by CWC Marin administrator | Feb 20, 2021 | Events
Please register on this form to get a reminder with the Zoom link. Per the presenter’s request, this event will NOT be recorded.
We recognize that some of our members are facing challenges at this time so Marin’s monthly meeting will be FREE through June. Our gift to you.
That said, our outstanding presenters give their all to provide quality programs. Please help support them by making a small donation that we will pass along to our presenters.
Donate to April speaker, Michael Andres Palmieri
by CWC Marin administrator | Jan 3, 2021 | Events
Please register on this form to get a reminder with the Zoom link, and pay with PayPal below. CWC members (any branch) — $5.00. Non-members — $10.00.
You can also make a donation that goes to the presenter, Lyzette Wanzer.
Pay via PayPal
by CWC Marin administrator | Nov 6, 2020 | Classes and Workshops, Events
It’s Time to Celebrate You, Your Writing Community, and Your Spectacular Talent!
Everyone is invited to enjoy the festivities and perhaps walk away with an awesome reading list or even do a little holiday shopping. Even if you don’t have anything ready to share, come join in on the fun.
Do you have a book, poem, news article, essay, script, play, song or some other literary work that you want to read to the group?
Or maybe you want to practice what it would be like on a mini-book tour? Here’s your opportunity to present you and your works in a friendly, supportive space.
The amount of time each member gets to showcase will depend upon how many people sign up by November 15. (For now estimate five minutes.) You can feature more than one work, but you’ll have the same time limit as everyone else. We’ll do Q&A if we have time. So grab a beverage of choice and celebrate with us on Zoom as we see & hear the wonders that Marin branch members have created.
Sign Up to Present by Thursday, December 3 at Noon.
Send us an email at marincwc@gmail.com, with your name, what work(s) you plan to present, and when they were published or completed. The work need not be published or even for sale to showcase it. Writers with works completed since January 2019 will be showcased first, but we expect everyone to have an opportunity to showcase.
Register to attend the showcase by December 5 at cwcmarin.com/december for the Zoom link.
by CWC Marin administrator | Oct 14, 2020 | Craft, Events
Successful travel writing transports readers to another time and place. Join Us November 15 to learn the secrets of helping your readers see, hear, smell, and taste locations that leap off the page and ignite the imagination. Whether you’re writing nonfiction (memoir, true-adventure, and travelogue) or fiction (historical, thriller, and literary), this workshop will help your settings come alive.
Susan Spann is the award-winning, bestselling author of CLIMB (Prometheus Books, 2020), a narrative nonfiction chronicle of her quest to overcome cancer, break free from fear, and climb 100 Japanese mountains in a single year, as well as the Hiro Hattori novels, a historical mystery series featuring the ongoing adventures of master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo. She is also the author of numerous travel articles and a travel and photography blog. Susan currently lives in Tokyo, and will be presenting live from Tokyo via Zoom.
by CWC Marin administrator | Oct 5, 2020 | Classes and Workshops, Events
In this entertaining and interactive class (at least as interactive as zoom allows!), Kerry Schafer will share her secrets for using elements of psychology and Myers-Briggs Personality Typing to create characters so lifelike readers feel like they could sit down with them for a cup of coffee — or follow them off on an adventure!
Kerry (who also writes as Kerry Anne King) is a Washington Post and Amazon charts bestselling author who writes quirky paranormal mysteries and compelling and transformational stories about family and personal growth.
Kerry has been chosen as the 2020 Writer of the Year by the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Association. Her most recent novel, Everything You Are, is a finalist in the Nancy Pearl Awards hosted by the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. In addition to writing, she is enthusiastic about encouraging and supporting other writers and is the host of Tell Me Your Secrets, a videocast/podcast featuring lively, informal interviews with authors and other people involved in bringing books into the world. She also loves speaking and teaching on a variety of writing related topics.
When not absorbed in creative pursuits, you’ll find Kerry Anne hanging out with her real-life Viking on their little piece of heaven in rural northeastern Washington. www.writeattheedge.com
Register at cwcmarin.com/october.
by CWC Marin administrator | Sep 10, 2020 | Events
Saturday, September 19, 1:00 – 2:30 pm Online
Redwood Writers presents
Submit to Indie Lit! with Lise Quintana
If you’re still new to submitting, smaller independent literary journals are a great place to break in—most of them are starving for great content. Learn how to find the right lit journal for your work, and how to maximize your chances for success using a submission management program.
Lise Quintana’s work can be found in SLAB, Red Fez, Drunk Monkeys, Instant Magazine, The Rambler, and Role Reboot, among others. She headed Zoetic Press, which produced the journal NonBinary Review and the Viable chapbook series. She is the former editor in chief of Lunch Ticket, the literary journal of Antioch Universtiy Los Angeles’s MFA program. She’s the inventor of the Lithomobilus ereader, a program for creating and reading nonlinear literature. She is active with the Bay Area Book Festival, Litquake, and National Novel Writing Month. Her latest effort is a podcast about weight-related issues called Living Large in America.
LiseQuintana.com
To Register (Become a Marin Member first for member discount): https://redwoodwriters.org/meetings/
