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Capitol City Young Writers Call Us at (877) 816-7659 in El Dorado Hills, California |
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About Our Nonprofit Organization
Capitol City Young Writers is a national 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to educating and mentoring junior high and high school writers as well as avid readers. Our goal is to educate today's youth on the art and business of writing, so as to encourage and support their future career aspirations in the writing industry. Students are exposed to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoir, screenplay, broadcast radio, songwriting, and many other forms of creative writing to show the diversity of careers available to them.
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Members of Capitol City Young Writers meet bi-monthly during the course of the regular school year throughout various communities in the San Francisco Bay Area in CA. We hope to expand our Meet the Author programs to other parts of CA and other states in the future. Regular meetings occur generally during the months of January, March, May, September and November. Subject to change based upon author and facility availability.
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.
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April 30, 2011
Writing for the YA Audience
Saturday
1pm - 4pm
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Union City Public Library
34007 Alvarado-Niles Rd
Union City, CA
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The Art of Writing Memoir
Saturday
9:00am-Noon
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San Francisco Main Library
San Francisco, CA
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January 2012
Topic coming soon
San Francisco Main Library
San Francisco, CA
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MEET THE AUTHORS
CYNTHIA OMOLOLU -
Cynthia's novel DIRTY LITTLE SECRET (Walker/Bloomsbury) about a teen living in a hoarded home was Border's Original Voices slection and was included in ALA's Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers' list. DESTINED and FATED are Cynthia's upcoming novels due for release in 2012 and 2013. www.cjomololu.com
DOUGLAS REES -
Doug is the author of ten books, six especially written for a teen audience. He says that most of his stories come from his love of history and a deep interest in the paranormal. www.douglasrees.com
NAHEED SENZAI-
Naheed spent her childhood in San Francisco, Jubail, Saudi Arabia and England. Back in her boarding school days in England, she was voted "most likely to read a literary revolution" due to her ability to get away with reading comic books in class. www.nhsenzai.com
WRITING WORKSHOP
A writing workshop that focuses on writing for the YA market will take place during the second half of the meeting.
Literary agents Verna Dreisbach and Laurie McLean will be offering the writing workshop. Bio's are listed under the board member section of the CCYW website.
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MEET THE AUTHORS
PATRICIA V. DAVIS -
Patricia has taught extensively in private and public high schools in the United States and in Greece. In 1995, in Athens, Greece, Patricia founded an education service, Serafim Books, named for “a good book is like a guardian angel.” At the Serafim Books learning center, literary events, the first of their kind in Greece, were widely attended by pupils, educators and parents of all backgrounds. Serafim Books gained international acclaim for its dedication to education and its philanthropic work with organizations such as Make-A-Wish Greece chapter, TESOL Greece and TESOL Macedonia Thrace. 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.
Patricia’s book, 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.
CAREER EXPLORATION
LINDA JOY MYERS -
Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D. 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.
Linda’s writing has appeared in various literary journals and earned numerous awards. An excerpt of her novel-in-progress, Secret Music, was a finalist in the 2006 San Francisco Writing Conference contest. She is past-president of The California Writers Club, Marin branch, past vice-president of the Women’s National Book Association, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Story Circle Network. She offers ongoing memoir-writing workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area, and manages her business as the president of the National Association of Memoir Writers, highlighting writing as healing as one of the important aspects of her teaching and presentations. Visit Linda’s website at. www.namw.org.
WRITING WORKSHOP
"Life happens to all of us;
art answers back."
Frank Conroy
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.
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MEET THE AUTHOR
CAREER EXPLORATION
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