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Opening Act Series: Part One
Date: October 27, 2013 Time: 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm The 2013-14 “Opening Act” series will begin October 27th at 1:00 pm in advance of our regular monthly meeting. Part One: Sunday. Oct. 27 “Present to Past and Back Again The retrospective narrator in fiction and memoir”...
Opening Act Series: Part Two
The 2013-14 "Opening Act" series begins at 1:00 pm in advance of our regular monthly meeting. Part Two: Sunday, November 17 "Leaps to Backstory and the Past" Transitions may be simple blank space or a new chapter while reader engaging transitions use people, objects,...
2013 Halloween Book Festival
THE 2013 HALLOWEEN BOOK FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES HOLLYWOOD, CA (August 9, 2013) _ The 2013 Halloween Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program honoring the best books of the season. The event is part of the annual Aliens to Zombies Convention...
Animals, Animals, Animals
THE 2013 ANIMALS, ANIMALS, ANIMALS BOOK FESTIVAL - CALL FOR ENTRIES CHICAGO (August 13, 2013) _ The 2013 Animals, Animals, Animals Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its competition honoring the best stories from the world of dogs, cats, horses, wild...
Revel in Writing
September 22, 2013 1 to 5 p.m. at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Mark your calendars now for this event. Not only do we have agents and publishers, readings, food/wine/music, our Keynote speaker is Constance Hale. We need volunteers for this event: food/wine...
Why There Are Words
Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series always provides a magical night with its award-winning writers. Join us August 8, 2013 at Studio 333 to find out what the following fine writers have up their sleeves when they read their works on the theme “Magic.” Doors...
California Writers Week
Celebrate the Writers of California! By decree of the Governor and California State Legislature, the third week of October is perennially designated as California Writers Week Jack London, Eugene O’Neill, Sam Shepard*, Alan Ginsberg, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jerimiah...
Picnic, Poetry & LitCake
JOIN US!Saturday, July 20 Joaquin Miller Park Oakland PICNIC PARTICULARS R.S.V.P.: BrownCalifornia@aol.com Food n' Fun Open Mic Literary Cake-Decorating Contest CWC WILL PROVIDE: Hamburgers and all the fixin’s, plates, napkins, tableware, etc. YOU BRING: Side dish,...
Four Things About Writing
The first thing: When writing stories, long pieces, articles, memoirs, anything, the first thing to realize is: be nice to yourself, or better yet, kick yourself down the stairs, that feel better? You choose. How silly, of course you will be nice to yourself. Of...
Book Review by Jo Haraf
The Emotion Thesaurus A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression My first-draft protagonists exhibit two emotions and two postures. They smile. They frown. They lean forward and back. Sigh. They’re a stiff lot. To put emotional meat on my characters’ brittle white...