2024 San Francisco Writers Conference

What to Expect at the SFWC

• 100+ presenters, including over 20 literary agents and acquiring editors!
• 80+ sessions of lectures and classes throughout the four-day weekend
• SFWC Poetry Summit and the Writing for Hollywood Summit sessions
• A free one-on-one consultation with an editor, a promotional pro, and a book coach
• Various networking events such as the SFWC Gala or the Sunday afternoon no-host banquet

How can the SFWC help me?

• With the four-day weekend packed full of various presentations and workshops fulfilling certain niches, you have the freedom to check out whatever speaks to your interest.
• This is your chance to launch your writing career! Get in touch with leaders of the industry who can help you learn the publishing game.
• As aspiring writers gather at the conference, observant agents assemble to offer their services.
• The opportunity to refine your work with free editorial feedback from a freelance book editor and consultation sessions with a book coach or marketing expert.  
• Most importantly, you are a book lover who gets to meet fellow book lovers! The San Francisco Writers Conference offers it all.

 

Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer author and illustrator from the Bay Area, California. Eir first full length book, GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR, was published in May 2019. Maia’s short comics have been published online by The Nib and The New Yorker, and in many print anthologies including THE SECRET LOVES OF GEEKS, FASTER THAN LIGHT Y’ALL, GOTHIC TALES OF HAUNTED LOVE, ADVANCED DEATH SAVES and BE GAY, DO COMICS.

Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries. Eir work is heavily influenced by fairy tales, homesickness, and the search for identity.

 

Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: THE HENNA ARTIST, THE SECRET KEEPER OF JAIPUR, and THE PERFUMIST OF PARIS. Her debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a New York Times bestseller and a Reese Witherspoon Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick. It has been translated into 28 languages and is currently in development at Netflix as an episodic series.

Born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, Alka Joshi has lived in the U.S. since the age of nine. Joshi graduated with a BA from Stanford University and worked in the fields of advertising and PR before starting her own marketing consultancy. In 2011, she obtained her MFA in Creative Writing from the California College of Arts in San Francisco, California. She lives on the Monterey Peninsula with her husband and Coco, the misbehaving pup. 

We are looking for a few more volunteers for the WNBA-SF table at the SF Writer’s Conference, email sanfrancisco@wnba-books.org

 

While you’re at the SFWC, be sure to catch up with some of our WNBA-SF members attending the conference.