Panel (6/1)

By Dawn Hassett on May 20, 2023

Paths to Publishing: Agents and Other Routes With Becca Spence Dobias, James Luna, and Jo Scott-Coe FREE • Thursday, June 1Open Mic 6:30–7:00 PM Program 7:00–8:30 PM Riverside Main Library 3900 Mission Inn Blvd, Riverside, CA 92501 Join Inlandia and Riverside Public Library on June 1 for a First Thursdays Arts Walk event for writers, “Paths to Publishing: Agents […]

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Reading (6/4)

By Dawn Hassett on May 20, 2023

Conversations at the Culver: He Kept His Day Job: Fanfare for the Common Musician by Dan Bernstein FREE • Sunday, June 4 • 1:30–3:00 PM Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts 3834 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92501 He Kept His Day Job, described by one reviewer as a “love letter” disguised as a memoir, takes […]

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Launch (6/8)

By Dawn Hassett on May 20, 2023

Launch: All Teen Issue Inlandia: A Literary Journey FREE • Thursday, June 8 • 7–8:30 PM Zoom: rsvp at https://tinyurl.com/TEENJourney2023 The Spring 2023 Teen Issue of Inlandia Institute’s online literary journal, Inlandia: A Literary Journey, launches Thursday, June 8th. Come join the Zoom party from 7:00 to 8:30 pm PT, where teens 13–19 will share their art, […]

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New Anthology (6/17)

By Dawn Hassett on May 20, 2023

Juneteenth Celebration & Launch forThese Black Bodies Are … a Blacklandia AnthologyJuneteenth Event 1–6 PM Inlandia’s Blacklandia Anthology Launch 3 PM Fairmount Park near the Bandshell 2601 Fairmount Blvd, Riverside 92501 Juneteenth marks our country’s second independence day. The Emancipation Proclamation became effective on January 1, 1863 – but it wasn’t until June 19, 1865 that freedom […]

Call for Entries

Open Window (4/30-6/30)

By Dawn Hassett on April 24, 2023

Inlandia: A Literary Journey Special Library Issue Call for Submissions April 30–June 30 Submit at https://tinyurl.com/InlandiaLibrarians Now accepting art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from librarians past and present on any topic and only about librarians/libraries from nonlibrarians for this themed issue. Now accepting art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from librarians past and present on any topic and only […]

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Panel and Mixer (5/27)

By Dawn Hassett on April 27, 2023

What is Anime, Anyway? Conversation and Cosplay Mixer in Conjunction with Riverside Anime Conhosted by Sebraé Harris FREE • Saturday, May 27 • 12 – 2 PM Riverside Main Library Community Room 3900 Main Street • Riverside, CA 92501 What is anime, anyway? And by the way, what is manga? And why are all those […]

