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Upcoming Speakers
GCW Speaker meetings are held on the third Wednesday of the month in the Rose Room at Auburn City Hall.
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”
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.
2025 Poetry Contest and 100-Word Story Contest
Both contests are open to GCW Members Only.
Poetry Contest AND 100-Word Story Contest both start at noon on February 19 and end at midnight on April 2.
Celebration of both contests on April 30 (general public invited.)
For 2025 Poetry Contest details, see 2025 Poetry Contest
For 2025 100-Word Story Contest details, see 2025 100-Word Story Contest
April Speaker Donna Levin
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 noon, PDT Our topic is “DIALOGUE: the rules, the revelations, and the room to experiment” with Donna Levin. Donna Levin is the author of two books on the craft of writing: Get That Novel Started and Get That Novel Written. Her five acclaimed novels are Extraordinary Means, California Street, There’s More Than One Way Home, He Could Be Another Bill Gates, and The Talking Stick — published by Skyhorse in April 2024. She is a longtime facilitator of fiction-writing workshops, and a frequent speaker at conferences. Donna’s work is included in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University and in the California State Library’s collection of California novels. For more information: https://www.donnalevin.com/ This meeting will be held in the Rose Room at Auburn City Hall. The public is invited. The meeting is free to attend.
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