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Get Inspired by Art #3 Mary Rakow

Get Inspired by Art with Mary Rakow: Small details have a big impact on your story

April 14, 2021 By San Francisco Writers Conference

by Mary Rakow FURTHER INTRODUCTION TO THIS COLUMN As we saw in the first and second posts, we can find inspiration for secular writing in religious art, and inspiration for religious writing in secular art. Why? Because great art crosses all boundaries and categories. We also saw that once we write a text it starts

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How Nonfiction Books Build Conversations, Connections, and Community

March 26, 2021 By San Francisco Writers Conference

by Michelle Travis I’m a law professor by day. For the past twenty years, I’ve used my research and writing to advocate for advancing women’s workplace equality and work/family integration. I’ve gained an understanding of the barriers to women’s career advancement, and I’ve become an expert on legal and policy reforms like paid family and

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Write a Book Starting at the End - Martha Alderson

Write a Book Starting at the End

August 14, 2020 By San Francisco Writers Conference

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 - Brooke Warner

Memoir as a Method for Change

August 6, 2020 By San Francisco Writers Conference

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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Writing For Change: Worldwide

Writing for Change: Worldwide Coming to You September 7-13!

July 31, 2020 By Laurie McLean, SFWC Director and Agent at Fuse Literary

By Laurie McLean When I took over as director of the San Francisco Writers Conference, the San Francisco Writers Foundation, and the Writing for Change conference a few years ago, little did I realize what challenges awaited me and the rest of the management team in 2020. We barely squeaked by holding the February San

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Kate Farrell Storytelling, Truth Telling in Nonfiction Writing

Storytelling, Truth Telling in Nonfiction Writing

July 17, 2020 By San Francisco Writers Conference

by Kate Farrell “You’re never going to kill storytelling because it’s built-in the human plan. We come with it.” – Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale. Today, storytelling is a hip trend in marketing campaigns because stories are the most successful way to engage and retain customers. In the last twenty years, TED talks

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The San Francisco Writers Conference (“SFWC”) enjoys a rich literary culture. Over the course of four days in mid-February, over 500 attendees and renowned keynote authors, presenters, editors, and agents, attend SFWC, combining the best of both the traditional publishing industry with the latest technology to empower authors to publish anywhere. Situated just north of Silicon Valley, the SFWC is truly a one-of-a-kind celebration of craft, commerce, and community.

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