Dear Literary Folk,
Michaelmas, Halloween, Samhain, Day of the Dead, Feast of All Souls—celebrations to mark our entry into the dark half of the year. Now we begin that graceful descent down the spiral stairs into the halls of Dis. So Lawrence wrote in “Bavarian Gentians.”
Happy Wayzgoose!
In centuries past, the beginning of autumn marked when the shortening day required writers and printers to do their work by candlelight. The master printer would provide a feast to mark the season, featuring a roasted goose (or wayzgoose), for journeymen and apprentices. It’s lovely to think such changes were noticed and honored. Nowadays, we mark the shift by setting our clocks back and enjoying an extra hour of sleep.
After a brief poetic interlude, you’ll find in this issue the November calendar of events, news from across the county, calls for submission, new Sonoma County publications, current and upcoming workshops, and ongoing reading series and writers’ groups. You can also find a reader-friendly version of all this on the Update’s website: www.literaryfolk.wordpress.com.
Bavarian Gentians
D.H. Lawrence
Not every man has gentians in his house
in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas.
Bavarian gentians, big and dark, only dark
darkening the daytime torchlike with the smoking blueness of Pluto’s
gloom,
ribbed and torchlike, with their blaze of darkness spread blue
down flattening into points, flattened under the sweep of white day
torch-flower of the blue-smoking darkness, Pluto’s dark-blue daze,
black lamps from the halls of Dis, burning dark blue,
giving off darkness, blue darkness, as Demeter’s pale lamps give off
light,
lead me then, lead me the way.
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch
let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower
down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness.
even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September
to the sightless realm where darkness was awake upon the dark
and Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the
lost bride and groom.
As part of Petaluma’s El Dia de los Muertos celebration, many gathered at the Art Center on October 23 to honor those we have lost with our poems. Among those remembered were David Bromige and Don Emblen. Art Hoffman, Don’s good friend, wrote a poem for the occasion, but wasn’t able to read it. With his permission, I present it for you here.
Questions for DLE
by Art Hoffman
I make it a point to ask you questions
because I am at a loss,
despite your irritation with such things,
questions that I pose again and again;
about my weary laughter when I dreamed
that houses grew round as they aged,
lost shape, and began to fall,
and mostly about the old world messenger boy
on his bicycle with his blonde hair combed back.
I think it something he does for money
to amuse tourists – that uniform and all.
Why isn’t he excited by his life? the way I was yesterday,
seated in the garden, as the leaves dropped quickly
from the silver maple, puff clouds above,
the sun peeking through, while the woodpecker
gleaned insects from the bark,
working her way up the stout branch,
inch by inch, chased by a titmouse,
who took over the task,
one moist bug after another,
hummingbirds chased one another
in tight formation, and last of the season
butterflies roamed the air.
Right now, I want to ask you this:
What is it that we have on our hands here?
Why are we not excited by our lives?
I will hang on every word of your answer.
If anyone has remembrances of Don Art reminds us that his website is still running at http://sonic.net/~art/DLE%20memoriam/DLE%20project/Memorial%20Sheaf.html
♦♦♦
November Calendar of Literary Events
The monthly calendar reflects announcements that literary folk from the area have sent to me. To get a more complete list of author-events and workshop schedules, addresses and directions to the event locations, as well as bios of the presenters, you can use these links.
Book Passage www.bookpassage.com
Center Literary Café centerliterarycafe@gmail.com
Copperfield’s Books http://www.copperfields.net/
Petaluma Writers’ Forum and Jumpstart Writing Workshops: www.thewritespot.us
Poetry Azul Reading Series edcoletti@sbcglobal.net.
Readers’ Books www.readersbooks.com
Sebastopol Center for the Arts http://www.sebarts.org/index.htm
Sitting Room www.sittingroom.org.
Sonoma Arts Literary Calendar www.sonomaarts.com
WordTemple Poetry Series http://www.wordtemple.com
Sunday, November 1, 1-3 PM: Redwood Writers general meeting at Copperfield’s Books, 2316 Montgomery Dr., Santa Rosa. $5 for nonmembers. Details in the Ungoing Writers Groups section of the Update.
Sunday, November 1, 7:00 PM: Parthenon West Review Reading featuring Camille Dungy,Chad Sweeney, Russell Dillon. Location: Pegasus Books Downtown Berkeley, 2349 Shattuck Ave. (510) 649-1320.
Monday, November 2, 12:00-1:00 PM: Donna Emerson reads from her new book of poems, Body Rhymes, at Newman Auditorium, Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Avenue in Santa Rosa. Jared Emerson-Johnson will play introductory and closing music on violin and mandolin.
Monday, November 2, 4 – 6 pm: The next UUCSR Writers meeting date is at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 547 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa.
Thursday, November 5 at 7:30 PM: Reynolds Series Presents, Blackfeet Novelist, Stephen Graham Jones & Creek/Cherokee O’Henry Award Short Story Writer, Eddie Chuculate–Fine Arts Building, Studio Theatre. Book Sales & Signing follow reading performances. Free admission. Details about location were not provided with this announcement. For more information, contact allison a. hedge coke: emailahc@yahoo.com.
Thursday, November 5 at 7:30 PM: Sonoma State University’s Associated Students Productions is proud to bring Ariel Luckey’s inspiring theatrical production of his one-man play “Project Freeland.” Luckey’s hip-hop theatre experience will be performed in Warren Auditorium. This event is free to all.
Friday, November 6 at 7:00 PM: Sonoma State University’s Associated Students Productions is proud to bring a special poetry event to campus. ASP Poetry Nite featuring internationally renowned slam poet Carlos Andrés Goméz in the Student Union MPR. This event is free to all and refreshments will be provided.
Friday, November 6 at 7 PM: WordTemple presents Sixteen Rivers poets Lynne Knight and Carolyn Miller, both reading from their books released earlier this year: Again and Light, Moving. WordTemple is now located in the Sonoma County Museum, 425-7th Street, in Santa Rosa.
Saturday, November 7, 1:00 to 3:00 P.M. Meet & greet Sher Lianne Christian with her book Star Kissed Shadows, Divining Poetry and CD Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poetry & Music. Copperfield’s, 138 N. Main, Sebastopol, 707 823-8991.
Saturday, November 7, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM: C.B. Follett, Susan Terris, and Rebecca Foust lead a workshop on poetry publication. Fee: $50. Location: Book Passage,51 Tamal Vista Blvd. Corte Madera, CA 94925. Phone: (415) 927-0960(800) 999-7909. Sign up at http://www.bookpassage.com
Saturday, November 7, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Sebastopol Center for the Arts hosts “Get Published: Independent Publishing and Self-Publishing Today” with author and publisher Lindsay Whiting of Paper Lantern Publishing. Fee $50.00, Non-member: $55.00. Half-Day Seminar (3 hours). Limit 18 attendees. Details in “Current and Upcoming Workshops” section of the Update below.
Sunday, November 8 at 2:00 PM: Poetry Azul Reading Series – Ed Coletti’s popular reading series at Cafe Azul located at 521 4th St. in Downtown Santa Rosa. Featured readers will include Larry Robinson, Penelope La Montagne, Alexandra Appel, Todd Melicker, Diana Gordon, and Peter Bullen. Admission is free. 573-5935.
Tuesday, November 10, 7-9 PM: The Center Literary Café presents Novelist Lian Gouw and Poet Sher Lianne Christian. Doors open at 6:30. Open mic. Bring prose or poetry to share. Light refreshments. Donations appreciated. Parking available right behind the Senior Center. 133 Matheson St. (One block east of plaza), Healdsburg, CA 95448.
Call Cynthia Helen for info 707 696-1111 or centerliterarycafe@gmail.com
Saturday, November 14 at 7:00 PM: Women’s Day of Poetry: Come to hear four Bay Area Poets whose poems appeared in the Summer 2009 Issue of Calyx. Featured poets include Dian Duchin Reed, Connie Post, Nancy Cherry, Theresa Whitehall. Location: Rebound Bookstore, 1611 4th Street, San Rafael, CA. Phone: (415) 482-0550
Sunday, November 15, 12:30 to 1:30 P.M. Third Sunday Poetry Reading & Poetry Open Mic: Featured reader, Stefanie Freele, Healdsburg Literary Laureate. Coffee Catz, 6761 Sebastopol Ave., Sebastopol. Donation appreciated, $1 to $10. 707 829-6600.
Sunday, November 15 at 5 PM: Sixteen Rivers hosts a champagne reception and benefit reading in Sausalito, featuring David St. John and Sandra Gilbert. The cost is $100 for one ticket, $150 for two. For more information, contact Terry Ehret at tehret99@comcast.net or Email the press directly at info@sixteenrivers.org.
Wednesday, November 18 at 7 PM: Sunset Poetry Poetry by the Bay at Studio 333
Diane di Prima, Gary Gach and Geri Digirono
Thursday, November 19 at 7-9 PM: Writers Forum of Petaluma presents a workshop by Gretchen Giles,“Tell Your Story.” Location: Petaluma Community Center, 320 No. McDowell Blvd. Petaluma. Admission: $15 at the door. For more information: www.thewritespot.us Marlene – mcullen@comcast.net
Sunday, December 6, 3:00 to 5:00 PM: At its monthly meeting, the Redwood Writers present Janis Bell at Copperfield’s Book Store in Santa Rosa’s Montgomery Village (2316 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa, 95404, 707-578-8938). The general public is welcome. A small fee of $3 for members, $5 for nonmembers, is asked to cover speaking fees and light refreshments.
