Next Meeting
January 18, 2025: Winterfest
Join us for a free drop-in writing session, meet-and-greet, and informal discussion on Saturday, January 18, 2025. This month Tri-Valley Writers celebrates with Winterfest! What is Winterfest, you ask? It’s a time dedicated to celebrating US! The event will start at our regular time, 2:00 pm; at our regular place, room 2470 on Las Positas College campus, but will be so much more. We’ll have food and beverages, social time, a goal-setting exercise, a gift basket give-away, and plenty of time for members to read excerpts from pieces published or given awards in the past year. If you would like to participate in our own Tr-Valley Writers open mic, email Lani Longshore at: secretary@trivalleywriters.org – or email Jordan Bernal at: president@trivalleywriters.org or Patricia Boyle at: vp@trivalleywriters.org.
Although the meeting is free, TVW would like to know who plans to attend so we can ensure enough food and drink. Please email your RSVP to Daniela at treasurer@trivalleywriters.org by Wednesday, January 15, 2025.
Future Meetings
SPECIAL NOTICE: 2024-2025 TERM
The Board of Tri-Valley Writers has determined that with the current vacancies, the branch will no longer be able to provide all of the programs and events it has in the past. For the July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025 term, members will receive:
Access to programs and events at other CWC branches at the member rate
A quarterly newsletter
Continued access to Zoom links for critique meetings and other programs as available
Pull Up a Chair and Write sessions at Inklings in Pleasanton three times per month
Opportunities to support teen writers through the high school writing contest
Until the branch has more help, the following will be eliminated:
Monthly speaker meetings
Workshops with writing professionals
Author Support
Social Space
Reduced capacity website, without the usual updates for Member Successes & Members’ bio pages.
If volunteers are forthcoming, programs and events may be restored, including monthly speaker meetings. We could potentially restore other programs we used to offer, such as open mic nights, an anthology of members’ writings, and workshops or conferences.
The board would like to thank all the members of Tri-Valley Writers for being part of this wonderful club, and hope you will continue to be part of the club during this time. We adapted during COVID, and we can do it again with your help.
Member News
TVW 2021-2024 HSWC Anthology Publication
Tri-Valley Writers is pleased to announce the publication of the 2021-2024 high school writing contest winners’anthology, My Story, My Vision 2021-2024, on November 12, 2024. The anthology is offered at the low price of $6.00, with any proceeds going toward the next TVW high school writing contest. The book is available for purchase on Amazon at the following link: https://a.co/d/0bMB8sC
Member Publication
CWC’s Vision & Verse: A Fusion of Art, Photography, Prose and Poetry is now available on Amazon. The following TVW members have pieces published in this stunningly beautiful anthology: Monique Rardin Richardson for her artwork, “One With Nature;” Rose Owens for “Theft of Time,” “Abandoned,” and “Going Fast;” and Pamela Pan for “Waiting.”
https://www.amazon.com/Vision-Verse-Fusion-Photography-Poetry/dp/1735637211/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiSJ9.oySLt8IU4-hzcnBfiV7iI9utLOmgZMa5FU7i3aZeG4mJpYR3HFVVpZZ45izRwIassnI1A22CsUnYWwlT19UL6RjcnbJ5UlMGcq9zlqQ6yInAmAWm4AA46qEb8HMtQb2lJCuKIByFngoFxm-0Ob1Y15znWopAnvvv27QdfZHSgkrkXoo71KlDBHX8N94y2OkI6v07E-djWEQOt0Km5oR-n4s1QCdRuz8tob2ZSVaJoYg.otEbJWO59rEcLN0Ujf6pDK1TxAKjsT2v_aAEEM3LCHs&dib_tag=se&qid=1721153687&refinements=p_27%3ACalifornia+Writers+Club&s=books&sr=1-1&text=California+Writers+Club
Member Publication
CWC’s Best of the Best: 2024 Literary Review, a collection of poems and stories selected from 20 CWC branch publications, is now available on Amazon. The following TVW members have pieces published in this 300+ page collection: Jordan Bernal for her poem, “Writing at Zero Dark Thirty;” Shannon Brown for her prose, “A Cheese Sandwich on Main Street;” Kate McCarroll Moore for her poem, “Nature Doesn’t Seem to Know or Care;” and Violet Carr Moore for her prose, “Search and Rescue.”
Best of the Best: 2024 Literary Review: CLub, California Writers, Apodaca, Mike, Margotta, Jenny, Tuck, Elisabeth, Zone, Richard, Krieg, Joyce: 9781735637235: Amazon.com: Books