BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//San Diego Writers Festival - ECPv6.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:San Diego Writers Festival X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for San Diego Writers Festival REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T203000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20240528T233832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T233832Z UID:271432-1717011000-1717014600@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Anastasia Zadeik discusses “The Other Side of Nothing” with Marni Freedman DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, May 29th at 7:30pm Warwick’s will host Anastasia Zadeik as she discusses and signs her new book\, The Other Side of Nothing\, with Marni Freedman. Anastasia Zadeik is a writer\, editor\, and storyteller. After graduating from Smith College\, she had an international career in neuropsychological research while raising her children. She now serves as Director of Communications for the San Diego Writers Festival\, as a coproducer of the San Diego Memoir Showcase\, and as a mentor for the literary nonprofit So Say We All. She also sits on the board of the International Memoir Writers Association. A frequent performer of narrative non-fiction in a hushed bar or on a stage\, her work has appeared in the San Diego Decameron Project\, LitHub\, writeordietribe.com\, and the award-winning anthology Shaking the Tree: Short. Brazen. Memoir. Her debut novel\, Blurred Fates\, won the 2023 Sarton Award for Contemporary Fiction and the 2023 National Indie Excellence Award for Contemporary Fiction. She lives in San Diego with her husband and their empty-nest rescue dog\, Charlie. \nReserved Seating is available when The Other Side of Nothing is pre-ordered from Warwick’s through the linked green “Reserve Seats Here” button above. Only books purchased from Warwick’s will be signed. Please call the Warwick’s Book Dept. (858) 454-0347 for details. \nReserve your seat here URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/anastasia-zadeik-discusses-the-other-side-of-nothing-with-marni-freedman/ LOCATION:Warwick’s Boosktore\, 7812 Girard Ave\, La Jolla\, CA\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_3873.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240406 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240407 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20240119T235523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240119T235523Z UID:270505-1712361600-1712447999@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:The Fifth Annual San Diego Writers Festival DESCRIPTION:Join us at Coronado Public Library for the 5th Annual San Diego Writers Festival. Full festival schedule coming soon! URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/the-fifth-annual-san-diego-writers-festival/ LOCATION:Coronado Public Library\, 640 Orange Avenue\, Coronado\, California\, 92118 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SDWF-header.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231214T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231214T210000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20231117T024258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231117T024335Z UID:270467-1702580400-1702587600@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:The 9th Annual Memoir Showcase DESCRIPTION:Save the date for the 9th Annual MEMOIR SHOWCASE \nFunny\, Not Funny\nThursday\, December 14\n7:00 PM\nThe Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center\n7600 Fay Avenue La Jolla\, CA 92037 \nGet Tickets   URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/the-9th-annual-memoir-showcase/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Untitled-design-1-e1700188941941.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231213T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231213T193000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20231117T021203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231117T022630Z UID:270456-1702492200-1702495800@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Neal Allen and Anne Lamont discussing Better Days with Marni Freedman DESCRIPTION:Warwick’s\, in partnership with the San Diego Writers Festival and the Coronado Public Library \nPresents Neal Allen and Anne Lamott with Marni Freedman  \nBETTER DAYS\nTAME YOUR INNER CRITIC\nTicket sales are limited!\nReserve your seat today! \nGET TICKETS \nIn this life-changing book\, writer and spiritual coach\, Neal Allen\, teaches us a stunning new method for quieting the inner critic. \n“Better Days will help you get to know your inner critic\, and quiet its yammering\, and in so doing\, get to know the person you were born to be.” – Anne Lamott\, Author of Dusk Night Dawn\, Bird by Bird and others \nWhat if your superego has it wrong?\nThat snarky little bully in your head…you know the one.\nYou’ve lived under its weight for decades. \n  \nI’m a fraud\, I’m lazy\nI need to work harder\nI need to be tougher\, funnier\, calmer…\nI need to stay quiet\, look pretty\, stop showing off\nI need to put others before me\, I need to put myself first\nI need to be perfect\nI need to hide who I really am \nSound familiar? \nYou know that its scolding voice is harmful to you\, but you can’t will it away. You accept a life with short periods of peace and long stretches of stress and anxiety. But you don’t have to. \nIn this revolutionary new book\, Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic\, writer and spiritual coach\, Neal Allen\, examines a critical aspect of the human psyche that often gets ignored – the superego. \nBuilding on Freud’s idea that the superego necessarily forms a person’s moral conscience\, Neal explains how this voice in your head develops in childhood as a survival mechanism\, but when no longer needed for protection\, camps out in your mind like a personal parasite. A parasite that doesn’t belong. \nThrough simple and engaging exercises and explorations\, Neal leads you into meeting\, confronting\, and ultimately quieting your own inner critic. \nBy shedding off the burden of the superego\, you can overcome tired patterns of reward and punishment\, reduce the self-talk that harms you\, and ultimately clear an open space for the life you deserve\, one that is gentler and more peaceful. \nJust imagine…if all that nasty\, negative chatter in your head just evaporated … what would you do next? \nBetter days are just ahead. \n  URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/neal-allen-and-anne-lamont-with-marni-freedman/ LOCATION:Coronado Performing Arts Center\, 650 D Ave.\, Coronado\, 92118 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AnnLamottWarwicks-e1700186941362.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T180000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20230829T224149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T224149Z UID:270121-1697734800-1697738400@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club - “Unearthing” with Kyo Maclear DESCRIPTION:An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test\, the lessons learned in its aftermath\, and the indelible power of love—for readers of Dani Shapiro’s Inheritanceand Katherine May’s Wintering. \n“Magnificent…I will never forget it.” —Dani Shapiro\, author of Inheritance \n“A mind-altering and supremely generous exploration of kinship\, selfhood\, memory\, and the roots we share across time\, space and species.” —Naomi Klein\, author of This Changes Everything \nThree months after Kyo Maclear’s father dies in December 2018\, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life\, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece\, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way\, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And what does it mean to be a family? \nUnearthing is a captivating and propulsive story of inheritance that goes beyond heredity. Infused with moments of suspense\, it is also a thoughtful reflection on race\, lineage\, and our cultural fixation on recreational genetics. Readers of Michelle Zauner’s bestseller Crying in H Mart will recognize Maclear’s unflinching insights on grief and loyalty\, and keen perceptions into the relationship between mothers and daughters. \nWhat gets planted\, and what gets buried? What role does storytelling play in unearthing the past and making sense of a life? Can the humble act of tending a garden provide common ground for an inquisitive daughter and her complicated mother? As it seeks to answer these questions\, Unearthingbursts with the very love it seeks to understand. \n“[A] masterful\, original and poetic memoir… As Kyo slowly realizes that the father she’s mourning isn’t actually her father\, she unearths truths she never saw coming. A mix of literary tactics like repetition and short form sections\, this unique\, powerful and captivating memoir mixed with gardening and plant life\, is truly a wow.”–Zibby Owens\, Good Morning America  \n“Many memoirs have examined issues of paternity and parental infidelity\, but Maclear’s stands out due to elegant writing and insightful musings on the making and shaping of identities\, always with the garden behind her to provide an anchor… A lovely  meditation on the hidden past and the blossoming present.”–Kirkus Reviews \n“In this magnificent\, searing memoir\, Kyo Maclear takes us on a journey that is at once singular and utterly universal. What forces contribute to who we are and who we become? And what happens when the story we know to be true of ourselves is uprooted\, unearthed? In poetic language that cuts to the bone\, Maclear grapples with these questions and the result is a profound reading experience. I will never forget it.”– Dani Shapiro\, author of Inheritance  \n“Unearthing is simply staggering. Maclear takes the shocking revelations of a DNA test and transforms them into a mind-altering and supremely generous exploration of kinship\, selfhood\, memory\, and the roots we share across time\, space and species. A quantum leap for an already brilliant and profound writer and thinker.” –Naomi Klein\, author of This Changes Everything\nAbout The Author: \nKyo Maclear was born in London\, England\, and moved to Toronto at the age of four. Her most recent book\, Birds Art Life\, was published in seven territories and became a Canadian #1 bestseller. Kyo received a PhD from York University in the environmental humanities. Her short fiction\, essays\, and art criticism have been published in Orion Magazine\, Asia Art Pacific\, LitHub\, Brick\, The Millions\, The Guardian\, Shambhala Sun\, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)\, among other publications. She is also a children’s author\, editor\, and teacher. URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/warwicks-sdwf-book-club-unearthing-with-kyo-maclear/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/KyoMaclearBC.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231007T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231007T160000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20230829T224951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T210457Z UID:270127-1696672800-1696694400@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Festival U DESCRIPTION:Festival U – A Fundraiser benefiting the San Diego Writers Festival\n One Day ~ Online ~ 6 Amazing Workshops ~ $60 \nFestival U Schedule \nSession 1 (10 am to 11 am PT)\nBooks that Change the World – How Authors with a Cause Can Impact Us All with Winnie Li and Valena Beety. Moderated by Anastasia Zadeik \nSession 2  (11 am – 12 pm PT)\nOn Memory and Metaphor – Bringing the Past to Life with Sue William Silverman \nSession 3  (12 – 1 pm PT)\nThe Art and Craft of Middle Grade Fiction with Award Winning Author\, Chris Baron \nSession 4  (1pm – 2pm PT)\nHistorical Fiction: Keeping it Real While Keeping it Interesting with Jennifer Coburn \nSession 5 (2 pm – 3 pm)\nNothing is Wasted – The Art of How the Writer Brings It All Together with Judy Reeves  \nSession 6 (3 pm to 4 pm)\nAsk An Agent  – An Hour to Ask Any Question You Have Ever Had! With Lilly Gharhamani \nRegister Now \nPRESENTERS: \nChris Baron\nChris Baron is the award-winning author of Novels for young (and young at heart) readers including All Of Me an NCTE Notable Book\, The Magical Imperfect a Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable Book/ a SLJ Best Book of 2021 & the forthcoming novels\, The Gray (23) Forest Heart (24) from Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan\, and The Secret of the Dragon Gems\, a Middle Grade novel co-authored with Rajani LaRocca from Little Bee Books (23) and editor of ON ALL OTHER NIGHTS: A MIDDLE GRADE PASSOVER ANTHOLOGY\, from Abrams (24)\, He is a Professor of English at San Diego City College and the director of the Writing Center. He grew up in New York City\, but he completed his MFA in Poetry in 1998 at SDSU. He lives in San Diego with his family.  \n  \nValena Beety\nValena Elizabeth Beety is an innocence litigator\, a law professor\, and a former federal prosecutor. She teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington\, and previously served as the Founding Director of the West Virginia Innocence Project. Beety has successfully exonerated wrongfully convicted clients\, obtained presidential grants of clemency for drug offenses\, and served as an elected board member of the National Innocence Network. Her experiences as a federal prosecutor in Washington\, D.C.