Board of Directors
Roger Lubeck
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President
Robbi Sommers Bryant
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Vice President
Marilyn Lanier
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Vice President
Shawn Langwell,
Vice President
Malena Eljumaily
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Treasurer
Adele Layton
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Secretary
Judy M. Baker
, Membership Chair
Skye Blaine
, Newsletter Poetry Editor
Joelle Burnette
, Website Editor
Pamela Heck
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Conference Volunteers
Shawn Langwell,
Conference Chair
Marilyn Lanier
, Speaker Chair
Jeane Slone
, Author Launch/Sonoma County Fair Chair
Deborah Walton
, PR External/ Newsletter Editor
Tommie Whitener
, Member at Large, Policy and Procedures C0-editor.
Chairs and Editors
Les Bernstein
, Poetry Anthology Editor
Skye Blaine
, Newsletter Poetry Editor
Fran Claggett-Holland
, Poetry Anthology Editor
Robbi Sommers Bryant
, Hot Summer Nights, Contests
Sher Gamard
, Writers Salon
Pamela Heck
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Historian
Marie Judson
, Critique Groups
Jeanne Jusaitis
, Author Support
Margarite Olmos
, PR Internal
Linda L. Reid
, Writers Circle
Deborah Taylor-French
, Author Support
Tommie Whitener
, 2019 Anthology Editor
Redwood Writers Meetings
are held the second Sunday of the month at the
2777 Fourth Street,
Santa Rosa
Board meetings take place beginning at 12:30
before the general meeting. You are welcome to join us at any time.
THIS MONTH'S MEETING
Sunday, October 13
2:00-4:30 PM
A WRITER'S LIFE --
5 Writers Roundtable
with R. Lubeck, facilitator
Arrive at 2:00 p.m. to register
and network
before the general meeting, which runs from 2:30-4:30.
NEXT MONTH'S MEETING
Sunday, November 10
Booby Traps and Blessings of a Writer's Life
with Frances Rivetti
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An easy way to support Redwood Writers. . .
BOARD NOTES
AND NEWS
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National Novel Writing Month
Roger C. Lubeck
Do you have a novel in you that is waiting to get out? Do you have a story to tell, but you keep putting it off? The National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) might be just right for you.
National Novel Writing Month is an international event dedicated to novel writing in 30 days. NaNoWriMo started in 1999, in the San Francisco Bay Area, when the founder, Chris Baty, and twenty friends spent the month of July binge-noveling. They added a website and moved the event to November in 2000. It has been going and growing ever since. The current Executive Director Grant Faulkner, presented at our conference in 2018.
I participated in my first NaNoWriMo in 2004. The program became a non-profit organization in 2005. In 2018, 306,230 writers participated; in Sonoma 221 novelists wrote 4,850,863 words. I plan to write my sixteenth novel in November. I hope you will join me.
You can participate in
NaNoWriMo
by signing up at
nanowrimo.org
. You begin in October with planning, plotting and everything except writing. You start by giving your novel a title (which can be changed). The month of actual writing is November. Binge-writing. Who's in?
Board Meeting Agenda for October 13, 2019
12:30 p.m. Call to Order – Roger Lubeck
- Approval of minutes from prior meeting
- Anthology Editor for 2020 - presentation
12:35 p.m. Board Reports
- Treasurer’s Report: Malena Eljumaily
- Membership Report: Judy Baker
12:40 p.m. Committee Reports
- Website: Joelle Burnette
- Speakers committee: Marilyn Lanier
- Contests in 2019: Robbi Sommers Bryant
- Conference: Shawn Langwell
1:30 p.m. New business
- New Venue for RW meetings
- Retreat
1:45 p.m. Adjourn
General Meeting Agenda for October 13, 2019
1:00 p.m. - Author Support
Writers Focus Group (not meeting)
2:00 p.m. - Networking
2:30 p.m. Welcome - Roger Lubeck
Membership - Judy Baker
Salon - Sher Gamard
Writers Circle - Linda Reid
Poetry Anthology (submissions) - Linda Reid
Contest & workshop in October - Harker Brautighan
2020 Prose Anthology
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Speaker - A Writer’s Life (Five writers in a panel, Roger Lubeck, facilitator)
4:30 p.m. Adjourn
As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions to make our meetings and our club more relevant to you. Just email
president@redwoodwriters.org
. See you on Sunday!
