Connie Hanstedt’s poem “Layers” has been named a finalist in the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards. Connie was invited to the Master Class in March 2020. Ed Miracle’s debut novel, Maker Messiah, won the Best Science Fiction Award for 2019 from IndiesToday. His essay “Submarine Dreams” won first place in the San …
Returning member V. Z Byram’s debut novel, Song of Latvia, was published on December 13, 2019. You can find it here. Four of Julaina Kleist-Corwin’s 200-word personal stories are published in Donna Kozik’s 20/20 Vision. Each story is in different parts of the book: Intro: “Teaching Cows”; Past: “What Do You Want to Be?; …
On Friday, February 14, 2020, Tri-Valley Writers members Jordan Bernal and Paula Chinick presented their well-respected session “Practice Your Pitch: Cast Off Your Jitters” to a full house at the San Francisco Writers Conference (SFWC). The sessions were designed to assist attendees in casting off their jitters in a safe environment before the speed dating session with …
Barbara Flores spoke at the Livermore Library’s Indie Author Day event October 12 on “How Not To Write A Memoir.” Diana McDowell published two books under the pen name Diana Lynn. Splintered Dreams, contemporary women’s fiction, was published in February. In July, she published Build A Story – A Writer’s Workbook. Rose …
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 …
Arushi Avachat has self-published a new book, When Love Dies & Other Stories. Her book launch was at Inklings in Pleasanton on April 27. Several of Arushi’s short stories are award winners in contests for teens.
Barbara Flores‘ memoir, Separated Acting Badly: For the Love of Food, A Man, and Me, is now available on Amazon (Kindle and paperback). Barbara’s funny, and ultimately family-affirming book chronicles the transition from marriage to divorce, and what she learned from herself and her well-meaning friends. Alice Kight‘s poem “Beloved Eyewitness” won first place in …
Anne Manay released Unclean on February 19, 2019. Her new book is a sequel to her fantasy novel Hexborn, which she released in 2018. Vidhima Shetty was featured in The Pleasanton Weekly for her book An Adolescent’s Guide to ME/CFS.
Neva (Janie) Hodges’ first five pages of Against the Wall, her novel in progress, was a semifinalist in the Mount Hermon Writing Conference “Promising Beginnings” contest. Yvonne Carder, writing as Yvonne Brandenburg, published Pet Health Journal: A 6 Month Journal For Medications, Exams, & Healthy Living.