Events in June 2023

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				1 11:00 am: All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello 11:00 am – 1:00 pm June 1, 2023 (All Levels) Thursdays, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Redlands Community Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave, Redlands, Weekly. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Winter2023CWW This ongoing writing workshop meets weekly at Redlands Community Center. Memoir writing, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writing are all encouraged and welcome. Discover the pure joy of writing and creating with others in a supportive environment. Mae Wagner Marinello has been a part of Inlandia since a 2008 writing workshop with Ruth Nolan. In 2014, she began facilitating a weekly writing workshop called Joslyn Joy Writers, at the Joslyn Senior Center in Redlands. During the pandemic lockdown, the weekly workshop continued on Zoom; it is now a hybrid class averaging between 10-20 combined participants on Zoom and in-person. More 6:30 pm: First Thursdays Arts Walk “Paths to Publishing: Agents and Other Routes” 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm June 1, 2023 Thursday, June 1, 2023 First Thursdays Arts Walk “Paths to Publishing: Agents and Other Routes” with Jo Scott-Coe, James Luna, and Becca Spence Dobias 6:30-8:00 PM; doors open at six. Free and open to the public. No registration required. Riverside Main Library Community Room & Arcade 3900 Mission Inn Blvd Riverside, CA 92501 6:30-7:00 – Open mic readings – Community Room 7:00-8:00 – Author roundtable – Community Room Join Inlandia and Riverside Public Library on June 1 for a First Thursdays Arts Walk event for writers, "Paths to Publishing: Agents and Other Routes.” The program will include a roundtable discussion with local authors Jo Scott-Coe, James Luna, and Becca Spence Dobias. Learn about their various paths to publication, including a step-by-step guide to submitting your work to a literary agent – and other means to a publishing end. The conversation will begin at 7:00, but come early if you can! A writers’ open mic is planned from 6:30-7:00. For the open mic, you are welcome to read poetry, flash fiction, or an excerpt from a work in progress. And while you’re there, explore the month’s topic of books available for checkout in the Community Room. Don’t have a library card? Apply for one at the event! Jo Scott-Coe’s essays and stories have been published widely, for literary as well as academic audiences. Her third book, Unheard Witness: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman, is forthcoming in Fall 2023 from the University of Texas Press. James Luna is the author of three books, all published by Arte Publico Press/Pinata Books: The Runaway Piggy/El Cochinito Fugitivo, A Mummy in Her Backpack/Una momia en su mochila and The Place Where You Live/El lugar donde vives. His fourth book published by Arte Público, Growing Up on the Playground, was released in 2018. Piggy was awarded the 2012 Tejas Star Award as chosen by the students of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Becca Spence Dobias is a 2022 KissPitch mentee, working under the guidance of Jen Deluca, author of the Well Met series. She is the author of On Home (Inkshares, 2021) and has a book under contract with WVU Press about the North Central WV punk scene of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Her work also appears in Inlandia: A Literary Journey, two Writing Bloc anthologies, https://lgbtqreads.com/, and https://diymfa.com/ among other places. She reviews books for Southern Literary Review and co-hosts Writing Bloc’s Indie Writer Podcast. She grew up in West Virginia and now lives in Southern California with her husband and two children. More	2	3
4 1:30 pm: Conversations at the Culver with Riverside Author Dan Bernstein 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm June 4, 2023 Sunday, June 4, 2023 Conversations at the Culver with Riverside Author Dan Bernstein 1:30-3:00 PM Inlandia Institute and UCR Arts Present Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts 3834 Main Street, Riverside On Sunday, June 4, Riverside Press-Enterprise columnist and author Dan Bernstein will join Inlandia and UCR ARTS for “Conversations at the Culver” to discuss his latest book, He Kept His Day Job: Fanfare for the Common Musician. The program will begin at 1:30 PM at the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, 3834 Main Street, in downtown Riverside. This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. He Kept His Day Job, described by one reviewer as a “love letter” disguised as a memoir, takes readers on a musical joy ride through bumpy, challenging and exhilarating terrain: the hate-to-practice years, “frightfully flat” solo contests, high school bands, and orchestras, Stanford’s purported “marching band,” an adult community college jazz band, a perfect-chemistry brass quintet, an assisted-living center in