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

Submissions for the 2017 issue of the California Writers Club Literary Review open on September 1st, and close on November 30th, 2016. Guidelines are on our parent organization's website, www.calwriters.org.  Members may submit one or two items for $10. 


September 15th Mendocino Hotel  6:00 p.m.
 OUR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 
Believe it! It's been five years since the Mendocino Coast branch
received its charter from the California Writers Club,
which currently has 21 branches and 2,174 members.

THERE WILL BE CAKE! Chet Body will play and probably sing, then our founder, Molly Dwyer, will talk for a few minutes on club history,
followed with five minute readings by:

CHARLIE FURY, BARBARA MACKAY, DON KIRKPATRICK, 
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LEA CALLAN, FRIEDA FEEN, 2015 recipient of our scholarship to the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, and BRYANT BURKHARDT, another 2015 recipient of a scholarship to the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, will attend if the timing of the birth of his first child doesn't interfere. LES CIZEK will do a recitation, a reading, and/or singing!

ANNOUNCING THE 2016 CWC LITERARY REVIEW ​
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CWC members should have received the 2016 edition of the CWC Literary Review, an anthology published yearly containing stories, essays, and poetry written by club members. The fifth Review, produced by CWC volunteers, is published by the Central Board, providing an opportunity for member-authors this year to be read by well over two-thousand pairs of eyes. 
The submission window for the 2017 issue will open on September 1 this year, 2016 and submission will be accepted through November 30. Guidelines are on the club's website, www.calwriters.org.  Members may submit one or two items for $10. Submission details will be on the website soon. 


CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB Statewide newsletter, The Bulletin, as a flip-page edition. To place an ad in an upcoming edition, details are at CalWriters.org.

MEMBER NEWS
Writing newly published, receives a nomination or award, or other notable exposure? Please send a short announcement to writersmendocinocoast@gmail.com
Member Notty Bumbo is pleased to announce he will be reading some of his work September 9th on the air at KNYO radio—on the Marco McClean show sometime after 9 p.m. PDT. But don't despair! You can hear the recorded version whenever you like after Friday, just go to https://memooftheair.wordpress.com/ and select either recorded or live—it does stream, also—and have a listen!

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SMATCHUP 2015 Results of eighteen writers blindly matched for a collaborative writing project with another writer.   READ 2014 STORIES

MENDOCINO COAST WRITERS CONFERENCE  2015 PICTURES !
MENDOCINO COAST
WRITERS CONFERENCE

Get the latest at www.mcwc.org

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

Member Jay Frankston / Whole Loaf Publications has a writers' workshop meeting 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

SEND YOUR WRITING TO SENIOR CENTER GAZETTE 
Hi Everyone, I'm putting together future issues of the Senior Center Gazette,
and would love to get new material. Thanks in advance, Rick.
Rick Banker, Editor, Redwood Coast Senior Center Gazette
rick@wrecklessmedia.com
Deadline is the 5th
​every other month.
CWC LITERARY REVIEW
2015 Issue 
Includes member Holly Tannen's piece "Daisy Chain."
Deadline for the edition after the upcoming 2016 Spring/Summer edition will be announced later this year. Ad space is available in the 2016 Spring/Summer edition has a deadline of May 1st, 2016. See the CWC site for more information.
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ROLLING RECAP OF MONTHLY MEETINGS
​See Archives tab above for details

JANUARY 2016
READINGS FROM 2016 ANTHOLOGY, LUMINESCENCE
Preview readings by members accepted for the 2016 Anthology Writers of the Mendocino Coast Luminescence:
Maureen Eppstein, Catherine Marshall, Patty Joslyn, Nancy Nelson-Wallace, Jay Frankston, Nona Smith, Alena Deerwater, Robyn Koski, Tansy Chapman, Molly Dwyer, Leslie Wahlquist, Cristie Holliday, and Zelda Zuniga
FEBRUARY 2016
PUBLISHING STRATEGIES PANEL - The Many Paths to Publishing, with Ginny Rorby, Sharon Bowers, Katy Pye, Amie McGee, Susan Bono, and Henri Bensussen
MARCH 2016
LUMINESCENCE

Anthology Release Party!
Preview readings by:
Fran Schwartz, Jan Edwards, Henri Bensussen, Marylyn Motherbear Scott, Norma Watkins, Nancy McLelland, Blair B. Burke, Harriet Gleeson, Janet Isaacs Ashford, Donald Shephard, Ginny Rorby, Amie McGee, Jewels Marcus, and Katherine Heimann Brown
All attending members received a copy of the anthology.
​APRIL 2016
Anatomy of a Query Letter
Emily Lloyd-Jones explained what goes into hooking an agent.
MAY 2016
Smatch-Up, one writer starts a story with one page and another ends it with one page. Readings by twenty authors.
JUNE 2016
WORKSHOP TO DUST OUT
THE CORNERS

with Karen Green
Writing original exercises, triggering creativity and coming at writing from unusual and obtuse angles.
JULY 2016
The participants of Ekphrasis V met and exchanged writing and art with members of the Artists Co-op of Mendocino. 

AUGUST 2016
Poet, novelist, and essayist Elizabeth Rosner discussed "Writing Your Way Home"
SEPTEMBER 2015
Molly Dwyer, founding President, talk on "The Plot Thickens"

OCTOBER 2015
EKPHRASIS IV READINGS & SLIDESHOW
Writers read their works while a slide of the artwork was shown. A collaboration with the Artists Co-Op of Mendocino

NOVEMBER 2015
"No Life But In Things" Author Joan Frank lectured on ​the use of detail in prose and poetry

DECEMBER 2015
"Building Character and Setting From Research" with Shirin Yim Bridges

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September 15th the branch celebrated its fifth year with member readings, music, and cake!
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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 here on the Mendocino Coast.
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MENDOCINO WRITERS MEET ON THE 3RD THURSDAY  6:00
Garden Room - Mendocino Hotel

Write to Us
MEMBER COUNT 76
Welcome
Molly
​Boynoff-Klein

CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB COUNT:  2,174
(Sept. 8th, 2016)
See MAP of  21 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.
Writers of the Mendocino Coast
PO Box 762 Fort Bragg, CA 95437
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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.
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MEMBERSHIP 
NEW MEMBERS  $65 includes $20 initiation fee. More information on the website's Membership page.
YEARLY RENEWALl 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 2017 Anthology Writers of the Mendocino Coast MENDOCINO,
submissions to open April 1, 2016 and close August 31, 2016
-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 fourth anthology is available at Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino.
To purchase by mail, send a message to WritersMendocinoCoast@Gmail.com.
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