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2026 Writers' Workshops

Join us for a day-long series of workshops and sessions that drill down into topics that will spur your creativity, engage your writerly minds, and even support you with practical, insiders’ advice and guidance in your journey to publication.

Events in this collection

  • How to Find (& Create) Your Writing Community primary image

    How to Find (& Create) Your Writing Community

    Sat, May 30 • 11:00 AM

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  • Indicator Lights: Fine Tuning the Past to Drive Your Story into the Future primary image

    Indicator Lights: Fine Tuning the Past to Drive Your Story into the Future

    Sat, May 30 • 11:00 AM

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  • Chismes Con Safos: Speculative Storytelling as Collective Resistance primary image

    Chismes Con Safos: Speculative Storytelling as Collective Resistance

    Sat, May 30 • 11:00 AM

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  • The Ins and Outs of MFA programs with SJSU primary image

    The Ins and Outs of MFA programs with SJSU

    Sat, May 30 • 12:15 PM

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  • How to Become an Audiobook Narrator primary image

    How to Become an Audiobook Narrator

    Sat, May 30 • 12:15 PM

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  • Maker, Mentor, Muse: The Spirit of the Work primary image

    Maker, Mentor, Muse: The Spirit of the Work

    Sat, May 30 • 12:15 PM

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  • Getting Unstuck with Ramona Ausubel primary image

    Getting Unstuck with Ramona Ausubel

    Sat, May 30 • 1:30 PM

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  • Preserving Ancestral Knowledge as BIPOC Writers primary image

    Preserving Ancestral Knowledge as BIPOC Writers

    Sat, May 30 • 1:30 PM

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  • Teen Poetry Workshop led by Youth Speaks primary image

    Teen Poetry Workshop led by Youth Speaks

    Sat, May 30 • 1:30 PM

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  • Writers on Process - Open Book primary image

    Writers on Process - Open Book

    Sat, May 30 • 2:45 PM

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  • Maps for Worlds Still Becoming: Experiments in Genre, Language, and Form primary image

    Maps for Worlds Still Becoming: Experiments in Genre, Language, and Form

    Sat, May 30 • 2:45 PM

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  • “Yeah I’m a Writer. Now What?” primary image

    “Yeah I’m a Writer. Now What?”

    Sat, May 30 • 2:45 PM

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  • Becoming an "Authorpreneur" primary image

    Becoming an "Authorpreneur"

    Sat, May 30 • 4:00 PM

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  • What is That Beautiful House: Crafting Engaging Settings and Playful Prose primary image

    What is That Beautiful House: Crafting Engaging Settings and Playful Prose

    Sat, May 30 • 4:00 PM

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  • Zine Workshop! primary image

    Zine Workshop!

    Sat, May 30 • 4:00 PM

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Organizer of 2026 Writers' Workshops
Do you believe in the revolutionary power of literature? So do we. Since 2015, Bay Area Book Festival has featured the boldest and most brilliant literary voices in conversations about issues that matter, with a focus on justice and diversity. We’re a world-class literary extravaganza taking place each year over two days in Downtown Berkeley.