Oregon and a Riverside hospital’s ICU and oncology units where Bernstein played for patients and harried staff. This is where the idea for this book was born. Though just one small story, this “Fanfare for the Common Musician” is meant to be contagious, inspiring young musicians to keep playing and adults, particularly those with day jobs, to take their instruments, tap shoes and paint brushes out of the attic and fall in love all over again. Dan Bernstein got his first blat out of a trombone when he was in fourth grade. Now in his seventies, the retired newspaper columnist who lives in Riverside, California, is still playing his ax – still for little or no money at all. More	5 6:00 pm: Writing for Children with José Chávez 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm June 5, 2023 Writing for Children with José Chávez (All Levels) Alternating Mondays, 6:00-8:00 PM PT, Zoom, 4/10, 4/24, 5/8, 5/22, and 6/5/23 Free and open to the public, but registration may be limited. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW This workshop is designed to meet the needs of those who wish to write or are writing for children. We’ll explore the writing voice for children, define a “picture book,” story arc, story introductions, appropriate vocabulary, children’s poetry, and more. There will be time to flex our writing muscles and develop the beauty and strength of our “voice” for children. José Chávez is a retired bilingual teacher and dedicates his life to writing. He's had poetry published in the Multilingual Educator Journal, Acentos Review, Inlandia Anthology and has written two award-winning bilingual poetry books for children. He lives in Riverside, CA, is married, and has three grown children. More	6 11:30 am: Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke 11:30 am – 1:00 pm June 6, 2023 Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke (All Levels) Tuesdays, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM PT, Zoom, Weekly. Workshops resume Tuesday, April 11, 2023. This workshop is free, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW Named in honor of beloved workshop leader CelenaDiana Bumpus, participants are encouraged to write from a prompt and share their work, with friendly critiques offered by workshop members. All genres are welcome to be explored. Enrollment is limited. Wil Clarke tolerates writing, but loves having written. He was born and spent 27 years of his life in Africa. He misses the guidance and wisdom of Celena Bumpus and is attempting to keep her legacy alive in her former students through Celena’s Scribes. More	7 6:00 pm: All Genres Workshop with Victoria Waddle 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm June 7, 2023 All Genres Workshop with Victoria Waddle (Int.-Adv.) Alternating Wednesdays, 6:00-9:00 PM PT, Zoom, 4/12, 4/26, 5/10, 5/24, and 6/7/23 Registration may be limited. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW In this multi-genre workshop, participants submit poetry and prose for biweekly critiques and receive feedback from other group members. Discussions include the craft of writing and the challenges writers face. The workshop leader provides biweekly articles and links related to participants’ work, particularly to problems that were discussed in the previous session. Victoria Waddle is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, with fiction and nonfiction published in literary journals and anthologies, including in Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest. A collection of her short fiction, Acts of Contrition, was published by Los Nietos Press. Her chapbook The Mortality of Dogs and Humans is upcoming from Bamboo Dart Press in February 2023. Previously the managing editor of Inlandia: A Literary Journey, she helped to establish a yearly teen issue. In a previous life, she was a high school English teacher and librarian. More	8 11:00 am: All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello 11:00 am – 1:00 pm June 8, 2023 (All Levels) Thursdays, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Redlands Community Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave, Redlands, Weekly. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Winter2023CWW This ongoing writing workshop meets weekly at Redlands Community Center. Memoir writing, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writing are all encouraged and welcome. Discover the pure joy of writing and creating with others in a supportive environment. Mae Wagner Marinello has been a part of Inlandia since a 2008 writing workshop with Ruth Nolan. In 2014, she began facilitating a weekly writing workshop called Joslyn Joy Writers, at the Joslyn Senior Center in Redlands. During the pandemic lockdown, the weekly workshop continued on Zoom; it is now a hybrid class averaging between 10-20 combined participants on Zoom and in-person. More 7:00 pm: Inlandia: A Literary Journey TEEN Issue Launch 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm June 8, 2023 