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Gold Country Writers will hold our next business meeting on March 5, 2025, from 10 am to noon in the Rose Room of the Auburn City Hall.
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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”
May 21 Zoro
“The Power of Dreaming Big”
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
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 2025 dues payment of $60 is due January 1, 2025.
Please make your check payable to Gold Country Writers and send to:
Gold Country Writers
Membership
P.O. Box 5991
Auburn, CA 95604
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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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