Writers of the Mendocino Coast

No December Event / Announcements / January & February Events

Writers of the Mendocino Coast — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:18:56 +0000

Notes of Panel – Nov. 16th, Announcement of Events Jan. 18th & Feb. 15th

Writers of the Mendocino Coast — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:42:53 +0000

November Meeting – Local Writers & Book Stores Working Together

Writers of the Mendocino Coast — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:09:36 +0000

California Writers Club - http://calwriters.org/

Next meeting:

A panel of local bookstore owners will discuss how local writers and bookstores

can work together to increase local writers’ sales.

Chris Lindauer - Cheshire Books - Fort Bragg

Christie Olson Day - Gallery Bookshop - Mendocino

Previously scheduled: Loretta Houck - Laughing Dog Books - Boonville will not be able to attend

Join us for the business meeting, where we plan future events and discuss the direction of the Club.

Meeting begins at 5:00 P.M., preceding the main event.

UPCOMING WRITERS CLUB SCHEDULE

No meeting is planned for December. Happy Holidays!

January: On January 18, 2012, we will have our second annual Mendocino Stories event, taking over the whole of the Mendocino Hotel Garden Room for a reading by members, and music by David Brown.

Other Club Business:

Mendocino Coast Writers Club plans to install new officers in January of 2012. Please consider taking a more active role in our club! Submissions for offices will close November 16th and the candidates will be announced at the November meeting.Please contact Malcolm Macdonald (malcolmlorne@yahoo.com) if you are interested in running for an office.

October Meeting

Writers of the Mendocino Coast — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:49:02 +0000

Join us for the business meeting preceding the main event where we plan future events and discuss the direction of the Club. Meeting begins at 5pm.

UPCOMING WRITERS CLUB SCHEDULE

November: A panel of local bookstore owners will discuss how local writers and bookstores can work together to increase local writers’ sales.

Other Club Business:

Mendocino Coast Writers Club plans to install new officers in January of 2012. Please consider taking a more active role in our club! Submissions for offices will close November 1st and the candidates will be announced at the November meeting so please let Molly or Malcolm know if you are interested in running for an office.

September Meeting

Writers of the Mendocino Coast — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:29:01 +0000

Writers of the Mendocino Coast — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:00:40 +0000

poster art by Doug Fortier

July 20th

Writers of the Mendocino Coast — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:18:22 +0000

Thanks to everyone who came out on July 20th to help us celebrate.

Join Us Wednesday, July 20th

Writers of the Mendocino Coast — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:47:05 +0000

We are celebrating Writers of the Mendocino Coast’s official status as a charter of the California Writers Club with a

Founding Members Open Mic! Wednesday, July 20, 6pm in the Mendocino Hotel Garden Room

It’s a grand tradition: Charles Dickens reading in 1868.

Members at the Open Mic

Janet Ashford
Cheri Ause
John Bear
Henri Bensussen
Alena Deerwater
Molly Dwyer
Jay Frankston
Barbara Mackay
Laurel Moss
Lisa Norman
Marylyn Scott

After the main event, if there’s time and interest, the mic will stay open. Come out and hear local writers reading from their latest creations. We’ll also be introducing information about a planned Founders Anthology and our collaboration with the literary journal, The Mendocino Review. Hope to see you there.

PS Take a look at our new club page to learn a little about the readers. Not everyone has a bio up, but some of us do. And if you’re a member and haven’t put you’re bio up yet, please email us the info.

Come Celebrate: July 20th

Writers of the Mendocino Coast — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:02:52 +0000

Congratulations Mendocino, it’s official!

Writers of the Mendocino Coast
California Writers Club
Founding Charter
July 2011

Hello Everyone,

We heard back from the President of the California Writers Club and we have the critical mass of active writers to support our becoming the Mendocino Branch of the CWC. It’s official. We will be certified at the CWC board meeting on July 31, 2011.

We hope you’ll join us in July.
We’ll be celebrating!!

CLUB & MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Don’t Forget Norma Watkins’ Book Launch Wednesday, June 29, 7pm, in the Abalone Room, at the Little River Inn. She promises some tasty Southern appetizers!

Molly Dwyer is starting another round of her Critique Group on July 12. Ten weeks. $75. The focus is on developing and strengthening narrative fiction and nonfiction, and on learning how to offer meaningful and supportive critique. Molly is the founding President of Writers of the Mendocino Coast. For more information or to join the group, contact Molly at molly@mollydwyer.com Enrollment is limited.

If you’d like to see a small piece in print, Jay Frankston loves to make chapbooks. Says Jay, “I’ve done a large number of them, mostly poetry, and I’d love to do a chapbook for you. Short stories or prose is also possible. The cost is immaterial. You pay what you can, what you think it’s worth to you. Contact me at wlp@mcn.org and let’s talk about it. 937-0208

If you’re interested in serving on the Program Committee for WMC in the upcoming year, please contact Molly, molly@mollydwyer.com We’ll be meeting July 13th at 6pm to plan events for the upcoming fall, winter and spring. Also contact Molly if you have time and interest in helping with our website.

Coast Poetry Slam: All ages invited to the monthly open Coast Poetry Slam: Tuesday, July 5th at 7 p.m. in the Mendocino Hotel’s Garden Room on Main Street in Mendocino village. If you want to perform in either slam or open mic, sign-ups start at 6 p.m. $5 cover. Bring your student or senior ID for discounts at the door. Bring 2 poems, neither over 3 minutes. For more info: coastslam @ gmail.com

UPCOMING WMC SCHEDULE

August: Norma Watkins on The Personal Essay

September: Writers Group Faire, an opportunity to find and form writing groups

October: All Tech All the Time, a panel on publishing, marketing and going virtual on the Internet

November: Local Bookstores Panel

April, May & June Events

Writers of the Mendocino Coast — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:59:40 +0000

June 20th, 6 pm. Mendocino Hotel Garden Room
Jody Gehrman

Jody’s website, http://jodygehrman.com/ has her books and more.

