Our lineup is packed with craft, conversation, and community. Here’s what’s ahead, month by month. Not a member yet? Join now to attend these events free and support your memoir-loving community. IMWA members also have access to meeting recordings if they can’t attend.
Green-Light Your Book is a straight-shooting guide to a changing industry. Written for aspiring authors, previously published authors, and independent publishers, it explains the ever-shifting publishing landscape and helps indie authors […]
Jennifer Coburn is a USA Today best selling author of six novels and contributor to four literary anthologies. Over the past two decades, Coburn has received numerous awards from the […]
Antoinette is The founder of The La Jolla Writers Conference - one of the first writers conferences to cover the art, craft, and business of writing and which is now in it's […]
Kamala Devi teaches revolutionary methods to help dozens of students—many of them first-timers—turn their ideas into books within record time. Kamala Devi’s coaching is based on top coaching strategies, proven writing […]
SDMWA welcomes Paula Margulies and Tricia Van Dockum for a day of Public Relations for Memoirists. Learn the secrets of: Finding Your Audience Packaging Your Book to Attract the Appropriate Audience Building […]
Join SDMWA to learn all about the author/agent relationship with Literary Agent Annie Bomke. This talk focuses on the author/agent relationship, detailing the agent's role at every stage of the publishing process, […]
Leslie Johansen Nack graduated UCLA with a BA in English literature. Her debut memoir Fourteen: A Daughter’s Memoir of Adventure, Sailing, and Survival, (She Writes Press, Oct 2015) won five indie […]
Writing the book is hard enough, but then there's this business of publishing and marketing! How does the savvy author do it all! Publishing and Book Marketing strategist Jeniffer Thompson […]
Join San Diego Memoir Writers Association and our star-studded editor's panel: Lynette M. Smith. All My Best was established in 2004; proprietor Lynette M. Smith has over 30 years of copyediting […]
Come Learn the Secrets of Their Success! Listen to local Authors, Mariah McKenzie and Cherie Kephart, who will be talking about the secrets of their success. Each author will provide […]