San Francisco Writers Conference Podcast
1) Sylvia 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, Psych...Show More
2) Storytelling 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 si...Show More
3) Travel, 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 (recen...Show More
4) The 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 client...Show More
5) 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'...Show More
6) Litquake! 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...Show More
7) Fact, 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 Soci...Show More
Fact, Fiction, & Finding Napoleon with Historical Fiction Author Margaret Rodenberg
57:43 | Sep 17th, 2021
8) Magic 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 Boo...Show More
9) Poetry, 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 t...Show More
Poetry, Revolution, & Blood on the Fog with SF Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin
1:07:17 | Aug 20th, 2021
10) Millennial Angst, Dark Humor, & Not Giving Up with Mona at Sea's Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Subjects covered 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...Show More
Millennial Angst, Dark Humor, & Not Giving Up with Mona at Sea's Elizabeth Gonzalez James
1:00:28 | Jul 23rd, 2021