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Santa Barbara Writers Conference Monday morning panel June 19, 2023 - Interviews, Journals, & Reviews with David Starkey, Chryss Yost, and Brian Tanquay discussing approaches to being interviewed, starting a literary journal, both online and in print, how to write a review, and how to get your book reviewed.

Tonight, Tuesday on FADE to BLACK:  Mathew (Mateo) Pallamary  is with us to talk about shamanism, visionary experience, entheobotany, plant medicines, consciousness, and altered states of consciousness. Matthew J. (Mateo) Pallamary frequently visits the mountains, deserts, and jungles of North, Central, and South America pursuing his studies of shamanism and plant medicines for over twen...

Listen to Monte Schulz's Santa Barbara Writers Conference opening night keynote talk on June 18th 2023 discussing Metropolis , his sixth novel which is a dystopian narrative of love in a time of war and moral disintegration. Regency College senior Julian Brehm’s uneventful student life is derailed when he falls for Nina Rinaldi, a beautiful young revolutionary engaged in political activism against...

Shamanism & Death Author, editor, and shamanic explorer  Matthew Pallamary  has been searching the globe for answers to the truth about reality. In the first half, he discussed his visionary experiences, shamanism, and writing, as well as his work on attitudes about death. His book " Death: A Love Story, " was published at the outbreak of the pandemic, and is written in the 'first pe...

Gayle Lynds along with her prolific and talented multi-genre husband Dennis Lynds have been long time supporters and members of the Santa Barabra Writers Conference for many years. Dennis has passed on and is sorely missed, but Gayle continues being an inspiration to the SBWC family. Gayle is an American former journalist, editor and author and is known as the Queen of Espionage Fiction for her&nb...

Here is a talk from Dorothy Allison from the 2012 Santa Barbara Writers Conference . Allison's writing focuses on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism.  She has won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards. Her first novel  Bastard Out of Carolina  was published in 1992 to great accl...

Fannie Flagg, is an American actress, comedian and  author . She is best known as a semi-regular panelist on the 1973–1982 versions of the game show  Match Game  and for the 1987 novel  Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe , which was adapted into the 1991 motion picture  Fried Green Tomatoes . She was nominated for an  Academy Award  for...

Simon Van Booy is the award-winning, bestselling author of more than a dozen books for adults and children. He is the editor of three volumes of philosophy and has written for  The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post , and the BBC. His books have been translated into many languages and optioned for film. Raised in rural North Wales, he currently lives in New York where he...

Starshine Roshell is a journalism professor, magazine writer, award-winning columnist and overwhelmed mother of two. Named for a song in the 1960s musical “Hair,” in which her father starred, Starshine grew up in Los Angeles on the soap opera sets and in the Sunset Strip nightclubs where her parents worked. She graduated UCLA cum laude and wrote for The Hollywood Reporter before joining the Santa...

Charles Schulz the creator of Peanuts and all the unforgettable characters he created was a regular at the  Santa Barbara Writers Conference  and was known to everyone by his nickname "Sparky". He loved writers, writing, and the creative process, and spent the whole week at the conference for many years. Aside from showing support for all the regular talent, a big part of Sparky's attend...

Lee Goldberg  is known for his bestselling novels  Lost Hills  and  True Fiction  and his work on a wide variety of TV crime series, including  Diagnosis: Murder ,  A Nero Wolfe Mystery ,  Hunter ,  Spenser: For Hire ,  Martial Law ,  She-Wolf of London ,  SeaQuest ,  1-800-Missing ,  The Glades  and  Monk . In 2007, G...

David Viscott was an American psychiatrist, author, and media personality who founded the Viscott Center for Natural Therapy in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach and Pasadena, California. In 1980 Viscott began presenting his own full-time show on talk radio, and was notably one of the first psychiatrists to do so. He screened telephone calls and gave considerable amount of free psychological counsellin...

