Members Stacey Gustafson, Julie Royce and Camille DeFer Thompson on hand to promote the two latest releases in the Not Your Mother’s Book series, On Home Improvement, and On Being a Parent. On Thursday, November 14, 7:00 p.m., at Bay Books, 2415 San Ramon Valley Blvd., San Ramon.
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Julie Royce‘s short story, “Headed North on a Southern Highway,” received second honorable mention and publication in an anthology, Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the ’60s & ’70s. Release date is scheduled for August 2013.
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Congratulations to Violet Carr Moore, first place winner in Towne Center Books 19/15 Anniversary Celebration flash fiction contest with “Homecoming”. Julie Royce was second place winner with “Voices”. Readers selected these favorites by ballot from dozens of anonymous submissions displayed throughout the bookstore on February 16. Photo Courtesy of Towne Center Books, February 16, 2013
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Our critique group gave ourselves a challenge to write a story based on an object and a place. We gave ourselves a year and planned to read the stories at our December meeting. As the deadline approached, Julie Royce found herself enmeshed in a story that would not behave itself. She wrote the following poem
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Julaina Kleist, CWC Tri-Valley member, was selected by the Downtown Oakland Senior Center to emcee at the December 9th anthology launch. In addition to Julaina, Tri-Valley readers were Sheila Bali and Neva (Janie) Hodges. Jan Davies and Linda Todd were among the hundreds of listeners at this fifth annual event. Fourteen Tri-Valley members published
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Twelve CWC Tri-Valley members crossed the 50,000-word finish line in the National Novel Writing Month contest. This annual contest founded by Chris Baty, Executive Director of the Office of Letters and Light, concentrates on producing a first-draft novel in November. NaNoWriMo winners certificates have been awarded to Vee Byram, Paula Chinick, Pat Coyle, Lynn Goodwin,
Jacqueline Bardsley won third place for her poem “Adam” in the Beginnings & Ending category of the 85th Bay Area Annual Poet’s Dinner contest. She also received honorable mention in Poets’ Choice for “Midsummer Eve.” LaDonna Fehlberg‘s “Poetically Speaking” was a winning poem for “Wine Still Life,” a porcelain painting by artist Eugenia Zobel in
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I’m declaring this Critique Group Appreciation Week. My gratitude for the six women in my group, who have patiently commented on my novel for over a year, has exceeded the bounds of one or two thank-you emails. Only in the company of other dedicated writers, do I feel comfortable enough to display my “baby.” The
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