by CWC Marin administrator | May 15, 2014 | Classes and Workshops, Events
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
Features the Fabulist
June 12, 2014
7 p.m.
Studio 333, Sausalito.
$10
Why There Are Words is the brainchild of Peg Alford Pursell. Interns Kim Marcellino & Hal King make us all very happy!
by CWC Marin administrator | May 5, 2014 | Events
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
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.
by CWC Marin administrator | Apr 16, 2014 | Events
Sylvie Simmons
British, ukulele-playing, award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, Leonard Cohen’s biographer and the subject of BBC documentary ‘The Rock Chick.’
Sunday, May 18, 20 14 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Book Passage – 51 Tarnal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera
Donation: Members $5, Nonmembers $10
An award-winning author and renowned Rock journalist, since the late Seventies, Sylvie was born in London and lives in San Francisco.
Her books include Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes, which J.G Ballard named as a favorite; short story collection Too Weird for Ziggy; and I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, The New York Times bestseller that NPR called the best biography of2012.
She also writes songs and performs with a ukulele. Leonard Cohen calls her “darling.”
“Writing about a living subject,” Sylvie Simmons says, means having “to immerse yourself in that person’s life to a degree that would probably get you locked up in any decent society.” It can also mean abandoning all hope of objectivity. But despite her simpatico feel for the life and work of her subject, Ms. Simmons’s “I’m Your Man” is the major, soul-searching biography that Leonard Cohen deserves.”NYTimes, September 2013.
by CWC Marin administrator | Apr 2, 2014 | Classes and Workshops, Events
Catamaran Writing Conference
Pebble Beach, California
August 13 – 17, 2014
Catamaran will host its first annual writing conference at the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California.
The conference offers morning workshops in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in small groups of 5-12.
Registration includes four nights lodging at the Stevenson school and twelve meals in a group setting.
Improve your craft with these award-winning instructors:
Poetry: Joseph Millar, Kim Addonizio
Nonfiction: Jonah Raskin, Jane Vandenburgh
Fiction: Gina Ochsner, Elizabeth McKenzie
Science and Nature Writing: John Moir
Register now to save $250 for early registration.
Learn more about the instructors and an overview of the conference on Catamaran’s website: Catamaran Literary Reader.
by CWC Marin administrator | Mar 6, 2014 | Events
SET YOUR CHARACTERS FREE
The pitfalls and unexpected rewards of turning memoir into fiction.
with
Mary-Rose Hayes
Sunday, April 13, 2014
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Book Passage – 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera
Mary-Rose Hayes will discuss writing her new novel WHAT SHE HAD TO DO; the reasons it took so long (more than ten years) and how that was a blessing in
disguise; 
why the characters in the book didn’t seem real until she stepped out of their lives and allowed them to develop on their own; and how, by the time she had typed “THE END” for the final time, she had surprisingly come to terms with past issues of her own.
British-born Mary-Rose Hayes is the author of eight previous novels including the TIME/LIFE best seller AMETHYST, and two political thrillers co-authored with Senator Barbara Boxer.
by CWC Marin administrator | Feb 25, 2014 | Events, Newsletters
The tenth book by Priscilla Royal in her medieval mystery series, Covenant With Hell, is now out in paper and book versions. 
Publishers Weekly has given it a starred review and Sharon Kay Penman her highest praise.
A native of Washington State, Priscilla Royal grew up in New Westminster, BC. She graduated with a BA in world literature from San Francisco State University.
In 2000, she retired from the federal civil service and now writes medieval mysteries full time. Medieval literature and history have fascinated her for almost half a century, and she delights in finding details that aren’t usually mentioned in most fiction. As one example, her main characters belong to the very real Order of Fontevraud, a double house of monks and nuns, run by a woman in an era when conventional wisdom said that women were weak, illogical and should never rule men. The characters remain true to their time but exhibit universal character- istics.
Although a fan of theater, modern mysteries, and fiction of lesser violence, she was inspired to write about medieval crime and punishment by the works of both Ellis Peters and Sharon Kay Penman.
Visit her website at www.priscillaroyal.com and her blog postings on The Lady Killers blog (www.theladykillers.typepad.com).
