Writers of the Mendocino Coast meet the Third Sunday of the Month. Members receive a reminder via Email.
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 go to Log into Facebook to Like and Follow WMC.
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 go to Log into Facebook to Like and Follow WMC.
Sunday, May 21, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
SmatchUp
New Meeting Location: the Community Center of Mendocino, 998 School Street, Mendocino.
Only the side door (facing east and nearest the room) will be open. The front door and the ramp door will be locked.
If you cannot be with us in person, try joining us at live streaming our meeting on Facebook. To watch the meeting on Facebook Live, please join WMC's new Facebook Account--also titled Writers of the Mendocino Coast. If the old account comes up first (no activity since 2020), scroll down until you find the WMC account with art from this year's anthology cover.
Under the theme of "About the Man Next Door," one writer starts a story or poem and another finishes, with creative (and sometimes hilarious) results. Authors are paired anonymously, not to be revealed until this meeting. Let the fun begin!
Ekphrasis sign-ups will begin soon. Spots are limited, so sign up early.
SmatchUp
New Meeting Location: the Community Center of Mendocino, 998 School Street, Mendocino.
Only the side door (facing east and nearest the room) will be open. The front door and the ramp door will be locked.
If you cannot be with us in person, try joining us at live streaming our meeting on Facebook. To watch the meeting on Facebook Live, please join WMC's new Facebook Account--also titled Writers of the Mendocino Coast. If the old account comes up first (no activity since 2020), scroll down until you find the WMC account with art from this year's anthology cover.
Under the theme of "About the Man Next Door," one writer starts a story or poem and another finishes, with creative (and sometimes hilarious) results. Authors are paired anonymously, not to be revealed until this meeting. Let the fun begin!
Ekphrasis sign-ups will begin soon. Spots are limited, so sign up early.
Sunday, June 18, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Spotlight On Short Fiction
Featuring members Earline Gleisner, Steve Sapontzis, and Philip Zwerling, interviewed by Rowan Hawthorn.
Spotlight On Short Fiction
Featuring members Earline Gleisner, Steve Sapontzis, and Philip Zwerling, interviewed by Rowan Hawthorn.
Sunday, July 16, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Daniel Coshnear: The DNA of the Short Story
What is the difference between a picture and a motion picture? Why do we call stories weaves or yarns? When and how does an anecdote or a vignette become a story? How does a simple “slice of life” become representative, meaningful – a way of life? What gives a story resonance? Frank O’Connor in The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story wrote: “Since a whole lifetime must be crowded in a few minutes those minutes must be carefully chosen indeed and lit by an unearthly glow, one that enables us to distinguish present, past and future as though they were contemporaneous.” In this brief workshop we’ll look closely at a single story and examine how it brings us to a feeling of resolution; how past and present are brought together in a moment which points to a future. And we’ll do an exercise.
Daniel Coshnear lives in Guerneville, California, works at a group home for the homeless and mentally ill, and teaches writing at UC Berkeley Extension, and in other north bay facilities. He is author of Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Award and Occupy & Other Love Stories (Kelly's Cove Press 2012) and winner of the Novella Prize for Homesick, Redux (Flock 2015), He is the recipient of a Missouri Review Editor's Prize and a Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship. His newest story collection, Separation Anxiety was released in 2021 by Unsolicited Press. www.danielcoshnear.com
Daniel Coshnear: The DNA of the Short Story
What is the difference between a picture and a motion picture? Why do we call stories weaves or yarns? When and how does an anecdote or a vignette become a story? How does a simple “slice of life” become representative, meaningful – a way of life? What gives a story resonance? Frank O’Connor in The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story wrote: “Since a whole lifetime must be crowded in a few minutes those minutes must be carefully chosen indeed and lit by an unearthly glow, one that enables us to distinguish present, past and future as though they were contemporaneous.” In this brief workshop we’ll look closely at a single story and examine how it brings us to a feeling of resolution; how past and present are brought together in a moment which points to a future. And we’ll do an exercise.
Daniel Coshnear lives in Guerneville, California, works at a group home for the homeless and mentally ill, and teaches writing at UC Berkeley Extension, and in other north bay facilities. He is author of Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Award and Occupy & Other Love Stories (Kelly's Cove Press 2012) and winner of the Novella Prize for Homesick, Redux (Flock 2015), He is the recipient of a Missouri Review Editor's Prize and a Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship. His newest story collection, Separation Anxiety was released in 2021 by Unsolicited Press. www.danielcoshnear.com
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Our table at the Noyo Center's Earth Day celebration.
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The 2023 Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference, August 3 - 5, is accepting registrations through June 30th. Morning workshops include memoir, mysteries, screenplays, novels, middle grade/young adults, short fiction, poetry, speculative fiction, nonfiction, and emerging writers (mcwc.org).
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/.
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 Poetry on the River ~ Slack Tide Café
Last Sunday of the Month, 1-3 pm 32430 N. Harbor Dr., Fort Bragg 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. 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] windflower, Poet & Photographer
Has a poem and photograph in Plant Your Words Anthology Elizabeth Vrenios' poem, "Your Last Phone Call," appears in the anthology A Taste of Reality: Poems on Bereavement (www.poetschoice.in).
Fort Bragg's Alleyway Art Project includes poetry from Notty Bumbo ("Artist's Prayer for the Days Ahead," as part of the "Be a Light" mural) and windflower ("Mendocino Botanical Gardens," as part of "The Rhododendron" mural). www.fortbraggalleywayart.org
Ericka Lutz's poem, "In the Redwoods," written in response to Ryan Grossman's Fort Bragg mural "Sunlit Redwood Forest," appears on the Fort Bragg Alleyway Art Project website: https://fortbraggalleywayart.org/sunlit-redwood-forest/ Priscilla Comen published a short piece for Persimmon Tree's Forum ("Speaking of Rights--Our After the Midterm"), Winter 2023 (https://persimmontree.org). She also writes weekly book reviews under "Community Library Notes" for the Mendocino Beacon (mendocinobeacon.com)
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Questions? contact: [email protected]
Do you have a topic on the craft of writing to teach at an upcoming meeting for forty-five minutes?
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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 Welcome New Member
Robert Boyd Weeks MEMBER COUNT 81 Writers of the Mendocino Coast
PO Box 762 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 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]. 
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