The twenty slots to be either an art responder or art generator have been filled.
See guidelines for art initiators and responders.
2017 EKPHRASIS COLLABORATION w/ THE ARTISTS CO-OP OF MENDOCINO
See guidelines for art initiators and responders.
2017 EKPHRASIS COLLABORATION w/ THE ARTISTS CO-OP OF MENDOCINO
2018 ANTHOLOGY, HOOKED, SUBMISSION DATES
Prose/Poetry: June 1 through August 31 (midnight)
Interior photos and cover photo/art deadline is September 1 (midnight)
See submission guidelines
THEME "HOOKED" CAN BE INTERPRETED LOOSELY
Prose/Poetry: June 1 through August 31 (midnight)
Interior photos and cover photo/art deadline is September 1 (midnight)
See submission guidelines
THEME "HOOKED" CAN BE INTERPRETED LOOSELY
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READ SMATCHUP 2017 PIECES FROM 5/18
Readings by writers blindly matched for a collaborative writing project of one page each, where the first starts the piece, and the second writer finishes and titles it.
MENDOCINO HOTEL
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Thursday, June 15th, 6:00 p.m.
Kat Meads is the author of 17 books and chapbooks of prose and poetry, including: 2:12 a.m. - Essays; For You, Madam Lenin; The Invented Life of Kitty Duncan; Sleep; and a mystery novel written under the pseudonym Z.K. Burrus. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a California Artist Fellowship, and artist residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, Millay Colony, Blue Mountain Center and Montalvo Center for the Arts. Other honors include the Chelsea award for fiction, the New Letters award for essay, the Editors’ Choice award from Drunken Boat and two Independent Publisher (IPPY) medals. Her short plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and elsewhere. A native of North Carolina, she teaches in Oklahoma City University’s low-residency MFA program.
MENDOCINO COLLEGE - $25 MEMBERS, $35 PUBLIC Friday, June 16th, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. KAT MEADS
WORKSHOP STRATEGIES FOR REVISITING, REIMAGINING and IMPROVING YOUR PROSE Few get it right—much less perfect—the first time around. Revision is not only an integral part of the writing process, it can also be the most rewarding. Bring a minimum of 5 pages of your current prose project (novel, novella, short story, memoir or essay) to work on in class. This is a prose revision workshop. Poets are welcome to attend, but the exercises are prose exercises. Send an email to Katherine Brown W8forwords@att.net to reserve your seat. Payment can be mailed to Writers of the Mendocino Coast, PO Box 762, Fort Bragg 95437 or paid at the door prior to the workshop. INDIGO MOOR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THE WMC WORKSHOPS: Must be a California Writers Club member (any branch). Applicants must send a letter sharing about their active writing, why they hope to attend this particular workshop, and need for a scholarship. Send via e-mail no later than fifteen days prior to event to writersmendocinocoast.org Applicants who received a scholarship in the last calendar year are not eligible. A committee will be appointed to read and decide award(s). Board members are eligible, but only one board member per year. Only one scholarship per workshop. 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. REGISTRATION IS OPEN : MENDOCINO COAST WRITERS CONFERENCE
If you’ve been thinking about which workshop you’d like to enroll in, all workshops are filled on a first-come, first-served, basis. With participation capped at fourteen, the workshops are expected to be fully subscribed. The only exception to the limit of fourteen is the Master Class, which is juried in and capped at twelve participants. Full details about registration procedures and fees are available by clicking on the REGISTER button displayed prominently on every page at mcwc.org. The Mendocino Coast Writers Conference is not part of the California Writers Club, Mendocino Coast branch 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 Motherbear Scott is the guest editor for the Spring 2017 Vol. 6 Number 1 issue, "A Faun Dancing" of Coreopsis: Journal of Myth & Theater published semi-annually by the Society for Ritual Arts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the ritual arts community through the advancement of arts and scholarly research in the fields of spirituality, consciousness, healing, performance, and visual media.
Motherbear's editorial is titled "The New Life of Fairy-Tales: Hearing Silence, Resistance, and Ecstatic Culture."
2017 INDIE BOOK AWARDS
Winner HUMOR/COMEDY Category and Finalist in EDUCATION/ACADEMIC CWC Member Susanna Janssen For Wordstruck! The Fun and Fascination of Language CONGRATULATIONS SUSANNA ! RESULTS OF SUBMISSIONS TO THE CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB LITERARY REVIEW HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED
Member's copies of the Literary Review are now arriving
ROLLING RECAP OF MONTHLY MEETINGS
See Archives tab above for details
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CWC member Denise Stenberg passed away May 20th. Her book was called End of the Line, about the town in Mendocino County that once was Glen Blair. Her memorial service was June 10th. She will be missed.
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 MEMBER WRITING PROJECTS:
Our fifth anthology is available at Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino.
To purchase by mail, send a message to WritersMendocinoCoast@Gmail.com. 
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.
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Welcome to opportunities to publish your writing, whether or not you live on the Mendocino Coast.
