San Francisco Writers Conference

San Francisco Writers Conference

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Writing

Will You Be A Witness?

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By Harry Louis Williams, II, a.k.a. O.G. Rev (OG Rev will be speaking in conversation with Randy Shaw at the Writing For Change: Worldwide on September 9. For more information, please visit the Writing For Change: Worldwide website. Or register here.) The newspaper masthead reads August 6, 1945. Its a sunny day in Nagasaki, Japan. You sit

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Finding Your Voice

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By Mary Rakow (Mary Rakow 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.) Finding our voice is both inward and social. Inward because our voice isn’t about word choice and style. It’s comes from how I experience

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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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