This time of year I often forage for breakfast in the raspberry canes. As writers, we sometimes find ourselves foraging amidst the prickly canes of our imaginations, hoping that shimmer of color really is ripe fruit. Only after we reach out, risking scratches from thorns and bites from hidden spiders, will we know if the …
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Mahbod Seraji’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Rooftops of Tehran, paints a vivid portrait of growing up, discovering love, and awakening to the realities of life in a nation on the verge of revolution in the 1970’s. How did an Iranian immigrant, writing in a second language, come to craft a critically acclaimed work of such …
by Annette Langer During April-National Volunteers Month-the senior center holds its annual appreciation party. I’d begun volunteering alternate Fridays in the center’s gift shop in exchange for selling my books. I probably wouldn’t know many people at the party but decided to attend anyway-another book marketing opportunity! I arrived after the 6:30pm start, not wanting …
I have a writing fantasy where I spin out a best-selling novel on the Oregon coast. The hotel of my dreams exists, with huge windows facing the ocean. Someday I’ll rent a room there and let the water inspire me as it dances under a winter storm. For now, I’ll find a dramatic oceanscape for …
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The CWC Tri-Valley Branch will not have a monthly meeting in April to encourage members to attend the 9th Annual Pleasanton Poetry, Prose and Arts Festival, April 17-18, 2010. Writers of all levels are invited to participate in a variety of free activities on Saturday afternoon, April 17. Activities that are open to the public …
Violet Carr Moore’s fictional short story, “Angels Unaware,” was
Marilyn Slade is a winner in the Bay Area News Rabbit Haiku contest. Her poem appeared in printed editions of the Contra Costa Times, Tri-Valley Herald and other affiliated newspapers. Marilyn’s poetry is available online at http://www.insidebayarea.com/.
April seems a good time to ask about your writing resolutions. Are you keeping up with your journal? Have you entered a contest? Queried an agent? Artists across America are preparing for the fairs and festivals that seem to occupy every weekend from now until Halloween. Why not join them, and call this Contest/Query season? …
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Elaine Schmitz’s Recipes & Recollections of My Greek-American Family was reviewed by Jackie Burrell in Contra Costa Times, Tri-Valley Herald and other local Bay Area News Group newspapers.
Marilyn Slade and Violet Carr Moore were winners in the March
