Welcome to opportunities to publish your writing, whether or not you live on the Mendocino Coast.
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MENDOCINO HOTEL - FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Thursday, April 20th, 6:00 p.m.
HILL HOUSE, MENDOCINO - FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Sunday, May 14th MENDOCINO SPRING POETRY CELEBRATION Two Open Readings 12:00 Noon - Sign up and Mixer up - Afternoon Reading at 1:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. - Sign up and Mixer up - Evening Reading at 6:00 p.m. Choice comestibles. Open book displays. Contributions welcome. All poems considered for broadcast by Dan Roberts on KZYX&Z. Info: Gordon Black, (707) 937-4107, [email protected] MENDOCINO HOTEL - FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Thursday, May 18th, 6:00 p.m. SMATCHUP 2017
Readings by writers blindly matched for a collaborative writing project of one page each, where the first starts the piece, and the second writer finishes and titles it. READ SMATCHUP 2016 PIECES MENDOCINO HOTEL - FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Thursday, June 15th, 6:00 p.m.
Kat Meads is the author of 17 books and chapbooks of prose and poetry, including: 2:12 a.m. - Essays; For You, Madam Lenin; The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan; Sleep; and a mystery novel written under the pseudonym Z.K. Burrus. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a California Artist Fellowship, and artist residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, Millay Colony, Blue Mountain Center and Montalvo Center for the Arts. Other honors include the Chelsea award for fiction, the New Letters award for essay, the Editors’ Choice award from Drunken Boat and two Independent Publisher (IPPY) medals. Her short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and elsewhere. A native of North Carolina, she teaches in Oklahoma City University’s low-residency MFA program.
MENDOCINO COLLEGE - $25 MEMBERS, $35 PUBLIC
Saturday, June 17th, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. KAT MEADS
WORKSHOP STRATEGIES FOR REVISITING, REIMAGINING and IMPROVING YOUR PROSE Few get it right—much less perfect—the first time around. Revision is not only an integral part of the writing process, it can also be the most rewarding. Bring a minimum of 5 pages of your current prose project (novel, novella, short story, memoir or essay) to work on in class. This is a prose revision workshop. Poets are welcome to attend, but the exercises are prose exercises. Send an email to Katherine Brown [email protected] to reserve your seat. Payment can be mailed to Writers of the Mendocino Coast, PO Box 762, Fort Bragg 95437 or paid at the door prior to the workshop. WRITERS' CLUB SCHOLARSHIPS
Available for the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference August 3-5, 2017 The equivalent of two full scholarships (which may be dispersed as either full or half) worth $575 will be awarded to qualifying Writers of the Mendocino Coast members to use for the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference August 3-5, 2017. Review the guidelines to apply for the WMC scholarships. FORT BRAGG LIBRARY POETRY WRITING WORKSHOPS
The workshops include samples of the various styles and techniques of poetry writing, displays of published works, in-session writing exercises along with readings and discussions of individual works produced during the workshops. Every third Wednesday of the month, 2-3:30 pm, find your hidden poet within! Workshops are free. All ages are welcome. Visit the library site for more. PATTY JOSLYN READING FROM HER NEW BOOK
Gallery Bookshop on Friday night April 28th 6:30-7:30 pm 
Daniel Ladinsky on February 22, 2017
REGISTRATION IS OPEN : MENDOCINO COAST WRITERS CONFERENCE
If you’ve been thinking about which workshop you’d like to enroll in, all workshops are filled on a first-come, first-served, basis. With participation capped at fourteen, the workshops are expected to be fully subscribed. The only exception to the limit of fourteen is the Master Class, which is juried in and capped at twelve participants. Full details about registration procedures and fees are available by clicking on the REGISTER button displayed prominently on every page at mcwc.org. MEMBER NEWS
Writing newly published, receives a nomination or award, or other notable exposure? Please send a short announcement to writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com
ROLLING RECAP OF MONTHLY MEETINGS
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CELEBRATION OF 5TH ANNIVERSARY click to enlarge
Welcome to the Mendocino Coast branch of the California Writers Club founded in 1909.
We are proud to share in this legacy. Our intention is to expand the network and opportunities for writers.
Writers of the Mendocino Coast
PO Box 762 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 The CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB is a 501(c) (3) educational nonprofit dedicated to educating members and the public-at-large in the craft of writing and in the marketing of their work.
MEMBERSHIP
NEW MEMBERS $65 includes $20 initiation fee. More information on the website's Membership page. YEARLY RENEWAL is $45. Membership includes a copy of the club's recent anthology, copies of our state organization's Literary Review magazine, space for member biographies, and opportunities to see your writing in: -The 2018 Anthology Writers of the Mendocino Coast (title not announced) -The Literary Review is published by our parent, California Writers Club. More info at www.calwriters.org -The yearly collaboration, Ekphrasis, with the Artists Coop of Mendocino SPONSORED MEMBERSHIPS
Financial aid is available for membership [email protected] MEMBER WRITING PROJECTS:
Our fifth anthology is available at Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino.
To purchase by mail, send a message to [email protected]. CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB
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