Litquake! with co-founder Jack Boulware and Home Baked’s Alia Volz

litquake interview with san francisco writers conference

* 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…

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Fact, Fiction, & Finding Napoleon with Historical Fiction Author Margaret Rodenberg

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 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. *…

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Poetry, Revolution, & Blood on the Fog with SF Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin

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…

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Millennial Angst, Dark Humor, & Not Giving Up with Mona at Sea’s Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Millennial 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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