Writers on Process – Open Book

Event date:
Saturday, May 30
Event time:
2:45pm-3:45pm
Location:
Brower Center, Goldman Theater
Audiences:
Sponsors:
Booksales:
Tally Ho, in the lobby of the venue

Four writers, two fiction, one nonfiction and one poet, will discuss what it feels like to start a book and take the idea to completion. The conversation will roam, but attention will be given to false starts, stalls, endurance, inspiration, mesmerism, the battle between life and art and what it means to be finished. This is an all-genre discussion, and we welcome authors at all stages of their project, offering frank and lively guidance from a combined 100 years of writing!

Moderators:

Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

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