Benefits of Membership

WNBA-SF Branch is part of the great network of Women’s National Book Association Chapters, a national network of women, and men, who are passionate about books, writing, and literacy.

Here in San Francisco, many different events help to stimulate your creativity and offer you numerous networking and career building opportunities.

Just some of these are listed below, while other, such as member webinars, are in the creation process.

 

  • New Year Creativity Workshop January 29 with Mary Knippel
  • Meet the Agents—SF March 24 Sinbad’s      Dating with Agents, Learning about finding an Agent
  • San Francisco Writing Conference—volunteer positions February 16-20
  • Effie Lee Morris Children’s Lecture June 2012
  • Publisher’s Panel in 2012—TBA—with Teresa LeYung Ryan, committee organizer. Learn about the current trends in the publishing industry—Smashwords, CreateSpace, Your own self-publishing company, traditional publishing FAQ.
  • WNBA– Is a significant part of your writer’s platform. Networking with other WNBA organization in cities around the US helps you publicize your book and you
  • Audio interviews on the blog site  promote you and your book
  • Promote you and your writing on WNBA website
  • Outreach to a national audience is easy and built into being a member of the SF Branch
  • Readings a WNBA sponsored book stores
  • Being a member helps to promote the importance of reading, writing and literacy