Members’ Events: Readings, Workshops, Book Launches
Book Readings and Signings
April 19, 2012
David Pokorny
Writing Comedy, What’s So Funny? Part II
Stand-up comic and storyteller David Pokorny’s Writer’s Forum February workshop was so successful, he’s back for an encore. David Pokorny Part II will take place on Thursday, April 19 from 7 to 9 PM. The event will be held at the Petaluma Community Center at Lucchesi Park, 320 N. McDowell Blvd. $15 at the door.
POKORNY, the creator and host of the award-winning monthly storytelling show, West Side Stories, was able to make his living as a stand-up comic touring the western half of the U.S. for a decade, opening up for such talents as Jim Carrey and Ellen DeGeneres. After becoming the house emcee at San Francisco’s #1 comedy club and a regular on the Vegas strip, he gave it all up to pursue a lucrative career as a stay-at-home dad. Seven macaroni & cheese filled years later he returns to the stage.
Wisdom Has a Voice:
Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother
May 12, Saturday—just one day before Mothers’ Day
9:00 am to 1:00 pm
The Sitting Room: A Community Library
2025 Curtis Drive, Penngrove, CA
Cost: $45 (which includes a copy of the book)
If you already own the book, fee is $30.
This workshop is a chance to meet with Kate Farrell, editor of the recently published Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother anthology, and two of the contributing authors, Ana Manwaring and Barbara Toboni.
Join us for a discussion of the ever-fascinating question of what we all learned from our mothers, using several of the anthology memoirs as starting points.
After working with some guiding questions, there will be time for doing some writing and for sharing in small groups.
More about the Sitting Room and for directions: www.sittingroom.org
More about the Wisdom Has a Voice project visit: www.wisdomhasavoice.com
Sign up at: http://wisdomhasavoice.com/workshops
Or email: catharine.farrell@comcast.net
Snacks and drinks included
Registration limited
Writers Forum of Petaluma
May 17, 2012 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Ransom Stephens
The Writers Toolbox: The irony of effective dialog
Dialog brings characters to life, but it’s tricky. If we write the way people talk, the dialog feels flat and ironically artificial. Dialog can be used to convey character and motivate plot but must be done carefully. The solution is simple: when two people talk, they aren’t both having exactly the same conversation. With plenty of fun examples and exercises, Ransom teaches you how to write fresh, crisp dialog that resonates character and keeps stories moving.
The event will be held at the Petaluma Community Center, 320 N. McDowell Blvd., Petaluma. Cost is $15 at the door.
RANSOM STEPHENS is a novelist, science writer, speaker, and physicist. He’s written over 300 articles on impossible subjects like quantum physics and parenting teenagers, produces events for Litquake, and co-produces two literary series. His first novel, The God Patent, was “the first debut novel to emerge from the new paradigm of online publishing” according to the SF Chronicle and has spent over a year on several top ten lists. His second novel, The Sensory Deception, is forthcoming.
Jumpstart Writing With Marlene Cullen at Copperfield’s Books
Located at 140 Kentucky Street, Petaluma, Tuesdays, 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm, 4 weeks for $60. And Jumpstart at the Petaluma Community Center 320 Tuesdays, 9:30 am to 11:30 am. 4 weeks for $60.For precise info visit Marlene’s website here.
Quick Start Writing Workshops by Pat Tyler
Thursdays, 9:30 – 11:30 am, Sept. thru June, Rohnert Park Community Center; for more info contact pat.tyler@att.net, 707-696-9640, www.writetoday.net
Second Step and PenGrove Revision Workshops
The Second Step Workshops (8 week sessions), Sun. 4-6pm, Penngrove, with Ana Manwaring, info ana@manwaring.com, or 415-827-1468.
PenGrove Revision Workshops, On-going facilitated revision groups for long fiction, new session starts June 8, meets 2nd and 4th Tue, 10am-1pm info www.anamanwaring.com, 415-827-1468.
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