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Bay Area Book Festival Podcast

Bay Area Book Festival
Transgender Literature
La Siguanaba
Swedish Literature
Climate Change
Brevity
Literary Translation
Berkeley, California
San Francisco, California
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Latin American Descent
Literature
Bay Area
Social Justice Children's Book Fair
Activism
Central America
Feminism
Short Stories
Berkeley, United States
Holocaust
Drones

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, to discuss writing, race, love, mystery, and more.

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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 sto... more

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, a... more

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 ... more

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Rowena Leong-Singer
Chinese Filipino writer and editor, Rooted & Written contributor
Craft; Rooted & Written; Writer's Grotto
Episode: Preserving Ancestral Knowledge as BIPOC Writers
Grace Loprasad
Writer participating in the panel reading excerpts
Writers' Grotto; Rooted & Written
Episode: Preserving Ancestral Knowledge as BIPOC Writers
Irini Carson
Black British writer, Rooted & Written teaching artist
Rooted & Written; The Dead Are Gods
Episode: Preserving Ancestral Knowledge as BIPOC Writers
Grace Lowe Persaud
Author of The Translator's Daughter, memoirist
The Translator's Daughter; Tin House; Writers' Grotto
Episode: Preserving Ancestral Knowledge as BIPOC Writers
Rita Bullwinkel
Author, Headshot (Northern California Book Award winner)
Author, Headshot
Episode: Kaleidoscopic Convergence with 2025 NCBA Fiction Finalists
Anita Felicelli
Author, How We Know Our Time Travelers
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Episode: Kaleidoscopic Convergence with 2025 NCBA Fiction Finalists
RO. Kwon
Author, Exhibit
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Episode: Kaleidoscopic Convergence with 2025 NCBA Fiction Finalists
Greg Sarris
Author, The Forgetters; The Last Human Bear
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Nina Schuyler
Author, In This Ravishing World
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Reviews

4.6 out of 5 stars from 14 ratings
  • Fantastic panels, poor audio quality

    Have been listening to this great podcast for years, but far out- the audio is always so low! I can’t listen in the car because even my hybrid engine drowns out the voices. If I listen with headphones and move onto another pod afterwards and forget to turn it way down, I blow my ears out.

    Apple Podcasts
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    shmonblah
    United States3 months ago

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Listeners note strong, insightful conversations with diverse authors but some episodes have audio quality that can be hard to hear in non-headphone environments.
Guests bring a broad range of perspectives, from poets to editors to translators, enriching the festival's conversations.
Longtime listeners appreciate deep dives into craft, translation, and regional literary culture.

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Kaleidoscopic Convergence with 2025 NCBA Fiction Finalists
Q: Where do the ideas for these stories originate, and how do the authors approach world-building across multiple voices?
The panelists discuss how language and shared storytelling create immersive worlds, with authors like Anita and Nina describing how climate, memory, and community shape multiple perspectives and voices as the core method of world-building.
Kaleidoscopic Convergence with 2025 NCBA Fiction Finalists
Q: At what point did Rita decide to bend time so that each character moves backward and forward in time within a single boxing match?
Rita explains that the time-bending emerged organically from rereading an abandoned manuscript; the energy was strongest when the boxing match itself energizes the character's mental travel, which then became the core of Headshot.
Out of the Darkness: Translators and Editors Shine Light on a New Treasure Trove of Swedish Literature
Q: How did you decide which authors and stories to include in the anthology?
Editors describe a timeline anchored by Red Room and Nobel-era authors, aiming for a balance of unknown and known writers, female and male voices, and length variety, with Strindberg's Half a Sheet of Paper chosen as a meaningful ending to reflect a life told on a page.
Taking Pride in Transformative Latin American Works
Q: How do you balance responsibility to your communities with wild imagination?
Panelists describe following their characters with integrity, using memory and lived experience as grounding while permitting imaginative leaps that expand representation beyond conventional tropes.
A Time to Hide: Marion Seidemann Fredman and Elisa Kleven
Q: What message do you hope young readers take away?
Marion emphasizes that doing the right thing and being a good human, while helping others, is a moral core of the story, and that readers should feel gratitude for those who were brave and resourceful during trying times.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Bay Area Book Festival Podcast

What is Bay Area Book Festival Podcast about and what kind of topics does it cover?

The series showcases in-depth conversations from a Bay Area literary festival, featuring panel discussions, readings, and conversations with writers, translators, editors, and poets. Episodes often center on memory, diaspora, translation, Indigenous and marginalized voices, and community storytelling, with live readings, Q&As, and craft-focused workshops. Notable strengths include a strong emphasis on cross-cultural literature, innovative storytelling forms, and accessible discussions that pair literary analysis with personal narrative. A recurring highlight is the festival's breadth—from local Bay Area voices to international writers—often pairing authors with editors, translators, and curators to illuminate the publishing and translation ... more

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1. Rowena Leong-Singer
2. Grace Loprasad
3. Irini Carson
4. Grace Lowe Persaud
5. Rita Bullwinkel
6. Anita Felicelli
7. RO. Kwon
8. Greg Sarris

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