2014 San Francisco Writers Conference
2014 SAN FRANCISCO WRITERS CONFERENCE
and WRITING INTENSIVE CLASSES
February 13th-17th
Celebration of Craft, Commerce and Community for Writers
11th Annual Event
The InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel
and WRITING INTENSIVE CLASSES
February 13th-17th
Celebration of Craft, Commerce and Community for Writers
11th Annual Event
The InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel
Featuring:
- Julie Kagawa, USA Today & NY Times bestselling author of The Iron Fey series
- NoViolet Bulawayo, Caine Award winner and author of We Need New Names
- Chitra Divakaruni, international bestselling author of The Mistress of Spices
- Barry Eisler, author of the bestselling Rain and Treven series
- Dan Millman, of Peaceful Warrior fame and The Creative Compass
- Rhys Bowen, Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of the Molly Murphy series
Take your writing career to new levels. Immerse yourself in the quality inter- action with 100+ literary agents, editors, publishers and bestselling authors. Exhibit hall, bookstore and a special evening presentation with Julie Kagawa will be open to the public.
The SFWC Pre/Post Event Classes are open to non-attendees. Get details—including a full presenters list and online registration and opt-in for the SFWC Newsletter at www.SFWriters.org.
Plarachterization is a strategy that will help any writer. The best plots aren’t controlled by an authorial presence but spring from the characters themselves. The more we program ourselves to think of it in this way — that our protagonists are sovereign beings with independent consciousnesses from our own — the better prepared we are to traverse “plarachterization.” Will also includes characters’ decision making, the causality between plot points, and how to include specific tactics for constructing a present action and how to fold back-story into it.
Joshua Mohr is the author of four award-winning novels: Damascus, Some Things that Meant the World to Me, Termite Parade, and his latest – Fight Song, for which the Huffington Post called him “A brilliant and skilled story teller…”
She is the author of Creek Walk and Other Stories published in 1997 and the novel Iron Shoes published in 2000. Her story collection Rough Translations won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She also appears in Sudden Fiction (60 New Short-Short Stories).
Mary-Rose Hayes will discuss writing her new novel WHAT SHE HAD TO DO; the reasons it took so long (more than ten years) and how that was a blessing in
why the characters in the book didn’t seem real until she stepped out of their lives and allowed them to develop on their own; and how, by the time she had typed “THE END” for the final time, she had surprisingly come to terms with past issues of her own.
California Writer Club member Christie Nelson, author of Dreaming Mill Valley, Woodacre and My Moveable Feast