Dear writers,
This holiday season, the San Francisco Writers Workshop WILL meet on Tuesday, December 23, and WILL NOT meet on Tuesday, December 30. We will see you back at Noisebridge (272 Capp Street) on January 6, 2026.
Speaking of Noisebridge, thanks in part to your efforts, their GoFundMe page has raised almost $22,000 so far. Let’s please continue donating, as much as possible, to ensure that we have a stable place to meet in 2026 and onward. Noisebridge is truly a special place. Anyone curious about it is enthusiastically invited to check out Noisebridge this weekend: all types of hackers will be celebrating NB’s 16th anniversary! Take a look at all the festivities on Noiserbridge Wiki.
To learn more about the Noisebridge community, consider joining the Discord: https://discord.gg/GtpDdX5.
Happy holidays,
Your moderators
Published by Olga Zilberbourg
Olga Zilberbourg’s English-language debut LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES (WTAW Press) explores “bicultural identity hilariously, poignantly,” according to The Moscow Times. It also dives into topics of bisexuality and immigrant parenthood. Anthony Marra called it “…a book of succinct abundance, dazzling in its particulars, expansive in its scope,” and Karen Bender said, “Olga Zilberbourg is a writer to read right now.”
Zilberbourg’s writing has appeared in World Literature Today, The Believer, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Born in Leningrad, USSR in a Russian-speaking Jewish family, she makes her home in San Francisco, California. She has published four collections of stories in Russia, including most recent Задержи дыхание [Hold Your Breath] from Vremya Press. She serves as a consulting editor at Narrative Magazine and as a co-facilitator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop. Together with Yelena Furman, she has co-founded Punctured Lines, a feminist blog about literature from the former Soviet Union. She is currently at work on her first novel.
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Of course we’ll meet on December 16, the 54th anniversary of the loss of my virginity. … Right ?
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