\, and as an innocence litigator in Mississippi and West Virginia\, shape her research and writing on wrongful convictions\, forensic evidence\, prosecution\, and incarceration. She is the co-editor of The Wrongful Convictions Reader and author of the award-winning book Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights. valenabeety.com. \n  \nJennifer Coburn\nJennifer Coburn is the author of Cradles of the Reich\, a historical novel about three very different women living at a Nazi Lebensborn breeding home at the start of World War ll. \nShe has also published a mother-daughter travel memoir\, We’ll Always Have Paris\, as well as six contemporary women’s novels. Additionally\, Jennifer has contributed to five literary anthologies\, including A Paris All Your Own. \nJennifer lives in San Diego with her husband\, William. Their daughter\, Katie is currently in graduate school. When Jennifer is not going down historical research rabbit holes\, she volunteers with So Say We All\, a live storytelling organization\, where she is a performer\, producer\, and performance coach. She is also an active volunteer with Reality Changers\, a nonprofit that supports low-income high school students in becoming the first in their families to attend college. She specializes in college essay development and interview prep. \n  \nWinnie M. Li\nWinnie M Li is an author and activist. Her latest novel Complicit draws from her earlier career in the film industry. It was a New York Times’ Editors’ Choice\, and listed among the Best Crime Novels of 2022 by CrimeReads and The Irish Times. A Harvard graduate\, she previously wrote for travel guidebooks\, produced independent feature films\, and programmed for film festivals. Her debut Dark Chapter won The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize\, was nominated for an Edgar Award\, and was translated into ten languages. She is currently adapting it for the screen. Driven by her own experience of rape\, Winnie advocates publicly around sexual violence and consent\, and holds an honorary doctorate of law from the National University of Ireland in recognition of her writing and activism. A New Jersey native\, Winnie has lived and worked abroad for over 20 years\, primarily in England. (She does come to Southern California once a year\, though!) http://winniemli.com. \n  \nLilly Ghahremani\nLilly is co-founder of Full Circle Literary\, “a Literary agency representing a diverse and inclusive family of authors & artists whose books break barriers and stand the test of time.” Lilly is a graduate of the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, UCLA School of Law (JD)\, and San Diego State University’s School of Business (MBA). Happy to be back in San Diego after a few years living in Seattle\, she can be found strolling in the sun\, drinking too much coffee at her local coffee shop\, driving and singing with the windows down\, or reading with her daughter\, a bookworm in training. \n  \n  \nJudy Reeves\nJudy Reeves is an award-winning writer whose books include A Writer’s Book of Days and Wild Women\, Wild Voices. In addition to her books on the craft of writing\, she has also published fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction. When Your Heart Says Go is her first memoir. A long-time instructor of creative writing\, she teaches at writing conferences internationally and at San Diego Writers\, Ink\, a nonprofit literary center she cofounded. Judy lives and writes in San Diego\, amid bulging bookshelves and an ancient Underwood typewriter that claims its own social media fan base. You can find Judy and her Underwood on her website\, judyreeveswriter.com. \n  \nSue William Silverman\nSue William Silverman is an award-winning author of eight works of nonfiction and poetry. Her forthcoming book\, available for pre-order\, is Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul. Her previous book\, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences\,won the gold star in Foreword Reviews Indie Book of the Year Award and the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature. Other books include Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction\, made into a Lifetime TV movie; Because I Remember Terror\, Father\, I Remember You\, which won the AWP Award; and The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew.She teaches at the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.www.SueWilliamSilverman.com \n  URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/festival-u/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/U-Facebook-Cover-2160-x-1080-px-3.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231002T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231002T200000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20230907T164833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T002232Z UID:270135-1696271400-1696276800@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:GupShup: Immigrant Stories\, A Conversation DESCRIPTION:The San Diego Writers Festival in collaboration with Mingei Museum Community Monday series is delighted to present an honest\, delicious dialogue about immigrant experiences and the food that shapes our lives. Sample foods and stories from India\, Ukraine\, Iraq\, Sudan and San Diego in the newly renovated\, beautiful cultural hub of Balboa Park. The panel will include Huda Al-Marashi\, author of First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story and Jane Muschenetz\, co-founder of Table M and author of All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents\, with insightful moderation by Madhushree Ghosh\, author of Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food\, Memory and Family. \nThe presentation will also feature a visit with farmers from City Heights’ groundbreaking New Roots Community Garden\,recognized by Michelle Obama as “a model for the nation\, for the world.” \nEnjoy a feast for the mind and heart with nibbles\, chit chat\, and Q&A at the end\, along with a short book signing and selling from our featured authors. \nTime: Monday\, October 2\, 6:30 PM Location: Mingei Museum Balboa Park\, Plaza de Panama\, 1439 El Prado San Diego\, CA 92101 Cost: $20.00 (proceeds support the 2024 San Diego Writers Festival) \nTickets \nHuda\, Al-Marashi is a public speaker and author of books for both adults and children. The Washington Post called her bestselling memoir First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story “a charming\, funny\, heartbreaking memoir of faith\, family\, and the journey to love.” She is a co-author of the middle-grade novel Grounded and the author of Not Only an Only in the anthology Once Upon an Eid. \nHuda’s other writing has appeared in various news outlets such as the New York Times\, Washington Post\, LA Times\, and al Jazeera. She has been awarded a Cuyahoga County Creative Workforce Fellowship\, an Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writer Fellowship\, and a Highlights Foundation Muslim Storytellers Fellowship. First Comes Marriage was longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize and a finalist for the Southern California Independent Booksellers’ Award. View her TEDx talk on Eliminating Cultural Bias here. \nJane Muschenetz is a Ukrainian-born\, Russian-speaking\, Jewish refugee who fled the Soviet regime as a child. Recognized for excellence in Poetry Performance by the County of San Diego\, Jane is a 2023 City of Encinitas Exhibiting Artist and winner of the 2022 Good Life Review Poetry Prize. Her debut poetry collection\, All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents (KelsayBooks\, 2023)\, is a Readers’ Favorite 5 Star Book and a finalist for the Jacar Press Chapbook Prize. Jane is also the “butter half” of the husband-and-wife team behind the long-running food and photography blog\, Table M. \nPassionate about building inclusive\, resilient communities\, Jane serves on the boards of several nonprofits\, including Temple Emanu-El\,  MIT Sloan Alum Club of San Diego\, and International Memoir Writers Association. She is the Director of Partnerships at San Diego Entertainment & Arts Guild and co-founder of the San Diego chapter of Women Who Submit Lit. Her previous work includes advising Fortune 500 companies as a strategy consultant at Bain & Co. View her Poetry Salon feature on using humor in poetry to approach difficult topics here. \nphoto by: Natalie Joy Photography \nThe panel will be moderated by Madhushree Ghosh\, author of Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food\, Memory and Family.  \nHailed by Ms Magazine as a ‘Most Anticipated Read for the Rest of Us in 2022’\, Madhushree Ghosh’s debut food narrative memoir\, KHABAAR: An Immigrant Journey of Food\, Memory\, and Family (2022) marries lives of chefs\, home cooks\, and food stall owners\, with the author’s own immigrant journey as the daughter of refugees\, questioning belonging and the concept of home. View her TEDx talk\, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Food” here. \nHer work has been a Notable Mention in Best American Essays in Food Writing\, Pushcart nominated and published in The New York Times\, Washington Post\, LA Times\, Longreads\, LA Review of Books\, and others.  Madhushree works in oncology diagnostics and can be reached at @writemadhushree and her website (www.writemadhushree.com) \nNew Roots Garden Founded in 2007\, New Roots Farm is a vibrant 2.3 acre sanctuary of healthy food\, community\, and active living right in the heart of City Heights’ concrete jungle. Recognized by Michelle Obama as “a model for the nation\, for the world\,” New Roots is one of the first and most celebrated refugee community gardens in the nation. Integrated into the local economy and infrastructure through on-the-ground\, collaborative advocacy and community support\, New Roots provides opportunity\, healing\, purpose and a sense of home. Learn more here. \nTickets URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/gupshup-immigrant-stories-a-conversation/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230720T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230720T180000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20230621T171137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230621T224148Z UID:270004-1689872400-1689876000@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club - “Go as a River” with Shelley Read DESCRIPTION:National Bestseller \n“An auspicious debut.”—Kirkus (starred review) \n“Shelley Read’s lyrical voice is a force of nature\, and when she lends it to a woman leading a hardscrabble life in rural Colorado\, the result is tragic\, uplifting—and completely unforgettable.”—Bonnie Garmus\, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry \nRights Sold in 30 Territories * March Indie Next Pick * Apple Books\, Most Anticipated Books of 2023 * Barnes & Noble\, Most Anticipated Books of March * Barnes & Noble\, Exclusive Edition * Amazon\, Editors’ Pick * Publishers Marketplace\, Buzz Books Editors Panel Pick * Zibby Magazine\, Most Anticipated Books of 2023 * Thoughts From A Page\, Most Anticipated Historical Fiction of 2023 * Book Girls Guide\, Best Book Club Books for 2023 * Real Simple\, Best Books of 2023 \n\n“Affecting.”—Publishers Weekly \n“Beautiful . . . A striking first novel of love and strength and growth\, set against the forests and rivers of Colorado’s high country. Read is a gifted writer\, and the book is a literary triumph.”―Denver Post \n“With gorgeous descriptions of the great outdoors\, an illicit love story\, and an unforgettable protagonist\, Go as a River offers something for everyone.”―Real Simple \n“Evocative . . . moving . . . fascinating. . . .Through lush imagery of the natural world\, GO AS A RIVER shows the possibility of growing in the most challenging of circumstances\, the power that flows through us\, and how the natural world can give us the strength to keep on going.”―The i Paper \n“In this lyrical debut novel\, a “small fateful twist” overtakes an isolated young woman seeking the courage and resilience to keep flowing forward\, as a river\, against all obstacles\, in post-WWII Colorado… Read\, a fifth-generation Coloradan\, draws characters and settings with period authenticity\, stunning imagery\, and deft metaphors.”—Booklist \n“GO AS A RIVER is a stunning debut set in the soul of the American dream.”—Adriana Trigiani\, bestselling author of The Good Left Undone \n“Completely spellbinding\, vivid\, and luminous.”—Jane Green\, bestselling author of Sister Stardust \n“In GO AS A RIVER\, Shelley Read delivers a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of a girl becoming a woman in a man’s world. Young Victoria Nash is as tough and resilient as the Colorado mountains where she takes refuge\, and as tender as the peaches that are her family legacy.”—Tiffany Quay Tyson\, author of The Past Is Never \n“Shelley Read’s devastatingly beautiful debut\, GO AS A RIVER\, delivers so very much: the tenderness and curiosity of young love\, the eternal pangs of loss\, the brutality of racism\, the sustaining power of nature even in the face of man’s destruction\, and the precarious miracle of a mother’s love. Suffused with wisdom and compassion\, this shattering testimony to life is one to be savored\, treasured\, shared.”—Meg Waite Clayton\, bestselling author of The Postmistress of Paris \n“This soaring\, compassionate tale of female resilience is set against a breath-taking picture of our natural world—its trees and mountains and light.”—The Independent (UK) \nSet amid Colorado’s wild beauty\, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic and uplifting novel of love and loss\, family\, and survival—and hope—for readers of Great Circle\, The Four Winds\, and Where the Crawdads Sing. \nSeventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola\, Colorado—the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past\, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses.  \n  \nVictoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner\, a meeting that profoundly alters their young lives\, unknowingly igniting as much passion as danger. When tragedy strikes\, Victoria leaves the only life she has ever known. She flees into the surrounding mountains\, where she struggles to survive in the wilderness\, with no clear notion of what her future will bring. As the seasons change\, she also charts the changes in herself\, finding in the beautiful but harsh landscape the meaning and strength to move forward and rebuild all that she has lost\, even as the Gunnison River threatens to submerge her homeland—its ranches\, farms\, and the beloved peach orchard that has been in her family for generations.  \n  \nRead is a fifth-generation Coloradan who received her MFA in her twenties but then went on to teach literature and environmental studies and raise two kids. Now in her 50s\, she finally returned to the novel she’d started many years ago. She writes: \n  \n“This novel gets at the heart of what is most valuable to me and what I think the world needs now: a strong connection to nature\, a belief in love\, and a deep faith in personal resilience. I hope that my novel will leave readers exploring some of the relevant issues of our time—displacement\, prejudice\, and notions of progress; the value of women\, mothers\, and the natural world; resilience in the face of adversity; and\, of course\, the extraordinary power of love.” \n  \nInspired by true events surrounding the destruction of the town of Iola in the 1960s\, GO AS A RIVER is a story of deeply held love in the face of hardship and loss\, but also of finding courage\, resilience\, friendship\, and\, finally\, home—where least expected. \nShelley Read is a fifth-generation Coloradoan who lives with her family in the Elk Mountains of the Western Slope. She was a senior lecturer at Western Colorado University for nearly three decades\, where she taught writing\, literature\, environmental studies\, and Honors\, and was a founder of the Environment & Sustainability major and a support program for first-generation and at-risk students. Shelley holds degrees in writing and literary studies from the University of Denver and Temple University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She is a regular contributor to Crested ButteMagazine and Gunnison Valley Journal and has written for the Denver Post and a variety of publications. Go As A River is her first novel\, and is being published in 30 territories around the globe. ShelleyRead.com\n  URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/warwicks-sdwf-book-club-go-as-a-river-with-shelley-read/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1A45F28D-AB19-4A5B-A087-FC48639E0F3C.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230615T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230615T180000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20230523T212138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T212138Z UID:269974-1686852000-1686852000@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Dean Nelson and Rabbi Steve Leder in Conversation about Journaling and his new book\, For You When I am Gone (open to all) ONLINE DESCRIPTION:Register here URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/dean-nelson-and-rabbi-steve-leder-in-conversation-about-journaling-and-his-new-book-for-you-when-i-am-gone-open-to-all-online/ LOCATION:Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/0411E8A1-33C3-4323-A665-40CE6C34A8E8.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T180000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20230210T200021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230620T033742Z UID:269646-1682010000-1682013600@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club presents "The Matchmaker's Gift" with Lynda Cohen Loigman DESCRIPTION:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club present The Matchmaker’s Gift with Lynda Cohen Loigman\nTime: Thursday\, April 20\, 2023\, 5:00-6:00 PM Pacific Time \nBuy the Book: Click here to buy from Warwick’s \nA Facebook Live Event: Join us here \n\nNamed a Best Book of Fall by Parade • BuzzFeed • New York Post • GMA.com • People\n\n“Loigman’s latest is a gem. A scrappy Jewish teenager newly arrived in 1920s New York struggles to follow her calling as a matchmaker––seventy years later\, her cynical divorce-attorney granddaughter realizes she has very inconveniently inherited the family gift for matching soulmates. Both funny and moving\, The Matchmaker’s Gift made me smile from start to finish.”\n––Kate Quinn\, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code \nIs finding true love a calling or a curse? \nEven as a child in 1910\, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates. But among the pushcart-crowded streets of New York’s Lower East Side\, Sara’s vocation is dominated by devout older men—men who see a talented female matchmaker as a dangerous threat to their traditions and livelihood. After making matches in secret for more than a decade\, Sara must fight to take her rightful place among her peers\, and to demand the recognition she deserves. \nTwo generations later\, Sara’s granddaughter\, Abby\, is a successful Manhattan divorce attorney\, representing the city’s wealthiest clients. When her beloved Grandma Sara dies\, Abby inherits her collection of handwritten journals recording the details of Sara’s matches. But among the faded volumes\, Abby finds more questions than answers. Why did Abby’s grandmother leave this library to her and what did she hope Abby would discover within its pages? Why does the work Abby once found so compelling suddenly feel inconsequential and flawed? Is Abby willing to sacrifice the career she’s worked so hard for in order to keep her grandmother’s mysterious promise to a stranger? And is there really such a thing as love at first sight? \n\n\nAbout the author:\nLynda Cohen Loigman is the author of The Wartime Sisters and The Two-Family House. She received a B.A. in English and American Literature from Harvard College and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She grew up in Longmeadow\, MA\, and now lives in Chappaqua\, NY. \n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nPraise for The Matchmaker’s Gift:\n“Insightful\, charming and packed with historical New York details\, The Matchmaker’s Gift is a tribute to the bonds of family and taking a chance on true love.” ––Shelf Awareness \n“Loigman has a gift herself: the ability to evoke places and scenes with the subtlest of details. She takes us all over town in time and space: a crowded French bakery on the Upper East Side and narrow streets lined with sweltering tenements; the audience gathering at dusk for the Shakespeare Festival in Central Park and a Tribeca party sparkling with celebrities and high fashion.” ––BookTrib \n“The plot employs some mag­i­cal real­ism [and] sim­mers with vibrant detail…Loigman’s research exudes authen­tic­i­ty\, invok­ing the sights and smells of a bygone Low­er East Side. The his­tor­i­cal chap­ters are com­pelling; the more con­tem­po­rary ones are equal­ly so. A fas­ci­nat­ing nar­ra­tive.” ––Jewish Book Council \n“As we follow these parallel storylines\, Sara and Abby follow their destinies with an abundance of character and charm. Plus\, the dual timelines are rife with fun historical details.” ––BuzzFeed \n“Loigman’s thorough exploration of turn-of-the century\, Jewish immigrant culture and her smooth transitions into the 1990s give the reader a full and satisfying picture of Manhattan across the twentieth century. The details are painstaking but never tedious\, and the relationships are exciting\, sincere\, and beautiful.” ––Booklist URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/warwicks-sdwf-book-club-present-the-matchmakers-gift-with-lynda-cohen-loigman/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_2184.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230407T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230407T210000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20230216T003851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230301T234000Z UID:269753-1680892200-1680901200@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:2023 Kowit Awards and San Diego Poetry Celebration DESCRIPTION:A do-not-miss event!\nThe San Diego Writers Festival and The San Diego Poetry Celebration & 2023 Kowit Awards will take place this year at the San Diego Central Library. Come hear Lee Herrick\, the California Poet Laureate\, and Jason Magabo Perez\, the 2023 San Diego Poet Laureate and celebrate the winners of the Kowit Awards! \nGet Tickets URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/2023-kowit-awards-and-san-diego-poetry-celebration/ LOCATION:CA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1E015EC8-E95F-403F-9198-A4A662B19802.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T190000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20230216T005549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T021925Z UID:269756-1677178800-1677178800@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Meet the Author- Edward Zuckerman at the Coronado Public Library DESCRIPTION:The San Diego Writers Festival is proud to partner with the Coronado Public Library on Feb 23rd.\nEmmy-award-winning writer Edward Zuckerman will be discussing his new novel\, Wealth Management\, at 7:00 p.m.in the Winn Room.\nFree to the public. Join us! \nAbout the Author:\n\nEdward Zuckerman began his career as a journalist\, writing for Rolling Stone\, Spy\, the New Yorker\, Harper’s\, Esquire\, and many other magazines.  He wrote two well-reviewed nonfiction books\, The Day After World War III and Small Fortunes\, and then moved into writing for television dramas\, including “Law & Order” (50+ episodes)\, “Blue Bloods\,” and “Law & Order: SVU.”  He has won two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America and an Emmy for his work on “Law & Order.”  He lives in Manhattan and Manhattan Beach\, California.  Wealth Management is his first novel.\n\n\nAbout Wealth Management:\n\nFor Fans of Elmore Leonard\, Jess Walter and Gary Shteyngart\, a Financial Thriller Featuring Three Ivy League MBAs who Must Put Their Lopsided Love Triangle Aside to Snare International Terrorists \nIn the lush world-banking capital of Geneva\, Switzerland\, three friends from Harvard Business School find their lives and their work unexpectedly intertwined. Catherine and Majid are handling investments for clients with dubious pedigrees. When their friend Rafe shows up in Geneva\, he claims to be just another start-up hedge fund manager. But Rafe\, after a moral awakening\, is now an undercover agent with the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and he’s in Geneva secretly investigating his old friends\, one of whom was his former lover. \nCatherine and Rafe pick up right where they left off\, even though she’s now seeing Majid\, but she’s soon in a tangle bigger than infidelity when her biggest client appears to be leading her into a trap of money laundering co-conspiracy. And then there’s Majid\, who would be more jealous of Rafe if he didn’t have more worrisome problems\, such as his biggest client shorting a Nigerian oil company stock right before a catastrophic “accident.” As the CIA closes in on the terrorists themselves\, Rafe\, with the help of Detective Emmanuel Okoro of the Nigerian police\, works to find a way to save his friends and the world at the same time. \nFast-paced and entertaining\, Wealth Management shows that Emmy award-winning TV writer Edward Zuckerman is at the top of his game. \n\n\n“Edward Zuckerman\, an award-winning TV scriptwriter\, also brings energy and engaging characters to his impressive debut thriller. Wealth Management is a clever\, entertaining romp through the world of high finance and dirty money.”—Financial Times \n \n“Zuckerman\, who has won two Edgars and an Emmy for his work on Law & Order\, makes his fiction debut with a gripping thriller. Zuckerman makes the intricate plot accessible for the financially illiterate while keeping readers invested in how everything plays out.” —Publisher’s Weekly \n“This first novel by Edgar and Emmy Award winner Zuckerman (a writer for TV shows Law & Order and Blue Bloods) is a well-plotted\, intricate\, and diverting thriller set in beautiful Geneva. Zuckerman [keeps] a lot of thematic balls in the air; he really hits his stride in his first time out\, telling a story torn from the headlines with a quick-read focus.”—Library Journal \n“A pure joy to read with a wickedly clever plot\, vivid characters\, and a fabulously droll sense of humor that emerges even with the novel’s deadpan title. If you are a fan of Leonard or Le Carré\, you are going to love Zuckerman.”\n—DOUGLAS PRESTON\, #1 New York Times bestselling author  \n“An exciting and suspenseful state-of-the-art thriller about money\, terrorism\, and the way we live now. Ed Zuckerman makes the leap from being a big-time TV writer into novel world as gracefully as he made the leap from investigative journalism into writing for the likes of Miami Vice and Law & Order. You’ll be up late turning the pages. Highly recommended.” —PETER BLAUNER\, New York Times bestselling author of The Intruder and Picture in the Sand \n“A polished debut novel that seamlessly blends twisty\, original characters with an ingenious plot and glittering foreign locales. An international financial thriller that’s camera ready for a feature film\, the tale simmers with the chilling suspense of David Baldacci’s best work and the wry humor of Elmore Leonard’s iconic novels. The fast-paced\, tangled-web plot crackles with energy and high adventure and will keep you up past your bedtime. An original voice in the thriller genre\, Zuckerman moves to the head of the class.” —PAUL LEVINE\, author of the bestselling Jake Lassiter Series \n“An intriguing\, sexy\, wild ride through the high-stakes world of international finance with a criminal twist\, Ed Zuckerman’s novel dazzles with wit\, humor\, and immaculate attention to detail. But the emotional heart is what stays with you: the story of love gained and lost\, of betrayals and regrets\, an unflinching recognition of the weaknesses\, foibles\, ambition\, greed\, and the deep-rooted need for understanding that makes us all human.” —JULIE MARTIN\, Humanitas Prize–winning television producer and writer of Homicide \n“Suspenseful\, funny\, and thrilling. Zuckerman’s writing propels you through the seedy side of international banking\, money laundering\, and the consequences of letting morals slide for big sums of money. A must-read for fans of Succession and Billions.” —LAUREN FORRY\, author of They Did Bad Things URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/meet-the-author-edward-zuckerman-at-the-coronado-public-library/ LOCATION:Coronado Public Library\, 640 Orange Avenue\, Coronado\, California\, 92118 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/587C5027-936F-45A5-8C19-F73DC8F82238.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230214T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20230203T000313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T001033Z UID:269639-1676332800-1676332800@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:KidsWrite! Submissions Open DESCRIPTION:KidsWrite! Submissions Open February 14\, 2023 \nAll writers in Kindergarten through 12th Grade who reside in San Diego County are welcome to submit.  