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		<title>&#8220;Inventing Zorgos&#8221; &#8211; June 16th&#8217;s Speakers are Louise Hart and Kristen Caven</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 23:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When their editor called authors Louise Hart and Kristen Caven to announce the new title for their book, they were stunned. What is the antidote to bullying? Come listen to this mother- daughter writing team talk about their long journey through the publishing world. Since their first book was published in 1989, they’ve been published, <a href="http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/05/21/inventing-zorgos-june-16ths-speakers-are-louise-hart-and-kristen-caven/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwc-berkeley.org&#038;blog=7559649&#038;post=3161&#038;subd=calwritersclub&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>See you Sunday! Julia Flynn Siler on the Last Hawaiian Queen</title>
		<link>http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/05/16/see-you-sunday-julia-flynn-siler-on-the-last-hawaiian-queen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are looking forward to this Sunday&#8217;s meeting! Julia Flynn Siler is a prize-winning author and journalist. Grove/Atlantic published Lost Kingdom in early 2013. Her first book was The New York Times bestseller, The House of Mondavi. As a veteran correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and Business Week, Ms. Flynn Siler spent more than two decades in Europe and the United States before being <a href="http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/05/16/see-you-sunday-julia-flynn-siler-on-the-last-hawaiian-queen/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwc-berkeley.org&#038;blog=7559649&#038;post=3121&#038;subd=calwritersclub&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing our 5th Grade Contest Winners!</title>
		<link>http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/05/15/announcing-our-5th-grade-contest-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 19:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winners of our 27th Annual 5th Grade Story Contest have been selected! Click here to see the list of our winners, in alphabetical order. ONE of these is the grand prize winner&#8230; come to the Awards Ceremony on June 2nd to find out which one! Thank you to member Debby Frisch, author of A Mango <a href="http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/05/15/announcing-our-5th-grade-contest-winners/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwc-berkeley.org&#038;blog=7559649&#038;post=3153&#038;subd=calwritersclub&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Hawaii&#8217;s Last Queen&#8221; Julia Flynn Siler to speak on Sunday, May 19th</title>
		<link>http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/04/29/hawaiis-last-queen-julia-flynn-siler-to-speak-on-sunday-may-19th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are delighted to welcome New York Times Bestselling Author Julia Flynn Siler to our Speaker Series! Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure brings to life the clash between a vulnerable Polynesian people and expanding capitalist powers. At the center of the story is Lili’uokalani, the last queen <a href="http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/04/29/hawaiis-last-queen-julia-flynn-siler-to-speak-on-sunday-may-19th/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwc-berkeley.org&#038;blog=7559649&#038;post=3115&#038;subd=calwritersclub&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Write Angles May 2013</title>
		<link>http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/04/29/write-angles-may-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers of Write Angles, CWC-BB&#8217;s monthly newsletter, May&#8217;s issue has poetry, a book review, important membership information, fun facts, humor, tips on how to organize your writing time, the winner of our monthly writers&#8217; contest, a little bit of history, an article on the publishing industry, member news, and more. WA&#8217;s monthly contest is <a href="http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/04/29/write-angles-may-2013/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwc-berkeley.org&#038;blog=7559649&#038;post=3125&#038;subd=calwritersclub&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>See You Sunday! Featuring dynamic duo Lloyd Lofthouse and Alon Shalev.</title>
		<link>http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/04/18/see-you-sunday-featuring-dynamic-duo-lloyd-lofthouse-and-alon-shalev/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re so proud to feature our very own Lloyd Lofthouse as our speaker this Sunday. Lloyd, the author of the award-winning My Splendid Concubine historical novels and much more, has years of experience in successful self-publishing. He is also a generous mentor to the club, keeping up the club&#8217;s marketing blog as a dual member <a href="http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/04/18/see-you-sunday-featuring-dynamic-duo-lloyd-lofthouse-and-alon-shalev/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwc-berkeley.org&#038;blog=7559649&#038;post=3113&#038;subd=calwritersclub&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>April Write Angles</title>
		<link>http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/04/01/april-write-angles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is no April Fool&#8217;s trick. This is truly the April issue of Write Angles. Enjoy! Write Angles_April-2013.pdf<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwc-berkeley.org&#038;blog=7559649&#038;post=3100&#038;subd=calwritersclub&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You CAN Get Published&#8221; with Lloyd Lofthouse on April 21st</title>
		<link>http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/03/24/you-can-get-published-with-lloyd-lofthouse-on-april-21st/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Need help getting your writing into print? Lloyd Lofthouse, our featured speaker for the April 21 meeting, is a good person to ask for advice. A past president of CWC’s Berkeley Branch, he helped launch our marketing group and has mentored fellow writers interested in self- publishing. Lloyd’s own self-published work has attracted recognition. His <a href="http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/03/24/you-can-get-published-with-lloyd-lofthouse-on-april-21st/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwc-berkeley.org&#038;blog=7559649&#038;post=3090&#038;subd=calwritersclub&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to The Club!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Berkeley Branch is the founding branch of one of the oldest professional writers&#8217; clubs in the country. Our meetings are free and the public is welcome! Come to our next meeting, Sunday, June 16 at 2:00 p.m. Community psychologist Dr. Louise Hart and our own Kristen Caven will be speaking about their path to <a href="http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/03/24/welcome-to-the-california-writers-club-2/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwc-berkeley.org&#038;blog=7559649&#038;post=2302&#038;subd=calwritersclub&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5th Grade Story Contest Reopens to Alameda County Public Schools</title>
		<link>http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/03/17/5th-grade-story-contest-deadline-extended-to-april-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, as we&#8217;ve switched from mailing flyers to schools to emailing schools, we received entries from Contra Costa County schools and local independent schools but NO submissions from Alameda County public schools! To remedy this, we are reopening the contest just to fifth graders in Alameda County public schools with a deadline of April 17. <a href="http://cwc-berkeley.org/2013/03/17/5th-grade-story-contest-deadline-extended-to-april-15/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwc-berkeley.org&#038;blog=7559649&#038;post=3076&#038;subd=calwritersclub&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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