“Start clean and simple. Don’t try to write pretty or noble or big. Try to say just what you mean. This is hard because you have to find out what you mean, and that’s work, real work. (Gertrude Stein)”
- Rebecca Robins
From Our Blog
Monday May 14, 2012 [+]Elfrieda Abbe Blogs: Advice for New Attendees |
Sunday April 22, 2012 [+]Catherine Ann Jones Blogs: Can Movies Make a Difference? |
Wednesday February 22, 2012 [+]A Life in Full: A Q&A with Clive Cussler |
Voices from the Past
Ray Bradbury, author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451, first attended the conference in 1972. Here he is in 2007, still inspiring SBWC attendees to write as if their lives depended on it!
Gayle Lynds tells attendees how she first came to SBWC as an aspiring science fiction novelist. Now she is a NY Times bestselling author of international espionage novels, including The Last Spymaster, and Masquerade.
Joseph Wambaugh, bestselling author of seventeen works of fiction and nonfiction, tells attendees he doesn’t believe in writer’s block, then goes on to his famed stories from his years as a LAPD detective sergeant.
Fannie Flagg first attended SBWC to see Eudora Welty speak. Now it’s her turn on stage, and she has published seven novels, including Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, and I Still Dream About You.
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of the The Devil’s Highway, a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction, talks to SBWC attendees about seeing his name in print and living a writer’s dream.
It's Our 40th Anniversary!
Since 1972, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference has been connecting writers with mentors, agents and editors. Every summer, writers in many genres from around the world gather to participate in a magical week of intensive work focused on story, voice, craft, marketing, and networking with fellow writers and publishing professionals.
The conference has hosted a legacy of America’s best writers, including Ray Bradbury, William Styron, Eudora Welty, James Michener, Sue Grafton, Charles M. Schulz, Clive Cussler, Fannie Flagg, Elmore Leonard and T.C. Boyle.
Join us this summer for our 40th anniversary, June 9th – 14th 2012, and contribute to this on-going literary legacy.
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Since 1972, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference has been connecting writers with mentors, agents and editors. Every summer, writers in many genres from around the world gather to participate in a magical week of intensive work focused on story, voice, craft, marketing, and networking with fellow writers and publishing professionals.
The conference has hosted a legacy of America’s best writers, including Ray Bradbury, William Styron, Eudora Welty, James Michener, Sue Grafton, Charles M. Schulz, Clive Cussler, Fannie Flagg, Elmore Leonard and T.C. Boyle.
Join us this summer for our 40th anniversary, June 9th – 14th 2012, and contribute to this on-going literary legacy.