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No Writers Network in July

There is no Writers Network meeting during July, 2016. The Writers Network Meeting will resume in August.

Erika Mailman — Writers Network

Victory and Humiliation: Writing Young Adult Fiction plus the Business of Finding an Agent or Skipping Straight to a Publisher

Friday, August 7, 2015, 9:00 a.m. – 11 a.m.

erika-mailman Erika Mailman, who writes Young Adult fiction as Lynn Carthage, will address the California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch Writers Network breakfast meeting on Friday, August 7, 2015.

Victory and Humiliation: writing young adult fiction means connecting with the younger self that experienced great highs and lows while navigating the minefields of high school hallways. She will talk about character and voice in teen fiction and reconnecting with the sometimes-victorious-often-humiliated kid inside us. As someone whose novel Haunted went through three agents before finding publication, she will also talk about the business of finding an agent or skipping straight to a publisher.

erika-mailman-cover-haunted She is a novelist living near Sacramento. Under her real name, she was a Bram Stoker Award finalist. Born in Vermont, she has lived in Maine, Ireland, and Arizona. Erika reads voraciously, loves anything French, gets “itchy feet” to travel on a regular basis, and finds peace in the woods, in meadows, in nature. She has always been fascinated by how history allows us to imagine how people of the past lived and breathed and felt.

HAUNTED is her first young adult novel, and will be followed by the next two books in the Arnaud Legacy trilogy.

The public is invited. CWC membership not required.

Writers Network is held the first Friday of every month at the International House of Pancakes (IHOP), 2216 Sunrise Blvd., Rancho Cordova (just north of Highway 50) starting at 9 AM. Meetings are free. Attendees pay for their own breakfast. Get map.

Questions? Contact Margie Yee Webb via the CWC Contact page.

Members are urged to invite their writer friends to attend these sessions. CWC membership is not required. They may also want to consider joining CWC to enjoy the benefits of mixing with many experienced writers willing to share what they know.

No Writers Network in July

There is no Writers Network meeting during July. The Writers Network Meeting will resume in August.

Janna Marlies Maron — Writers Network

What is Creative Nonfiction?

Friday, Jun 5, 2015, 9:00 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Armed with an M.A. in Creative Writing, Janna Marlies Maron is a self-professed woman in progress. In addition to teaching privately, she is an adjunct professor at Sacramento City College and William Jessup University. Always on the lookout for new opportunities, Janna has recently added “publisher” to her resume with the creation of Under the Gum Tree, a digital literary arts magazine that publishes creative nonfiction storytelling. She single-handedly recruited a creative team of editors, designers and interns to get the magazine off the ground. Its fifteenth issue was released in April 2015, and it was listed as a “must read” local publication in the May 2012 issue of Sacramento Magazine. The same article recognized Janna as a “local literati.” She is also the co-director of TrueStory, a nonfiction reading series and open mic in Sacramento. She is an expert in the creative nonfiction genre, teaching others to tell true stories without shame.

The public is invited. CWC membership not required.

Questions? Contact Margie Yee Webb via the CWC Contact page.

Kate Asche — Writers Network

Place: What It Is, Why Every Genre Needs It, and One Simple Way to Create It

Friday, May 1, 2015, 9:00 a.m. – 11 a.m.

The writer Dorothy Allison has said, “Place is emotion. Place is people with desire.” Join Kate Asche for a discussion of what place is and why it’s so crucial to every work of literary art. Expand your craft toolbox by looking at how place functions across genres, and explore how evocative portrayal of place connects voice, character and conflict. Come away with a short new draft and a list of resources for further exploration of this topic.

Kate Asche, M.A., writes poetry, essays and short stories. She’s a creative writing teacher and literary community builder. Her chapbook, Our Day in the Labyrinth, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. Her poem “Incoming” was selected by Camille Dungy for the summer 2015 issue of Colorado Review, and she was a finalist for the 2011 Audio Contest at The Missouri Review. She has published poetry in Bellingham Review, RHINO, Late Peaches: Poems by Sacramento Poets (2012 Anthology) and elsewhere. Her creative nonfiction appears in an early issue of Under the Gum Tree. A graduate of the UC Davis Creative Writing Program, she coordinated The Tomales Bay Workshops under the direction of Pam Houston and is also a trained facilitator in the Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) Method. She also helped to establish the award-winning I Street Press at Sacramento Public Library. Since 2005, she has taught creative writing in a variety of academic and community settings. She volunteers as contributing editor for the creative nonfiction journal Under the Gum Tree. She teaches workshops in Sacramento and provides manuscript coaching to writing groups and individuals. Follow her and get the scoop on local writing events at www.kateasche.com.

The public is invited. CWC membership not required.

Questions? Contact Margie Yee Webb via the CWC Contact page.