The location of the September 17 meeting has been changed. Kokkos is closing at the end of August.
We will meet from 2:30-3:30 pm in the Activities Room at the Community Center of Mendocino, 998 School Street, Mendocino.
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.
We will meet from 2:30-3:30 pm in the Activities Room at the Community Center of Mendocino, 998 School Street, Mendocino.
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.
Sunday, September 17, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Poet Georgina Marie Guardado
Praise Be: Writing with Gratitude and Observation
How can we write with praise and from a place of hope when we’re surrounded by grief and injustice? How can we utilize creative writing as a vehicle for expressing gratitude and beauty while observing our world and honoring emotions? How can we do all of this using craft elements and literary devices so we don’t cross over into sentimentality? In this workshop, we will explore how we can nurture our writing lives even in chaotic circumstances. Related topics will include supporting each other through writing communities, self-doubt, caring for ourselves as creatives, and writerly expectations. A presentation will be offered followed by a Q&A, group discussion, and generative writing session with optional sharing.
Georgina Marie Guardado is the Poet Laureate of Lake County, CA for 2020-2024, and a Poets Laureate Fellow with The Academy of American Poets. She is the Literary Editor for The Bloom, a contributing writer for Antioch University’s Common Thread News, President of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, and Literacy Program Coordinator for the Lake County Library. As part of the Broken Nose Collective, an annual chapbook exchange, she created her first poetry chapbook, Finding the Roots of Water, in 2018 and her second chapbook, Tree Speak, in 2019. She has received support from the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Hugo House, and SF Writing Salon. Her work has appeared in The Bloom, Noyo Review, Poets.org, Humble Pie Magazine, Gulf Coast Journal, Yellow Medicine Review, The Muleskinner Journal, Colossus: Freedom, and Two Hawks Quarterly. She is a 1st year graduate student and scholar of the Kwame Dawes Mapmakers and Master of Fine Arts Merit endowments at the Pacific University MFA in Writing program. She lives with her rescue dogs Kenya and Micco, and is currently working on her full-length poetry manuscript.
2023 Ekphrasis Meeting will be held October 15.
Huge thanks to Jody Gehrman for a stimulating session on “Does Your Writing Have Legs & Teeth.”
UPCOMING EVENTS
Watch this space for Registration Date for Spring Creative Writing Classes at 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]) or Molly ([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. Free Zoom meeting, September 26, 6-7 pm, with John Truby, author of The Anatomy of Genres.
“Truby says, “What if I told you there was a secret to story that will increase your ability to sell your stories 100-fold?” GENRES have more to do with how your story works than any other element — any other idea, plot device, character archetype, beat sheet, methodology, or prescribed structure — by far. Whether you're writing for movies, TV, or novels, the game is won or lost in genres. Sponsored by the High Desert CWC Sept 26, 6-7 pm. Here is the link. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86220784034?pwd=TThCMWhyc0FYbjRid1JmUnZiWit6Zz09 Poetry on the River ~ Slack Tide Café
Last Sunday of the Month, 1-3 pm 32430 N. Harbor Dr., Fort Bragg CALLING ALL POETS, WRITERS, READERS, AND LOVERS OF LITERATURE, YOUNG AND OLD AND IN BETWEEN, KNOWN, UNKNOWN, SUBMERGED, EMERGED AND EMERGING. 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] 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] CONGRATULATIONS to members Notty Bumbo, Maureen Eppstein, Naty Osa, Elizabeth Vrenios, and windflower. All have had poems accepted into the upcoming Redwood Writers Club Poetry Anthology.
Elizabeth Vrenios’ poem “Still Flying Over Lockerbie” was published in Poetry Distillery
www.poetrydistillery.com/poems/2023/4/19/still-flying-over-lockerbie windflower, Poet & Photographer
Has a poem and photograph in Plant Your Words Anthology Fort Bragg's Alleyway Art Project includes poetry from Notty Bumbo ("Artist's Prayer for the Days Ahead," as part of the "Be a Light" mural) and windflower ("Mendocino Botanical Gardens," as part of "The Rhododendron" mural). www.fortbraggalleywayart.org
Ericka Lutz's poem, "In the Redwoods," written in response to Ryan Grossman's Fort Bragg mural "Sunlit Redwood Forest," appears on the Fort Bragg Alleyway Art Project website: https://fortbraggalleywayart.org/sunlit-redwood-forest/
Priscilla Comen published a short piece for Persimmon Tree's Forum ("Speaking of Rights--Our After the Midterm"), Winter 2023 (https://persimmontree.org). She also writes weekly book reviews under "Community Library Notes" for the Mendocino Beacon (mendocinobeacon.com)
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/.
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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]. |