The three literature categories are Poetry\, Short Story\, and Graphic Story (illustrated story). \n\nPoetry may be in any format\, rhyming or free verse;\nShort Story is generally (but does not have to be) a work of fiction;\nGraphic Story is a poem\, essay\, or short story told in illustrations\, no more than 4 pages long\, either hand-drawn and scanned or using a graphic drawing program such as ProCreate. Entries may or may not have captions or speech/thought bubbles.\nWriters may submit works in one or more categories—for example\, one Poem and one Short Story—but may submit only one work per category. Please see Section 4: Entry Rules / Requirements / How-To’s\, below\, for more entry information.\n\nLearn More: https://sandiegowritersfestival.submittable.com/submit URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/kidswrite-submissions-open/ LOCATION:Sample Venue Name\, Sample Venue Address\, Sample Venue City\, CA\, 12345\, United States CATEGORIES:Kids Programming ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Kidswrite-theme-2023png-e1675383008231.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230126T180000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20230116T211021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230116T211630Z UID:269614-1674752400-1674756000@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club present Hester: A Novel by Laurie Lico Albanese DESCRIPTION:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club: Hester: A Novel by Laurie Lico Albanese\nTime: Thursday\, January 26\, 2023\, 5:00-6:00 PM Pacific Time \nBuy the Book: Click here to buy from Warwick’s \nA Facebook Live Event: Join us here \nNamed a Most Anticipated Book for Fall by Goodreads • Washington Post • New York Post • BuzzFeed • PopSugar • Business Insider • An October Indie Next List Pick • An October LibraryReads Pick \n“A hauntingly beautiful––and imagined––origin story to The Scarlet Letter.” ––People \nWHO IS THE REAL HESTER PRYNNE?Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband\, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium\, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Glasgow for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they’ve arrived in Salem\, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic––leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country\, forced to make her way by any means possible. \nWhen she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne\, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he is a man haunted by his ancestors\, who sent innocent women to the gallows––while she is an unusually gifted needleworker\, troubled by her own strange talents. As the weeks pass and Edward’s safe return grows increasingly unlikely\, Nathaniel and Isobel grow closer and closer. Together\, they are a muse and a dark storyteller; the enchanter and the enchanted. But which is which? \nIn this sensuous and hypnotizing tale\, a young immigrant woman grapples with our country’s complicated past\, and learns that America’s ideas of freedom and liberty often fall short of their promise. Interwoven with Isobel and Nathaniel’s story is a vivid interrogation of who gets to be a “real” American in the first half of the 19th century\, a depiction of the early days of the Underground Railroad in New England\, and atmospheric interstitials that capture the long history of “unusual” women being accused of witchcraft. Meticulously researched yet evocatively imagined\, Laurie Lico Albanese’s Hester is a timeless tale of art\, ambition\, and desire that examines the roots of female creative power and the men who try to shut it down. \n\n\n\n“A unique take on a story that tackles what it costs to be an “unusual” woman.” ––BuzzFeed \n“Albanese’s novel will engage readers seeking racial themes\, a resilient heroine\, and a feminist origin story for one of America’s always relevant nineteenth-century classics.” ––Booklist \n“A lovely fictional look at the origins of [Hawthorne’s] masterpiece…the rich details of life in Salem in the early 19th century\, and especially about Isobel’s creative work as a seamstress and designer\, enliven the tale.” ––Kirkus \n“A standout historical… Even those unfamiliar with the classic will be hooked by this account of a capable woman standing up to the sexist and racial prejudices of her time.” ––Publishers Weekly \n“Hester is a vividly reimagined portrayal of the tragic heroine in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. “Full of lush and colorful prose\, this is a tale of one woman’s determination and self-reliance amid the ‘new world’ of 19th-century Salem\, which teems with festering secrets and alluring prospects. A message of resilience\, Hester proves that a woman will do whatever she must to prosper\, even when she is left with nothing but courage―and a few secrets of her own.” ––Sarah Penner\, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary \n“Albanese has written a masterpiece that should be required reading alongside Hawthorne’s classic tale of adultery. Rich in detail and hauntingly lyrical\, she examines the myriad ways that extraordinary women are judged harshly and forced to downplay their gifts in order to conform to society’s demands. Enthralling\, ambitious\, and a total knock-out.” ––Fiona Davis\, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue \n“A rich tapestry of a novel. In dreamlike yet vivid prose\, Albanese weaves a story about 19th century Salem\, a place with a dark history where secrets still abound\, and conjures the life of Hawthorne’s muse\, a woman whose skill and imagination are both the key to her survival and the source of others’ mistrust and envy. Vivid\, complex\, and intricately detailed.” ––Christina Baker Kline\, #1 New York Times bestselling author \n“This page-turning and poignant novel beautifully imagines the untold life story of the woman who went down in literary history wearing a scarlet letter. Albanese lets the reader accompany her through an early life of secret powers and difficult attachments on her way to becoming a strong and independent woman.” ––Alice Elliott Dark\, author of Fellowship Point \n“The diverse women at the heart of The Crucible\, the Salem witch trials\, and The Scarlet Letter at last get their say―in full-throated technicolor. A luminous blend of fiction and truth\, with an extraordinarily gifted heroine at its center\, Hester weaves together a spellbinding tapestry of Salem history as it has never been told before.” ––Afia Atakora\, author of Conjure Women \n\n\nLaurie Lico Albanese has published fiction\, poetry\, journalism\, travel writing\, creative nonfiction\, and memoir. Her books include Stolen Beauty\, Blue Suburbia: Almost a Memoir\, Lynelle by the Sea\, and The Miracles of Prato\, co-written with art historian Laura Morowitz. Laurie is married to a publishing executive and is the mother of two children. URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/warwicks-sdwf-book-club-present-hester-a-novel-by-laurie-lico-albanese/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2-14.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221008T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221008T180000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20220819T214447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220827T160804Z UID:268877-1665221400-1665252000@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:2022 Writers Festival DESCRIPTION:Full Schedule\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Local award-winning author\, Shilpi Somaya Gowda\, author of Secret Daughter\, The Golden Son\, and The Shape of Family (Keynote) \nQian Julie Wang\, author of Beautiful Country: A Memoir (A NYT Bestsellter and Notable Book of 2021; One of President Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021; NPR Best Book of 2021) (in conversation with Marni Freedman) \nAuthors Madhushree Ghosh (Khabaar) and Keith Corbin (California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival) (on Food Writing as Metaphor) \nLaura Cathcart Robbins host of The Only One in the Room podcast and author of Stash (workshop on the publishing process from query to cover art) \nSan Diego’s own Dean Nelson\, author of Talk to Me: How to Ask Better Questions\, Get Better Answers\, and Interview Anyone – (Art of the Interview workshop and panel on the current state of journalism) \nSDWF Poet in Residence\, Gill Sotu – (performance and creative writing workshop) \nKirsten Grind\, WSJ reporter and author of Happy At Any Cost: The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh \nAward-winning mystery writers panel with Matt Coyle (author of the Rick Cahill Series); Naomi Hirihara (Clark and Division); Joe Ide (The Goodbye Coast and the IQ series); and Gary Phillips (One Shot Harry). \nHistorical fiction panel with Jennifer Coburn (Cradles of the Reich); Nicola Harrison (The Showgirl); and Jill Hall (The Green Lace Corset) \nAuthor Amy Wallen (How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies) (workshop on Striving for Imperfection) \nKidlit authors\, Virginia Loh-Hagan\, and Lee Wind (on speaking out against book banning) \nAward-winning actress\, screenwriter\, and comedian\, Renee Taylor (The Nanny) \nMemoir panel with Jesse Leon (I’m Not Broken); Sonora Jha (How to Raise a Feminist Son); Laura Engel (You’ll Forget This Ever Happened) \nZibby Owen\, host of Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books podcast and author of Bookends (on building community and being an author advocate and book influencer) \nand Dave Putnam (author of the Bruno Johnson series); Linda Moore (Attribution); Leslie Johansen Nack (The Blue Butterfly); and Anastasia Zadeik (Blurred Fates) (on Developing a Book Marketing Plan) \n…and more to come! URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/2022-writers-festival/ LOCATION:Coronado Public Library\, 640 Orange Avenue\, Coronado\, California\, 92118 CATEGORIES:2022 Writers Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SDWF-2022-Save-the-Date.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T180000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20220821T003443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220822T183911Z UID:268964-1664470800-1664474400@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: Warwick's + SDWF Book Club Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda DESCRIPTION:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club: Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda \nTime: September 29\, 2022\, 5:00-6:00 PM Pacific Time \nBuy the Book: Click here to buy from Warwick’s \n\nA Facebook Live Event. Click here to join. \n\n\n\n\n\nMoving and thought-provoking and informative and imaginative and beautifully executed.  What a wonderful story!”\n—Mary Jane Clark \n“This book is a must for anyone touched by adoption\, or India\, or the delicate dynamic between adolescent girls and their mothers.”\n—Sujata Massey\, author of Shimura Trouble \nSecret Daughter\, a first novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda\, explores powerfully and poignantly the emotional terrain of motherhood\, loss\, identity\, and love through the experiences of two families—one Indian\, one American—and the child that binds them together. A masterful work set partially in the Mumbai slums so vividly portrayed in the hit film Slumdog Millionaire\, Secret Daughter recalls the acclaimed novels of Kim Edwards and Thrity Umrigar\, yet sparkles with the freshness of a truly exciting new literary voice. \n  \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author:\nShilpi Somaya Gowda was born and raised in Toronto\, Canada. Her previous novels\, Secret Daughter and The Golden Son became international bestsellers\, selling over one million copies worldwide. She holds an MBA from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, where she was a Morehead-Cain scholar. She lives in California with her husband and children. URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/virtual-book-club-warwicks-sdwf-book-club-secret-daughter-by-shilpi-somaya-gowda/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/C69AE2DA-EA75-4DC0-8BCD-DBC49C499990.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220616T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220616T180000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20220503T210019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220822T183614Z UID:268772-1655398800-1655402400@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: Warwick's + SDWF Book Club Never Simple: A Memoir\, featuring Liz Scheier DESCRIPTION:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club: Never Simple: A Memoir\, featuring Liz Scheier  \nTime: June16\, 2022\, 5:00-6:00 PM Pacific Time \nBuy the Book: Click here to buy from Warwick’s \n\nA Facebook Live Event. Click here to join. \n\n\n\nLiz Scheier’s darkly funny and touching memoir—with shades of Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle and Mira Bartók’s The Memory Palace—of growing up in ’90s Manhattan with a brilliant\, mendacious single mother. \nScheier’s mother Judith was a news junkie\, a hilarious storyteller\, a fast-talking charmer you couldn’t look away from\, a single mother whose devotion crossed the line into obsession\, and—when in the grips of the mental illness that plagued every day of her life—a violent and abusive liar whose hold on reality was shaky at best. On an uneventful afternoon when Scheier was eighteen\, her mother sauntered into the room to tell her two important things: one\, she had been married for most of Scheier’s life to a man she’d never heard of\, and two\, the man she’d told Scheier was her father was entirely fictional. She’d made him up. Those two big lies were the start\, but not the end; it took dozens of smaller lies to support them\, and by the time she was done she had built a farcical\, half-true life for the two of them\, from fake social security number to fabricated husband. \nOne hot July day twenty years later\, Scheier receives a voicemail from Adult Protective Services\, reporting that Judith has stopped paying rent and is refusing all offers of assistance. That call is the start of a shocking journey that takes the Scheiers\, mother and daughter\, deep into the cascading effects of decades of lies and deception. \nNever Simple is the story of learning to survive—and\, finally\, trying to save—a complicated parent\, as feared as she is loved\, and as self-destructive as she is adoring. \n\n\n\nLiz Scheier is a former Penguin Random House editor who worked in publishing and content development for many years\, including at Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon. She writes book reviews and feature articles for Publishers Weekly. She is now a product developer living in Washington\, D.C.