by CWC Marin administrator | Nov 23, 2013 | Events
Mollie Giles
January 26, 2014, 2-4 p.m., Book Passage in Corte Madera
Award-winning author Molly Giles is best known for her short stories. Molly Giles is a short story writer, novelist, and professor in the Department of English at the University of Arkansas. She formerly taught at San Francisco State University.
She is the author of Creek Walk and Other Stories published in 1997 and the novel Iron Shoes published in 2000. Her story collection Rough Translations won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She also appears in Sudden Fiction (60 New Short-Short Stories).
Her short stories have been translated into Spanish.
With a masters degree in English, Giles was a professor of Creative Writing at San Jose State University and is currently Professor and Director of Programs in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas.
by CWC Marin administrator | Sep 30, 2013 | Events
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.
The Marin branch was chartered with CWC in 1999. For additional information, visit our History page or the California Writers Club website: www.calwriters.org
by CWC Marin administrator | Sep 16, 2013 | Events
“The Evolution of a Book:
From Idea to Publication”
Sunday, October 27, 2013: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Book Passage, Corte Madera
Author of the bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul, Michael David Lukas has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv, and a waiter at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont. A 2010 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and finalist for the 2012 California Book Award, he lives in Oakland.
Michael David Lukas
Michael is a recipient of scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Summer Writers’ Institute, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and Elizabeth George Foundation.
Sunday, October 27, 2013, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Book Passage, Corte Madera.
by CWC Marin administrator | Sep 14, 2013 | Events
Mill Valley Outdoor Art Club presents
California Writer Club member Christie Nelson, author of Dreaming Mill Valley, Woodacre and My Moveable Feast
and
John M. King, writer and Publisher of Mill Valley Literary Review, Place as Character
Please join us for a discussion, reading and slide show
Thursday, September 19, 1PM
One West Blithedale, Mill Valley 94941
www.outdoorartclub.org
415-383-2582
Free and Open to the Public
by CWC Marin administrator | Sep 4, 2013 | Events
Hello again, Marin writers and CWC members!
Only three weeks until our exciting Marin Writes mini-conference on September 22! We’ve got Constance Hale as plenary speaker, agents and publishers waiting to hear your pitches, and wonderful readers—and a lot of great donations of food and beverages.
by CWC Marin administrator | Aug 18, 2013 | Events
Come Revel in Writing
Sunday, September 22, 2013
1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
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