2014 Ina Coolbrith Award Ceremony — Oakland, California
July 20, 2014
Nancy Curteman and California Writers Club President David George present the Ina Coolbrith Central Board Service Award to Past President Robert Garfinkle.

July 20, 2014
Nancy Curteman and California Writers Club President David George present the Ina Coolbrith Central Board Service Award to Past President Robert Garfinkle.


It’s time for the Annual CWC Picnic at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland—a chance to meet members from other branches, eat succulent BBQ, and participate in the fabulous Lit-Cake Contest!
Want more information? See the two attached flyers, or contact Linda Brown from the Berkeley Branch (BrownCalifornia@aol.com, 510/530-1261). You can also visit the CWC NorCal site.

Wednesday, July 9, 7:00 p.m.
Marcia Naomi Berger
Marcia Naomi Berger, LCSW will speak about her new book Marriage Meeting for Lasting Love: 30 Minutes a Week to the Relationship You’ve Always Wanted.
She will also demonstrate concepts and sign books. She offers a proactive approach to create a lasting, fulfilling 21st century relationship. Marriage meetings foster romance, intimacy, teamwork, and smoother resolution of issues.
Marriage Meetings for Last Love explains, step-by-step how to hold the meetings and how to use positive communication techniques that can enhance any relationship with a family members, friend, or coworker.
Larkspur Library
400 Magnolia Avenue
415 927 5005
www.LarkspurLibrary.org
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE WRITERS MEETING
Sunday, June 22, 2014, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Book Passage ~ 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., ~ Corte Madera
Members $5; Nonmembers $10

Roy Mash is a longtime board member of Marin Poetry Center.
In a previous life he held degrees in English, Philosophy, and Computer Science.
Currently he appears as a regular in the movie of his life, where his character can be found doodling his time away, staring out of cafe windows, dabbing up the seeds that have fallen from an everything bagel, and mentally thumbing over his poems that have appeared widely in journals such as Agni, Atlanta Review, Barrow Street, Nimrod, Passages North, Poetry East, Rhino, and River Styx.
His first book, Buyer’s Remorse, debuted in 2014.
Mash’s poems celebrate the small, the overloo!ed, the underrated. drawing on sources from The Three Stooges to Archimedes, Lavoisier to Tweety Bird, Mash is a latter day Anti-Oracle, a nail in the tire of post-modernity, an incorrigible wag who has smuggled his pea shooter into the Church of Poetry.
Be ready to duck!

Josh Wilson, a journalist and editor in San Francisco, started The Fabulist in 2007 as a home for fantastical fiction and art of all sorts. The site reflects a certain omnivorous appetite for far-out stories that disregards genre, and instead breaks fiction down as “fables, yarns and tales.”
By doing so, The Fab hopes to disrupt audience expectations and open up new terrain for the literature of the fantastic.
Join us June 12 at Studio 333 in Sausalito when WTAW features Bay Area readers published in The Fabulist for a weird, wild, and wonderful night.
Why There Are Words is the brainchild of Peg Alford Pursell. Interns Kim Marcellino & Hal King make us all very happy!
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE WRITERS MEETING
Sunday, June 22, 2014, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Book Passage ~ 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., ~ Corte Madera
Members $5; Nonmembers $10

Roy Mash is a longtime board member of Marin Poetry Center.
In a previous life he held degrees in English, Philosophy, and Computer Science.
Currently he appears as a regular in the movie of his life, where his character can be found doodling his time away, staring out of cafe windows, dabbing up the seeds that have fallen from an everything bagel, and mentally thumbing over his poems that have appeared widely in journals such as Agni, Atlanta Review, Barrow Street, Nimrod, Passages North, Poetry East, Rhino, and River Styx.
His first book, Buyer’s Remorse, debuted in 2014.
