NO NEED FOR WMC MEMBERS TO PREREGISTER FOR ZOOM EVENTS
Each month a new meeting link will be sent to your email address.
The public is welcome to send an email to writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com to request the Zoom link. All meetings are recorded.
At the close of the presentation, the Zoom session will remain open half an hour for chatting.
Each month a new meeting link will be sent to your email address.
The public is welcome to send an email to writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com to request the Zoom link. All meetings are recorded.
At the close of the presentation, the Zoom session will remain open half an hour for chatting.
WRITING FLASH FICTION
Elizabeth Stix
Sunday, November 20, 3 p.m. Zoom
According to novelist and short story writer Peter Orner, "The difference between a short story and a novel is the difference between a pang in your heart compared to the tragedy of your whole life. It's all a matter of how you feel the pain." This is even more true with flash fiction. There's no strict definition of flash: some say it's anything under 2,000 words, some say 500 words, others say even shorter than that. While a work of flash fiction contains elements of a short story, in flash these aspects are often compressed or implied. It's a form that invites playfulness and experimentation. In this workshop, you'll learn what makes a great flash story pop off the page, and use prompts to create flash stories of your own.
Bay Area native Elizabeth Stix’s short stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Tin House, Boulevard, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine, and elsewhere. Her flash fiction is anthologized in Best Microfiction 2019 and won second prize in The Southampton Review Short-short Fiction Contest. Other flash stories have been published in The Racket Journal, The Tusk, The Fabulist, Paper Darts, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. (www.elizabethstix.com Twitter: @ElizabethStix)
Elizabeth Stix
Sunday, November 20, 3 p.m. Zoom
According to novelist and short story writer Peter Orner, "The difference between a short story and a novel is the difference between a pang in your heart compared to the tragedy of your whole life. It's all a matter of how you feel the pain." This is even more true with flash fiction. There's no strict definition of flash: some say it's anything under 2,000 words, some say 500 words, others say even shorter than that. While a work of flash fiction contains elements of a short story, in flash these aspects are often compressed or implied. It's a form that invites playfulness and experimentation. In this workshop, you'll learn what makes a great flash story pop off the page, and use prompts to create flash stories of your own.
Bay Area native Elizabeth Stix’s short stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Tin House, Boulevard, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine, and elsewhere. Her flash fiction is anthologized in Best Microfiction 2019 and won second prize in The Southampton Review Short-short Fiction Contest. Other flash stories have been published in The Racket Journal, The Tusk, The Fabulist, Paper Darts, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. (www.elizabethstix.com Twitter: @ElizabethStix)
NO MEMBERSHIP MEETING IN DECEMBER
Our annual hiatus takes place during the last month of 2022. Enjoy time with family and friends and we'll see you January 15th for the beginning of our Common Ground anthology readings.
Our annual hiatus takes place during the last month of 2022. Enjoy time with family and friends and we'll see you January 15th for the beginning of our Common Ground anthology readings.
RECORDINGS OF MONTHLY MEETINGS Go to the YouTube channel for all the videos.
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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 mtc@mcn.org 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
Virtual Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry To receive an invitation to the Zoom reading, please email blake more: blake@snakelyone.com. Third Thursday Poetry Zoom is made possible by the Arena Theater and continues to be supported by Poets & Writers Magazine. 47th Anniversary Mendocino Spring Poetry Celebration, KZYX&Z, Sundays, 3 p.m.
Featuring fifty-three poets, including WMC members Karin Uphoff, Clare Bercot Zwerling, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Vrenios, Marilyn Motherbear Scott, Lynn Kiesewetter, and Rowan Hawthorn. To listen live: https://www.kzyx.org/#stream/0 For playlists: http://www.outfarpress.com/rrr.html POETRY
Cartwheels on the Sky ~ Poets, Poems & Discovery First Saturday of the Month, 7:00 Live on KGUA FM Gualala and live streaming online KGUA.org with host blake more Show Archive: https://www.bmoreyou.net/musings/ Highlighting a new poet in conversation each week, the show offers fresh, intelligent, living poetry, and lively discussions. To be considered for future shows, contact blake@snakelyone.com FORT BRAGG LIBRARY
Poetry Open Mic Open Mic on Zoom and In Person First Thursdays, 7 p.m. - To request a Zoom invitation, Contact Dan Hesse, Branch Librarian at hessd@mendocinocounty.org Or use this link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9748647159 UKIAH LIBRARY Loba Poetry Series Zoom second Saturday of the month at 6 p.m. - To register and receive a Zoom link, contact Melissa Carr (she/her/they): carrm@mendocinocounty.org 
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 The 2022 California Writers Club's Literary Review has
the following WMC members. Priscilla Comen ("Traditions") Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios ("Consider Disaster") Jonathan Pazer ("A Country Most Dear") Nona Smith ("Claudia") Holly Tannen ("The Vulture and the Raven") Karin Uphoff ("Dad's Ashes") windflower ("We Were Once Wild Horses") 
Sharon Bowers aka Aron Lee Bowe
has a new graphic novel, JOURNEY TO THE ANTHROPOCENE, a feminist tale of environmental concerns. At Gallery Bookshop, The Bookstore in Fort Bragg and online at Alibris. For more information visit her website at aronleebowe.com. Molly Dwyer, founding president of Writers of the Mendocino Coast, has been recognized as a Mendocino County 2022 Arts Champion.
Elizabeth Vrenios has two poems in The Inflectionist Review www.inflectionism.com and two poems in the Spirit Fire Review www.spiritfirereview.com.
windflower's poem "Canoe me into the Deep Waters," paired with her photograph "River's Bend," is included in the Tiny Seed Journal's October 27th blog tinyseedjoournal.com, in addition to appearing in their printed anthology. Her photograph of a great blue heron also appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Persimmon Tree persimmontree.org.
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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
ONLINE ON THE THIRD SUNDAY 3:00 Members Receive Link via Email Public May Email a Request WritersMendocinoCoast@Gmail.com Welcome New Members
Amanda Cruise Art Weininger MEMBER COUNT 79 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 curator@kelleyhousemuseum.org. YouTube Videos of Monthly Meetings
See Archives tab above for details. Videos from previous years can also be found on our YouTube channel 
Drop in to the library site for the list of recently added books and 228+ reviews by WMC member Priscilla Comen.
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Welcome to opportunities to publish your writing, whether or not you live on the Mendocino Coast.
