The week's events
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- Memoir: Writing Your Life Story with Rose Y. Monge
Memoir: Writing Your Life Story with Rose Y. Monge
Memoir: Writing Your Life Story with Rose Y. Monge
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April 3, 2023(Seniors, all levels)
Mondays, 1:00-3:00 PM Janet Goeske Center (Art Room), 5257 Sierra Street, Riverside,
1/23, 1/30, 2/6, 2/13, 2/27, 3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 4/3, 4/10, and 4/17/22.
To register: https://tinyurl.com/Winter2023CWW
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.
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- Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke, How to Get Started Writing When You Don’t Know Where to Start with Renee Gurley
Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke
Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke
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April 4, 2023(All Levels)
Tuesdays, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM, Zoom, Weekly. Meetings resume January 10.
To register: https://tinyurl.com/Winter2023CWW
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.
How to Get Started Writing When You Don’t Know Where to Start with Renee GurleyHow to Get Started Writing When You Don’t Know Where to Start with Renee Gurley
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April 4, 2023How 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 6/10/23This 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.
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- All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello, “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests
All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello
All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello
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April 6, 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.
“Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests“Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests
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April 6, 2023Thursday, April 6, 2023
Inlandia Institute and Riverside Public Library Present
First Thursdays Arts Walk
“Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript”
with Cati Porter and guests
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Blvd
Riverside, CA 92501
Doors Open at 6:00 PM
6:30-8:00 PM
For National Poetry Month, learn some new techniques for arranging a poetry manuscript. Join Cati Porter and special guests who talk about their own adventures in arranging a poetry manuscript and give you some strategies for arranging your own.
If a poem is the best words in their best order, then a poetry manuscript is the best poems in their best order. But with so many possible variations, how do you decide what is “best”? Cati Porter is the author of eleven poetry books and chapbooks and has extensive experience in what not to do, and some tried-and-true strategies and tips.
Attendees of this program who submit a manuscript to the Hillary Gravendyk Prize open poetry book competition will have their contest entrance fee comped.
Open mic poetry readings start at 6:30. Program begins at 7:00.
Cati Porter has been writing and publishing for three decades. She has a Masters in Fine Arts — Poetry from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Body at a Loss (CavanKerry Press, 2019), Novel (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022), and the forthcoming small mammals (Mayapple Press, 2023). She is founder and editor of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry and executive director of Inlandia Institute.