One Story, Unlimited Possibilities: A Choose Your Own Adventure Workshop
If crafting the perfect ending is the hardest part of writing a story, how do you come up with more than two dozen endings? That's just one of the conundrums facing authors of Choose Your Own Adventure novels—in this workshop, artist and writer…
Bagels with Writers
We’ll kick things off with complimentary bagels, spreads, coffee and tea, then gather to listen to our four authors, who will each share their best fifteen minutes of writing (and publishing ) advice. Then we'll open the floor for a half-hour…
Black Fire This Time
Inspired by Black Fire This Time, an anthology featuring over 100 poets and writers celebrating the roots and legacy of the Black Arts Movement, this writing workshop will feature Heather Buchanan. Buchanan presents writing workshops and readings…
Sistah Scifi Author Expo
We will have 12 to 14 indie Black and Indigenous speculative fiction writers showcase their work with physical and digital copies available for purchase. In addition, we will bring Sistah Scifi Bookish Tea Party vibes with areas to play games,…
Book Conservators in Private Practice
Join us for a look behind the covers, with an in-person discussion of books conservation with practitioners in private practice. Local private practice conservators Juliayn Coleman and Karen Zukor will share a peek into their work conserving…
Queer Bedtime Stories
Queer Bedtime Stories is an opportunity to re-seed the fertile ground of your imagination with poetry, memoirs, and history from our people: LGBTQ+ ancestors and creators alive today. Together, let's uncover the richness of our shared history…
A Life in Books
Each of us has a different, and beautiful, relationship with the books we read…and write. That is no less true if you’ve just published your first, as legendary librarian Dorothy Lazard has with her memoir What You Don’t Know Will Make…
Dazzling Debuts
Here's your chance to meet three astonishingly talented young authors, hailing from around the world, at the beginning of their careers—you'll be able to boast that you saw them when! Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You might be a debut,…
The Art of Life: Writing Autobiography Across the Genres
If, like Whitman, we contain multitudes, the life of every writer should bear no shortage of material. But few of us are getting book deals from our Tweets and TikToks. Writing from real life seems to be the domain of memoirists and writers…
Crossing the Finish Line: New Books from SJSU MFA Faculty, Steinbeck Fellows, and Students
What does it take to get beyond outlines and sh*tty first drafts to a finished manuscript? And, from there, how do you make it across the finish line to publication? Five San José State University faculty members, students, and Steinbeck Fellows…