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The California Arts Council recently announced the historic return of direct funding for California's individual artists, for the first time in nearly two decades! |
Apply by April 1 for the Individual Artists Fellowship grant, supporting emerging, established, and legacy artists through unrestricted grant awards ranging from $5,000 to $50,000. Learn more at: https://arts.ca.gov/grant_program/individual-artists-fellowship/ |
BECOME A VIRTUAL TUTOR FOR CHILDREN IN FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD GRADES
The Fort Bragg Unified School District invites all adults in our community to be virtual tutors for children in grades 1-3. To actively help our local teachers and families, use Google Meets to encourage a young child's reading skills. Sign up at the School District Office at 312 S. Lincoln. After free fingerprinting at the Police Department, you'll be assigned a student.
Call Anna Russell at 961-2850 (FBUSD) with questions.
The Fort Bragg Unified School District invites all adults in our community to be virtual tutors for children in grades 1-3. To actively help our local teachers and families, use Google Meets to encourage a young child's reading skills. Sign up at the School District Office at 312 S. Lincoln. After free fingerprinting at the Police Department, you'll be assigned a student.
Call Anna Russell at 961-2850 (FBUSD) with questions.
JANUARY 17th 2021 3:00 p.m.
MEMBER READINGS FROM 2021 ANTHOLOGY, EROSION Leslie Wahlquist, memoir, Just Ask Ben ✅ Audrey Joy Wells, poetry, Skeleton in Place on Hare Creek Bridge Charles Furey, fiction, Anthracite ✅ Michelle Blackwell, fiction, Color of Patriotism ✅ Barbara MacKay, poetry, I No Longer Can ✅ Donald Shephard, fiction, The Wedgewood Bowl ✅ Doug Fortier, fiction, Cordyceps Meets T.gondii ✅ Karen Lewis, poetry, Spinning in Love ✅ Earlene Gleisner, fiction, Ellie's Memories ✅ Fran Schwartz, memoir, This Is What Matters ✅ Elizabeth Vrenios, poetry, Truth Decides to Deconstruct ✅ Elizabeth Vrenois, poetry, Diagnosis Alzheimers ✅ Ginny Rorby, fiction, Bone Dry ✅ Mike Winn, fiction, Birthday in Vienna Karin Uphoff, poetry, Uncovered ✅ Katherine Brown, fiction, 100 Hours ✅ Orah Young, memoir, Leave-Taking Marylyn Scott, poetry, The Year of the Metal Rat ✅ Sharon Gilligan, memoir, In This Room ✅ Shirin Leos, fiction, More Than You Can Know ✅ Naty Osa, poetry, Scatter My Ashes Sue Gibson, memoir, A Wedding in Portugal ✅ Susan Lundgren, memoir, White Powder Blues ✅ windflower, poetry, Skin of the Earth ✅ Priscilla Comen, memoir, Fossils ✅ is registered REGISTRATION LINK AVAILABLE VIA EMAIL IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT SENT JAN. 10TH AND ON THE MORNING OF JANUARY 17TH Must register before each meeting to get the meeting access link. If you haven’t “zoomed” before, you do not have to have a zoom account. Once you register for the meeting, you’ll receive a link to use for the zoom meeting. A few minutes before the meeting, click that link. If you don’t have a mic and a camera on your computer, you’ll need to phone in. Phone numbers will also be sent with the Zoom link. READING LIMIT 5 MINUTES Remaining writers read on March 21st at the anthology release party. STARTING JANUARY 20TH
CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES OFFERED BY SANTA ROSA JC VIA ZOOM Created especially for those age 50+, but open to all adults who live in California. On-going registration. Come for all or some sessions. Contact the instructor, Stacey Dennick, for more info. [email protected]. www.sdennick.com. For information on joining a class please visit: https://older-adults.santarosa.edu/join-class 2021 SMATCHUP, "Last Night..."
FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED Signups begin February 1st, and close February 26th, midnight, OR WHEN SLOTS FILL IMPORTANT: SEE GUIDELINES Ten starters and ten finishers—WMC members Email interest to [email protected] Must indicate which, starter or finisher, or either and genre, poetry or fiction. 
FEBRUARY 21st 3:00 p.m.
JODY GEHRMAN Keep Me in Suspense Adding more tension to your work, regardless of genre. Whether you're writing fiction, memoir, drama, or poetry, we could all use more suspense in our work. How do we craft scenes and images that maximize the reader's involvement in the moment? How can we get our characters into emotionally dangerous situations, then ratchet up that tension even more? Playwright, novelist, and professor Jody Gehrman will discuss techniques to help you maximize the drama and keep the pages turning regardless of your genre or style. This talk will be formatted as an interview, followed by a question and answer period with the audience. Jody Gehrman is a native of Northern California, where she can be found writing, teaching, reading, or obsessing over her three cats most days. She is also the author of twelve novels and numerous award-winning plays. Her Young Adult novel, Babe in Boyland, was optioned by the Disney Channel and won the International Reading Association's Teen Choice Award. Her plays have been produced in Ashland, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and L.A. She and her partner, David Wolf, won the New Generation Playwrights Award for their one-act, Jake Savage, Jungle P.I. She is a professor of English and Communications at Mendocino College. 
MCWC WINTER PUBLISHING SERIES
Our branch of the California Writers Club is not affiliated with the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. In response to requests for more publishing-related information, the Mendocino Coast Writer's Conference has created a series of seminars focused on publishing. Saturday February 6th, 12 PM PST "Publishing with Small Presses" with Diana Arterian For more information and to register, please visit http://mcwc.org/winter-publishing-series. These events constitute an important fundraiser for MCWC this year as, like so many arts organizations during COVID-19, we face a significant budget shortfall. Every registration helps them continue creating meaningful, prestigious, and high-quality literary programming for our community. Your support is appreciated. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TO
DRAMA ANTHOLOGY WMC member Phil Zwerling and his colleague, Robert Moreira, are working on a Drama in the Time of CoVid-19 anthology to be published in 2022 by FlowerSong Press. They seek dramatic works: short plays, performance pieces, monologues, etc. that speak to the deaths, isolation, social, political, and economic upheaval that have followed in the wake of this pandemic. Go to the SUBMISSIONS PAGE for all the details. Send any questions to Philip Zwerling [email protected]. http://www.philipzwerling.com 
GOT 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 radio 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. *NB: Play may not contain the "seven dirty words", which are prohibited by the FCC. Play must be totally original and the author's own work. 
Online Poetry
Workshop for Youth Professional poets from throughout California offer creative poetry writing lessons for youth and families. Lessons are free to everyone and require no prep. This online workshop is growing and lessons will continue to be added throughout the pandemic. Click to start writing! GUALALA COMMUNITY WRITING PROJECT Mark Gross has started a writing initiative, KGUA Writers, in Gualala in collaboration with Peggy Berryhill's KGUA-FM, 88.3 radio program at 9:00 a.m. on Monday mornings. There is a Facebook Group Page KGUA Writers, and a website The Town That Started Writing. This week's prompt for written submission of 200-300 words and recorded pieces of 2 to 2:30 minutes length by January 15th, midnight. Send as a new message with the subject of Episode #38 "No one can get more out of it than what is in it" to KGUAWriters@gmail.com. POETRY
A Tribute to Poet Diane DiPrima Saturday, January 16, 2021 from 3 to 4:30 pm via Zoom video conference Diane DiPrima passed away in October of 2020 To sign up for limited reading slots, contact event producer Melissa Eleftherion Carr: [email protected] POETRY
Rhythm Running River 1st Sunday, 3-4 p.m. and 3rd Sunday 3-5 p.m. on KZYX public radio To listen live: https://www.kzyx.org/ For playlists: http://www.outfarpress.com/rrr.html To receive emails from Dan Roberts with links to listen or download, contact Dan at [email protected] POETRY
Third Thursday Poetry Night in Point Arena Featured reader: Maxima Kahn, Nevada County Thursday, January 21, 2021 from 7 to 9 pm via Zoom Featured reading followed by open mic To receive an invitation contact producer Blake More at [email protected] or 707 / 884-9189 POETRY
Cartwheels on the Sky ~ Poets, Poems & Discovery A Solstice New Now Year celebration, Jan. 2nd: https://www.bmoreyou.net/2020/12/31/solstice-now-year-on-cartwheels-on-the-sky/ Saturdays 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. 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
FIRST THURSDAY OPEN MIC POETRY 7 P.M. 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. 