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IMPORTANT DATES
See more details below
Sunday, October 13
New Member Orientation 11:00 am–12:15
Flamingo Hotel
Redwood Writers Board Meeting 12:30-2:00
Flamingo Hotel
Author Support Group 1:00-2:00 - See details below
MONTHLY MEETING
A Writers Life
- A Writers Roundtable facilitated by Roger Lubeck
2:00-4:30
Flamingo Hotel
Saturday, October 19
9:30-12:00 Flamingo Hotel
I Can Almost Taste It
- A Redwood Writers Contest Workshop
facilitated by Harker Brautighan, Roger DeBeers, and Roger Lubeck
Saturday, October 19
Redwood Writers Salon 1:00-4:00
Friday, November 1
NaNoWriMo begins (see below for details)
Sunday, November 10
MONTHLY MEETING
2:00-4:30 Flamingo Hotel
Booby Traps and Blessings of a Writer's Life with Frances Rivetti
Friday, November 15 AT 9:00 p.m.
DEADLINE FOR POETRY ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSIONS
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SUNDAY, OCT 13
2:00-4:30
Arrive at 1:30 to register and mix and mingle.
FLAMINGO HOTEL
Santa Rosa
CLICK ON THE IMAGE AT LEFT TO ENLARGE.
All are welcome. Just $5 for members; $10 for non-members.
PLEASE JOIN US!
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SAVE THE DATE!
Bi-Annual Sonoma County
Writers Conference
From pen to published
May 2
nd
, 2020
Finley Center, Santa Rosa
Details to follow in months ahead.
Wanna help out?
We'll have plenty of volunteer opportunities.
Everything from speaker concierge and introductions to publicity, set up, registration, coordination and much, much more.
Let us know and we'll find a spot that's just right for you.
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REDWOOD WRITERS SALON
HARVEST YOUR STORIES!
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19
1:00-4:00
Location in Santa Rosa TBA
Bring your stories and poems to share
Readings are five minutes
RSVP: Registration, readings, directions, and our convivial potluck lunch
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ENDEAVOR: Stories of Struggle and Perseverance
The forty-four works of fiction and memoir contained in the 2019 Redwood Writers anthology reflect the volume’s theme and title,
Endeavor: Stories of Struggle and Perseverance.
Each story provides an uplifting example of how the human spirit can prevail against all that nature, man, and circumstances can throw against it. Sometimes mundane, but often exalted, the difficulties, hardships, and conflicts experienced by the protagonists of the stories serve as inspiration to us all.
Price: $12.00 if purchased at a Redwood Writers meeting ($10.00 for 5 or more copies) and $15.00 from
Amazon.com
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CELEBRATING THE ANTHOLOGY AUTHORS
It was a warm afternoon to celebrate the publication of
Endeavor
, this year's prose anthology--and it wasn't just the temperature. The featured writers warmed the hearts of the audience with readings from their craft and, in turn, received warm praise for their work. Once again we thank
Linda Reid
who hosted a most heart-warming reception!
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Cooking Up Another Great Contest
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I Can Almost Taste It
Redwood Writers Contest
October 13 - November 17, 2019
Harker Brautighan and Roger DeBeers Co-chairs
WORKSHOP
Saturday October 19, 2019
9:30 am -12:00 pm
Flamingo Hotel
Everyone has an interesting, funny, tragic, or dramatic story that involves a food or drink. The question is whether to write the story as a fiction, memoir, or essay? Join Harker Brautighan, Roger DeBeers, and Roger Lubeck for a workshop on writing short stories or essays about food and drink that include a recipe.
