We are so excited to be participating in the Word Up! Community Learning Fair in Petaluma on October 30th, especially since the brilliant Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird, is going to be the keynote speaker! Here’s the details from the Word Up website: Free & Fun Word Up! Fair! Sunday, October 30,...
The music of singer-songwriter Emily Jane White is the stuff to serenade souls of tortured mystics with. Smoky, dark, ethereal, this small town girl turned internationally acclaimed songstress grapples with pain, sorrow and the meaning of it all in her bluesy, folksy and deeply poetic melodies. With her first album– Dark Undercoat– recorded in...
Evan Karp is steeped so deeply in the Bay Area literary scene, that its nothing short of a miracle that he had time for this interview! Until two years ago, Evan called Savannah, Georgia home and had never experienced the glory that is a spoken word event. Since landing in San Francisco, he has...
Inga Muscio‘s words found permanent residency in the hearts and minds of feminists everywhere with her debut book, Cunt. Cunt did more for the feminist movement than shout out a call to reclaim the word itself. Muscio offered an invitation for women to engage in radical self-love and self-knowing. Through her fearless and unapologetic...
A traveling and writing machine, Melinda Misuraca ties together whip smart anecdotes and vividly detailed prose for stories that readers want to step inside of. With her words appearing in such publications as Natural Bridge, The Best Travel Writing 2006, The Portland Review, Salon.com , Misuraca taught creative writing at New College of California...
Jessamyn Harris embeds personality, sweetness and pure magic into every photo she takes. A full time wedding photographer, busy mom and part time commercial photographer for magazines like Wine Spectator, she manages to surround herself with gorgeous people, mind blowing scenery and delicious cake throughout her work days. A graduate of Vermont’s Bennington College,...
Let’s Write! Calling all beginning and experienced writers, dabblers, vagabonds of the mind, and everyone in between! Saturday, June 18 10:30am-1:30pm In Central Santa Rosa–exact location will be announced soon. During this Saturday morning creative writing prompt session, we will leap together into the tremendous adventure of writing. Get ready for fun and thoughtful...
I first met Abigail Wick when we were students together in the MFA Writing and Consciousness Program at California Institute of Integral Studies. Impressed by her ability to string together an impeccable sentence, as well as her singular voice, I’ve followed Abigail’s writing adventures since we graduated in 2008. Over the past few months,...
Trane DeVore eats, breathes and sleeps with his creative wheels churning. The author of two published books of poetry– series/mnemonic (1999) and Dust Habit (2005) – he is currently at work on his UC Berkeley dissertation on “sensation and perception in Thoreau’s writing”. His poetry appears in numerous international publications and his photography was...
Terrie Samundra is an independent filmmaker and mother, currently serving as the Sponsorship & Marketing Manager for the Slamdance Film Festival. Her films have received numerous awards including the National Geographic All Roads Seed Grant, The Guttman Award, The Princess Grace Award, The Los Angeles Indian Film Festival’s award for Best Short, Best Narrative...