Events:

Eureka:

Spring 2009submissions to Poets & Writers are now open and will be through Wednesday, March 25.  See Campus Literary Magazines under Eureka for details on how to submit your work.  Do note that we only accept electronic submissions.

The spring 2009 performance will be on Friday, May 1 in the Forum 100.  The reception is from 6:00-6:30 pm, with the performance from 6:30-7:30 pm.   Spring semester 2009 work will be published in a booklet, which will be available for purchase at our spring event for $3.00 (acceptees will receive one free copy).  

Del Norte:

Reading Series: College of the Redwoods’ English faculty collaborate with staff from Del Norte Association for Cultural Awareness and the Del Norte County Library District to host literary readings.

Past Readers

James Bertolino, Snail River, Quarterly Review of Literature.
Daryl Chinn, Soft Parts of the Back, University Presses of Florida.
Jennifer C Cornell, Departures, University of Pittsburgh Press.
Tracy Daugherty, What Falls Away, W.W. Norton.
Annie Dawid, York Ferry, Cane Hill Press.
Joan Dunning, From the Redwood Forest, Chelsea Green.
Ray Gonzalez, The Heat of Arrivals, BOA Editions.
Vince Gotera, Dragonfly, Pecan Grove Press.
Lawson F. Inada, Legends from Camp, Coffee House Press.
George Keithley, Living Again, Bear Star Press.
Ken Letko, All This Tangling, Mardi Gras Press.
Robert Hill Long, The Work of the Bow, Cleveland State University Poetry Center.
Jerry Martien, Shell Game, Mercury House Press.
Judith Minty, Yellow Dog Journal, Parallax Press.
Diane Raptosh, Just West of Now, Guernica Press.
Judy Ruiz, Talking Razzmatazz, University of Missouri Press.
Nicholas Samaras, Hands of the Saddle Maker, Yale University Press.
Marjorie Sandor, A Night of Music, Ecco Press.
David Rains Wallace, The Klamath Knot, Sierra Club.

Mendocino:

Words of Humor and Wisdom Echo Through College of the Redwoods"Good Words," a reading of prose and poetry offered twice a year by College of the Redwoods Mendocino, will take place in the CR Mendocino Library on November 14 at 5 p.m. This will be the fifth "Good Words" reading at which 75 different writers have appeared over the last two years. Writers come mainly from the college's creative writing classes, but also include staff and faculty members. Age range of the poets and writers is 18 to 80-plus. Suzanne Byerley, CR creative writing instructor, has also added a bit of music to the program which is open and free to the public. Coffee and cookies will be available.

On January 30 and 31, 2002, the Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference will sponsor the first in a new series of events called Soundings. Lynne Barrett, acclaimed short story writer and author of The Secret Names of Women, will give a free reading on the evening of January 30, and a two hour workshop the next morning. Many writers will remember Barrett from the 2000 Writers' Conference when her readings and classes were standing room only.

This year's conference, scheduled for June 6, 7, and 8, will feature environmentalist prize-winner, Ellen Meloy, author of Raven's Exile; short story writer, Charlotte Bacon; poets, Robert MacDowell and Terry Ehret; local novelist and memorist, Eleanor Cooney and many others.

Three CR writers who have recently published books, Charles Lee, Secrets of a Rocket Scientist, Leah Leopold, A Long Way From Eighth Street, and Laurel Moss, Watching Dandelions, held a reading and book signing at CR on October 18, and on September 23, CR hosted a reading with music in honor of those who died in the Trade Center tragedy, "A Glow Through Ashes." It featured 16 poets and writers, as well as clarinetist, Eric Van Dyke, and jazz singer, Sallie Wells. Fifty people attended and took solace from this event.

Other Events

Mendocino Coast Writers Conference -- see links for web address

Good Words: An evening of creative reading
Coordinator: Suzanne Byerley

Presented in the fall at CRMC. Readings which can be performed in five minutes will be considered. Open to faculty, staff and students of CRMC.