Awards

Jack London Award 2021

Congratulations to Lisa Meltzer Penn, recipient of this year’s Jack London Award!

Lisa joined CWC SF Peninsula in 2007 after attending the Jack London Writers Conference and has served in several roles as well as contributed to the growth of the branch. Her contributions include:

Founding Editor of Fault Zone Anthology series 2009-2013 (Volume 1-3.) Recruited and mentored subsequent editors, and continued editorial involvement to present
Arranged Fault Zone readings at local libraries, bookstores, cafes and the San Mateo County Fair
Received branch Louise Boggess Award in 2013
Board Secretary for three years, 2014-2017
Board President for two years, 2017-2019
Community Readings Coordinator 2019-Present
Brought Bay Area Generations reading series to the Peninsula 2019-2020
Teamed up with San Mateo County Library to create their virtual Story Café featuring CWC published authors, 2020-Present
Partnered with Shuffle Collective to present Inclusion, Confusion & Authenticity in Writing virtual panel discussion free to all CWC members, 2021
Co-lead a popular weekly Shut Up & Write group 2018-Present
Instituted June meeting and Writers Block Party at the SMC Fair, 2019
Initiated Women’s Journeys: A Readers Theater Event at Dragon Theatre, bringing the work of 7 branch members from page to stage, 2020
Volunteer Coordinator 2019-2021
Critique Groups Coordinator 2019-2020
Bylaws Committee 2018
SMC Fair Literary Contest Judge 2016-Present
Editing panels at the Fair
Nominating Committees
“Writers Helping Writers” presentations
Active on board 2009-Present

Lisa is the author of multiple short stories (many in the Fault Zone series) and specializes in literary fiction with a twist of magical realism. Her novel is undergoing a final pass before heading out to agents. She loves her CWC community!

Louise Boggess award: 2021

Congratulations to Megan McDonald, recipient of this year’s Louise Boggess Award. The award is our branch’s top honor and is given each year for outstanding contributions to the club. Megan has been active in our branch on many levels. She served as our Hospitality Chair including the planning of the 2019 Holiday Party. She was active in the San Mateo County Fair Literary Stage for several years before transitioning to Literary Stage Liaison in 2020. She is busy planning to make next year’s event even more interactive! Her presentations through Writers Helping Writers, Think Tank and multiple library panels are always thoughtfully crafted and supportive to the writing community. She helped get the branch up and running on Zoom, acting as technology support for Monthly Meetings in the first half of 2020 and has recently been elected to serve as Vice President.

Thank you, Megan for your generous spirit and willingness to help our community.

2020

2020 CWC SF Peninsula Branch Louise Boggess Award Recipient: Korie Pelka

2019

2019 CWC Jack London Award Recipient: Laurel Anne Hill

2019 CWC SF Peninsula Branch Louise Boggess Award Recipient: Carole Bumpus

November 2021

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[ONLINE] Shut Up & Write
[ONLINE] Shut Up & Write

November 2, 2021 9:30 am - 11:15 am
Via Zoom

Join us for 15 minutes of check-in, followed by an hour and a half of writing time, with optional check in again at the end. (Writing time from 9:45 - 11:15

Held via Zoom. Please RSVP through MeetUp for the link. (Scroll down until you see CWC SF Peninsula event or click VIEW ALL).

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[ONLINE] Shut Up & Write
[ONLINE] Shut Up & Write

November 9, 2021 9:30 am - 11:15 am
Via Zoom

Join us for 15 minutes of check-in, followed by an hour and a half of writing time, with optional check in again at the end. (Writing time from 9:45 - 11:15

Held via Zoom. Please RSVP through MeetUp for the link. (Scroll down until you see CWC SF Peninsula event or click VIEW ALL).

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[Online] Writers Helping Writers: San Mateo Main Library
[Online] Writers Helping Writers: San Mateo Main Library

November 10, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Via Zoom

Join your writing peers as they lead workshops on the techniques of writing. In partnership with the San Mateo main library.

Free event.

Check back for registration details approximately one month before the event.

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[ONLINE] Shut Up & Write
[ONLINE] Shut Up & Write

November 16, 2021 9:30 am - 11:15 am
Via Zoom

Join us for 15 minutes of check-in, followed by an hour and a half of writing time, with optional check in again at the end. (Writing time from 9:45 - 11:15

Held via Zoom. Please RSVP through MeetUp for the link. (Scroll down until you see CWC SF Peninsula event or click VIEW ALL).

