Past South Bay Writers Events

A quick summary of the guest speakers and events we have hosted.

2007

• January Workshop: The Art and Craft of Story Structure with Tod Goldberg
• February: Martha Engber, author of Growing Great Characters from the Ground Up
• March: Chris Baty, founder of National Novel Writing Month
• April: Molly Giles, author of Rough Translations and Creek Walk collections of short fiction
• May: Emily Jang, SBW member, author, and an authority on winning writers contests
• June: Jana McBurney-Lin, author of My Half of the Sky
• July: Summer Barbeque, hosted by Edie and Jim Matthews
• August: Becky Levine, author and editor
• September: Reese Erlich, journalist, author of The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East
• October: Barry Eisler, author, best-selling thrillers (John Rain series) + our annual Halloween Literary Costume Contest
• October Workshop: Screenwriting with James Dalessandro
• November: Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada, literary agents
• December: Annual Holiday Bash hosted by Betty Auchard

2006

• January Workshop: How to Write a Book in a Week with April Kihlstrom
• February: Jill Lubin, author and publicist
• March: Writing Memoirs with Linda Joy Myers and Phyllis Mattson
• April: Susan Shillinglaw, author of A Journey into Steinbeck's California
• May: Joyce Krieg, author of the Shauna J. Bogart mysteries
• June: Charlotte Cook, president of KOMENAR Publishing
• July: David Henry Sterry, co-author of Putting Your Passion into Print
• August: Summer Barbeque, hosted by Edie and Jim Matthews
• September: the third East of Eden Writers Conference, Salinas, California
• October: Mike Cassidy, columnist for the San Jose Mercury News + our annual Halloween Literary Costume Contest
• November: Kate Evans, poet, author of Like All We Love
• December: Annual Holiday Bash hosted by Betty Auchard