\, with her husband\, two small children\, and an ill-behaved cat. Never Simple is her first book. URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/never-simple-a-memoir-featuring-liz-scheier/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/SDWFWarwicks_Book_Club_Never_Simple1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220414T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220414T180000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20220302T013618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220302T013951Z UID:268657-1649955600-1649959200@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: Warwick's + SDWF Book Club Beneficence featuring bestselling-author Meredith Hall DESCRIPTION:Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club: Beneficence featuring bestselling-author Meredith Hall \nTime: Apr 14\, 2022\, 5:00-6:00 PM Pacific Time \n  \n\nBuy the Book: Click here to buy from Warwick’s\nA Facebook Live Event. Click here to join. \n\nAfter a sudden and terrible loss\, how does a loving family find their way back to the goodness and peace they once shared? Reviewers and readers have called this literary historical novel “hauntingly beautiful\,” “a masterpiece of compassion\,” “a page-turner and an artistic triumph.”\nWritten by a masterful storyteller\, this is a book that illuminates the journey we make through grief to healing. \nIn the midst of a nearly perfect life\, Doris Senter is thankful but wary. “We can’t ever know what will come\,” she says. When an unimaginable tragedy turns the family of five into a family of four\, everything the Senters held faith in is shattered. The family is consumed by sorrow and guilt. Slowly\, the surviving family members find their way to forgiveness―of themselves and of each other. \nFew writers know the human heart and the burden of grief as New York Times bestselling author Meredith Hall (Without a Map). This is a radiant novel of goodness and love―both its gifts and its obligations―that will stay with readers long after the last page. With a rare tenderness and compassion\, Beneficence shows broken hearts becoming whole as this family reclaims their love and peace. \n\nWhat people are saying: \n\n“People stay together\, fall apart\, come back together\, altered. It is a book about work\, about grief\, about thick ongoing love. Hall’s prose is hewn\, sinewy\, with moments of electrifying beauty and grace.”―Boston Globe \n“One of the best books I’ve ever read.”―Simon Van Booy \n“As organically as it traveled to heartbreak\, Beneficence progresses to the place of wisdom that lies beyond it\, where we learn that a home is part of the ‘vast world of innocence and harm\,’ not an island beyond it.”―Wall Street Journal \n“A modern American masterpiece.”―Dani Shapiro \n“If the word ‘luminous’ didn’t already exist\, you’d have to invent it to describe Meredith Hall’s radiant new novel Beneficence.”―Richard Russo \n“These voices from the past speak so clearly to our time\, at a moment when many of us wonder whether we’ll lose the things that we consider blessings….Beneficence is a quiet but steady book\, one that echoes ancient and important rhythms.”―Washington Post \n“A quiet gem…hard to put down.”―Library Journal\n\n\nMeredith Hall‘s memoir Without a Map was instantly recognized as a classic of the genre and became a New York Times bestseller. It was named Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and BookSense\, as well as Elle’s “Readers’ Pick of the Year.” Ms. Hall was a recipient of the 2004 Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Paris Review\, Five Points\, Gettysburg Review\, Kenyon Review\, Southern Review\, and many other journals. Hall divides her time between Maine and California. \nWebsite: https://meredithhall.org \nTwitter: @MerHallBooks URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/virtual-book-club-sdmwa-warwicks-sdwf-book-club-beneficence-featuring-bestselling-author-meredith-hall/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Beneficence-Cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220205T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220205T163000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20211217T221648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220130T023136Z UID:268583-1644071400-1644078600@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: SDMWA & Warwick's + SDWF Book Club House of Sticks: A Memoir with Ly Tran DESCRIPTION:SDMWA & Warwick’s + SDWF Book Club House of Sticks: A Memoir with Ly Tran \nTime: Feb 5\, 2022\, 02:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \n \n\nBuy the Book: Click here to buy from Warwick’s\nA Facebook Live Event. Click here to join. \nand \nJoin Zoom Meeting. Click here to join.\nMeeting ID: 883 6389 6322\nPasscode: 144210 \n\nOne of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year \nThis beautifully written “masterclass in memoir” (Elle) recounts a young girl’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to Queens\, New York\, “showcas[ing] the tremendous power we have to alter the fates of others\, step into their lives and shift the odds in favor of greater opportunity” (Star Tribune\, Minneapolis). \nLy Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she and her family immigrate from a small town along the Mekong river in Vietnam to a two-bedroom railroad apartment in Queens. Ly’s father\, a former lieutenant in the South Vietnamese army\, spent nearly a decade as a POW\, and their resettlement is made possible through a humanitarian program run by the US government. Soon after they arrive\, Ly joins her parents and three older brothers sewing ties and cummerbunds piece-meal on their living room floor to make ends meet. \nAs they navigate this new landscape\, Ly finds herself torn between two worlds. She knows she must honor her parents’ Buddhist faith and contribute to the family livelihood\, working long hours at home and eventually as a manicurist alongside her mother at a nail salon in Brooklyn that her parents take over. But at school\, Ly feels the mounting pressure to blend in. \nA growing inability to see the blackboard presents new challenges\, especially when her father forbids her from getting glasses\, calling her diagnosis of poor vision a government conspiracy. His frightening temper and paranoia leave a mark on Ly’s sense of self. Who is she outside of everything her family expects of her? \nAn “unsentimental yet deeply moving examination of filial bond\, displacement\, war trauma\, and poverty” (NPR)\, House of Sticks is a timely and powerful portrait of one girl’s coming-of-age and struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations. \n\n\nGet your copy at Warwicks here.\n\n LY TRAN graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Creative Writing and Linguistics in 2014. She has received fellowships from MacDowell\, Art Omi\, and Yaddo. House of Sticks is her first book.\n\nVideo of Ly talking about her book from her publisher’s site:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzJdn-5n70&ab_channel=Simon%26SchusterBooks\n\n\nMore Reviews: \n“Tran fluctuates between tenderness and quiet rage … [Tran] honor[s] these complexities\, tell[s] us we were not meant to swallow our pain and survive in this world without support systems.”\n—New York Times Book Review“[An] unsentimental yet deeply moving examination of filial bond\, displacement\, war trauma\, and poverty. Ostensibly an immigrant success story\, Tran’s narrative power lies in its nuanced celebration of filial devotion that withstands the enormous cost of the American dream … The dilapidated nail salon in a racially volatile Brooklyn neighborhood that Tran’s parents came to own after the end of their sweatshop era — with its filing sticks as tools of the trade — witnessed their stark tribulations as well as the wondrous resilience of their immigrant selves. In the end\, Tran’s empathy and her parents’ appreciation of her filial love cemented the emotional bricks that steady their seemingly tenuous hold on this unaccustomed earth.”\n—NPR”Powerful … showcases the tremendous power we have to alter the fates of others\, step into their lives and shift the odds in favor of greater opportunity”\n—Minneapolis Star Tribune“House of Sticks is a book that will assault and warm your heart at the same time—a classic immigrant tale\, told from the perspective of a Vietnamese child who settled with her family in New York City in the early ’90s with little to no knowledge about life in America… But it is also much more: a coming of age story\, A New York hustle\, a battle with a father who not only maintains an ironclad sense of filial duty\, but also\, fueled by his paranoia\, exercises irrational control over things like vision correction. (In another elegant examination of absence\, the book recounts what a fundamental challenge it is to move through the world without basic ability to see.)”\n—Vogue\, Best Books to Read 2021″Graceful but unflinching\, Ly Tran’s House of Sticks follows the author’s immigration from Vietnam to New York as a toddler\, and the subsequent identity shaping and re-shaping she undergoes throughout her youth and early adult years. Resettled in Queens through a humanitarian program—her father is a former POW—Tran attempts to honor her family through faith and labor\, only to find herself yearning for something that exists outside of their home. Intimate yet universal\, this is a masterclass in memoir.”\n—Elle\, Best Books of Summer 2021″A moving recount of how Tran and her family immigrated from a small town in Vietnam to a two-bedroom railroad apartment in Queens\, and how she forged her path in a new culture.”\n—Marie Claire\, 20 New Books by Asian Authors to Get Excited About \n\n\n\nSocial media/Website:\n\n@LyTranWrites (Twitter)  \nWww.LyTran.me (Author Website)  URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/virtual-book-club-sdmwa-warwicks-sdwf-book-club-house-of-sticks-a-memoir-with-ly-tran/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/House-of-Sticks-A-Memoir-book-cover_opt.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211202T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20211013T003004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T003004Z UID:268493-1638464400-1638468000@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: All's Well: A Novel by Mona Awad DESCRIPTION:Join us\, on facebook live\, December 2nd (Thursday)\, from 5 to 6 pm PST for a free virtual book club with Mona Awad\nA Facebook Live Event. Click here \n\nMiranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating\, chronic back pain\, a failed marriage\, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well\, the play that promised\, and cost\, her everything\, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers. \nThat’s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda’s past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on\, her rebellious students get what’s coming to them\, and the invisible\, doubted pain that’s kept her from the spotlight is made known. \nWith prose Margaret Atwood has described as “no punches pulled\, no hilarities dodged…genius\,” Mona Awad has concocted her most potent\, subversive novel yet. All’s Well is the story of a woman at her breaking point and a formidable\, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.\n\n\n\nBuy your copy of All’s Well from our sponsor\, Warwick’s\, by clicking here.\n\nPraise for:\nFrom the author of Bunny\, which Margaret Atwood hails as “genius\,” comes a dazzling and darkly funny novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare’s most maligned play will remedy all that ails her—but at what cost? \nA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF SUMMER 2021 SELECTED BY * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * VULTURE * LITHUB * REFINERY29 * GOODREADS * POPSUGAR * NOW MAGAZINE * BOSTON * AND MORE \n“[A] sparkling valentine to the Bard. A dream of a novel\, perfect for a midsummer night’s read.”—OPRAH DAILY\n“A dazzling wild ride of a novel—daring\, fresh\, entertaining\, and magical.” —GEORGE SAUNDERS\n“Wild and exhilarating and so fresh it takes your breath away.” —LAUREN GROFF\n“Oh my lord what a fabulous novel—knocked me out!”—MARY KARR\n\nAbout Mona:\nMona Awad is the author of Bunny\, named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME\, Vogue\, and the New York Public Library. It was a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. It is currently in development for film with Jenni Konner and New Regency Productions. Awad’s first novel\, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl\, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, Vogue\, TIME\, McSweeney’s\, Ploughshares\, and elsewhere. She teaches fiction in the Creative Writing program at Syracuse University. Her new novel\, All’s Well\, has been named a best or most anticipated book of summer by Entertainment Weekly\, O Magazine\, Goodreads\, and many more.\n\n \nMona’s Social Media:\n\n\n\n\n\nFollow Mona Awad on Instagram: www.instagram.com/misss_read/\nWebsite: monaawadauthor.com\nFollow Mona Awad on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/7104825.Mona_Awad URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/virtual-book-club-alls-well-a-novel-by-mona-awad/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Alls-Well-Graphic.