Finding Your Voice

Finding Your Voice - Mary Rakow

By Mary Rakow (Mary Rakow will be teaching at the Writing For Change: Worldwide Craft Conference September 12-13. For more information, please visit the Writing For Change: Worldwide website. Or register here.) Finding our voice is both inward and social. Inward because our voice isn’t about word choice and style. It’s comes from how I experience…

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Social Impact – From Book to Screen

Social Impact - Book to Screen - Cali Gilbert

By: Cali Gilbert (Cali Gilbert will be speaking with Tisha Janigian on the topic of homelessness, and sharing her short film, INVISIBLE, at San Francisco Writing For Change: Worldwide on September 11. Register and join us for this Inspiration Conversation!) How do you make an impact on society through your words? You share your story…

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Write a Book Starting at the End

Write a Book Starting at the End - Martha Alderson

By Martha Alderson (Martha Alderson will be teaching at the Writing For Change: Worldwide Craft Conference September 12-13. For more information, please visit the Writing For Change: Worldwide website. Or register here.) Every book is made up of a beginning, middle, and an end. Usually writers start writing at the beginning of their books, a…

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Memoir as a Method for Change

Memoir as a Method for Change - Brooke Warner

by Brooke Warner (Brooke Warner will be speaking with Michelle Tea on the topic of using your memoir as a force for change at San Francisco Writing For Change: Worldwide on September 8. Register and join us for this Inspiration Conversation!) I was twelve or thirteen when I read Go Ask Alice. It was fiction,…

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SFWC Spring Writing Calendar

The San Francisco Writers Conference is over for this year… but there is so much going on in our community for writers right now! April 18 – 6:30pm   Rising Writers Series: The Boatbuilder Author Daniel Gumbiner in conversation with writer Kevin Smokler   Cosponsored by McSweeney’s: Daniel Gumbiner’s novel, long-listed for the 2018 National Book Award, deals…

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