Welcome
The California Writers’ Club is one of the oldest writer’s organizations in continuous operation in the nation. Our members are poets, journalists, essayists, technical writers, and creators of genre and literary fiction, as well as editors, booksellers, and others involved in related fields, all joined together for the common goal of educating ourselves and the community on the craft of writing and publishing.
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Main Event: Michael David Lukas
Lukas’ bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul (Harper Collins 2011) was the “OneBookOneMarin” 2012 selection. He has been a Fulibright Scholar in Turkey, a night-shift proofreader in Tel Avid, and a waiter at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont.
He is a recipient of scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Sate Summer Writers’ Institute, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and Elizabeth George Foundation. He writing has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal VQR, and Slate, among others. When he is not writing, he teaches creative writing to third and fourth graders at an elementary school.
Third Week of October: California Writers Week
Celebrate the Writers of California!
All are welcome.
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
The Animals, Animals, Animals Book Festival will consider works in the following categories: dogs, cats, birds, horses, insects, fish, reptiles, children’s books, young adult, working animals, wild card (anything goes!), pets, jungle, farm, city animals, biography/memoirs, talking, photography, horror, science, unpublished manuscripts, and spiritual/religious. All entries must be in English.
Carlos Castaneda, John Collins, Suzanne Forster, Lacey Fosburgh*, Jane Futcher, Amy Tan, Thomas Harris, George Sterling, Yolanda Nava, Thomas Pynchon, Upton Sinclair, Alyson Noel, John Gray, Jennifer Ann Kogler, Herbert Gold*, Helen Hunt Jackson, Edith Tacher Hurd*, Jessica Barksdale Inclan, Jack Kornfeld*, Dashiell Hammett, Barbara Seranella, William Saroyan, Molly Dick*, Paul McHugh, Robyn Schneider, Delilah Beasley, Herb Caen, Devid Meltzer, Anna Deavere Smith, Molly Giles, Andrea Siegel, Barnaby Conrad*, Stewart Emery*, S. I. Hayakawa, Jonathan Kellerman, Alan Rifkin, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Isaacs Menken, Joaquin Miller, Paul Liberatore*, Dan Millman, Terry Black, Jack Hicks, J. S. Holliday, Anh Do, John Muir, Michael Scott Moore, Carolyn Follett, Carl Reiner, Victoria Silva, Audrey Wood, Don Miguel Ruiz, Rebecca Solnit, M. F. K. Fisher, Firoozeh Dumas, Lisa Alpine, Steve Martin, Khaled Hosseini, Edward Humes, Faye Kellerman, Susan Ito, Pico Iyer, D. P. Lyle, Eric Shapiro, Bonnie Domrose Stone, Kathleen Sharp, Joe Quirk, Ross Macdonald, Lynette Brasfield, Gail Tsukiyama, Jo Anne Van Tillburg, Bret Harte, K. C. Cole, June Dutton, Alexandra Haslam, Elizabeth McKenzie, Deanne Stillman, Jessica Mitford, Pat Morrison, Rupert Hughes, Thom Gunn, Susan Straight, Rayn Roberts, Randy Shilts, Peter Richardson, Veronique de Turenne, Ursula K. LeGuin, Tony Lazzarini, Peter Lefcourt, Yone Noguchi, Vladimir Lange, Tony Johnston, Malcolm Margolin, M. L. Malcolm, Michael McClure, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Lucille Lang Day, Oakley Hall, Robyn McGee, Kelly Lange, Nancy Huebotter, Stanton Delaplane*, Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Thomas Steinbeck, Theodora Kroeber, Alan Clements, devorah major, Joie Davidow, John Lescroat, Linda Palmer, Robert Haas*, Louis B. Jones, Robert de Heer, Leora Krygier, John D. Grissim*, John Gilmore, Robinson Jeffers, Molly Fish, Kathryn J. Abajian, John Forbes, William O’Daly, Shirley Ann Parker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Wardlaw Lee, Penny Warner, Taylor Smith, Ruben Martinez, Peg Bracken, Joe Gores*, Jean Harfenist, Lee Lofland, Kimball Livingston*, Carolyn See, Ona Russell, Shesshu Foster, Molly Katzen, Mikel Dunham, Laurel House, Judy Reeves, Marybeth Bond*, Judith Greber*, Jack Hirschman, Edwin Markham, Donald DeNevi, Ishmael Reed, David Masumoto, Andrew Sean Greer, Floyd Salas, Jimmy Hopper, Tillie Olsen, Michael Parenti, Fanny Osbourne, Daniel Handler, Frank Chin, Julie Williams, Lacey Fosburgh, Kevin Starr, Julie Wallace, Francisco Garces, Daniel A. Olivas, Anthony Marais, Louise Steinman, Mary Mackey, Louise Clappe, Martin Cruz Smith*, Richard Rodrigues, Alice Sebold, Erik Erikson, Aimee Liu, Reyna Grande, Regina Louise, Jack Shelton*, Wallace Stegner*, George Sterling*, Raymond Strait, Hector Tobar, Danielle Steele, Martin Cruz Smith*, Gertrude Stein, Ellen Sussman, Curt Gentry, Eric Stone, Victoria Zackheim, Elizabeth Stromme, Susan Vreeland, Alan Watts*, John Wasserman*, Joseph Wambaugh, Alice Walker, Jessamyn West, Marianne Williamson, D. J. Waldie, Ashley Wolff, Richard Vaughn, Al Young, Gary Zukav, Tobias Wolff, April Halpri Wayland, Dr. David Viscott, Oscar Zeta, Rick Wartzman, . . . and the list goes on