Hello, and welcome to opportunities to publish your writing,
​whether or not you live on the Mendocino Coast. 
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click to link to Ekphrasis 2015
November 19th, 6:00 p.m.
​Mendocino Hotel 
NO LIFE BUT IN THINGS
Author Joan Frank will lecture on ​the use of detail in prose and poetry.
"Candid, disarming. Joan Frank is one of the clearest-headed writers working. Because You Have To shows us how she gets the work done."
— Bob Wake, Cambridge Review

​Join us - Public welcome - Free
Thursday, October 15th
​Mendocino Hotel
Writers who participated in Ekphrasis IV read their works with a slide show of the artwork.
Member Daniel Fiddler won Honorable Mention in
the 84th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition
MEMBER NEWS
 Members' newly published, nomination, award, or notable exposure? Please send a short announcement to writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com 
  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.
MENDOCINO COAST WRITERS CONFERENCE  
2015 PICTURES
Get other info at www.mcwc.org
Member Ron Morita's 
flash story "The Bard" recently appeared in Issue 79 of the Arlington Literary Journal. It can be viewed at www.arlijo.com
SMATCHUP 2015 Results of eighteen writers blindly matched for a collaborative writing project with another writer.   READ 2014 STORIES
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 WritersMendocinoCoast@GMail.com

Jan Edwards - From downtown
Point Arena
Offer to drive from Rancho Navarro - Ron Morita
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 Koski
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. Readings by twenty authors.
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 2015
Eleanor Cooney, local author, talk on "Truth in Fiction, Fiction in Truth"
SEPTEMBER 2015
Molly Dwyer, founding President, talk on "The Plot Thickens"

OCTOBER 2015
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.
MENDOCINO WRITERS MEET ON THE 3RD THURSDAY  6:00
Garden Room - Mendocino Hotel
MEMBER COUNT 62
WELCOME 
Joycelyn Trigg
CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB COUNT:  1,639
(Oct 1, 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
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 2017 Anthology Writers of the Mendocino Coast MENDOCINO,
submissions to open April 1, 2016 and close August 31, 2016
-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 WritersMendocinoCoast@GMail.com
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 WritersMendocinoCoast@Gmail.com.
CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB
MENDOCINO BRANCH