9:00 am - 4:00 pm • Lunch included
$175 (Path to Publishing Members); $225 (General Public)
This one-day workshop explores aspects of writing and publishing memoirs, and shares information that is essential for anyone interested in publishing his or her work. A memoir is a unique type of writing, requiring careful attention to voice, context, balance, personal history, and other factors. But memoirs also share many commonalities with other forms of writing with respect to editing, publishing, promotion, and similar issues. This workshop will explore the interaction of those factors.
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Schedule
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Faculty
Phil Cousineau
Author of over 30 books, including the bestseller The Art of Pilgrimage, and the award-winning Stoking the Creative Fires. Phil Cousineau has a strong sense of the passion and craftsmanship that needs to go into a memoir. He is a Path to Publishing mentor.
Melissa Cistaro
Author of Pieces of My Mother, which was chosen by the Northern California Independent booksellers Association (NCIBA) as the “Best Nonfiction Book of 2016.” She is a frequent teacher on memoir writing. She is a Path to Publishing mentor.
Brenda Knight
Acquisitions and Editorial Director of Mango Publishing and President of the S.F chapter of the Women’s National Book Network. She is also the author of seven books, including the American Book Award-winning Women of the Beat Generation.
Laurie Fox
Partner at the Linda Chester Literary Agency. She is the author of fiction and poetry. She represents books in the areas of literary and quality fiction, memoir/biography, popular culture and cultural criticism, narrative nonfiction, history and current events
Pat Rose
A communications professional with 20 years of book publicity experience at HarperOne, Graywolf Press, Lonely Planet, Berrett-Koehler, UC Press, Wiley, and many other publishers.
Nancy Fish
Manager of the Book Passage Path to Publishing Program and former publicity director for HarperCollins Publishing. She has over three decades of experience in publishing.