With support from the California Arts Council, Foglifter Press will produce the 2025-26 Start a Riot! Chapbook Prize for San Francisco Bay Area 2SLGBTQIA+ BIPOC (QTBIPOC) literary artists, including a $4,000 prize, publication, promotion, and a free, accessible public release event. Designed in response to the displacement and erasure of QTBIPOC+ writers in the Bay Area, this artist-led program uplifts historically excluded voices, supports community connection, and advances equity in the literary arts. CAC funds will support artist pay, ASL interpretation, venue and event production, and promotion.
Foglifter operates four core programs: 1) Annually publishes two issues of our Foglifter literary journal featuring the original work of 60–80 2SLGBTQIA+ literary artists who receive honorariums for publication; 2) Annually publishes one Start a Riot! chapbook with prize winning authors receiving honorariums/royalties); 3) Annually produces at least four free literary events each featuring at last six 2SLGBTQIA+ writers who receive honorariums; 4) Invests in the professional development of 2SLGBTQIA+ literary artists through our programming, workshops, social media outreach and guest editorships featuring paid honorariums.

