Founder
Antoinette May |
Antoinette May
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Antoinette May's third novel, The Determined Heart: the Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein was published in October by the Lake Union Publishing Division of Amazon Press. Her first novel, Pilate's Wife, published in 2007 by William Morrow, has been translated into 18 languages. The Sacred Well, her second William Morrow novel, was chosen best of 2009 by the San Francisco Book Festival.
Antoinette's non-fiction includes Adventures of a Psychic which spent 44 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. She was the recipient of La Pluma de Plata, an award conferred by the Mexican Government for the best travel article on their country. She writes weekly columns for the San Francisco Chronicle and SF Gate and is a frequent contributor to the Sierra Lodestar. Antoinette's articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Self, Country Living, San Francisco and Sacramento magazines.
Visit antoinette's website http://www.antoinettemay.com/
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Co-Directors
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Antoinette May
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Antoinette May reads Tarot cards, chases ghosts, and collects myths. Her fascination with the unknown led her to write Adventures of a Psychic which spent 42 weeks on the New York Times bestseller
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Antoinette’s love of legend inspired her debut novel, Pilate’s Wife, which has been translated into 19 languages and The Sacred Well, the San Francisco Book Festival’s top place winner in 2011.
A former newspaper editor, Antoinette has for years written weekly columns for the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate. Her articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Self and Country Living magazines.
www.antoinettemay.com
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Monika Rose
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Founding Director of the 501(c)3 publishing company in the Mother Lode region, Manzanita Writers Press, Monika has been affiliated with the Gold Rush Writers Conference since its inception and has attended and taught at several of the conferences over the years.
She is honored to be co-director this year and thanks the Manzanita Writers Press Board for their commitment to the project’s ongoing success. MWP facilitates local writer support groups, including Voices of Wisdom free writing classes for seniors (Zoom and live), and Manzanita Night Writers, weekly manuscript review meetings (Zoom and live).
https://monikarosewriter.com
https://manzapress.com
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Faculty
Mary Mackey
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Mary Mackey
Mary Mackey became a writer by running high fevers, tramping through tropical jungles, being swarmed by army ants, and reading.
She is the author of fourteen novels including The New York Times bestseller A Grand Passion and the Earthsong Trilogy, which follows the priestess Marrah on a heroine's journey through pre-historic Europe. She is also the author of eight collections of poetry including Sugar Zone, winner of a PEN Award; and The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, winner of a Women's Spirituality Book Award from the California Institute of Integral Studies and the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award for Best Book Published by a Small Press. In 2023, her screenplay The Stand-In (adapted from her novel of the same title) was selected for Best Feature Film Screenplay by the City of Angels Women's Film Festival in Los Angeles. Her most recent book Creativity looks at the origins of inspiration told in a way that encourages other writers to find their own unique paths to the place where inspiration begins. Creativity was a Northern California Book Award Finalist for The Best Book of Creative Nonfiction Published in 2023.
Related through her father's family to Mark Twain, Mary Mackey received her BA from Harvard and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. Professor Emerita in English at California State University Sacramento, she was one of the founders of the CSUS Creative Writing Program where she taught Creative Writing, Film, Screenwriting, and Memoir Writing for over three decades. During her time at CSUS she was nominated three times for the Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award. To learn more about her and her work you are invited to visit her Website: https://marymackey.com/
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Ace Antonio-Hall
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Ace Antonio-Hall
Nzondi (Ace Antonio-Hall) was born Acemandese Nzondi Hall in Queens, New York. Hall received his BFA from C. W. Post, Long Island University.
His science fiction/horror work, Oware Mosaic (Omnium Gatherum, September 2019), is the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards® Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel.
Hall is a two-time Honorable Mention winner of the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Award. He is also the author of the novel, Confessions of Sylva Slasher, (Montag Press, April 2013) and a non-fiction book, Lord of the Flies: Fitness for Writers (Omnium Gatherum, April 2017).
His new novel, Lipstick Asylum (The Girl Who Could Raise the Dead) will be available in 2021, also from Omnium Gatherum Media. Follow Nzondi on his social media platforms @Nzondi3 on Twitter or as Ace Antonio Hall on Instagram and Facebook for news, books and updates.
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Sands Hall
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Sands Hall
SANDS HALL is the author of the memoir, Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology (Counterpoint), finalist for the Northern California Book Award, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book in Religion and Spirituality. She is also the author of the novel, Catching Heaven (Ballantine), a Random House Reader's Circle selection and Willa Award finalist for best Contemporary Fiction; and a book of essays and exercises, Tools of the Writer's Craft;.
