{"id":8252,"date":"2017-10-27T18:17:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T01:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesliedinaberg.com\/wordpress\/?p=8252"},"modified":"2017-10-27T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T18:19:53","slug":"womens-literary-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesliedinaberg.com\/wordpress\/?p=8252","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Literary Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-96905\" src=\"http:\/\/sbseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-23-at-4.33.48-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"331\" \/>The first <a href=\"http:\/\/sbseasons.com\/2015\/03\/2015-wlf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women\u2019s Literary Festival<\/a> was initiated 12 years ago as a\u00a0Santa Barbara event by Gail Marshall and her daughter Jennifer Adams, and this weekend marks the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensliteraryfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12th Annual Women\u2019s Literary Festival<\/a>,\u00a0 taking place on Saturday, October 28 from\u00a08:30 a.m.\u20133:30 p.m. at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fessparkersantabarbarahotel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fess Parker A Doubletree by Hilton Resort<\/a> (633 E. Cabrillo Blvd.).<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0idea to showcase women authors was inspired by their attendance at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literarywomen.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Long Beach\u00a0Women\u2019s Festival<\/a>. With a mission to\u00a0celebrate diversity, literacy and social justice through women writers, the Santa Barbara event celebrates both the writers and readers connections to each other\u2019s human spirit through dialogues on the inner dynamics of the creative writing process as it interweaves within the authors\u2019 writing genre.<\/p>\n<p>The five distinguished authors invited this year represent a diversity in fiction and nonfiction work and include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephcha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steph Cha<\/a>, crime fiction mystery writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michelinemarcom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Micheline Aharonian Marcom<\/a>, a fiction novelist who bases her work on historical events<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sbseasons.com\/2017\/04\/enid-osborn-named-santa-barbara-poet-laureate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enid Osborn<\/a>, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateschatz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kate Schatz<\/a>, a <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of <a href=\"https:\/\/radamericanwomen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rad Women books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrea_Smith_%28academic%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrea Smith<\/a> activist\/author on women of color and Native American violence<\/p>\n<p>The registration fee ($65) includes coffee, lunch and all author presentations, including Breakout Sessions.\u00a0To register, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/womensliteraryfestival.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">womensliteraryfestival.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Leslie Dinaberg<\/p>\n<p>Originally published in <a href=\"http:\/\/sbseasons.com\/5fvWq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Santa Barbara Seasons<\/em><\/a> on October 26, 2017.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social 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