POSTPONED:MAY 15, 2020 BACK AT THE M.I.!

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DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED---WATCH THIS SPACE FOR UPDATES!

Writers Lunch: Storytelling: the Writers Tradition

NEW DATE TBD

Mechanics' Institute

57 Post Street

San Francisco, CA  94104

Have you ever wondered how your stories, told through the generations, shaped your legacy and informed your writing? Would you like to explore your storytelling voice and learn how to tell an unforgettable story? Enjoy three storytellers and their personal tales! Discover basic tips for creating and crafting authentic stories that draw from your cultural roots.

The author and two contributors to Story Power will join in a lively telling and discussion. Story Power is available for pre-order via this link.

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Kate Farrell will give a brief overview of the oral tradition and how it guides the craft of writing. She will tell a story from Story Power and discuss how her German immigrant heritage influenced her work.

Humaira Ghilzai will share how Afghan folktales, proverbs, and the power of oral storytelling shaped her as a writer, blogger, and cultural advisor.

Sheryl Bize-Boutte will share experiences from her Creole relatives' expressive storytelling and how it helped to inform her writing.

READING AT CAFE UCCELLO ON FEBRUARY 23, 2020

I will be joining Polyglot Author Kiran Bhat 

and 

Other Bay Area Local Writers 

for an

 Authors Large and Small Reading 

at 

Cafe Uccello

February 23, 2020

2:00 PM-5:00 PM

Cafe Uccello

340 14th Street

Oakland, CA

Kiran Bhat is the author of the poetry collections Autobiografia (Letrame Editorial, 2019) and Kiran Speaks (White Elephant Press, 2019), as well as the Kannada-language travelogue Tirugaatha (Chiranthana Media Solutions, 2019) and the novel We of the Forsaken World (Iguana Books, 2019). He has traveled to over 130 countries, lived in 18 different places, and speaks 12 languages. He considers Mumbai his spiritual base, but currently lives in Melbourne.

After Kiran's reading, we're hosting a selection of Bay Area authors, including Pamela McCorduck, Joan Gelfand, Sheryl Bize-Boutte, Christopher Bernard and others.

All welcome!

BIZE-BOUTTE AND KNIGHT AT THE SF WRITER'S CONFERENCE!

Women's National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter

Novel Approaches to Outlining and Marketing Fiction: Another Reason to attend SFWC 2020! 2020-01-31 22:40:23-05 Come join two of our WNBA-SF Chapter board members in a great presentation blending their expertise and experience. Brenda Knight, Publisher, Author and Sheryl J. Bize-Boutte, Author present “Novel Approaches to Outlining and Marketing Fiction This is where the “bookends” of writing meet. Hear unique insights from a prolific and popular writer on the outlining and writing of fiction along with insider secrets from a veteran of Harper Collins marketing and sales that you can use for marketing your book. Get tips on how to create the “who”, “what” and “what ifs” in outlining “must read” fiction, along with strategies for success with social media, publicity, blogging, and more, all designed to draw positive attention to your work. Get information on how to sign up for the Women’s National Book Association-San Francisco Chapter’s March 21, 2020, “Pitch-O-Rama Plus” to learn more about the “4 Ps” that lead to publication. Sheryl J. Bize-Boutte is an Oakland multidisciplinary writer whose works artfully succeed in getting across deeper meanings about life and the politics of race and economics without breaking out of the narrative, with Oakland often serving as the backdrop for her touching and often hilarious works. Her first book, A Dollar Five-Stories From A Baby Boomer’s Ongoing Journey (2014) has been described as “ rich in vivid imagery”, and “incredible.” Her second book, All That and More’s Wedding (2016), a collection of fictional mystery/crime short stories, is praised as “imaginative with colorful and like-able characters that draw you in to each story and leave you wanting more.” Her latest book, Running for the 2:10 (2017), a follow-on to A Dollar Five, delves deeper into her coming of age in Oakland and the embedded issues of race and skin color with one reviewer calling it “… a great contribution to literature.” Her fictional story, “Uncle Martin” was published by Medusa’s Laugh Press Summer 2019. She currently has a novel in progress titled “Betrayal on the Bayou,” slated for publication in early 2020. She is also a contributor to award winning author Kate Farrell’s upcoming book “Story Power,” an anthology on how writers build and create their stories. Brenda Knight began her career at HarperCollins, working with luminaries Marianne Williamson, Mark Nepo, Melody Beattie, Huston Smith and Paolo Coelho. Knight served for 8 years as publisher of Cleis Press & Viva Edition, winner of the IndieFab’s Publisher of the Year Award in 2014. Knight is the author of Wild Women and Books, The Grateful Table, Be a Good in the World, and Women of the Beat Generation , which won an American Book Award. Knight is Associate Publisher at Mango Publishing and acquires for all genres in fiction and nonfiction as well as children and photography books. She also serves as President of the Women’s’ National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter and is an instructor at the annual San Francisco Writers Conference. The post Novel Approaches to Outlining and Marketing Fiction: Another Reason to attend SFWC 2020! appeared first on Women's National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter.