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Gold Country Writers will hold our next business meeting on February 5, 2025, from 10 am to noon in the Rose Room of the Auburn City Hall.
Click here information on our regularly scheduled events and meetings
Upcoming Speakers
GCW Speaker meetings are held on the third Wednesday of the month in the Rose Room at Auburn City Hall.
February 19 Rina Wakefield.
“Intertwining the Oral Tradition with Spoken Word Poetry Performance.”
March 19 Susan M. Osborn & Sarah Michie Pressler
“LETTUCE LAUGH: Adding humor to your writing”
April 16 Donna Levin
“DIALOGUE: the rules, the revelations, and the room to experiment”
February Speaker
Rina Wakefield
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 noon, PDT
Our speaker will be Rina Wakefield.
Her subject will be “Intertwining the Oral Tradition with Spoken Word Poetry Performance.”
This meeting will be held in the Rose Room at Auburn City Hall. The public is invited. The meeting is free to attend.
Rina Wakefield is a Spoken Word Poet. As a cultural and literary event producer, she facilitates and hosts poetry events for her community, including one that featured California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick. Rina has been a featured performer at numerous events, including the El Dorado County’s Poet Laureate program and Placerville’s International Human Rights Day celebration. She has been published in literary journals, including Lantern Magazine and Coalesce. She was also published in Arts and Culture El Dorado’s chapbook Poets of the Firehouse Sessions (2023). Currently, she is working on a prose poetry chapbook.
For more information: https://www.rinawrites.com/
March Speakers –
Susan M. Osborn &
Sarah Michie Pressler
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 noon, PDT
Our speakers will be Susan M. Osborn and Sarah Michie Pressler. Their subject will be
“LETTUCE LAUGH: Adding humor to your writing.”
This meeting will be a workshop. Please bring pen and paper.
Laughing is good for the body and soul. We all turn to humor in our lives, as a natural part of communication. With humor, a writer lightens the mood of a story and the mood of the reader. Susan M. Osborn and Sarah Michie Pressler will provide examples and tips to bring humor to one’s writing. Participants will have an opportunity to work together in small groups.
This event will be held in the Rose Room at Auburn City Hall. The public is invited. The meeting is free to attend.
Susan M. Osborn, Ph.D., M.S.W., is the creative nonfiction author of “Awful Bosses Coloring Book.” It contains 26 limericks. She listens to David Sedaris’s podcast at night so she can go to sleep laughing. Susan is having fun writing a book about coincidences.
Sarah Michie Pressler is the author of “Jambo Mama” and “The Little Askari,” both about the thrills of growing up in Kenya. That experience along with decades of teaching elementary school and singing semi-professionally have given her miles of material when it comes to funny stuff. Sarah is writing a book about a favorite time in her life, childhood.
Members! Your 2024 dues payment of $60 is due January 1, 2025.
Please make your check out to Gold Country Writers and send it to this address:
Gold Country Writers
Membership
P.O. Box 5991
Auburn, CA 95604
Or you can give your check or cash directly to Nicolle Goldman at a club event.
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Regular Monthly Meetings
Our meetings are held on Wednesdays.
1st Wednesday – Business Meeting
2nd Wednesday – Drop-in Critique
3rd Wednesday – Guest Speakers & Workshops
4th Wednesday – Drop-in Critique
5th Wednesday – Social Event
Meetings are normally held at The Rose Room, Auburn City Hall
Click here for Rose Room at City Hall map, address, and directions. Also, info on Rose Room parking.
Gold Country Writers Members Are Medal-Winning Finalists for International Awards
Dorothe Kress, “The Risk: Forbidden Love Behind the Iron Curtain,” and Kathryn Shields, “On the Point of a Star,” are medal-winning finalists in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2024. The NGIBA is the largest international awards program established to recognize and honor the most exceptional independently published books. Congratulations to both authors!!
KUDOS TO:Dorothe Kress and Kathryn Shields, winning finalists in Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Great that our members are winning finalists in an international contest! See article in the Auburn Journal! Roseanne McHenry met with Cody Stark, popular talk show host from CBS Channel 31’s “Good Day Sacramento,” on October 15, 2024. Congratulations Roseanne!
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