Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan cheering for Berkeley Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center, CWC, and WNBA
Sunday, August 11, 2013, 2:30–5:00 pm
Flamingo Hotel, Santa Rosa, CA
California Writers’ Club – Redwood Branch presents:
Peter Bowerman “Love to Write But Hate to Starve?”
Keep Your ‘Passion’ Writing ‘Well Fed’ with Lucrative Commercial Freelancing
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Saturday, August 17, 2013, 10:00am-noon
Belmont Library, Belmont, CA
California Writers’ Club – SF Peninsula Branch presents:
Victoria Zackheim
Noted author and teacher will be with us to tell us more about the Acorn Workshop and how to mold a simple idea into an intriguing story. Ms. Zackheim’s most recent publication is Exit Laughing: How Humor Takes the Sting out of Death
In addition to monthly meetings, check out open mic, the anthology Fault Zone, mentoring, and workshops!
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Writing Contest deadline has been extended for Non-Members to August 31, 2013
Fault Zone: Shift, the fourth in the anthology series edited by the SF/Peninsula Branch of California Writers’ Club, will be published by Sand Hill Review Press later in 2013. Non-members of SF/Peninsula Branch are eligible to enter the Fault Zone short story contest.
Fault Zone isn’t only about earthquakes. It’s about personal faults, shortcomings, and the foibles of being human. In a way, we all live on a fault zone. Write from the heart. Be edgy. Be wild. But make sure your story has an arc. Stories involving California are always appreciated.
First Prize is $250 and publication in our next Fault Zone anthology.
Second Prize is $100.
Third Prize is $50.
Reading fee is $15. More info – click here.
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Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013
2013 Golf Tournament to benefit
The Berkeley Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center, ensuring the availability of services to support northern California’s homeless women & their children in their efforts to become more self-sufficient since 1988!
at the Boundary Oak Golf Course, Walnut Creek, CA
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October 1, 2013, 7:00-9:00pm
Author Readings at Bookshop West Portal, San Francisco, CA
sponsored by Women’s National Book Association-San Francisco Chapter
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Sincerely,
Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan
author of:
Build Your Writer’s Platform & Fanbase In 22 Days: Attract Agents, Editors, Publishers, Readers, and Media Attention NOW (the workbook)
Love Made of Heart (the mother-daughter novel used in college composition classes; book is archived at the San Francisco History Center)
Answer Me Now (the award-winning short play)
and speeches advocating mental health and end violence against women and children
Click here for a list of Coach Teresa’s event.
http://writingcoachTeresa.com for more resources.
Coach Teresa says: “Wear the dual hats of writer and promoter. Reach out, not stress out.”
