Description
The San Francisco Writers Foundation presents
The 10th San Francisco Writing for Change Conference:
Writing to Make a Difference
For Fiction, Nonfiction & Children’s/YA Writers
WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD THROUGH YOUR WRITING? Books…articles…essays…anything in writing can start a revolution and we’ve created a whole day of programming called Writing for Change to help you do just that. This one-day conference held every September featured Daniel Ellsberg, best known as the man behind the Pentagon Papers, as the keynote speaker, and 13 experts talking about everything from how to become a Change Agent to writing and publishing a book that will change the world.
Supercharge your activism. This day-long conference features the following topics:
3 STEPS TO BECOMING A CHANGE AGENT
Nina Amir, The Author Training Manual
UNDERSTANDING CHANGE AS A WRITER: How To Change the World Through Your Writing
Joan Gelfand, You Can Be A Winning Writer
Brigid O’Farrell, She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker
Moderator: Brenda Knight, Publishing Consultant, Mango Media
AVENUES FOR CHANGE: Publishing Opportunities to Effect Change
Barbara Santos, Practice Aloha
Tanya Egan Gibson, How to Buy a Love of Reading
Monica Wesolowska, Holding Silvan: A Brief Life
Moderator: Mary Knippel
KEYNOTE: Dismantle the Doomsday Machine!
Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Interviewed by David Landau
HOW TO BUILD PLATFORM: Create an Audience Through Savvy Marketing
Jim Azevedo, Smashwords
Cristina Deptula, Authors Large and Small
Brenda Knight, Publishing Consultant
Moderator: Laurie McLean, Fuse Literary
WRITING & PUBLISHING A BOOK THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
Nina Amir: Creative Visualization for Writers
WRITING FOR CHANGE (6 hours) $49.95
