Hi,
This month's newsletter is about writerly events on Zoom and in Northern California.
On Zoom
Musings & Movement with Rebecca Evans & Gayle Brandeis
Tuesday, August 6th, 10 am – 11 am (Pacific Time)
A free monthly mind and body connection to help inspire and care for the writer.
Northern California Events
A Memoir Workshop with Susan Bono
August 14—18, 2024 at Emandal Farm, Willits, CA
Appropriate for All Skill Levels
Emandal's ArtStays is summer camp for adults, with organic, farm-grown gourmet meals, private cabins, sun-dried sheets, down comforters, gentle hiking trails, perfect swimming holes, warm days, starry nights, and best of all, time and encouragement to write.
August's theme is "Crossroads and Milestones: Stories of Decision and Change."
One of Emandal's teachers is long-time editor, writing teacher, and workshop leader Susan Bono, author of What Have We Here: Essays about Keeping House and Finding Home.
Susan edited and published Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narrative from 1995-2015. She's taught at ArtStays since its inception in 2014.
ArtStays info and registration: Emandal ArtStays.
For questions about the class, contact Susan: sbono@tiny-lights.com
Intrigued but don't want to take a class? A limited number of writers and artists with independent projects can enjoy this session at a reduced rate.
Contact director Tam Adams through the Emandal website.
Congratulations to Dave Seter:
Sonoma County Poet Laureate from August 2024 through July 2026.
Dave’s poetry project will be a county-wide initiative based on “Our California,” a poetry project developed by California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and the California Arts Council.
The first phase of “Our California” encourages individual Californians to write poems and submit them for posting on the arts council’s website.
Dave will expand the concept in Sonoma County into more of a community-based project incorporating workshops and supportive readings of “Our Sonoma County” poems generated in the workshops.
“The idea is to encourage dialogue on what it means to live in Sonoma County, and to assemble a poetic collage of Sonoma County’s history which incorporates a wide range of voices from diverse cultural backgrounds.”
The Sebastopol Center for the Arts, along with the Poet Laureate Selection Committee, invites the public to a reception on Sunday, August, 18, 2024 at 2 PM, honoring outgoing Poet Laureate Elizabeth Herron and new Laureate Dave Seter.
Register for the reception on the SebArts website.
August 5, 6:15 pm, Rivertown Poets will introduce Dave Seter as our new Poet Laureate. Dave will give a short talk and a reading.
Location: Aqus Café, 189 H St, Petaluma
Plan on going early for a delicious Aqus dinner or dessert.
Dave Seter is the author of Don’t Sing to Me of Electric Fences (Cherry Grove Collections, 2021) and Night Duty (Main Street Rag, 2010).
He writes about social and environmental issues, including the intersection of the built world and the natural world.
His poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in various publications including Appalachia, Cider Press Review, The Florida Review, The Hopper, The Museum of Americana, Poetry Northwest (forthcoming), and others. He has been an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and has served on the Board of Directors of Marin Poetry Center.
Just Write!
Marlene |
