Past Meetings

Open Mic Night with My Friends at Pleasanton Library August 12

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California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch in collaboration with the Pleasanton Library announces “Open Mic Night with My Friends” on second Mondays of each month. The next event is August 12, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Pleasanton Public Library, 400 Old Bernal Avenue. Free and open to the public. No reservations needed. Readers sign up from 6:00-6:15 p.m. in the meeting room. For …

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January 19, 2013 Winterfest Celebration: Blending Artists and Authors

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The annual Winterfest celebration of CWC Tri-Valley members will blend talents of artists and authors. The sixteen art pieces and submission guidelines for this Winterfest Ekphrasis are available HERE. Members are encouraged to select one or more of these visuals to inspire their poetry and prose. Send your entries to  submissions@trivalleywriters.org by midnight, January 10, 2013. The artwork …

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December 15, 2012 Meg Waite Clayton presents Getting to Yes: The art of polishing and submitting a manuscript

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Meg Waite Clayton is the national bestselling author of The Four Ms. Bradwells, The Wednesday Sisters, and the Bellwether Prize finalist The Language of Light, published by Ballantine Books, a Random House imprint, and acclaimed by all major national book club picks. Clayton’s books have been published in six languages. Her fourth novel, The Wednesday …

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October 2012 Martha Engber Writing Workshop: Enough with Show, Don’t Tell Already!

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Martha Engber, a professional journalist is the author of Growing Great Characters From the Ground Up: A Thorough Primer for the Writers of Fiction and Nonfiction. She received a 5-star “original-and-highly-recommended” rating from the Midwest Book Review for her literary novel, The Wind Thief. She has an article in Women Writing on Family: Tips on …

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Author Victoria Zacheim: The Power of Creative Nonfiction

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California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch invites you to meet acclaimed author, Victoria Zacheim. She is the author of the novel, The Bone Weaver, and editor of five anthologies: He Said What?: Women Write About Moments When Everything Changed, The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal, For …

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Tri-Valley Writers High School Writing Contest Reception at Towne Center Books

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Congratulations to all the participants in, and especially to the winners of, the first Tri-Valley Writers High School Writing Contest. Students in grades 9-11 from ten area high schools competed for prizes in fiction, essay, and poetry. A celebration for the winners was held Saturday, June 30, at Towne Center Books, 555 Main Street, Pleasanton. …

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