Thanks to Shirin Yim Bridges & Jody Gehrman for sharing their
experiences with Young Adult and Children's Literature on August 15th.

We are grateful to the Mendocino Hotel for use of the Garden Room.
Submissions for the Writers of the Mendocino Coast's first anthology: 
WRITERS OF THE MENDOCINO COAST: AT THE EDGE
 closed September 15th

Current member count: 75

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Creative Writing 
at the Senior Center

Workshops with Karen Lewis will start in October, meeting from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. on six consecutive Mondays to November 5th. A signup sheet is at the front desk of the Redwood Coast Senior Center in Fort Bragg. Enrollment is limited to twenty.
Thanks to a grant from Poets & Writers, it is available on a low/no cost, sliding scale. If the attendance is great enough, the series will continue into winter.

Send Your News

MEMBERS
When your writing is published 
or receives a nomination 
or award, please send a short 
announcement to 
writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com 
We'll include it in the newsletter 
and on the website.
Founded in 1978, Voice of Youth Advocates, or (VOYA), magazine is the leading library journal dedicated to the needs of young adult librarians, the advocacy of young adults, and the promotion of young adult literature and reading. The April issue has Patty Joslyn's piece, "When Will the Last Breath Be."  
Click on this link to VOYA 
to read her work. 
Click the Pages tab on the left 
to get to pages 22 & 23.

In September
September 19th  6:00 p.m.  
Mendocino Hotel - Garden Room

Picture
Josh Weil

The Structure of Fiction
with Josh Weil

Author Josh Weil will be the guest of the California Writers Club for a reading and a discussion of the craft of writing. His debut book was the highly acclaimed The New Valley, published in 2010, a New York Times Editors Choice that won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation.

The presentation is free, and open to the public. Gallery Bookshop will have copies of Weil's book available for purchase at the event.

The New Valley is comprised of linked novellas that bring readers into America's remote back country and unveil the private worlds of three very different men as they confront love, loss, and their own personal demons. His new novel, The Great Glass Sea, will be published in late 2013. 

A recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, he has taught at New York University, Brooklyn College, as the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University, and was the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.

Visit his website at JoshWeil.com. Even better, see the New York Times - Sunday Book Review article titled, "Hill Country Blues" by Anthony Doerr, the author of “The Shell Collector,” “About Grace” and “Four Seasons in Rome.”Doer concludes, "Keep writing novellas, Josh Weil, because you write very good ones. You think on it, and we’ll watch" echoing a line in the third novella ofThe New Valley. 
Not to be missed is a 2009 interview in the Arts Beat section of the New York Times titled, "Stray Questions for: Josh Weil" by Gregory Cowles. Josh no longer lives in Baltimore, but does answer questions: What are you working on now; describe a typical day in your writing life; and what have you been reading or recommending lately?

In October

October 13th
"Second  
 Saturday"
Artists' Coop of Mendocino  

October 17th   6:00 p.m.
Mendocino Hotel Garden Room
The Writers of the Mendocino Coast asked eight writers to craft one page of prose or poetry, fiction or nonfiction, in response to a piece of art provided by eight artists associated with the Artists' Coop of Mendocino.
Another set of eight writers provided one page to prompt a piece of art by eight artists representing the Coop.

On October 17th, the Writers of the Mendocino Coast will host each of the sixteen writers in a reading of their work while a photo of the art is projected onto a screen.
The artists are invited to attend and comment on their work. 

Second Saturday

The Second Saturday reception at the Artists' Coop of Mendocino
3:30 to 7:00 p.m. on the 13th
45270 Main St., Mendocino 937-2217 THE EKPHRASIS PROJECT
One medium of art relates to another medium by defining and describing its essence and form

During the month of October, these sixteen pieces of art will be exhibited next to the single pages crafted by the writers.

Drop by on Second Saturday to see the exhibit and talk to the assembled artists and writers.
Welcome to the Mendocino Coast branch of the California Writers Club founded in 1909. We are proud to share in this legacy.
The Writers of the Mendocino Coast meet in the Mendocino Hotel at 6:00 pm on the third Wednesday of every month. We host speakers, workshops, open mics and other yet to be discovered events and other activities.
Our intention is to expand the network and opportunities for writers here on the Mendocino Coast. We hope you'll join us. 

For Members - WRITERS GROUP CLEARING HOUSE

     The California Writers Club fosters professionalism in writing and promotes networking of writers with the writing community. All genres and writing styles are supported. In order to provide an environment where members can obtain critique of their efforts, a clearing house has been established.
     Please send a description of your writing experience and genre, the frequency of meeting you would like, and other information you consider pertinent. We will connect you with other members.

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