Words Off Paper
For San Francisco Bay Area Word Lovers: Check out Words Off Paper—a pop-up event that happens 3-4 times a year featuring local and regional writers for a read-aloud event.
Each Words Off Paper event will feature 6 writers each pulling words from their pages to perform for a live audience. The writers will each have about 10 minutes to feature poetry, prose, or song ranging from inspiring to humorous, adventurous to erotic, heartbreaking to uplifting. Each event will have a loose theme, but the exact concoction will be up to the authors themselves.
Words Off Paper events will take place at local Marin and Sonoma County bookshops, cafes, restaurants, and bars as a collaborative community experience which is a triple win: Writers get to share their work with a live audience, the audience will enjoy an afternoon of literary fun, and local merchants and eateries will be exposed to new potential customers and patrons.
A small entrance fee is charged to offset the costs of running Words Off Paper.
Past Events
Summer 2019
Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Navigating the Divide, and Sea CucumberLinda Joy Myers, Song of the Plains and The Journey of MemoirClaire Hennessy, Essay appears in She's Got ThisEileen Rendahl, Cover Me In DarknessMeredith May The...
Spring 2019
Michelle A. Carter, From Under the Russian SnowShira Marin, Shards of a Broken MysteryGail Rudd Entrekin, Rearrangement of the Invisible, and Change Will Do You GoodJudy Crowe, Flat Water: Nebraska Poems
Fall 2018
Susanna Solomon, Montana Rapsody Julie Barton, Dog MedicineMartha Conway, The Underground RiverLaurie McAndish King, Lost, Kidnapped, and Eaten Alive, and Your Crocodile Has ArrivedKate Jessica Raphael, Murder Under the Bridge: A...
Autographed Copy
Want your own autographed copy of Betsy's books? Please place your order with Book Passage and Betsy will sign your copy. Please be sure to indicate to whom the inscription should read in the order comments section.