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TOMORROW (Thurs): BOOK RELEASE PARTY FOR RAE GOUIRAND'S PRIZE-WINNING OPEN WINTER
The double release for OPEN WINTER and Best New Poets 2011 (which was just published last week) is this Thursday (tomorrow!) at 8 PM at the Natsoulas Gallery (521 First Street), Davis.
Rae is a tireless builder of our writing community here in the valley. Please help her celebrate this very special moment!
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Feb. 16 Joshua McKinney — "Bolo and Bullshit: The Other T.S. Eliot"
Feb. 23 V.S. Chochezi — "Poetry Collaborations: Sacramento and Beyond" [Gary Snyder and Tom Killion, Electropoetic Coffee (NSAA and Ross Hammond), Poetry Machine (Mario Ellis Hill and friends, Fo'Shange, Straight Out Scribes) and much more
March 1 Molly Fisk — "Women Poets: Friendship, Critique & Support"
March 8 Emmanuel Sigauke — "Contemporary World Poetry through International Poetry Web"
March 15 Bob Stanley and John Allen Cann — "The Blab of the Pave: Rhythm, Texture, Silence and Other Elements of Post-rhyming Poetry"
March 22 Judy Halebsky — "Japanese Literary Traditions in West Coast Poetics"
March 29 James DenBoer — "Kenneth Rexroth: The World Outside the Window"
April 5 Tim Kahl — "Surrealism and its Academic Discontents"
Only $99 (10% off for Sacramento Poetry Center members). $65 Mix/Match Pass (any four lectures you wish). Or, $20 per lecture. Runs Thursday evenings, 7:30-9pm; Feb 16, 2012 –April 5, 2012. Tickets make fine gifts! Proceeds benefit the Sacramento Poetry Center. Contact Tim Kahl, 916.714.5401 for more information.
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SWAN SCYTHE PRESS POETRY CHAPBOOK CONTEST
Swan Scythe Press, founded by poet Sandra McPherson, now edited by James DenBoer, announces its 2012 Poetry Chapbook contest. Submissions will be accepted between January 15, 2012 - June 15, 2012. Any poet writing in English is eligible to submit. Winner will receive publication, $200, and 25 copies of a perfect-bound chapbook with full-color cover. See details of submission at www.swanscythe.com/contest.html
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HAVE YOU CHECKED OUT THE SACRAMENTO CHAPTER OF CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB?
Luncheon Jan. 2012: Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords
Saturday, January 21st, 2011 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Tokyo Buffet, 7217 Greenback Ln, Citrus Heights, CA. DETAILS
Speaker: Mark Coker, founder and CEO of revolutionary e-publishing website Smashwords
Mark Coker founded Smashwords–an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers, agents and readers–in 2008 to change the way books are published, marketed and sold. Today, ebooks are one of the hottest trends in the publishing industry. Coker promises to demystify an unfolding world relevant to writers regardless of genre and form. Bring your notebook and questions!Mark is co-author along with his wife, Lesleyann, of Boob Tube, a novel that explores the behind-the-scenes world of daytime television soap operas. It was Mark’s experience trying to get Boob Tube published that inspired him to start Smashwords. He believes Smashwords holds the promise to make publishing more enriching for authors, readers, and publishers.
In the three years since its launch, Smashwords has grown to become the leading ebook distributor serving indie authors, small presses, and literary agents. Over 30,000 authors from around the world have published more than 80,000 books at Smashwords. In June 2010, The Wall Street Journal named Mark one of the “Eight Stars of Self-Publishing.” Mark is a contributing columnist for the Huffington Post, where he writes about ebooks and the future of publishing.
Monthly luncheon is open to the public. Cost is $12 for members, $14 for nonmembers.
Questions? Email Margie Yee Webb or call 916-213-0798.
View full details at:http://www.cwcsacramentowriters.org/2012/01/14/luncheon-jan-2012-mark-coker-founder-of-smashwords/
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AUTHOR JUDITH HORSTMAN SPEAKS AT NOR CAL EDITORIAL FREELANCER'S ASSOCIATION (EFA) JANUARY MEETING 1/30
Judith Horstman on writing a successful magazine query letter
Monday, January 30, 2012 (7:00 pm)
Writing a winning query letter: A lesson for freelance magazine writers or wannabe magazine writers. Date: Monday, January 30, 2012
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Thinkhouse Collective 1726 11th Street Sacramento, CA
Presented by Judith Horstman, an award-winning journalist who writes about health and medicine for doctors as well as the general public. She has been a Washington correspondent, a journalism professor, a Fulbright scholar, and has written and edited in just about any medium including newspapers, newsletters, special health publications, radio, video, the Internet, annual reports and books.
http://www.judithhorstman.com/bio.html
www.thinkhousecollective.com
www.the-efa.org
View the NorCal EFA chapter website here: http://www.the-efa.org/chp/?chp=norcal
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