Joan Virginia Allen reads from her book Navigating Dynamic Aging, hosted by Book Passage for this event organized by the Left Coast Writers® Saturday October 11th, 2025 — 2PM Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera || Joan Virginia Allen doesn’t just talk about dynamic aging—she lives it. As a retired elder law and estate planning attorney turned…
POETRY FLASH PRESENTS… Linda Watanabe McFerrin, author of POST-Apocalyptic Valentine will read with Jackie Berger author of Left at the Ruin Thursday, November 14th – 7pm Art House Gallery 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705 This new poetry collection by Linda Watanabe McFerrin, novelist, travel writer and winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction,…
In Person Author Event: Post-Apocalyptic Valentine An evening with Poet Linda Watanabe McFerrin at A Great Good Place for Books Please join us on Thursday, September 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM as we welcome author and poet Linda Watanabe McFerrin for a reading and signing of her new poetry collection, POST-Apocalyptic Valentine. This event will be…
Thursday, February 7th, 2019 || 6pm Great Good Place for Books || 6120 La Salle Ave, Oakland Wanderland Writers introduces WANDERING IN CUBA: Revolution and Beyond … the 6th anthology in the prize-winning Wandering series … Once again workshop leaders Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Joanna Biggar take Wanderland Writers and head south to explore—this time to Cuba, an island…
Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison—Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me So Monday, January, 28th, 2019 || 7pm Angelico Hall|| Dominican University of California || 20 Olive Avenue, San Rafael California || www.bookpassage.com Please join me, the folks at Book Passage, and a host of…
Winter Wanderland: Traveling and Travel Writing in 2019 It’s an evening of wine, writing, travel and literary camaraderie. MONDAY, January 14th, 2019 || 6pm Book Passage || San Francisco 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco ||www.bookpassage.com Join travel writers and editors Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish King in a reading, discussion and celebration of travel, travel anthologies…
Writers Retreat in Hawaii May 7-12, 2017 Camp Mokule’ia, Oahu, HI This week and next you’ll find me at the Hawaii Book & Music Festival and the Mokulē‘ia Writers Retreat in Hawaii. The Hawaii Book & Music Festival is a fantastic two-day fest featuring writers and performers from all over the world. I’ll be reading and…
Bay Area Writers, don’t miss The California Writer’s Club (CWC) Marin’s 3rd Annual Writers Conference. This is a daylong writers conference covering fiction and nonfiction. It offers great sessions on the literary craft. In addition, three literary agents will be available for five-minute pitches. Morning coffee and rolls are included, along with a bag lunch, in the registration….
