Mary Mackey
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Mary Mackey
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Mary Mackey, who has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, has taught memoir writing on both the graduate and undergraduate level for many years. Her published works include one novella, twelve novels, and five collections of poetry. Her latest novel,
The Widow’s War, recently made the San Francisco Chronicle’s Bestseller List.
Related through her father's family to Mark Twain, she lived in the rain forests of Costa Rica in her early twenties. Recently, she has been traveling to Brazil and incorporating her experiences into her fiction and poetry. Four of her novels
(The Widow’s War, The Year The Horses Came, The Horses At The Gate, and The Fires of Spring) include some of the rituals of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé. In 2005 she took a boat up the Rio Negro, a tributary of the Amazon, travelling over two thousand miles through flooded jungle. In June 2009, she made another trip to one of the headwaters of the Amazon on the Rio Tocantins
Her works have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List and been translated into eleven foreign languages including Japanese, Hebrew, Greek, and Finnish. A screenwriter as well as a novelist and poet, she has sold feature-length screenplays to Warner Brothers as well as to independent film companies. John Korty directed the filming of her original award-winning screenplay Silence. The film rights to her comic novel
The Stand-In were recently optioned by director Renée De Palma of OneMotion Pictures. Twice, her poetry has been featured on Garrison Keeler’s
Writer’s Almanac.
At present, she lives in northern California with her husband Angus Wright, and is Professor Emeritus of English at California State University. To learn more about her you are invited to visit her webpage at:
www.marymackey.com.
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Michael Arkin
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Michael Arkin
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Michael Arkin returns home to Calaveras Country from his new digs in New Mexico with a debut novel
hot off the press. Out of Balance, a socially relevant mystery centers about Angel’s Camp
Michael’s other writing credits include numerous published special education Decisions, lead articles
published in trade journals, including Oklahoma Law Review and California Lawyer
, a guest editorial in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, co-authorship of a non-fiction work
, From The Depth of the Mines Came the Law, (Arkin and Laskin, Word Dancer Press, 2000 ) and has been
published in The Manzanita, and Las Calaveras
He is a former Independent State Hearing
Officer who adjudicated Special Education
cases and previously provided legal services as Chief Trial Counsel for
Child Protective Services. He also served as counsel for battered women
referred by the Calaveras Women's Crisis Center
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Out of Balance
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Mary Webb
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Mary Webb
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Mary H. Webb is the author of two novels, Dark Roads (Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovitch)
and The God Hustlers (Muntu Books). She is also a successful playwright and screenwriter.
Among her works are Artaud and His Double, The Incest Project
and Arguing about Every Single Thing which was read
at the Page to Stage Theatre Festival at the Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.) in
2004.
Mary has taught creative writing at Berkeley City College for the past 25 years and is proud of the multitudes
of writers she has helped in that time to bring their extraordinary creative visions into the world.
Mary is known for creating the “Three Stage Method” of critiquing that protects and nourishes the new writer.
Mary has also taught at Los Medanos and has taught groups of writers in private workshops in her home for
more than 25 years.
Visit Mary's website
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Indigo Moor
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Indigo Moor
by Crawdad Nelson
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Indigo Moor is a poet, author, and playwright. His second book, Through the Stonecutter’s Window was selected for the 2009 Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize.
His first book Tap-Root was published in 2007 as part of Main Street Rag’s
Editor’s Select Poetry Series. He is a 2003 recipient of Cave Canem’s Writing fellowship,
former vice president of the Sacramento Poetry Center, and former editor for the Tule Review.
He is the winner of the 2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Prize for Emerging Writers and the 2008 Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize.
Other honors include: finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Crab Orchard First Book Prize, Saturnalia First Book Award, Naomi Long Madgett Book Award, and WordWorks Poetry Prize. He has received scholarships to the Summer Literary Series in St. Petersburg Russia, the 2006 Idyllwild Summer Poetry Program, the Indiana University Writer’s Conference, and the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference Review.