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211113T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211113T120000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20211030T004519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211030T004519Z UID:268521-1636797600-1636804800@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:How to Get a Publishing House to Take You Seriously with Joe Ide DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP HERE\n\n\n\n\nWith hosts: Jeniffer Thompson and Anastasia Hipkins \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoe’s course is not your ordinary talk about tips\, tricks\, and secrets. Designed for aspiring writers who are serious about becoming a novelist\, the class chronicles what Joe has learned on his rise from failed career after failed career to successful\, critically acclaimed author. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoe Ide grew up in South Central Los Angeles\, where his favorite books were the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories. He went on to earn a graduate degree and had several careers — including Hollywood screenwriter — before writing his debut novel IQ. Inspired by his early experiences and his love of Sherlock Holmes\, IQ went on to win the Anthony\, Macavity\, and Shamus awards. Snoop Dogg has signed on to executive produce a forthcoming TV series based on the IQ series. Joe’s newest novel The Goodbye Coast: A Philip Marlowe Novel\, will be released by Little\, Brown and Company on February 1\, 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective\, Philip Marlowe\, gets a dramatic and colorful reinvention at the hands of award-winning novelist Joe Ide. The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler’s detective\, Philip Marlowe\, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles. Here is a city of scheming Malibu actresses\, ruthless gang members\, virulent inequality\, and washed-out police. Acclaimed and award-winning novelist Joe Ide imagines a Marlowe very much of our time: he’s a quiet\, lonely\, and remarkably capable and confident private detective\, though he lives beneath the shadow of his father\, a once-decorated LAPD homicide detective\, famous throughout the city\, who’s given in to drink after the death of Marlowe’s mother.” \n\n\n\n\nTopics this course will cover: \n\n\n\n\n• Discuss storytelling: the ingredients that make one story compelling and another fall flat.\n• Learn Joe’s methods for creating dynamic characters and dialogue that’s sharp\, smart\, and entertaining.\n• Introduction to his approach to building action scenes\, as well as the basics of rewriting.\n• Publishing field: the gatekeepers\, who they are\, and what they expect.\n• What publishers are looking for and what they’ll reject out of hand.\n• Discussion of money: advances\, royalties\, movie\, and TV options.\n• He’ll answer practical questions like I’m about to write a 300-page novel; how do I start?\nPrologue or no prologue?\nI’m stuck. What do I do now?\nHow do I write twists and turns? What am I looking for when I’m rewriting?\nHow do I develop my “voice”? URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/how-to-get-a-publishing-house-to-take-you-seriously-with-joe-ide/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:MASTER CLASS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Joe-Ide-SDWF-classs-image-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211016T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211016T113000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20210916T192025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T220543Z UID:268438-1634378400-1634383800@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Laurie R King in Conversation with Meg Gardiner - Thriller / Mystery DESCRIPTION:Join masters of their crafts\, Laurie R. King and Meg Gardiner in conversation on How To Write a Thriller \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a do-not-miss discussion with the last 15 minutes for Q and A. \nRSVP HERE\nAbout Laurie R. King: \nLaurie R. King’s crime novels are both serial and stand-alone. First in the hearts of most readers comes Mary Russell\, who met the retired Sherlock Holmes in 1915 and became his apprentice\, then his partner. Beginning with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice\, Russell and Holmes move through the Teens and Twenties in amiable discord\, challenging each other to ever greater feats of detection. \nIn the Russell & Holmes stories\, King explores ideas—the roots of conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan; feminism and early Christianity; patriotism and individual responsibility—while also having a rousing good time.  Various stories revisit The Hound of the Baskervilles and Kipling’s Kim\, set a pair of Bedouin nomads down in a grand country house in England\, and offer an insider’s view of the great quake and fire of 1906\, all the while forging an unlikely relationship between two remarkably similar individuals who happen to be separated by age\, sex\, and background. \nKing’s Stuyvesant & Grey series\, also historical\, follows American ex-Bureau of Investigation agent Harris Stuyvesant\, damaged young Captain Bennett Grey\, and Grey’s sister Sarah as they move through Europe between the Wars. \nFive King novels concern San Francisco homicide inspector Kate Martinelli\, Kate’s SFPD partner Al Hawkin\, and her life partner Lee Cooper. In the course of the stories\, Kate has encountered a female Rembrandt\, a modern-day Holy Fool\, two difficult teenagers\, and a manifestation of the goddess Kali. \nKing’s stand-alone suspense novels include A Darker Place\, the story of a middle-aged professor of religion who investigates “cults” for the FBI\, and encounters a movement that embraces the dangerous beliefs of alchemy.  Folly tells of woodworker Rae Newborne\, who comes to a deserted island to rebuild a house\, and her life. Keeping Watchis the story of Rae’s friend Allen Carmichael\, a Vietnam vet who draws on his combat experiences to rescue abused women and children—until he comes across a boy whose problems may rival his own. Califia’s Daughters (a paperback original by “Leigh Richards”) is a post-apocalyptic sort of tale set in a near future where women rule and men are fragile. \nShe has collaborated on nonfiction works including Crime & Thriller Writing and The Grand Game\, and on several short story anthologies.\n\n\n\nAbout Meg Gardiner: \nEdgar-winning novelist Meg Gardiner writes thrillers. Fast-paced and full of twists\, her books have been called “Hitchcockian” (USA Today) and “nailbiting and moving” (Guardian). They have been bestsellers in the U.S. and internationally and have been translated into more than 20 languages. \nThe Dark Corners of the Night\, her current title\, is the third novel in the UNSUB series\, featuring FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix. Stephen King says\, “Don’t miss it. This is a great one.” Booklist says\, “This suspenseful thriller is exquisitely constructed… Gardiner is on a roll.” It has been bought by Amazon Studios for development as a television series. The first novel in the series\, UNSUB\, won the 2018 Barry Award for Best Thriller. \nThe Evan Delaney novels feature a feisty journalist from Santa Barbara\, California. Stephen King calls them “simply put\, the finest crime-suspense series I’ve come across in the last twenty years.” \nChina Lake won the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. Later it was a finalist for NPR’s 100 Best Thrillers Ever. \nThe Jo Beckett series features a San Francisco forensic psychiatrist. It includes The Liar’s Lullaby\, The Memory Collector\, and The Dirty Secrets Club\, which was chosen one of the Top Ten thrillers of 2008 by Amazon and won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Procedural Novel of the year. \nThe Nightmare Thief\, featuring both Jo Beckett and Evan Delaney\, won the 2012 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense audiobook of the year. \nMeg’s stand-alone novel The Shadow Tracer was named one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2013. Phantom Instinct was chosen one of “The Best Books of Summer” by O\, the Oprah magazine. \nIn addition to her fifteen novels\, Meg has published short stories in American and British magazines and the anthologies Echoes of Sherlock Holmes and  Deadly Anniversaries. She’s contributed essays to Now\, Write! Mysteries\, The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook\, and the Anthony Award-winning Books to Die For. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe is the 2020 president of Mystery Writers of America. URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/laurie-r-king-in-conversation-with-meg-gardiner-thriller-mystery/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:MASTER CLASS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Laurie-R-King-image-book.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211005T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211005T180000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20210823T210755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210823T210755Z UID:268415-1633453200-1633456800@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Virtual Book Club: The Necklace\, A Novel by Matt Witten DESCRIPTION:Join us\, on facebook live\, October 5th (Tuesday)\, from 5 to 6 pm PST for a free virtual book club with Matt Witten\nA Facebook Live Event. Click here to join. \n\n\nPlease RSVP to the event here. \n\n\nThe clock ticks down in a heart-pounding crusade for justice.\nSusan Lentigo’s daughter was murdered twenty years ago—and now\, at long last\, this small-town waitress sets out on a road trip all the way from Upstate New York to North Dakota to witness the killer’s execution. \nOn her journey she discovers shocking new evidence that leads her to suspect the condemned man is innocent—and the real killer is still free. Even worse\, her prime suspect has a young daughter who’s at terrible risk. With no money and no time to spare\, Susan sets out to uncover the truth before an innocent man gets executed and another little girl is killed. \nBut the FBI refuses to reopen the case. They—and Susan’s own mother—believe she’s just having an emotional breakdown. Reaching deep\, Susan finds an inner strength she never knew she had. With the help of two unlikely allies—a cynical\, defiant teenage girl and the retired cop who made the original arrest—Susan battles the FBI to put the real killer behind bars. Will she win justice for the condemned man—and her daughter—at last? \nPerfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and Harlan Coben \nThe Necklace has been optioned for film by Appian Way and Cartel Pictures\, with Leonardo DiCaprio attached as producer. \n\n\n\n\n\n \npraise for…\n\n“[The Necklace] is as fast and tense as a great thriller should be\, but it’s full of warmth and humanity too—one small-town woman’s quest for the most poignant kind of justice you could imagine. Buy it today and read it tonight!” —Lee Child\, New York Times best-selling author \n “Thelma and Louise meets The Green Mile in this unique and powerful thriller following one mother’s cross-country journey to find the truth.” —Lisa Gardner\, New York Times best-selling author \n “The Necklace‘s brave\, truly unforgettable heroine grabbed my heart . . . This compelling\, powerful read will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page.” —Lee Goldberg\, #1 New York Times best-selling author \n “The Necklace is an addictively readable story of a mother’s quest for justice. Surprising\, propulsive\, and poignant. I inhaled this novel.” —Meg Gardiner\, Edgar Award-winning author \n “A high stakes drama that introduces us to a heroine with an honorable streak that runs bone deep. The subject matter is gut-wrenching and thought provoking\, the entire tale laced with a haunting eeriness. Matt Witten is a pro\, and this gem of a thriller is proof positive of that.” —Steve Berry\, New York Times best-selling author \n  \n\nAbout Matt:\nMatt Witten is a TV writer\, novelist\, playwright and screenwriter who has written for many TV shows including House\, Pretty Little Liars\, Law & Order\, CSI: Miami\, Medium\, JAG\, The Glades\, Homicide\, Judging Amy\, and Women’s Murder Club. His latest thriller\, The Necklace\, will come out from Oceanview Publishing this September. It’s been optioned for film by Appian Way and Cartel Pictures\, with Leonardo DiCaprio attached as producer. Matt has also written four mystery novels set in upstate New York that were published by Signet: Breakfast at Madeline’s\, Grand Delusion\, Strange Bedfellows\, and The Killing Bee. He wrote the movie Drones. He has been nominated for two Edgars and an Emmy\, and his debut novel won the Malice Domestic Award.\n\n\nMatt’s Website: mattwittenwriter.com \n\nMatt’s Social Media:\n\nGoodreads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/206833.Matt_Witten\nTwitter: @mattzwitten\nInstagram: MattWitten22\nFacebook: Matt Witten \n\n\nMatt’s Publisher Social Media\n\nPublisher: Oceanview Publishing.\nTwitter: @oceanviewpub\nInstagram: oceanviewpub\nFacebook: Oceanview Publishing URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/virtual-book-club-the-necklace-a-novel-by-matt-witten/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/thenecklace-cover-image_opt.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210911T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210911T143000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20210414T141509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210427T151401Z UID:263641-1631370600-1631370600@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:The San Diego Memoir Writers Association is launching Shaking the Tree 3 in September! DESCRIPTION:The theme for this year’s anthology is “I Didn’t See That One Coming” \nPlease join us on September 11th at 2:30 pm (PST) for a virtual book launch. \nWe will have author readings\, swag giveaways\, and a lively Q and A session with the authors and editors. URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/the-san-diego-memoir-writers-association-is-launching-shaking-the-tree-3-in-august/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:Community Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Shaking-the-tree-volume-3-cover.