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EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES TO SELL YOUR BOOKS

The CWC Board is working hard to find new opportunities for you to sell your books. Read on for more information.

Sacramento Book Fair, Sunday June 2, 2024, McKinley Park

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Roseville Tuesday Night Market, consecutive Tuesday nights from June 4 to July 30, 2024

SACRAMENTO BOOK FESTIVAL

Sacramento has not experienced a book festival in many years. We are excited to restart such an important event in Sacramento. We intend to develop this into an annual Sacramento Capital Experience.

In association with McKinley Farmers Market in Sacramento, we have arranged for 10 booths for authors to promote and sell their books. Booking details are available on our website.

www.cwcsacramentowriters.org/sacramento-book-festival/

You will find details on what you need and how to organize your booth. Save or print this PDF for future reference.

Sharing a booth with another author is not essential, but it does help spread the cost and encourages collaboration. Customers are always excited to be greeted with authors.

Join us at the Book Festival, let’s rekindle a new tradition in Sacramento.

ROSEVILLE DOWNTOWN TUESDAY NIGHT MARKET

CWC has reserved one 10’x10’ space at the Roseville Downtown Tuesday Night Market, on nine consecutive Tuesday nights (from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m.) from June 4 to July 30, 2024. The market is held on Vernon Street, adjacent to the Vernon Street Town Square, in Roseville. The Tuesday night markets have been hugely successful in the past, typically bringing in thousands of people every Tuesday night during the summer.

Click here to book your Tuesday at Roseville!

CWC Sacramento Branch members have priority to participate. The application is on the CWC website. The cost is $60 per night. We recommend you share a booth with an author friend or colleague; if you share a booth, the cost is only $30 per author. To ensure your space, please complete an application and mail a check as soon as possible. CWC Sacramento Branch members’ priority lasts until May 15, 2024.

Authors should have a California seller’s permit and are responsible for bringing their own table and chair. As it can be hot in the summer months, we also strongly recommend that you bring a 10’x10’ pop-up tent.

Literary Review – The Sacramento Winners.

Thank you to everyone from Sacramento who submitted prose and poetry to the Literary Review.

Doubly so, thank you to everyone who voted for you, the winners who will now be published.

As many people did, I spent a lot of time reading every entry. Every prose entry blew me away. I can’t pretend to understand poetry, but many entries sent me to places I would never expect to go to.

Thank you to everyone who worked hard at this!

The names below are those authors from Sacramento who will be published in the CWC 2024 Literary Review.

The winners are as follows:

Prose Winners:

Tim Schooley – The Three Tenors

Jerilyn Ring – The Last Supper

Brina Patel – A Chance Encounter Near the Himalayas

Lally Pia – Appah

Poetry Winners:

Susan Dlugach – Noodling

Eric Wiesenthal – When I see You

Darlene Kapur – Daddy’s Girl

Jackie Alcalde Marr – The Writer

Crystel Patterson – Inspired to Write: A Journey into Diverse Children’s Literature

CWC-Sacramento Network Meeting

Friday, April 5th from 9 am to 11 am at

CH Cafe & Grill 6215 Sunrise Blvd (just off Greenback)

Crystel Patterson shares her unexpected journey into diverse children’s literature, where inspiration ignites creativity and storytelling.

Award-winning author and mother, Crystel inspires children with her “Inspired to Be…” series, amplifying positive narratives of Black people and teaching valuable life lessons in an engaging way. Her stories, rooted in motherhood and empowerment, encourage children to dream big, celebrate differences, and make a positive impact.

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Meeting ID: 854 8155 1153
Passcode: 227171

Karen Durham – Ina Coolbrith

CWC-Sacramento Network Meeting

Friday, March 1st from 9 am to 11 am at

CH Cafe & Grill 6215 Sunrise Blvd (just off Greenback)

Ina Coolbrith—whom she was, and tougher than we

So fair the sun rose yester-morn, begins Ina’s poem, “The Mother’s Grief.” She was born into a time and place where there was no use for such a poetic expression of maternal sorrow. How did she make the transition from daughter of a frontier and most paternalistic family in which schooling was a luxury, to woman of independent financial and intellectual means?

Ina’s biography is intriguing, if written a bit inconsistently over time. The sources I’ve found agree on most aspects of her life: Ina Coolbrith was California’s first poet laureate. She was the first librarian for the newly incorporated Oakland Public Library. She was a founding member of the California Writers Club and San Francisco’s Bohemian Club. She was one-third of the, “Golden Gate Trinity.” Along with Bret Harte and Charles Warren Stoddard, she was considered a premier judge of good literature. She influenced several famous California writers, including Joaquin Miller (to whom she suggested this nom de plume) and Jack London (who referred to her as his literary mother).

She meant to write a memoir, according to one source, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire put that idea to rest. Such dead ends abound, but I’ll put her world into the context of the greater world from the beginning to the end of her life. There’s so much more than can be covered in a few minutes. If you want to really get into the weeds, here are links to some sources:

Karen Durham was born and raised in The San Francisco Bay Area of California. When she’s not writing she loves to swim, hike, and run on the coast. She came to appreciate poetry late in life, when in the late twenty-teens she attended a writing workshop at Tomales Bay. There she first heard current US poet laureate Ada Limón read from her book, “Bright Dead Things.” She was hooked. Karen’s had two poems published in anthologies. Like most poets, she doesn’t always understand what questions she’s asking when she writes, but hopes to, someday.

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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 .