His short stories and poetry have appeared in the Arkansas Review, Xavier Review, LA Review,
Mochila Review, Boston University’s The Comment, the Pushcart Prize
nominated Out of the Blue Artists Unite, Poetry Now,
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African-American Nature Poetry, Cave Canem Anthologies VIII and IX,
The Ringing Ear, the NCPS 2006 Anthology, Blue Moon Literary & Arts Review,
Breathe 101: Contemporary Odes, and Gathering Ground.
He was recently the featured artist for the Suisun Valley Review.
Indigo is a graduate member of the Artist's Residency Institute for Teaching Artists and
teaches residencies and workshops across the country and is enrolled in the
Stonecoast MFA program for the University of Southern Maine where he is studying Poetry, Fiction, and Playwriting.
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Tap-Root
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Through the Stonecutter's Window
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Tom Johnson
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Tom Johnson
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Tom Johnson's 35-year career in journalism has taken him from
the classroom to the newsroom and back. He began using computers to tease
meaning out of data while a Ph.D. candidate in the early '70s and studying the
impact of technology on urban spaces.
By the early '80s he was writing about
dedicated word processing systems (think $13,000 in 1978 dollars) and
covering the early stages of personal computing in Silicon Valley for TIME and
Popular Science. He worked for Time Magazine in El Salvador in the mid-'80s,
was the start-up editor of MacWeek, and a deputy editor of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
His areas of interest are analytic journalism, dynamic simulation models
of publishing systems, complexity theory, the application of Geographic
Information Systems in journalism and the impact of the digital revolution on
journalism and journalism education. He often teaches and lectures in Latin
America and is the founder and co-director of the Institute for Analytic
Journalism, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Websites: www.indiepubwest.com
and www.jtjohnson.com E-mail:
tom@jtjohnson.com
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Tom Johnson's
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Lucy Sanna
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Lucy Sanna
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Lucy Sanna, author of both fiction and nonfiction, has found success in venues ranging from poetry, short stories and literary novels, to scientific feature articles and self-help books. With an education in English literature, a nose for research and a passion for sensual detail, Lucy easily moves through time, place and voice, bringing both creative fancy and authenticity to her work.
She has published poetry and erotic short stories in such literary magazines as Yellow Silk
, Salmagundi, Amelia and Mokehillian Review of Poetry
and is currently completing a novel, Jazz Dancing.
Lucy recently received a much coveted grant to Vermont Studio Center for a month-long residency. VSC is the largest international artists’ and writers’ residency program in the United States.
Lucy’s two self-help books – How to Romance the Woman You Love… The Way SHE Wants You To
(Random House, 1995), and How to Romance the Man You Love… The Way HE Wants You To (Random House, 1996) continue to hold their place on bookstore shelves. In the meantime, this “evergreen” twin set has been picked up by major book clubs and published in six languages.
When she isn’t writing, Lucy enjoys helping others realize their own creative dreams. She is a certified Creativity Coach and has for years shared her expertise through leadership in writing conferences and critique workshops.
Since 1999, Lucy has served on the Strategic Planning Committee for
the National Kidney Foundation’s annual Authors Luncheon in San Francisco. She
has also served on the Board of the California Writers Club, San Francisco
Peninsula Branch.
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Kevin Arnold
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Kevin Arnold
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Kevin Arnold, one of the founding faculty of the Gold Rush Writers Conference, has published 50 poems and short
stories in such literary magazines as the Seattle Review, the California Poetry
Journal, The Beloit Fiction Journal, and a book of poetry.
One of his short stories, excerpted from his novel, The Sureness of Horses, won first
place at the 2009 San Francisco Book Festival. He's marketing that novel and
another, White Man's Blues.
Kevin received a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from San Jose State
University. He is the long-term president of Poetry Center San Jose, with
headquarters in the historic home of California poet Edwin Markham. PCSJ is the
parent organization to California Poets Festival and the national literary
journal Caesura. See more at http://www.redroom.com/author/kevin-arnold.
