by CWC Marin administrator | Mar 12, 2018 | Events
Perfect your pitch just in time for the Marin Writers Conference in April! Come join us for an afternoon of crafting pitches and queries and learn what agents are looking for in a great pitch and query letter.
Tanya Egan Gibson is the author of the novel How to Buy a Love of Reading (Dutton) and a freelance editor and writing consultant. Her short fiction for young adults and adults has appeared in Cicada and Carve. Her articles have appeared in Writer’s Digest, The Writer, and Parents.
Join us for Opening Act at 1 pm. Email marincwc@gmail.com if you’d like to read at the Open Mic.
by CWC Marin administrator | Jan 29, 2018 | Events
If you think grammar is boring, join us for Arlene Miller, the Grammar Diva, who knows how to make grammar fun.
by CWC Marin administrator | Nov 20, 2017 | Events
Come celebrate our annual CWC Marin Holiday Party and join the revelry in this Open Mic event! RSVP to cwcmarin@gmail.com if you want to read at the Open Mic.
Please bring an appetizer or favorite beverage to share at the festivities!
by CWC Marin administrator | Oct 25, 2017 | Events
Since our usual fourth Sunday of the month falls on Thanksgiving weekend, we’re hosting a “write-in” November 5 in Tam Valley (60 Tennessee Valley Road, Mill Valley). We’ll be joined by Elizabeth Menozzi, the Marin County liaison for NaNoWriMo — the national novel writing month.
If you don’t know about NaNoWriMo, this will be a great opportunity to find about it. National Novel Writing Month has been happening since July 1999 when 21 writers gathered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now there are hundreds of thousands of NaNoWriMo writers, all over the world.
We’ll start at 4:30 pm with introductions and an overview of NaNoWriMo from Elizabeth. She’ll share tips about how to make the best of it, and tell us about other gatherings around the bay. Then we’ll set aside 30-45 minutes for writing, followed by several brave souls reading their work out loud. (Not necessarily brand new from the writing session.)
We’ll have refreshments, too. Free to members and non-members.
by CWC Marin administrator | Sep 25, 2017 | Events
As a genre of fiction, suspense conjures up spies climbing over the Berlin Wall, or a bomb about to go off in downtown San Rafael. But the definition of suspense is simply “a feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.”
Your readers keep turning the pages because they want to know what happens next. Even without explosions.
In this participatory workshop, John Byrne Barry, CWC–Marin board member and award-winning author of Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough. Family is Tougher, and Wasted: Murder in the Recycle Berkeley Yard, will map out how to heighten suspense by weaving together multiple storylines.
Hope you can join us on October 22, 2 pm, at Book Passage in Corte Madera.
