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Oakland sixth-grade student Lindsay Sanchez from Elmhurst Community Prep presents a power-point presentation about Oakland Tales.

"Devil for a Witch" selected for YEAR'S BEST CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES 2016 by Kobo

Oakland Tales, Lost Secrets of The Town was selected for a 2015 Partners in Preservation Award by the Oakland Heritage Alliance; and honored on Feb. 18, 2016. More information about the event. ​

March 4, 2016 Check out San Francisco's J-Weekly for an excerpt of my story, "Devil for a Witch" from Jewish Noir (published by PM Press).

"A book for this generation of Oakland youth."
— Oakland Councilwoman Lynette McElhaney

“The Tale Behind Richmond Tales” in California Educator Magazine, February 2015 (pp. 50-51)

Richmond Tales, Lost Secrets of the Iron Triangle has been selected by the California Teachers Association for the 2015 READ ACROSS AMERICA campaign.

To purchase a copy of Oakland Tales or Richmond Tales, please visit www.oaklandtales.com

A short video on Project Ivy, an offshoot of Ivy, Homeless in San Francisco. Project Ivy will eventually direct kids to a website where they can 'talk' to Ivy and learn how to address homelessness in their community: http://www.reachandteach.com/ivyvideo

Look for other writings by Summer Brenner

"Identity Theft," Berkeley Noir, edited by Jerry Thompson and Owen Hill, 2020

Hello, Goodbye Apocalypse, edited by Carol Jameson and Owen Hill, 2020, 2021 Volumes 2 & 3

River of Fire, Commons, Crisis & the Imagination, edited by Cal Winslow, The Pumping Station in collaboration with the Mendocino Institute, 2016

"Devil for a Witch" in YEAR'S BEST CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES 2016 by Kobo

"Devil for a Witch" in JEWISH NOIR, edited by Ken Wishnia, published by PM Press, 2015

Infinite City by Rebecca Solnit

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: Poets and Writers Respond to the March 5, 2007 Bombing of Baghdad's "Street of Booksellers," edited by Beau Beausoleil and Deema Shehabi

Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail! Stories of Crime, Love, and Rebellion, edited by Gary Phillips and Andrea Gibbons

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