Don’t see your event in the calendar? Check to make sure you sent your announcement by the deadline and in the abbreviated, plain-text format. I am happy to include all announcements, text only (no PDF please), sent to me no later than noon on the last day of each month. Calendar entries are easier to include if they follow the format you see above, and if you can keep the information brief.
County-Wide News
Congratulations to Stephanie Freele, Healdsburg’s New Literary Laureate
At a specially-staged and programmed Third Sunday Salon event last Sunday, October 18, Stefanie Freele of Healdsburg was selected to be Healdsburg’s next, and sixth, Literary Laureate. After a short traditional induction ceremony to be held at City Hall in December, her two-year term will begin on January 1st. It is expected that there will be a public reception to celebrate the honor with her; look for announcement of this special event to be held probably in January.
The laureatship has no official job description, but is an honor that has been bestowed upon an outstanding writer every two years by the Healdsburg Literary Guild. Honorees have always, however, been writers who have not only been well-thought of by their literary colleagues, but have been visible to the greater community in various ways that have encouraged participation in, and appreciation for, the literary arts.
Previous Healdsburg laureates were Doug Stout, co-founder of the Farmer’s Market and later the “Literary Produce table” there, that featured the works of .local authors, and mentor to many of them; Armando Garcia-Davila, known as the “blue-collar poet” or the “gourmet poet”, who writes bilingually, and brought the poetry slam movement to Sonoma County; Penelope LaMontagne, who for years began the KRCB public radio programming day with her Morning Haiku, was a poet-in-the-schools and popular writing workshop leader; Chip Wendt, who began the Third Sunday Salon in 2000 and, as Running Wolf publisher, published the first poetry collections of many area writers; and the current laureate, Vilma Ginzberg, who now hosts the Third Sunday Salon and has been an active board member of the Healdsburg Literary Guild.
Stefanie, who has recently published a collection of short stories, Feeding Strays, can be seen at “meet-and-greet” book signings around the area, has a degree in creative writing, and will soon lead a writing workshop at Healdsburg Plaza Arts. She can be reached at stefanie@stefaniefreele.com.
Call for Writing about the Petaluma River
The City of Petaluma’s Petaluma River Access Partners (PRAP), with help from the National Park Service, and the Petaluma Planning Department, is asking for ONE PAGE of your creative inspiration based on the Petaluma River. Landscape architects for the Petaluma River Access Blueprint for Action will use your ideas, input, reflections, and memories, as they design paths, signs, sculpture, and other elements of future Petaluma River access. THIS IS NOT A CONTEST: ALL submissions will be “published” in a big community book and shared with planners: with additional exhibits and readings planned for Spring 2010!!
Details in the “Calls for Submission” section of the Update below.
Prose Writer’s Group Forming
John Heide writes that his group is looking for two more experienced writers to join our new group. Our focus will be on fiction and non-fiction novel or short story writing for mutual support and honest critiquing of our work. We’ll meet once or twice a month in the Healdsburg, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol area. For more information call John at 707 326 5810 or email jhinkona@hotmail.com
Sixteen Rivers Press’s Benefit Reading with David St. John and Sandra Gilbert
On Sunday, November 15, Sixteen Rivers Press will host a champagne and hors d’oevres
reception and reading at a private home in Sausalito, featuring David St. John and Sandra Gilbert. The reception begins at 5:00 PM followed by the reading at 6:00 PM. The cost is $100 for one ticket, $150 for two. For more information, contact Terry Ehret at tehret99@comcast.net or Email the press directly at info@sixteenrivers.org.
Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for San Francisco Bay Area poets. Founded in 1999 by seven writers, the press is named for the sixteen rivers that flow into the San Francisco Bay. Since 2001, we have produced twenty outstanding books of poetry and a CD, sharing our commitment to excellence with the poetry world.
West Ireland Literary Tour and Writing Workshop, Summer 2010, deadline November 15.
I am offering a twelve-day literary tour and writing retreat in West Ireland in the summer of 2010. The deadline for signing up is November 15, 2009. The trip is limited to 5 travelers. Currently the dates I am looking at are the first two weeks in July.
Participants will stay at a private lodge or bed and breakfast in the County Clare village of Ballyvaughan. The itinerary includes day trips to various sites in Counties Galway and Clare, including Coole Park, the Burren, Cliffs of Moher, an excursion by boat to the Aran Islands, and W.B. Yeats’s homes at Thoor Ballylee and Sligo. Travel will be by private car/minivan. To cap the twelve-day literary adventure, participants will enjoy a Medieval banquet with Irish song and poetry at Dunguaire Castle in Kinvara.
Ballyvaughan and its neighboring villages of Kinvara (to the west) and Doolin (to the east) are among the most scenic places in Ireland, nestled between the hills of the Burren and the sea, on the southern shore of Galway Bay. We are a short drive from Poulnabrone Dolmen, a burial tomb more than 5,000 years old. The area surrounding Ballyvaughan is a limestone or karst region of haunting beauty.
Besides the tour described above, this is also planned as a writers’ workshop, including eight writing sessions with the chance to share your work in a supportive group.
The cost for the literary tour and workshop is $2,350 for twelve days. The price includes private room, breakfast, lunch, some dinners, transportation, writing sessions, and all the side trips listed above. Air fare is not included in the price, but currently the cost of a round-trip flight in July is around $1,000.
For more information, visit the website at http://www.westireland.wordpress.com or contact Terry Ehret at tehret99@comcast.net.
LIBRARY HOLDS WRITE-INS FOR NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH
Got the urge to write? The Sonoma County Library is holding write-ins for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) an annual event in which aspiring writers attempt to complete a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.
Several of the library branches will make space, time and coffee available to writers as they sprint through their literary efforts.
Writers are invited to attend a launch event at the Central Branch on Third and E Streets in Santa Rosa on Monday, Oct. 26th at 6:00 p.m. Veteran NaNoWriMo participant and municipal liaison Debbie Koehler will explain the program and talk about the origins of National Novel Writing Month.
Library write-ins will take place in November at the following branches: Central, Mondays 5:00 – 8:30 p.m.; Healdsburg, Mondays 5:00-8:30 p.m.; Rincon Valley, Mondays 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.; Petaluma, Tuesdays 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. except Nov. 17th; Sebastopol, schedule varies, please see the calendar at the web site www.sonomalibrary.org
For more information on the Library write-ins call Robin Watters at 545-0831 x539 or see the library web site, www.sonomalibrary.org. For more information on National Novel Writing Month see the web site, www.nanowrimo.org
Congratulations to Redwood Writers Prose Contest Winners:
Claudia Reed and Jeanne Miller
The Redwood branch of the California Writers Club announces the winners of its Prose Contest, held in conjunction with our 2009 Writers Conference.
The contest was, in part, a celebration of the California Writers Club centennial. It was open to all residents living in Sonoma, Marin, Napa, Solano, Lake, and Mendocino Counties. All winning submissions were previously unpublished works and they were judged on clarity, originality, and cohesion. Karen Batchelor, past President of the Redwood Writers and prose contest organizer, highlights that, “we’re delighted to encourage and reward good writing in our communities.”
Winners were announced at the Redwood Writer’s 2009 Conference held on Saturday, October 24th.
First and Second Place—Claudia Reed for “Make Believe” and “The Spider”
Third Place–Jeanne Miller for “The First Day of School”
The prose contest was organized by the Redwood Writers 2009 Conference Committee and judged by B. Lynn Goodwin, J.J. Wilson and Laura McHale Holland.
The Redwood branch of the California Writers Hosts Two Talks
The Redwood Writers invite members and nonmembers to attend their meetings. The November meeting features guest author Verna Dreisbach. The December meeting features Janis Bell. Meetings run from 3:00 to 5:00 pm at Copperfield’s Book Store in Santa Rosa’s Montgomery Village (2316 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa, 95404, 707-578-8938). The general public is welcome. A small fee of $3 for members, $5 for nonmembers, is asked to cover speaking fees and light refreshments.
November 1 Verna Dreisbach
Verna Dreisbach’s talk, “Perceptions of an Agent,” will discuss how to attract an agent’s attention, how to build an author platform, and identify common mistakes writers often make in trying to secure an agent. She will provide handouts as well as examples of query letters and book proposals, and talk about why most fiction writing doesn’t make it past an agent. Verna represents both fiction and nonfiction titles.
About Verna Dreisbach:
Verna Dreisbach is an award winning writer who has been featured in books, literary journals, magazines, and newspapers. Prior to founding Dreisbach Literary Management in 2008, she spent nearly two years working for a reputable literary agency and has established numerous contacts in the publishing industry. A frequent traveler to writing conferences, Verna also serves on the board of directors for the CSUS Writers Conference in Sacramento and is the president and founder of the Capitol City Young Writers, a non-profit writing organization for students in both junior high and high school. In addition, Verna serves as an editor to the Calaveras Station, Sacramento State University’s literary journal.
December 6 Janis Bell
Janis Bell’s talk is entitled, “Final Edit: A Discussion of the Grammar and Punctuation Questions That Even Good Writers Ask.”
