Sonoma County 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.