Please send announcements to: writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com

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May 18th, 6pm Mendocino Hotel Garden Room
General Business & Planning Meeting

Please join us for a General Business and Planning Meeting. Please come out and help us plan for the upcoming year and for our official certification as a branch in the California Writers Club.

All of the paperwork to make the Writers of the Mendocino Coast a legitimate branch of the California Writers Club is in the hands of the state. We should be certified and official in July. Thank you to everyone who helped make that happen. This venture started with a small group of people meeting around a kitchen table more than two years ago.

That small group has kept the club alive: finding venues, holding meetings, keeping minutes, creating programs and open mics, inviting speakers, creating By-Laws, opening bank accounts, holding elections, writing Procedure & Policy documents, recruiting membership, designing posters and flyers, a website and a logo, setting up mailing lists, sending out newsletters, taking photographs and documenting our history—and now, finally, getting together the paperwork to apply for branch status with the California Writers Club, which as you all know, was started by Jack London over a 100 years ago.

Update on our Plans to Become
An Official Branch of the California Writers Club

On March 16, 2011 the Writers of the Mendocino Coast were invited to submit a Letter of Intent to the Central Board of the California Writers Club. The process is now in motion. There is paperwork to turn in and deadlines to meet, but if all goes according to plan, (and there’s no reason to believe that it won’t), we will be certified this coming July as an official branch of the California Writers Club with all the benefits and privileges thereof—including standing as a not-for-profit organization.

This is definitely something to celebrate. Many of us have worked toward this for almost two years. Mark the date, Wednesday July 20th, we’ll be celebrating the good news at our monthly meeting at the Mendocino Hotel with a “Founders Members Reading & Real Time Literary Magazine.” By the way, according to an item posted on the Bay Citizen, literary events are all the fashion now and the Bay Area (all the way to Mendocino) is in the middle of a literary renaissance.

Thank you to everyone who helped us make this happen!!

Please send announcements to: writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com

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April 20th, 6pm Mendocino Hotel Garden Room
Jean Hegland

Don’t miss our speaker’s web site: http://www.jeanhegland.com

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Other Announcements

Sunday, March 27: Local Author Reception, 1:00 to 3:00 featuring seventeen of our writing community – authors of fiction, poetry, memoir and more. There will be live acoustic folk and classical music throughout the day, and families can enjoy stories and activities for children all day long with Mrs. Bookwinkle in the Bookwinkle’s Children’s Books department. Gallery Bookshop 937-2665.

Wednesday, April 6, 13, 20 & 27: Poetry Workshop in Fort Bragg – Four Wednesdays, 9am to 11am – Facilitator Karen Lewis brings 16 years experience with California Poets in the Schools and the community to all experience levels, to explore the power of words. At Cheshire Books, Fort Bragg.

Thursday, April 21: Poetry & Jazz 8 pm “Northern California Voices” – Poets Janet DeBar, Blake More, Cheri Ause, Richard Di Grazia, Fred Adlerand Steven “Kush” Kushnerare accompanied by improvisational jazz.

Please send announcements to: writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com

Writers of the Mendocino Coast

No December Event / Announcements / January & February Events

Notes of Panel – Nov. 16th, Announcement of Events Jan. 18th & Feb. 15th

November Meeting – Local Writers & Book Stores Working Together

October Meeting

September Meeting

July 20th

Join Us Wednesday, July 20th

We are celebrating Writers of the Mendocino Coast’s official status as a charter of the California Writers Club with a

Founding Members Open Mic! Wednesday, July 20, 6pm in the Mendocino Hotel Garden Room

Members at the Open Mic

Janet Ashford Cheri Ause John Bear Henri Bensussen Alena Deerwater Molly Dwyer Jay Frankston Barbara Mackay Laurel Moss Lisa Norman Marylyn Scott

Come Celebrate: July 20th

Congratulations Mendocino, it’s official!

Writers of the Mendocino Coast California Writers Club Founding Charter July 2011

We hope you’ll join us in July. We’ll be celebrating!!

April, May & June Events

June 20th, 6 pm. Mendocino Hotel Garden Room Jody Gehrman

May 18th, 6pm Mendocino Hotel Garden Room General Business & Planning Meeting

Update on our Plans to Become An Official Branch of the California Writers Club

Thank you to everyone who helped us make this happen!!

April 20th, 6pm Mendocino Hotel Garden Room Jean Hegland

Other Announcements

Janet Ashford
Cheri Ause
John Bear
Henri Bensussen
Alena Deerwater
Molly Dwyer
Jay Frankston
Barbara Mackay
Laurel Moss
Lisa Norman
Marylyn Scott

Writers of the Mendocino Coast
California Writers Club
Founding Charter
July 2011

We hope you’ll join us in July.
We’ll be celebrating!!

June 20th, 6 pm. Mendocino Hotel Garden Room
Jody Gehrman

May 18th, 6pm Mendocino Hotel Garden Room
General Business & Planning Meeting

Update on our Plans to Become
An Official Branch of the California Writers Club

April 20th, 6pm Mendocino Hotel Garden Room
Jean Hegland