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WE’RE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE

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
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Refreshments available for purchase

2025 Anthology: Resilience

Anthology Reading – January 12th

The Stanford Inn 2:00-3:30
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Prepare to be awed and inspired!
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​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].

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artwork by Janis Porter
Join our meeting live on the Facebook page!
People who cannot attend will be able to tune in. Please Log into Facebook to Like and Follow
We are also on Instagram! @writersofthemendocinocoast

UPCOMING EVENTS

Would you like
to get involved in
Earth Day 2025?

Volunteer to help set up and run our Writers of the Mendocino Coast booth in Fort Bragg. Contact [email protected]

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Creative Writing Classes at Mendocino College
Registration is open now! This semester's offerings include:

 Creative Nonfiction Workshop
"We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live"
with Kailyn McCord
This class will focus on all things nonfiction, including memoir, vignette, travel writing, humor, meditations, and personal essays. Class meets Mondays at 12:30, in-person at the Coast Center.

Creative Writing Workshop
with Molly Dwyer
Tuesdays at 9am, in-person at the Coast Center.

Creative Writing Workshop
with Vincent Poturica
​Tuesdays at 9:30, in-person at the Pt. Arena Library.

All classes are just $13 for the entire semester! Register online at mendocino.edu or in person at the Coast Center.

Creative Writing at the
​Fort Bragg Library

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Check out ongoing Creative Writing Courses at
Mendocino College
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​For more classes, check out the searchable online class schedule; to register, stop by the Coast Center Campus, or apply online.

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POETRY AT THE COBALT
Every second Sunday year round 5-7 pm
THIS IS AN INVITATION TO ALL POETS, WRITERS, READERS, AND LOVERS OF LITERATURE, YOUNG, OLD, IN BETWEEN, KNOWN, UNKNOWN, SUBMERGED, EMERGED AND EMERGING:
Rhyming, free verse, expensive or expansive verse, reverses, metered, learned, unlearned, experimental—all varieties, styles and non-styles are welcome.
430 North Main Street in Fort Bragg

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​Michelle Blackwell, host, encourages members to listen to the most recent podcasts featuring Jean Hegland, Kim Bancroft, Tansy Chapman, Laura Marie Censabella and Maureen Eppstein. New episodes aired quarterly.

  Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz
​
7pm
THINK VISUAL
240 Main Street
Downtown Point Arena, CA 
Bring something to sit on, something to eat and/or drink,
your words, music and ears!!

Rhythm Running River (Poetry) on KZYX&Z 1st and 3rd Sundays
 3-5 p.m.
    Dan Roberts: [email protected]

​Cartwheels on the Sky ~ Poets, Poems & Discovery
Saturdays 7-7:30 KGUA - FM Gualala

FORT BRAGG LIBRARY
First Thursdays Open Mic 6-8 p.m.
    Dan Hess: [email protected]

UKIAH LIBRARY
Loba Poetry Series
Open Mic for teen & adults, Third Saturdays 3 p.m.
      Melissa Carr: [email protected]

Writers Reading Ukiah 
     Last Thursday, 7 p.m Reading, 8 p.m. Open Mic
    Poetry, Spoken Word, Short Stories, Songs & Expository Prose.

LOBA POETRY SERIES at Ukiah Branch Library
Reading and Open Mic
Second Saturdays, 3 pm

Linda Noel & Theresa Whitehill
MENDOCINO POETRY SERIES
Last Saturday of the month, 4 to 6 pm
Barth Studio at the Mendocino Art Center
45200 Little Lake Street, Mendocino
email Devreaux Baker, 
[email protected], for more info

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Listen now to our members read their one-minute plays!



i am from the ocean by windflower Townley

I Could Not Stop for Covid  by Holly Tannen
Something New &
Murder She Wrote by Philip Zwerling


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!
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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!


Steve Antler, Zida Borcich, Jennifer Norris, Karen Bowers, Larry Felson, Sid Garza-Hillman, Loré McLaren, Blake More, Marylyn Motherbear Scott, Aaron Van Gossen, Audrey Wells, Bethany Yim, Logan Silva, and Kristan Larsen

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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.


​CWC’s Vision & Verse: A Fusion of Art, Photography, Prose and Poetry is now available on Amazon.
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​CWC’s Best of the Best: 2024 Literary Review by the California Writers Club is a collection of poems and stories selected from Branch publications


Congratulations to WMC members with work in these publications:
Ginny Rorby, Maureen Epstein, Sally Carter,
​Sallie Reynolds and Elizabeth Vrenios.
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The famous poet Audre Lorde has said "Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. ”

The Redwood Writers 2023 Poetry Anthology, Phases, is out. Several of our members had poems accepted. If you would like to purchase a copy, you can find them here.
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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].


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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].

Heartbeat Heartbreak Contest

What's the Story in Your Heart?


Dear Redwood Writers,

As we approach the new year, love stories are brewing in our writing community! The Heartbeat or Heartbreak Contest has already received compelling tales of chance encounters, tender goodbyes, and everything in between.

Haven't started writing yet? There's still time to craft your story of love found or lost. Remember, your piece can be:

  • Fiction that explores love's possibilities
  • A memoir of a real-life encounter
  • An essay reflecting on love's impact
  • Any genre that captures that heart-racing moment
  • Work can be complete, excerpts from larger, or previously self-published works.
  • Work may not be entered if previously published in any CWC publications or published by a traditional publisher. 

    The submission deadline is January 18, 2025
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  • cash prizes up to $100!
  • For more details, visit  https://redwoodwriters.org

NEWS FROM THE BOARD

Want to Volunteer?

Looking for someone to join Robyn Koski at our new venue to help meet and greet members at our monthly meetings

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.
wmc_strategic_plan_2024-27.docx
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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?
​Contact
[email protected]

The CWC website includes a calendar of monthly meetings for all state branches. Any of our members can attend the meetings of any other branch for free or for the same fee as their membership pays. To view their meeting topics (many are still on Zoom), click on https://calwriters.org/events/.

WELCOME TO THE 
CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB

 - ​FOUNDED in 1909 -
The Mendocino Coast branch is proud to share in this legacy. Our intention is to expand the network
​and provide publishing opportunities for writers.​

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MENDOCINO WRITERS MEET 
The THIRD SUNDAY of the month


The CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB is a 501(c) (6) educational nonprofit dedicated to educating members and the public-at-large in the craft of writing and in the marketing of their work.

California Writers Club: https://calwriters.org/

California Writers Club calendar for other branch's events:
https://calwriters.org/events-month

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Your email address will never be shared or sold. 

MEMBERSHIP
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