Thursday, June 8, 2023 Inlandia: A Literary Journey TEEN Issue Launch 7:00-8:30 PM on Zoom To register: https://tinyurl.com/TEENJourney2023 The Spring 2023 Teen Issue of Inlandia Institute’s online literary journal, Inlandia: A Literary Journey, launches Thursday, June 8th. Come join the Zoom party from 7:00 to 8:30 pm PT, where teens 13–19 will share their art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry selected for inclusion in the issue by teen editors. Inlandia is proud to feature homegrown creatives from inland Southern California cities including Alta Loma, Corona, Fullerton, Moreno Valley, Rancho Cucamonga, Rialto, and Riverside. We are also pleased to have teen contributors from far and wide: Florida and South Carolina, Wisconsin and Kansas, as well as Canada and India. Erin Michaela Sweeney writes, speaks, and teaches about the healing potential of mindful creative self-expression. For twenty years, Sweeney was an editor on the east coast but returned to inland Southern California in 2011 to hang out at City of Hope for spa days (aka life-saving blood cancer treatments). Yes, there’s a memoir. She supports other creatives' adventures as managing editor of the Inlandia Institute’s online literary journal, loves her child unconditionally, and forever humbly serves Rexi the cat queen. More	9 4:00 pm: All Genres Workshop with Allyson Jeffredo 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm June 9, 2023 All Genres Workshop with Allyson Jeffredo (All Levels) Alternating Fridays, 4:00-6:00 PM PT, Zoom, 5/12, 5/26, 6/9, 6/23, and 7/7/23 This workshop is free, but registration is limited to 12 participants. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW In this multi-genre workshop, participants receive bi-weekly inspiration in the form of both poetry and prose. Prompts inspire writing in the genre of your choice. Class discussions include the craft of writing and the challenges writers face in generating poetry, memoir, and short and long fiction. Allyson Jeffredo is a poet, writer, and educator from the Coachella Valley. Learn more about her and her work at www.allysonjeffredo.com. More	10
11	12 1:00 pm: Summer Memoir Workshop: Writing Your Life Story with Rose Y. Monge 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm June 12, 2023 Summer Memoir Workshop: Writing Your Life Story with Rose Y. Monge (All levels) Mondays, 1:00-3:00 PM, In person at the Janet Goeske Center (Art Room), 5257 Sierra Street, Riverside. 6/12, 6/19, 6/26, 7/10, 7/17, and 7/24/23 (No meeting July 3.) Class size limited. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW Writers are encouraged to respond to prompts about universal themes related to the human condition: key relationships, physical places, historic events, personal hardships/recovery, love and loss, and personal achievement and development. It is these ties that bind us all in different stages of our lives. Each of us brings a unique perspective to every story. Maybe it's time to write yours. Space is limited. Rose Y. Monge has facilitated memoir classes at the Goeske Center since 2009. She encourages everyone to leave a written legacy for future generations. As an immigrant from Mexico, her memoir honors her parents’ legacy of life lessons. Her activism since retirement has been advocating for social justice, diversity, and inclusion. More 6:30 pm: Does it Make Cents? The Business of Writing with James Coats 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm June 12, 2023 Does it Make Cents? The Business of Writing with James Coats (All Levels) Alternating Mondays, 6:30-8:30 PM PT, Zoom, 4/17, 5/1, 5/15, 5/29, and 6/12/23 This workshop is free and open to the public, but space may be limited. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW In partnership with Inlandia Institute & Lift Our Voices Education In this 5-session professional development workshop for writers, attendees will learn about the business of being a writer, the professional expectations, how to create their own opportunities, where to find funding or events, brand development, community resources and much more. If you are a writer interested in turning your words into more dollars this workshop is for you. James Coats is an author, poet, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in the Inland Empire. He received his BFA from Cal Poly Pomona and his MBA from Cal State San Bernardino. As a creative change agent, he believes the arts can inspire youth and influence positive change in the world. His first poetry collection, If I had Lived, was published in 2018. In 2021, he founded Lift Our Voices Education, which hosts the monthly “Be The Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop.” His newest poetry collection, Midnight & Mad Dreams, is published by World Stage Press. Follow him on Instagram @MrLovingWords. More	13 11:30 am: Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke 11:30 am – 1:00 pm June 13, 2023 Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke (All