dear Readers, I’m pleased to announce that San Francisco Creative Writing Institute just received a Local Impact Award from the California Arts Council. State funds will support Dispatches from Quarantine: A literary blog […]
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