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]. |
COVID-19 UPDATE From our branch President:
Until further notice, WMC meetings will be held via Zoom on the third Sunday of the month at 3 p.m. There are more than two dozen free Xfinity WiFi hotspots in Fort Bragg. At wifi.xfinity.com, type in an address, city, state, or ZIP Code to find where to access the internet. 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 Invitations Public May Email a Request [email protected]
Writers of the Mendocino Coast
PO Box 762 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 The CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB is a 501(c) (3) 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/ CWC Northern Branches: http://cwcnorcalwriters.org/ NorCal Events: http://cwcnorcalwriters.org/events/ SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
Email [email protected] We will never sell or share your email address.
MEMBERSHIP
NEW MEMBERS $65 includes $20 initiation fee. More information on the website's Membership page. YEARLY RENEWAL is $45. $25 for dual memberships when a member of another CWC 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] WMC member Clare Zwerling is interested in joining or forming a poetry group—[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 
WMC member Clare Bercot Zwerling's poetry has recently appeared or is in these forthcoming publications:
— Lamar University Press - Odes and Elegies: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast “Recuerdo” — The Good Life Review - Issue #2 Winter 2020 “Mirror:Madonna de la Playa” — Poetry South - Issue 12 “1945” — The Oakland Review - Volume XLV “The Committee” — Beatific - Winter 2020 “Gemstones” 
WMC member Nancy Wallace-Nelson performed "Married to Dogs – for Better or Worse" at the online venue, TheMarsh.org on Dec. 15th.
See the performance online, #4. 
WMC member windflower has had another poem and photograph, "Fire and Blood," published in the November issue of Tiny Seed Journal, in the category of Facing the Fire. This is in addition to her appearance in the October issue of Tiny Seed Journal, Through the Eyes of Nature. 
Ginny shared her insights and experiences in a TeachingBooks interview for Freeing Finch along with a short reading.
From WMC member Ginny Rorby, the author of Hurt Go Happy, winner of ALA's Schneider Family Book Award, comes Freeing Finch, the inspiring story of a transgender girl and a stray dog who overcome adversity to find love, home, and a place to belong. Voted one of the 10 of the Best LGBTQ+ Middle Grade Books That Celebrate Pride. ROLLING RECAP OF MONTHLY MEETINGS
See Archives tab above for details
MEMBER'S COPIES OF ANTHOLOGY, RED SKY
have all been mailed, including those pre-ordered. If members haven't received their copy, please email [email protected]
B R A N C H N E W S
STATEWIDE ANTHOLOGY NOW AVAILABLE The High Desert Branch of the California Writers Club collected and compiled fictional stories of pandemics, real or imagined, and has now published its state-wide anthology, SURVIVAL: Tales of Pandemic, which is available at amazon.com as of November 1, 2020. This volume of tales written by members of the century-old California Writers Club is the first anthology of its kind published by the High Desert Branch. 
Drop in to the library site for the list of recently added books and reviews by WMC member Priscilla Comen.
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Welcome to opportunities to publish your writing, whether or not you live on the Mendocino Coast.
