Patrick Coyle, Marilyn Dykstra, Jane Glendinning, Deborah Grossman, Connie Hanstedt, and Marie-Anne Poudret contributed to the ekphrastic exhibit, Double Take: Art and Literature Side by Side. The exhibit had an opening reception and readings on Saturday, January 22 at the Bankhead Theater in Livermore. You can view the exhibit in the lobby of the Bankhead Theater in …
George Cramer won an Honorable Mention for his genre short story, “Hard Time” in the 89th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Contest. Deborah Grossman was the August featured member of the North American Travel Journalists Association with an interview about her adventures as a travel writer. In addition, her poem, “My Husband Has Cancer” [not …
Deborah Grossman co-authored an article, “Spring Wine, Food and Activity Tour in Paso” with Joan Gelfand which was published on March 27, 2015 in the Huffington Post. Check it out at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joan-gelfand/spring-wine-food-and-activity-tour-in-paso_b_6890392.html.
Tri-Valley Writers are producing and publishing. Fred Norman has a new book, A Hill of Poems. This collection includes works read at various events on Lafayette’s hill of crosses. Proving that your work doesn’t have to be hot off the presses to be a hot commodity, Annette Langer had an event for her 2005 book, Healing Through …
Deborah Grossman’s poem “One Morning in Kowloon Park” won second place in the Nature category in the Ina Coolbirth Contest in October and was published in the Ina Coolbrith Circle Poetry Anthology 2013-14, The Gathering. On the journalism side of her writing, Deborah often publishes in national publications, but she especially enjoyed working on an article in the February issue …
California Writers Club Tri-Valley celebrates with these members published in Illuminating Echoes, Las Positas anthology, released at an author’s reception Saturday, May 14, 2011. Poetry: Alice Kight (Library Hideout and I Walk Out Early); Deborah Grossman (Prayer and Washing Up); and Ronnie Holland (The Phone Call, Daphne’s Pedestal and My Mother’s Violets). Prose: Patricia Bacon …
Jacqueline Bardsley won third place for her poem “Adam” in the Beginnings & Ending category of the 85th Bay Area Annual Poet’s Dinner contest. She also received honorable mention in Poets’ Choice for “Midsummer Eve.” LaDonna Fehlberg‘s “Poetically Speaking” was a winning poem for “Wine Still Life,” a porcelain painting by artist Eugenia Zobel in …