About Janis Bell:
Janis Bell’s book, Clean, Well-lighted Sentences, was published in September 2008. It has enjoyed a warm reception (selling solidly, making the San Francisco Bay Area and Marin Best-Seller Lists for several weeks, gaining favorable reviews in print), and it has opened doors for her to speak (on television, on NPR, in bookstores). She’s had a delightful time talking about the trickier aspects of grammar, usage, and punctuation that even good writers question. Her presentations are lively because she adores her subject. www.janisbell.com
About Redwood Writers:
Redwood Writers is one of 18 branches of the California Writers Club, the nation’s oldest professional club for writers, founded in 1909. Its motto is “writers helping writers.” Early members included Jack London, George Sterling, John Muir, Joaquin Miller and the first California poet laureate, Ina Coolbrith. The Club has more than 1,200 members statewide.
Additional contact information:
http://www.redwoodwriters.org
Redwood Writers, P.O. Box 4687, Santa Rosa, CA 95402
Photos available upon request.
Dee Sunshine’s Book Art and Cover Art
I am an artist, illustrator and graphic designer. If you need an illustration for a book cover, or if you need a book jacket design I can offer up my services. I have an online gallery of over 1,000 images that are available for reproduction at http://www.rimbaud.org.uk/artmainpage.html.
I have provided artwork for books by Clarinda Harriss, Kay Green, Janet Buck, David Bircumshaw, Marcy Jarvis, Rupert Loydell and Norman Jope among others; and I’ve had my art published in numerous periodicals including The North American Review, International Poetry Review, Orbis, Ambit, Cimarron Review, Black Mountain Review, Rattapallax and Bayou Review. You can see sample book jackets at http://www.rimbaud.org.uk/jacketmain.html
I work in acrylic, pastel, charcoal, pen & ink, photomontage & collage: each medium having it’s own specific style; and am sure I would have something in stock that would suit most needs. As the works are already completed (rather than produced to commission) I can be flexible about reproduction fees, depending on the budget of your publisher, or indeed your own budget, if you are self-publishing. If you like my work and want to use it, write to me and I’m sure we can come to some arrangement.
Website - www.thunderburst.co.uk
Blogger - http://deerimbaud.blogspot.com
MySpace - www.myspace.com/captainmelted
Facebook - www.facebook.com/captainmelted
News from East County
UniverSoul Reading Series
The first Sat of each month, 5:30-7 pm (Note new time) is UniverSoul open mike poetry and music at Barking Dog Roasters, 18133 Hwy 12, Boyes Hot Springs, Ca. 95476(near Sonoma Mission Inn) This venue is hosted by Juanita J. Martin, Sonoma County Library Slam Champion and member of Redwood Writers. This venue welcomes poets and musicians to read and perform on open mike. This venue will host featured poets as well. For more info, call Juanita at (707) 435-1807 or email her at freelance@jmartinpoetwriter.com. You may also call the cafe at (707) 939-1905. Parking is limited.
News from West County
Thanks to Pat Nolan and Dixie Lewis for providing this month’s West County news.
Low Power Literary Radio in West Sonoma Co.
There are two monthly book shows on local low power FM radio stations. Nearing its second anniversary, Off The Shelf, airs at 8 PM on the first Sunday of the month on Guerneville’s KGGV 95.1FM. The program is hosted by Peter Andrews and Pat Nolan. KGGV offers streaming at www.kggvfm.org. Book Flaps, the nexus between Books and Life, hosted by Suzanne Lang and Pat Nolan is offered on Occidental’s brand new radio station, KOWS 107.3 FM, on the last Thursday of the month at 5 PM. Previous shows have featured discussions on consciousness and guest poets from the West County.
Brian Martens hosts” The Poetry Hour” on KOWS-FM radio 107.3 fm. Every Wednesday from 5:00-6:00 pm. Poetry is read mixed with eclectic music. The program is also streamed over the internet at: www.kows.fm When you arrive at the site click on the streaming link. Thanks for listening. Feedback appreciated at b-r-m@sbcglobal.net
News from North County
Thanks to Cynthia Beecher and Vilma Ginzberg for providing this month’s North County News.
Center Literary Café
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7-9 PM
Novelist Lian Gouw
Poet Sher Lianne Christian
Lian Gouw’s debut novel, Only A Girl, is a finely detailed portrait of three courageous Chinese women finding their way in a world of cultural melding and upheaval as Western progress clatters against customary Chinese mores.
Sher Lianne Christian is the author of Star Kissed Shadows and Divining Poetry. She is co-creator of Sweet Tongue, Assorted Poetry and Music with husband John Christian, who will provide musical accompaniment during her reading.
For all events: Doors open at 6:30
Open mic Bring prose or poetry to share
Light refreshments Donations appreciated
Parking is also available right behind the Senior Center.
Healdsburg Senior Center
133 Matheson St. (One block east of plaza) Healdsburg, CA 95448
Call Cynthia Helen for info 707 696-1111 centerliterarycafe@gmail.com
Healdsburg Literary Arts Guild
The Third Sunday Salon of the Healdsburg Literary Guild will be featuring Mike Tuggle, Sonoma County’s present Poet Laureate, reading from his poetry and prose on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at the Healdsburg City Hall, 401 Grove Street. This event runs from at 2 to 4 PM.
This is the program that was postponed from August 16th.
If you have not heard this wise, warm, and witty writer, do not miss this chance; if you have, come and enjoy him again. Bring friends of all ages.
As usual, there will be open mic the first hour for poetry and other short literary works; doors open at 1:30 for sign-up.
A book table will feature books for purchase, including Mike Tuggle’s works, publications of the Healdsburg Literary Guild, and works by Guild members.
For more info: healdsburgliteraryguild@gmail.com or 433-7119.
Sonoma County in Print
If you are a Sonoma County writer with a book or chapbook newly published, let’s help you celebrate! Just send your announcement to tehret99@comcast.net. Be sure to include information on how your readers can find out more about you and your work or order a copy. You’re announcement will run for three Updates.
Pat Nolan’s newest publication is Intellectual Pretensions, from editions de jabob, is a beautifully bound, hand-made collection of prose poems. You can see Pat Nolan at the Guerneville Poetry Walk on October 3.
PANGAIA CD RELEASE
Spanish visionary poet Joaquin Lopez de San Roman presents the release of their fist Pangaia CD “Earth veins”, an integration of Shamanic poetry & Indigenous instruments.
www.myspace.com/pangaiaartensemble
New from Iota Press
Iota printed a new chapbook by the elusive & allusive poet, Erst Weill.
It’s called ‘Could Be Verse” and… it could be…. ordered on line at: http://www.iotapress.com/books/index.html . Paypal or credit card….$10
Don’t wait to order…the three scandals swirling around this book will make it a collector’s item. First of all, rumors fly that Mr Weill did not actually LIVE the poems in the book. He did not, for example, “…crimp a jutty cornwolf in a swedenbitter cold.”
Secondly, one of his acolytes in the ancient Non-Sequiturian Order appeared on Oprah and accused him of NOT being truly off-the-wall – yelling at one point: “One thought has led to another! A disgrace!”
Lastly, Mr Weill has authorized us to say that there is no truth to the other rumor : that he is under investigation for using the outlawed versifying software: META4.0 … We quote: “Anyway, they’re all using it now; all the big names are juicing… quiet as it’s kept.” But it is just possible that there will always be an asterisk next to the name of Erst Weill.
Eugene Ruggles’s Collected Works, a posthumous collection of his poems, is in production and readying for publication. Go to www.eugeneruggles.com
to see cover mock–up.
Stefanie Freele’s Motel
The innovative new publisher “Bannock Street Books” presents the artbook/chapbook MOTEL: a short story by Sonoma County author Stefanie Freele paired with color photography contributed by Sarah Black.
MOTEL will soon be available on the Bannock Street Books Website. http://www.bannockstreetbooks.com/
In the meantime, signed copies of MOTEL are available from the author:
$7 and $2 ship.
Paypal: Babingas@aol.com
Check:
Stefanie Freele
1083 Vine St. #352
Healdsburg, Ca 95448
www.stefaniefreele.com
Redwood Writers Vintage Voices Anthology Released
Contact: Linda Loveland Reid
president@redwoodwriters.org
707-484-4153
Redwood Writers, the Sonoma County branch of the California Writers Club, has published its fourth anthology, Vintage Voices: Cent’Ani: May You Live 100 Years, (ISBN: 978-0-9816848-2-6). Pre-publication orders may be placed here:
http://www.redwoodwriters.org/vv4orders.pdf.
Release Celebration
Redwood Writers will celebrate the release of Vintage Voices with a reading and book signing on September 26th from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. at North Light Books and Café, 550 E. Cotati Ave., Cotati. Linda Reid, president of Redwood Writers will host this event. Food and wine will be available for purchase as well as copies of the anthology. Authors will be on hand to sign your copy. There is no charge to attend.
About Redwood Writers:
Redwood Writers is one of 17 branches of the California Writers Club, the nation’s oldest professional club for writers, founded in 1909. Redwood’s motto is “writers helping writers.” Early members included Jack London, George Sterling, John Muir, Joaquin Miller and the first California poet laureate, Ina Coolbrith. The Club has more than 1,200 members statewide.
Jeanne Miller’s On the Brink of Nora
On the Brink of Nora, was chosen by Redwood Writers for a joint publication project with Unlimited Publishing.
