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Stay abreast of our summer workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction and Memoir by following to hear panels, and craft talks from esteemed agents and editors. Later in the year we will be adding selected craft talks from previous summers. Year-round, we also host Bibliocracy Radio , a weekly half-hour books discussion and interview program hosted by Santa Monica Review editor Andrew Tonkovich featuring writers of literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, memoir and cultural criticism.

Episode Date
Writers Workshops 2025 - Special: Closing Talk by Sameer Pandya
Jul 14, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: "The Short Story" with Tom Barbash, Dana Johnson, Maceo Montoya, Gregory Spatz. Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich
Jul 14, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - "Oh What a World, What a World...! Worldbuilding - The Art of Creating and Sustaining a Fictional World" with Katy Hays, Rhoda Huffey, Brenda Lozano, Maceo Montoya. Moderated by Andrew Tonkovich
Jul 13, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: "Bringing History to Life: Techniques, Challenges, and the Social Responsibility of the Writer" with Jamie Ford, Charlie Haas, Julia Flynn Siler, Amy Tan. Moderated by Sands Hall
Jul 13, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - Craft Talk by Samuel Freedman: "Using Family History to Craft a Narrative." Introduced by Brian Eule
Jul 12, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - Special Event: Research Rx: How to Address Research Roadblock with Bernice Yeung and Julia Flynn Siler
Jul 12, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - "Demystifying Publishing - The Book Editor's Panel" with Jessica Case (Pegasus Books), Ben George (freelance, formerly Little, Brown), Alexander Star (Farrar Straus Giroux), Maya Ziv (Dutton). Moderated by Michael Mungiello
Jul 10, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel - Agents (1/2)Hour with Michael Carlisle, Annie Hwang, Michael Mungiello, Peter Steinberg. Moderated by Maya Ziv
Jul 10, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - Special Event: Lunch with my Editor, with Rickey Fayne and Maya Guthrie (Assistant Editor at Little, Brown)
Jul 10, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: “And Then the Queen Died of Grief: on Plot” with Venita Blackburn, Kirsten Chen, Jamie Ford, Amy Waldman. Moderated by Katy Hays
Jul 09, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel - "Methods of Revealing - Which Form Best Serves my Material - Memoir, Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, or Some Hybrid" with Frances Dinkelspiel, Brian Eule, Robin Romm, Sands Hall. Moderated by Mary Melton
Jul 09, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - Craft Talk by Sands Hall: “Hurling the Boot. Boarding the Dog: On Scene”
Jul 09, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel: Literary Magazines with Andrew Tonkovich (Santa Monica Review), Oscar Villalon (ZYZZYVA), Mary Melton (Alta Journal), and Maceo Montoya (Huizache)
Jul 09, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - Panel - "What We Talk About When We Talking - On Dialogue" with Vanessa Hua, Dana Johnson, Lauren Markham, Patricia Meyer. Moderated by Sands Hall
Jul 08, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - Craft Talk by Rickey Fayne: "Show and Tell: How Objects and Images Reveal Character and Advance Plot"
Jul 08, 2025
Writers Workshops 2025 - Opening Talk by Robin Romm: Your Imagination is Not a Capitalist: Attention as Craft"
Jul 08, 2025
Bibliocracy Radio: L. Annette Binder on Child of Earth and Starry Heaven
Jul 06, 2025
Bibliocracy Radio: Adolfo Guzman-Lopez on California Southern
Jun 21, 2025
Bibliocracy Radio: Emily Greenberg on Alternative Facts
Jun 05, 2025
Amy Gerstler on Is This My Final Form?