Levels) Tuesdays, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM PT, Zoom, Weekly. Workshops resume Tuesday, April 11, 2023. This workshop is free, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW Named in honor of beloved workshop leader CelenaDiana Bumpus, participants are encouraged to write from a prompt and share their work, with friendly critiques offered by workshop members. All genres are welcome to be explored. Enrollment is limited. Wil Clarke tolerates writing, but loves having written. He was born and spent 27 years of his life in Africa. He misses the guidance and wisdom of Celena Bumpus and is attempting to keep her legacy alive in her former students through Celena’s Scribes. More 7:00 pm: How to Get Started Writing When You Don’t Know Where to Start with Renee Gurley 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm June 13, 2023 How to Get Started Writing When You Don’t Know Where to Start with Renee Gurley (Beginners Only) Alternating Saturdays, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM PT, Zoom, 4/15, 4/29, 5/13, 5/27, and 6/10/23 This workshop is free and open to the public. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW Do you want to start writing, but don't know how to get started? In this course, Renee Gurley shows you how to get your thoughts down on paper -- and then grow from there. Learn the basics of: Creating Structure Language Use Point of View Journaling, memoir, stories, and more “How to Get Started Writing When You Don't Know Where to Start” gives you concrete tools to help you become the writer you’ve always wanted to be. It's a fun and exciting class for all aspiring writers! R. Gurley, MA, MFA, is a writer and English teacher with over 20 years of experience with words, whose works have appeared in Coping Magazine, Lehigh Valley Woman’ s Journal, and Budget Press. More	14 6:30 pm: Poetry for Young Adults with Cait Johnson 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm June 14, 2023 Poetry for Young Adults with Cait Johnson (18 +, College Students, Graduates, Young Adults) Alternating Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 PM PT, Zoom, 4/19, 5/3, 5/17, 5/31, and 6/14/23 This workshop is free and open to the public. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW This poetry workshop is aimed to support young writers in refining their poetry for publication through a feedback-based workshop setting. Community care and trusted feedback will be fostered in a welcoming environment. Each session will create a space in which participants can relate to each other’s unique experiences as young writers. The authenticity of the writers’ work will be emphasized in a free, non-competitive setting. Cait Johnson is a poetry and nonfiction writer with a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from CSULB. She credits much of her writing growth to leading and participating in writing workshops over the last 5 years. Workshops helped Cait build the confidence to share her work with the public. Cait's poetry has been published by Picture Show Press, Left Coast Review, and Literary Alchemy Press. She has also created two zines of original poetry and serves as a co-founder and editor of Art of Nothing, an annual zine that showcases up-and-coming young artists. More	15 11:00 am: All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello 11:00 am – 1:00 pm June 15, 2023 (All Levels) Thursdays, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Redlands Community Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave, Redlands, Weekly. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Winter2023CWW This ongoing writing workshop meets weekly at Redlands Community Center. Memoir writing, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writing are all encouraged and welcome. Discover the pure joy of writing and creating with others in a supportive environment. Mae Wagner Marinello has been a part of Inlandia since a 2008 writing workshop with Ruth Nolan. In 2014, she began facilitating a weekly writing workshop called Joslyn Joy Writers, at the Joslyn Senior Center in Redlands. During the pandemic lockdown, the weekly workshop continued on Zoom; it is now a hybrid class averaging between 10-20 combined participants on Zoom and in-person. More	16	17 1:00 pm: Juneteenth Celebration and Blacklandia Anthology Launch 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm June 17, 2023 Saturday, June 17, 2023 Juneteenth Celebration and Blacklandia Anthology Launch at Fairmount Park near the Bandshell 2601 Fairmount Blvd, Riverside 92501 Please join Inlandia Institute and Blacklandia on Saturday, June 17, for the 2023 Juneteenth Celebration at Fairmount Park! The event runs from 1:00-6:00 PM with vendors, food, booths, and more – including the Blacklandia Anthology launch! Anthology contributors are scheduled to read at 3:00 on the bandstand. You won’t want to miss this special time of sharing stories from the Black Experience – from everyday experiences to activism, from