HeyJaredBay Area Book Festival Podcast
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,…
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Out of the Blue, I Found You (opens the original)
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The funny and heartfelt stories of this panel honor the chosen family who show up at the most unexpected, but perhaps most necessary, moments in our lives. Woodworking by Emily St. James follows a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows: her seventeen-year-old student, the high school's resident political dissident and Only Trans Girl. As their unlikely friendship evolves, it comes under the scrutiny of their community, and b
Behind the Scenes of Audiobook Production (opens the original)
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The sonic experts of this panel will pull back the curtains for listeners wondering what it takes to create an audiobook. Ray Archie , Founder of Notes to the Soul and Chief Audio Connoisseur of Brooklyn Sound Lab, has an extensive career in audio storytelling through audiobook narration, theatrical sound design, and musical innovation. Also with a background in music is Abigail Reno , an actor, audiobook narrator, and voiceover artist with roots in opera, choral conducting, and theater. She has
Preserving Ancestral Knowledge as BIPOC Writers (opens the original)
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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 p
Kaleidoscopic Convergence with 2025 NCBA Fiction Finalists (opens the original)
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It can take just one brief touchpoint to forever bend the directions of our diverging paths, as the 2025 NCBA Fiction Finalists reveal. In R.O. Kwon 's Exhibit, young photographer Jin Han meets an alluring, injured world-class ballerina at a party in San Francisco, which unleashes a complex exploration of ambition, desire, and a familial curse spoken aloud. Sometimes, convergence occurs in the form of multiple lives meeting at a single path, creating reflections, distortions, and unexpected reve
Indicator Lights: Fine Tuning the Past to Drive Your Story into the Future (opens the original)
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The past and the future are linked, nowhere more so than in story. In this session, we will play on the tightrope between past and present, exploring how nailing the details of the past in a story builds a foundation for future worlds, allowing you to believably take the reader anywhere. We will also investigate the empowering role of the narrator, who often speaks from the future of the story. Through four sets of dynamic, generative exercises, attendees will leave the hour with a bevy of new t
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