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Monika Rose
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Monika Rose
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Monika Rose edits Manzanita: Poetry and Prose of the Mother Lode
and Sierra.
She is founding director of Manzanita Writers Press, a literary press of the foothill region, and facilitates
Writers Unlimited, a writers collective that critiques serious work in preparation for publication.
Her work has been published in various poetry venues including Tule Review, Poetry Now, Rattlesnake Review,
Interview series with BL Kennedy, Squaw Review, The Journal, Mindprint Review, and other literary magazines.
Her work is included in Shadows of Light, an anthology of poetry and photography of the Sierra.
She has a collection of poems soon to be published, and is preparing an historical novel based on her parent's World War II stories.
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Kathie Isaac-Luke
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Kathie Isaac-Luke
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For five years Kathie Isaac-Luke edited caesura, the journal of Poetry
Center San Jose. Her poetry has appeared in The Cafe Review,
Manzanita, The Montserrat Review, Reed, and in the anthologies Cotton
and Spirit and The Breath of Parted Lips, Voices From The Robert Frost
Place, Volume II. Her short fiction appears in The Call: An Anthology
of Women's Writing.
Her short story The Collection was nominated for a
2010 Pushcart Prize. She is a freelance writer for The Union Democrat
Newspaper.
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Helen Bonner
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Helen Bonner
Helen Bonner, PhD, Writing and Communications, is founder of Starthistle Press Publishing. She is author of the classic memoir
, The Laid Daughter and her late-life love story, First Love Last.
Previously Dr. Bonner taught creative writing at Ohio University and Minnesota State University. Her short story, Roadside Trinity, won several Best Short Story awards and her screenplay
, The Jeannette Rankin Story, has been optioned. ? Her breakthrough novel, Cry Dance, will soon be out.
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The Laid Daughter
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First Love Last
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, April 30
- 6 p.m. to 7:30 Picnic Supper and Resistration
in the garden of Charles and Antoinette (May) Herndon's house at 8437 West Center, Mokelumne Hill
- 7:45 to 10 Poetry Readings at Mokelumne Hill Library.
- Emcees are Kathie Isaac-Luke and Kevin Arnold.
- Indigo Moor and Monika Rose will be reading from their newly published books.
- Conference leaders, attendees and members of the community are also invited to read.
Saturday, May 1
- 9 a.m. late registrations Ballroom Hotel Leger
- Welcome by Antoinette May
- Staff introductions.
- Announcements from co-directors Ginger Griffin and Kathie Isaac-Luke.
- Talk by Lucy Sanna: "Opening Up to Creativity"
- 10:30 a.m. to noon: Workshops.
- Noon to 1 pm: Lunch in the Leger Hotel.
- 1:15 Opening Event: Award winning journalist Tom Johnson interivews
author and publisher Helen Bonner, founder of Starthistle Press, on the secrets
of self publishing.
- 2:00 to 5:15 p.m. Workshops.
- 5:30 to 6:00p.m. Get together in hotel cocktail bar
- 6 to 8:15 p.m. Dinner and talk by Mary Mackey, "The Art of Historical Fiction:
Making the Past Come Alive"
- 8 p.m.--Pirate's Workshop with Lucy Sanna and Kevin Arnold in hotel
ballroom. Kevin and Lucy welcome you aboard the ship of creative expression.
Don't be shy. Bring your work to share. We don't critique or judge, we're
here to experience and applaud. Please limit your reading to three double
spaced printed pages, of prose or poetry.
Sunday, May 2nd
- 10 a.m., Hotel Leger Ballroom, Lucy Sanna: "Taking it Home."
- 10:30 to noon. Workshops.
- Noon to 2:00 p.m.--Brunch and talk by Michael Arkin: "So You Want to Earn a Living
Writing--It's Easier Than You Think."
Workshop Schedule
Saturday Morning 10:30 a.m. to noon
Saturday, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Saturday, 3:45 to 5:15 p.m.
Sunday, 10:30 a.m.
Click Here for Registration Form
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