We are proud to sponsor a workshop conducted by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni, “Creating Plots and Playing God” on Saturday, April 6, 2013, 12:30-4:30 p.m., at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard in Pleasanton. Check in begins at 12:00 p.m. Snacks and beverages provided during break. Does your novel or story keep …
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Jennifer Basye Sander will be speaking about avenues for becoming published at our next monthly meeting on February 16, at 2 pm at the Four Points Sheraton on Hopyard in Pleasanton. She is the author of more than 50 books including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting Published, the bestseller Christmas Miracles (1997) and her …
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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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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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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 …
Geri Spieler is an internet research guru. She is the author of Taking Aim at the President: The Remarkable Story of the Woman who Shot Gerald Ford. This book has won four awards including the Smart-Writ Best Non-fiction award at the 2010 Mensa Annual Conference. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los …
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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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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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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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Just in time to inspire us before our summer break, Catherine M. Brady, Academic Director and Professor at USF, will speak on revisions. Brady is the author of Story Logic and the Craft of Fiction (2010), as well as three short story collections: The End of the Class War (1999), finalist for the 2000 Western …
