Winter Party 2024

This year, our winter party will be held at Zinfandel Grille.

2384 Fair Oaks Blvd Sacramento, CA. 95824.

Sunday, December 15, at 12pm

Our winter party is a celebration of a year of accomplishments, individually and as a club. Come prepared to join us in the holiday spirit with good food, good company and a chance to win prizes.

A BOOK TO TREASURE

Please gift wrap and bring a favored paperback from your bookshelf to exchange. (No hints as to what it is.) This is our take on the white elephant exchange.

PRIZE DRAWINGS

Include an online writers conference

Tickets are available here.

AUTUMN OPEN READING

Reading is an art resulting from writing.

Open Reading with John Paterson

Sign-up for the Zoom (link below) Open Reading at:

2johnpatterson@gmail.com

If you don’t sign up to share a part of, or a piece, you’ve worked on, maybe only to gauge audience reaction, you’re still invited to attend and listen to fellow members’ work. We share comments and questions, but this is not a critique group. Please note, if you arrive after the reading has started, you will be admitted as soon as that piece is concluded. Pieces are approximately eight (8) minutes long. Check-in for readers between 6:25 and 6:50, and audience before 7:00 pm.

CHECK-IN for readers between 6:25 and 6:50, and audience before 7:00 pm.

Topic: CWC-SAC Summer Open Reading

Time: Tuesday November 19, 2024, 7:00 PM

John Patterson is inviting you to use this Zoom link.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81367415942?pwd=bWiYVkgz1bL1OxUO2Mn8aJ7ilUB4De.1

Meeting ID: 813 6741 5942

Passcode: 876999

Renew Your Membership 2024

ANNUAL RENEWAL NOTICE

California Writers Club, a Non-Profit Organization

Our membership period runs from July 1 to June 30 of each year. Timely renewal ensures your continuing membership in the oldest writing club on the West Coast. Membership offers you:

Monthly speaker meetings AND monthly informal workshops;
Access to writing and publishing experts not usually available to local writers;
Reduced fees to events and seminars;
Your own biography page on the branch website, providing you with a link for pitches to agents and editors;
Four quarterly Bulletins from the State CWC;
Annual copy of California Literary Review;
Opportunity to apply for stipend to writing conferences;
Writing community, including critique groups, to help you work toward your goals.

Simple to Renew

A. Send a check for $45 (or $15 for students) to :

CWC Sacramento
P.O. Box 1231
Orangevale, Ca 95662

Please be sure that your name appears on your check.
Provide any changes in address, telephone, email, or genre in the past year.

B. Renew online here with a VISA or Mastercard.

Renewals are due by September 30. Late renewals are subject to an extra $20.00 in addition to the $45.00 renewal fee.

Not Yet a Member But Thinking of Joining?

Now is the time to maximize your benefit of membership!

Membership Fee: $45 + One-time Joining Fee $20 = $65
High School/College Students: $15 + One-time Fee $10 = $25

Click here to pay online for a new membership. Then download and submit this application form either by mail (see above) or via email to sacramentowriters@gmail.com.

(You may also send an application and a check to the P.O. Box.)

Roseville Downtown Tuesday Nights

The Sacramento Branch of the California Writers Club has reserved a booth to allow members to sell books!

Every Tuesday, From June 4, 2024, to July 30. At 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Roseville Downtown

For many years, the City of Roseville has played host to a summer festival featuring vendors, food booths, music, and events for kids and families. The festival takes place every Tuesday evening in June and July, from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm. The market is held on Vernon Street, adjacent to the Vernon Street Town Square, in Roseville. The Tuesday night markets have been hugely successful in the past, typically bringing in thousands of people every Tuesday night during the summer.

Visit their website for more information:

www.downtownrosevilleevents.com/downtown-tuesday-nights

CWC has reserved one 10’x10’ space at the Roseville Downtown Tuesday Night Market, on nine consecutive Tuesday nights (from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m.) from June 4 to July 30, 2024

CWC Sacramento Branch members have priority to participate. The application is on the CWC website. The cost is $60 per night. We recommend you share a booth with an author friend or colleague; if you share a booth, the cost is only $30 per author. To ensure your space, please complete an application and mail a check as soon as possible.

Please download the application form.

Nonmembers will be welcome, but priority is for CWC members. Nonmembers will be charged $70 per booth. CWC Sacramento Branch members’ priority lasts until May 15, 2024.

As usual, authors will be available to meet the public and talk about your writing. Signed copies of your work will be on sale, and feel free to expand your fan base.

Aspiring writers will be able to meet members of the California Writers Club, to gain guidance on how to develop their art. Leaflets and CWC promotional material will be available for distribution to visitors.

Authors should have a California seller’s permit and are responsible for bringing their own table and chair. As it can be hot in the summer months, we also strongly recommend that you bring a 10’x10’ pop-up tent.

Click here for hints and tips for b o oth setup.

2024 CWC Literary Review

CWC-Sacramento Members

Voting is Now Open

for the CWC Literary Review

We are inviting you to submit your best prose (under 5000 words) and/or poetry for the 2024 statewide anthology.

Submission Deadline was February 3rd 2024.

Between Feb 3rd to Feb 24th, we will ask you, our members, to read the submissions on our website and vote for the ones you prefer.

The CWC-Sacramento Board of Directors will count the votes and send the winning submissions to the Central Board for publication.

You can read the official guidelines here.

You need to submit your work with this Word form.

Please use this MS Word template to create your work. When you open it, it will appear blank, but it is set with all the correct font, line spacing and headers that you will need. Simply save the file as your titled Word document and enter your text.

Submit your writing and the release form to sacramentowriters@gmail.com with the heading Literary Review. Submission of a story or poem to CWC Sacramento constitutes permission to place the story or poem temporarily on CWC Sacramento’s website to allow CWC Sacramento members to vote on the submissions.

CWC Sacramento is allowed to submit 4 short stories and 4 poems from our members. When it comes time to vote, we will ask all members to assess the entries posted on our web site and to vote by email with options for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place winners.

We will update you at voting time.