Author name: trivalleywriters

May 17, 2014: Poetry The Long and Short of It

Linda Watanabe McFerrin will be the guest speaker at the next monthly meeting of the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch on Saturday, May 17. Learn how poetry surrounds our everyday lives. Join us for a few short exercises that will help develop your creativity.   Linda Watanabe McFerrin is a poet, travel writer, novelist and contributor to numerous newspapers, magazines and anthologies. She …

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April 19, 2014 : Creating Compelling Characters in Crime Fiction

Penny Warner will be the guest speaker at the next monthly meeting of the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch on Saturday, April 19, at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton. Penny Warner has published over 60 books for both adults and children. Her first mystery series featuring Connor Westphal, won a Macavity Award for Best First Mystery, and …

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Across The World

CWC Tri-Valley Branch is promoting our local authors world-wide, and entertaining U.S. troops at the same time. Members can donate signed copies of their own books at the April meeting. Vice President Deborah Bernal will collect the books and bring them to the San Ramon Blue Star Moms, who will send them to local military …

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Members Keeping Busy

Tri-Valley Writers are producing and publishing.  Fred Norman has a new book, A Hill of Poems. This collection includes works read at various events on Lafayette’s hill of crosses. Proving that your work doesn’t have to be hot off the presses to be a hot commodity, Annette Langer had an event for her 2005 book, Healing Through …

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Fred Norman Has Several Successes

Fred Norman has published several works; A Hill of Poems, a poem and a mini-short piece in Julaina Kleist-Corwin’s anthology, Written Across the Genres, and a poem and prose in David Madgalene’s anthology, World of Change: New Way Media Fest.