Set in the Northern California Wine Country, On the Brink is a true coming of age story. When Nora embarks on a radical journey of self-discovery, her family is called upon to evolve as individuals, and in concert with one another.
jcmillerwriter.com
http://www.unlimitedpublishing.com/miller/
Linda Loveland Reid’s novel, Touch of Magenta,
will be available on May 9 at local bookstores and on Amazon.com. For more information go to www.lindalovelandreid.com
Touch of Magenta explores, through the lives to two women, the right we all have to know our personal history; that all secrets be revealed, all lies untold.
The story is set in Sonora’s California gold country, Chinatown, Italy, Singapore, and England.
Donna Emerson’s Body Rhymes from Finishing Line Press
I am happy to announce to my friends and acquaintances that my poetry collection from Finishing Line Press, Body Rhymes, comes out this spring. Since this is a limited edition collection, you may order now to reserve a copy. The press run will be determined by the number of orders made before April 10.The book, with a color photograph of mine on the cover, will be mailed to you by the end of May.
“Donna Emerson’s poems—each a small, complete world—reveal their tenderness in detail. The poet William Carlos Williams once said ‘Perception is the first act of imagination,’ and with her photographer’s eye, Emerson invites the reader to see, as if for the first time, what is extraordinary even in the most familiar. But as a poet, she also listens, deeply and intently, to her subject, whether it is a landscape, a memory, or one of the unforgettable souls she has counseled, struggling to reconcile themselves with mortality. And it is with a listening heart that the reader feels with her a wonder at the courage she has witnessed, and inspiration at the truth she captures.”
Terry Ehret, author of Lucky Break
“A lilting voice from a new poet. A new daughter is not all that Donna Emerson gave birth to in her 50s. Her poems are loaded with rich imagery and memory.”
Susan Swartz, author of The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living After 50
Books can be pre-ordered through the website at www.finishinglinepress.com. Click on “New Releases and Forthcoming Titles,” scrolling down alphabetically.
Sagittarius Agitprop by Matthew Gavin Frank
Franks collection of poems is available from Black Lawrence Press at:
http://www.blacklawrence.com/frank.html
To see and hear Frank reading from his book, check out this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdOR3_jrx88
Pierette Mimi Poinsett
Rose-Anne Clermont has written an article about my challenges in the Women’s International Perspective e-zine. The photographer who is uncredited is Michi Adams of Rohnert Park Petaluma. Below is the link:
http://thewip.net/contributors/2009/02/living_one_day_at_a_time_in_th.html
Over the last three years, I have been writing creative non-fiction and poetry. Going into “the family business”:) A memoir cookbook is in the works.
Pierrette Mimi Poinsett MD
http://www.snapdiva.blogspot.com
aka the Yayayarndiva on http://www.ravelry.com
Bill Vartnaw ‘s new book, Suburbs of my Childhood, came out on January15th. Bill says, “This is a book of mostly early poems, lots of seventies, a few eighties and a couple of nineties about my mother, 74 pages.” For more information or to order the book, contact Bill at taureanhorn@hotmail.com. Taurean Horn Press’ address is P.O. Box 641097, San Francisco, CA 94164-1097.
Jeane Slone has just published She Flew Bombers From the Factories to the Bases. People can order it from my web site at www.jeaneslone.com.
Jean Heglund writes, “She Flew Bombers is a fascinating account of one woman’s love of flying and her involvement with the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) during World War II. Anyone interested in Aviation History, Women’s History, or the World War II “war effort” will appreciate Jeane Slone’s careful research, as well as her ability to bring this little-know aspect of the US history to life so vividly.”
Margaret Caminsky-Shapiro has just published an anthology entitled Hair Pieces, containing the poetry and prose of 51 of her writing students. Hair Pieces is available for purchase at Copperfields and also at harlmarg@sonic.net. For information about Margaret’s Writing Practice workshops, scroll down to the section “Current and Upcoming Workshops.”
Ann Wilkes’s Awesome Layratt
Ann Wilkes’ first book, Awesome Lavratt (2009) is a tongue-in-cheek space opera with mind control, passion and adventure. Her stories have appeared in online zines and anthologies. She lives in California’s wine country with her husband, Patrick and their youngest son. She’s working on two novels while still cranking out the short funny stories that characterize her writing style. Visit her website, http://www.annwilkes.com, for a full bio, her blog and links to online stories.
Calls for Submission
If you have a call for submission or a contest of interest to Sonoma County writers, send it to tehret99@comcas.net.
If you’d like to explore ways to get your writing out of the drawer and into print, check out the information on the Literary Folk website and on my personal website:
http://literaryfolk.wordpress.com/recommended-northern-california-journals-and-presses/
http://www.terryehret.com/consulting.htm
VOICE OF THE RIVER CALL FOR WRITERS!
Calling all Sonoma County writers, wanderers, scouts, rowers, sailors, poets, painters, picnickers, photographers, otter-admirers, homeowners, historians, octogenarians, scientists, cloud-watchers, Insomniacs, fisherpeople, cyclists, taxpayers, and community leaders!
The City of Petaluma’s Petaluma River Access Partners (P-RAP), with help from the National Park Service, wants ONE PAGE of your creative thoughts. Landscape architects for the Petaluma River Access Blueprint for Action will use your ideas, input, reflections, and memories, as they design paths, signs, sculpture, and other elements of future Petaluma River access. THIS IS NOT A CONTEST: ALL submissions will be “published” in a big community book and shared with planners: with additional exhibits and readings planned for Spring 2010!
If you love the river, we want your page! What spots on the river are special to you? Do you have a favorite river memory? Do you have a story about the biggest fish, the best kayak ride, the rarest bird, the olden days, the here and now, a stroll after the farmer’s market, a child’s view, ideas for pathways and parks, an historical fact?
We’re looking for River-inspired creative work in ALL GENRES: Send a one-page essay, a poem, interview with an elder, adventure story, nature writing, children’s artwork, thoughts while rowing, maps or design idea, collage, drawing, previously published writing, notes while jogging, wildlife description, historical document, cartoon, Native American stories, plein air painting, architectural schematic, science writing, historical writing, letter to planners, letter to the river, song lyrics, etc.
HOW TO SUBMIT: Make one page, must be 8 _ x 11. Please, only writing and/or artwork specifically about the Petaluma River, and suitable for family reading. We can’t return originals, so photocopies are good. We won’t retain rights, but by sending in your work, you give us permission to exhibit it, read it to a crowd, or post it on the internet. Pages will be accepted from Oct 15 through April 1, 2009. Please write your name on your page, and enclose a card or post-it with your 1) name and 2) email or phone #.
Mail it or drop it off-
Voices of the River Patti Trimble c/o Scott Duiven
Petaluma City Hall, 11 English Street, Petaluma, CA 94952
OR
Voices of the River Patti Trimble c/o Donnie Frank
Petaluma Community Center, 320 N McDowell Blvd
Petaluma, CA 94954-2352
Sixteen Rivers Press Call for Poetry Manuscripts
If you are interested in working with a poetry publishing collective, and you have a book-length manuscript of poems (60-80 pages), check out the submission guidelines now available at www.sixteenrivers.org. Manuscripts received between November 1 and February 1 will be considered.
Colorado State University Call for Poetry Manuscripts
The Center for Literary Publishing on the Colorado State University campus in Fort Collins, CO, is accepting submissions for the 2010 Colorado Prize for Poetry from October 1 through January 14, 2010. The prize is given annually for an outstanding book-length collection of poems. The winner will be awarded a $1,500 honorarium and his or her book will be published by the Center. Anyone may submit (with the exception of CSU students, alumni, and employees). The $25 entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Colorado Review. For complete guidelines, please go to http://coloradoprize.colostate.edu or call 970-491-5449.
Permanent Vacation: Living and Working in our National Parks
Bona Fide Books seeks literary essays about experiences living and working in Yellowstone National Park for a collection about life in our parks. Some go seeking commune with nature; others to escape. Diverse park experiences are desired. Although we enjoy tree-hugging epiphanies, we also want to read about day-to-day life, and the societal, environmental, and existential implications of life in the park. What happened there, and how did it influence your life? (Humor also welcome.) Writers will receive $100 for their essay and one copy of the collection.
Deadline: January 5, 2010. Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced, and 12 point Times New Roman or Courier font with standard formatting applied; word count is limited to 5,000. Send to submissions@bonafidebooks.com with “Permanent Vacation” and the title of work in the subject line.
For more information, please go to www.bonafidebooks.com.
West Marin Review
West Marin Review is accepting submissions of prose, poetry, and visual art for its 2010 volume. Submissions should be of previously unpublished work. Very important to follow “submission guidelines” at www.westmarinreview.org. (For poetry, no more than 25 lines per poem, no more than three poems per submission.) Submissions for Volume 3 must be postmarked no later than October 7, 2009. Questions? Write to us at info@westmarinreview.org.
Zaum Literary Journal
Sonoma State University’s award-winning literary magazine, ZAUM, is ooking for student artists to submit their work for our upcoming forteenth issue. ZAUM is a very unique magazine in that it is produced solely by SSU students. Not only is ZAUM a vehicle for
Sonoma State students’ artistic expression, the magazine publishes work from students around the world! By combining the creative dynamic of students in the community with that of national and international students, ZAUM consistently presents diverse and unique work in an accessible medium.
ZAUM is named for the symbolic language created by Russian Futurist poets. Its meaning—that which exists above and beyond rational thought—represents the standard of excellence to which we aspire. Therefore, we seek to publish the works of student artists who are
eager to push the limits of their art, and take a few risks with us! Please urge any Undergrad or Graduate students who are interested to send copies of their prose, poetry, or visual art to be considered for our publication. Feel free to check out our website
atwww.zaumpress.net for further details. All selections to be published in ZAUM 14 must be received no later that November 15, 2009.
