Posts by San Francisco Writers Conference
Get Inspired by Architecture, #3 Start With What You Love
By Mary Rakow, Ph.D. A friend texts this photo of a bookstore in Seoul. I love the audacity of it. The architecture saying, “Who says bookstores are dead?!” The audacious joy! It’s gorgeous! I wonder who designed it. Online I learn it’s not a bookstore but a library in Starfield COEX, the largest underground…
Read MoreARCHITECTURE AND FOCUS, Part 2
By Mary Rakow Many thanks for the comment posted last month, and for this story by Kasia Ekstrand written to that prompt. 200 word max. Set in the past or future. It was half past two in the night. The ladder was rickety and steep. It had eighty nine rungs and no easy handholds. The…
Read MoreSylvia Plath, Mental Health, & Writing Fiction with Lee Kravetz
* Lee Kravetz is author of the acclaimed nonfiction, Strange Contagion and SuperSurvivors. He has written for print and television, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, Psychology Today, The Daily Beast, The San Francisco Chronicle, and PBS. Lee’s new book is a work of fiction, his novel The Last Confessions of…
Read MoreStorytelling with “Story Power” Author Kate Farrell
* A graduate of the School of Library and Information Studies, UC Berkeley, Kate Farrell has been a language arts classroom teacher, an author, a librarian, a university lecturer, and a storyteller since 1966. She founded the Word Weaving Storytelling Project, and she has published numerous educational materials on the art of storytelling. Kate edited…
Read MoreTravel, Travel Writing, & 108 Beloved Objects with Jeff Greenwald
* Jeff Greenwald is a photojournalist, author, and stage performer whose experiences in Asia have framed his style of travel writing. His six books include the best-selling Shopping for Buddhas (recently republished in a 25th anniversary edition), The Size of the World (for which he created the first international travel blog), and Snake Lake, a…
Read MoreThe Tarot, Creativity, & Kickstarter with Elisabeth Kauffman
* Elisabeth Kauffman is the Marketing Director for the San Francisco Writers Conference, as well as an independent editor, an author, and an artist. She edits fiction and memoir for independent clients as well as for publishing companies, and she coaches writers on finding their voices and connecting to the magic in their creative lives.…
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