September Meeting
Next Month’s Meeting Is Coming Quickly, Wednesday, September 15th, 6 pm The Mendocino Hotel, Behind the Garden Room.
Word Works: An Open Mic for Members
We are holding an Open Mic for Members. You must be pre-registered —that is, signed up – and a paid member, to read. Sign up with Pauline before 5pm on September 6th. Her email is: paulinerusert@yahoo.com
Writers of the Mendocino Coast will host their first Members Open-Mic-Night on Wednesday September 15, 6pm, at the Mendocino Hotel Garden Room.
Think lights and a crowd, that rush of adrenalin, a forum where writers can gather to perform, where you may hear local scribes at their best and bawdyist…
The Mendocino coast has more artists per capita than almost any place in the country, and among all that talent is a host of excellent writers, both published and unpublished, who seldom have a venue for bringing their poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction to the stage.
You’re invited to revel in the artistry around you. “It’s 100 percent different than reading to yourself.”
Our August Meeting
Thanks to everyone for coming out to hear Cynthia Frank. It was a great success. We filled the back of the Garden Room. Did people see the big poster at the door? That’s Doug Fortier’s doing and it’s really a great doing.
October Meeting, Wednesday October 20th
A Fiction Writing Panel
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t.—Mark Twain
Hemingway and friends in Paris
Malcolm Macdonald and Donald Shephard from WordWeavers (another local writers group), John Fremont, Ginny Rorby and Molly Dwyer will discuss the intricacies of fiction writing, why they like it, and what makes it work.
Plans for the New Year
Andrew Todhunter, who has this month’s cover story of National Geographic, has agreed to come and speak to the club sometime next year. He’s just been hired to teach at Stanford. I’ve studied with him, as have many of you, since he used to live in Mendocino. I’m very excited he’s coming. His talk will be coupled with a workshop. More details on that coming. The club has also been invited to be part of Mendocino Stories in January. More soon about that as well.
Thanks everyone,
Molly Dwyer
Writers of the Mendocino Coast, President
Of Interest to Our Writers
Contests
Published on Poets & Writers @ http://www.pw.org
Lighthouse Poetry
Publication Prize Deadline: August 31, 2010 Entry Fee: $20 E-mail address:
tracey@aroomofherownfoundation.org
A prize of $1,000 and publication by Red Hen Press will be given annually for poetry collection by a woman writer. Alice Quinn will judge. Submit
manuscript of 48 to 96 pages with a $20 entry fee by August 31. Send an SASE or visit the Web site for complete guidelines. A Room of Her Own Foundation,
P.O. Box 778, Placitas, NM 87043. (505) 867’5373. Tracey Cravens-Gras, Associate Director.
http://www.pw.org/content/to_the_lighthouse_poetry_publication_prize Link:
http://www.aroho.org
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Ames Essay Award Deadline:
September 15, 2010 Entry Fee: $10 Web site:
http://www.literal-latte.com/
E-mail address: litlatte@aol.com A prize of $1,000 and publication in Literal Latté is given annually for a personal essay. Submit an essay of up
to 8,000 words with a $10 entry fee ($5 for an additional essay) by September 15.
Email or visit the Web site for complete guidelines. Ames Essay Award, 200 East 10th Street, Suite 240, New York, NY 10003. (212) 260-5532. Jenine Gordon Bockman, Editor.
Source URL:
http://www.pw.org/content/ames_essay_award
Links: http://www.literal-latte.com
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Winning Writers has an on-line database for free poetry contests, as well as the standard type.
Check out www.winningwriters.com/news and sign up for their monthly newsletter.
Publishing Opportunities
Fearless Books is soliciting high-quality, extremely well-crafted, and exceptional poems which focus on the subject of enthusiastic, happy, vibrant, and joy-filled love ONLY. Previously published work is okay so long as the reprint and anthology rights are free and available. Your submission must be on topic. Please do not send poems on any other aspect of love, longing, or desire — the judging is closed for everything but this extremely specific subject area. There is no reading fee; payment for publication in TOUCHING: Poems of Love, Longing, and Desire will be two copies of the published anthology and a substantial discount on additional copies as detailed in our earlier published ads and correspondence.
This is a significant opportunity to get published in a literary anthology of new and emerging voices. If you are interested send 1-3 qualifying poems to Fearless Books, POB 1292, Berkeley, CA 94701, or within the body of an email to TouchingPoems@gmail.com
The deadline to submit is 11/15/10. Let us know if you have any questions.
Sari Friedman and D. Patrick Miller, Editors, Fearless Poetry Series
Fearless Books www.fearlessbooks.com
touchingpoems@gmail.com
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What’s your favorite thing about California, in 20 words or less? Heydey Books will reward the contest winner a bag of 12 of their best selling books. Send in your entry by Aug. 31 to
susan@heydaybooks.com
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