Past South Bay Writers Events

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

2010

• January: Gerard Jones, author, popular culture
• January workshop: Blogging for Publishing and Promoting your Writing with Bill Belew
• February: Michelle Gagon, author of The Gatekeeper
• March: Nina Amir, journalist, author, consultant, and writing coach
• April: Jordan Rosenfeld, fiction writer, journalist, editor
• April workshops:
  • Young Writers Workshop - teens and tweens spent a Saturday learning about writing
  • Complete Hands-On Blogging Workshop, part 2 of the January session, with Bill Belew
• May: Wendy Nelson Tokunaga, author of novels Love in Translation and Midori by Moonlight
• June: Andrei Aleinikov, author, seminar leader on creativity
• July: Annual Summer Barbecue at Edie and Jim Matthew's
• July Workshop: Wind up and Pitch with Ro Davis
• August: Patricia Volokakis Davis, author of the memoir, Harlot's Sauce
• September: Kelly Harrison, writer, San Jose State professor
• October: Mahesh Grossman, "ghostwriting guru," author
• November: Tanya Egan Gibson, author of How to Buy a Love of Reading
• December: Holiday Bash

2009

• January Workshop: Develop Vivid Characters with David Corbett
• January: Norman Solomon, nationally syndicated columnist
• February: Romance writers Janet Miller and Esther Erman
• March: Ellen Sussman, writer, editor, and teacher
• April: Frances Dinkelspiel, author of Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California
• May Workshop: Self-Publishing with Carla King and Lisa Alpine
• May: Michelle Richmond, author of The Year of the Fog
• May Young Writers Workhop with Martha Engber, Jack Hasling, Victoria M. Johnson
• June: Janis Bell, writing teacher, author of Clean, Well-lighted Sentences
• July: Annual Potluck Barbeque at Edie and Jim Matthew's
• August: Erika Mailman, author of The Witch's Trinity
• September: Katie Hafner, technology and society journalist, author of A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano
• October: Special Members Panel and Annual Halloween Literary Costume Contest
• November: Literary agents Michael Larsen and Elizabeth Pomada
• December: Annual Holiday Bash at Betty Auchard's

2008

• January Workshop: Develop Blockbuster Plots with Martha Alderson
• February: Alan Rinzler, executive editor of Jossey-Bass
• March: Matilda Butler, author of Rosie's Daughters: The "First Woman To" Generation Tells Its Story
• April: Jess Wells, author of The Mandrake Broom
• May: Michele Simon, author of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back
• June: Tim Myer, author of Basho and the River Stones
• July: Dahr Jamail, author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist In Occupied Iraq
• August: annual summer potluck barbeque hosted by Edie and Jim Matthews
• August Workshop: Get Ready for the Conference, a pitch session how-to
• September: the 4th bienniel East of Eden Writers Conference in Salinas, California
• October: Steve Bhaerman, aka Swami Beyondananda, writer and performer
• November: Alice Wilson-Fried, author of Outside Child
• December: Annual Holiday Bash hosted by Betty Auchard

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