Santee Critique Group:
 The new time and day for the Santee Critique Group, hosted by Tiffany Hanson, will be the first and third Saturdays of the month from 10am-12pm at the Santee Library (9225 Carlton Hills Blvd). However, for the month of February, the group will only meet on February 15. |
SDCWG Spring Fellowship Brunch: April 26, 2014:
 at The Cove in Rancho Bernardo (a venue of The Church at Rancho Bernardo). More details coming soon! |
SDCWG Writing Contest: March 26, 2014 deadline !Sharpen your pencils and ink your quills and get ready for the Guild’s first annual Spring Writing Contest. Submit your best poem, devotional, short story, or article of 1,500 words or less and email as a .doc or .pdf to sdcwg @ yahoo.com no later than March 26, 2014. The winner will be announced on April 10 and receive a ticket to our Spring Fellowship Brunch on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at The Cove in Rancho Bernardo (The Church at Rancho Bernardo). Our Fall Writing contest will continue to be the Unpublished Manuscript competition, the winner of which receives a 15-minute consultation with their choice of our Fall Conference faculty. |
| Writers Symposium by the Sea, Point Loma Nazarene University, Feb. 20-27, 2014.
Jeannette Walls is the one people are buzzing about the most. Her memoir Glass Castle was a bestseller for more than a year, and has sold more copies than almost any other memoir. It’s being made into a movie with Jennifer Lawrence, who is both starring in it and producing it. The director of the movie is our own PLNU alum Destin Daniel Cretton, who won several awards recently for his film Short Term 12. Walls also has some novels — her recent Silver Star was a great success, as was Half-Broke Horses. She has another non-fiction book called Dish, about how the news became an extension of celebrity gossip. She’s a former gossip columnist for the New Yorker. Samuel Freedman is a columnist for the New York Times who writes about race and religion. His most recent book is Breaking the Line, about college sports and race. He’s also written books about the black church in New York (Upon This Rock), about failing schools in New York (Small Victories), about Jewish identity (Jew vs. Jew) and several others. I use his book Letters to a Young Journalist in one of my classes.
Anne Lamott is coming for her third appearance at the Symposium. We first had her soon after Bird By Bird came out, and she gets better each time. Her latest book, Stitches, has been a best-seller for several weeks. She is an audience favorite. And we are doing a combined effort with UCSD to bring out cancer researcher and writer Siddhartha Mukherjee, whose book The Emperor of All Maladies won the Pulitzer Prize. Dean Nelson will be doing interviews with each of the writers, as has been the format from the beginning of the Symposium. There will be time for audience Q&A and a book signing. All the pertinent details are at www.pointloma.edu/writers. |