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…
TO A 2025 LITERARY INTENSIVE SET IN PROVENCE WITH AUTHOR AND EDITOR LINDA WATANABE MCFERRIN AND LITERARY AGENT ANDY ROSS September 24 to October 1, 2025 “When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence. — Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral, winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature …
Please join us for a reading by Cyn Lubow from her new book, DYING OF CURIOSITY, organized by the Left Coast Writers and hosted by Book Passage. Saturday January 18th, 2025 at 2PM Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera || When Berkeley psychologist Jordan Wilder learns that her cheerful, college-bound patient was found dead under the Golden…
Please join Left Coast Writers® at Book Passage in Corte Madera for post-election poetic readings Saturday November 9th, 2024 at 2pm …
DEEEEEP TRAVEL, the most amazing journey on this planet … On Wednesday, August 21st, at 6pm I get to journey to “The Underworld.” Book Passage-Corte Madera|| 51 Tamal Vista Dr. Corte Madera || This is extreme travel … without a doubt the furthest out you can get on planet Earth, and I’m hoping some of you will…
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…
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…
EROTICA: WRITING SEXY STUFF with Linda Watanabe McFerrin Saturday, May 31st, 2014, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Location: Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard, Corte Madera, CA 94925 $105 Register here If you have trouble steaming up the page, this is the workshop for you. Spend a day this month with poet, travel writer and novelist…
Linda Watanabe McFerrin – The Building Character This is the second in a series of monthly workshops on craft that I’m leading at Book Passage in Corte Madera. The workshops cover plot, character building, scene making, dialogue, and more. Dominican College credit is available for workshop participants. 02/22/2014 10:00 am End: 02/22/2014 4:00 pm Sat….
What do Virginia Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Agatha Christie, John Le Carré, Thomas Hardy, Tristan and Yseult, and Britain’s King Arthur have in common? The lighthouse and castle-studded Cornwall, where their journeys—along those of with many another literary and legendary character—led. We have only one spot left in our next Wanderland Writers™ workshop, the latest in a series…