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CWC SF Peninsula Monthly Meeting
CWC SF Peninsula Monthly Meeting

November 20, 2021 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlc-ivqzgvE931_s9w8z8IGSWEaVIeD8ZE

Our Creative Impulse and The Courage to Trust It

Join us for our monthly meeting as Éanlaí Cronin helps writers bypass over-analysis and make lasting contact with the birthplace of all stories: The Creative Within.

A storyteller's task--their sole remit--is to take listeners on a journey, one that transforms us as though we ourselves had lived that exact experience and had returned, our purview rearranged to this newfound wisdom.

- How do we, as storytellers, trust our own creative impulse?
- Where does it come from?
- And why is this the most important of all the creative muscles to nurture and protect?

To answer these questions, find out how Éanlaí Cronin combines the Amherst Writers and Artists Method with my own pedagogy of Writing the Soul Awake.

Éanlaí Cronin’s writing has appeared in Agave Magazine, White Wall Review, Sweet Tree Review, String Poet, Peregrine, Sinister Wisdom, Big Muddy, The Ignatian Literary Magazine, The Courage to Heal, Entropy Magazine, and The Magic of Memoir. She has spent the last twenty years attending writing workshops across America. She was a Lit Camp Writers Conference scholarship recipient; a Pat Schneider Poetry Contest Honorable Mention winner; long listed in the National Poetry Competition United Kingdom in 2017; a Winner of the Eastern Iowa Review’s Lyric Essay Contest in 2018; a Top Ten Finalist in the Fish Short Memoir Prize contest in 2018; and she received a literary residency at WordSpaceStudios in San Francisco this year. An elementary school teacher for ten years, she currently leads writing workshops. She enjoys photography, searching for the elusive “perfect chair,” and public speaking.

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PLEASE PAY upon confirmation of your registration.

$5 (CWC members, any branch) https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5MEE77UDYH2CN

$10 (non-members) https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=LHJU2SUGQM8H6

An amount of your choosing https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=VS5T2VQ742XRQ&source=url

Thank you for your commitment to our continuing existence and your contribution to our community.

— Agenda —

10:00 AM – Mingle in breakout rooms with fellow writers
Breakout rooms open at 10... join when you want.
10:30 AM – Club business
11:00 AM - Speaker

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[ONLINE] Shut Up & Write
[ONLINE] Shut Up & Write

November 23, 2021 9:30 am - 11:15 am
Via Zoom

Join us for 15 minutes of check-in, followed by an hour and a half of writing time, with optional check in again at the end. (Writing time from 9:45 - 11:15

Held via Zoom. Please RSVP through MeetUp for the link. (Scroll down until you see CWC SF Peninsula event or click VIEW ALL).

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[ONLINE] Shut Up & Write
[ONLINE] Shut Up & Write

November 30, 2021 9:30 am - 11:15 am
Via Zoom

Join us for 15 minutes of check-in, followed by an hour and a half of writing time, with optional check in again at the end. (Writing time from 9:45 - 11:15

Held via Zoom. Please RSVP through MeetUp for the link. (Scroll down until you see CWC SF Peninsula event or click VIEW ALL).

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CWC South Bay Writers
CWC South Bay Writers

November 8, 2021 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
China Stix, 2110 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95050, USA

South Bay writer's monthly meeting.

Dinner and cost to attend: $30 for members, $35 for guests.

https://southbaywriters.com

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CWC High Desert Branch - Monthly Meeting
CWC High Desert Branch - Monthly Meeting

November 13, 2021 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
11537 Apple Valley Rd, Apple Valley, CA 92308, USA

It's the monthly meeting of the High Desert Branch of the California Writers Club. The public is welcome and admission is free.
Branch home page - https://www.hdcwc.com/

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CWC Berkeley Monthly Meeting
CWC Berkeley Monthly Meeting

November 21, 2021 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
1204 Preservation Park Way, Oakland, CA 94612, USA

Except for July, August, and December, we meet on the third Sunday of each month from 12:00 p.m. to 4p.m. at 1204 Preservation Park Way in Oakland (in the Robinson House Classrooms). Use street parking and enter from Preservation Park Way off of 12th Street. There is an ADA accessible entrance from Martin Luther King Drive parking lot.

Our meetings always include a speaker program featuring writers, editors, teachers, publishers, and agents to speak about writing and publishing. We also highlight a club member each month… this could be YOU!