Sincerely,
Colin Partch
Senior Editor of ZAUM
Ginosko Literary Journal’s Call for Submissions
Accepting short fiction & poetry, audio recordings, creative non-fiction, interviews, social justice concerns for the 9th issue of the literary journal ginosko, the summer issue.
Editorial lead time 1-2 months; accept simultaneous submissions and reprints; length flexible, accept excerpts. Receives postal submissions & email—prefer email submissions as attachments in Microsoft Works Word Processor or Rich Text Format. Copyright reverts to author.
Publishing as semiannual ezine, winter & summer. Selecting material from ezine for printed anthology.
Check downloadable issues on website for style & tone: http://www.ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/
Use latest version of Adobe Reader.
ezine circulation 4500+. Website traffic 750-1000 hits/month.
Also looking for artwork, photography, to post on website and links to exchange.
Ginosko (ghin-océ-koe)
To perceive, understand, realize, come to know; knowledge that has an inception, a progress, an attainment. The recognition of truth by experience.
Member CLMP. Listed in Best of the Web 2008.
Ginosko Literary Journal
Robert Paul Cesaretti, Editor
PO Box 246
Fairfax, CA 94978
USA
MEMOIR (and) Call for Submissions
MEMOIR (and) is an up-and-coming print journal for the exploration of memoir as “the” genre of the 21st century. Our nonprofit mission is to publish traditional as well as nontraditional forms of nonfiction allied with memoir. This includes, but is not limited to, autobiography, personal and critical essay, graphic narratives, narrative poetry, “flash memoir,” autobiographical fiction, alternative histories, journalistic accounts, narrative photography and more. We award four cash prizes twice yearly and charge no entry fee. All work submitted to MEMOIR (and) is eligible to win a prize. The reading period for Spring+Summer 2010 (Issue 6) is upon us! Accepting traditional and experimental prose, poetry, graphic memoir, narrative photography, lies, and more from 5/1/09 through 8/15/09.
Four prizes up to $500 available for prose, poetry and graphic memoirs. All submissions eligible for contest entry.
For guidelines, contest info and online submissions, visit www.memoirjournal.com.
New Millennium
Poetry Judge Nikki Giovanni has chosen Barbara Knott, of Lawrenceville, GA, as winner of the $1,000 New Millennium Writings Poetry Award in our Summer Awards competition for “Boxwood,” a poem about the life and death of a beloved Grandmother, “Della by name…” Honorable Mentions follow Contest Guidelines below. Ms. Giovanni said her task of choosing a winner was “really difficult because there were so many excellent poems.” All poets who received an honorable mention will be published in the 2010-11 issue, which comes out in one year.
Watch for other prize recipients to be announced in coming weeks.
Those who entered contests between Feb. 1, 2008 and Feb. 1, 2009., should receive their new books in late November and December. This book contains the new Study Guide for Teachers and Writers. For more information about resources and discount book rates for classroom use, visit http://newmillenniumwritings.com/teachers.php .
The deadline in our Winter Awards program is November 17, 2009. This deadline may be extended once only. Enter as often as you like at www.writingawards.com or by U.S. Mail or other carrier. Guidelines Follow.
Awards Contests
$4,000 in Prizes, plus publication in NMW and at the New Millennium Writings website
$1,000 for best Story; $1,000 for best Poem; $1,000 for best Short-short Fiction (1,000-word limit), $1,000 for best Nonfiction
(Nonfiction includes humor, memoir, creative nonfiction, travel, opinion, essay, interview, features, investigative reporting, etc.)
Winners of NMW Awards are showcased along with interviews, profiles and tributes to famous writers, past and present, such as
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., J. D. Salinger, Julia Glass, Shel Silverstein, Khaled Hosseini, George Garrett, Ken Kesey, John Updike, Lee Smith, Cormac McCarthy, Lucille Clifton, Shelby Foote, Paul West, Norman Mailer, Sharyn McCrumb, William Kennedy, Faulkner, Hemingway, Dickinson, Keats, Percy, Warren and many others. Also, prize-winning stories, poems & articles, humor, graphic arts, writing advice and more.
To Enter, follow these Guidelines, or enter on-line at www.writingawards.com.
1. No restrictions as to style, content or number of submissions. Enter as often as you like. Previously published materials OK if online or under 5000-circulation in print.
2. Winners and selected finalists—including all poetry finalists—will be published in our 2010-11 issue–which all contestants will receive, and on-line.
3. Send between now and midnight of Nov. 17, 2009 (postmark ok).
4. Simultaneous & multiple submissions welcome.
5. Each Fiction or Nonfiction piece is counted as a separate entry, and should total no more than 6,000 words except Short-short Fiction (no more than 1,000 words).
6. Each Poetry entry may include up to three poems, not to exceed five pages total per entry. All 20 poetry finalists will be published. If entering online, upload all 3 poems in a single file, per entry.
7. Include name, phone, address, email & category on cover page or letter only and submit with the submission. If entering online the cover page is optional, as our online site automatically uploads contact information you provide.
8. Manuscripts not returned except in hardship cases. Include email address (preferable) or SASE for list of winners. Yes, we recycle.
9. Include $17 check payable to NMW with each submission.
10. Send to: “NMW” Room EM, PO Box 2463, Knoxville, TN, 37901 (unless entering online). To order our current issue, add $12.
Current and Upcoming Workshops
Many Sonoma County writers offer their expertise and writing support through local workshops, classes, and consultations. Some are day-long, some are ongoing, and some are retreats. Workshops for this month are listed below.
If you have a workshop you’re offering, send a short description (150 words or less) to tehret99@comcast.net.
Sonoma County Writing Teachers and Consultants
Stephen Altschuler www.firstpersonwriting.com
Guy Beiderman www.lowfatfiction.com
Susan Bono sbono@tiny-lights.com
Margaret Caminsky-Shapiro harlmarg@sonic.net
Dan Coshnear dan@coshnear.org
Sher Christian poetrytalks@neteze.com
Marlene Cullen www.thewritespot.us/ or mcullen@comcast.net
Georgette G. deBlois GGdeB@aol.com.
Nancy Dougherty and Geri Digiorno ncaversd@sonic.net
Terry Ehret tehret99@comcast.net
Stefanie Freele Stefanie@stefaniefreele.com
Susan Hagenhagen@womenatgroundzero.com
Eric Johnson iota@sonic.net
Suzanne Murray suzmurr@yahoo.com
Laure Reiche p.reiche@comcast.net
Pauline Reif paulineerh@yahoo.com
Clara Rosemarda rosen@sonic.net
Scott Reid Serkes www.sonic.net/poetry/albany/workshop/intro.html>http: //www.sonic.net
Lisa Shulman www.lisashulman.com.
Shelley Singer http://www.shelleysinger.com
Andrew Todhunter workshops@andrewtodhunter.com
Centa Theresa, m.a.,Writing & Creative Projects Coach
creatvitycoaching@centatheresa.com
Pat Tyler www.writetoday.net
Stephen Altschuler’s Coaching Service for Non-fiction Writers.
My speciality is personal experience writing, but cover all aspects of the non-fiction genre. I’ve been writing and getting published since 1969. My latest book is The Mindful Hiker (2004), and have written four other books. My website which tells more of my work and this service is www.firstpersonwriting.com .
Stephen Altschuler
stephenaltschuler@mac.com
Margaret Caminsky-Shapiro’s Sonoma County Writing Practice
Margaret Caminsky-Shapiro teaches eight week long writing semesters out of her Santa Rosa downtown office. Three different class times are offered each week. Margaret uses poetry and meditation for inspiration and writers are encouraged to read their work in a supportive atmosphere. The memoir is a valuable form for dropping deeper into the self allowing memories to come forth. This process allows space for self-knowledge to occur. For more information or to receive a flyer call (707)575-8820 or email Margaret at harlmarg@sonic.net. The website for Sonoma County Writing Practice is www.handwritingonline.net
Sher Christian’s Intuitive Coaching
Sher Christian offers coaching for writers, plus proofing, & editing. For books on audio: voiceover, recording, organ/accordion/keyboard tracks. Demos available. Sher Lianne Christian. poetrytalks@neteze.com, www.lusciouspoetry.typepad.com/
C.B. Follett, Susan Terris, and Rebecca Foust
POETRY PUBLICATION WORKSHOP
($50)
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
Corte Madera, CA 94925
(415) 927-0960
(800) 999-7909
Sign up at http://www.bookpassage.com
Learn what to do to get your poetry published in literary journals and other publications. Two experienced poets and editors and one newcomer to the poetry scene will address questions related to WHEN, WHERE, HOW, and WHAT to submit, and will focus on how to get your work out in the world without stress, fear or rejection, or wasting valuable writing time. When is your work ready to submit? Where should you send it? What is the most efficient way to get the work out? What goes into a submission? Sample cover letters, lists of how-to’s, and website resources will be provided on class handouts, and a large inventory of resource books and sample literary journals will be available for review. For seven years, CB Follett was publisher and co-editor, with Susan Terris, of the highly acclaimed Runes, A Review of Poetry, an annual themed anthology. Her Arctos Press has published 16 poetry collections. Both poets have authored several collections and have published hundreds of poems in literary journals. Rebecca Foust’s chapbooks won the Robert Phillips Poetry Prize in 2007 and 2008, and her full length manuscript recently won the Many Mountains Moving Prize.
