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Welcome to the Sonoma County Writers' Guide Web page. Here you
will find links and contact information for local readings, events, workshops,
writers' organizations, and conferences.
To add your name and e-mail address to my "Literary
Folk" e-mail list, send me your contact information.
Sincerely,
Terry Ehret [ email ]
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 ANNUAL
& ONGOING LITERARY
EVENTS & PROGRAMS:
Copperfield's
Books Author Events
KRCB Radio Literary Programs
• Radio Program Director, Robin Pressman [ email ]
• A Novel Idea with Rosemary Manchester
• Morning Haiku with Penelope la Montague
• Word by Word with Jordan Rosenfeld
Livewire Literary Salon @ Zebulon Lounge
— contact Nancy Long [ email ] for info or sign-ups
Luther
Burbank Center for the Arts
Petaluma Poetry
Walk
Petaluma Writer's Forum
contact Marlene Cullen: mcullen@comcast.net
Poetry Flash
— information about ongoing local literary events & programs
outside Sonoma County
Santa
Rosa Jr. College Arts & Lectures
Sonoma County Book
Festival
Seaweed
Cafe
Sonoma County Library
• California
Reads
• Sonoma
County Reads
• Poetry
Slams
Sonoma Salute
to the Arts
The Center Literary Cafe
@ Healdsburg Senior Center
133 Matheson St.
— Batja Cates [ email |
phone: 707-431-0319 ]
Wednesdays at the Waterfall
WRITING
CLASSESS & WORKSHOPS:
College Courses for Adults:
Santa Rosa Jr. College Creative Writing Classes
Santa Rosa Jr. College Community Education
Sonoma State University Creative Writing Program
Sonoma State University Extended Education Program
School-Based Programs for Youth:
California Poets in Schools
— Phyllis Meshulam, Area Coordinator
Sonoma State University EXCEL Program
Community Non-Credit Workshops:
• Angela Center [ web
]
• Buff and Polish Workshops
— Robin Beeman [ email
]
• Enter the Muse: A Poetry Workshop
— Claire Drucker [ email
]
• Jumpstart Writing Workshop
— Marlene Cullen [ email
]
• Low Fat Fiction
— Guy Biederman [ email
]
• Lose Your Mind Writing Practice
— Susan Hagen [ email
| web |
(707) 824-6886 ]
• Memoir Workshops
— Susan Bono [ web
]
• North Bay Fiction Writers Workshop [ web
]
• On-Line Poetry Workshop with Scott Reid [ web
]
• Poetry Workshops
— Diane di Prima
[contact Geri di Giorno: email
| (707) 763-4271]
• Poetry and Prose Poetry Workshops
— Terry Ehret [email
| phone: (707) 762-2689 ]
• Sebastopol Center for the Arts [ web
]
— Writers’ Sampler Series at SCA
• The Sitting Room [ web
]
• Sonoma County Writing Practice
— Margaret Caminsky-Shapiro
[ email
| phone (707) 578-7272 x. 4
— Sara Spaulding Philips
[ email
| phone (707) 578-7272 x. 2
• Word Temple Poetry Workshop
(formerly Winter Stars Poetry Workshop)
— Katherine Hastings [ email
| web ]
• Write Life Workshops
— Jordan Rosenfeld [ email
| web ]
• WriteMind Workshops
— Clara Rosemarda [ email
| web | (707) 579-2081
]
• Writing Workshops
— Ken Rodgers [ email
| phone: (707) 829-5763 ]
• Writing Workshops with Gwynn O'Gara
— Gwynn O'Gara [ email
]
AUTHOR
READING SERIES:
Copperfield’s Books
North Light Books
Readers' Books
Healdsburg Literary Guild
• Sunday Salons
• Literary Cafe
Toyon Books
Santa
Rosa Jr. College Arts & Lectures
SONOMA
COUNTY PUBLISHERS
LITERARY JOURNALS & MAGAZINES:
• Avec Books
• Clamshell Press (Don Emblen)
160 California Ave., Santa Rosa, CA,
phone:
(707) 544-4532
• The Dickens,
Jane Love, editor [ email ]
• PenHouseInk
• Pennyworth (Paul Townsend) [ email ]
• Running Wolf Press (Chip Wendt)
• Sixteen Rivers Press Poetry Publishing Collective
• Tiny Lights
• West County Wonder (Gianna De Persiis Vona, editor) [ email ]
• Women’s
Voices
• Zaum
For literary journals beyond Sonoma County click here
BOOK
REVIEWERS & BOOK REVIEWS
OF SONOMA COUNTY AUTHORS:
Northbay.com: Books
Santa Rosa
Press Democrat:
• Sara Peyton, "Book People" [ email ]
• Jonah Raskin [ email ]
The Bohemian
CONTESTS
& AWARDS:
The Bohemian
The Dickens,
Jane Love, editor [ email ]
Mendocino Coast
Writers Conference