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T183000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20210426T170922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210630T202102Z UID:263797-1627752600-1627756200@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:How to Write a Mystery DESCRIPTION:Join SDWF host Anastasia Hipkins and listen in on a conversation between Lee Child\, Laurie R. King\, Neil Nyren\, and Frankie Y. Bailey about How to Write a Mystery\, based on the new handbook of the same name from Mystery Writers of America. Edited by multi-award-winning NYT bestselling authors Lee Child and Laurie R. King\, How to Write a Mystery “helps authors navigate the ever-shifting publishing landscape—from pacing\, plotting\, and the business side of publishing\, to the current demand for diversity and inclusivity across all genres\, and more.”  \nFeaturing \n\nLee Child\, New York Times bestselling and multi-award-winning author of the Jack Reacher series\, editor of How to Write a Mystery;\nLaurie R. King\, New York Times bestselling and multi-award-winning author of twenty-seven novels\, co-editor of How to Write a Mystery;\nNeil Nyren\, former EVP\, associate publisher\, and editor in chief of G.P. Putnam’s Sons\, where he edited the work of (among others) Tom Clancy\, Clive Cussler\, Carl Hiaasen\, Daniel Silva\, Ken Follett\, and Jonathan Kellerman; and\nFrankie Y. Bailey\, PhD\, professor in School of Criminal Justice (SUNY Albany) and author of five novels and numerous short stories\n\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n Event Sponsor: Sally Buffington\, author of A Place Like This\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet Our Sponsor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Speakers\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Anastasia Zadeik Hipkins is a freelance writer\, editor\, and writing coach. She regularly performs in narrative non-fiction showcases\, including So Say We All’s VAMP and the San Diego Memoir Showcase\, and her work has appeared in The Literary Vine Review and Shaking the Tree.Having received a BA in psychology from Smith College\, Anastasia worked for an international neuropsychological research firm before and while raising her children\, living overseas from 1991-2000. After returning stateside\, she and her family settled in the San Diego area where\, over the last nineteen years\, she has volunteered and served as a board member for a variety of nonprofit organizations dedicated to health\, education\, and the arts. She currently lives in Mission Hills with her husband and empty-nest rescue dog\, Charlie. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previously a television director\, union organizer\, theatre technician and law student\, Lee Child is the author of the bestselling Jack Reacher series. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Laurie R. King is the NYT bestselling author of eighteen Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes novels\, five Kate Martinellis\, two Stuyvesant-Greys\, five standalones\, various short stories and novellas\, and edited a number of anthologies and nonfiction works. She has won the Agatha\, Anthony\, Edgar\, Lambda\, Wolfe\, Macavity\, Creasey dagger\, and Romantic Times Career Achievement awards\, has an honorary doctorate\, and is a Baker Street Irregular. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Neil Nyren retired at the end of 2017 as evp\, associate publisher\, and editor in chief of G.P. Putnam’s Sons\, and is the winner of the 2017 Ellery Queen Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Among the writers of crime and suspense with whom he has worked are Tom Clancy\, Clive Cussler\, John Sandford\, C.J. Box\, Robert Crais\, Carl Hiaasen\, Daniel Silva\, Jack Higgins\, Frederick Forsyth\, Ken Follett\, Jonathan Kellerman\, Ed McBain\, and Ace Atkins. He now writes about crime fiction and publishing for CrimeReads\, The Big Thrill\, The Third Degree\, BookTrib\, and Publishers Weekly\, among other publications. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Frankie Y. Bailey\, PhD is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice University at Albany (SUNY). She studies crime history\, and crime and mass media/popular culture and material culture. She is the author of five mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Lizzie Stuart and two police procedurals novels featuring Albany police detective Hannah McCabe. For more information see her website.Also visit Albany University URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/how-to-write-a-mystery/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:2022 Writers Festival,Mystery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/How_to_Write_a_Mystery-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T160000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20210426T170106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210630T201844Z UID:263793-1627743600-1627747200@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Writing for the Screen DESCRIPTION:Producer and screenwriter\, Carlos de los Rios hosts an honest conversation about the state of movies and television with a panel of professional producers and writers\, including Los Angeles movie and television producer\, Lee Caplin (producer of Columbia Pictures’ Ali\, starring Will Smith and HBO’s True Detective)\, screenwriter Tony Griffin (Drop Zone with Wesley Snipes)\, director and feature film producer\, Gabriel Bologna (The Theory of the Leisure Class and African Gothic)\, and Scott Myers\, producer and writer (K-9\, Alaska and Trojan War). Topics covered will include the current state of the writing marketplace for movies and TV\, breakthrough works that stand out from the pack\, and secrets to getting your work seen and heard\, as well as top writing secrets employed by the writers on the panel. \nFeaturing: \n\nGabriel Bologna\, actor and director\, Tango Shalom \nLee Caplin\, producer of Ali and True Detective \nTony Griffin\, actor and writer\, Drop Zone\, Spaceballs\, and Squint \nScott Myers\, producer and writer\, K-9\, Alaska and Trojan War\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Speakers:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Carlos de los Rios has written and published six books of prose and poetry. He is also a working filmmaker who has written/produced seven acclaimed films for Academy Award-winners Lauren Bacall and Harvey Fierstein\, Academy Award-nominee Elliot Gould\, Emmy Award-winners Johnny Galecki\, Golden Globe-nominee Hayden Panettiere as well as movie stars such as Scott Eastwood (“Texas Chainsaw 3-D”) and Josh Hutcherson (Peeta from the blockbuster hit\, “The Hunger Games”). Carlos has worked on more than 20 books\, 30 films and has written and or produced seven films. Carlos lectures throughout California and is a sought-after script doctor\, writing coach and story consultant. Carlos’ clients include top Hollywood screenwriters and New York Times best-selling writers. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Before Gabriel Bologna’s career as a writer/director\, he was an accomplished actor for fifteen years\, working with such film directors as Francis Ford Coppola and Mark Rydel. He was discovered by James Burrows while attending New York University Tisch and was flown out to Universal Studios to star in the ABC series\, The Marshall Chronicles\, where he played loveable tough guy\, Jonny Parmetko. The New York Times reviewed Gabriel’s role as “a brilliant Fonzi redux specimen.” Though it only ran a season\, the show has been immortalized on Wikipedia as being the impetus for Larry David changing the name The Seinfeld Chronicles to Seinfeld as to not compete with Gabriel’s show which had been launched at the exact same time. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Scott Myers has written over thirty movie and TV projects at nearly every major Hollywood studio and broadcast network. His screenwriting credits include K-9\, Alaska\, and Trojan War. \nFrom 2002- 2010\, Scott was an executive producer at Trailblazer Studios\, overseeing the company’s original content development for TV. \nScott has taught in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program\, receiving its Outstanding Instructor Award in 2005\, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, and in 2016 joined the faculty at the DePaul University School of Cinematic Arts as an assistant professor. \nSince 2008\, Scott has hosted GoIntoTheStory.com\, the official screenwriting blog of the Black List. Writers’ Digest named it the “Best of the Best Scriptwriting Website” and it gets 2M+ unique visits per year. \nHis book An Introduction to Character-Driven Screenwriting and Storytelling: The Protagonist’s Journey is being published by Palgrave Macmillan and will be released toward the end of 2021. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lee Evan Caplin is an American entertainment and communications industry executive. He is the founder of Picture Entertainment Corporation and currently serves as chairman and CEO. Caplin also founded iSTAR at FIU within CARTA in Miami. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tony Griffin was born on December 8\, 1959 in California\, USA as Anthony Patrick Griffin. He is an actor and writer\, known for Spaceballs (1987)\, Squint (2001) and Drop Zone (1994). He is married to Tricia Gist. They have two children. URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/writing-for-the-screen/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:2022 Writers Festival,Screenplay Writing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Writing_for_the_Screen-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T144500 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20210426T165858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210716T193919Z UID:263791-1627739100-1627742700@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Writing the Page-Turning Novel with Jeniffer Thompson DESCRIPTION:Join festival co-founder and host of The Premise podcast\, Jeniffer Thompson\, as she moderates this lively discussion about secrets and questions\, pacing and plot twists\, riveting yet relatable characters\, and chapter-ending hooks that force your hand to turn “just one more page” until you find yourself at the end of the book. \nFeaturing: \n\nBill Clegg\, author of The End of the Day\nJoe Ide\, Shamus\, Macavity and Anthony Award-winning author of the IQ series\, including the latest installment\, Smoke \nLisa See\, 2020 Tucson Festival of Books Founders Award-winning author of The Island of Sea Women\nKatherine Seligman PEN/Bellwether Prize winning author of At the Edge of  the Haight\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Event Sponsor: Captain Lew Maurer\, author of Herman and The Princess Gull\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet Our Sponsor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Speakers\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Jeniffer Thompson is a personal branding expert\, digital marketing strategist and host of The Premise podcast. She is an author and speaker who delivers strategy-rich content and actionable tools that educate and empower authors. With a BA in Journalism from SDSU\, Jeniffer is an ardent believer in the power of storytelling—she is always looking for\, or telling\, a story. She believes that story has the power to develop a greater sense of empathy\, transform us\, and build community. \nJeniffer is passionate about helping authors establish highly visible brands. She and her husband\, Chad\, co-founded Monkey C Media in 2004 and have been creating award-winning book cover designs and author websites ever since. They specialize in author services that integrate digital marketing strategies and engage readers all over the world. \nShe is a co-founder of the San Diego Writers Festival\, serves on the board of the San Diego Memoir Writers Association\, and is currently writing her own coming of age memoir. \nJeniffer is a rock climber and thrill seeker. She and Chad live in San Diego with their persnickety Manx cat\, Mishka\, and three fluffy chickens who love to follow her around and give her delicious eggs almost everyday. \nFor author services\, visit MonkeyCMedia.com; for actionable brand strategy techniques and digital marketing strategies\, subscribe to her blog at JenifferThompson.com. Listen to her podcast at ThePremisePod.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bill Clegg is a literary agent in New York and the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days. His first novel\, Did You Ever Have a Family\, hit the New York Times bestseller list and was longlisted for the National Book Award\, Man Booker Prize\, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize\, and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Bill has also written for The New York Times\, Lapham’s Quarterly\, New York magazine\, The Guardian\, and Harper’s Bazaar. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Joe Ide is of Japanese American descent and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. Joe’s favorite books were the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories. The idea that a person could face the world and vanquish his enemies with just his intelligence fascinated him. Joe went on to earn a graduate degree and had several careers before writing his debut novel\, IQ\, inspired by his early experiences and love of Sherlock. Joe lives in Santa Monica\, California. