Since its inception in 1994, Fourteen Hills has contributed to a vibrant literary tradition on the West Coast centered in the San Francisco Bay Area. As an international literary magazine, Fourteen Hills has developed a reading audience that goes beyond the San Francisco Bay Area to the international community.

Fourteen Hills is a graduate student-run and award-winning literary magazine that has been a vital part of the Bay Area literary community and beyond. We strive to publish work that pushes boundaries, challenges conventions, and subverts entrenched narratives. Since our inception in 1994, we have featured both emerging and established authors including Tommy Orange, Angie Cruz, Brenda Hillman, Noah Eli Gordon, Victoria Chang, Bob Hicok, and Mary Gaitskill. Works published in Fourteen Hills have been selected for the O’Henry Prize, Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, the Best American Poetry Prize Anthology, Best American Short Stories, and more.

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The new version of the Michael Rubin Work-in-Progress Award (MRA) will be awarded to a current SFSU graduate student or recent alum—those who have graduated within the past ten years—for an exemplary work-in-progress (shifting yearly between prose and poetry). The winner will have an excerpt of their winning submission published in the Fourteen Hills journal.
The Michael Rubin Work-in-Progress Award is an annual award open to students and recent graduates of San Francisco State University. Alternating each year between poetry and fiction, manuscripts are gathered in an open competition and read by an independent guest judge. The winner must be an enrolled student or recent graduate at SFSU whose work shows exceptional accomplishment and promise. 

 

  The 2026 Michael Rubin Work In Progress Award will go to a fiction submission
  Submission deadline: January 15th, 2026
  Submissions only accepted via Submittable
  Students currently enrolled or recent graduates at San Francisco State University are eligible
  Work must be previously unpublished
  The submission file must be in .doc or .docx format (Microsoft Word or Open Office)   
  Monetary award of $750 for the selected work
  If your work-in-progress is accepted for the Michael Rubin Work-in-Progress Award, you will receive two free copies of Fourteen Hills.
 
 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: 


  You must be currently enrolled as a student at SFSU or have graduated within the past ten years.
  The cover letter field must include your name, the title of your Work In Progress, your phone number, mailing address, email, and SFSU student ID number (or graduation year).
  Your submission must be at least 25 pages in length, and no more than 75 pages in length.
  Your submission document must include a table of contents if there are multiple works within your Work In Progress.
  No revisions to the Works In Progress will be accepted after submission.
  The Work In Progress must be unpublished. Works In Progress that have been previously self-published are ineligible.
  Works In Progress will be judged anonymously. Therefore, the author's name, other identifying information, and publication information must not appear within the Work In Progress. Only your uploaded work is visible to the judge.

Michael Rubin Work-in-Progress Award (MRA) 2026

The Gina Berriault Award (GBA) is a national award given to an emerging prose writer for an exemplary work-in-progress. The winner will have an excerpt of their winning submission published in the Fourteen Hills journal.
The Gina Berriault Award was inaugurated by Peter Orner in conjunction with Fourteen Hills Press to pay homage to the eponymous writer, a former SFSU professor who with every story embodied a certain selflessness and unflinching compassion. The award is given annually to a writer with a similar spirit who has shown a love for storytelling and a commitment to helping young writers. 
 

  Submission deadline: January 15th, 2026
  Submission fee: $10.00
  Submissions only accepted via Submittable
  Students currently enrolled at San Francisco State University are ineligible
  Work must be previously unpublished
  The submission file must be in .doc or .docx format (Microsoft Word or Open Office)   
  Monetary award of $1,000.00 for the selected work
  If your work-in-progress is accepted for the Gina Berriault Award, you will receive two free copies of Fourteen Hills #31. 

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: 
 

  The cover letter field must include your name, the title of your Work In Progress, your phone number, mailing address, and email.
  Your submission must be at least 50 pages in length, and no more than 150 pages in length.
  Your submission document must include a table of contents if there are multiple works within your Work In Progress.
  No revisions to the Works In Progress will be accepted after submission.
  The Work In Progress must be unpublished. Works In Progress that have been previously self-published are ineligible.
  Works In Progress will be judged anonymously. Therefore, the author's name, other identifying information, and publication information must not appear within the Work In Progress. Only your uploaded work is visible to the judge.

Gina Berriault Award (GBA) 2026

We are now accepting submissions for the Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award. The winning poet will receive $500 and publication in the Spring 2026 issue of Fourteen Hills. There is no submission fee. Poems not chosen for the award will be considered for publication in Fourteen Hills.

  Stacy Doris was a poet, translator, and an Associate Professor in San Francisco State University's Department of Creative Writing, where she taught for ten years. Her poetry is widely recognized; Fledge: A Phenomenology of Spirit, published shortly after her death, is available from Nightboat Books. Poet Maxine Chernoff has referred to it as “a miracle of attentiveness.” She was also highly regarded for her writing in French and her contribution to interactions among contemporary French and American poetry and poets.
 
  Doris created new worlds with her unexpected poetics. Following upon her spirit of creative invention, engaging wit and ingenious playfulness, discovery in construction, and radical appropriations based on classical forms, pastiche, etc., and love, the Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award is given to a poet with a truly inventive spirit. 
 
   Additional Requirements:
 

  Submission deadline: January 15, 2026
  Submissions only accepted via Submittable
  Maximum 1 poem per author
  Poem must be a minimum of 3 pages; maximum 10 pages
  Students currently enrolled at San Francisco State University are ineligible
  Work must be previously unpublished
  Poems submitted for the award will also be considered for publication in Fourteen Hills
  Submission file must be in .doc or .docx format (Microsoft Word or Open Office) 
 

About Stacy Doris: 
 
 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/02/with-respect-stacy-doris-1962-2012/
 https://jacket2.org/reviews/longer-stay
 http://www.thevolta.org/ewc17-mchernoff-p1.html
 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/702

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