Enter the Fault Zone!
Fault Zone is a biennial project of the SF Peninsula chapter, combining the efforts of authors and mentoring editors to create an anthology rooted in the CWC’s mission: Writers Helping Writers. For the upcoming eleventh edition, we invited members to summon from their imaginations, life histories, and
writers’ craft new stories of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction sparked by the title the most-recent past editor (per tradition) selected: Fault Zone: Faultless?
Submissions closed on October 31 st , and the editors are now sorting submissions. Those who submitted their work will be receiving messages during the submission review period: questions from the editors, surveys, and updates. We advise you all to keep an eye on your in-boxes. Decisions will be made in early 2025. We encourage everyone who can to attend the January meeting, when your Fault Zone editor-in-chief will be the speaker: the topic is understanding publication agreements.
Our publication date is December 1 st , 2025. In the meantime, we’ll select stories and poems, work with each of the authors to support them as they revise and refine their work, and assemble the collection into a singular volume to be available worldwide through our publisher’s distribution network as well as in-person at all our events. Any member is welcome to join the Fault Zone production team!
Previous installments of Fault Zone are readily available online and in person. Remember to post reviews, encouraging other readers around the world to connect with the work of CWC members.
Featuring stories and poems by Kate Adams, Sheena Arora, Doug Baird, Sue Barizon, Larry Bowen, Marianne Brems, Jo Carpignano, Penelope Anne Cole, Thomas Crockett, Tim Flood, Darlene Frank, Elizabeth Hawley, David Hirzel, Bradley Earle Hoge, Bill Janssen, Lisa Johnson, Annette Kauffman, D.L. LaRoche, Ida J. Lewenstein, Richard E. McCallum, Megan E. McDonald, Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, Diane Lee Moomey, Lucy Ann Murray, Colleen Olle, Korie Pelka, Lisa Meltzer Penn, Cheryl Ray, Miera Rao, Geri Spieler, Dave M. Strom, James Alex Veech, Alisha Willis, Mickie Winkler, and Mindy Yang. Edited by Laurel Anne Hill.
Fault Zone: Strike Slip features stories and poems by members of the San Francisco Peninsula Branch of the California Writers Club. Contributors are Kate Adams, Doug Baird, Sue Barizon, Maria Elena Bernal de Barre, Bill Baynes, Jo Carpignano, Thomas Crockett, Carolyn L. Curtis, Darlene Frank, D. E. Hardy, Mary Heneghan, John Hotson, Lisa Johnson, Annette Kauffman, Louis LeMesurier, Richard E. McCallum, Elise Frances Miller, Lucy Ann Murray, Carol Park, Korie Pelka, Miera Rao, Cheryl Ray, Martha Clark Scala, Ellen Snee, Karen Sundback, James Alex Veech, Vincent Ware, Nanci Woody, Dick Yaeger, and Mindy Yang. Edited by Laurel Anne Hill.
Fault Zone: Uplift is the seventh anthology from the San Francisco Peninsula Branch of the California Writers Club. This edition is edited by Laurel Anne Hill, author of Heroes Arise and The Engine Woman's Light. Authors are Kevin Arnold, Sheena Arora, Sue Barizon, Eva Barrows, Bill Baynes, Maria Elena Bernal de Barre, Jo Carpignano, Carolyn L. Curtis, Tim Flood, Doug Fortier, Ann Foster, Darlene Frank, Stanley David Gedzelman, Jeannine Gerkman, Mary Heneghan, Audrey Kalman, Maurine Killough,Ida J. Lewenstein, Richard E. McCallum, Jean Morrow, Lucy Ann Murray, Mary Beth O'Connor, Lisa Meltzer Penn, Martha Clark Scala, Valerie Stoller, Dave M. Strom, and Vincent Ware.
Fault Zone: Transform is the sixth volume in the Fault Zone series. Authored by Kevin Arnold, Sue Barizon, Bill Baynes, Jo Carpignano, Belinda Chua, Ann Foster, Darlene Frank, Jeannine Gerkman, Laurel Anne Hill, Diane Jacobson, Michelle Jessen, Marjorie Bicknell Johnson, Beverly Kalinin, Sam Kauffman, Maurine Killough, Ida J. Lewenstein, Diane Lee Moomey, Lisa Meltzer Penn, TR Poulson, Don Redman, Frank A. Saunders, Martha Clark Scala, Jim Stanfield, Dave M. Strom, Ollie May Trost Welch, and Nanci Lee Woody. Edited by Ann Foster.
Winner of the 2022 Independent Press Award (IPA) in the Anthology category, a national competition and finalist in the 16th annual National Indie Excellence Awards in the Anthology category.
