San Francisco Writers Conference

San Francisco Writers Conference

A Celebration of Craft, Commerce & Community

Writing for Change

Telling Your Fearless Truth

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by Martha Alderson The daily sacrifices made by our essential workers inspire you to want to express your support. The members of the Black and Brown communities standing up for justice generate in you the desire to raise your voice. Watching the evening political news, you feel on every level of your being that the

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Social Impact – From Book to Screen

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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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Latinx Voices Writing for Change

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by NoNieqa Ramos Worldwide, we are experiencing a global pandemic and global environmental catastrophes. The deep roots of systemic racism entrenched in the foundations of our nation have been exposed and those who thrive from it fight to bury the truth. Locally we are grappling with how to protect public health and sustain our economies.

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Write a Book Starting at the End

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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

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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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