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What: Our annual Blog Challenge for our writing community honoring our dear friend, and prolific blogger, Dan McGuire.

Who: Anyone can participate (membership in Writers of Kern not required)

When: Start posting Monday, Feb. 7 and Final posts by Sunday, May 8, 2022.

Why: To develop a habit of regular writing and sharing it with a like-minded community of writers.

Where: Your personal blog online

The Fine Print: (Requirements to finish and be recognized on May 21):

• To participate, please email: [email protected] with your name and blog web address.
• Write 26 posts in 13 weeks
  • Subject/theme is up to you
  • We suggest two posts per week, but there is no minimum or maximum, just so all 26 posts are completed by the end date.
• Leave 2 comments/week on other participants’ blogs
  • Each participant will be given a list of the other participants’ blogs for easy access
• Though not required, we prefer you share a link to your blog posts on the Writers of Kern Facebook Group page (link below). It makes it easier to everyone to read and leave comments.
  • https://www.facebook.com/groups/95572300558/
• After publishing all 26 posts, please email [email protected] to confirm you’ve completed the challenge.
  • Note: Pace yourself. While it seems simple, many will start, while not everyone will finish and that’s okay. We celebrate everyone who starts!

If you do not have a blog, now is the time to start one! This video will help: https://youtu.be/5n-ZpBo7cHI

Filed Under: Events, Members

Regardless of whether you’re self, traditionally or yet to be published, here’s a step-by-step guide to a successful and sustainable career in the publishing industry. With her experience at Writer’s Digest, Storymakers and as a Pitch Perfect Conference Coordinator, Clarissa pulls back the curtain on the industry while sprinkling in her personal hits and misses as an award-winning author.

Clarissa Kae is a preeminent voice whose professional career began as a freelance editor in 2007. She’s the former president of her local California Writers Club after spending several years as the Critique Director. A stint at Writer’s Digest and a Pitch Perfect Conference Coordinator, Clarissa had dedicated countless hours to mentoring fellow authors. Since her first novel, she’s explored different writing genres and created a loyal group of fans who eagerly await her upcoming release. With numerous awards to her name, Clarissa continues to honor the role of storyteller. Aside from the writing community, she and her daughters founded Kind Girls Make Strong Women to help undervalued nonprofit organizations—from reuniting children with families to giving Junior Olympic athletes their shot at success. Clarissa lives in the agricultural belly of California with her family of horses, chickens, dogs and kittens a plenty. A graduate of Animal and Veterinary science, Clarissa helms Annie’s Aussies, a kennel providing companion, emotional and medical service dogs. She and her daughters also rescue horses, aiding All Seated In A Barn to help 200+ horses.

Join the Writers of Kern as we welcome Clarissa Kae on February 19 at Hodel’s or via Zoom.

Purchase your in-person ticket here. $15 members and $18 nonmembers
Purchase your Zoom ticket here. $5 online

Great stories have a heart, an emotional core that both resonates deeply with the reader and says something about the human experience. How do you discover what lies in your story’s heart, and how do you revise to make its beat even stronger and more compelling? Join Cat for a workshop on how to examine your draft and find out what’s really inside.

Cat Rambo lives, writes, and teaches somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Their 250+ fiction publications include stories in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. In 2020 they won the Nebula Award for fantasy novelette Carpe Glitter. They are a former two-term President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Their most recent works are space opera You Sexy Thing (Tor Macmillan, November 2021), as well as an anthology, The Reinvented Heart (Arc Manor, February 2022), co-edited with Jennifer Brozek.

In-person at Hodel’s Harvest Room will be $15 for members and $18 for nonmembers. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE.
 

Online via Zoom $5 Recordings will only be available to ticket holders. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE.

Hope to see you there!

I’m pleased to announce the speakers for our annual Spring Conference:

Peter Clines – World Building: On the Third Day…

Peter Clines is the New York Times best-selling author of Paradox Bound. He is the author of the acclaimed -14-, the EX-Heroes series, The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe, and numerous short stories.

Susanne Dietze – Chemistry: How to Make it Sizzle when the Heat Stays Sweet

Susanne Dietze is the author of The Reluctant Guardian, The Blizzard Bride, The Soldier’s Lady, and more. She is an award-winning, RWA RITA®-nominated author who’s seen her work on the ECPA and Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller Lists for Inspirational Fiction.

Dr. Portia Choi: Poet, A Poet’s Journey

Dr. Portia Choi, a Korean-American Poet and Peace Advocate, is the author of Sungsook, Korean War Poems. She is a Korean War survivor and former refugee. Portia promotes poetry in Kern County. She has written poetry for 35 years.

Early Bird Tickets are available now $75 now until January 15.

Your ticket includes breakfast and lunch. There will be door prizes, opportunity baskets, vendor tables, and more.

If you are interested in a vendor table, please email Cyn at [email protected].
More details to come!