Here is a talk from Ashleigh Brilliant when he spoke at the 1984 Santa Barbara Writers Conference . Ashleigh is an English-born American author and cartoonist is best known for his  Pot-Shots , single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in the United States in 1975 and is still being published today.

Prior to his massive success with   Roots   Alex Haley was another unknown struggling writer until the  Santa Barbara Writers Conference   founder Barnaby Conrad connected him with the right people and became responsible for getting Alex published. Barnaby was a bestseller at the age of twenty nine for his novel  Matador  and he bought a bar in San Francisco that he n...

Listen to Robert Gover speaking about Sharpening Your Dialogue at the 1983 Santa Barbara Writers Conference . Robert Gover (November 2, 1929 – January 12, 2015) was an American journalist who became a best-selling novelist at age 30. His first novel, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, a satire on American racism, remains a cult classic that helped break down America's fear of four-letter words a...

Dennis Lynds was married to Gayle Lynds who is known as the Queen of Espionage Fiction for her  spy fiction  or  spy   thrillers  novels and the co-founder of  International Thriller Writers . Gayle was featured in episode 36 of the Mystic Ink Voices of the Masters Series. Dennis was a generous, thoughtful, and prolific writer that most writers only dream about becomi...

COAST TO COAST SHOW NOTES Author, editor, and shamanic explorer Matthew Pallamary has been searching the globe for the truth about reality. In the latter half, he spoke about his latest work looking at how various sciences, disciplines, nature, and ancient wisdom relate to the idea of the Golden Mean (the middle between two extremes). Through his visionary experiences with ayahuasca, he...

Gayle Lynds along with her prolific and talented multi-genre husband Dennis Lynds have been long time supporters and members of the Santa Barabra Writers Conference for many years. Dennis has passed on and is sorely missed, but Gayle continues being an inspiration to the SBWC family. Gayle is an American former journalist, editor and author and is known as the Queen of Espionage Fiction for her&nb...

Santa Barbara resident and SBWC regular Sue Grafton was an American author best known as the author of the "alphabet series" ( "A" Is for Alibi , etc.) featuring private investigator  Kinsey Millhone  in the fictional city of  Santa Teresa, California , which was based on Santa Barbara . Before her success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies. Stewart O...

Ray Bradbury kicked off the Santa Barbara Writers Conference for the first thirty seven years, and anyone who attended, came back again and again to listen to his inspiring, passionate talks. In the first year of the conference he came to the Cate School where the conference began and brought his sleeping bag and stayed up late into the night regaling attendees with his amazing stories from episod...

Robert McKee  is an author, lecturer and story consultant who is known for his "Story Seminar", which he developed when he was a professor at the University of Southern California. McKee is the author of  Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting ,  Dialogue: the Art of Verbal Action for Stage, Page and Screen ,  Storyn...

Fannie Flagg, is an American actress, comedian and  author . She is best known as a semi-regular panelist on the 1973–1982 versions of the game show  Match Game  and for the 1987 novel  Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe , which was adapted into the 1991 motion picture  Fried Green Tomatoes . She was nominated for an  Academy Award  for the s...

Santa Barbara resident T. C. Boyle was a keynote speaker at the 1996 Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Also known as T. Coraghessan Boyle , he is an American novelist and short story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published sixteen novels and more than 100 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988, for his third novel,  World's End , which recounts 300 year...

We had a great Part 2 show on Friday night 8/12/22 on Night Dreams Talk Radio with Gary Anderson interviewing Matthew J. (Mateo) Pallamary "On Crazy Things In The Paranormal". On the show they discussed altered states of consciousness and psychedelic substances, among them DMT, Psilocybin, LSD, Cannabis, and Ayahuasca, as well as shamanic plant diets in the jungles of the Amazon.

Elmore (Dutch) Leonard  was a talented novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were  Westerns , but he went on to specialize in  crime fiction  and  suspense thrillers , many of which were adapted into motion pictures. In this 1996 interview Dutch discussed his experiences turning novels into screenplays with Frank Scott...