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.
September Speaker Ericka Lutz
Sunday, September 18, 3:00 p.m. Zoom
Self-Editing Techniques to Ease Your Writerly Journey
Like a sword that cuts but cannot cut itself;
Like an eye that sees but cannot see itself.
– Zenrin-kushu
The difference between an amateur and professional-level writer often comes down to willingness to revise. But editing your own work can frustrate. How do you know when, where, and how to make changes? How do you know when to stop? In this fun self-revision workshop, we’ll talk about specific techniques to make your prose and poetry clearer, more concise, and more beautiful. Optional: bring a printed page of fresh-ish writing to play with.
Ericka Lutz is a WMC member, retired UC Berkeley writing teacher, book mentor, and well-published novelist, poet, and creative nonfiction writer. She hangs her virtual hat at erickalutz.com.
Sunday, September 18, 3:00 p.m. Zoom
Self-Editing Techniques to Ease Your Writerly Journey
Like a sword that cuts but cannot cut itself;
Like an eye that sees but cannot see itself.
– Zenrin-kushu
The difference between an amateur and professional-level writer often comes down to willingness to revise. But editing your own work can frustrate. How do you know when, where, and how to make changes? How do you know when to stop? In this fun self-revision workshop, we’ll talk about specific techniques to make your prose and poetry clearer, more concise, and more beautiful. Optional: bring a printed page of fresh-ish writing to play with.
Ericka Lutz is a WMC member, retired UC Berkeley writing teacher, book mentor, and well-published novelist, poet, and creative nonfiction writer. She hangs her virtual hat at erickalutz.com.
2023 Anthology Submissions Guidelines Theme: Common Ground (This can be interpreted loosely). NOTE: Dues must be renewed by August 31st in order to submit your work for consideration.
Prose/Poetry Submission dates: June 1-midnight, Aug.31
Photo Submission: June 1-midnight Sept. 22 Link to more information.
Prose/Poetry Submission dates: June 1-midnight, Aug.31
Photo Submission: June 1-midnight Sept. 22 Link to more information.
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. Individuals created artwork for authors to respond to, while others wrote stories or poems that inspired artistic responses. Final results will be revealed as authors read their work and corresponding artwork is unveiled. Join us for this fun afternoon.
Renew Now: Membership Dues Expired June 30th
Current members send a $45 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.
Current members send a $45 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.
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 Michelle Blackwell's "Upwelling" (Episode 3)
airs on KZYX August 31 at 9 am. Guest Emily Lloyd Jones will read from her two latest novels, Drowned Woods and Unseen Magic. Georgina Marie Guardado, Lake County's Poet Laureate, will read and talk about her poetry. 
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 Hess: hessd@co.mendocino.ca.us 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 hessed@MendocinoCounty.org 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): 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 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 also has two additional poems in The Inflectionist Review (www.inflectionist.com): "We Know a Thing by its Hunger" and "As if the World were Made of Nothing but Hunger." 
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 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 Member
Matthew Long 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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Email WritersMendocinoCoast@GMail.com Your email address will never be shared or sold. MEMBERSHIP
NEW MEMBERS See information on the Membership page. YEARLY RENEWAL, June 1 - August 15th, $45 plus a one time enrollment fee of $20. 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 WritersMendocinoCoast@GMail.com INTERESTED IN A WRITERS' GROUP / PARTNER
WMC MEMBER SALLIE REYNOLDS Read Sallie's biography on the Member Bio page. Contact her through WritersMendocinoCoast@GMail.com. 
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
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Welcome to opportunities to publish your writing, whether or not you live on the Mendocino Coast.
