Sondra Perry at San Ramon Art and Wind Festival
Join CWC Tri-Valley member Sondra Perry and “Henry the Heron” Sunday and Monday, May 29 & 30 at the San Ramon Art and Wind Festival in Central Park.
Chris Baty – No Plot, No Problem
A resident of Berkeley, California, Chris is the founder of National Novel Writing Month and the Executive Director of its parent nonprofit, the Office of Letters and Light. With his startlingly mediocre prose style and complete inability to write credible dialogue, Chris has set a reassuringly low bar for budding novelists everywhere. Chris is an …
TVW members published on-line
Jamuna Advani received honorable mention for
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 …
Dawn of a new idea by Elaine Schmitz
I started a book review group, along with writers Julie Royce, Vee Byram, and Sharon Svitak, with a different twist. All of us are in critique groups sponsored by the California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch. All of us strive to improve our skills not only as writers, but as critiquers as well. That quest became …
May 2011 President’s Message from Violet Carr Moore
Astronauts and writers, career opposites, share a common thread of exploration. Space travel obliterated the saying, “The sky’s the limit.” From a limited tweet to a full novel, writers are word astronauts journeying into the unknown. Characters from nonfiction reality to extreme fantasy form a crew for liftoff into a new dimension. A theme emerges.
Sharon Svitak, Memoir Workshop
Telling Your Story is a workshop designed to help determine the story you want to tell, techniques for uncovering nuggets of detail, and suggestions on how to bring your story to life. This will be a hands-on workshop so bring a notebook to write in and your favorite pen. Cost: $1.25 activity fee per person. …
Cindy Cross now in the Pleasanton Weekly
Cindy Cross is the new political writer for the Pleasanton Weekly. Her column “Crossroads” has addressed such topics as presidential candidates and the best use for the vacant property at the former Nob Hill grocery on Santa Rita Road. Look for “Crossroads” at www.pleasantonweekly.com.
Tri-Valley Writers Authors’ Spotlight
Celebrate the many talented writers in the area with Tri-Valley members reading from their own published work. A variety of genres will be represented by a diverse group of authors. Members’ work ranges from literary fiction, memoir, travel, essays, poetry, children’s literature and genre fiction. Our featured readers are Beth Aaland, Jamna Advani, Annette Langer, …
Sondra Perry on TV Channel 30
Sondra Perry discusses her book The Most Unusual Pet Ever: Henry our Great Blue Heron and His Adventures on “In a Word”, Channel 30. The segment runs through April (go to www.TV30.org and click on “In a Word show.”)