The November 19 meeting will be held in the Activities Room at the Community Center of Mendocino, 998 School Street, Mendocino.
2:30-3:30 pm
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2:30-3:30 pm
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.
November 19 program:
Trance Writing with Jenny Bitner
Jenny will discuss the tools she has learned weaving together her twenty years as a writing teacher with her training as a hypnotherapist to create Trance Writing, a method combining hypnosis and writing tools to help writers to go into scenes, talk to characters, and write with flow and ease. She will lead the group in a group hypnosis to take them to an individual writing place in their imaginations which they can return to again and again to create focus and flow for deep writing.
Jenny Bitner’s fiction and poetry has been published widely. Pine Press published Mother, a chapbook of her poetry. Her story "The Pamphleteer" was included in the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology. Her novel Here Is A Game We Could Play was published in 2021 from Acre Books. She is a certified hypnotherapist and sees hypnotherapy clients in San Francisco and online. She teaches fiction at the Writers Grotto and trance writing classes online. In 2024 she will be launching The Year of Your Book, a year-long program to help writers finish their books. Find out more or book a discovery call at jennybitner.com.
Trance Writing with Jenny Bitner
Jenny will discuss the tools she has learned weaving together her twenty years as a writing teacher with her training as a hypnotherapist to create Trance Writing, a method combining hypnosis and writing tools to help writers to go into scenes, talk to characters, and write with flow and ease. She will lead the group in a group hypnosis to take them to an individual writing place in their imaginations which they can return to again and again to create focus and flow for deep writing.
Jenny Bitner’s fiction and poetry has been published widely. Pine Press published Mother, a chapbook of her poetry. Her story "The Pamphleteer" was included in the Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology. Her novel Here Is A Game We Could Play was published in 2021 from Acre Books. She is a certified hypnotherapist and sees hypnotherapy clients in San Francisco and online. She teaches fiction at the Writers Grotto and trance writing classes online. In 2024 she will be launching The Year of Your Book, a year-long program to help writers finish their books. Find out more or book a discovery call at jennybitner.com.
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There is no December meeting. Enjoy the holidays and we will see you on January 21, 2024, for readings from the Anthology. |
Thanks to WMC’s Nona Smith and Christine Anderson, and Karen Fenley of Artists Coop for a terrific Ekphrasis XII, 2023. The opening at the Gallery was festive, and the readings (even without art) terrific. Go to https://www.artcoopmendocino.com/ekphrasis23intro.html to see the writing accompanied by the art. Click on “Sets” at the top and bottom of the page.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
REGISTRATION FOR SPRING CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES opens NOVEMBER 17 at Coast Campus, Mendocino College.
We'd love to have more Writers of the Mendocino Coast and local community members taking classes with us at Mendocino College! We're here to help you with your current writing projects, with getting back into a writing routine, or with beginning to write for the first time. We're here to support you and sharpen your writing voice in either fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama (including screenwriting). Please feel free to reach out to Vincent ([email protected]) with any questions about these classes or how to register for them. You're also welcome to call the Coast Center at (707) 961-2200 to register, as well as to register in-person at 1211 Del Mar Dr., Fort Bragg, CA 95437 or online at mendocino.edu. 
POETRY ON THE RIVER HAS MORPHED INTO
POETRY AT THE COBALT Last Sunday of the Month - 5-7 pm COBALT GALLERY, 430 Main Street, Fort Bragg, Ca 707-472-6421 [email protected] 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. 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] LOBA POETRY SERIES at Ukiah Branch Library Reading and Open Mic Second Saturdays, 3 pm Writers Reading Ukiah Last Thursday, 7 p.m Reading, 8 p.m. Open Mic Poetry, Spoken Word, Short Stories, Songs & Expository Prose. 
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] 
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]. 
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios was recently nominated for the Best of Net for her poems: Still flying over Lockerbie and Cairn. Her third chapbook is out this month from Kelsey books: A Concerto for an Empty Frame. NEWS FROM THE BOARD
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. MEMBER SURVEY We are planning a Member Survey to find out what you’d enjoy more or less of in 2024. This is your club. Watch your email and participate. You might win a PRIZE. SCHOLASTIC ART AND WRITING CONTEST Prizes and opportunity for young people 13-17. If you know a budding young writer or artist who would like to enter, have them go to artandwriting.org There is a small fee, but it can be waived. Deadline: September-December. This year, our branch of the CA Writers’ Club will act as regional judge for the Writing portion of Scholastic’s contest. You may be asked to volunteer as a judge. Participation could earn WMC $2,500. PLEASE SAY YES. Questions? contact: [email protected]
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 Welcome New Member
Sally Carter 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]. |
