May '15

Hello, and welcome to opportunities to publish your writing, whether or not you live on the Mendocino Coast.

MENDOCINO WRITERS MEET ON THE 3RD THURSDAY
Garden Room - Mendocino Hotel
Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays the Garden Room serves Italian cuisine - Stop in !

ANTHOLOGY Submissions: 4/1 - 9/1 Theme: LUMINESCENCE Link to guidelines
EKPHRASIS IV Submissions open to May 21st Link to guidelines and past results

May 21st
-THURSDAY NIGHT-

Mendocino Hotel 6:00 p.m.
Second Annual Writers "SmatchUp"

Eighteen writers will bring together nine two-page stories. Writers are blindly matched for a collaborative writing project with another writer.

READ 2014 STORIES

ALSO - Drawing for Ekphrasis IV participants - See guidelines

MEMBERS OPEN MIC
Each month, when time permits, we'll have two members read their work for 3 minutes each. Put your name in the basket for a drawing at the start of the evening, and another at the end. Please time the reading to stay within the limit.

RIDE SHARING
Members seeking to attend upcoming meetings are asked to forward contact information, with cross streets for listing here and in future newsletters. Members living near ride-seekers may then offer to drive by contacting WritersMendocinoCoast@GMail.com

Jan Edwards - From downtown
Point Arena
Offer to drive from Rancho Navarro - Ron Morita

MENDOCINO POETRY
40th Anniversary of the
Mendocino Spring Poetry Celebration in the tenth year of its revival, on Sunday June 14, 2015.
At the Hill House at Noon and again at 5:00.

FIRST FRIDAY POETRY READINGS IN FORT BRAGG
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Upstairs, 353 N. Franklin Street
Bookstore and Vinyl Cafe
More info: Oasis 707 964-5378

REDWOOD COAST SENIOR CENTER Gazette accepts submissions: personal recipes, poems, stories, histories, anecdotes, photos, and articles of general interest. Read the Premier Issue, and see page six for more details about writing for the Gazette. With your submission, include a brief description of what you do at the Center. The deadline is the 5th of each month. The March issue is available online, as is the latest, July/Sept 2014 issue.

RECOMMENDED
"4 Pathways to Publishing: DIY, Assisted, Pro-Team, and Subsidy Options" a blog post by Joel Friedlander on March 9, 2015

CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB
MENDOCINO BRANCH

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MEMBER NEWS
Writing newly published, receives a nomination or award, or other notable exposure? Please send a short announcement to writersmendocinocoast @gmail.com

SUNDAY, MAY 17
Our founding president, Molly Dwyer, is speaking at the Kelley House Museum about their current exhibit: Mendo Mavens, featuring exceptional women who have made Mendocino their home from the 1850s to the 1970s.
Escola Room of the Museum
4:00-5:00PM
Cost: $7 non-members; $5 members

Molly also had a short story, "WaterMark," published in The Pitkin Review out of Goddard College in Vermont.

Member Ginny Rorby will be doing a power point and reading from her new novel, How to Speak Dolphin.
Sunday, June 7th 4 pm
Little River Inn's Abalone Room
[ Print order, so far, 225,000 copies ! ]
No snakes this time. Sorry.
Cake and refreshments only!

Member Maureen Eppstein and member Henri Bensussen and will be reading in Palo Alto on June 5 at the Waverley Writers poetry program. If you have Bay Area friends who might be interested in attending, please let Maureen know (send writers club a message) and she’ll forward more information.

Member Jay Frankston / Whole Loaf Publications is putting together another writers' workshop to meet twice a month for 2 hours in Little River. He welcomes anyone who may want to join. Contact him at 937-0208 or wlp@mcn.org

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MENDOCINO
HAS FIVE WRITERS IN THE LATEST LITERARY REVIEW
Ann Thomas would make it six,
but this appears to be a typo.
From 1,800+ members eligible, of 33 accepted, our branch had five:
Charlie Furey x 2
for a Fiction & a Memoir piece,
Steve Sapontzis, Jan Edwards,
Holly Tannen, T. James Moore
LITERARY REVIEW
NEXT EDITION
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED OCT 31ST

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Our second anthology is available at Gallery Bookshop, in Mendocino, The Bookstore and Vinyl Cafe, and Visit Mendocino, both in Fort Bragg.
Gualala area is Four-Eyed Frog country!
GO INDIE !
To purchase by mail, send a message to WritersMendocinoCoast@Gmail.com.

