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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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.
EKPHRASIS RETURNS
Sunday, October 16, 3 p.m. Zoom
This annual event reveals the secret pairings of WMC writers with artists from The Artists’ Co-op of Mendocino.
Writer Initiators: Lynn Kiesewetter, Nona Smith, Naty Osa, Michelle Blackwell, Sharon Bowers, Norma Watkins, Nancy Harris McLelland, Mary Ellen Mynatt, Les Cizek.
Art Responders: windflower, Susan Fisher, Karen Lewis, Maureen Eppstein, Holly Tannen, Elizabeth Vrenios,
Bill Mann, Priscilla Comen, Nancy Wallace Nelson.
Participating Artists: Mary Anderson, Shanti Benoit, Karen Bowers, Mary-Ellen Campbell, Laura Corben, Joseph DuVivier, Claire Fortier, Sharon Garner, Stephen Garner, Marlee Greene, Rachel Lahn, Debora Lenox, Karen Reynolds, Bob Rhoades, Bob Spies, Larry Wagner, Lynne Whiting, Lynne Zickerman Olson.
Second Saturday, October 8th, meet participants and see their work at the Artists' Co-op
(the northwest corner of Kasten and Albion Streets) 4 - 7 p.m.
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, Ploughshares, 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, Ploughshares, 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)
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Membership Expires September 30
Membership checks received after September 30 are considered new memberships by the California Writers Club, so the fee changes to $65. Prior to that date, the fee remains $45. Send a check made out to Writers of the Mendocino Coast. Mail it to: Treasurer, California Writers Club, P.O. Box 762, Fort Bragg, CA 95437. Your chapter dues include copies of the annual WMC anthology and the CWC Literary Review (plus the opportunity to submit your writing for consideration to both publications), emailed copies of the quarterly CWC bulletin, participation in Ekphrasis and SmatchUp (on a first come basis), and a membership bio on our website. Support your local writing community by renewing today. |
Jay Frankston
(10/10/28 - 8/14/22) Jay was a prolific writer and a respected part of our WMC community. He will be greatly missed. Read Notty Bumbo's ode to Jay by clicking |
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 [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
Virtual Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry To receive an invitation to the Zoom reading, please email blake more: [email protected]. 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 [email protected] 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 Hess: [email protected] Or use this link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9748647159 Readers should limit themselves to eight minutes, for one to four poems. For more information, contact Dan Hesse, Branch Librarian at [email protected] or 707 961-2625. And see FortBraggLibrary.org. UKIAH LIBRARY Loba Poetry Series Zoom last Thursday of the month 7 p.m. - To register and receive a Zoom link, contact Melissa Carr (she/her/they): [email protected] 
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 accepted poetry and prose from the following 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") Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios' poem "Ravens as Gifts" appears
in the MockingHeart Review (mockingheartreview.com). She has two additional poems in The Inflectionist Review (www.inflectionism.com): "We Know a Thing by its Hunger" and "As if the World were Made of Nothing but Hunger." "Accolades" and "The Conversation Between the Jewelry and the Thief" appear in the latest Spit Fire Review. |
Do you have a topic on the craft of writing to teach at an upcoming meeting for forty-five minutes?
Contact [email protected]
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 [email protected] Welcome New Member
Amanda Cruise Art Weininger MEMBER COUNT 87 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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NEW MEMBERS See information on the Membership page. YEARLY RENEWAL to July 1 - September 30th, plus a one time enrollment fee of $20 (if renewing after those dates, the $20 fee will be required again). If registering after January 1st, the total fee is $42.50, until renewals are due again July 1. It's $15 for students. $25 for dual memberships when a member of another branch. Membership includes a copy of the club's recent anthology, copies of our state organization's Literary Review magazine, space for member biographies, and opportunities to see your writing in: -The annual anthology -The Literary Review published by our parent, California Writers Club. More info at www.calwriters.org -The yearly collaboration, Ekphrasis, with the Artists' Co-op of Mendocino -The annual SmatchUp, blind matching of two writers on a theme, each writing a single page. SPONSORED MEMBERSHIPS
Financial aid is available for membership [email protected] INTERESTED IN A WRITERS' GROUP / PARTNER
WMC MEMBER SALLIE REYNOLDS Read Sallie's biography on the Member Bio page. Contact her through [email protected]. 
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]. 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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