Loading…
arrow_back View All Dates
Sunday, November 8
 

3:00pm PST

How They Did It: Getting Unstuck
Sunday November 8, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm PST
$25

Co-presented with LitCamp

You know the feeling. You're moving along, racking up the word count on your novel (or memoir, or creative nonfiction project) when suddenly you hit a wall, a dead end, a what-the-heck-am-I-supposed-to-write-next fork in the road. Call it writer’s block, or a crisis of confidence, or just the universe conspiring against you. But whatever you call it, it's happened to every writer. Join us as four authors, Samina Ali (Pieces You'll Never Get Back), Diana Kapp (The Last Free Women), Jason Roberts (Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life), and Parini Shroff (Some People) share their strategies for pushing past the roadblocks and getting the words flowing again. Moderated by Page Street founder Janis Cooke Newman (A Master Plan for Rescue). Plus, we'll serve complimentary Prosecco, wine, and NA drinks. Tickets support both Litquake and LitCamp. Doors at 3:00pm.


Moderators
avatar for Janis Cooke Newman

Janis Cooke Newman

Janis Cooke Newman is the author of a memoir and two award-winning novels. She is also the founder of LitCamp, as well as Page Street Co-working for Writers.
Speakers
avatar for Samina Ali

Samina Ali

Samina Ali is an award-winning author, curator, and popular speaker. Her debut novel, Madras on Rainy Days, won France’s prestigious Prix Premier Roman Etranger and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in fiction. Her Tedx talk, ’“What the Quran Really Says About the... Read More →
avatar for Diana Kapp

Diana Kapp

Diana Kapp is a journalist who writes frequently about the intersection of women and modern culture, and has traveled in Afghanistan to report on the education of girls in the country’s rural northern provinces. Her work has has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Po... Read More →
avatar for Jason Roberts

Jason Roberts

Jason Roberts is a writer of nonfiction and fiction. His most recent book, Every Living Thing, was awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for biography, as well as the PEN America/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing award. His previous book, A Sense of the World, was a national bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and longlisted for the international Guardian First Book Award. He lives in Oakland and Montreal... Read More →
avatar for Parini Shroff

Parini Shroff

Parini Shroff is the bestselling author of The Bandit Queens, which was a Good Morning America Buzz Pick and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Women's Prize for Fiction, as well as her new novel, Some People. She received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a practicing attorney and currently lives in the Bay Area... Read More →
Sunday November 8, 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm PST
Page Street Co-Writing 297 Page St, San Francisco
 

Share Modal

Share this link via

Or copy link

Filter sessions
Apply filters to sessions.
Filtered by Date -