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WNBA Will Exhibit At The San Francisco Writers Conference This Weekend

SFWC_Logo_Square_400x400This Weekend, Women’s National Book Association, WNBA S F Chapter, will have an exhibitor table at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, lower level. Their event for Friday night is called  INSPIRING VOICES OF HOPE: The Afghan Women’s Writing Project, California Room, Mark Hopkins Hotel, SF. Friday, Feb. 12, 8:30-9:30pm.

The Women’s National Book Association is a national organization of women and men who work with and value books. A non-profit 501(c)3 organization, WNBA exists to promote reading and to support the role of women in the community of the book. The purposes of WNBA are educational and charitable. They promote recognition of women’s achievements in the book industry. Their charitable project is The Afghan Women’s Writing Project.

The Women’s National Book Association has been a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) member of the United Nations since 1959.  An NGO is defined as “any non-profit, voluntary citizens’ group that is organized on a local, national or international level.  Task-oriented and driven by people with a common interest, NGOs perform a variety of services and humanitarian functions, bring citizens’ concerns to governments, monitor policies and encourage political participation at the community level.” www.wnba-books.org/  

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Secretary of WNBA, SF Chapter


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WNBA Book Event with Five Authors Tomorrow

BOOK STORE FOR NTL READING GROUP MONTHIt’s that time of year again. WNBA (Women’s National Book Association) hosts  a reading and book signing by 5 authors at Books, Inc., Opera Plaza, on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco on October 10th, 2:00 to 4:00. Free and open to the public.

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Julia Park Tracey, Moderator

Come meet our authors as they discuss their captivating novels over wine and snacks catered by Max’s Opera Cafe. Giveaway raffle of all books presented. Free paperback and resources for Book Clubs, along with Great Group Reads featured titles. Moderated by Julia Park Tracey. Co-sponsored by Litquake.

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The Girl who wrote in silkThe year she left us

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The-Gods-of-Tango-book-cover-161x240 (1)These books will be available at Books, Inc to purchase. Plus you could win one of them in the free raffle. Last year we had three authors. With these five books, your chances are greater.

Which one is on your list to read?     Books-Inc-logo_sml-240x236 (1)

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Women’s National Book Association Inc.

National Reading Group Month – 2015

Books, Inc. Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness Ave.

An Atmospheric Afternoon:
Five authors of must-read novels!

Saturday October 10, 2015
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Books, Inc., Opera Plaza
601 Van Ness Ave., SF 94107
FREE and Open to the Public

Come meet our authors as they discuss their captivating novels over wine and snacks catered by Max’s Opera Cafe. Giveaway raffle of all books presented. Free paperback and resources for Book Clubs, along with Great Group Reads featured titles. Moderated by Julia Park Tracey.

Authors at the event are:

Carolina De Robertis, The Gods of Tango (Knopf)

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Lucy Sanna, The Cherry Harvest |(William Morrow)

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Kelli Estes, The Girl Who Wrote in Silk (Sourcebooks)

The Girl who wrote in silk

 

 

 

 

Kathryn Ma, The Year She Left Us (HarperCollins)

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Janis Cooke Newman, A Master Plan for Rescue (Riverhead)

The Master Plan for Rescue

 

Come and join us on October 10. I attended last year and met several writers. There will be refreshments and raffled books which I have volunteered to conduct.

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Mary Mackey Poet and Novelist

Mary Mackey book TravelersThe Women’s National Book Association had our board meeting on Sunday at poet and novelist Mary Mackey’s home. Wikipedia has this to say about Mackey:

Mary Mackey is an American novelist, poet, and academic. She is the author of seven collections of poetry and thirteen novels, including the New York Times best-seller A Grand Passion and The Year The Horses Came, The Horses At The Gate, and The Fires of Spring, three sweeping historical novels that take as their subject the earth-centered, Goddess-worshiping cultures of Neolithic Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mackey

Mary received her BA from Harvard and a PhD from the University of Michigan. She’s been a professor of English since 1972. The following poem is from Travelers With No Ticket Home (Marsh Hawk Press 2014) ©Mary Mackey, 

Walking toward the Largo do Machado

when the smell of jasmine
flows through the streets of Catete like a warm fog
when the scent is so liquid you can
breathe it in get drunk and stagger
I think of all the years I have loved you
and all the years I will go on loving you
I think of how we protect each other from pain and betrayal
how each night we wrap ourselves around each other
and peace floats above our bed like a canopy of white petals

The description on Amazon: In this stunning new collection, Mackey offers her readers fifty-eight intensely lyrical poems written with the same skill and passion that made her previous collection Sugar Zone winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Complex yet entirely accessible, the poems in Travelers With No Ticket Home form a visionary meditation on nature, childhood, the destruction of the rain forest of the Amazon, and the real and psychological landscape of travel. Taking us from a small farm in Western Kentucky to the jungles of Brazil, Mackey touches on the broader human feelings of wonder, displacement, grief, love, and love’s endless complications. Here too, for the first time, readers will find Mackey’s complete Karma Sutra of Kindness, a series of seven love poems written over the last thirty years.
http://www.amazon.com/Travelers-Ticket-Home-Mary-Mackey/dp/098823565X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1437071470&sr=1-1&keywords=Travelers+with+no+ticket+home

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Mary Mackey

WNBA members at Mary Mackey's house for a meeting.

WNBA members at Mary Mackey’s house for a meeting.

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Pitch-O-Rama: Meet the Agents and Editors March 28

WNBA small badgeWomen’s National Book Association’s 12th Annual Pitch-O-Rama: Meet the Agents and Editors is set for tomorrow morning.

  • Saturday, March 28, 2015, 8:00 am – 12:30 pm
    For men and women
    Women’s Building, Auditorium,
    3543 18th Street (b/t Guerrero & Valencia Streets) San Francisco CA 94110
    Continental Breakfast
  • Free pre-pitch coaching and ongoing mentoring
    Two one-hour pitch sessions and more!
    After the sessions, a panel presentation explores “Steps to Publishing: Editing”

    Cost: $65 WNBA members, $75 non-members, $90 walk-ins, if space available.

  • A rare opportunity to pitch to literary agents and acquisition editors in a private, supportive setting and receive feedback from some of the best publishing professionals in the Bay Area.

The list of some of the agents:

Andy Ross, previous owner of Berkeley’s legendary Cody’s Bookstore, now owns his own literary agency.

Georgia Hughes, editorial director at New World Library.

Brenda Knight, presenter at the SF Writers Conference, worked at Harper Collins.

Donna Galassi, VP Associate Publisher for Avalon Travel and Seal Press.

Daniel Harmon, Publishing Director, previous pop culture editor.

Amy Cloughley, agent with Kimberley Cameron & Associates.

Chelsea Lindman, literary agent at Sanford J. Greenburger, Associates.

Laurie McLean, Founding Partner of Fuse Literary Agency, previously with Larsen Pomada Literary Agents.

Gayle Wattawa, of Heyday, an independent, nonprofit publisher.

Carlie Webber, founder of CK Webber Associates Literary Agency.

And several more.

See you there.  Womens Building in SF

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