Bay Area Book Festival Podcast

Bay Area Book Festival

Between audio books? Curious about the writers themselves? Listen to full-length sessions from the Bay Area Book Festival, where readers and writers meet each year in Berkeley, CA, to engage with their favorite authors, including Pulitzer Prize winners, chefs, and activists, to discuss writing, race, love, mystery, and more.

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Bay Area Book Festival Podcast

Episodes (425)

Aug 14th Preserving Ancestral Knowledge as BIPOC Writers
Aug 13th Kaleidoscopic Convergence with 2025 NCBA Fiction Finalists
Aug 13th Indicator Lights: Fine Tuning the Past to Drive Your Story into the Future

Bay Area Book Festival Podcast

Aug 14, 2026
1 hours
86 MB

Our workshop will start with a panel discussion, comprised of BIPOC writers who are part of the Rooted & Written program, on how we integrate our histories into our work. This session will blend conversation and craft on how we listen to, record, and honor ancestral knowledge on the page, without flattening it for mainstream expectations. Then we'll talk about writing. Using guided prompts, participants will draft ideas for new work that gathers memory, place, language, and family stories into poems, micro-essays, or short scenes. This event took place in Downtown Berkeley, at the Bay Area...

Bay Area Book Festival Podcast

Preserving Ancestral Knowledge as BIPOC Writers

Bay Area Book Festival

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