March '15

MENDOCINO WRITERS MEET ON THE 3RD THURSDAY
GARDEN ROOM - MENDOCINO HOTEL
Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays the Garden Room serve Italian cuisine - Stop in !

Hello, and welcome to opportunities to publish your writing, whether or not you live on the Mendocino Coast.

MARCH 19th
-THURSDAY NIGHT-
Mendocino Hotel 6:00 p.m.

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 will receive a copy of the anthology, and the advance copies if requested.

SLIDESHOW FROM FEB 22
JODY GEHRMAN
WRITERS WORKSHOP

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.

Poets and poetry lovers are invited to Gallery Bookshop Friday March 20th from 6:30 to 7:30 pm, for their annual Spring Equinox Community Poetry Reading.

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

The Redwood Coast Senior Center's 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 latest, July/Sept 2014 issue.

"4 Pathways to Publishing: DIY, Assisted, Pro-Team, and Subsidy Options" a blog post by Joel Friedlander on March 9, 2015

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Read the Ukiah Daily Journal article:
"Mendocino Coast Writers Conference registration opens March 15"

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 Maureen Eppstein has upcoming events in which she’ll be reading and talking about her writing.

Friday March 20, 6:30--7:30 pm at Gallery Bookshop, Mendocino: Part of the bookshop’s annual Spring Equinox Community Poetry Reading on the theme of "Growth and Rebirth." Complimentary refreshments for all and a fresh flower for everyone who reads a poem. Contact Gallery to read.

Monday, March 23, 7:00—8:00 pm on Radio KZYX&Z, Mendocino County Public Broadcasting (90.7 Philo, 91.5 Willits & Ukiah, 88.1 Fort Bragg): Blake More of the “Women’s Voices” program will interview Maureen about her new poetry collection Earthward, along with member Henri Bensussen, author of the collection Earning Colors. Both had poetry chapbooks published last fall by Finishing Line Press.

Saturday April 11, 4:00—6:00 pm at Mendocino Community Library: Maureen will be one of seven authors reading at a Local Authors Night. Following the reading, there will be an informal Q&A session over refreshments in the library’s new Mystery Room.

Henri and Maureen will also be reading in Palo Alto on June 5 at the Waverley Writers poetry program. If you have Bay Area friends who might be interested in attending, please let Maureen know and she’ll send more information.

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]

FEBRUARY 19th
-THURSDAY NIGHT-
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
TETHERED FORM: The Paradox of Flash Fiction and the Unleashed Imagination

Member Catherine Marshall is pleased to announce that excerpts from her memoir, The Easter Moose: One Family’s Journey Adopting Through Foster Care will appear in two publications. The chapter titled, “Lost in the Haight” will be included in the e-book anthology, Tales of our Lives published by Womensmemoirs.com. The title chapter, “The Easter Moose” will be included in the April-May issue of Fostering Families Today. Catherine plans to have her memoir in print and online by May of this year. Connect: http://catmarshall.net/

Member Ron Morita's short story "What He Has to Do" appeared in the latest issue (#2) of the online/print literary journal Red Earth Review and can be viewed at: okcu.edu/english/redearthmfa/red-earth-review.

Member Norma Watkins' memoir The Last Resort got a great mention in The New York Review of Books, Dec. 18, 2014.
Reviewing The Culinary Imagination, Patricia Storace writes:
"Food is at the center of this genre of memoir because it is an integral part of another story. Norma Watkins's powerful The Last Resort, for example, studies food because the kitchen of her family's Mississippi hotel in the segregated South is a concentration of pleasure and cruelty, of generosity and injustice, when black people cooked for white people but could never eat with them, or as well."

SANTA ROSA CONFERENCE
The Tri-Valley Writers branch of the California Writers Club invite writers on the coast to a full day conference on the art and business of writing. Held Saturday, April 18, 2015, the focus will be on craft, marketing and self-publishing. Attendees will have an opportunity to win $150 in prizes. This is a great way to network with authors, marketers and innovators who share a passion for writing. Read more...

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MENDOCINO
HAS FIVE WRITERS IN
THE LATEST LITERARY REVIEW
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
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EKPHRASIS
"Art describing art" in Greek.
Twenty pairs of writers and artists of the Artists Co-op of Mendocino presented a gallery exhibit and readings during October, 2014.

ANTHOLOGY (pub 2015)
Writers of the Mendocino Coast
MIXED WATERS
Submissions closed September 1
more...

SMATCHUP 2014
Results of fourteen writers blindly matched for a collaborative writing project with another writer.

LITERARY REVIEW
published by the state California Writers Club. More info at
Literary Review 2014
www.calwriters.org

Latest Issue Arrived Dec 12 Via USPS

Vol. 2014 No. 2 FALL/WINTER Published by the California Writers Club

Welcome to the Mendocino Coast branch of the California Writers Club founded in 1909. We are proud to share in this legacy.
The Writers of the Mendocino Coast meet in the Mendocino Hotel at 6:00 pm on the third Thursday of every month. We host speakers, workshops, open mics and other yet to be discovered events and activities (link to archive.)
Our intention is to expand the network and opportunities for writers here on the Mendocino Coast. We hope you'll join us.

Writers of the Mendocino Coast
PO Box 762 Fort Bragg, CA 95437

MEMBER COUNT 67
WELCOME
Liz Saenz-Bernard
CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB COUNT: 1,711
(Mar 16 '15)

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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.

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 each of the club's recent anthologies, copies of our state organization's Literary Review magazine, space for member biographies, and opportunities to see your writing in:
-The 2015 Anthology Writers of the Mendocino Coast MIXED WATERS,
submissions closed September 1, 2014
-The Literary Review is published by the state 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]

Our second 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].

RECAP OF 2014
MONTHLY MEETINGS

JANUARY
Preview readings by
anthology participants
FEBRUARY
Michelle Richmond, NY Times bestselling author, talk on
the craft of writing
MARCH
Anthology release party with readings.
APRIL
Smatch-Up, one writer starts a story with one page and another ends it with one page.
MAY
Shirin Yim Bridges talk
on "Digital First"
JUNE
Panel discussion by writing group, Write Women, on "Effective Critiques and Editing"
JULY
Ekphrasis III exchange of writing and art with artists from the Artists Co-op of Mendocino
AUGUST
Cynthia Frank, publisher, Cypress House, talk on "Preparing Your Manuscript for Publication"
SEPTEMBER
"Honor Among Writers" readings by members nominated by peers
OCTOBER
Ekphrasis III readings by twenty authors while images of artwork were displayed behind them
NOVEMBER
"Poetry For Non-Poets" a workshop with Maureen Eppstein
DECEMBER
Wrapped book exchange and readings of members' writing of their best, worst, or strangest holiday.