New Meeting Date! New Meeting Time! New Meeting Place!
Every Second Sunday, 2:00-3:30 pm
The Stanford Inn
(lobby area)
Park in the lower lot unless you need direct access
Refreshments available for purchase
Every Second Sunday, 2:00-3:30 pm
The Stanford Inn
(lobby area)
Park in the lower lot unless you need direct access
Refreshments available for purchase
“Both Sides Now: Holding the Tension of the Opposites"
Most humans hate uncertainty. They want to eliminate ambiguity and choose sides. They want clear distinctions between winners and losers, good and bad, right and wrong. Writers are a different breed. Our work is all about coming to terms with complexity, what Karl Jung called “the tension of the opposites.” Dichotomy—the pairing of opposing concepts—is a great tool for us. Think: War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Darkness at Noon. Let’s explore some ways to welcome complexity into our writing. Bring your curiosity and some writing materials. (Don’t worry! We’ll have fun!) Susan Bono is a teacher, freelance editor, and short-form memoirist who has facilitated writing workshops since 1993. Her personal essays have appeared online, on stage, in anthologies, newspapers, and on the radio. From 1995-2015, she edited and published Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narrative in hard copy and online. She was on the board of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference for more than a decade and was editor of their journal, the Noyo River Review. She is the author of What Have We Here: Essays about Keeping House and Finding Home. She is a micro-essay judge at Wordrunner eChapbooks. Find out more at susanbono.com.” |
2025 Anthology: Resilience
Anthology Reading – March 9th
A Fun Event at Tall Guy Brewery
Anthology Reading – March 9th
A Fun Event at Tall Guy Brewery

Copies of the 2025 Anthology, Resilience, will be available at the meeting. Members receive one complimentary copy – subsequent copies are $12.00
Copies will be available for pick up at WMC member meetings in January, February, and March
(If you need to have your copy mailed, check with Elizabeth Vrenios ([email protected]) for arrangements)
Members, Please check your Member Bio, above.
If you aren’t there or up-to-date, please send a brief bio (50 words) and a headshot to Membership: [email protected].
If you aren’t there or up-to-date, please send a brief bio (50 words) and a headshot to Membership: [email protected].
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We are also on Instagram! @writersofthemendocinocoast
UPCOMING EVENTS
Check out the exciting news for 2025 Mendocino Coast Writers Conference! Apply for scholarships today!
Earth Day 2025!
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M E M B E R N E W S
Do you have newly published writing? Have you received a nomination, award or other notable exposure? Send a short announcement and we’ll add it to the website to help spread the word! [email protected] Welcome to our new members!
Welcome to the New Members who have joined our branch during recent months. Please welcome them when you have the opportunity. Let them know we are happy they’ve chosen to join WMC! Bethany Yim, Logan Silva, Kristan Larsen, Kelly Barlett, and Chris Hougie ![]() WMC members Aron Lee Bowe, Susan Lundgren, Donald Shephard, and Karin Uphoff have stories or poems in the current Noyo Review. Click here to read their work.
![]() KELLEY HOUSE CALENDAR
Call for Writers There are so many stories yet to tell, and they welcome your voice. Articles are 400 to 700 words and can be paired with photos or illustrations usually discovered in their database of 10,000 images. Call the Kelley House curator, Karen McGrath, at 707/937-5791 or email her at [email protected]. ![]() Give yourself permission to write
at least 3-minutes a month by joining The WMC Prompt Group. Instructions and three to four topics are delivered to your email address by moderator, Earlene Gleisner, a self-confessed Prompt Geek. The goal is to inspire and create, while supporting each other. Send your name, phone number, and email to [email protected]. The Big Brick Review 2025 Essay Contest
Submissions Contest deadline: March 31, 2025 The Big Brick Review seeks personal essays that build on the narrative of our lives, finding new insight to old struggles . . . old insight to new struggles . . . and all shades-of-gray in between. One of the judges is someone you might know, Susan Bono, a writing teacher whose collected essays, “What Have We Here: Essays about Keeping House and Finding Home” are a great example of exemplary personal essays. Available wherever books are sold. Brevity Blog “We’re always impressed and sometimes surprised by what arrives in The Brevity Blog inbox. An interesting, informative and inspiring conversation about creative nonfiction writing has developed and continues to flow, thanks to you. Still, we’re often asked, 'What are you looking for on the Blog?' As 2025 arrives, we collectively set about to answer that question.” A Letter to the Brevity Blog Community—Our Editors’ Wish List NEWS FROM THE BOARD
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contact [email protected] NEW THREE-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN
The Writers Club is Reaching Out with all sorts of ideas for future programs. Check it out in our Strategic Plan 2024-2027, available for download below, or on the About section of the main menu. ![]()
Questions? contact: [email protected]
WMC, P O Box 762, Fort Bragg, CA 95437 Do you have a topic on the craft of writing to teach at an upcoming meeting for forty-five minutes?
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