May 29, 2025
Bibliocracy Radio: Sameer Pandya on Our Beautiful Boys
May 20, 2025
Andrew Nicholls: As Man is to God
Apr 22, 2025
Bibliocracy Radio: Nolan Higdon on the Industrial Information Media Complex
Apr 07, 2025
Bibliocracy Radio: Janice Shapiro on Honoria: A Fortuitous Friendship
Apr 07, 2025
Bibliocracy Radio: Lisa Alvarez Reads "False Flag"
Mar 06, 2025
Bibliocracy Radio: The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism
Mar 06, 2025
Bibliocracy Radio: Andrew Tonkovich on A Lovely Wallpaper
Feb 18, 2025
Bibliocracy Radio: Chuck Rosenthal on Awake For Ever in a Sweet Unrest
Jan 21, 2025
Bibliocracy Radio: David L. Ulin on Thirteen Question Method
Jan 15, 2025
Bibliocracy Radio: Gary Amdahl reads "The Breezeway"
Jan 10, 2025
Bibliocracy Radio: Brittney Corrigan on The Ghost Town Collectives
Dec 13, 2024
Bibliocracy Radio: Steve Wasserman: Tell Me Something, Tell Me Anything, Even If It’s a Lie
Dec 05, 2024
Bibliocracy Radio: Banned Books Week with ALA President Cindy Hohl
Dec 05, 2024
Bibliocracy Radio: Corey Robin on the Reactionary Mind
Nov 27, 2024
Bibliocracy Radio: Peter Carr: “Artist for Survival”
Oct 22, 2024
Bibliocracy Radio: Jackie Wu: On the Front Lines of Democracy
Oct 15, 2024
Bibliocracy Radio: Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California
Oct 01, 2024
Bibliocracy Radio: Larry Beinhart on Salvation Boulevard
Sep 25, 2024
Bibliocracy Radio: Victoria Patterson on Drift
Sep 19, 2024
Bibliocracy Radio: Luis Alberto Urrea on Into the Beautiful North
Sep 10, 2024
Bibliocracy Radio: Dylan Landis on Normal People Don’t Live Like This
Sep 05, 2024
Bibliocracy Radio: Mary Jones on the Goodbye Process
Aug 26, 2024
Bibliocracy Radio: Kevin Allardice on WEFT
Aug 20, 2024
Bibliocracy Radio: Suzanne Greenberg on Shopping for Dad
Aug 12, 2024
Bibliocracy Season 2 Episode 1 - THE BIG LISTEN: Journal of the Plague Years
Jul 23, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024 - Closing Talk by Gail Tsukiyama
Jul 15, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024 - Panel: ”Writing Beyond the Conference”
Jul 15, 2024
Panel: ”Narrative Voice & Dialogue”
Jul 14, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024 - Craft Talk by Rachel Howard - “Writing from the Heat of Moment: Improvisation in Fiction and Nonfiction Writing”
Jul 14, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024 - A Panel: “ Fact, Truth, and Imagination: Craft Choices for Different Genres”
Jul 13, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024 - A Panel: On Plot
Jul 13, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024: A Craft Talk by Tom Barbash: “What Doesn’t Break Us: The Art of the Story”
Jul 13, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024 - A Craft Talk by Martin J. Smith: “Difficult Interviews: Getting the Reluctant to Talk”
Jul 13, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024: Book Editors Panel
Jul 11, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024 - Literary Agents Panel
Jul 11, 2024
Panel: West Coast Literary Journals
Jul 11, 2024
Panel: The Short Story
Jul 10, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024 - A Craft Talk by Victoria Patterson:“Show, Tell, Show, Tell - Scene and Summary in Fiction & Nonfiction”
Jul 10, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024: Panel - “Reliably Unreliable First Person”
Jul 09, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024 - Panel: “Writing the Historical in Fiction and Nonfiction”
Jul 09, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024: Craft Talk by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton: "Writing a Life: A Character's Journey Across Generations"
Jul 09, 2024
Podcast Special: Gill Dennis's 2014 Opening Talk
Jul 09, 2024
Writers Workshops 2024: Opening Talk by Leland Cheuk: It's Not About You Until It Is
Jul 09, 2024
Bibliocracy Episode 12: Joan Braune on Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements
Jun 05, 2024
Bibliocracy Episode 13: Federico Finchelstein on Wannabe Fascists
Jun 05, 2024
Bibliocracy Episode 10: Venita Blackburn on Dead in Long Beach, Califonria
May 09, 2024
Bibliocracy Episode 11: Molly Giles on Life Span
May 09, 2024
Bibliocracy Episode 6: Amber A'Lee Frost on Dirtbag
Apr 01, 2024
Bibliocracy Episode 7: A Tribute to Dwight Yates (Part 1 of 2)
Apr 01, 2024
Bibliocracy Episode 8: A Tribute to Dwight Yates (Part 2 of 2)
Apr 01, 2024
Bibliocracy Episode 9: Julie Schumacher on The English Experience
Apr 01, 2024
Bibliocracy Episode 4: Katherine Haake on What Books Press
Apr 01, 2024
Bibliocracy Episode 5: Theresa Bonpane on Sister Rebel
Apr 01, 2024
Bibliocracy Episode 3: David Kipen on Dear California
Feb 23, 2024
Bibliocracy Episode 2: Reid Sherline on Rapture
Feb 23, 2024
Bibliocracy Episode 1: Kelly Sather on Small in Real Life
Feb 21, 2024