Articles by: Kate

Sorry for the long quiet…and coming soon!

Dear Writers and Friends: My apologies for these few weeks of little posting. It is taking me much longer than I expected to catch up from being away at AWP in Boston early this month. (And to those folks for whom I promised to post specific events–please do forgive me! […]

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Send your announcements to Kate’s Miscellany; THIS Thurs: soft launch of TrueStory, 8 pm, Bows & Arrows; Local author Renee Thompson reads at Babylon in SF 3/2; Straight Talk Storytellers @ Avid 3/6; Register now for Nancy Zafris, next Master Teachers Workshop; Call for subs: West Marin Review

Dear Friends, I hope this week finds you reading and writing well. Enjoy a few bits of local literary life here, below. And—remember—I can only post about what I know about. Are you giving a reading, teaching a class, or hosting an event in the coming weeks? Email me and […]

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916 INK book launch THIS Mon; Robin Romm onlin fiction ws starts 2/4; Escritores del Nuevo Sol reading THIS Mon @ SPC; 2/6 Straight Talk Story Tellers; 2/10 Valona Second Sunday poetry; UOP Stockton offers new CW conference; (in)Visible Memoirs workshop for at-risk young adults starts 2/22 in Modesto

Dear Writers, Readers and Friends, Here we are, officially well into the new year. I hope 2013 is brining you time and energy to do the literary things you love. Perhaps, even, you will try something new this year—something new in your writing, or a new author to read, or […]

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TOMORROW night: First Writers Who Wine of 2013; Stories on Stage anniversary THIS Fri; SPC Press announces 2012 poetry book contest winner; Get Your Poe On @ Sac Library; call for subs for Listen to Your Mother; Room to Write offers poetry classes; True Story submission deadline extended to 1/31; Writer studio space available

Dear Writers, Readers and Friends, The January sun is leaving us for a bit. Good thing there are all kinds of indoor places here in our community where you can get your literature on this week! I am excited to be kicking off my first workshop of 2013, The Craft […]

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Happy 2013! & TOMORROW Valona Deli poetry; TrueStory reading series subs due 1/15; Poets’ Dinner subs due 1/23; Farallon Review opens for 2013 subs; An Afternoon with Robert Hass 2/3 (Pt. Reyes Books)

Happy New Year, Dearest Writers, Readers and Friends! I hope the holiday season was a time of rest and good cheer for you and yours. You may have noticed that I’ve been taking a little break from Kate’s Miscellany—a needed rest. And now, I’m back in action for another year […]

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