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2020 MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL REQUEST
Please continue to support the writing community on the Mendocino Coast July 1st 2019 - June 30 2020 $45 Renewal :Writers of the Mendocino Coast, send to Treasurer - CWC, PO Box 762, Fort Bragg, CA 95437 See membership page for details, including new membership |
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MENDOCINO COLLEGE
FALL 2019 SCHEDULE Apply, register, and check for the latest class information at Mendocino.edu 
MENDOCINO HOTEL
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC EKPHRASIS VIII EXCHANGE Interviews and Readings Thursday, July 18th, 6:00 p.m. The participants will meet and exchange writing and art with members of the Artists Co-op of Mendocino. * Previous Ekphrasis writers will read their entries with the matched art on view: Marylyn Motherbear Scott reading "Silent Testimony" Ekphrasis 1 - 2012, artist Claire Fortier "Path near Benbow Inn" Chet Boddy reading "The Pond" Ekphrasis 1 - 2012, artist Suzi Long "The Pond" Nancy McLelland reading "Dwelling on Myself" Ekphrasis 2 - 2013, artist Pat Scott "Dwellings" Nancy McLelland also reading "Your Life is Scattered on the Lawn" from Ekphrasis 4 - 2015, artist Shanti Balsé "There's Something About Memories" Doug Fortier reading "Sunshine Dive" from Ekphrasis 5 - 2016, artist Debra Lennox "On the Fin" Lea Callan reading "The Raven" from Ekphrasis 5 - 2016, artist Karen Cahill "Messenger" Charlie Furey reading "The Excursion" from Ekphrasis 6 - 2017, artist by Mary Anderson "Jersey Shore" Les Cizek reading "Death at Sea" from Ekphrasis 7 - 2018, artist Lynne Whiting Robertson "Tragedy at Sea" Karin Uphoff reading "Innocence" from Ekphrasis 7 - 2018, artist Lynn Zickerman "Joy, Our First Lesson" Mike Winn reading an untitled composition from Ekphrasis 7 - 2018, artist Robert Yelland "Where is Mom" Donald Shephard reading "Good Donkey Day" from Ekphrasis 7 - 2018, artist Shanti Benoit "Aspohodel" * Chet Boddy and Cynthia Gair will be playing and singing ! October 12th: Second Saturday, will be an event (4:30-6:00) at the Artists Co-op, (wheelchair accessible)—yellow building on the NW corner of Albion and Kasten in Mendocino. See the artwork paired with writing displayed in the gallery. This event is open to the public, so you’ll bring family and friends. Please bring wine or non-alcoholic beverage and an hors d’oeuvre to share. You’ll get to meet the artist, too. Great fun. October 17th: Readings of the Ekphrasis pieces by both art initiator and art responder writers while the artwork is projected at our Writers of the Mendocino Coast meeting, 6:00 pm, Mendocino Hotel. Open to the public. Many of the artists also attend this event. Always a favorite. Again, friends and family welcome. MENDOCINO HOTEL
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC LISA LOCASCIO "Lying and Telling the Truth at the same time: Writing From Life" Thursday, August 15th, 6:00 p.m. Few of us can avoid the allure of feeding our writing with content from our lives. Whether we consciously or unconsciously we import people, dialogue, settings or plots from our lived experience into our work, it is an unavoidable truth that our lives inform our creative output. How does one meaningfully--and ethically--mediate between the lived and the felt? How can we use our knowledge of our lives to create vibrant, shimmering poetry, fiction, and nonfiction? In this talk, we will explore examples of writers pulling from their lives and consider how we might learn from their triumphs and sorrows.  COVER FOR THE 2019 ANTHOLOGY - Many thanks to MOIRA McDONALD for allowing us to use her photo, "Point Cabrillo Lighthouse at night"
2019 ANTHOLOGY, NIGHT WAVES
Member copies available at 3rd Thursday meetings.
New Class at Mendocino College
Fall 2019 THE 210B Beginning Acting Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00-11:50 a.m. Learn fundamental acting techniques and terminology. All levels welcome—no prior work in theatre required. Students will develop ability through fun exercises, scene work, and improvisation. Instructor bio: Director, dramaturg, and producer, Virginia Reed has worked with professional theatres in Princeton, New Jersey, Los Angeles, San Francisco and numerous companies across the greater Bay Area. She has directed productions of plays by Shakespeare, adaptations of classics, experimental and contemporary plays, solo and devised performances, new plays in development by emerging playwrights, and founded a women's theatre company. Ginny holds degrees in theatre from Northwestern University and Trinity College, Ireland. For more information, call 961-2200. To register, go online to Webadvisor. If new student, on left about halfway down click on CCCApply. You can also register in person at 1211 Del Mar Drive, Fort Bragg, CA 95437. MENDOCINO THEATRE COMPANY
PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP With PHILIP ZWERLING, recently retired as Director of the Creative Writing Program at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley where he taught playwriting for ten years. He had previously served as Playwright-in-Residence for four years at Ursinus College outside Philadelphia. Five Consecutive Saturdays September 7, 14, 21, 28, and October 5 10:00 a.m. to noon Community Center of Mendocino This course is open to all writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and memoir as well as playwrights because we will cover the basics of character development, dialogue, conflict, and plot common to all genres of writing. In addition, playwriting uniquely teaches a writer to think visually and theatrically to emotionally connect with an audience. No previous playwriting experience is required and we will cover the basics so that each student completes an original ten minute play in class. At our final meeting we will invite the public to see these plays produced onstage. — Philip Zwerling Register: https://mendocinotheatre.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=1123292. The course is $80
PROSE and POETRY BY WMC MEMBERS IN THIS ISSUE
"Those Damn Stickers" Don Kirkpatrick--Rest in Peace "Dreaming" and "Bird Watching: What Old Farts Do" Priscilla Comen "The Sergeant" Charlie Furey "Lights Camera Action", "Moving On" Priscilla Comen "The Village Idiot Jay Frankston FORT BRAGG LIBRARY
POETRY WRITING WORKSHOPS AND MONTHLY POETRY OPEN MIC 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. On the second Friday 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. MONTHLY POETRY OPEN MIC Drop in on the first Thursday at 6:00 p.m. All ages, read original poetry or another's work you are moved to share. |
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.
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. California Writers Club website: https://calwriters.org/ CWC Northern Branches: http://cwcnorcalwriters.org/ SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
To [email protected] send your email address and your name, please. 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 2019 Anthology Night Waves -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] 
Drop in to the library site for the list of recently added books and reviews by WMC member Priscilla Comen.
ROLLING RECAP OF MONTHLY MEETINGS
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M E M B E R N E W S
Writing newly published, receives a nomination or award, or other notable exposure? Please send a short announcement to writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com WMC Member Clare Zwerling is interested in joining or forming a poetry group—[email protected]
HARRIET GLEESON
Dear friends, I have developed a series of artworks on the theme of Time to celebrate my 80th birthday. I would be happy if you could join me in the observance by viewing the works. I will be guest artist for the month of July at the Artist’s Co-op Gallery of Mendocino at the corner of Kasten and Albion streets. The opening is Saturday, 13th July, and the artwork will be up for the month. If you can’t make it to the Co-op, there is always the possibility of a private showing at "Galleria Gleechinn" in The Woods, our home. To those of you who live too far away to visit either, say a prayer for me at 80. Love, Harriet WMC member Ron Morita's story "The Cow in the Driveway" will appear in the June 19 issue of the Anderson Valley Advertiser. Beginning as a news story about the Rancho Navarro cannabis controversy, it concludes with a humorous vignette about the superfluousness of lawyers.
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