CONNECT with the CitySan Diego Writers Festival
April 13, 2019
San Diego Central Library @ Joan Λ Irwin Jacobs Common
The San Diego Writers Festival is a free, performance-based festival that celebrates writers of all kinds, including authors of poetry, spoken word, music, screenplays, books, plays, graphic novels, comic books and more. Daytime events will include interactive craft and business-based workshops, live performances, educational panels, opportunities to meet authors, book signings, readings, live music, teen workshops, and kid-friendly events.
This festival was born out of a passion to unite our community through storytelling and to give a voice to those who often feel voiceless. We celebrate inclusivity and accessibility, creating a day that celebrates all races, genders, religions and abilities.
Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Central Library | Neil Morgan Auditorium
Headlining the San Diego Writers Festival this year is Piper Kerman, renowned for her bestselling memoir, turned into the groundbreaking, Emmy Award-winning Netflix series, Orange is the New Black. Her social-phenomenon literary work chronicles the 13 months she spent in a Federal correctional institution after a brief involvement with drug trafficking sent her to prison on money laundering charges. In her satirical and deeply-insightful book, Kerman explores the experience of incarceration and the lives of the amazing women she met in prison; their friendships and families, their issues with mental illness, their substance abuse and their cliques and codes of behavior. Kerman’s book and the subsequent smash Netflix show pioneered the way we tell stories in the traditional print world as well as in the new age of streaming entertainment. Kerman will give a keynote speech and Q & A as well as an onstage interview.
