Hello, and welcome to opportunities to publish your writing, whether or not you live on the Mendocino Coast. 
MENDOCINO COAST
WRITERS CONFERENCE
2015 PICTURES !
ANTHOLOGY Submissions: 4/1- 9/1 
Theme: LUMINESCENCE
Link to guidelines
E.C. writes nonfiction, satirical fiction and contemporary fiction. She has just finished a literary thriller called THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, inspired by Michael Lesy's 1973 cult classic WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP. Cooney's novel is set in Wisconsin in the present and in the 1890s. Two of the main characters in the book are based on a couple of notorious Mendocino denizens (both now deceased).
She has also just completed a book of essays called NO COUNTRY FOR OLD WOMEN. See many of the essays in an online collection called SHE WALKS AMONG US, including the eponymous essay.
Her work has appeared in Harper's magazine and Mother Jones magazine.
Read her Amazon Author page for the three big China novels, editorial reviews and Death in Slow Motion. Click around from there and see everything, including the 51 (out of 55 total) 5-star readers' reviews for DEATH, plus editorial reviews.
A fun link, to the IRON EMPRESS Facebook page
Find an E.C. treasure trove that includes Bush on Mars, at WattPad.
Eleanor was part of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference faculty for 2002 and 2005.
"Imagine listening to a talented war correspondent's account of a hopeless and heroic battle -- Cooney has done nothing less in this account of her desperate struggle to give her mom a dignified and comfortable last few years." more...

Death in Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Daughter, Her Mother, and the Beast Called Alzheimer's 
Local Authors Night at Gallery Bookshop
Friday August 21 at 6:30 

Member Catherine Marshall: THE EASTER MOOSE
Member Sharon Bowers (writing as Aron Lee Bowe): 
AMAZED & ELATED, DEPRESSED & DEFLATED
Judith Fisher: THE BOOKBINDER'S DAUGHTER
Linda Lambert: THE JUSTINE TRILOGY (A Rapture of Ravens / The Italians Letters / The Cairo Codex)
Event description:  http://www.gallerybookshop.com/event/local-authors-night
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July 16th
-THURSDAY NIGHT-
Mendocino Hotel  6:00 p.m.
 
EKPHRASIS IV EXCHANGE
 
The participants of Ekphrasis IV met and exchanged writing and art with
members of the Artists Co-op of Mendocino. 
- FUN & FRIVOLITY - 2 DRINK MINIMUM - JUST KIDDING -
* Folklorist Holly Tannen sang two of her songs about life in Mendocino, accompany herself on Appalachian mountain dulcimer. Holly’s CDs include Between the Worlds, Rime of the Ancient Matriarch, The Flower of Australia,  and Crazy Laughter.
  * Four Ekphrasis III writers read their previous entries with the matched art on display: Doug Fortier, Donald Shephard, Donald Kirkpatrick, and Henri Bensussen.
LINK TO INFO FOR WRITERS INTERPRETING - A RECENT EMAIL
SMATCHUP 2015 Results of eighteen writers blindly matched for a collaborative writing project with another writer.
READ 2014 STORIES
MENDOCINO COLLEGE 
If you're interested in creative writing, sign up for English 210. English 210, and English 212 (if you finished 210) will be taught concurrently. Books for 210 are Writing Fiction by Gotham Writers' Workshop, ISBN 1-58234-330-6, and The Poet's Companion by Addonizio and Laux, ISBN 0-393-31654-8.
Member Ron Morita was awarded second prize in the 2015 Mendocino Coast Writers Conference flash fiction contest.
MENDOCINO COAST
WRITERS CONFERENCE
Get the latest at www.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
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Member Catherine Marshall is pleased to announce the publication of her memoir, The Easter Moose: One Family's Journey Adopting through Foster Care.
     She wrote this book as a way to make sense of her experience as a foster parent and to tell the story that often doesn't get told...one of foster parents doing their best to make a difference, despite the odds and many daunting challenges.
     The book is available at bookshops and online booksellers. The e-pub version will be available soon.

