Celebrate the new year with others whose passion for writing is as strong as your own. Join us for a meeting filled with open-mic readings by our members during our Winterfest celebration. Sign up early to snag one of the nine five-minute reading slots. This is your time to share your poems, flash fiction, short-short stories, or …
Elaine Drew read from Courting Trouble (a romantic comedy set in England in 800 AD) at the Lafayette Library Sunday, September 15, at 4 pm, as part of the Art Embraces Words program. Dr. Jac Fitz-enz is featured in the September 2019 issue of CFO magazine. Jac is quoted by David McCann …
Like everyone around him, Everett Aboud was stuck in his own personal dead-end. Until Friday, April 18, when Philip Machen changed life for everyone. Ed Miracle‘s debut novel, Maker Messiah, was published September 14. Eve Sprunt‘s book Dearest Audrey, An Unlikely Love Story, based on her aunt’s letters while on a Fullbright in Pakistan …
Have you poured your heart and soul into a draft of your novel or spent the month of November writing 50,000 + words for NaNoWriMo, and now don’t know what to do with all your effort? Are you stuck with your research? Or not sure if you’ve done enough to properly world build? Perhaps you …
Brooke Warner will present a “What You Should Know about Hybrid Publishing” workshop for Tri-Valley Writers’ November meeting. The publishing process is mysterious to many writers. How do agents determine what’s commercial and what’s not? What if your writing is not commercial? Are there options other than commercial publishing and self-publishing? Brooke will demystify the process and …
Brooke Warner, Publisher of She Writes Press & SparkPress, November 16, 2019 Read More »
Camille Minichino will discuss “Hacks for Writing Suspense” as Tri-Valley Writers October speaker. Whatever the genre, suspense is an important component of fiction. We’ll examine ways of creating suspense through all the elements of a good scene: action, dialogue, setting, internal thoughts, and physiological response. Camille is a retired physicist turned writer. She’s the author of 26 …
Camille Minichino, Author of 26 mystery novels, October 19, 2019 Read More »
On July 21, G. Karl Kumfert received the California Writers Club Jack London Award in appreciation and gratitude for his many years of exemplary service to Tri-Valley Writers (TVW). Karl started volunteering as Tri-Valley Writers’ webmaster almost as soon as he joined in late 2012. A technology entrepreneur with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, he …
Adam Plantinga, author of 400 Things Cops Know, will discuss “The Police: Fiction vs. Reality” as Tri-Valley Writers September speaker. This presentation will cover Adam’s first book’s rocky road to publication (hint: persistence can still pay off) as well as some of the key differences between fictional cops and real cops. Attendees will learn that …
Adam Plantinga, Author of 400 Things Cops Know, September 21, 2019 Read More »
Tri-Valley Writers takes a brief summer hiatus during the months of July and August. The Board of Directors will be busy planning for a terrific 2019-2020 term. Monthly meetings will resume in September. Critique groups, social media group, Open Mic, and Pull up a Chair and Write continue to meet during the summer, so please forge …
Nina Schuyler, author of The Translator, will discuss “How to Write Stunning Sentences” as Tri-Valley Writers June speaker. Some of what attendees will learn includes: What sentences do you craft to capture anxiety? Thought? A reminiscent narrator? What kind of sentence creates a feeling of euphoria? Of exhaustion? The style of the sentence—the diction, imagery, …
Nina Schuyler, Author of The Translator, June 15, 2019 Read More »
