____________________

December 7, 2005
Our 4th Annual Wild Writing Women holiday party. Join us. Same time, same place, different hat.

____________________

November 2, 2005
Guest: Sidra Stich
Host: Jacqueline Harmon Butler
Topic: Writing About Art

Sidra Stich is an art historian, museum curator and avid art traveler. She received an MA in visual studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught and lectured widely, organized major exhibitions and written Yves Klein, Rosemarie Trockel, Made in USA: An Americanization in Modern Art, the '50s-'60s and Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art. For each art-SITES handbook, Stich does extensive research and travel. Relentlessly pursuing leads and delving beneath the surface, she visits renowned and little-known places in major cities and remote settings.

____________________

October 5, 2005
Guest: Elaine Lee
Host: Pamela Michael
Topic: Writing Guidebooks

Elaine Lee is the author/editor of Go Girl: The Black Woman's Book of Travel and Adventure published by Eighth Mountain Press in October of 1997. She is a freelance travel writer whose work has appeared in numerous national magazines and webzines. She has also appeared on numerous local and national radio and TV shows. In 1999 she and a travel writing colleague, Wild Writing Woman Pamela Michael, developed the Bay Area's first travel radio show which continues to air monthly on the Bay Area/Northern California station KPFA-FM. Additonally, Elaine Lee is practicing attorney in the San Francisco/Bay Area. She traveled solo around the world in 1992 and 2004 and continues to travel regularly. She has visited over 46 countries. Her cyberhome is http://www.ugogurl.com.

____________________

September 7 , 2005
Guest: Lisa Rothman, Executive Producer, KPFA Radio's Morning Show
Host: Pamela Michael
Topic: Giving Great Radio: How to Put Your Best Foot Forward during Interviews

Lisa Rothman has been the executive producer of KPFA Radio's award-winning Morning Show for six years. She has also worked as a freelance reporter, volunteer coordinator, video producer and ballroom dance studio administrator. Prior to all that she lived in China for six months. She resides in Oakland with her husband and cocker spaniel. With the aid of her beloved Barca Lounger, she spends many hours as an armchair traveler.

____________________

August 3, 2005
Wild Writing Woman Carla King talks about her recent adventure, Around the Adriatic on a Motorcycle, with slideshow.

Carla's just back from circumnavigating the Adriatic Sea, test riding Moto Guzzi's Breva 750 IE sport touring motorcycle and sending dispatches to her Motorcycle Misadventures website. She'll be showing slides from the trip that included traveling through Italy, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia; and also will talk about solo travel, writing, blogging, motorcycling, and working on the road.

____________________

July 6, 2005
Guest: Diane LeBow
Host: Jacqueline Harmon Butler
Topic: Turning Adventures into Stories
Life as a Freelance Writer & Photographer

Diane LeBow, freelance writer and photo-journalist based in San Francisco, recently won the Bay Area Travel Writers first annual Silver Award for Photography for her photo of an Afghan woman looking out of her window above Kabul, Afghanistan. Diane has become friends with this family and has returned twice to visit them and has given them support to rebuild their bombed-out house. Diane has published stories with Skirt Magazine, Salon.com, Via Magazine, B for Savvy Brides, France: A Love Story:  Women Write about the French Experience (Seal Press, 2004), Foreign Affairs: Erotic Travel Tales (Cleis Press, 2004), and in numerous other travel anthologies, newspapers and magazines. She travels the globe and has spent time with Afghan women, the Hopi, Amazon people, Tuvans, Mongolians, Corsicans, and Parisians. She has scuba dived with sharks in the Red Sea and trained champion Morgan horses. A pioneer of college women’s studies programs, she received her Ph.D. from the University of California in the History of Consciousness, began her teaching career in The Netherlands, and was a college professor for many years in Paris, New York City, and California. She is currently working on a book about her search for the best of all possible worlds.You can find out more about Diane at her website.

