Bernard Wozny, Author at California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch

Trudi Gardner

Trudi York Gardner resides in Folsom CA. Her humor pieces and articles have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Examiner, The Sacramento Bee, The Oregonian, Big Apple Parents Press, Washington Families, ParentGuide (NYC) and many other newspapers and magazines.

Her humorous short story, “The Lights in the Window,” (1999) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best poetry, short fiction and essays published in the small presses over the previous year. Trudi has been the humor columnist for J, the Northern California weekly. Her humor columns also run on her blog at www.tygerpen.wordpress.com .

Literary Review – Vote for your favorite

Members of CWC Sacramento have submitted many items for inclusion in the 2024 Literary Review. This anthology will be published by the CWC Central Board. Sacramento is allowed to submit 4 prose and 4 poetry entries. It is up to us to decide what to submit to the central board.

Please note that you will be voting blind, as the author names have been removed.

You can find all of the submissions here.

How to Vote

Voting is now open! The deadline for voting is Saturday, February 24th. You can vote for 4 prose and 4 poems. We ask that you list them in order of your preference, #1, #2, #3, #4. Please send your selections via email to sacramentowriters@gmail.com .

Luanne Oleas

Luanne Oleas, a Salinas native, was a weekly columnist at the Salinas Californian newspaper as well as a
reporter and features writer. Reprints of her articles appeared In Readers Digest, Parenting Magazine,
and the San Jose Mercury News. She moved to Silicon Valley and worked as a technical writer while
writing her novels.

Her novel, FLYING BLIND, A Cropduster’s Story, is set in Steinbeck’s Salinas Valley in the 1970s. It’s the
story of an irreverent cropduster and the radical priest he teaches how to fly. It exposes the little-known
subculture of agricultural aviation and the small-town clashes that arise when traditions are ignored.

Her other novel, A PRIMROSE IN NOVEMBER, is a family saga set in England and France. Her upcoming
novel, WHEN ALICE PLAYED THE LOTTERY, is about a widow who reinvents herself on reality TV after
winning the lottery. She is currently writing a novel, tentatively titled SHEDDING CATS, about a technical
writer who has too many cats and no significant relationship. In real life, Luanne has only one cat,
Blackberry.

You can see her website at https://luanneoleas.com/

2024 CWC Literary Review

CWC-Sacramento Members

Voting is Now Open

for the CWC Literary Review

We are inviting you to submit your best prose (under 5000 words) and/or poetry for the 2024 statewide anthology.

Submission Deadline was February 3rd 2024.

Between Feb 3rd to Feb 24th, we will ask you, our members, to read the submissions on our website and vote for the ones you prefer.

The CWC-Sacramento Board of Directors will count the votes and send the winning submissions to the Central Board for publication.

You can read the official guidelines here.

You need to submit your work with this Word form.

Please use this MS Word template to create your work. When you open it, it will appear blank, but it is set with all the correct font, line spacing and headers that you will need. Simply save the file as your titled Word document and enter your text.

Submit your writing and the release form to sacramentowriters@gmail.com with the heading Literary Review. Submission of a story or poem to CWC Sacramento constitutes permission to place the story or poem temporarily on CWC Sacramento’s website to allow CWC Sacramento members to vote on the submissions.

CWC Sacramento is allowed to submit 4 short stories and 4 poems from our members. When it comes time to vote, we will ask all members to assess the entries posted on our web site and to vote by email with options for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place winners.

We will update you at voting time.

Melissa Hart, How to Write & Submit Short Personal Essays to Magazines & Newspapers

California Writers Club – Sacramento Branch presents.

How to Write & Submit Short Personal Essays to Magazines & Newspapers

Saturday, February 17th

1 pm to 3 pm

At Arcade Library

2443 Marconi Ave, Sacramento, 95821

In this fun and lively presentation, veteran essayist and author Melissa Hart helps you to identify topics for your personal essays, then explains how to craft them for magazines and newspapers. She’ll offer revision and submission tips, as well as how to negotiate payment, fan mail, and the occasional internet troll.

We will be looking at:

How to identify compelling personal essay topics based on their life experience.
How to craft the rough draft of a personal essay.
How to revise a personal essay.
How to find suitable magazines and newspapers for submission and reach out to editors.
How to navigate the publication and post-publication process.

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