Attention authors, writers, and aspiring writers!
The California Writers Club has formed and chartered a new branch in the south part of California’s Central Coast. The Coastal Dunes Branch meets in Nipomo, on the border of San Luis Obispo County and Santa Barbara County. Anyone can attend our monthly meetings, workshops, or other sponsored events for free.
The California Writers Club’s overall mission is to educate writers of all levels of expertise in the craft of writing and the marketing of their work. In keeping with that educational mission, the Coastal Dunes branch’s focus: Practicing the Craft of Writing. In our monthly meetings, we offer speakers and facilitators who guide us in writing, allowing us to learn from them and one another.
Please join us at the Nipomo Library for our free presentations; we’d love to see you!
Our next meeting is Saturday, January 04, 2025, at the Nipomo Library
Presenter – Lee Herrick – California Poet Laureate
Topic: “How Music Stays in the Body: On Breath, Memory, and Sound in Poetry.” The Poet Laureate will present how to bridge memory with breath and sound, the music for your poetry.
Lee Herrick is the author of four books of poems: In Praise of Late Wonder, New and Selected Poems, Scar and Flower, Finalist for the 2020 Northern California Book Award, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, and This Many Miles from Desire.
He is co-editor of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (Orison Books 2020) and Afterlives: An AGNI Portfolio of Asian Adoptee Diaspora Writing. His poems appear widely, in The Poetry Foundation, Academy of American Poets, The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems from the San Francisco Bay Watershed, Indivisible: Poems of Social Justice with a foreword by Common, HERE: Poems for the Planet, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama, and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy, among others. Herrick serves on the advisory board of Terrain.org and Sixteen Rivers Press. He co-founded LitHop in Fresno. He has taught in Qingdao, China, and for Kundiman.
Location: 918 West Tefft Street, Nipomo, CA.
Directions: From 101 northbound or southbound, take the Tefft Street exit.
Proceed west for .9 miles. At Orchard, turn right into the library parking lot.
Date/times: Saturday mornings (the first Saturday of each month unless a holiday weekend)
10:00 AM- 10:30 Check-in and Networking
10:30-10:45 CWC Announcements
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM: Featured Presentation
12:15 – 12:45: Q&A, Book Signing if applicable
Refreshments are provided; admission is free.
For our 2024 calendar of speakers, visit our Event Calendar page.
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