change agents to excellence. Books will be available for sale and signing. Juneteenth marks our country’s second independence day. The Emancipation Proclamation became effective on January 1, 1863 – but it wasn’t until June 19, 1865 that freedom came to enslaved people in the Confederate state of Texas. It was then that 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay and announced that more than 250,000 enslaved Black people were free by executive decree. The day became known as “Juneteenth.” Long celebrated in the African American community, Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021 when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law – thanks to the hard work of Opal Lee, Lula Briggs Galloway, and others. Blacklandia anthology submissions opened on May 8, 2022, in honor of Ahmaud Arbery's birthday, and closed on October 7, 2022, in honor of Opal Lee's birthday. Ms. Lee is known as the "Grandmother of Juneteenth." This is a free community event and all are invited to attend. Join us! Anthology editor Romaine Washington, M. Ed., is the author of “Purgatory Has an Address” (Bamboo Dart Press), available April 15th, and “Sirens in Her Belly” (Jamii Publications). She has been published in a wide variety of anthologies and periodicals, including Inlandia Institute’s “San Bernardino Singing” anthology and “Cholla Needles 32, 36 and 39.” Ms. Washington is a fellow of The Watering Hole, South Carolina, and the Inland Area Writing Project at the University of California, Riverside. She has been a public school educator for over twenty years, and has developed a social justice curriculum available for free on her website: https://www.romainewashington.com/. The proud mother of two sons, Romaine Washington is a native Californian from San Bernardino who currently resides in the Inland Empire. More
18	19 1:00 pm: Summer Memoir Workshop: Writing Your Life Story with Rose Y. Monge 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm June 19, 2023 Summer Memoir Workshop: Writing Your Life Story with Rose Y. Monge (All levels) Mondays, 1:00-3:00 PM, In person at the Janet Goeske Center (Art Room), 5257 Sierra Street, Riverside. 6/12, 6/19, 6/26, 7/10, 7/17, and 7/24/23 (No meeting July 3.) Class size limited. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW Writers are encouraged to respond to prompts about universal themes related to the human condition: key relationships, physical places, historic events, personal hardships/recovery, love and loss, and personal achievement and development. It is these ties that bind us all in different stages of our lives. Each of us brings a unique perspective to every story. Maybe it's time to write yours. Space is limited. Rose Y. Monge has facilitated memoir classes at the Goeske Center since 2009. She encourages everyone to leave a written legacy for future generations. As an immigrant from Mexico, her memoir honors her parents’ legacy of life lessons. Her activism since retirement has been advocating for social justice, diversity, and inclusion. More	20 11:30 am: Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke 11:30 am – 1:00 pm June 20, 2023 Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke (All Levels) Tuesdays, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM PT, Zoom, Weekly. Workshops resume Tuesday, April 11, 2023. This workshop is free, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW Named in honor of beloved workshop leader CelenaDiana Bumpus, participants are encouraged to write from a prompt and share their work, with friendly critiques offered by workshop members. All genres are welcome to be explored. Enrollment is limited. Wil Clarke tolerates writing, but loves having written. He was born and spent 27 years of his life in Africa. He misses the guidance and wisdom of Celena Bumpus and is attempting to keep her legacy alive in her former students through Celena’s Scribes. More	21	22 11:00 am: All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello 11:00 am – 1:00 pm June 22, 2023 (All Levels) Thursdays, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Redlands Community Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave, Redlands, Weekly. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Winter2023CWW This ongoing writing workshop meets weekly at Redlands Community Center. Memoir writing, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writing are all encouraged and welcome. Discover the pure joy of writing and creating with others in a supportive environment. Mae Wagner Marinello has been a part of Inlandia since a 2008 writing workshop with Ruth Nolan. In 2014, she began facilitating a weekly writing workshop called Joslyn Joy Writers, at the Joslyn Senior Center in Redlands. During the pandemic lockdown, the weekly workshop continued on Zoom; it is now a hybrid class averaging between 10-20 combined participants on Zoom and in-person. More	23 4:00 pm: All Genres Workshop with Allyson Jeffredo 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm June 23, 2023 All Genres Workshop with Allyson Jeffredo (All Levels) Alternating Fridays, 4:00-6:00 PM PT, Zoom, 5/12, 5/26, 6/9, 6/23, and 7/7/23 This workshop is free, but registration is limited to 12 participants. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW In this multi-genre workshop, participants receive bi-weekly inspiration in the form of both poetry and prose. Prompts inspire writing in the genre of your choice. Class discussions include the craft of writing and the challenges writers face in generating poetry, memoir, and short and long fiction. Allyson Jeffredo is a poet, writer, and educator from the Coachella Valley. Learn more about her and her work at www.allysonjeffredo.com. More	24