Fiction Writing – Stefanie Freele
This new class is open to the new, the curious and the comfortable short story writer. Prompts and freewrites will generate new and unexpected writing in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere. Freele’s goal is to encourage turning ideas into stories. Students will read and discuss examples of stellar short fiction—prim arily stories under 1000 words, fine-tune workshop pieces, and explore the craft of writing: plot, dialogue, point-of-view, descript ion, setting, and voice.
Requirements: a sense of humor, a pen, and a few pieces of paper.
Stefanie Freele is the Sonoma County author of the short story collection, Feeding Strays, published by Lost Horse Press (2009). Her recent and forthcoming work can be found in Glimmer Train, American Literary Review, Night Train, The Pedestal Magazine, Necessary Fiction, Boston Literary Review, Literary Mama, and Hobart. Stefanie has an MFA from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts: Whidbey Writers Workshop. Stefanie is an editor with Smokelong Quarterly and is also the Fiction Editor for the Los Angeles Review.
4 Week session $100
9-11 am Fridays: 10/23, 11/6, 11/13 and 11/20
Location: Plaza Arts Center – Healdsburg
Contact Stefanie – Stefanie@stefaniefreele.com – 707-889-0473
Suzanne Murray
The Heart of Writing – Four-Week Classes & One-Day Workshop with Suzanne Murray
Tuesday Mornings, 9:30 am to noon, November 17 to December 8
$100 paid by 11/10, $115 after, west Santa Rosa
register early limited to 12
Tuesday Evenings, 7:00 to 9:30 pm, November 17 to December 8
$100 paid by 11/10, $115 after, downtown Sebastopol
register early limited to 12
One-Day Writing Workshop
Saturday, November 21, 10 am to 4 pm, $75 paid by 11/13, $85 after
register early limited to 12
Small supportive group. Good for beginners and experienced writers as well as all styles of writing.
Learn simple, powerful techniques to find your voice, tell your stories, calm your inner critic, enter the creative flow, jumpstart your writing and support your creative self. Find support and encouragement and an understanding of the craft of writing and the joyful heart of the creative process.
for more information call or email Suzanne at 707.360.7776 or suzmurr@yahoo.com or website:www.creativitygoeswild.com
Gwynne O’Gara’s Writing Workshops
Lighting Our Own Flames —Writing That Frees Our Genius
How do we address the gift of writing? Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, Genius is the power for lighting your own flame. The Romans believed genius (or for women, juno) to be a guardian spirit that comes to us at birth with the fullness of our undeveloped powers, which it offers to us as we grow. A sense of gratitude moves a person to labor in the service of their genius, which finds freedom through our work.
Each week we’ll warm up with a different poet—T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Kevin Young, Gabriela Mistral, Sylvia Plath and Eavan Boland. We’ll write and share our own work, and explore how to keep our individual flames burning. Excellent for prose writers as well as poets.
Tuesday Nights, 7—9, Oct. 20—Nov. 24. All levels, genders, and ages are welcome, $75 for all six classes. For more information and to register, contact Gwynn O’Gara at gwynn@sonic.com or call (707) 823-2993.
Gwynn O’Gara is the author of Snake Woman Poems, Fixer-Upper and Winter at Green Haven. Her poems have been published in the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, The Evansville Review and Yellow Silk, and will appear in future issues of Calyx, Sage Woman and descant. Her personal essays have been published in Image Magazine and Tiny Lights.
For more information and to register, call (707) 823-2993 or e-mail gwynn@gwynnogara.com.
The workshops will be held at the Sitting Room, 170 East Cotati, Cotati, CA.
Petaluma Writers Forum
Writers Forum of Petaluma proudly presents Gretchen Giles
November 19, 2009 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Petaluma Community Center, 320 No. McDowell Blvd. Petaluma
$15 at the door
Gretchen Giles Tell Your Story
This workshop will be a hands-on critique for those interested in
magazine-style journalistic narrative. Learn to love the power of the
rewrite! Bring your 500-word piece, telling your own story or that of
someone else, to the workshop and we’ll read it, red-line it, discuss it and
perhaps even “fix” it.
GRETCHEN GILES is the editor of the North Bay Bohemian, the award-winning
alternative newsweekly serving Sonoma, Marin and Napa counties.
For more information: www.thewritespot.us
Marlene – mcullen@comcast.net
Laurie Reiche ‘s Writing Soiree
Laurie leads writing workshops the third Sunday of every month, 3-6 PM at her home.
The focus is generating new work, both poetry and prose. Sliding scale. For more information, call 415-892-9430 or e-mail p.reiche@comcast.net.
Lessen-Reiche has facilitated workshops for many years. She was the 2006 Winner of Lilith Magazine's Second Annual Charlotte Newberger National Poetry Award. Her work has also appeared in magazines such as SUNY Upstate Medical Journal: The Healing Muse, and The Southern Poetry Review.
Scott Serkes Reid
Updraft: An Online Poetry Workshop to Ignite Your Imagination
This long-distance learning adventure is for all ages and levels ofexperience. All you need is the desire to make better poems and a willingness to study the craft of poetry. In this workshop, you have the opportunity to:* Meet poets from around the world * Make new friends * Write a new poem every week * Take a class that fits into your schedule * Have fun We meet online Saturday mornings for guided writing exercises. Studentsengage in brainstorm techniques and writing assignments that focus on various aspects of poetry. Upon finishing the first draft, we post ourwriting to a private discussion board and then
critique follows. Throughoutthe week, we revise and post our second drafts. Students receive peerfeedback as well as individual mentoring from the instructor. Class begins Late October, 2009 and runs for six weeks.
Instructor Scott Reid, MA presents poetry writing classes for children in Sonoma County with California Poets in the Schools. His poems have appeared in Blue Unicorn, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Melic Review, Sow’s Ear and The Dickens, and he has received writing fellowships to the Squaw ValleyWriters’ Conference, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. As presenter of poetry for adults since 1989, he
hastaught many classes in poetry at the Albany Adult School. The Updraft poetry workshop is starting its tenth year.For information about the class, please visit: http://www.sonic.net/poetry/albany/workshop/intro.html
Clara Rosemarda’s Write Mind™ Workshops
CREATIVE WRITING AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
6 sessions begin
Wednesday, November 11th, 7 – 9:30pm OR
Thursday, November 12th, 10am – 12:30pm
fee $180 ($170 if paid by November 2nd) Space is limited.
These classes will be conducted in a comfortable environment near Downtown Santa Rosa.
Contact Clara: 707:579-2081 rosen@sonic.net
Strong attention allows us to drop into deep writing. Creative writing propels the writer into the unknown. Whether you write prose or poetry, letters or fiction, this workshop will inspire your muse to write from a core place. Through meditation, visualizations, and other exercises that quiet the mind and expand the imagination, you will access and activate your creative muse. A comfortable, safe environment is provided for the writer to emerge. Open to beginning as well as seasoned writers.
WRITE ON! A Revision Workshop
3 Tuesdays: November 10, 24, & December 8
10am to Noon. Fee $90
Have you been filling notebooks with writings that get tossed in a box and are crying to get out? Are you ready to pull some of your prose and poetry out of those voluminous notebooks, polish them up, and take them to the next level? Do you want to continue with your novel or memoir? Then, this is the workshop for you. We will meet every other week for three weeks. (A new class will begin
after the holidays.) Class size will be limited. Contact Clara: 707:579-2081 rosen@sonic.net
Private consultations with writers by appointment.
CLARA ROSEMARDA, MA, writer, writing coach, counselor, and workshop leader, has been working with writers for over twenty-five years. A memoirist and poet, Clara works with beginning and emerging writers as well as mainstream authors, and teaches workshops internationally. In 2008 she was nominated for the Sonoma County Artists Awards Program in Literary Arts. She is co-creator and coordinator of The Writer’s Sampler, of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Her essays and poetry have been published in literary journals and anthologies including Tiny Lights; The Dickens; ZEBULON NIGHT; JASMINE NIGHTS & MONKEY PLUCK. She is co-editor and co-author of the anthology, STEEPED: IN THE WORLD OF TEA. Clara has been in private practice in Santa Rosa, California as a counselor and healer for thirty years.
Centa Theresa: Creative Projects Coaching/Consultation for Artists & Writers
THE POD: ART & WRITING
workshops & monthly creative projects coaching circle…
Centa Theresa, M.A.
www.centatheresa.com 707-478-5903 vicenta@sonic.net
CREATIVE PROJECTS COACHING: Whether you have a manuscript in the making that
you can¹t seem to finish, a body of artwork that needs more of your time, an
idea you¹d like to see manifest but have no plan, etc., I help you to
clarify the vision, identify challenges, claim successes and keep
accountable for stated intentions. Private sessions held in my home
office/studio in Santa Rosa. Call for further inquiry.
ART/WRITING PROCESS: Through dialogue, meditation, free-writing exercises
and the exploration of various art media, focus on a question or theme of
present concern and let the process unfold. Come one time or for a
predetermined series of private sessions in my home studio. Call for further
inquiry.