____________________

June 1, 2005
Guest: Jeff Greenwald
Host: Lisa Alpine
Topic: Directing your passion for storytelling in new and unexpected directions

Jeff Greenwald, well known for his best-selling travel books — including Shopping for Buddhas and The Size of the World — broke new ground in 2004 with a hit solo show, “Strange Travel Suggestions.”  Another inspiration recently took him to Sri Lanka, where he spent January and February covering tsunami relief efforts for Salon*, and worked as a communications director for Mercy Corps. As an author, performer, photographer, and the Executive Director of Ethical Traveler, Jeff seems to have made a virtue out of ADD. Come listen to Jeff’s lively tales, and discuss how to direct your own passion for story telling in new and unexpected directions.

____________________

May 4, 2005
Guest: Wendy Martin
Host: Jacqueline Harmon Butler
Topic: The problems and challenges facing short story writers

Our May guest is Wendy Martin, Chair of the Department of English and Professor of American Literature and American Studies at the Claremont Graduate University. She has also taught at Queens College, CUNY; Stanford University; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and UCLA. Wendy is the author of An American Sisterhood: Feminist Writing from the Colonial Times to the Present, An American Triptych: The Lives and Work of Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich, as well as several other books about American women writers. Wendy will be discussing the problems and challenges facing short story writers and her soon to be released book The Art of the Short Story.

____________________

April 6, 2005
Guest: Dia North
Host: Cathleen Miller
Topic: Using your own creative energy to unlock writer’s block

Our April guest is creative energy guru Dia North who works with groups and individuals around the world—from high tech corporations in Silicon Valley to spiritual seekers in Macau—to show them how to use their intuition to achieve goals. She will talk to our salon guests about using their own creative energy to unlock writer’s block. An author herself, Dia’s groundbreaking work The Smart Spot:  4 Steps to Setting Intentions and Using Intuition to Achieve Success was voted Business Breakthrough Book of 2004.

____________________

March 2005
Guest: Brooke Warner, Acquisitions editor for Seal Press
Host: Carla King
Topic: How to get published with Seal Press

Our March guest is Brooke Warner, Acquisitions editor for Seal Press, who is actively looking for books. She will tell you what she's looking for and how to submit.  Brooke Warner is an acquisitions editor with Seal Press, in Emeryville, CA. Before Seal, Brooke spent five years as editor at North Atlantic Books in Berkeley. She is the editor of two anthologies, Panic: Origins, Insight, and Treatment and Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture, published during her time at North Atlantic Books. An alumnus of The George Washington University, she received her BA in International Affairs, and she earned her MA in Sociology/Psychology from San Francisco State University.

____________________

February 2, 2005
Guest: Paul Douglass
Host: Cathleen Miller
Topic: The Biographers Art

Paul Douglass, a professor of literature at San Jose State, has just published a fascinating portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb, a notorious character that Lord Byron described as: "the cleverest most agreeable, absurd, amiable, perplexing, dangerous fascinating little being that lives now or ought to have lived 2000 years ago." This femme fatale was a novelist, the wife of British Prime Minister William Lamb, and a mistress of Byron. She is normally portrayed by literary historians as a spiteful nymphomaniac, but Paul Douglass provides the first unbiased treatment of a woman whose passions and independence were incompatible with the age in which she lived. Paul has just returned from discussing his book at Oxford, and at our salon he'll explore the biographer's art, including the private detective work that goes into researching a life.

January 5, 2005
Guest: Michael Shapiro
Host: Pamela Michael
Topic: The art of interviewing

In January, award–winning author Michael Shapiro discusses “The Art of Interviewing,” a skill he put to good use in his most recent book, A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Lives, Craft and Inspiration (2004 Travelers' Tales).The book includes interviews with Bill Bryson, Frances Mayes, Paul Theroux, Peter Matthiessen, Tim Cahill, Jan Morris, Pico Iyer, Isabel Allende, and Simon Winchester, among many others. Michael’s work has appeared in the Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and several national magazines. He won a 1998 Lowell Thomas award from the Society of American Travel Writers in the category of Travel News/Investigative Reporting for a story on frequent flier programs. He has appeared on national television networks including CNN and PBS, as well as on radio shows ranging KGO's On the Go to listener-sponsored KPFA.