Visitors Always Welcome!
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Sunday, April 21st
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The club has a new Facebook page. We Facebook Live our in-person meetings.
People who cannot attend will be able to tune in. Please Log into Facebook to Like and Follow WMC.
People who cannot attend will be able to tune in. Please Log into Facebook to Like and Follow WMC.
Reminder: You can pick up your free anthology at the next monthly meeting, and buy extra too! Extra copies are $10 (member price) and $15.95 (retail) through March.
Thanks to Emily Lloyd-Jones for an inspirational session on plotting!
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].
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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UPCOMING EVENTS
The 2024 Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
August 1 - 3, in the town of Mendocino General Registration Opens on March 15th Find out more here! 
Call for Submissions
CWC's Vision and Verse Ekphrastic Book guidelines and submissions. Submissions end on March 7, 2024 For questions, contact Les Bernstein [email protected] Call for Submissions
Anthology of Women Poets of Mendocino County, Volume II Submissions are open March 1st, 2024 to June 1st 2024. We welcome all themes that respond to the "Spirit of Place" by women poets who have lived, are living or have participated in the writer’s community of where we live with poems that respond to the Spirit of Place focus. 1 to 3 poems, max two pages per poem,Times New Roman, 12 pt., single space. Submit as a word doc to [email protected], or send via snail mail to: Spirit of Place Post Office Box 287 Mendocino, California 95460 POETRY AT THE COBALT
2nd Sunday in March, 4-6 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. The new reading series, Poetry At The Cobalt, formerly Poetry On The River, has relocated to the beautiful Cobalt Gallery on Main Street in downtown Fort Bragg. 
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 episode coming in May - Listen here!
Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry and Jazz
In person and Zoom, 6-8 p.m. 35590 Verdant View, Sea Ranch, Gualala [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 
HAVE A MINUTE?
See the current schedule. Mendocino Theatre Company's One-Minute Radio Theatre is a two-minute spot broadcast bi-weekly on KZYX. Collaborate by submitting an original one-minute play. All voices to be heard! Plays can be in English or Spanish. No fee for submission nor cash award if your play is chosen; all actors and directors give their time free of charge. Submit your one-minute play* (app. 150-170 words, for 1-3 actors) in the body of an email (no attachments) to [email protected] with the subject MTC One-Minute Play: [Title of your play]. Include your full name, contact information, and a brief, 50-word bio. You may submit as many one-minute plays as you wish, but only one submission per email, please. *Play may not contain the "seven dirty words" prohibited by the FCC. Play must be totally original and the author's work. Listen now: 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 
Videos of previous meetings on WMC’s Facebook Page.
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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 [email protected]
WMC member Gene Lock was featured in the New York Times: “100 Small Acts of Love”
“Today, every day, and on Valentine’s Day, I will visit my wife of 56 years. We are separated by her dementia. I will tell her what’s been going on outside, as I spoon-feed her in her care-home hospital bed. She says, “Thank you,” when I tell her I love her. We both know she would say more, if only she could. We have had a great life together, ever since the second grade. She is slowly leaving, I know that. But we’re a pair until then.” Gene Lock, Sacramento, Calif.
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].
NEWS FROM THE BOARD
NEW THREE-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN
At the February 2024 board meeting, the WMC board of directors approved the 2024-2027 Strategic Plan. Thank you to our members for their valuable input. Check it out and see if you would like to volunteer to help us implement our ambitious plan 
ANNUAL LITERARY REVIEW SUBMISSION CHANGE
The CWC changed its submission rules for the annual Literary Review. Each club was asked to submit entries, total number determined by the size of the club. WMC got four, two poems and two prose pieces. Editor Elizabeth Vrenios and her judges chose the four highest scoring from WMC’s 2024 Anthology “Transitions.” Congratulations to Sally Carter, Sallie Reynolds, Maureen Eppstein and Ginny Rorby. SCHOLASTIC ART AND WRITING CONTEST
After a delay (and $1,250 more for our club’s early work), judging begins February 29. Wish us luck! WHY WE HAVE A DONATION JAR WMC is committed to keeping our membership renewal fee low. Almost half of our dues go to the state club, and expenses have increased. We no longer have a free space to meet. In order to attract quality speakers, we provide them with a stipend to cover travel costs, a stipend we raised post-COVID. Your donation helps WMC continue to offer quality programs. 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. 
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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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]. | ||||||||||||||||||||
