About Our Nonprofit Organization Capitol City Young Writers is a national 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to educating and inspiring young writers up to and including high school. Our goal is to educate today's youth on the art and craft of writing, so as to encourage their own love of writing. Students are exposed to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoir, screenplay, broadcast radio, songwriting, and many other forms of creative writing.
CCYW is sponsored by the English Department at Sacramento State University in CA and several student run organizations through the English Department.
Meetings
Members of Capitol City Young Writers meet bi-monthly during the course of the regular school year in Sacramento, CA. Regular meetings occur generally during the months of January, March, May, September and November. Subject to change based upon author and facility availability. No regular meetings are held during the months of June, July and August.
These meetings are professionally taped and edited and will be available to members on the website at a future date. Each meeting will have at least one guest speaker, either a professional from the industry, a published author and/or an educator. Guests will discuss their career path and profession and authors may do a reading. Students can enhance their own writing skills by participating in a writing workshop led by an educator or author. Students are introduced to and encouraged to write in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, memoir, poetry, broadcast radio, screenplay, and more.
Meetings take place at Sacramento State University and room assignments vary. Map to campus and campus map: http://itweb.csus.edu/map/ During the course of the event, no citations will be issued in the designated event parking area. If you park elsewhwere and/or stay after the event, you are subject to citation if you do not purchase a $6 per day parking pass.
March 13, 2010
Memoir
Saturday 9am - Noon
Sacramento State University
Forest Suite, 2nd Floor
Student Union
Park in Structure II
MEET THE AUTHOR
PATRICIA V. DAVIS - Harlot's Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss, and Greece, is an award winning finalist in the 'Multi-Cultural, Nonfiction' Category of the National Best Book Awards 2008, sponsored by USABookNews.
Patricia’s essays, opinion articles and
celebrity interviews have appeared in various newspapers and magazines
nationally and internationally. She is the author of published poems on
women's issues, including,“If This Woman is Being Operated Recklessly” which appeared alongside Laurence Ferlinghetti's work in New Press magazine. Patricia is also the editor-in-chief of Harlots' Sauce Radio, non-partisan e-magazine and podcast at www.harlotssauce.com.
CAREER EXPLORATIONLINDA JOY MYERS, PHD - is a practicing therapist of thirty years in Berkeley, California.
She has taught writing as a healing courses to her clients and has
trained therapists in this method. She is President and Founder of the
National Association of Memoir Writers and author of The Power of Memoir: Writing Your Healing Story. WRITING WORKSHOP
Led by, PATRICIA V. DAVIS
One of the tougher genres to write, memoir
combines the truth of non-fiction with the craft of fiction. Not an
autobiography, the memoir needs to be carefully considered and
constructed. As a painter chooses his scenery, so must a memoirist
choose their stories. From traditional to experimental, narrative to
fragmented, a memoir has no single form, no specific guideline or
method - memoir demands the writer create art. Discover the many forms
of this genre, how to avoid the most common mistakes and where to
begin. If you have a work in progress, please bring the first page to
workshop.
