September 23, 2022

Newsblast
Written By Tim Flood

Dear CWC SF-Peninsula Branch member,

News Update September 23, 2022! 

Upcoming Meeting: October 15

Don’t miss this one! Register to hear well-known Stuart Horwitz speak on "Editing & Self-Editing." Stuart will help you develop fifteen skillsets that you can apply in critiques and your work as well. Read more. Pre-register for $10 to attend meetings or pay $15 at the door. In-person only, Sequoia Yacht Club.

Robert Pimm

Our last speaker Robert Pimm offered to answer your ‘unasked’ legal Q&A questions. Use his website form. 

Fault Zones Readings

Lisa Meltzer Penn wants everyone to come help celebrate California Writers Week 2022! Storytellers and poets will read selections from our award-winning Fault Zone Anthology Series Sunday, October 16, 3-4:30pm at the Belmont Library. Free! If you’re published in the series and want to read, there are still a few spots open. To get on the list, email Lisa, Community Readings Coordinator, at Lisa@Penn.me with the name of your piece, which Fault Zone volume and page number, and your email and phone information. This reading will encompass the entire series to date and we are looking for representation from all nine volumes.”

Fault Zone Submissions Open

Submission is open for Fault Zone: Detachment. Rules & guidelines online.

Member News

  • Our Board was pleased to grant Emeritus status to Ida Lewenstein and Jo Carpignano for their years of loyal membership. If you missed it, it was a delight to honor these two ladies with certificates, flowers, and applause.

  • Lucy Ann Murray wrote a review of Carole Bumpus's book, A September to Remember, for the September, 2022 issue of the Italian-American magazine, “Fra Noi.”

  • Two new James Hanna stories: (1) In “I am Not a Crook,” appearing in The Chamber Magazine, a peace officer passes to the afterlife and meets his guide spirit: Richard Nixon. (2) Another story, inspired by such luminaries as Mat Gaetz and Bret Kavanaugh, appears in the journal Fleas on the Dog. Fictional GOP stalwart Orville Baumgardner lectures the Knights of Columbus on his recipe for life.

  • Dave LaRoche is looking for beta readers of his new literary fiction novel, Ordinary Times, that “looks in on young men and women facing their lives, exploiting the fifties, under threat of Nikita’s mutual assured destruction.” Email him at dalaroche@comcast.net.

  • Ida Lewenstein’s memoir, “Baking Bread on the Masabi Iron Range,” was published in the latest newsletter of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest. She tells the story of her relatives living in that region in the 1930s.

  • Laurel Anne Hill's novel, Plague of Flies: Revolt of the Spirits, 1846, recently won its 12th awardwhen the 2022 American Fiction Awards selected it as a finalist in the "Fantasy: Historical" category.

  • Audrey Kalman is thrilled to announce a birth! (No, not that kind). She and Jennifer Browdy just opened the doors to their free Birth Your Truest Story writers’ community, an online gathering spot where you can find your tribe and nurture your creative voice. Join them!

  • Summer’s over! Vanessa MacLaren-Wray restarts Open Mic Night. Get your lungs ready!

Welcome New Members!

  • July: Claudia Hyslop, Jeanne Powell, Judy Davis, Judy Hensley, Martin Sorensen, and Scott Best

  • August: Dutta Abhirup, Ellen McBarnette, and Patricia McCombs

  • September so far: Larry Cohn

Membership Renewal Ends September 30

For those yet to renew: You’ll miss us when we’re gone. Go to our website and renew today! Renewing before Sep 30 means it’s only $45. If you dilly-dally and renew after that, it’ll cost ‘ya $65! Save now! (And no, we can’t grant emeritus status to you.)

Save the Date: CWC Holiday Party, Sunday, December 4th, 2:00-4:30PM, Sequoia Yacht Club.

Explore Your New Website https://www.cwc-sfpeninsula.org/.

Tim Flood
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