Posts by San Francisco Writers Conference
Writing to Survive & Building Worlds with Charlie Jane Anders
* Charlie Jane Anders is the author of The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, McSweeney’s, Mother Jones, Tor.com, Wired, and elsewhere. Her TED Talk, “Go Ahead, Dream About the Future” got 700,000…
Read MoreLitquake! with co-founder Jack Boulware and Home Baked’s Alia Volz
* Litquake is an annual literary festival started in 1999 in San Francisco that has since spread to cities throughout the country and abroad. The festival consists of readings, discussions, and themed events. Since its inception more than 10,000 authors and 250,000 attendees have participated in the festival. * Event co-founder Jack Boulware shared the origins…
Read MoreFact, Fiction, & Finding Napoleon with Historical Fiction Author Margaret Rodenberg
* Margaret Rosenberg has journeyed more than 30,000 miles to conduct Napoleonic research, including to St. Helena Island in the remote South Atlantic. She is director of the Napoleonic Historical Society, a non-profit that promotes knowledge of the Napoleonic era, and on her website, margaretrodenberg.com, she reports on Napoleon’s ongoing presence in world culture. *…
Read MoreMagic of Memoir with Memoirist and NAMW President Linda Joy Meyers
* Linda Joy Myers is president and founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers. Her memoir Don’t Call Me Mother—A Daughter’s Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness was a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award finalist and winner of the BAIPA Gold Medal award. She’s also the author of five books about memoir writing,…
Read MorePoetry, Revolution, & Blood on the Fog with SF Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin
* Tongo Eisen-Martin is San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate. * His curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” was published by the…
Read MoreMillennial Angst, Dark Humor, & Not Giving Up with Mona at Sea’s Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Before becoming a writer, Elizabeth Gonzalez James was a waitress, a pollster, an Avon lady, and an opera singer. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Idaho Review, The Rumpus, StorySouth, PANK, and elsewhere, and have received numerous Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. Currently she is a regular contributor to Ploughshares…
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