Co-Director
Kathie Isaac-Luke |
Kathie Isaac-Luke's poetry collection,
Chrysalides, was recently published by Dragonfly Press.
Editor of caesura, the journal of Poetry Center San Jose for
five years, she is a freelance writer for the Union Democrat.
Kathie's short story, "The Collection," was nominated for a 2015
Pushcart prize.
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Faculty
Mark Wiederanders
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Mark Wiederanders
Mark Wiederanders writes historical fiction about the private lives of famous authors. His novel about Robert Louis Stevenson's love affair with an American woman, Stevenson's Treasure was published by Fireship Press in 2014, after placing as a Short List Finalist in the William Faulkner Society's Novel-in-Progress competition.
His screenplay about William Shakespeare's family, Taming Judith was a finalist in the Academy of Motion Pictures' screenwriting competition and was optioned by a film company. Mark has earned residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Martha's Vineyard Writers' Residency and the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center. Mark is also a psychologist who did research on the criminally insane. He lives in Sacramento. where he is now finishing a novel about Jack London.
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Erika Mailman
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Erika MailmanErika Mailman Erika Mailman is the author of historical novels Woman of Ill Fame (Heyday), and The Witch's Trinity (Crown), which was a Bram Stoker finalist and a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book.
Under the pen name Lynn Carthage, Erika writes Y.A. fiction, with Haunted: The Arnaud Legacy and Betrayed (Kensington) as the first two books in a trilogy. Erika holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona, and teaches novel writing online. She has been a Yaddo fellow and a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards.
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Kevin Arnold
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Kevin Arnold
Kevin Arnold is a poet, teacher, and fiction writer from Portola Valley, CA. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Jose State University, 2007. Kevin served as President, Poetry Center San Jose, 2000-2012. In the last year, he's published in Slippery Elm, Fresh Hot read, Wine, Cheese and Chocolate, the Willow Glen Poetry Project and as had three stories in Fault Line.
His novel, The Sureness of Horses, is being serialized on a literary website called USREPRESENTED, where he writes a weekly column called "Kevin's Much-Loved Poems. Based on a story extracted from one of his novel, the San Franciso/Peninsula California's Writers' Club named him Writer of the Year, 2014-2015
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Rob Swigart
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Rob SwigartRob Swigart is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Little America, The Time Trip, and The White Pig. Xibalba Gate and Stone Mirror were published as archaeology textbooks. Tablet of Destinies, a sequel to his thriller The Delphi Agenda, is in press.
He taught creative writing at San Jose State University for 34 years, worked as a journalist, technical writer at Apple and was a research affiliate at the Institute for the Future, and designed and wrote computer games, including Portal, the first truly interactive novel which led to helping found the Electronic Literature Organization. He is currently developing a novel about the French poet Gérard de Nerval.
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Kathy Boyd-Fellure
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Kathy Boyd-FellureKathy Boyd Fellure has recently completed a trilogy, The Language of the Lake, Lake Cottage Book Haven, and Azure Shores, which is being marketed by Wendy Lawson of Books & Such Literary Management. She's currently working on a fourth novel, Across the Pond. Kathy is also the author of four Tahoe-themed children's books. A children's book of a very different kind is due for release this summer.
For the past three years Kathy has written, produced and hosted a cable show, "Authors, Writers, Books & Beyond," for TSPN TV. (Links may be found on You Tube.) She's the founding director of Amador Fiction Writer's Critique Group that meets bi-weekly at Hein and Company Bookstore in Jackson.
Kathy also hosts an annual literary "read" which is open to the public.
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Sally Kaplan
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Sally Kaplan
Sally Kaplan moved from Los Angeles to Calaveras country in 2010. She and her husband run Backcountry Pictures, a production company in Murphys, California. In addition to working in non-fiction film and television, Kaplan has written and/or directed prize-winning original screenplays. Her script Crossroads developed into a short film at the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women; Dybbuks and Chicken Soup was screened in numerous film festivals and Man on the Plane received accolades from screen-writing contests.
Her works of prose appear in the anthologies: Changing Course: Women's Inspiring Stories of Menopause, Midlife, and Moving Forward, and Wine, Cheese & Chocolate, published by Manzanita Press. With a degree in dance and creative writing from Hampshire College, Kaplan has taught courses at NYU, UCLA, University of Colorado,
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Kathie Isaac-Luke
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Kathie Isaac-LukeKathie Isaac-Luke was editor of
caesura, the journal of Poetry Center San Jose, for five
years. Her poetry collection, Chrysalides, published by Dragonfly Press, was selected as runner-up at the 2014 Los Angeles Book Festival. Kathie's short story, "The
Collection," was recently published by the Dragonfly Press Ezine, DNA, and was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart prize. She is a
freelance writer for the Union Democrat newspaper in Sonora.
