We're starting the new year with a celebration of writers - our own! Join us to hear our members read their recently published work from Voices of the Valley: First Press, the very first Tri-Valley Writers anthology. We're also featuring members who have been published in Tapestries and the Los Positas College anthology. In addition, we have planned a little contest to test how … [Read more...] about Winterfest
January 2012 President’s Message from Violet Carr Moore
2012.I will blog. Join a critique group. Attend a conference. Revise my mystery manuscript. Journal. Submit. And?celebrate. I'll toast blog comments with tea and chocolate. I'll savor critiques from my novelist group (more chocolate). Along the way, I'll celebrate your successes with?you guessed it?more chocolate. Happy New Year! Violet Carr Moore … [Read more...] about January 2012 President’s Message from Violet Carr Moore
Twas two months before Christmas by Julie Royce
Our critique group gave ourselves a challenge to write a story based on an object and a place. We gave ourselves a year and planned to read the stories at our December meeting. As the deadline approached, Julie Royce found herself enmeshed in a story that would not behave itself. She wrote the following poem instead, and now we offer it as Tri-Valley's Christmas present to our … [Read more...] about Twas two months before Christmas by Julie Royce
Adina Senft, World Building Through Your Character’s Eyes
Building a world is more than paragraphs of description of a prairie town or the mean streets of steampunk London. It's how your character sees your story world and how it in turn reflects him. It's how the environment influences and changes your character-and how your character changes her environment-during the events of the plot. Award-winning author Adina Senft will show … [Read more...] about Adina Senft, World Building Through Your Character’s Eyes
Tri-Valley Writers in Tapestries
Julaina Kleist, CWC Tri-Valley member, was selected by the Downtown Oakland Senior Center to emcee at the December 9th anthology launch. In addition to Julaina, Tri-Valley readers were Sheila Bali and Neva (Janie) Hodges. Jan Davies and Linda Todd were among the hundreds of listeners at this fifth annual event. Fourteen Tri-Valley members published in Tapestries are … [Read more...] about Tri-Valley Writers in Tapestries
