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
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.”
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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
Linda Drattell’s second poetry collection, The Lighter Side of Horse Manure, is now published by Finishing Line Press. This collection shares the humorous (intentional or not) wisecracking wit of Linda’s mischievous aging farm animals. Pre-order now until August 23, 2024 for a discounted price of $17.99 plus shipping. After that date, the price will increase. Books will be shipped in October. https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-lighter-side-of-horse-manure-by-linda-drattell/.
John Bluck’s short story, “Cold in Chicago,” was published on June 11th, in a book of short stories released by Murderous Ink Press in the United Kingdom. The book, CRIMEUCOPIA, Through the Past Darkly, includes stories by 21 authors about crime from 420 BC through to AD 1969. Here’s a link to the short story book: https://www.amazon.com/Crimeucopia-Through-Darkly-Various-Authors-ebook/dp/B0CX9HMDQQ/.
Diane Lovitt’s memoir, Butter Your Own Damn Bread: Discovering My Values and My Voice, was published on May 22, 2024 and is available on Amazon https://a.co/d/fuq2jrm .
Jim Rowson’s Uncommon Scents (written with Bruce Berls and published in 2022) was shortlisted for the prestigious Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize. The Eric Hoffer Book Award is one of the largest international book awards for small, academic, and independent presses. Fewer than five percent of nominated books are shortlisted for the grand prize. Uncommon Scents was also a finalist for the First Horizon Award, given to debut authors, and received an Honorable Mention in the Science Fiction/Fantasy category. Uncommon Scents was a finalist in the First Novel category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the largest International awards program for indie authors and independent publishers.
Author Mary Deal conducted an interview with John Bluck about his background and his Luke Ryder mystery/thriller novels, which are published by Rough Edges Press. To read the interview, please click here: https://writeanygenre.wordpress.com/2024/05/14/john-g-bluck/
The following TVW members have pieces published in Las Positas College’s anthology, 2024 HAVIK: Linda Dratell for her poems “adapting to my life as an expat in españa,” “Deaf and Dealing with Bêtise at the Bistro,” and “Interlude Interrupted;” James Morehead for his poems “Two hundred and ten minutes later,” Twenty ways to start a poem about being bullied,” and “memories of a bullet” (1st Place); Rose Owens for her nonfiction article, “A Nag of a Different Color;” Abbey Lynne Raysfor her poems “Minnie Foster” and “Make It a Double;” and Monique Rardin Richardson for her three poems, “Beso Perfecto,” “Stardust,” and “Trust.”
Patricia Boyle’s poem, “white,” won an Honorable Mention award in Livermore’s science poetry contest, “Poetry in a Test Tube.”
