Native Voices: Youth Writers from the 2025 Graton Writing Project
We’re excited to again present the talented youth of the annual Graton Writing Project, a series of writing workshops designed for middle and high school Native students from Sonoma County, California. The program culminates in a published…
Embrace Furiously This Burning World: Writers Reckon with Now
Taking inspiration from Barry Lopez’s urgent call, this event features CCA faculty working across fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to explore how contemporary writers confront the crises and transformations defining our moment—climate change,…
A Revolution of Raised Voices
Join authors Devi S. Laskar and Elizabeth Stark for a generative writing workshop! Play with voice, practice putting your vision and truth (even fictional truths) into words. Live out loud! Try out some new writing techniques and strategies.…
Official Launch of the BABF Affinity Lit Collectives
Join us at the Downtown BART Plaza for the exciting official launch of the Bay Area Book Festival’s three affinity lit collectives: Women Lit, LGBTQIA+ Lit, and Mixed Race Lit (final collective names to be decided in their first meetings).…
Poetry Postcards (all day drop-in activity)
Poetry Postcards is an interactive offering inviting festival-goers to write a poem and send it into the world. We provide the materials: pre-stamped postcards with poems by 7 poets and pens. You bring the intention. Write a few lines, something…
I Am the Legacy: Voices of a New Generation
I Am the Legacy, the third anthology from Cinnamongirl Inc’s Write Your Story program, showcases eighteen visionary young authors of color who are changing the literary landscape where only 5-7% of published authors are Black. The authors…
Homeland to Home
A sense of place is something we all deserve. For children whose roots lie in lands and cultures that are often under- or even mis-represented, the concept of home can be complex. When the politics of war propaganda and media stereotypes permeate…