Student Reading at Stanford Bookstore
Friday, October 2410:00 am – 12:00 pm
Stanford Bookstore, 519 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA
Join us at the Stanford Bookstore for a special reading hosted by Stanford Continuing Studies. Students from the Novel Writing Certificate will share 5-minute excerpts from their completed novels. With a cafe inside the bookstore, it's the perfect opportunity to grab a cup of coffee and enjoy some exceptional writing from students who have spent years mastering the craft through Continuing Studies.
Student Reading at San Francisco Lit Crawl
Stanford Continuing Studies Presents: No One Was Supposed to Know!
Saturday, October 25
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Manny's, 3092 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103
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Stanford Continuing Studies will host a reading of its Novel Writing Certificate graduates as part of "Lit Crawl" in San Francisco's vibrant Mission District, at Manny's. Lit Crawl is the culmination of San Francisco's Litquake, a festival of books and authors. During Lit Crawl, venues all over the Mission neighborhood open their doors to readings and people meander up and down the streets, enjoying listening to authors share their work while sipping on cocktails. Emceed by Novel Writing Certificate lead instructor Malena Watrous, our Lit Crawl reading has become a beloved annual tradition. Learn More >
Readers at Lit Crawl:
Julie Howard writes historical fiction and mysteries. A former journalist and editor, she has eight published novels. Her current work-in-progress is a WWII story inspired by family events. A native Californian, she now lives in Boise, Idaho.
Diane Jacobson weathers life with an arsenal of fish stories to tell, a multi-tool in her car, a barbed wire scar on her knee, and a row of boots in her closet. Currently, she lives in the Bay Area with her husband and dog, where she writes, rows, and texts her college-aged son too much.
Anne Newman reported for The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Businessweek, Appalachian newspapers, and her East Bay high school, where the Dead headlined the class fundraiser in the gym. Her writing draws on her Huck Finn childhood in West Virginia, Southern heritage, global travel, career in New York, and child-raising in New Jersey.
Brit StClair lives and writes in Decatur, Georgia. When not playing with words she can often be found overwhelming herself with her hobbies, like trying to learn three languages at once.
Mary Serradas is finishing "Luz Translation" in the Stanford Novel Writing Certificate. She was a Luso-American Fellow at the Disquiet Writer’s Program in Lisbon, participated in KPCC's "Unheard LA" Story-Telling Series, graduated from NYU Film, and works in television marketing and promotion.
Stephanie Reents is a Novel Writing Certificate Instructor and the author of The Kissing List, a collection of stories that was an Editors' Choice in The New York Times Book Review, and I Meant to Kill Ye, a bibliomemoir chronicling her journey into the strange void at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. She has twice received an O. Henry Prize for her short fiction. Her novel We Loved to Run is coming out in 2025. Reents received a BA from Amherst, a BA from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and an MFA from the University of Arizona. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford.