Alice Kight and Marilyn Slade poetry published

Alice Kight‘s poetry ”The Candidate’s Wife and “Speechless Love” and “On Thursday” a poem by Marilyn Slade, have been published in From Benicia with Love, a poetry anthology of  Benicia First Tuesday Poetry Group. 

Eight Tri-Valley members published in Las Positas Anthology 2013

Eight members of Tri-Valley Writers were published in All That Remains, the Las Positas College 2013 anthology.  A  publication ceremony celebrated these and other authors on May 11, 2013, where they each received a complimentary book. 

Poetry

Hector Timourian: “Abraham’s Hope” – First Prize Winner 

Deborah Jordan Bernal: “Get Off the Road” and “Dreams”

Susan Condeff: “Pen Over Paper”

Alice Kight: “Summer” and “John Denver’s Voice”

Marilyn Slade: “Freedom”

Prose

Stacey Gustafson: “Hair Today Gone Tomorrow” and “He’s Not That Into Me”

Julaina Kleist-Corwin: “Stepping Stones”

Mary Ann Shaffer: “The Medic”

Alice Kight poems published

Alice Kight

“To The Dandelion,” a poem by Alice Kight, was published in the Spring 2013 issue of Song of the San Joaquin.

Alice Kight received Honorable Mention for her poem “Away” in the March contest for the California Federation of Chaparral Poets

Tri-Valley Writers in California Writers Club Literary Review

Literary Review Winter 2012-2013Four members of Tri-Valley Writers have been published in the Winter 2012-2013 issue of  The California Writers Club Literary Review. Congratulations to poets Jamuna Advani for “Vengeance” and Alice Kight for “Papa’s Turn” and to fiction prose authors Paula Chinick for “Hidden Discovery and Julaina Kleist-Corwin for “Fried Chicken Talks.”

CWC Tri-Valley Branch members in Oakland anthology

Eleven CWC Tri-Valley members have been published in Immersion, the January 2013 Oakland Anthology: Beth Aaland (1923-2012), Jan Davies, Arleen Eagling, Neva J. Hodges, Alice Kight, Julaina Kleist-Corwin, Carole MacLean,  Reme Pick, Julie Royce, Marilyn Slade, and Linda Todd.

Poetry winners at Alameda County Fair

California Writers Club Tri-Valley members Marilyn Slade, Sherry Smith, Alice Kight, and LaDonna Fehlberg won numerous awards for a juried poetry exhibit at the Alameda County Fair 100th anniversary celebration. Poems were read on June 24 and published in the 6th Annual Poetry Reading Book.

Marilyn Slade won the Fair Theme Award with “The Honorable Mr. Alameda County Fair Speaks.”

Sherry Smith won a Silver award with “Selling Flowers in Jerusalem.”

Poets recognized in Livermore

Four CWC Tri-Valley poets were honored at Livermore in Art & Words artist reception April 14, 2012. Among the poems displayed were “Devinely Vine”, “Imagine This” and “Like Fine Wine” by LaDonna Fehlberg; “Welcoming Committee” and “Visit to Alden Lane” by Alice Kight; “Vineyards of Livermore” and Twenty Minutes to Sunset” by Marilyn Slade; and “No Half Measures,” by Hector Timourian. The poems are displayed with others throughout April at The Prudential California Realty office gallery in Livermore.

Alice Kight, Camille Minichino, Marilyn Slade in the news

Breathing Lesson,” Alice Kight‘s poem in the Benicia Love Poem contest, was published in the Benicia Patch, January 11, 2012.

Jackie Barsley and Alice Kight published

Jackie Bardsley and Alice Kight will both be featured in the Ina Coolbrith 2011 anthology to be published in November. Bardsley’s “The Seduction” and Kight’s “Tomorrow’s Roses” will appear in the anthology named for California’s first poet laureate (1915).

TVW members in Illuminating Echoes

California Writers Club Tri-Valley celebrates with these members published in Illuminating Echoes, Las Positas anthology, released at an author’s reception Saturday, May 14, 2011.

Poetry: Alice Kight (Library Hideout and I Walk Out Early); Deborah Grossman (Prayer and Washing Up); and

Ronnie Holland (The Phone Call, Daphne’s Pedestal and My Mother’s Violets).

Prose: Patricia Bacon (All About Dorrie); Margarite Guy (The Artichoke Thief); Camille DeFer Thompson (Affirmation); and Elena Manzo (The Coffee Shop).

Books are available at Livermore campus.