These meetings are open to the public, and offer all writers the socializing, book sales, and writer support groups that we need to succeed—plus refreshments! There is a $10 charge for non-members, and it’s only $5 for members.

Before each meeting, we host a Craft Group and a Marketing Support Group. Learn more about our craft and critique groups here.

https://cwc-berkeley.org/

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CWC Inland Empire Branch Monthly Meeting
CWC Inland Empire Branch Monthly Meeting

November 27, 2021 10:10 am - 12:00 pm
215 E C St, Ontario, CA 91764, USA

The Inland Empire Branch of the California Writers Club meets…
The fourth Saturday of every month (except December) from 10:10 a.m. to 12:00 noon at the Ovitt Family Community Library in Ontario.

Our group meets for networking, announcements and updates from 10:10 to 11:00 am. From 11:00 until 12:00 noon we often host a guest speaker, an author who discusses the craft of writing, publishing, and promotion. Presentations are free to the public,.

Ontario Library – Ovitt Family Community Library
215 E. C Street, Ontario, CA 91764
Telephone (909) 395-2004

DIRECTIONS:

On I-10 (San Bernardino Freeway), go to Exit 51, N Euclid Ave (CA-83 S).Turn South on Euclid. Go about 1.5 miles. Turn left onto C Street. The Library is straight ahead – one block. Our meeting room is to the left when you come in the front entrance.

Branch Home Page - http://iecwc.com

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CWC Fremont Area Writers monthly meeting.
CWC Fremont Area Writers monthly meeting.

November 27, 2021 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
42 Silicon Valley, 6600 Dumbarton Cir, Fremont, CA 94555, USA

Are you a writer?

Would a supportive community of other writers help you when you need ideas as to how to get over a problem with your work or just feel overwhelmed, blocked, or stressed from the solitary nature of the trade?

You’re not alone.

FAW is a mutual support group. We’re helping each other push projects through to completion.

Fremont Area Writers is the Centennial Branch of the California Writers Club.

The California Writers Club is one of the nation’s oldest professional clubs for writers, founded in 1909. We are a nonprofit education corporation with eighteen branches in California. Our organization is dedicated to educating writers of all levels and disciplines in the craft of writing and in the marketing of their work.

Here at Fremont Area Writers we sponsor on-going projects to help our members advance their skills and learn how to complete, market, sell and promote our books and articles.

By encouraging participation in California Writers Club events we encourage the development of contacts with other publishing industry professionals.

During our meeting we always recognize members who have reached milestones in their work or won awards.

In the fifteen minutes before each meeting and during the break between the Speaker, members mingle and catch up with each-other’s work.

At each monthly meeting, after our membership business is complete, we host a variety of industry professionals who share information on topics ranging from “How to Create an Opening Paragraph” (so compelling that your reader won’t be able to put your book down) to “Understanding the Laws and Basic Contractual Concepts Authors Need to Know”

Check under Upcoming and Past Events for past and future speakers and their topics.

On the Fourth Monday evening of each month, (7PM) anyone can come to Suju’s Coffee on Thornton in Fremont to read from their own work and request suggestions from other authors as to how to fix problems or get past roadblocks.

Once your book is published, you’ll want to become active in our Book Signings, where authors read from, sell and sign their books at local venues.

Sound good? Then come! Be our guest at our next meeting on the fourth Saturday of the Month at 2PM (excepting July and December). There’s no charge.

We hope to see you there, but even if you decide to go it alone, best wishes to you and your project from all of us.

