Wild Writing Women Literary Salons
ARCHIVE 2003
2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002
8 January 2003
Featured speaker: Judy Wheeler, Bookpeopledirector of sales and marketing
Topic: Demystifying distribution
Host: Carla King
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5 February 2003
Featured speaker: Annelie Rufus, author of Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto
Host: Linda Watanabe McFerrin
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5 March 2003
Featured speaker: Larry Habegger of Travelers' Tales.
Host: Danielle Machotka
Featured speaker: Adair Lara, columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and author of Hold Me Close, Let Me Go
Host: Jennifer Leo 7 May 2003
Featured speaker: San Francisco Chronicle Travel Editor Christine Delsol
Host: Cathleen Miller
4 June 2003
We have two salon locations this month:
Paris: The Wild Writing Women read at Shakespeare & Company.
San Francisco: While we're in France, Brad Newsham has graciously offered to fill in as our salon host for the Monticello Inn salon.
2 July 2003
Featured speaker: The Wild Writing Women
Host:Jacqueline Harmon Butler
August 2003
Featured speaker: Constance Hale
Host: Lisa Alpine
Bay area writers will enjoy this event featuring Constance Hale, author of two books on language, Sin and Syntax and Wired Style, which have gotten her called "Marion the Librarian on a Harley," and "E. B. White on acid."
Connie has worked for "straight" papers like the Oakland Tribune and Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, but also for edgier pubs like SF Weekly and Wired where she earned a reputation as the cyber-Safire. Her freelance work -- in which she writes about everything from her grandmother's finishing-school notebook to her own attempts to master the hula -- has appeared in Health, Honolulu, and the Atlantic Monthly.
Connie believes that today's writers need more spunk than Strunk. In the age of "got milk?" commercials and e-mails that read more like telegrams than literary epistles, the rules of language are changing. So can you just throw out that grade-school grammar? What's happening to English? How can you hue to the highest standards whether you're writing for posterity or refining the art of Web-posting? Her two subversive guides to writing takes you on an idiosyncratic tour of language and literature in the new millennium.
As always, there will be time to meet and chat with one another over a glass of wine in the cozy Monticello Inn lobby. We look forward to seeing you on this evening of literary conversation and connection.
For more information and events listings visit the Wild Writing Women Web site.
3 September 2003
Featured speakers: Photographer Richard Blair and artist/writer Kathleen Goodwin
Host: Lisa Alpine
The extraordinary story of how a husband and wife team, photographer Richard Blair and artist/writer Kathleen Goodwin, who created one of the most successful self-published books of all time; the #1 best selling book in Marin County for two years and #11 on the San Francisco Chronicle's Best Seller List. Point Reyes Visions is a museum-quality book of art and essays that captures the striking beauty of the untamed nature of California's Point Reyes peninsula, its wildlife, people, landmarks and rugged spirit. This pioneering effort in self-publishing was written, scanned, designed, and distributed entirely by the authors working from their Inverness home. Check out their Web site for oft-updated articles on the region.
1 October 2003
Featured speaker: Elgy Gillespie and Richard Sterling
Host: Jacqueline Harmon Butler
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Elgy Gillespie has written for Travelocity, the Irish Times and various other newspapers in the USA and Europe, is a contributor to Travelers' Tales anthologies, and is currently at work on a history of food and restaurants in the Bay Area. Her books include:
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Richard Sterling is a principle author of Lonely Planet guide's World Food series and a contributor to Travelers' Tales anthologies. He has been honored by the James Beard foundation for his food writing and holds the Lowell Thomas Award for travel literature. He has been dubbed the "Indiana Jones of Gastronomy” for his willingness to go anywhere and court any danger for the sake of a good meal. His books include:
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5 November 2003Featured speaker: The Wild Writing Women read from works in progress
Host: Carla King
3 December 2003
Featured speaker: Don George, introduced by Maureen Wheeler
Host: Lisa Alpine
Our guest speaker was Don George, Editor at Large for Lonely Planet, who talked about his career as a travel writer and editor through the years and his new travel anthology. Our surprise guest was Lonely Planet co-founder Maureen Wheeler of Melborne, Australia, who was trailed by a cameraman for CNBC's Squawkbox segment. The program featuring Maureen will be aired in about 3 weeks. Our next salon will be January 7th, 2004, 5:30-7:00 pm at the Monticello Inn near San Francisco's Union Square. The salon is free, friendly, and open to the public. For more information visit the Wild Writing Women website. Here's a list of the notables we introduced:
Don George, travel writer, editor, Lonely Planet's editor at large
Vivian & Lloyd George from Conneticut (Don George's parents!)
Maureen Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet
Cindy Cohen, PR for Lonely Planet
Linda Burbank, writer for Consumer Reports & National Geographic Traveler
Laurie King, publisher of the weekly Travel Writer's Calendar
Miles Davis, author, just self-published his book Motorcycle Yoga
Michael McCarthy freelance writer for various Bay Area weeklies
Brad Newsham, taxi driver, author, and founder of Backpack Nation
Carol Cantor, freelance travel writer
Jeff Phillips, editor/writer for Sunset Magazine
Jacqueline Yau, freelance writer and contributor to Hyenas Laughed at Me, a new anthology from Travelers' Tales
Cheryn Flanagan, freelance writer, contributor to Boots'n'all website