Introducing the fifth volume of the anthology produced by the San Francisco Peninsula Writers— Fault Zone: Diverge. Read strange tales like “Lose the Bubble, Screw the Pooch, Buy the Farm” or flirty love in a Starbucks with “Skin Deep?” Whatever your mood, there is something to charm you, confirm your suspicions, or let your kindred soul run free. Fault Zone: Diverge should be on everyone's bedside table. Authors are Kevin Arnold, Sue Barizon, Jo Carpignano, Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, Emily Eddins, Ann Foster, Darlene Frank, James Hanna, Karen Hartley, Laurel Anne Hill, Diane Jacobson, Amy Kelm, Maurine Killough, Bardi Rosman Koodrin, Eileen Malone, Elise Frances Miller, Diane Lee Moomey, Lucy Ann Murray, Linda Okerlund, Lisa Meltzer Penn, Frank A. Saunders, Martha Clark Scala, Ellen Six, Eve Visconti, Wendy Walter,and Ollie Mae Trost Welch. Edited by Audrey Kalman.
The San Francisco Peninsula Writers have done it again. Fault Zone: Shift is the fourth volume of short stories and poems. Novelists Max Tomlinson, David Hirzel, Margaret Davis, James Hanna, Diane Lee Moomey, and Laurel Anne Hill join forces to produce a stellar anthology. Senior poet laureate Jo Carpignano and award winning poet Maurine Killough will jog your sensibilities. This anthology is chock full of great stories by professional and prize-winning writers. Other authors include Lois Young, Tina Gibson, Darlene Frank, Diane Jacobson, Martha Clark Scala, Don Redmon, Frank A. Saunders, Sue Barizon, Karen Hartley, Ann Foster, Tim Woolf, Bardi Rosman Koodrin, Lisa Melzer Penn, Wendy M. Voorsanger, Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, Tory Hartmann, and Lucy Ann Murray. Edited by Audrey Kalman.
Our latest edition!
Featuring works by Tom Adams, Doug Baird, Sue Barizon, Eva Barrows, Scott Best, Lawrence Cohn, Jo Carpignano, Tim Flood, Heather E. Folsom, David Harris, Laurel Anne Hill, Audrey Kalman, Nirmy Kang, Amy Kelm, D.L. LaRoche, Evelyn LaTorre, Lucretia Leong, Ida J. Lewenstein, Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, Ellen McBarnette, Richard E. McCallum, Patricia McCombs, Lisa Meltzer Penn, Margaret Nalbach, Bruce Neuburger, Luanne Oleas, Korie Pelka, Miera Rao, Cheryl Ray, Carol Reade, Harlan Suits, Anne Marie Wenzel, Alisha Willis, Mickie Winkler, and Nanci Woody.
Fault Zone: Words from the Edge is the debut issue of this anthology featuring members of San Francisco Peninsula branch of the California Writers Club. Fault Zone isn't only about earthquakes and temblors; it's also about personal faults, burdens, responsibilities, mistakes, and blunders. It is about division, dichotomies, and life in California in the 21st century. We think you'll enjoy these sometimes hilarious, sometimes deadly serious stories. Contributors to this first issue are Carol Bumpus, Jo Carpignano, Tia Creighton, Margaret Davis, Ann Foster, Darlene Frank, James Hanna, Tory Hartmann, Laurel Anne Hill, David Hirzel, Bardi Rosman Koodrin, Cheryl S. Levinson, Ida Lewenstein, Elise Frances Miller, Diane Moomey, Lucy Ann Murray, Linda Newman, Lisa Meltzer Penn, Mil Pribble, Martha Clark Scala, Eve Visconti, Christopher Wachlin, Ollie Mae Trost Welch. Edited by Lisa Meltzer Penn.
“Fault Zone is an absolute delight of 33 poems and short stories guaranteed to shake up readers' imaginations with the soaring creativity that so wonderfully reflects the Bay Area. These pieces shine with humor, sensitivity, glorious settings and subjects that drive to the heart.” --Martha Engber, Author of The Wind Thief
Published novelists David Hirzel (Sailor on Ice), Audrey Kalman (Dance of Souls), Elise Frances Miller (A Time to Cast Away Stones), Keith deFolo (Burma Will Rise Again), and Diane Moomey (Silk Road, Iron Bird) all have stories in Fault Zone: Stepping Up to the Edge. Other authors are Carole J. Bumpus, Bridget Burke, Jo Carpignano (California Senior Poet Lauriate), Ann Foster, Darlene Frank, James Hanna, Tory Hartmann, Diane Jacobson, Bardi Rosman Koodrin, Cheryl Levinson, Ida J. Lewenstein, Jane Mellin, Lucy Ann Murray, Lisa Meltzer Penn, Mil Pribble, Martha Clark Scala, Laura Tarwater, Gary Turchin, Christopher Wachlin, and Ollie Mae Trost Welch. Edited by Lisa Meltzer Penn.
What does it mean to go over the edge? We asked that question, and the stories we received yielded a vertigo-inducing mixture of people and places rooted in the SF Bay Area. Contributors are: Sue Barizon, Carol Bumpus, Ann Foster, Darlene Frank, James Hanna, Tory Hartmann, Laurel Anne Hill, David Hirzel, Diane Jacobson, Audrey Kalman, Amy Kelm, Bardi Rosman Koodrin, Cheryl Levinson, Ida J. Lewenstein, Diane Lee Moomey, Lucy Ann Murray, Lisa Meltzer Penn, Martha Clark Scala, Max Tomlinson, Christopher Wachlin, Ollie Mae Trost Welch. Edited by Lisa Meltzer Penn.
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