Welcome!
This site is my virtual front porch, which links to all my online activities. Thank you for visiting!
About
Marcia Meier is an award-winning journalist, author, poet, photographer, teacher, and owner and director of the 37-year-old Santa Barbara Writers Conference, which provides workshops, panels and speakers for 400 writers over six days every summer. Before buying the conference, Meier spent 20 years writing and editing for daily newspapers, taught college-level courses in journalism, column-writing and the impact of media on society, and was marketing and communications director for a liberal arts college. She is the author of Santa Barbara, Paradise on the Pacific (Longstreet Press, 1996) and continues to freelance for a number of publications in print and online. Her book, Navigating the Rough Waters of Today’s Publishing World Storm: Critical Advice for Writers from Industry Insiders, will be published by Quill Driver Books in fall 2009.
Projects
Santa Barbara Writers Conference
My personal page on the SBWC social network, my.sbwriters.com.
The Huffington Post
Miller-McCune
Red Room (my personal blog)
Central Coast Magazine
Last updated 11/27/08