Network with other writers, enhance your writing skills, promote your writing,
gain access to publishing opportunities, participate in programs that showcase your writing.

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Become a member of the Writers of the Mendocino Coast, a branch of the California Writers Club. 

Membership Fees

Join July 1 - Dec 31    $45.00 per year*
Join Jan 1 - June 30    $22.50 per year*

*NEW members also pay a one-time $20.00 enrollment fee.

Please make your check payable to Writers of the Mendocino Coast, and send it to 
Treasurer WMC, PO Box 762, Fort Bragg, CA 95437. 

We'll provide email and newsletter reminders of your membership due dates
     If you have a dual membership in another CWC branch, the annual renewal fee is $25, sent to that branch.
Student memberships are $20 each year.

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SPONSORED MEMBERSHIPS Financial aid is available for membership -- treasurer@writersmendocino.org

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     In addition to newsletters, the website has the latest information on upcoming events, member biographies, the annual anthology, the yearly collaboration with the Artist's Co-op of Mendocino, the Ekphrasis Project, SmatchUp,  and other resources for writers, like classes on the coast.

Benefits of membership:

• A copy of the year's anthology.

• Copies of the state's newsletter, the Bulletin, emailed to you and available on the this website.

• Networking and fellowship with other writers

• Interesting speakers and workshops

• Opportunity to list a short biographical sketch and sample of your writing up to eight pages on the website. Send it to WritersMendocinoCoast@Gmail.com. If you'd like to have them included, please send your website address and attach a photo.

Consideration to:

• Become published in the branch's annual anthology

  • The 2025 anthology theme is Resilience       

  • Limited number of entries chosen by jury of reviewers

• Become published in the Literary Anthology, as presented by the California Writers Club's state organization

  • Limited number of entries chosen by jury of reviewers

• Participate in the branch's artists/writers collaboration and show in October, 

  • Ekphrasis, "art describing art."

  • Limited number chosen by jury

• Write the beginning page or the ending page for the branch's SmatchUp; all members invited.

     We'd also like to list member's publishing credits on the website. If you've published your work, would you please give us a few details: title, publisher, date published, and an online link, if there is one. We're especially interested in suggestions for future events.