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…
Writing and Publishing at Book Passage in Corte Madera Saturday, January, 26th, 2019 || 10am to 2pm Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera || www.bookpassage.com I hope you’ll join me for the first of a series of Writing and Publishing Workshops on January, 26th. To Register: https://www.bookpassage.com/linda-watanabe-mcferrin-writing-publishing-corte-madera-store Here’s what we’ll cover in this Writing and Publishing…
The Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference is coming up in August, here, in the Bay Area. I’ll be on Faculty again. This is the most amazing literary conference ever! If you’ve gone, you already know that, and I hope to see you there once more. If you haven’t … for goodness sakes, sign…
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….
Here’s some great news! Left Coast Writers will receive 10% off on the Intensive Writing Weekend for Y/A and Middle Grade Readers (7/16-7/17/16), the Mystery Writers Conference (7/28-7/31/16) and the Travel Writers Conference (8/11-8/14/16). I’ve been faculty at all of these conferences at one time or another, and I’m happy to report that they are…
Two great pieces of news arrived in my e-mail message box this morning. The first piece of super news: They are finally sending the gold stickers for the front cover of Wandering in Paris: Luminaries and Love in the City of Light, the prize-winning anthology of stories produced at our last international literary workshop. You might…
Last night at Book Passage in the Ferry Plaza for a Left Coast Writers poetry event, I realized that I never enter a bookstore without wanting to read every single book therein, which I know is impossible. I have this strange feeling that tucked between the covers is a message that I can’t afford to…
Linda Watanabe McFerrin – The Plot Thickens This is the first in a series of monthly workshops on craft that I’ll be leading at Book Passage in Corte Madera. The workshops will cover plot, character building, scene making, dialogue, and more. Dominican College credit is available for workshop participants. 01/25/2014 10:00 am End: 01/25/2014 4:00 pm…
