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The Power of Persistence: #1 in a New Series by Katie Coleman, Author
Power of Persistence I’d stared stage IV cancer in the face at twenty-nine and had come out on the other side. Yet now, the idea of facing strangers gathering in the lobby downstairs suddenly felt like an insurmountable challenge. As I hid in my room, attempting to summon the courage to go down to mingle…
Read MoreA SFWC Success Story: John Hyde Barnard
I moved to the Bay area in 2020, a week before the COVID shutdown. Ironically, this provided time and opportunity to concentrate on my book: The Creole Incident. As I prepared the book for presentation: editing, query letters, synopsis of the book, ‘about the author,’ etc., I realized I needed guidance. This led to an…
Read MoreComing Full Circle at the SFWC
Coming Full Circle at the SFWC By Meredith Jaeger In the early aughts, I dreamed of becoming a novelist. At my office job, I imagined what my characters might be doing—their lives were far more exciting than mine. For six months, I took classes through The Writing Salon at night, until finally, I had completed…
Read MoreWHEN THERE IS NO ARCHITECTURE
Maya Lyn Viet Nam Veterans Memorial WHEN THERE IS NO ARCHITECTURE When Veteran’s Day came last weekend here in the US war wasn’t hard to imagine. The daily news of Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Hamas. What can we do? Maya Lin was a college student at Yale when her design was chosen. The monument was dedicated…
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We love sharing success stories that come out of our San Francisco Writers Conference. It gave us so much joy to recently learn about one of our alumnae, Janet Garber, who found inspiration and a connection at our 2019 SFWC. Here’s what Janet had to say: “In February 2019 I decided to fly to San…
Read MoreTHE CITY OUR WRITING TEACHER: BUILDING A CITY OF THE HEART
by Mary Rakow Building a City of the Heart is about connecting. Last time I wrote about coming undone. We all do, at some point. When one of the group finds life too much to bear and takes his life, you gather. Les was the author of three novels, “The Last Bongo Sunset” (1995), “Slow…
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