Want your words to have more impact? This class will explore the various techniques that can be employed to make your writing more engrossing, more powerful, and more relevant. By looking at the work of master poets and short story writers we will explore how you can make your words resonate. Carlos de los Rios is […]
Join us for an interactive discussion and Q and A session with author, Liese O’Halloran Schwarz. “This brilliant portrayal of the lives of expats and their servants is also a suspenseful mystery with ever-darkening twists. For fans of A Little Life and The Goldfinch.” —People, Book of the Week Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is […]
Join us for the SDWF's June Book Club! A Facebook Live Event. Click here to join. Featured Book: The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano Rose Napolitano is fighting with her husband, Luke, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she'd take them, but didn't. He promised before they got married that he'd never want children, but now […]
Join us as we officially launch the 2021 San Diego Writers Festival with a celebration of words—spoken, written, and performed! After a brief welcome from festival cofounders, Marni Freedman and Jeniffer Thompson, we will start things off with beloved spoken word artist, Gill Sotu, who, along with teen poet laureates, Marissa Michel and Sasa Aakil, […]
Laraine Newman, original cast member of SNL discusses her life in comedy and her experiences on SNL in her new audiobook/memoir - May You Live In Interesting Times Listen in as festival co-founder, Marni Freedman talks with Laraine Newman, one of the original cast members of SNL, about her sometimes wild, often groundbreaking life in […]
Join Laura Cathcart Robbins, host of the popular podcast, The Only One in the Room, as she moderates an unflinching discussion about the challenges and rewards inherent in writing about culture. Gabriel Bump, author of Everywhere You Don’t Belong Anisha Bhatia, author of The Rules of Arrangement Carlos De Los Rios, author of Kids in […]
Dr. Edith Eva Eger, international bestselling author of The Choice, about her newest New York Times bestselling book, The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life joins the San Diego Writers Festival, in conversation with Phyllis Olins, award-winning conflict resolution counselor, and author of How Not to Be a Jerk (or a Victim): Journaling from […]