The Anne and Robert Cowan Writers' Prize Ceremony

Join us to Celebrate Jewish Writers in the Bay Area

The Cowan Prize celebrates emerging Jewish authors who have made an exceptional impact in the Bay Area through their uniquely Jewish perspective. Robert Cowan loved literature and created this award to honor his late wife Anne's memory.

This year’s first prize recipient is Marissa Moss. Best known for writing more than 70 children's books, last spring she published Last Things; a Memoir of Loss and Love, a graphic memoir about her husband's death from ALS.

The runner-up prize recipient is writer, teacher, and creativity consultant, Daniel Schifrin.

Interests: Arts & Culture
Date: 
April 29, 2018
TIME: 
12:00 AM
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Location: 
The Contemporary Jewish Museum,
736 Mission Street
City: 
San Francisco
Cost: 
FREE with regular admission as follows: General Admission, $14; Students with a valid ID and Seniors, $12; Members and Youth 18 and under, free.

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Organized By: 
Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund
Event Contact Person: 
Gravity Goldberg
415.512.6232
info@thecjm.org
Event Website: 
https://www.thecjm.org/events
Honorees: 
Marissa Moss
Marissa Moss has written more than 70 children's books, from picture books to middle-grade and young adult novels. Best known for the Amelia’s Notebook series, her books are popular with teachers and children alike. Both Rachel's Journal and Hannah’s Journal are included in state textbooks. Her picture book biographies of historical figures from Jackie Mitchell to Maggie Gee to Kate Warne have won many awards. Barbed Wire Baseball, a recent nonfiction picture book, won the California Book Award, and was named an ALA Notable Book as well as a Notable Book for Social Studies. Last Things, a Memoir of Love and Loss, Marissa's first adult book, uses her trademark mix of art and text in a graphic memoir about her husband's death from ALS. She is currently working on developing the Amelia books into an animated series for Amazon productions.
Daniel Schifrin
Daniel Schifrin’s fiction and essays have appeared, among other places, in McSweeney’s, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the winner of the 2016 Wilner Award for Short Fiction from San Francisco State University, and the runner-up for the 2015 Sequestrum New Writer Award. Dan is currently finishing a book of short stories and a novel about love and physics, and his first play, Sweet and Sour, will receive a staged reading at Z Space in the spring of 2018. He has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, writer-in-residence at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and Ideas columnist for j. The Jewish News of Northern California. He is currently teaching creative writing at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University.