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2018 SMATCHUP, “The Woman Next Door”
Fiction starters have one page, 12 pt. font, 1 inch margins, single or double space. Title it for now, but your partner will title it in the end—that's his/her job. You have until midnight March 9th to complete your task. Email kheimannbrown@gmail.com with piece--no .PDF. Put in .DOC or .DOCX or embed in e-mail if you can't do .DOC files. Usually .ODT files work, but not always. ENTRY DEADLINE WAS FEBRUARY 2. Pairs to be revealed at the April 18, 2018 meeting when the finished pieces are read. |
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MENDOCINO HOTEL
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Thursday, February 15th, 6:00 p.m. 
MAYA KHOSLA
Author and Film Director SONG OF THE FOREST - AFTER FIRE Maya will present slides, film excerpts and poetry devoted to the wild after wildfire. For four years, she has been following teams of scientists through the Sierra Nevada, the Cascade mountain range and beyond, to document hundreds of living, breathing reasons why our publicly owned forests need to be saved from large-scale logging projects. Searching for the Gold Spot is her new film. Maya was part of the faculty for the Mendocino Coast Writers Conferences of 2007 and 2008 GALLERY BOOKSHOP
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Friday, February 16th, 6:30 p.m. MAYA KHOSLA, Author and Film Director
READING and BOOK SIGNING Web of Water: Life in Redwood Creek and Keel Bone
MENDOCINO COLLEGE COAST CENTER
1211 Del Mar Drive in Fort Bragg, Room 111 CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Saturday, February 17th, 9:00 to 12 noon 
MAYA KHOSLA
Author and Film Director THE ESSENTIAL VIEW Maya Khosla Writing Workshop The Writers of the Mendocino Coast, a non-profit organization, is hosting a creative writing workshop on Saturday, February 17th, 9:00am- 12:00pm at the Mendocino College Coast Center (1211 Del Mar Drive in Fort Bragg, Room 111). The Essential View will help us focus on our own prose and poetry while taking a look at new and historic nature writing. We will engage in the joys of language, including excerpts from works by nature writers including Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Gretel Ehrlich, Annie Dillard, and W.S. Merwin. We will analyze techniques used to create compelling works, and return to our own. A field-based biologist and a writer, Maya’s concerns for the natural world have led her through the wild, to the page, and to the screen. Her first book of poetry, Keel Bone, won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in such journals as World Literature Today. Her first film, Searching for the Gold Spot, is about the wilds of the American West after wildfire and featured in festivals across the United States. She is currently working to assess the forests and rivers of California. Workshop Price: $35 non-members, $25 California Writers Club Members (any branch), college students and high school students (need ID) $20. ONE INDIGO MOOR SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE Please RSVP KBrown at writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com to hold a spot. Pay the day of workshop--cash or check only. Space is limited. This event is co-sponsored by Mendocino College, Gallery Bookshop, and Mendocino Coast Writers Conference. Maya was on the faculty for the Mendocino Coast Writers Conferences of 2007 and 2008 MENDOCINO COLLEGE
Spring Semester Writing Classes ENG-210 Section 0023 Creative Writing - Instr. Staff Sat. 9/12:05 Rm 111 3.0 credits 1/22 -5/25 ENG-210 Section 9038 Creative Writing - Instr. N.Watkins Tue. 9/1:05 Rm 111 0.0 credits 2/13 -5/8 ENG-212 Section 0024 Intermed. Creative Writing - Instr. Staff Sat. 9/12:05 Rm 111 3.0 credits 1/22 -5/25 ENG-212 Section 9040 Intermed. Creative Writing - N.Watkins Tue. 9/1:05 Rm 111 0.0 credits 2/13 -5/8 ENG-503 Section 0025 Cr. Writing For Older Adults - Instr. Staff Sat. 9/12:05 Rm 111 3.0 credits 1/22 -5/25 ENG-503 Section 0053 Cr. Writing For Older Adults - N.Watkins Tue. 9/1:05 Rm 111 0.0 credits 2/13 -5/8 See Spring Class Schedule for more info Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
Scholarship Submissions for MCWC 2018 Open until February 15th Based on genre and merit, scholarships that encourage diversity will be available. Visit mcwc.org for full details on their jaw-dropping 2018 faculty, the full conference schedule, all the scholarships offered, and how to apply. DON'T MISS OUT MEMBER NEWS
Writing newly published, receives a nomination or award, or other notable exposure? Please send a short announcement to writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com CWC member Maureen Eppstein has had four poems accepted for Scarlet Tanager Books' (http://www.scarlettanager.com/)
forthcoming anthology Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. October 1, 2018 is the scheduled publication date. The anthology editors note: "The collective contributions to this anthology come together to weave a braid of voices examining and celebrating the dazzling variety of California’s unique biological zones. This anthology will provide an arguably much-needed platform for the ecologies of California—from Sierra to Mojave Desert; valleys and streams; coast and forest—and will hopefully take its place in the canon of the finest writing and writers of our state."
FORT BRAGG LIBRARY
POETRY WRITING WORKSHOPS The workshops include samples of the various styles and techniques of poetry writing, displays of published works, in-session writing exercises along with readings and discussions of individual works produced during the workshops. Every third Wednesday of the month, 2-3:30 pm, find your hidden poet within! Workshops are free. All ages are welcome. Visit the library site for more.
MEMOIR: Tail of a Hollow Leg - Susan Lundgren
POETRY: A Woman Goes Through Airport - Nancy McLelland Gray Fox - Donald Shephard ESSAY: Pigments of Our Imagination - Susanna Janssen Abuse and Family Secrets - Susan Lundgren CONGRATULATIONS WRITERS ROLLING RECAP OF MONTHLY MEETINGS
See Archives tab above for details
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WELCOME TO THE
MENDOCINO COAST BRANCH of THE CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB - FOUNDED in 1909 - We are proud to share in this legacy. Our intention is to expand the network and opportunities for writers.
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. MEMBERSHIP
NEW MEMBERS $65 includes $20 initiation fee. More information on the website's Membership page. YEARLY RENEWAL is $45. 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 2018 Anthology Hooked -The Literary Review is published by our parent, California Writers Club. More info at www.calwriters.org -The yearly collaboration, Ekphrasis, with the Artists Coop of Mendocino SPONSORED MEMBERSHIPS
Financial aid is available for membership WritersMendocinoCoast@GMail.com 
COVER FOR THE 2018 ANTHOLOGY - Many thanks to BOB RHOADES for allowing us to use images of his paper mache creations
CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB
MENDOCINO BRANCH 
Drop in to the library site for the list of recently added books and reviews by CWC member Priscilla Comen.
Click on image to go to flip-page view of all pages Winter '17 v3#3
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Welcome to opportunities to publish your writing, whether or not you live on the Mendocino Coast.