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	November 2021
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1	2 [ONLINE] Shut Up & Write [ONLINE] Shut Up & Write November 2, 2021 9:30 am - 11:15 am Via Zoom Join us for 15 minutes of check-in, followed by an hour and a half of writing time, with optional check in again at the end. (Writing time from 9:45 - 11:15 Held via Zoom. Please RSVP through MeetUp for the link. (Scroll down until you see CWC SF Peninsula event or click VIEW ALL). See more details •	3	4	5	6	7
8	9 [ONLINE] Shut Up & Write [ONLINE] Shut Up & Write November 9, 2021 9:30 am - 11:15 am Via Zoom Join us for 15 minutes of check-in, followed by an hour and a half of writing time, with optional check in again at the end. (Writing time from 9:45 - 11:15 Held via Zoom. Please RSVP through MeetUp for the link. (Scroll down until you see CWC SF Peninsula event or click VIEW ALL). See more details •	10 [Online] Writers Helping Writers: San Mateo Main Library [Online] Writers Helping Writers: San Mateo Main Library November 10, 2021 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Via Zoom Join your writing peers as they lead workshops on the techniques of writing. In partnership with the San Mateo main library. Free event. Check back for registration details approximately one month before the event. See more details •	11	12	13	14
15	16 [ONLINE] Shut Up & Write [ONLINE] Shut Up & Write November 16, 2021 9:30 am - 11:15 am Via Zoom Join us for 15 minutes of check-in, followed by an hour and a half of writing time, with optional check in again at the end. (Writing time from 9:45 - 11:15 Held via Zoom. Please RSVP through MeetUp for the link. (Scroll down until you see CWC SF Peninsula event or click VIEW ALL). See more details •	17	18	19	20 CWC SF Peninsula Monthly Meeting CWC SF Peninsula Monthly Meeting November 20, 2021 10:00 am - 12:00 pm REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlc-ivqzgvE931_s9w8z8IGSWEaVIeD8ZE Our Creative Impulse and The Courage to Trust It Join us for our monthly meeting as Éanlaí Cronin helps writers bypass over-analysis and make lasting contact with the birthplace of all stories: The Creative Within. A storyteller's task--their sole remit--is to take listeners on a journey, one that transforms us as though we ourselves had lived that exact experience and had returned, our purview rearranged to this newfound wisdom. - How do we, as storytellers, trust our own creative impulse? - Where does it come from? - And why is this the most important of all the creative muscles to nurture and protect? To answer these questions, find out how Éanlaí Cronin combines the Amherst Writers and Artists Method with my own pedagogy of Writing the Soul Awake. Éanlaí Cronin’s writing has appeared in Agave Magazine, White Wall Review, Sweet Tree Review, String Poet, Peregrine, Sinister Wisdom, Big Muddy, The Ignatian Literary Magazine, The Courage to Heal, Entropy Magazine, and The Magic of Memoir. She has spent the last twenty years attending writing workshops across America. She was a Lit Camp Writers Conference scholarship recipient; a Pat Schneider Poetry Contest Honorable Mention winner; long listed in the National Poetry Competition United Kingdom in 2017; a Winner of the Eastern Iowa Review’s Lyric Essay Contest in 2018; a Top Ten Finalist in the Fish Short Memoir Prize contest in 2018; and she received a literary residency at WordSpaceStudios in San Francisco this year. An elementary school teacher for ten years, she currently leads writing workshops. She enjoys photography, searching for the elusive “perfect chair,” and public speaking. ====================================== PLEASE PAY upon confirmation of your registration. $5 (CWC members, any branch) https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=5MEE77UDYH2CN $10 (non-members) https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=LHJU2SUGQM8H6 An amount of your choosing https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=VS5T2VQ742XRQ&source=url Thank you for your commitment to our continuing existence and your contribution to our community. — Agenda — 10:00 AM – Mingle in breakout rooms with fellow writers Breakout rooms open at 10... join when you want. 10:30 AM – Club business 11:00 AM - Speaker See more details •	21
22	23 [ONLINE] Shut Up & Write [ONLINE] Shut Up & Write November 23, 2021 9:30 am - 11:15 am Via Zoom Join us for 15 minutes of check-in, followed by an hour and a half of writing time, with optional check in again at the end. (Writing time from 9:45 - 11:15 Held via Zoom. Please RSVP through MeetUp for the link. (Scroll down until you see CWC SF Peninsula event or click VIEW ALL). See more details •	24	25	26	27	28
29	30 [ONLINE] Shut Up & Write [ONLINE] Shut Up & Write November 30, 2021 9:30 am - 11:15 am Via Zoom Join us for 15 minutes of check-in, followed by an hour and a half of writing time, with optional check in again at the end. (Writing time from 9:45 - 11:15 Held via Zoom. Please RSVP through MeetUp for the link. (Scroll down until you see CWC SF Peninsula event or click VIEW ALL). See more details •

