Dear Readers, Writers and Friends: There is much to enjoy this week in our local literary world! If you haven’t yet bought your tickets for Friday’s benefit reading at the Crocker, get them now! This benefit for the Squaw Valley Community of Writers poetry scholarship fund features a ridiculously awesome […]

Friends, Writers and Readers: Summer’s heating up! Sounds like a good time to think about getting away to do some writing…perhaps to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers in summer (support poetry scholarships by attending the June 22 benefit reading), or maybe to the Surprise Valley Writers’ Conference in fall? […]

Dear Friends, Pat Schneider, the founder of the Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) writing group method, will be in town this week! If you’ve written in an AWA group/workshop, and if you haven’t, please consider attending this reading. Pat has done amazing work in the United States and abroad through […]

Dear Writers, Readers and Friends! June is here, the weather’s getting toasty and there are plenty of lovely literary events to heat up your imagination. Hope to see you at one or more of these festivities! Yours in writing,   Kate   **   *PLACES STILL AVAILABLE* in “THE CRAFT […]

Writers, readers and friends: it’s a big week in Sacramento as American River College welcomes U.S. Poet Laureate Phillip Levine to SummerWords! As if that ain’t enough, check out the other exciting miscellany below, including a film by Gary Snyder, last call for Lynn Freed’s June weekend workshop for fiction […]

Friends and writers, I want to let you know that I am now taking registrations for my summer workshop. Details below. I hope to write with you soon! Meanwhile–stay tuned for more juicy miscellany in the next day or so… Kate ** THE CRAFT OF WRITING PLACE Wednesday evenings, July […]

Dear friends, here we are deep into May, a month of celebrations galore. Don’t forget to celebrate your love for writing and/or reading by participating in some of these excellent upcoming events and opportunities! Be well… ~ Kate   **   Check this out: Our friend Rebecca Morrison (of Eskimo […]

Dear friends: Just a few of the many literary morsels to delight in this week. I hope to see you out on the town! –Kate   **   Professor Len and the Big Night   Wednesday, May 16, Shine Cafe, Sacramento California.  8 p.m.  Professor Len and the Big Night […]

Friends, here’s a post of true miscellany: events, a poetry chapbook contest and a call for hip-hop submissions, workshop info (including a workshop with AWA founder Pat Schneider), SPC’s new online Poetry Now, a list of lovely resources from one of my informants…a mix of spring literary lushness! Enjoy! ~Kate […]

Dear Friends, It’s a week of literature in our local press! Pick up a copy of the May issue of Sacramento Magazine and read the very fine article about local writers and readers, written by our very own Corinne Litchfield (and, while you’re perusing, check out Corinne’s recently published short […]