Her stories and essays have appeared in such journals as New England Review, Iowa Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She brings her extensive theatre experience as playwright, actor, and director, as well as her work as a singer/songwriter and performer, to her teaching. Professor Emeritus at Franklin & Marshall College, she teaches annually for the Community of Writers and for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, among others.
She lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California.
sandshall.com
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Antoinette May |
Antoinette May
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Antoinette May's third novel, The Determined Heart: the Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein was published in October by the Lake Union Publishing Division of Amazon Press. Her first novel, Pilate's Wife, published in 2007 by William Morrow, has been translated into 18 languages. The Sacred Well, her second William Morrow novel, was chosen best of 2009 by the San Francisco Book Festival.
Antoinette's non-fiction includes Adventures of a Psychic which spent 44 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. She was the recipient of La Pluma de Plata, an award conferred by the Mexican Government for the best travel article on their country. She writes weekly columns for the San Francisco Chronicle and SF Gate and is a frequent contributor to the Sierra Lodestar. Antoinette's articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Self, Country Living, San Francisco and Sacramento magazines.
Visit antoinette's website http://www.antoinettemay.com/
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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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Kevin Arnold
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Kevin Arnold is a transplanted Midwesterner who’s lived in Palo Alto, California most of his life. His poems, praised for their accessibility, have been published in over fifty literary magazines and online journals He has published a book of poems and a novel. The San Francisco/Peninsula California Writer’s Club recently named him Writer of the Year.
He served as President of Poetry Center San Jose,for twelve years, while he earned an MFA from San Jose State University. His novel, The Sureness of Horses, is available from Manzanita Press in hardback, softcover, and as an audiobook read by Sands Hall from Cherry Hill Publications.
He’s published a number of articles on usrepresented.com, including a series called Kevin’s Favorite Poems.
The national website YourDailyPoem.com has selected his poems eight times and is anthologizing his work in their ‘Best of Your Daily Poem’ collection, Poems to Lift You Up & Make You Smile, due this summer. A new anthology of Kevin’s poems is in the works—all efforts are being made to debut it at this year’s Gold Rush Writers.
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Kathy Boyd Fellure
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Kathy Boyd Fellure
Kathy Boyd Fellure is author of four children's books, and her debut contemporary women's fiction novel that released January, 2018. The Language of the Lake is the first book in the completed ~ On the Water's Edge Tahoe Trilogy.
Her 4th novel, Across the Pond and her WIP, Harper House, are both set in England. Kathy is a member of CWC, ACFW, and is the founder of Amador Fiction Writers. She hosted, wrote & produced the TSPN TV Show ~ Authors, Writers, Books & Beyond from 2012- 2015.
Kathy has served as a judge for the NCPA book awards in 2017-18. She guest speaks, teaches at writer conferences, hosts an annual literary read, exhibits her photography, and is agented with Books & Such Literary Agency. Kathy Boyd Fellure currently lives in the foothill gold country of California with her family and three stand-up comedian rescue dogs.
https://www.kathyboydfellure.com/
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Literary Agent Jake Lovell
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Jake Lovell
Areas of Interest:
Fiction: Gothic, horror, thrillers, westerns, military, speculative fiction (i.e. supernatural, paranormal, UFOs, etc..) Non-fiction: History, psychology, true crime, science, philosophy, military, journalism
Jake Lovell joined the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency in 2023. He earned his MA in Literature and Writing Studies from CSU San Marcos in 2021.
He is actively looking for adult fiction and non-fiction. He is interested in upmarket fiction, with an emphasis on: Gothic, horror, thrillers, westerns, military, and speculative fiction (supernatural, paranormal, UFOs, etc…; think Jordan Peele or 10 Cloverfield Lane). When it comes to fiction, he loves dark stories that cause readers to question turning off the lights before bed. Dark stories permeate through all cultures, backgrounds, and histories, and he wants to hear them. In general, he’s especially drawn to character driven stories written in distinct and diverse voices.
On the non-fiction front, Jake is looking for captivating stories and perspectives that stay with readers and keep them coming back. He is especially interested in working with historians, up-and-coming scholars looking to transition to trade readership, journalists, doctors, veterans, and people with unique takes on important issues. Think: Freakonomics, Outliers, A Molecule Away From Madness, Columbine, American Sniper, Empire’s Workshop, and The Fact of a Body.
Jake is NOT looking for: romance, fantasy, Sci Fi, YA, or children’s books.
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