Call for free consultation. 707-478-5903. www.centatheresa.com
<http://www.centatheresa.com> . vicenta@sonic.net
Centa Theresa M.A. has exhibited her art in Bay Area galleries & had poems
appear or are forthcoming in such journals as Harpur Palate, Eclipse, The
Hurricane Review, Tiny Lights, and DrumVoices Revue. Centa has authored the
letterset edition, Blameless Recognition of Natural Light. She currently
teaches art at Napa State Hospital and has trained in ³creativity coaching²
with Eric Maisel.
Lindsay Whiting Workshop on Publishing
SEBASTOPOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Saturday, November 7, 2009
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Fee $50.00 Non-member: $55.00
Get Published: Independent Publishing and Self-Publishing Today
With author and publisher Lindsay Whiting
Paper Lantern Publishing
Half-Day Seminar (3 hours)
Limit 18 attendees
With the help of today’s technology there are now more affordable ways than ever to publish your own book. The purpose of this publishing seminar is to help attendees make informed decisions about their own publishing options, including the economics, current business models, and changing technology. Learn about the promise and pitfalls of traditional publishing, self-publishing, print-on-demand, and e-books.
Join other professionals and writers in a setting where you can ask questions to learn more about the possibilities of publishing. The seminar includes a presentation, interactive discussion, and a question and answer session, with handouts for all participants.
Writing a book is the single most effective tool for entrepreneurs, specialists and artists to market their work and to gain credibility, visibility, and income. By sharing your special expertise, or telling a story through a book, you position yourself as an author and an expert-and can gain new opportunities.Marketing your business through your book will attract speaking engagements, consulting possibilities, and new clients and customers. Published authors can increase their value by bundling books with their other products and services.
Facilitator Lindsay Whiting
Drawing from over twenty years of experience in print production and
publishing, author and publisher Lindsay Whiting consults with individuals
who have written information to share and want to self-publish their material
in book or electronic formats.
Paper Lantern Publishing
707-935-7001
Writers’ Connections
If you’d like to invite others in the literary community to join your writers’ group or network, send an announcement to tehret99@comcast.net.
Prose writer’s group forming
We are looking for two more experienced writers to join our new group. Our focus will be on fiction and non-fiction novel or short story writing for mutual support and honest critiquing of our work. We’ll meet once or twice a month in the Healdsburg, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol area. For more information call John at 707 326 5810 or email jhinkona@hotmail.com
Welcome to WritingRaw.com
Writing Raw is a FREE literary ezine dedicated to new and emerging writers of the following categories: FICTION, POETRY and ASSORTED writings. Our goal at Writing Raw is simple – to serve the literary community with the opportunity to have their work online and out in the world. In this world of disappearing literary magazines, Writing Raw is providing the blank pages for writers to fill.
UUCSR Writers
“TaP” Thursdays at Peet’s
The UUCSR Writers meet once a week, 10 am, for coffee and conversation at “Peet’s” in Copperfield’s located in Montgomery Village at the corner of Montgomery Drive and Farmers Lane, (across the street from St. Eugene’s Church) Santa Rosa. Parking is Free.
Join us on Thursday mornings at 10 am. Buy a cup of coffee or hot chocolate, add a pastry and enjoy the pleasure of chatting with writers about writing. We have no set agenda. Also, be sure to save some time to browse the books at Copperfield’s.
NaNoWriMo – Write-Ins!
November is National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo is sponsored by the Central Library in Santa Rosa. The UUCSR Writers who take on the challenge of writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days meet in the Forum Room of the Central Library located on the corner of Third & E Streets, Santa Rosa. Monday’s: *Nov 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30th from 5:00 – 8:30 pm. *Note: participating UUCSR Writers usually go to the Library after our regular monthly meeting on Nov 2.
Focus
Whatever your creative endeavor: fiction, non fiction, memoirs, letters, history, biography, the Great American novel, poetry, essays, dissertation, thesis, song lyrics, report, term paper, cook book, web pages, blogging, twittering, etc., our focus is to provide an atmosphere where serious writers improve and hone their writing skills.
The UUCSR Writers is open to the novice, the more experienced, and the published author. Membership at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation Santa Rosa (UUCSR) is not required. We meet once a month at UUCSR in Santa Rosa, CA on the First Monday of the month, except September, from 4:00-6:00pm.
UUCSR Online Writers
Can’t attend monthly meetings? Live in another City, State or Country? Join our “Online Writers” Blog. You can learn more about our group, and current “Works-in-Progress”, at the UUCSR Writers Blog.
Information
UUCSR Writers, Georgette G. deBlois, GGdeB@aol.com, http://uucsrwriters.blogspot.com
WESTWORD SECOND SUNDAY SALONS @ SEBASTOPOL, 4-6PM
All poets and writers are welcome to hear and read at monthly gatherings in the quiet comfort of the Center’s west-corner Library Room. Come hear and share home-grown literature, and your writing process, problems, and motives with colleagues in our sessions facilitated by Gor Yaswen, for $1 donation to the Center. Listeners also are cordially invited to these-smoke-and-fragrance-free meetings. For info. call: 707-829-1549
Location: SEBASTOPOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 6780 DEPOT STREET (@ BROWN ST. & behind Seb. Deli.)
GOR YASWEN
YASWEN@AOL.COM
Blog with me about: “Inspiring Young Children to Read”…
Reading aloud to young children yields benefits aplenty. The NAE sez it this way:
“The single most important activity for building the knowledge required
for eventual success in reading – is reading aloud to children.”
– Commission on Reading of the National Academy of Education
There are five well defined ‘Facts, Advantages and Benefits’ to reading aloud
that I’ve summarized here in relation to Ocean Rudee & Company’s program offerings:
https://www.oceanrudee.com/what.is.ocean.rudee.and.company.html#readaloud
I’d love to hear other thoughts and ideas (from any of you within the Sonoma County
Literary Update universe) in relation to your experiences, ideas and outlooks toward
the future – in regards to reading, books, reading aloud, inspiring young children,
early childhood education, multi-media programming, literacy and the like.
My blog is located here: http://oceanrudee.blogspot.com/
I await hearing the sounds of your keystrokes and absorbing your insights accordingly.
Responsively Reading Aloud I am,
Paul Ennis
pwe@ oceanrudee.com
Sitting Room Book Discussion Group
We meet 2-4 on the third Wednesday of every month, skipping December, at The Sitting Room and are always open to new readers. For more info, email Joanne Page at jpage@sonic.net. (The January 21 book is Pat Barker’s first novel in her trilogy about World War I, “Regeneration.”)
The Redwood Branch of the California Writers Club.
Redwood Writers is one of 17 branches of the California Writers Club, the nation’s oldest professional club for writers, founded in 1909. Its motto is “writers helping writers.” Early members included Jack London, George Sterling, John Muir, Joaquin Miller and the first California poet laureate, Ina Coolbrith. The Club has more than 1,200 members statewide.
The Redwood Writers 2009 Conference takes place on October 24, 2009 at the Flamingo Hotel and Resort in Santa Rosa. Our one-day conference, part of CWC Centennial activities statewide, will feature agents, editors, and writers from all genres. They will offer their insights and experiences in the craft of writing at beginning through advanced levels, as well as the encouragement of fellow writers in a relaxed and friendly, wine-country setting.
Additional contact information:
Call for Scriptwriters on Weekly Radio Show
Are you an accomplished scriptwriter looking for a long-term project to sink your creativity into? Ocean Rudee & Company of Sebastopol is in the process of pulling together a team of 4 to 6 ‘scriptors’. Project responsibilities will include: the development of an ongoing series of radio serial dramas and related multi-media programs for children from 4 to 8-years of age (as well as their parents, teachers and primary caregivers).
Prior experience writing for children is not necessary. An understanding of how to write for continuity, how to maintain and adhere to a well developed set of character profiles, the ability to function well as a team player, a love of children’s literature and an abiding commitment to the muse – are essential.
If this is you, please visit Ocean Rudee’s website (www.oceanrudee.com) and send them off an e-mail expressing your interest in learning more.
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Join the Staff of First Leaves
If you have ever wanted to be on the staff of an energetic, literary journal and learn the process of compiling a publication, plan to join English 80 (3 unit, CSU transferable) for the Spring ’09 semester. Students enrolled in English 80 are involved in all aspects of producing a literary journal (with the guidance of the instructor), from approving submissions to putting the actual journal together. Evaluating other people’s work is a great way to learn your own strengths and weaknesses. The class is fun, collaborative, and project-based: we will produce a high-quality, well-designed magazine. We welcome the participation of people throughout the North Bay, including mature working adults, young adults, teens and retirees.
Contact Instructor Abby Bogomolny for more information: (707) 522-2779
Have You ‘Jacket-Flapped’ Lately?
JacketFlap is an international social networking community where you can connect with upwards of 5,000 published authors and illustrators of books for Children and Young Adults. Paul Ennis of Sebastopol reports: “I’ve been a member of JacketFlap (http://www.jacketflap.com/profile.asp?member=OceanRudee) since late-June of 2008. My efforts to produce audio books for children and source read-aloud materials for my radio program production project (targeting an October 2009 broadcast premiere) have been greatly enhanced by the people I’ve been able to meet through JacketFlap. It’s FREE to join, the community is a vibrant one that does not seem to generate junk e-mails to any great degree and the atmosphere is very professional. If you are ready to network with folks around the world in the children’s book publishing industry this is an online community you need to be a part of. Their membership includes: children’s book authors, illustrators, editors, agents, publishing companies, designers, publicists, booksellers, librarians, teachers, students and just plain old ordinary folks who love children’s literature. Check it out – you’ll have fun in the process!”
