Dispatches from the City of Awe – Workshop #1

In-Person – SF Public Library | Main Branch |
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco

Instructor: Dr. Kim McMillon

Schedule: In-Person, Sat -Sun | 12:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Jun 20 – 21, 2026

Tuition: Free

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Dispatches from the City of Awe – Workshop #1

Let’s write a Love Letter to San Francisco, through memory, emotions, and your soul medicine. This workshop, which honors San Francisco as a city and a site of inner transformation, takes place on Saturday and Sunday, June 20 and 21, at the San Francisco Public Library.

This free workshop lasts two days, (or one if participants prefer.)
Saturday
On Day One, writers explore their memories, lineage, and lived experiences—both inner and outer—by crafting love poems to the city, themselves, and their inner child, using poetic prompts to unearth hidden heart gems.
Sunday
Day Two is focused on shaping, refining, and intimately exploring their poems, and short prose pieces as they shine a light on their inner beauty inspired by or living within the City of San Francisco.

Participants will leave with a written dispatch that is either finished or almost finished, which can be published as part of our project, or to enjoy as a keepsake, celebrating their connection to San Francisco and their inner and outer magic as human beings.

This is open to any type or writer, with all levels of experience. You can work on poetry, essay, and/or fiction. You do not have to consider yourself a “writer” to take this workshop. But, you can also be a seasoned writer and also feel welcome here.

Dr. Kim McMillon

Dr. Kim McMillon is a producer, playwright, and contributor to the anthology Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka (Ohio University Press, 2021). She edited Willow Books’ anthology Black Fire—This Time, published in March 2022, and hosts Berkeley Community Media’s Bay Area Art Beat. McMillon produced the 2016 Dillard University-Harvard Hutchins Center Black Arts Movement Conference in New Orleans and co-produced the 2014 UC Merced Black Arts Movement Conference. She edited a special edition of The Journal of PAN African Studies and contributed to the Black Power Encyclopedia. McMillon wrote and starred in Confessions of a Thespian.

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