Board Member Jasper Ezekiel and his Good, Clean Mania
Get to know board member, poet and artist Jasper Ezekiel. Find out what writers inspired him, and where he is in his writing career.
Meet Our Late-Blooming Ekphrastic Poet, Bob Stephens.
Our long-standing tradition of giving a member the mic before our keynote speaker helps us get to know what our colleagues are working on. Our 5+5+5 guidelines (5 minutes of backstory, 5 minutes to read, and 5 minutes of Q&A) help emerging writers polish their professional skills.
Bob Stephens will take the Member Spotlight before our February speaker, Gala Russ. Get tickets here.
Bob Stephens is a late bloomer. A native of California, he has a Bachelor of Science in English ...
Rocky Leplin Rhymes with Everything
Our long-standing tradition of giving a member the mic before our keynote speaker helps us get to know what our colleagues are working on. Our 5+5+5 guidelines (5 minutes of backstory, 5 minutes to read, and 5 minutes of Q&A) help emerging writers polish their professional skills.
Rocky Leplin will be in the Member Spotlight before our January speaker, Mel Lee Smith.
Author, poet, composer, and publisher Rocky Leplin is the grandson of Russian Jewish immigrants, and comes from ...
Gerry McDermott is Happiest at High Altitudes
Our long-standing tradition of giving a member the mic before our keynote speaker helps us get to know what our colleagues are working on. Our 5+5+5 guidelines (5 minutes of backstory, 5 minutes to read, and 5 minutes of Q&A) help emerging writers polish their professional skills.
Gerry McDermott was in the Member Spotlight before our November speaker, Lyzette Wanzer.
Gerry McDermott is Scottish by birth and American on purpose. He grew up in a small village called Holytown, ...
John Byrne Barry Brings Sausalito History to Life
Our long-standing tradition of giving a member the mic before our keynote speaker helps us get to know what our colleagues are working on. Our 5+5+5 guidelines (5 minutes of backstory, 5 minutes to read, and 5 minutes of Q&A) help emerging writers polish their professional skills.
Celebrating California Writers Week, we are thrilled to feature a member who writes about California History!
John Byrne Barry will be in the Member Spotlight before our October speaker, Isidra Mencos. ...
Lenore Weiss Writes with Experience, Depth & Creativity
Our long-standing tradition of giving a member the mic before our keynote speaker helps us get to know what our colleagues are working on. Our 5+5+5 guidelines (5 minutes of backstory, 5 minutes to read, and 5 minutes of Q&A) help emerging writers polish their professional skills.
Lenore Weiss will take the Member Spotlight before our September speaker, Cheral Stivers. Get tickets here.
Lenore Weiss is a passionate and accomplished writer with a diverse background in ...
Ayodele Nzinga is Oakland’s First Poet Laureate
Our long-standing tradition of giving a member the mic before our keynote speaker helps us get to know what our colleagues are working on. Our 5+5+5 guidelines (5 minutes of backstory, 5 minutes to read, and 5 minutes of Q&A) help emerging writers polish their professional skills.
Ayodele Nzinga will take the Member Spotlight before our January speaker, Kevin Fisher-Paulson. Get tickets here.
Oakland’s Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, PhD, is a Transformative Artist Educator and ...
Sarah Abbett is Uniquely Unique.
Our long-standing tradition of giving a member the mic before our keynote speaker helps us get to know what our colleagues are working on. Our 5+5+5 guidelines (5 minutes of backstory, 5 minutes to read, and 5 minutes of Q&A) help emerging writers polish their professional skills.
Sarah Abbett will take the Member Spotlight before our November speaker, Susan Neufeld Paul. Get tickets here.
A second generation Bay Area native, Sarah Abbett grew up loving reading; writing ...
Sandy Bliss’s motto was “Equanimity Through Adversity”
Our long-standing tradition of giving a member the mic before our keynote speaker helps us get to know what our colleagues are working on. Our 5+5+5 guidelines (5 minutes of backstory, 5 minutes to read, and 5 minutes of Q&A) help emerging writers polish their professional skills.
This month, three of her colleagues will bring Sandy Bliss to the Member Spotlight before our September speaker, Bronwyn Emery. Get tickets here.
When community organizer Sandy Bredt joined the ...
Meet Kazue Watanabe
Our long-standing tradition of giving a member the mic before our keynote speaker helps us get to know what our colleagues are working on. Our 5+5+5 guidelines (5 minutes of backstory, 5 minutes to read, and 5 minutes of Q&A) help emerging writers polish their professional skills.
Kazue Watanabe will take the Member Spotlight before our April speaker, John Curl. Get tickets here.
I was born in Hokkaido, a northern island in Japan. I came to the United States by myself in 1994, to ...