by Stuart Horwitz Writing a memoir is like writing a detective story where you get to find out what happened—except, it’s to you. It’s a complicated challenge. In the first place, you have to find your best stories, and tell them in a way that is interesting to other people, with the proper level of
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SFWC Staff updates
SFWC Director Laurie McLean has had a challenging year to be sure. In addition to producing the successful, but labor intensive, virtual 2020 San Francisco Writing for Change: Worldwide during the pandemic, Laurie’s home in LaHonda was in the middle of the horrific CZU Lightning Complex fire this summer. A volunteer firefighter herself, she was
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Annnouncement on SFWC2021
Guess what? The San Francisco Writers Conference has turned 18 years old! But given the current global insanity, we’ve reluctantly decided for everyone’s safety to take a “gap year” in 2021. This means there will be no physical conference at the Hyatt in mid-February next year like we’d all planned. I know this is sad
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We are San Francisco’s writers conference. It is in our bones to embrace & elevate diverse voices.
We are San Francisco’s writers conference and as such it is part of our cultural identity to embrace and elevate diverse voices. This is challenging in an industry where white privilege is heavily entrenched, but we have always embraced this challenge. It’s part of why we embrace disruptive trends like self-publishing. It’s why we work
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Walter Mosley speaks on not picking a lane, fomenting change, and the publishing industry
Podcast Interview by Joey Garcia with guest Walter Mosley. When questioned about his thoughts on writers sometimes being told to “pick a lane and stay in it,” i.e., choose fiction or nonfiction—but not both—Mosley explained that notion is inherently a capitalist one. He added that even when artists are told that what they are working
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What’s New with IngramSpark | New IngramSpark Tools
Carla King interviews Robin Cutler about IngramSpark Publishing. Subjects covered in this podcast:What’s new with Ingram Spark. Ingram Spark website redesign and enhancements. By mid-March, users will start seeing changes to the Ingram Spark website. Enhancements will provide a more user-friendly, intuitive way for users to set up titles on IngramSpark. Other new tools include
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