Awards and Scholarships
Sebastopol for the Arts
Sonomarin Fair
SRJC English Dept. Awards
Sonoma County Fair
Tiny Lights Personal Essay Contest
WRITING
GROUPS & CLUBS
California Writers' Club: Redwood Writers' Club
Chaparral Poets: Poets of the Vineyard
Ina Coolbrith Writer's Circle
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
WRITING
CONFERENCES & RETREATS
Casa Zazanilla, Mexico
— workshops led by Sonoma County authors
Napa Writers' Conference
Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
Squaw Valley Community of Writers Summer Workshops
Wellspring Writer's Retreat
SONOMA
COUNTY ARTS COUNCILS & ORGANIZATIONS
Cultural Arts Council
of Sonoma County
• contact: [ email ]
Healdsburg Literary Guild
• Sunday Salons
• Literary Cafe
Literary Arts Guild of Sonoma County
Petaluma Arts Council
Sebastopol Center for the Arts
StarMerrow:
Supporting Science Fiction and Fantasy |
Geri Digiorno was born in what was then the small Mormon community
of Logan, Utah. She was the seventh of nine daughters born to Ben
and Ethel Mae Mifflin. Her mother had become pregnant every year for fifteen
consecutive years, losing six children to miscarriages or during childbirth.
Ben Mifflin lost his job as a mailman in 1934, during the height of the
depression, due to local politics. This forced the Mifflins to uproot
and move to San Francisco where Ben hoped to find work as a machinist.
Geri's family moved into what had previously been a storefront tamale
shop in the Noe Valley District of the city. Although converted into
an apartment Geri remembers that it retained much personality of a store–
large windows facing street level with long glass display shelfs in the
kitchen. Ben, who had earlier served in the Navy, got a shipboard job
which took him to Hawaii. Once there, he found full time work as a machinist
in Oahu. The plan was to bring the family over when enough money was saved.
Unfortunately, during his yearlong absence, Geri's mother, who was under
the tremendous pressure of raising such a large family alone, developed
a serious dependency on alcohol. It ultimately caused their marriage to
end in divorce.
Her father returned to San Francisco and assumed custody of the children.
Their mother made infrequent appearances, between travel and another
marriage, creating much upheaval in Geri and her sisters lives. Growing
up poor and experiencing adolescence in the San Francisco of the 1940's
was a tumultuous experience for the girls, one fraught with vivid characters
and colorful dramas. It has been the source for much of her poetry.
She documents it all with an honesty and love as only one who
has successfully come to terms with life can do. Her poems speak to us
of her experiences of growing up female in America, of her teenage pregnancy
and lonely stay at a home for unwed mothers; of marrying the domineering
father a year later and having a second and third child by the time she
was 21; of the stifling isolation of the suburbs and an absent husband;
of her divorce and later marriage to an irascible tavern owner and their
adventures together; of his sudden death and her subsequent blossoming
as a poet and painter.
Geri's artistic credo is simple: Keep it honest. She has, and
we are all the richer for it.
SONOMA
COUNTY POETS LAUREATE:
• GERI DIGIORNO 2005-2006
contact: email
• TERRY EHRET 2004-2006
contact: email
• DAVID BROMIGE 2002-2004
contact: email | web site
• DON EMBLEN 2000-2002
The Clamshell Press,
160 California, Santa Rosa, CA
phone: (707) 544-4532
HEALDSBURG
LITERARY LAUREATES:
• CHIP WENDT 2006-2008
contact: email
• PENELOPE LaMONTAGNE 2004-2006
contact: email
• ARMANDO GARCIA D'AVILA 2002-2004
contact: web site | phone: (707) 591-0595
• DOUG STOUT 2000-2002
contact: email | phone:
(707) 433-5999
SONOMA
COUNTY WRITERS DIRECTORY:
If you are looking for the contact information of a specific author,
the Poets & Writers
Directory is a good resouce.
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