Dear Writers, Readers and Friends: I started this blog in September 2009, at a time when the Sacramento Valley writing community was (in my personal experience) less visible and less formally interconnected than it is now. I started the blog to help make that community and all its attendant opportunities […]

Dearest Writers, What a fantastic valley we live in, indeed, to have such a delicious selection of upcoming writing conferences! And this is a very short list, focused primarily on Sacramento and environs. Are there others you know of? Send their info my way, and I will be happy to […]

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! […]

Dear Writers, In a few short hours, I head east for a little visit to family before checking in this Wednesday at the 2013 Associated Writing Programs (AWP) annual conference! I am honored to be representing Sacramento Poetry Center Press, including Tule Review, at the truly colossal book fair. In […]

Friends, I am pleased to announce my spring workshop: More World: Art and Attention (All Genres) 8 Meetings ~ Wednesday evenings  April 3 – May 22, 2013 Explore what it means to practice deep attention to the world(s) around us and to the worlds in our writing—the kind of attention […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Friends, this found its way to me. Enjoy! ~Kate Near downtown Sacramento this Friday night? Come to a poetry reading/presentation by Francisco X. Alarcon and Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol. Mr. Alarcon will discuss the meaning of the new era in the Mosoamerican calendar. As an Escritor member, I will […]