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lisa See’s new novel\, The Island of Sea Women\, is about the free-diving women of South Korea’s Jeju Island. Booklist called The Island of Sea Women“stupendous… enthralling…and engrossing.” Jodi Picoult has given her praise: “Lisa See excels at mining the intersection of family\, friendship and history\, and in her newest novel\, she reaches new depths exploring the matrifocal haenyeo society in Korea\, caught between tradition and modernization. This novel spans wars and generations\, but at its heart is a beautifully rendered story of two women whose individual choices become inextricably tangled.” Independent booksellers honored the novel by selecting it as an Indie Next pick\, while Barnes & Noble chose the novel for its nationwide March 2019 Book Club. \nMs. See lives in Los Angeles. You can also follow her adventures on Instagram\, Twitter & Facebook \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Katherine Seligman is a journalist and author who lives in San Francisco. She has been a writer at the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine\, a reporter at the San Francisco Examiner\, and a correspondent at USA Today. Her work has appeared in Redbook\, Life\, Money\, California Magazine\, the anthology Fresh Takes\, and elsewhere. URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/writing-the-page-turning-novel/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:2022 Writers Festival,Keynote Author,On Writing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Writing_a_Page_Turning_Novel.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T133000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20210426T165446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210630T162305Z UID:263789-1627734600-1627738200@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Discussing The Craft of Writing with Tayari Jones DESCRIPTION:Award-winning NYT bestselling author\, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow\, and Festival  Keynote Tayari Jones discusses her unique approach to the craft of writing with festival co-founder Marni Freedman\, followed by the presentation of the 2021 SDWF Writer of the Year Award. \nA NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK \nA 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR  * TIME  * BUSTLE  * O\, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE  * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS  * AMAZON.COM \nWINNER OF THE 2019 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK—FICTION \n“A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.” —Barack Obama \n“Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The New York Times Book Review \n“Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable.” —USA Today \nNewlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive\, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together\, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent\, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored\, taking comfort in Andre\, her childhood friend\, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes\, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. After five years\, Roy’s conviction is suddenly overturned\, and he returns to Atlanta ready to resume their life together. \nThis stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling\, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward—with hope and pain—into the future.\n \n \n \n \n \n Event Sponsor:\nMarlena Fiol and Ed O’Connor\, authors of Called\, A Novel\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet The Sponsor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet The Speakers\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones is the author of four novels\, most recently An American Marriage. Published in 2018\, An American Marriage is an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list as well as his year-end roundup. The novel was awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize)\, Aspen Words Prize and an NAACP Image Award. It has been published in two dozen countries. \nJones\, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow\, has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, United States Artist Fellowship\, NEA Fellowship\, and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. Her third novel\, Silver Sparrow\, was added to the NEA Big Read Library of classics in 2016. \nJones is a graduate of Spelman College\, University of Iowa\, and Arizona State University. She is an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Marni Freedman is a screenwriter\, playwright\, award-winning author\, writing coach\, and co-founder of the San Diego Writers Festival. After graduating from USC film school\, Marni began her career bringing her play\, “Two Goldsteins on Acid\,” to the stage\, after which it was made into the film\, “Playing Mona Lisa\,” produced by Disney. She co-authored the play\, A Jewish Joke\, about a 1950s comedy writer facing the Hollywood Blacklist\, which won the NY Solo Show for best drama\, critics’ choice for the San Diego Union-Tribune\, and was recently produced Off-Broadway. Marni leads the Memoir Certificate Program for San Diego Writers\, Ink\, produces the San Diego Memoir Writers Association’s theatrical Memoir Showcase\, and is an editor of Shaking the Tree: short. brazen. memoir. She is also a writing coach and a therapist for artists and writers. Her first book\, 7 Essential Writing Tools: That Will Absolutely Make Your Writing Better (And Enliven Your Soul)\, is an Amazon Bestseller. Her second award-winning book is Permission to Roar: For Female Thought Leaders Ready to Write their Book. You can find Marni at www.marnifreedman.com\, a writing hub to help writers find their authentic voice. URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/discussing-the-craft-of-writing-with-tayari-jones/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:2022 Writers Festival,Keynote Author,On Writing ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Jones_Tayari_Craft_of_Writing.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T111500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T121500 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20210426T165125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210707T171715Z UID:263787-1627730100-1627733700@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Interview with Rabbi Steve Leder\, author of The Beauty of What Remains DESCRIPTION:Following their much-loved appearance during the 2020 Summer Festival Days\,  acclaimed journalist Dean Nelson and bestselling author Rabbi Steve Leder join us again in 2021 for a conversation about life\, death\, grief\, and The Beauty of What  Remains\, an inspiring book about loss based on Rabbi Leder’s most popular sermon. \nAs the senior rabbi of one of the largest synagogues in the world\, Steve Leder has learned over and over again the many ways death teaches us how to live and love more deeply by showing us not only what is gone but also the beauty of what remains. \nThis inspiring and comforting book takes us on a journey through the experience of loss that is fundamental to everyone. Even after having sat beside thousands of deathbeds\, Steve Leder the rabbi was not fully prepared for the loss of his own father. It was only then that Steve Leder the son truly learned how loss makes life beautiful by giving it meaning and touching us with love that we had not felt before. \nEnriched by Rabbi Leder’s irreverence\, vulnerability\, and wicked sense of humor\, this heartfelt narrative is filled with laughter and tears\, the wisdom of millennia and modernity\, and\, most of all\, an unfolding of the profound and simple truth that in loss we gain more than we ever imagined. \n \n \n \n \n \n Event Sponsor: Madonna Treadway\, author of Grief Hack: A Creative Process for Coping with Everyday Loss\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet Our Sponsor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet the Speakers\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rabbi Steve Leder currently serves as the Senior Rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple\, a prestigious synagogue in Los Angeles with two campuses and 2\,400 families. Rabbi Leder is currently concluding his 225 million dollar campaign to develop the congregation’s historic urban campus encompassing an entire city block. The campus is soon to include a new building by Pritzker Prize winning architect Rem Koolhaas. \nIn addition to his many duties at Wilshire Boulevard Temple Rabbi Leder taught Homiletics for 13 years at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. He is a regular contributor and guest on The Today Show\, writes regularly for TIME\, Foxnews.com\, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper\, contributed a chapter to Charles Barkley’s book Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man?\, and has published essays in Town and Country\, the Los Angeles Times\, USA Today and the Los Angeles Jewish Journal where his Torah commentaries were read weekly by over 50\,000 people. His sermon on capital punishment was included in an award winning episode of The West Wing. Rabbi Leder received the Louis Rappaport Award for Excellence in Commentary by the American Jewish Press Association and the Kovler Award from the Religious Action Center in Washington D.C. for his work in African American/Jewish dialogue and in 2012 presented twice at the Aspen Ideas Festival. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dean Nelson is the founder and director of the journalism program at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. He writes occasionally for the New York Times\, the Boston Globe\, San Diego Magazine\, Westways\, Sojourners\, and several other national publications. He has won several awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for his reporting\, and has written or co-written 14 books. Nelson is a frequent speaker at writing workshops and retreats. \nHe has traveled throughout the world covering stories of human interest — India\, where he wrote about the slums of Bombay; Kosovo\, where he interviewed and wrote about victims of terrorism; Tanzania\, where he wrote about members of the Black Panther Party who live in exile; Tibet\, where he wrote about religious persecution; Central America\, where he wrote about poverty and contaminated water; New Orleans\, where he wrote about the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; Haiti\, where he wrote about the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake; Iceland\, where he wrote about the literary scene there; Croatia\, where he wrote about a part of Europe that is trying to reinvent itself after the breakup of the Soviet Union; Rome\, where he wrote about the Canonization of Mother Teresa\, and elsewhere. URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/interview-with-rabbi-steve-leder-author-of-the-beauty-of-what-remains/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:2022 Writers Festival,Keynote Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Leder_Steve.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210731T110000 DTSTAMP:20260605T231118 CREATED:20210426T164619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210707T150028Z UID:263781-1627725600-1627729200@sandiegowritersfestival.com SUMMARY:Interview with Kaitlyn Greenidge\, author of Libertie DESCRIPTION:Listen in as Brooke Warner\, author\, Publishers Weekly columnist\, and co-host of the popular podcast\, Write-minded\, interviews Kaitlyn Greenidge\, 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and award-winning author of We Love You\, Charlie Freeman\, about her newest book\, Libertie.   \nLibertie has been named One of the Most-Anticipated Books of 2021 by: \nO\, The Oprah Magazine\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Time\, The Millions\, Refinery29\, Publishers Lunch\, BuzzFeed\, The Rumpus\, BookPage\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Ms.\, Goodreads\, and more. \n“Libertie is a feat of monumental thematic imagination.” \n—Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\, The New York Times Book Review \nComing of age in a free Black community in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn\, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her purposeful mother\, a practicing physician\, has a vision for their future together: Libertie is to go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie\, drawn more to music than science\, feels stifled by her mother’s choices and is hungry for something else—is there really only one way to have an autonomous life? And she is constantly reminded that\, unlike her light-skinned mother\, Libertie will not be able to pass for white. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be his equal on the island\, she accepts\, only to discover that she is still subordinate to him and all men. As she tries to parse what freedom actually means for a Black woman\, Libertie struggles with where she might find it—for herself and for generations to come. \nInspired by the life of one of the first Black female doctors in the United States and rich with historical detail\, Kaitlyn Greenidge’s new and immersive novel will resonate with readers eager to understand our present through a deep\, moving\, and lyrical dive into our past. \n \n \n \n \n \n Event Sponsor: Captain Lew Maurer\, author of Herman and The Princess Gull\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet Our Sponsor\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Meet The Speakers\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kaitlyn Greenidge’s debut novel\, We Love You\, Charlie Freeman\, was one of the New York Times Critics’ Top 10 Books of 2016 and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is the Features Director at Harper’s Bazaar and a contributing writer for the New York Times\, and her writing has also appeared in Vogue\, Glamour\, the Wall Street Journal\, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Libertie is her second novel. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress\, president of Warner Coaching Inc.\, and author of Write On\, Sisters!\, Green-light Your Book\, What’s Your Book?\, and three books on memoir. Brooke is a TEDx speaker\, weekly podcaster (of “Write-minded” with co-host Grant Faulkner of NaNoWriMo)\, and the former Executive Editor of Seal Press. She writes a monthly column for Publishers Weekly. URL:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/event/interview-with-kaitlyn-greenidge-author-of-libertie/ LOCATION:Virtual CATEGORIES:2022 Writers Festival,Keynote Author ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sandiegowritersfestival.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Greenidge_Kaitlyn.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR