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SUMMARY:East Sierra (In-Person): Crossing the Lines and Dotting the Tease: When Fiction Mirrors Memoirs
DESCRIPTION:JEANNIE BARROGA CROSSES THE LINES\, DOTS THE TEASE\nAT OUR SEPTEMBER MEETING \nAward-winning playwright and author of “Turn Right at the Water Buffalo” Jeannie Barroga will speak about “Crossing the Lines and Dotting the Tease: When Fiction Mirrors Memoirs” for our general meeting\, Thursday\, September 1\, in the meeting room of Ridgecrest Presbyterian Church\, 633 W. Las Flores. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Visitors welcome. Admission free. Mask requested. \nBarroga explains that “An early beta reader asked ‘Was this memoir all true?’ I said ‘Turn Right at The Water Buffalo’ was not a memoir; it’s a trip with ‘fictionalized facts.’ \nMy notes were thirty years old; the trip\, five years older. Listeners said my verbal details seemed fresher than my written descriptions. As in pitching plays\, a practice nurtured for 40-plus years writing them\, I creatively layer fiction among facts. Review what elicits audience responses\, on screen and onstage: ‘truths”— like the contrasting crunchy and chewy textures of a bagel—should already engage readers. Integrate carefully selected fiction—like ‘fresh lox or unspreadable cream cheese.’ \n“Internally I argued whether any writer needs to tag what is fictitious or not; I say\, no. With seams undetectable between fact and fiction\, a writer needs to tell a gripping\, relatable\, infuriating story\, to cross a line\, to tease\, cap\, and package. Determine in your ‘sandwich\,’ how.” \nBarroga\, Lifetime Dramatists Guild member\, is a published\, award-winning playwright whose works are in Stanford’s Special Collections. Among many plays\, she received the NEA Artistic Excellence Award. Twice a Literary Manager\, she has also directed at LaMama NY\, and acted in the cult film “I Am a Ghost.” \nHer talk will conclude with Q&A and a book signing. We’ll look forward to seeing you there\, and bring your friends. \nNote that in addition to giving our general meeting program at 6:30 in Ridgecrest Presbyterian Church\, Jeannie Barroga will chat informally about “Turn Right at the Water Buffalo” at 2 p.m.\, Thursday\, September 1\, in the back room of the Pizza Factory. For this\, sign up and pay in advance at Red Rock Books; $32 includes the book autographed to you or someone of your choice\, plus tea and scones\, discussion\, and entry in a raffle drawing.
URL:https://calwriters.org/event/east-sierra-in-person-crossing-the-lines-and-dotting-the-tease-when-fiction-mirrors-memoirs/
LOCATION:Ridgecrest Presbyterian Church\, 633 W. Las Flores\, Ridgecrest\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Orange Co. (In-Person): Author’s Journey Series
DESCRIPTION:Kaira Rouda\n\n“Author’s Journey Series”\n\nKaira Rouda has led one of those “seen everything” types of lives you might expect a USA Today best-selling author to have: newspaper reporter\, columnist\, marketing executive\, and entrepreneur. \nThe characters of her salacious novels are left in the wake of a twisting and turning psychological thrill ride – every time. It’s why her legions of fans keep her at the top of the best-selling charts. \nMaking the leap from Midwest to West Coast living in 2009 didn’t slow Kaira down. When her husband won a U.S. Congressional seat in 2019\, it gave her yet another perspective of the world from which to draw. \nIntrigue\, deceit\, and personal aspiration are central themes once again with her latest best-seller “Somebody’s Home.” Kaira will be joining us to share her experience and sign books. \nTo learn more about the author\, visit https://kairarouda.com
URL:https://calwriters.org/event/orange-co-in-person-authors-journey-series-2/
LOCATION:Anaheim Packing House\, 440 S. Anaheim Blvd\, Anaheim\, CA\, 92805\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:High Desert (In-Person): How I Became a Storyteller
DESCRIPTION:JOHN BEYER\n​”HOW I BECAME A STORYTELLER”\n \nJohn R. Beyer is currently writing a weekly travel column (1500 words and photographs) for USA Today Network. In 2020\, one of his columns won a prestigious CNPA award. His pieces are about traveling with a humorous spin on them. Also\, he has four novels published under his belt\, and has written award winning fictional short stories in both the adult and young adult categories.\n\nAs a novelist\, short story writer\, traveler and researcher\, John loves nothing better than to share those experiences with his readers. Often in the company with his lovely wife\, Laureen\, stories emerge of the places they visit and the people they meet. In his weekly travel feature for the USA Today Network\, Beyer’s Byways\, John takes his readers along on his adventures. Some funny\, some sad\, but these are the stories that need to be told.John R. Beyer\, Ed.D./Ph.D.\nAuthor of Hunted/Soft Target/Operation Scorpion/Iquitos\, The Past Will Kill –  Police Thrillers\nBlack Opal Books\nColumnist\, Beyer’s Byways\, USA Today Network\nMember\, International Thriller Writers\n2020 California Journalism Award winner – ‘Columns’
URL:https://calwriters.org/event/high-desert-in-person-how-i-became-a-storyteller/
LOCATION:Community Church at Jess Ranch\, 11537 Apple Valley Rd\,\, Apple Valley\, CA\, 92308\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Mt. Diablo (In-Person): Rewrite! A Jounalist Turns Author
DESCRIPTION:CWC Mt. Diablo Presents Duffy Jennings: Rewrite! A Jounalist Turns Author\n\n\nSeptember 10 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm PDT\n\n\n\n\n\nAdd to calendar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*In Person at Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant.\n\n\n\n\n*This is not a hybrid meeting.\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured Speaker\n\n\n\n\nDuffy Jennings\n\nAfter his newspaper career\, Duffy Jennings served as vice president of public relations for the San Francisco Giants baseball club for twelve years. He oversaw media relations\, publications\, business communications\, community relations\, and alumni relations. Following the Giants\, Jennings ran his own public relations company for more than twenty years. He also launched and published Los Gatos Magazine.  Jennings is the author of Reporter’s Note Book: A San Francisco Chronicle Journalist’s Diary of the Shocking Seventies\, published in 2019 by Grizzly Peak Press. \n\n\n\n\nRewrite! A Journalist Turns Author\nDuffy Jennings is an author and former prize-winning reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle in the tumultuous 1970s. His coverage included the City Hall murders of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk\, the Patty Hearst kidnapping\, and the Zodiac and Zebra serial killings. \nThe newspaper submitted Jennings’s reporting on the murder trial of the City Hall killer\, former supervisor Dan White\, for Pulitzer Prize consideration. All told\, Jennings’s byline appeared on more than five hundred articles for the Chronicle. Actor Adam Goldberg portrayed Duffy in the 2007 film\, Zodiac. \nWhat we will Learn:\n\nWhy Being a Reporter Doesn’t Make You a Writer\nGet Into Their Head: How to Write Someone Else’s Memoir\nAgents\, Publishers\, and Self-Publishing\nFinding the Newspaper Archive in Your Computer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWriters Table – more information coming soon\n\n\n\n\n\nLinda Hartmann\n\n\n\n\nBeta Readers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n11:00 -11:15  – Check-in\n11:15 – 12:00 – Writers Table\n12:00 – 12:25 – Lunch and Business Meeting\n1:00 – 2:00 – Speaker Presentation\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZio Fraedo’s Restaurant
URL:https://calwriters.org/event/mt-diablo-in-person-rewrite-a-jounalist-turns-author/
LOCATION:Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant\, 611 Gregory Ln\, Pleasant Hill\, CA\, 94523\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Napa (In-Person): How to Get Over Yourself and Write
DESCRIPTION:How to Get Over Yourself and Write\n \nBarry Martin \n\nOn September 14\, we feature Barry Martin\, Managing Director of Lucky Penny Productions and “Wine Country Live” Producer and Co-Host on KVYN-FM. \nBarry Martin was born and raised in the Ozarks. He studied theatre in college\, then began working as an on-air radio talent at age 21. He came to California in 1986 and has been heard on Napa Valley airwaves for 21 of the last 35 years\, mostly as morning show host for either KVON-AM and KVYN-FM. He currently hosts Wine Country Live on 99.3 The Vine weekday mornings. He estimates he has presented around 20\,000 hours of live radio. \nAlong the way he also served as PIO for the Napa River Flood Control Project and Community Outreach Coordinator for the City of Napa. In 2009 in the midst of a massive recession\, he co-founded with Taylor Bartolucci the local theatre company Lucky Penny Productions which survived that recession and (so far) has survived the pandemic. \nHe began writing in earnest in 2010 and his short play “The First Thirty Minutes” was selected for a festival at Actor’s Theatre of Santa Cruz. In 2018 he finished a farce about the wine country called “The Tasting Room” and directed it for Lucky Penny\, then wrote the book for “A Napa Valley Christmas Carol” which debuted in 2021 with a second run coming up in December 2022. He is currently working on the script for a new Christmas show for kids and families called “Saving Santa.” \nBarry has two adult children who were raised in Napa and graduated from local public schools\, and is a grandpa four times over. \n  \n$5 Fee for members\, $7 for non-members. Students with ID – free.
URL:https://calwriters.org/event/napa-in-person-how-to-get-over-yourself-and-write/
LOCATION:Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists\, 1625 Salvador Ave\, Napa\, CA
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Writers of Kern (In-Person): Carla Marting
DESCRIPTION:17 September 2022 | Featured Speaker: Carla Marting | A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words\n\n\nWhen: The 3rd Saturday of the month\, 9:15-11:15 am. Join us 30 minutes early for breakfast and writer’s fellowship\, January\, February\, April and June-November.\nWhere: Hodel’s Country Dining\, 5917 Knudsen Drive\, Bakersfield\, CA 93308.\nFee: $10 for members\, $15 for guests. Both include buffet breakfast. Pay at the door or skip the line and pay online.\nWho: It’s a new speaker with new insights at every meeting. Check out our next speaker & workshop topic right here.
URL:https://calwriters.org/event/writers-of-kern-in-person-carla-marting/
LOCATION:Hodel’s Country Dining\, 5917 Knudsen Drive\, Bakersfield\, CA\, 93308\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Tri-Valley (In-Person): The Fourth Column
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Fisher-Paulson\, Author and SF Chronicle Columnist\, September 17\, 2022\n\nKevin Fisher-Paulson will present “The Fourth Column” at the Tri-Valley Writers Saturday\, September 17\, 2022 meeting. Every writer has one column in them. The trick is to be the kind of writer who has one column in them every week. \nKevin will discuss the craft of writing from the perspective of purpose and structure. Specifically\, the process of writing a weekly column for a major newspaper\, like the San Francisco Chronicle. His unique brand of column is the one-week memoir\, warts and all. Writing is a search for meaning\, and Kevin talks about how the different forms represent different means of exploring experience. He includes choices—not habits—that usher the individual through the creative door. \nIn his weekly column\, Kevin grapples with great issues but knows that the narrative must be satisfied in 750 words. As the reputation of this column grew\, he became aware of consistency\, fresh perspective\, and the assertive reader. \n\nRead More »\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here\n\n\n\n\n Consent to be recorded\nBy registering for this meeting\, you acknowledge that the meeting may be recorded. Your consent to be recorded is implied in your registration. See meeting information for full details. \n 
URL:https://calwriters.org/event/tri-valley-in-person-the-fourth-column/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220920T173000
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SUMMARY:Central Coast (In-Person): All My Thoughts Are Second Thoughts
DESCRIPTION:September 20\, 2022\nKaren Joy Fowler\nAll My Thoughts Are Second Thoughts \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of seven novels\, including Sarah Canary\, which won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian and The Jane Austen Book Club\, a NY Times bestseller. She has also published three short story collections\, two of which won the World Fantasy Award in their respective years. Her novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves won the PEN/FAULKNER award for fiction in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Man/Booker prize. Her most recent novel\, Booth\, was published in March 2022.
URL:https://calwriters.org/event/central-coast-in-person-all-my-thoughts-are-second-thoughts/
LOCATION:Pacific Grove’s Juice n’ Java\, 599 Lighthouse Avenue\, Pacific Grove\, CA
CATEGORIES:In Person
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SUMMARY:Inland Empire (In-Person): Life After Sending a Submission
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 24\, 2022\nLife After Sending a Submission …\nThis year\, a handful of Inland Empire members sent manuscripts to The Literary Review\, our state-wide club magazine. They waited over six months for a panel of judges to evaluate their work. As usual\, less than 50% of overall submissions were accepted. Every year\, the editors ask that we follow submission guidelines and hone our writing skills to generate more compelling stories. \nYou be the judge! Join us for an open critique of member submissions. \nDuring our September meeting\, we will share a few of these submissions. In addition\, the club will send you homework… Your assignment is to review\, score and rank the submissions based on the checklist the judges used. Please write a few critique notes. Then\, we will compare our thoughts to the actual results. As far as we know\, only one club member had their story published. Is it the one you would have chosen? Why\, or why not? Did you locate areas where the other submissions did not nail the criteria? \nWe think there are about five manuscripts. Even if you have the time to evaluate only one submission\, the exercise will help you grow as a storyteller\, editor\, and as a judge. Your participation will help everyone become better writers. You will discover why submissions\, rejection\, and re-submission are part of every writer’s life. \nThis critique session will be in-person September 24th\, at the Ovitt location\, also streamed via zoom. The manuscripts and the judging rubric will be sent to members a few weeks in advance. See you then! \n 
URL:https://calwriters.org/event/inland-empire-in-person-life-after-sending-a-submission/
LOCATION:Ovitt Family Community Library\, 215 E. C Street\, Ontario\, CA\, 91764\, United States
CATEGORIES:In Person
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