     Excerpt of The Easter Moose
MEMBERS OPEN MIC
Each month, when time permits, we'll have two members read their work for 3 minutes each. Put your name in the basket for a drawing at the start of the evening, and another at the end. Please time the reading to stay within the limit. 
RIDE SHARING
Members seeking to attend upcoming meetings are asked to forward contact information, with cross streets for listing here and in future newsletters. Members living near ride-seekers may then offer to drive by contacting [email protected]

Jan Edwards - From downtown
Point Arena
Offer to drive from Rancho Navarro - Ron Morita
Member Jay Frankston / Whole Loaf Publications is putting together another writers' workshop to meet twice a month for 2 hours in Little River. He welcomes anyone who may want to join. Contact him at 937-0208 or [email protected]
FIRST FRIDAY POETRY READINGS IN FORT BRAGG
 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Upstairs, 353 N. Franklin Street
Bookstore and Vinyl Cafe 
More info: Oasis 707 964-5378
REDWOOD COAST SENIOR CENTER Gazette accepts submissions: personal recipes, poems, stories, histories, anecdotes, photos, and articles of general interest. Read the Premier Issue, and see page six for more details about writing for the Gazette. With your submission, include a brief description of what you do at the Center. The deadline is the 5th of each month. The March issue is available online, as is the July/Sept 2014 issue, and the July/Sept 2015.
THE BULLETIN  |  INSIDE THE CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB 
PictureVol. 2015 No. 1 SPRING/SUMMER Published by the California Writers Club CLICK TO ENLARGE

MENDOCINO
HAS FIVE WRITERS IN THE LATEST LITERARY REVIEW
Summer 2014 Issue 
Ann Thomas would make it six,
but this appears to be a typo.
From 1,800+ members eligible, of 33 accepted, our branch had five: 
Charlie Furey x 2
for a Fiction & a Memoir piece,
Steve Sapontzis, Jan Edwards,
Holly Tannen, T. James Moore
LITERARY REVIEW
NEXT EDITION
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED OCT 31ST
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ROLLING RECAP OF MONTHLY MEETINGS
JANUARY 2015
READINGS FROM UPCOMING ANTHOLOGY, MIXED WATERS
Preview readings by members accepted for the 2015 Anthology Writers of the Mendocino Coast  Mixed Waters.
FEBRUARY 2015
Marianne Villanueva, MA, Writer in Residence at Mendocino Art Center, author of Jenalyn, Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila, finalist for the Philippines’ National Book Award, The Mayor of the Roses: Stories, and The Lost Language, shared her insights into the
TETHERED FORM: The Paradox of Flash Fiction and the Unleashed Imagination
MARCH 2015
Anthology Release Party!
Preview readings by:
Henri Bensussen
Katherine Brown
Jan Edwards
Charles Furey
Harriet Gleeson
Robyn 5
Malcolm Macdonald
Jewels Marcus
Ginny Rorby
Norma Watkins
All attending members received a copy of the anthology.
APRIL 2015
An Evening Lecture on Writing, a Reading, and Q&A with
JAN ELLISON.
"It's not about Belief; it's about Compulsion"
MAY 2015
Smatch-Up, one writer starts a story with one page and another ends it with one page.
JUNE 2015
Writer and editor Susan Bono on setting realistic publishing goals as part of a satisfying writing life. visit www.susanbono.com.
For information on Susan's classes and activities or her book, What Have We Here: Essays about Keeping House and Finding Home
JULY 2015
The participants of Ekphrasis IV met and exchanged writing and art with members of the Artists Co-op of Mendocino. 

AUGUST 2014
Cynthia Frank, publisher, Cypress House, talk on "Preparing Your Manuscript for Publication"
SEPTEMBER 2014
"Honor Among Writers" readings by members nominated by peers

OCTOBER 2014
Ekphrasis III readings by twenty authors while images of artwork were displayed behind them

NOVEMBER 2014
"Poetry For Non-Poets" a workshop with Maureen Eppstein

DECEMBER 2014
Wrapped book exchange and readings of members' writing of their best, worst, or strangest holiday.
IT'S RENEWAL TIME - $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 2016 Anthology Writers of the Mendocino Coast  LUMINESCENCE,
submissions opened April 1, 2015 and to close September 1, 2015
-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
MENDOCINO WRITERS MEET ON THE 3RD THURSDAY  6:00
Garden Room - Mendocino Hotel
Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays the Garden Room serves Italian cuisine
MEMBER COUNT 71
WELCOME 
Daniel Fiddler
CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB COUNT:  1,897
(July 31, 2015)

See MAP of  21 CWC BRANCHES
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Founding President, Molly Dwyer, invited local writers to her kitchen table in 2009 to form the Mendocino Coast branch of the California Writers Club chartered in 2010.
Writers of the Mendocino Coast
PO Box 762 Fort Bragg, CA 95437
  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 here on the Mendocino Coast.
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 2016 Anthology Writers of the Mendocino Coast  LUMINESCENCE,
submissions opened April 1, 2015 and to close September 1, 2015
-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:
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Our third anthology is available at Gallery Bookshop, in Mendocino, The Bookstore and Vinyl Cafe, and Visit Mendocino, both in Fort Bragg. Gualala area is Four-Eyed Frog country! GO INDIE !
To purchase by mail, send a message to [email protected].
CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB
MENDOCINO BRANCH