She has two poems in the new anthology, Wine, Cheese and Chocolate published by Manzanita Writers Press.
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Monika Rose
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Monika RoseMonika Rose, at home in the foothills of Calaveras County, founded Manzanita Writers Press, a nonprofit literary publisher housed in the Manzanita Arts Emporium, a new art center in Angels Camp. She is published in several anthologies and literary magazines, and her book of poems, River by the Glass, by GlenHill Publications, is available from Amazon and Small Press Distribution as a print and eBook.
She has edited anthologies such as the recently released A Taste of Literary Elegance: Wine, Cheese & Chocolate, and the ongoing Manzanita series of literary prose and poetry, Wild Edges. With a Masters Degree in English, she teaches courses in writing and literature at Delta College as an Adjunct Associate Professor. Monika is currently writing a novel while editing other writers' books, readying them for publication. Contact her at www.manzapress.com or her website ~ you can also email her at
mrose209@gmail.com.
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Lucy Sanna
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Lucy Sanna
Lucy Sanna's historical novel, The Cherry Harvest (HarperCollins 2015), was named Book Club Book of the summer by the Wisconsin State Journal and the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association's Book Club Pick for July. For this and previous works, Lucy has been featured on national television and radio, including CBS, NBC, NPR, and FOX. Her books have been recognized by national press, including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Examiner, Wisconsin Journal, San Jose Mercury-News, Playboy Magazine and Men's World Magazine.
Lucy is a sought-after speaker and workshop leader at writers' conferences, including San Francisco's Litquake, the Wisconsin Book Fest, the Chicago Tribune's Book Fest, the Chicago Tribune's Printers Row, the University of Wisconsin's Writers Institute, the University of Wisconsin's Write-by-the-Lake Retreat, and the Sterling North Book & Film Festival. Since 1999, Lucy has served on the Executive Planning Board for the National Kidney Foundation's annual San Francisco's Authors Luncheon, the premier authors' event of the San Francisco Bay Area. She has also served on the Board of the California Writers Club, San Francisco Peninsula Branch. She divides her time between Madison, WI and the SF Bay Area.
Lucy's website: www.lucysanna.com
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Jennifer Tristano
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Jennifer TristanoJennifer Tristano's many years in software programming have given her a powerful insight into the technology behind eBooks. That combined with her love of writing, and her teaching the art and craft of writing
allow her to translate the technical eBook information into terms that any writer can understand and utilize.
Jennifer is a co-facilitator of writing workshops at her local Barnes & Noble bookstore. There she presents specific writing
techniques and offers advice on how to improve story presentation and characters. In addition, she presents writing & eBook mechanization techniques at conferences and writing events. Jennifer is in the final rewrite of her first Fantasy novel.
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| CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, April 29
- 6:00 p.m. Registration and poolside picnic
at Charles and
Antoinette (May) Herndon's home, 8437 Center St., Mokelumne Hill, CA.
- 7:30 p.m. Poetry Reading at Mokelumne Hill Library. Work by
Monika Rose, Kathy Isaac Luke, and other conference participants will be featured. This
is an open mic reading and open to the public as well. Bring your own work to share.
Saturday, April 30
- 8:30 to 9:00 a.m. Registration (for those not registered
Friday) at Hotel Leger, 8304 Main St.
- 9:00 a.m. Introduction: Meet the Gold Rush Writers and learn
their secrets. (Lucy Sanna: 5 Habits of a Successful Author)
- 10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m Workshops.
- 11:45 to 1:15 p.m. Lunch on your own, explore Mokelumne Hill.
- 1:15 pm to 1:30 p.m. Talk Accessing Creativity 101.
- 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. Workshops.
- 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. Networking, Book signing/sales, No-host bar.
- 6 p.m. Dinner at the Hotel Leger. Featured Speaker: Mark Wiederanders. Taking the Long View to Achieving Writing Success and Savoring Milestones Along the Way
- 8:15 p.m. Open Mic. This is a casual, laid-back event with
no critiquing, just fun. Each reader is limited to 500 words-about 2
double-spaced pages. Everyone is invited to share.
Sunday, May 1st
- 9:30 a.m. Inspirational talk.
- 10:00 to noon. Workshops.
- Noon Brunch. Afternoon speaker: Erika Mailman on: WHY STOP AT ONE WHEN YOU CAN CREATE A SERIES?
Workshop Schedule
Saturday, 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.-choose one:
Saturday, 3:15 to 5:00 p.m. -Choose one:
Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon -Choose one:
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Pricing: Friday's picnic supper, Saturday dinner and Sunday brunch included.
- $165 --Early bird registration before April 1st
- $155 --Conference returnees before April 1st
- $185 --Thereafter
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for Registration Form
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