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8 CWC South Bay Writers CWC South Bay Writers November 8, 2021 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm China Stix, 2110 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95050, USA South Bay writer's monthly meeting. Dinner and cost to attend: $30 for members, $35 for guests. https://southbaywriters.com See more details •	9	10	11	12	13 CWC High Desert Branch - Monthly Meeting CWC High Desert Branch - Monthly Meeting November 13, 2021 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 11537 Apple Valley Rd, Apple Valley, CA 92308, USA It's the monthly meeting of the High Desert Branch of the California Writers Club. The public is welcome and admission is free. Branch home page - https://www.hdcwc.com/ See more details •	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21 CWC Berkeley Monthly Meeting CWC Berkeley Monthly Meeting November 21, 2021 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm 1204 Preservation Park Way, Oakland, CA 94612, USA Except for July, August, and December, we meet on the third Sunday of each month from 12:00 p.m. to 4p.m. at 1204 Preservation Park Way in Oakland (in the Robinson House Classrooms). Use street parking and enter from Preservation Park Way off of 12th Street. There is an ADA accessible entrance from Martin Luther King Drive parking lot. Our meetings always include a speaker program featuring writers, editors, teachers, publishers, and agents to speak about writing and publishing. We also highlight a club member each month… this could be YOU! These meetings are open to the public, and offer all writers the socializing, book sales, and writer support groups that we need to succeed—plus refreshments! There is a $10 charge for non-members, and it’s only $5 for members. Before each meeting, we host a Craft Group and a Marketing Support Group. Learn more about our craft and critique groups here. https://cwc-berkeley.org/ See more details •
22	23	24	25	26	27 CWC Inland Empire Branch Monthly Meeting CWC Inland Empire Branch Monthly Meeting November 27, 2021 10:10 am - 12:00 pm 215 E C St, Ontario, CA 91764, USA The Inland Empire Branch of the California Writers Club meets… The fourth Saturday of every month (except December) from 10:10 a.m. to 12:00 noon at the Ovitt Family Community Library in Ontario. Our group meets for networking, announcements and updates from 10:10 to 11:00 am. From 11:00 until 12:00 noon we often host a guest speaker, an author who discusses the craft of writing, publishing, and promotion. Presentations are free to the public,. Ontario Library – Ovitt Family Community Library 215 E. C Street, Ontario, CA 91764 Telephone (909) 395-2004 DIRECTIONS: On I-10 (San Bernardino Freeway), go to Exit 51, N Euclid Ave (CA-83 S).Turn South on Euclid. Go about 1.5 miles. Turn left onto C Street. The Library is straight ahead – one block. Our meeting room is to the left when you come in the front entrance. Branch Home Page - http://iecwc.com See more details CWC Fremont Area Writers monthly meeting. CWC Fremont Area Writers monthly meeting. November 27, 2021 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm 42 Silicon Valley, 6600 Dumbarton Cir, Fremont, CA 94555, USA Are you a writer? Would a supportive community of other writers help you when you need ideas as to how to get over a problem with your work or just feel overwhelmed, blocked, or stressed from the solitary nature of the trade? You’re not alone. FAW is a mutual support group. We’re helping each other push projects through to completion. Fremont Area Writers is the Centennial Branch of the California Writers Club. The California Writers Club is one of the nation’s oldest professional clubs for writers, founded in 1909. We are a nonprofit education corporation with eighteen branches in California. Our organization is dedicated to educating writers of all levels and disciplines in the craft of writing and in the marketing of their work. Here at Fremont Area Writers we sponsor on-going projects to help our members advance their skills and learn how to complete, market, sell and promote our books and articles. By encouraging participation in California Writers Club events we encourage the development of contacts with other publishing industry professionals. During our meeting we always recognize members who have reached milestones in their work or won awards. In the fifteen minutes before each meeting and during the break between the Speaker, members mingle and catch up with each-other’s work. At each monthly meeting, after our membership business is complete, we host a variety of industry professionals who share information on topics ranging from “How to Create an Opening Paragraph” (so compelling that your reader won’t be able to put your book down) to “Understanding the Laws and Basic Contractual Concepts Authors Need to Know” Check under Upcoming and Past Events for past and future speakers and their topics. On the Fourth Monday evening of each month, (7PM) anyone can come to Suju’s Coffee on Thornton in Fremont to read from their own work and request suggestions from other authors as to how to fix problems or get past roadblocks. Once your book is published, you’ll want to become active in our Book Signings, where authors read from, sell and sign their books at local venues. Sound good? Then come! Be our guest at our next meeting on the fourth Saturday of the Month at 2PM (excepting July and December). There’s no charge. We hope to see you there, but even if you decide to go it alone, best wishes to you and your project from all of us. See more details • •	28
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