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March 23, 2023

All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello

All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello


March 23, 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.

An Evening with Hong-My Basrai and Behind the Red Curtain

An Evening with Hong-My Basrai and Behind the Red Curtain


March 23, 2023

An Evening with Author Hong-My Basrai and Behind the Red Curtain

Riverside Civil Rights Institute

3933 Mission Inn Avenue

Riverside, CA 92501

6:00-7:30 PM

Free and open to the public. All are welcome.

Join Inlandia at the Civil Rights Institute for an evening with Hong-My Basrai, author of Behind the Red Curtain, a Memoir. Learn Hong-My’s story of living in fallen Saigon under communism, and how she and her family survived following the end of the Vietnam War.

Books will be available for sale and signing. Refreshments will be served.

Born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam, Hong-My Basrai (née Lê Thị) is fluent in Vietnamese and French. From a very young age, Hong-My has demonstrated a propensity for literature and love of languages. Transplanted at age twenty-two to Southern California, she picked up English and improvised upon the borrowed language to make it her own. She holds a Chemical Engineering degree and some degrees of self-taught English.

Nonfiction: Opening the Research Doorway, Part 4 with Jo Scott-Coe

Nonfiction: Opening the Research Doorway, Part 4 with Jo Scott-Coe


March 23, 2023

(Int.-Adv.)

Alternating Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 PM, Zoom, 1/26, 2/9, 2/23, 3/9, and 3/23/22.

To register: https://tinyurl.com/Winter2023CWW

Explore how variations of structure can open new possibilities in your nonfiction storytelling.

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.