In June of this year Writers Workshops International organizers, Barbara Euser and Connie Burke took yet another group of writers out on an amazing travel writing adventure. This time the participants journeyed through County Cork, Ireland. Writers Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Joanna Biggar directed workshops in between the far-ranging peregrinations. This, again, is some serious “Roadwork.” The anthology containing all of their stories will be out in December, distributed nationally by Travelers’ Tales. Meanwhile here are some excerpts from a few of their delightful stories…
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Monday, December 10
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Seasonal Cacophony
Book Passage - FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, November 12
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Family Therapy and Other Relative Disasters
Book Passage - FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, October 8
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Spooky Stories
Book Passage - FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, September 10
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Epiphanies
Book Passage - FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
© 2007 by Nicole Clausing
Working at home means I see what goes on around the block during working hours. The woman who lives across the street may wonder what Buddy, her white terrier, does all day alone while she’s at work, but I know. (A lot of standing on the couch, making nose prints on the window, and barking at people walking by.)
Monday, August 13
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Book Passage - FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, July 9
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Food Fixations
Book Passage - FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, July 2, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Victoria Shoemaker
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Victoria Shoemaker has over 30 years experience in bookselling and publishing. Her experience includes retail bookselling, book development, editing, promotion and publicity. She was co-founder of Sand Dollar Books and Bay Bridge Books in the Bay Area, and a consultant for North Point Press. She developed and ran the nationally recognized author reading series at Black Oak
Books in Berkeley. She was a founding partner in Shoemaker/Handel Publicity Services. She joined The Spieler Agency in 1994 as the West Coast representative. Areas of interest include environment and natural history, popular culture, memoir, photography and film, and literary fiction.
For a short spell in April of this year a small group of Left Coast Writers became part of the world that inspired Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner and Harper Lee. Their hosts, Martha Greenway and Mary Brent Cantarutti, both South Carolina natives, invited them to visit the rural South and write about it—definitely “Roadwork” as we see it. Here is a collection of excerpts from works-in-progress.
– Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Monday, June 11
5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Hitting the Road (Travel)
Book Passage - FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, May 14 5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: All About Me: Memoir
Book Passage - FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Saturday, April 7, 7PM
Book Passage || 51 Tamal Vista Dr. || Corte Madera, CA
For Info: Book Passage
From MICHAEL SHAPIRO:
I’m coordinating a benefit with Prosper Ndabishuriye to rebuild homes in Burundi. Prosper is a director of a home-building project in Burundi’s Camara area, bringing together Hutu and Tutsi youth to construct homes for some of the country s thousands of refugees. During the 1990s, Burundi was devastated by civil wars similar to those in Rwanda, but Prosper’s group is building homes and giving employment to young men and women.
Martin McDonagh is “The most wickedly funny, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist on either side of the Irish Sea….. A born storyteller.” - The New York Times.
Wed. through Sun. until April 15
Berkeley City Club
Tues. through Sun. April 19 - 29
Magic Theatre in San Francisco
Tickets $20 - $30 Discounts available
Tickets and information: http://wildeirish.org and 510-644-9940.
From HILLARY FLYNN:
If you’ve seen Pillowman, the award winning Beauty Queen of Leenane or any other McDonagh plays you won’t want to miss Wilde Irish Production’s The Cripple of Inishmaan. If you missed Pillowman, now is your chance to see another of Martin McDonagh’s masterful black comedies. The Cripple of Inishmaan has just as many twists and turns as Pillowman, and is hilarious and just as satisfying.
If you didn’t get to the Monticello for our March LCW Book Launch party for Mark Shaw and his latest book, Melvin Belli: King of the Courtroom, you missed a real treat.
Mark is a fabulous storyteller, and he brought the legendary San Francisco attorney, Melvin Belli, to life. Belli changed the landscape of law. He showed lawyers the power of storytelling and, in the words of Shaw, there were “so many stories about his courtroom antics, battles with judges and lawyers alike, and a personal life that seems more like fiction than fact,” that it was challenging to write his biography.
Monday, April 2, 2007 7pm
Book Passage - CORTE MADERA || 51 Tamal Vista Dr. || Corte Madera
For Info: Book Passage or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Broadcast journalist and Emmy-winner, Jan Yanehiro has skydived with the Army’s Golden Knights and ventured up a frozen waterfall…all in the name of getting a good story! Jan pioneered the magazine format on television as co-host of Evening Magazine, a nightly program in San Francisco from 1976-90.
In honor of National Poetry Month, we will be in a Poetic Frenzy as this star-studded cast of Left Coast Writers poets read their work. For a special treat Dusty Miller will be performing her songs before the reading so come early!
Monday, April 9 5:30 -7:00pm with networking at a nearby restaurant/bar
Theme: Poetic Frenzy
Poets: Dusty Miller (Elaine Bond), Iris Joan Price, Lowry McFerrin, Rebecca Foust, Adrienne Amundsen, Marianne Betterly Kohn, Elizabeth Weaver, Colleen McFerrin, Mary Jean Pramik, Demian Entrekin
Book Passage - FERRY PLAZA
One Ferry Plaza #46
San Francisco, CA
For Info: Left Coast Writers or leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, December 3, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, November 5, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, October 1, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, August 6, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, July 2, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, June 4, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, May 7, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, April 2, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Jan Yanehiro
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, February 12, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Romance: Is It Love?
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, January 15, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Risky Resolutions
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, March 12, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Just My Luck
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, April 9, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Poetic Frenzy (National Poetry Month)
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, May 14, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
All About Me: Memoir, Momoir, and Personal Essay
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, June 11, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Hitting the Road (Travel)
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, July 9, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Food Fixations
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, August 13, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, September 10, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Epiphanies
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, October 8, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Spooky Stories
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, November 12, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Family Therapy and Other Relative Disasters
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, December 1, 2007
Left Coast Writers Reading Series, 5:30pm
Seasonal Cacophony
Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Monday, March 5, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Brian Tacang, Author
“Bully-Be-Gone” from the Misadventures of Millicent Madding series
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
© 2007 by Elizabeth Weaver
- Do pregnant whales get morning sickness?
- How do you protect yourself from writing scams?
- Androgynous hermaphrodite pronoun?
- Useful websites for writers?
These are some of the thousands of questions asked and answered by fellow writers on NaNoWriMo forums. While NaNoWriMo may sound like a tiny rhinoceros, it’s actually short for National Novel Writing Month, which happens each November through www.nanowrimo.org.
Monday, February, 5, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Dianne Jacob, Author
“Will Write For Food”
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Left Coast Writers Book Launch Series, 5:30pm
“Venturing Through Southern Greece: The Vatika Oddesseys”
edited by Barbara Euser and Connie Burke
Monticello Inn
121 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
Where Gods Walked© 2007 by Patricia Bracewell
It was nearly twilight as I navigated my way on foot down the steep curves of the only street that winds through Positano, Italy. I had arrived by ferry the night before, but had had little chance until this moment to experience Positano itself. Now, having watched from my hotel terrace as the late October sun turned the town’s cream colored houses to gold, I had ventured out to see what the place had to offer. The sun had disappeared behind the limestone cliffs that ring the town when I emerged from a stairway into a little piazza. To my surprise I found myself facing a large ceramic plaque proclaiming that John Steinbeck had once lived there, and that he had immortalized Positano in an essay that he wrote forHarper’s Bazaar in 1953.
Monday, January 8, 2007
Left Coast Writers Literary Salon, 7pm
Amy Rennert, Agent
Amy Rennert Literary Agency
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA
For more information: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
