Hello, and welcome to opportunities to publish your writing whether or not
you live on the Mendocino Coast. Please join us!
MENDOCINO
HAS FIVE WRITERS IN THIS MAIL ISSUE
even though Ann Thomas would make it 6, 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


THE NEXT EDITION
SUBMISSION DATES
SEPTEMBER 1ST TO OCTOBER 31ST
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SEE INFO ON THIS PAGE FOR SUBMISSIONS >>
WRITE TO US: 
WritersMendocinoCoast@Gmail.com
LITERARY REVIEW
-published by California Writers Club-
Submission go from 
September 1st to October 31st, 2014:
( A change from previous announcements )
CWC MEMBERS INVITED
to submit their published or unpublished work following the guidelines. Submissions are blind-read and work meeting a threshold of quality and interest will be published. 
read more ...
ANTHOLOGY 2015
Writers of the Mendocino Coast THERMALS
Submissions closed September 1 
read more...
SEPTEMBER 17TH

6:00 p.m.

Mendocino Hotel

HONOR AMONG WRITERS
We will honor ten Mendocino Branch writers on September 17, first introduced by the member who nominated them, the honorees will then read for five minutes.
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AUGUST 20TH
Mendocino Hotel

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Cynthia Frank, president of Cypress House gave valuable details about "Preparing Your Manuscript for Publication."
THANKS 
CYNTHIA !

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. 
Redwood Coast Sr. Center's Gazette is accepting 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.
CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB - MENDOCINO BRANCH
MENDOCINO COAST
  WRITERS CONFERENCE
Letter from Josh Weil of July 19th, 2014 with further news of The Great Glass Sea. Josh spoke to our group in September, 2012
Member Maureen Eppstein, announces her New Poetry Collection Earthward.
Good Words is a collection of the best poems, fiction, and nonfiction, written and performed by students attending Creative Writing classes on the coast. 
The Spring '14 Good Words is now online.
Results of 2014 SMATCHUP: Writers were blindly matched for a collaborative writing project with another writer.

Winter 2012-2013

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From 1,700+ members eligible, and of 28 accepted, our branch had 4:
Steve Sapontzis, Jan Edwards, Katherine Heimann Brown, and Jay Frankston.
CONGRATULATIONS, ALL! 
Archive: Spring 2012 Inaugural Issue
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Vol. 2014 No. 1 HAS ARRIVED VIA MAIL - Don't have it? email WritersMendocinoCoast@Gmail.com
Member Nona Smith has a new book, Stuffed, Emptying the Hoarder's Nest. 
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL TIME !
$45 (or $25 for dual members)
SEE THE MEMBERSHIP PAGE
Please renew before 9/24. After 9/31 membership will be $65.
Get updates via e-mail:
  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 Wednesday 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 76
WELCOME 
Leslie Wahlquist 
and
Willow Arthur
CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB COUNT:  1,869
(September 16 - '14)

See MAP of  CWC BRANCHES
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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.
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 2015 Anthology Writers of the Mendocino Coast  THERMALS,
submissions closed September 1, 2014 
-The Literary Review is published by the state California Writers Club. More info at  www.calwriters.org
-The yearly collaboration, Ekphrasis, with the Artists Coop of Mendocino
The 2014 anthology, 
Writers of 
the Mendocino Coast Upwelling,
is here!
Our second anthology is now 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 !
Members can pick up their copy of the 2014 anthology on the third Wednesday meeting at the Mendocino Hotel. 
To purchase by mail, send a message to WritersMendocinoCoast@Gmail.com.
California Writers Club
SF/Peninsula Branch
FAULT ZONE / DIVERGE
Call For Submissions
Deadline August 1st

Member News

When your writing is published, receives a nomination or award, or other notable exposure, please send a short announcement to
writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com 
Member Donald Shephard, has a story, Never Surrender, published in the anthology Let The Clock Run Wild, Wit and Wisdom from Boomers and Bobbysoxers. His story, juxtaposes historical actions in 1940 with a young mother's struggles to deliver a healthy son.   
zine |zēn|(also ’zine ) is 1) a magazine, esp. a fanzine. 2) a webzine. Another issue of Is That Baby Vicious is seeking contributors. Talk to Holly Harbinger, denizen of the Mendocino coast.
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