RECAP OF 2014
MONTHLY MEETINGS

JANUARY
Preview readings by
anthology participants
FEBRUARY
Michelle Richmond, NY Times bestselling author, talk on
the craft of writing
MARCH
Anthology release party with readings.
APRIL
Smatch-Up, one writer starts a story with one page and another ends it with one page.
MAY
Shirin Yim Bridges talk
on "Digital First"
JUNE
Panel discussion by writing group, Write Women, on "Effective Critiques and Editing"
JULY
Ekphrasis III exchange of writing and art with artists from the Artists Co-op of Mendocino
AUGUST
Cynthia Frank, publisher, Cypress House, talk on "Preparing Your Manuscript for Publication"
SEPTEMBER
"Honor Among Writers" readings by members nominated by peers
OCTOBER
Ekphrasis III readings by twenty authors while images of artwork were displayed behind them
NOVEMBER
"Poetry For Non-Poets" a workshop with Maureen Eppstein
DECEMBER
Wrapped book exchange and readings of members' writing of their best, worst, or strangest holiday.

POETRY BOXES IN
THE WOODS

In the summer of 2014, eight ‘poetry boxes’ were erected along the internal roads of The Woods in Little River. Residents were encouraged to write pieces – poetry, prose, etc or make small visual art works to be placed in the boxes for two weeks. All were also encouraged to take a poetry walk and enjoy the works.
The response ensures that the project will return this summer, when the boxes will come out of storage to be mounted again.
Pictures Windflower Townley,
text: Harriet Gleeson

Author and wildlife activist Ginny Rorby accepted her Circle of Distinction award at a Jan. 26 ceremony at Winter Park High School, her alma mater. Winter Park / Maitland Observer

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EKPHRASIS
"Art describing art" in Greek.
Twenty pairs of writers and artists of the Artists Co-op of Mendocino presented a gallery exhibit and readings during October, 2015.
Guidelines

ANTHOLOGY (pub 2016)
Writers of the Mendocino Coast
LUMINESCENCE
Submissions open April 1st,
and close September 1
more ...

SMATCHUP 2015
Submissions close March 21.
2014 Results of fourteen writers blindly matched for a collaborative writing project with another writer.

LITERARY REVIEW
published by the state California Writers Club. More info at
Literary Review 2014
www.calwriters.org

Latest Issue Arrived Dec 12 Via USPS

Vol. 2014 No. 2 FALL/WINTER Published by the California Writers Club

Welcome to the Mendocino Coast branch of the California Writers Club founded in 1909. We are proud to share in this legacy.
The Writers of the Mendocino Coast meet in the Mendocino Hotel at 6:00 pm on the third Thursday of every month. We host speakers, workshops, open mics and other yet to be discovered events and activities (link to archive.)
Our intention is to expand the network and opportunities for writers here on the Mendocino Coast. We hope you'll join us.

Writers of the Mendocino Coast
PO Box 762 Fort Bragg, CA 95437

MEMBER COUNT 69
WELCOME
Laurel Moss
CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB COUNT: 1,744
(May 1 '15)

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Founding President, Molly Dwyer, invited local writers to her kitchen table in 2009 to form the Mendocino Coast branch of the California Writers Club chartered in 2010.

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 each of the club's recent anthologies, copies of our state organization's Literary Review magazine, space for member biographies, and opportunities to see your writing in:
-The 2016 Anthology Writers of the Mendocino Coast LUMINESCENCE,
submissions opened April 1, 2015
-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