Oasis Grille Archives - California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch

Nina Amir, “5 Things Every Nonfiction (and fiction) Writer Needs to Publish a Book”

Nina Amir is a seasoned journalist, nonfiction editor, author, consultant, and writing coach and publishing mentor with more than 30 years of experience in the publishing field as well as the founder of Write Nonfiction in November, a blog and writing challenge. Currently, she also serves as the national Jewish Issue Examiner and a staff […]

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Chris Baty – No Plot, No Problem

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A resident of Berkeley, California, Chris is the founder of National Novel Writing Month and the Executive Director of its parent nonprofit, the Office of Letters and Light. With his startlingly mediocre prose style and complete inability to write credible dialogue, Chris has set a reassuringly low bar for budding novelists everywhere. Chris is an

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Tri-Valley Writers Authors’ Spotlight

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Celebrate the many talented writers in the area with Tri-Valley members reading from their own published work. A variety of genres will be represented by a diverse group of authors. Members’ work ranges from literary fiction, memoir, travel, essays, poetry, children’s literature and genre fiction. Our featured readers are Beth Aaland, Jamna Advani, Annette Langer,

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Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Bringing Sensuality to the Page

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A contributor to numerous journals, newspapers, magazines and anthologies, Linda Watanabe McFerrin is a poet, travel writer, novelist and workshop leader. She has served as a literary arts panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, and was a winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. Her novel, Namako: Sea Cucumber was named

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Becky Levine – Building a Strong Critique Group

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Becky Levine is the author of The Writing & Critique Group Survival Guide (Writer’s Digest, 2010) and a freelance writer and editor, living in the Santa Cruz mountains. She has almost 20 years of experience with critique groups and knows both the challenges and benefits of making the critique process work. Becky is also working

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