Upcoming Events
Mixing It Up at the Mechanics Institute Library: August 16th WNBA-SF Gala
Friday, August 16, 2019, 2pm to 4 pm 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104 4th Floor, Chess Room (Free to Public, refreshments available) Please join WNBA-SF members and friends for a get together at the beautiful beaux arts building in downtown San Francisco. Start the weekend of right with members of both our Women’s National Book Association Chapter as well as Mechanics Institute Library, and more! It’s a MIXER, so bring a literary friend or two to join the fun. We appreciate our … [Read More...]
Author Lunch – A Novel Plan: The Art of Outlining Your Fiction
Author Lunch, Mechanics Institute Library Friday, August 16, 2019, 12:00 Noon 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94104 4th Floor, Chess Room (Free to Public, refreshments available) What are the secrets to success for novels? At least one of them is structure and our esteemed WNBA-SF member authors will share the approaches that have garnered them bestseller status, awards and rave reviews. Learn what role planning and research play and how to make your scenes, settings, and characters … [Read More...]
2019 Bay Area Writer’s Contest
Join our writing contest for awards and cash prizes! The Women’s National Book Association is a 100+ year old venerated organization of women and men across the broad spectrum of writing and publishing. Our membership includes Editors, Publishers, Literary Agents, Professors, Academics, Librarians, Authors, Book Marketers and many others involved in the world of books. We honor and celebrate woman authors and diverse writers and hope to include YOU with our 2019 Bay Area WNBA Writer’s Contest, … [Read More...]
Northern California Book Awards 2019
38th Northern California Book Awards Sunday, June 23, 2019, 1:00- 3:30 pm KORET AUDITORIUM • SAN FRANCISCO MAIN LIBRARY 100 Larkin Street, Civic Center, San Francisco FREE ADMISSION The 38th Annual Northern California Book Awards will celebrate writers and readers in Northern California. Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation, and Children’s Literature will be presented, with brief celebratory readings and remarks by the winning authors. Master of Ceremonies will be Oscar … [Read More...]
Featured Member Interview
Featured Literary Agent – Jennifer March Soloway
Interview by Susan Allison Most of our feature-articles have focused on women authors and their journeys from early writing experience to publication. In this article we are able to glimpse another part of the publishing world through the life and words of literary agent, Jennifer Soloway. Jennifer March Soloway is an associate agent with the … [Read More...]
Featured Member Interview – Joan Gelfand
Interview by Susan Allison What inspires me most about WNBA featured writer Joan Gelfand is her tenacity, her willingness to do whatever it takes to be a successful author. Her honesty is refreshing when she says, “I became determined to get a book out-and it takes determination! My publishing experience has been that every book has taken … [Read More...]
Featured Member Interview – Judy Bebelaar
Interview by Susan Allison WNBA Featured author, Judy Bebelaar, has been writing for seventy-two years. Yes, that’s right, seventy-two years! She remembers writing her first story in first grade and then a poetry collection in third grade. Judy loved her teachers so much that she decided to become one. She taught in San Francisco public high … [Read More...]
BookTalk! The Buzz in the World of Books
How Personal is Too Personal?
An extract from Heart, Sass & Soul: Journal Your Way to Inspiration and Happiness By by Greta Solomon The lowdown on online sharing Whether you resonate with the term or not, the fact is that we’re living in the age of authenticity. And personal sharing, in some form or another, has become a prerequisite for Read More…
The Practice and Potential of Journaling
By Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley, author of The Gift of Crisis (October 2018) I have been writing in journals since I was in the fourth grade. Now years later, every once in a while, I re-read entries from my elementary, middle and high school years. It is nothing less than comical to read about the petty trivialities which consumed Read More…
Proud to Be Diverse
Written by Kathleen Archambeau Monoculture is like monosyllable – okay on occasion, but woefully inadequate in most situations. It is well known that diversity leads to better stock performance by more than 30% and that diverse government agencies serve the public better. By 2050, 54% of the US population will be “minority” and more than Read More…
