To escape the madness of holiday shopping, click on Winterfest (see above) to find works of art that will inspire you to write prose and/or poetry. This could also give you the opportunity to begin a piece for the next TVW anthology that will begin next spring. Have a peaceful Holiday and good fortune in the New …
December 2012 President’s Message from Paula Chinick Read More »
A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle (ACV), can travel over any terrain. You name it-dirt, water, mud, ice, water-it can hover in a stationary or mobile position. These hybrid vessels are operated by a pilot, not a captain like a marine vessel. An ACV functions by creating a cushion of high-pressure air between …
Cyber Monday Hovercraft from home by Violet Carr Moore Read More »
Meg Waite Clayton is the national bestselling author of The Four Ms. Bradwells, The Wednesday Sisters, and the Bellwether Prize finalist The Language of Light, published by Ballantine Books, a Random House imprint, and acclaimed by all major national book club picks. Clayton’s books have been published in six languages. Her fourth novel, The Wednesday …
Kathleen Antrim, California Writers Club Tri-Valley Member, has returned from a ten-day USO tour of the Middle East
“Enough Time for Christmas”, a short story by Julaina Kleist-Corwin about Adrian Toryfter, her deceased son’s short story written when he was a high school student, has been published in A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree: Real Stories of Hope, Faith and the True Gifts of the Season anthology (Harlequin 2012).
“How to turn your design book into a novel,” Lani Longshore’s article coauthored with Ann Anastasio, was published in the Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) Journal Spring/Summer edition.
Triple congratulations to Hector Timourian for his poem “The King”; a short story, “Coffee Brewing Trouble”; and a memoir, “The Legend of Enrique Santos” published in the Livermore Adult Education Creative Writing Group anthology.
Stacey Gustafson‘s short story, “Hair Gone Wild”
I found a book titled 100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, from the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries). Having a fondness for trivia, I bought the book. The words listed were all familiar to me. I was about to congratulate myself on paying attention in school when I reached …
More than a dozen CWC Tri-Valley Branch members have taken the annual National Novel in a Month (NaNoWriMo) challenge. Cooking, house cleaning and yard work will be ignored. Laundry bins overflow. The trash begs to be taken out. Our fingers fly over computer keyboards toward a common goal—50,000 words by November 30. For the past …