25	26 1:00 pm: Summer Memoir Workshop: Writing Your Life Story with Rose Y. Monge 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm June 26, 2023 Summer Memoir Workshop: Writing Your Life Story with Rose Y. Monge (All levels) Mondays, 1:00-3:00 PM, In person at the Janet Goeske Center (Art Room), 5257 Sierra Street, Riverside. 6/12, 6/19, 6/26, 7/10, 7/17, and 7/24/23 (No meeting July 3.) Class size limited. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW Writers are encouraged to respond to prompts about universal themes related to the human condition: key relationships, physical places, historic events, personal hardships/recovery, love and loss, and personal achievement and development. It is these ties that bind us all in different stages of our lives. Each of us brings a unique perspective to every story. Maybe it's time to write yours. Space is limited. Rose Y. Monge has facilitated memoir classes at the Goeske Center since 2009. She encourages everyone to leave a written legacy for future generations. As an immigrant from Mexico, her memoir honors her parents’ legacy of life lessons. Her activism since retirement has been advocating for social justice, diversity, and inclusion. More	27 11:30 am: Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke 11:30 am – 1:00 pm June 27, 2023 Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke (All Levels) Tuesdays, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM PT, Zoom, Weekly. Workshops resume Tuesday, April 11, 2023. This workshop is free, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/Spring2023CWW Named in honor of beloved workshop leader CelenaDiana Bumpus, participants are encouraged to write from a prompt and share their work, with friendly critiques offered by workshop members. All genres are welcome to be explored. Enrollment is limited. Wil Clarke tolerates writing, but loves having written. He was born and spent 27 years of his life in Africa. He misses the guidance and wisdom of Celena Bumpus and is attempting to keep her legacy alive in her former students through Celena’s Scribes. More	28	29 11:00 am: All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello 11:00 am – 1:00 pm June 29, 2023 (All Levels) Thursdays, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Redlands Community Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave, Redlands, Weekly. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Winter2023CWW This ongoing writing workshop meets weekly at Redlands Community Center. Memoir writing, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writing are all encouraged and welcome. Discover the pure joy of writing and creating with others in a supportive environment. Mae Wagner Marinello has been a part of Inlandia since a 2008 writing workshop with Ruth Nolan. In 2014, she began facilitating a weekly writing workshop called Joslyn Joy Writers, at the Joslyn Senior Center in Redlands. During the pandemic lockdown, the weekly workshop continued on Zoom; it is now a hybrid class averaging between 10-20 combined participants on Zoom and in-person. More	30 N/A: LAST DAY! Call for Submissions Inlandia Hearts Librarians N/A June 30, 2023 April 30-June 30, 2023 Call for Submissions: Inlandia Hearts Librarians Special Library Issue Call for Submissions for Inlandia: A Literary Journey Submit to: https://tinyurl.com/InlandiaLibrarians Now accepting art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from librarians past and present on any topic and only about librarians/libraries from non-librarians for this themed issue. Submissions open Saturday, April 30, 2023, and close Friday, June 30, 2023, at midnight Pacific Time. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Previously curated submissions accepted. Translations accepted. See website for full guidelines. More

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11:00 am: All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello

4:00 pm: All Genres Workshop with Allyson Jeffredo

1:00 pm: Summer Memoir Workshop: Writing Your Life Story with Rose Y. Monge

11:30 am: Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke

11:00 am: All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello

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