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Upcoming Speaker Events are listed below.
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.
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.
May Speaker
Zoro
Wednesday, May 16, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 noon, PDT
Topic “THE POWER OF DREAMING BIG”
Voted as the number one R&B drummer in the world numerous times, Zoro has spent four decades performing with artists such as Lenny Kravitz, Bobby Brown, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, New Edition, Sean Lennon, Lisa Marie Presley, Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire, and many others. Zoro is the author of the award-winning book, Maria’s Scarf: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love, a Son’s Perseverance, and Dreaming Big, his unforgettable story of overcoming. He received the Bronze Medal for Most Inspirational Nonfiction in the 2024 International Latino Book Awards. To learn more about Zoro, visit: zorothedrummer.com
This meeting will be held in the Rose Room at Auburn City Hall. The public is invited. The meeting is free to attend.
