Name: Writing from Truth in Fiction & Memoir
Start: 2025-05-17T15:30:00-0700
End: 2025-05-17T16:30:00-0700

Lit Crawl Sebastopol is a project of SebArts and The Litquake Foundation. San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival runs October 9-25, 2025, with affiliated Lit Crawls across the United States and around the world.

Saturday May 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT

Sebastopol Community Market

Novelists and memoirists start with the truth—artistic or factual. They discover their stories by looking to the past and to secrets, exploring the space between what was and what might have been. Through their own truth-seeking, the authors on this panel found not only the story arcs of strong female protagonists, but their own profound truths as well. These five authors will read from and discuss highlights of creating their recent books published by Sibylline Press.

Speakers

Jordan Rosenfeld

Author, Sibylline Press

I'm author of three novels, Fallout, Women in Red and Forged in Grace, and seven books on the craft of writing, including Make a Scene and the forthcoming The Sound of Story: Developing Voice and Tone in Writing and a project on midlife creativity. My work has been published in: The... Read More →

Christine Walker

Artist & Author

Christine Walker is a visual artist and author of the novel “Tap Dancing at the Bluebird.” Inspired by her paternal grandmother’s Depression-era diaries, Christine took truths of that resilient family, imagined an ambitious girl and the roving boy who set her life in motion... Read More →

Samantha Rose

Samantha Rose is an Emmy award-winning television writer and a New York Times, USA Today and internationally bestselling ghostwriter whose titles have been selected as Reese’s Book Club and Target Bookmarked Picks and featured in the Wall Street Journal, Time and Harper’s Bazaar... Read More →

Pamela Reitman

Pamela Reitman is an award-winning writer with numerous publications in literary journals, news outlets, and magazines. Her novel Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life is inspired by the secrets and truths within the story of the German-Jewish artist’s race again time, the Third Reich... Read More →

Claudia H. Long

Claudia H. Long is both a lawyer a long-time writer of literary fiction, currently living in Calistoga. Her works include Nine Tenths of the Law, which has been optioned for a feature film. Murder without a Duck, A Simpato Mystery, is her fourth mystery and the first in the humorous-edge-of-cozy... Read More →

Susannah Kennedy

Susannah Kennedy is a Berkeley and Oxford-educated anthropologist who now writes literary nonfiction. Her debut Reading Jane: A Daughter's Memoir has won many awards, including a Foreword Review INDIES Book of the Year 2023. Told through the journey of a daughter in search of truth... Read More →

Saturday May 17, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Sebastopol Community Market 6762 Sebastopol Ave #100, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

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