Harker Brautighan will discuss personal essay and the difference from other informational nonfiction. Roger DeBeers will discuss writing short fiction stories. Roger Lubeck will review the submission guidelines and the contest template for submitting the required recipe.
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Skye Blaine, Poetry Editor
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Wrong Kids
by Jean Wong
Are they back yet, are they back?
Back, who's back?
The children...
Children? What Children?
The ones at the Border...
Which ones, which border?
The Mexican border, the children—
are they back—back to their parents?
Someone said some---not all—but some.
That's too long...children can't wait
that long. How can that be?
ID...they didn't have IDs.
But surely they had bracelets...
in hospitals you always wear IDs.
They didn't know.
Who?
The guards—they didn't know.
When the orders came,
they said children had to go in another room.
No one said anything about IDs.
Where? Where did they take them?
Away. No one knows. There are places.
The buildings are not marked.
How could they do this.
This is not right.
Don't ask me...there's nothing
that can be done.
I will write.
Do you know where to write?
No, no one knows these things.
I will write. I will write
the Department of Justice.
Better check online...it's tricky...
I tried to write...
You did? What happened?
Said it was the wrong address.
It was Juvenile Hall...
said I got the wrong kids.
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My Poetry Muse
by Ellie Portner
she is fickle
she does not meet commitments
nor give assurances
time for her has no boundaries
sometimes
she withdraws
and I am afraid
she will not return
I tempt her back
with whispered promises
I do not keep
I do not trust her
the one who shares my solitude
who comes to me
to fill the empty places
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Submission guidelines:
single-spaced
, Times or Times New Roman, 12 point font, no all caps, please. Poems are reviewed by a team of poets. We will acknowledge receipt of your work, and let you know if your poem is going to be included, or if we are requesting minor edits prior to inclusion.
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2020 POETRY ANTHOLOGY
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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Redwood Writers
The title for the 2020 Redwood Writers poetry anthology is
...And Yet. This theme is open to any interpretation.
For your inspiration, we are happy to share our selection of art for the cover. We had many truly beautiful selections from which to choose following the “blind” submission process. In the end, we chose
a painting called “Party Girl” by Linda Loveland Reid. The back cover is a beautiful work by Rebecca Smith called “Abstract.”
We hope the title and cover will inspire you to submit 5 poems by November 15
th. We wish you all the very best,
Les and Fran
The 2020 poetry anthology IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 15.
- Poets must be members of Redwood Writers.
- Each poet may submit up to 5 poems.
- All poems must be submitted through website at redwoodwriters.org
- Your name must NOT appear on poems.
- Include a poem title on each poem submitted.
- Use Times New Roman typeface and 12 point font.
- Include a 50 word bio written in 3rd person.
- Poems must be original and unpublished. Poems that have appeared in print, including online magazines, are not eligible. However, they may have appeared in personal blogs or online newsletters.
- Poets will be notified of accepted poems by December 1.
FOR COMPLETE DETAILS AND INFORMATION,
CLICK HERE
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Sunday, November 10
2:00-4:30
Booby Traps and Blessings
of a Writer's Life
with Frances Rivetti
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Want to join a writing group but don't know how to find one?
If you're wanting to form or join a writing group, contact Marie Judson at
mariejudson@gmail.com
. This is a
free member service
of Redwood Writers.
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Our mailing address is The Redwood Writer, P.O. Box 4687, Santa Rosa, CA 95402
a
5
01(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Redwood Writers Meetings
General membership meetings are held on the second Sunday of each month (moves one week ahead if a holiday) from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. at the Flamingo Conference Resort and Spa, located at
2777 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95405.
Registration starts at 2 p.m.
Copyright © 2019 Redwood Writers. All rights reserved.
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