The International Women’s Writing Guild
The IWWG is a network for the personal and professional empowerment of women through writing. As such, it has established a remarkable record of achievement in the publishing world, as well as in circles where lifelong learning and personal transformation are valued for their own sake. The Guild nurtures and supports holistic thinking by recognizing the logic of the heart—the ability to perceive the subtle interconnections between people, events and emotions—alongside conventional logic. For more information about how to join the IWWG, contact Caroline Brumleve: e-mail iwwg@iwwg. org or visit their website at www.iwwg.org.
Ongoing Writers’ Groups and Open Mic Readings
SUNDAYS
First Sunday of the month: The Redwood Branch of the California Writers Club general meetings are held on the first Sunday of the month, (except for holiday weekends), from 3-5 pm. at Copperfield’s Book Store in Santa Rosa’s Montgomery Village (2316 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa, 95404, 707-578-8938). A small fee of $3 for members, $5 for nonmembers is asked to cover speaking fees and light refreshments. For more information see www.redwoodwriters.org or call Linda at 707-484-4153.
Second Sunday of the month: Westwood Second Sunday Salons, 4-6 PM. All poets and writers are welcome to hear and read at monthly gatherings in the quiet comfort of the Center’s west-corner Library Room. Come hear and share home-grown literature, and your writing process, problems, and motives with colleagues in our sessions facilitated by Gor Yaswen, for $1 donation to the Center. Listeners also are cordially invited to these-smoke-and-fragrance-free meetings. For info. call: 707-829-1549. Location: SEBASTOPOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 6780 DEPOT STREET (@ BROWN ST. & behind Seb. Deli.) For more information, contact GOR YASWEN YASWEN@AOL.COM
Sunday afternoons at 2 PM: Poetry Azul Reading Series – Ed Coletti’s popular reading series (formerly “Sococo At the Toad”) has moved to Cafe Azul located at 521 4th St. in Downtown Santa Rosa. Following the successful first reading at the new location in July, future scheduled Sunday 2PM readings include Sept 13, Nov. 8, Jan 10, and March 14. Admission is free. 573-5935. For further information contact director and emcee Ed Coletti at edcoletti@sbcglobal.net
Third Sundays 11:30-1:00pm: People, Places and Poetry Discussion Group at Aqus Cafe in Petaluma 189 H street, hosted by Geri DiGiorno and Nancy Long of LiveWire Literary Salon. Writing exercise and reading of your work (only if you want to…)All levels welcomed! No experience required! Last month, twelve people showed up and we had a great time! Couldn’t drag myself out of there! For more info: Nancy Long at nsasha@earthlink.net or Geri DiGiorno at adageri@aol.com
Third Sundays12:30 P.M. to 1:30 P.M. Poetry Reading & Open Mic: Coffee Catz
Poetry Reading. Donations Appreciated. 6761 Sebastopol Ave., Sebastopol, 707 829-5643.
Fourth Sundays 4-6 PM. An open reading the 4th Sunday of each month is taking place at the Saint Rose Cafe, 9890 Bodega Highway, Sebastopol, from 4 to 6 pm. The next reading will be Sunday, August 23rd. Come and read your latest work.
Last Sunday of each month, 6-8:30 PM: Poetry, Pints, and Prose will not be meeting in October, November, or December. The series will resume in January. For more information, contact Michelle at 707-326-3773 or Catherine at 707-338-1554 or e-mail them at PoetryPintsProse@aol.com.
MONDAYS First Monday of the Month: Unitarian Universalist Congregation Santa Rosa (UUCSR) Writers meet in the “New Room”, Unitarian Universalist Congregation Santa Rosa, 547 Mendocino Ave.Santa Rosa, Ca 95401, 707-568-5381 or http://www.uusantarosa.org/ Meetings are held in the afternoon, 4 – 6 pm, and again in the evening, 6:45 – 8:45 pm. Focus: Whatever your creative endeavor: memoirs, letters, history, biographies, the Great American novel, poems, essays, song lyrics, reports, term papers, cook books, web pages, blogs, etc., our focus is to provide an atmosphere where you can improve and hone your writing skills.The UUCSR Writers is open to the novice, the more experienced, and the published author. Membership at UUCSR is not required. UUCSR Writers, Georgette G. deBlois, GGdeB@aol.com, http://uucsrwriters.blogspot.com
TUESDAYS
Second Tuesday of each month 7-9 PM: The Center Literary Cafe hosts a featured writer and an open mic reading at the Healdsburg Senior Center 133 Matheson St. (one block east of the Plaza). Light refreshments are served. Admission is free ($5.00 donation encouraged). Contact: Cynthia Helen Beecher (707) 696-1111.
THURSDAYS
“TaP” Thursdays at Peet’s:The UUCSR Writers meet once a week, 10 am, for coffee and conversation at “Peet’s” in Copperfield’s located in Montgomery Village at the corner of Montgomery Drive and Farmers Lane, (across the street from St. Eugene’s Church) Santa Rosa. Parking is Free. Join us on Thursday mornings at 10 am. Buy a cup of coffee or hot chocolate, add a pastry and enjoy the pleasure of chatting with writers about writing. We have no set agenda. Also, be sure to save some time to browse the books at Copperfield’s.
SATURDAYS
The first Sat of each month, 5:30-7 pm is UniverSoul open mike poetry and music at Barking Dog Roasters, 18133 Hwy 12, Boyes Hot Springs, Ca. 95476(near Sonoma Mission Inn) This venue is hosted by Juanita J. Martin, Sonoma County Library Slam Champion and member of Redwood Writers. This venue welcomes poets and musicians to read and perform on open mike. This venue will host featured poets as well. For more info, call Juanita at (707) 435-1807 or email her at freelance@jmartinpoetwriter.com. You may also call the cafe at (707) 939-1905. Parking is limited.
Intermittently Scheduled Events
ODD Month Readings is sponsored by the Redwood Writers Club. The readings are open to non-members, but are not open mic format. Contact Ann Wilkes at critiquegrpcoord@redwoodwriters.org or 707-792-1704 to get on the list or for more information. Redwood Writers roves the county with talented writers for your listening pleasure.
Haiku Poets of No. California. Join us for our free quarterly readings & workshops. A featured reader, often longtime HPNC members, will present a short reading of haiku and/or other Japanese genre poetry. Each meeting also offers a lengthier program (usually a presentation or workshop related to one of the Japanese forms). There will be one or more round-robin readings, where all attendees have an opportunity, open-mic style, to read and share one or more haiku and tanka. Also news and announcements, including upcoming events, submission calls and brief introductions of any new books of interest, as well as time for socializing and refreshments. A book table is set up for the sale and purchase of HPNC and other books (you may bring your own publications if you have some to sell). Our meetings and special events, which are open to both members and nonmembers, are held quarterly at San Francisco’s Fort Mason, building C, room 235, from 1 to 5 PM. For more information, or to become an HPNC member (which includes a subscription to our renowned semiannual journal Mariposa and a quarterly newsletter) go to the HPNC website at www.haiku-poets-northern-california.com.
How to List Your Announcements in the Literary Update
General Information
The Literary Update is a compilation of announcements which I receive from members of the Sonoma County literary community about workshops, readings, ongoing literary and writing groups, calls for submissions, and contests. Events should be primarily literary in nature, and should be located in, or within an hour’s drive of, Sonoma County.
I aim to make the monthly updates as inclusive as possible. If you have a workshop, event, contest, or call for submission to announce to the Sonoma County literary community, please send it to me as an e-mail message by noon on the last day of each calendar month. Any notices received after this deadline will not be included, but may be added to the next month’s Literary Update, if still relevant.
Here are the basic guidelines for announcements.
1. Include the words “Literary Update” in your subject heading.
2. Make sure your announcement is concise, carefully proofread, and copy-edited. Also keep in mind that I can only include announcements that are plain text and presented in the e-mail message (no flyers, PDF’s, or attachments with special formatting please). Retyping text and reformatting special fonts from flyers takes time, sometimes causes errors, and may result in announcements being left out of the Update.
3. If you have an event or workshop you want included in the monthly calendar, as well as listed in another category of the Update, please include an abbreviated version of your announcement in the following format:
Day, Date, Time: Event title, featured authors, cost (if any), location, contact information.
4. Suggest the category where you’d like it placed. These are listed here:
- County-Wide Literary News (general interest announcements)
- Sonoma County in Print (new books/chapbooks/CDs by Sonoma County writers)
- News from East County (Sonoma area)
- News from North County (Healdsburg area)
- News from West County (Occidental/Guerneville area)
- Writers’ Connections (invitations to join groups, formal or informal)
- Upcoming Workshops and Conferences (current workshops you are offering)
- Call for Submissions (local literary journals, magazines, contests)
- Ongoing Writers’ Groups and Open Mic Readings
- Monthly Calendar of readings, events and workshops
- Sonoma County Workshop Leaders (e-mail and website contacts)
- Details about Workshops, Calls for Submission, Contests (information that is too lengthy to include in the short features or calendar listings)
Deadline
The deadline for announcements is noon on the last day of each calendar month. If your event is early in the month, send it two months ahead to make sure it gets in the calendar in a timely fashion
Donation
For those who regularly announce their workshops, readings, or services here, a donation of $10/year is appreciated to keep the update and its website going. Donations from regular readers are welcome, too! If you’d like to find out how you can help, please contact me at tehret99@comcast.net.
