Come celebrate the publication of this year's edition of Forum, a student-run literary journal providing a platform for the contemporary, urban voices of City College since 1937. Our launch party will feature readings by this year's Forum authors, copies of the 2026 edition for sale, food, drink, and a raffle of archival editions of Forum. All are welcome!
Featured readers:
Aaron Lee is a 22 year old, Chinese writer living in San Francisco. He used to live at Music City Hostel where this happened.
Jason Flaig is a writer and artist from the Bay Area who has lived in San Francisco for five years. An experienced technical and strategy guide writer in the video game industry, he writes flash fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.
Adrienne Gilliam is a San Francisco based multimedia artist and writer. She explores themes of myth, nostalgia, and trauma. Adrienne can often be found writing on long walks through Golden Gate park. When she’s not writing, she enjoys cooking and eating above all else.
Holly Juliet Zimbert now resides in San Francisco, CA. She is deeply inspired by the profound experiences of writing thousands of custom poems for strangers through her public facing typewriter poetry practice, Holly Juliet Zimbert Pop Up Poetry.
Alaina Kafkes Alaina started taking classes at CCSF a year ago. She had a lot of fun writing her story that appears in Forum.
Claribel Caamal Amodei is a San Francis co native that enjoys all forms of creative writing. Although fiction is her first love she has recently started writing poetry and hopes to convey the difficult emotions she feels to others through artistic expression.
Efrain Gutierrez lives in San Francisco. Originally from the Central Valley, Efrain takes film courses at the City College.
Ayo Khensu-Ra writes at the intersection of poetry and fiction. A definite lover of poetry aloud he has featured at several Bay Area-based series including Voz Sin Tinta, Moondrop Productions, and La Prabla Musical. He has studied English and photography at CCSF. He is more ellipsis than period.
Carla Schick is a queer activist for Palestine,an educator and a person who believes in the transformative power of art. They won an honorable mention in the 2025 Tom Howard Poetry Prize. Their work can be found in Qu, Queens Review, The Closed Eye Open and anthologies