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2023 Winter Holiday Dinner

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The Writers of Kern 2023 Winter Holiday Dinner & Year-End Celebration will take place at Hodel’s Country Dining on Saturday, December 16th from 5:30PM – 8:30PM with dinner at 6PM.  The Winter Dinner is a fun and festive event perfect for sharing time with your fellow writers. Traditionally, everyone brings a gift-wrapped gently used book to exchange or the books may be donated to benefit the Bakersfield Homeless Shelter. There will be gift baskets up for grabs with our popular opportunity drawing.

Besides the great food, holiday music, games, activities, and good friends, the winners of the Fall Writing Contest will be announced. Featured stories will be read.

You do have to be a member to attend, but members are encouraged to bring guests.  Dress is casual, but if you prefer a more formal or holiday attire, you’re a writer, go ahead and express yourself.  

Reservations need to be made in advance.  Please click below to reserve your spot.  Space is limited and we recommend you make your reservations today!

See you there!

Click Here To Reserve Your Spot!

May WOK Honors Dinner 2023

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May Honors Dinner – Members and Guests Only

It’s time to ramp up for our May Honors Dinner.  Unlike our “teaching” meetings, this meeting is a dinner, a social opportunity, and a time to honor those who have met certain goals.

Peggy Connelly Scholarship Presentation
Robert C. Hargreaves Achievement Award
Writers of Kern Active Member Pinning

If you have been traditionally published (or become so before the meeting) you will be honored with the Robert Hargreaves award.  You will receive a plaque to take home and your name will also be added to the perpetual plaque with all former recipients.  Please let us know asap if you have qualified for that honor.

If you have any questions, you can reach out to Sandy Moffett at [email protected] or [email protected] for more information.

There will be opportunity bags/baskets and time to share your latest writing (five minutes each).  There may be games…and there will be a writing prompt if you would like to participate.

We look forward to seeing all of our members and their special guests.

Saturday May 20, 2023

Members $20 and Guests $20

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:00 p.m.

Hodel’s Country Dining

5917 Knudsen Drive

Bakersfield, CA 93308

(From Hwy. 99, exit Olive Dr. West. Turn right at Knudsen Dr.)

Reserve Your Seat Now!

Holiday Dinner

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$22 Members Only & Plus Ones

7 February 2021 | Registration Deadline for the 2021 Annual Dan McGuire Blog Challenge

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by Srey Khoy

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. 8. Final posts by Sunday, May 9.

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 at WOK Honors, our annual awards and recognition dinner. To be held this year on May 15th):

  • To participate, please email: [email protected] with your name and blog web address by Feb 7, 2021.
  • 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.
  • 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

19 December 2020 | WOK Annual Winter Meeting | Members Only – BYOB (Bring Your Own Brunch)

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It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the WOK Year!

by Sandy Moffett ~ Membership Chair

December 19th is our members only event.  While we cannot have a hand to hand or toe to toe meeting, we can have a face to face meeting on Zoom.  We will start at our regular time (9:15 am) and we will have a BYOB; bring your own brunch; whatever that might be to enjoy during our time together.  Registration to this event will fill up fast, so be on the look-out for the Eventbrite link coming to your email soon.   Remember, this is a FREE meeting for our members.

We will have a fun writing contest with a monetary prize donated by one of our members.  We will also announce the winners of the Fall Writing Contest, and the 1st place winner’s story will be read to us by our own Dennis Vanderwerff.  Remember how delightful Nelson Varon’s piece was last year? 

The event will be recorded, but it won’t be near as fun without your smiling face present.

One last reminder.  If you know of someone who didn’t renew their membership for some reason, starting January 1st, they can get a half year membership for $42.50, which includes $22.50 for the half year and $20 to reinstate the insurance coverage with the CWC.   That membership will be good until June 30th, and then renewals will be the normal price of $45.00 for a full fiscal year.  

Blessings to you all.
Sandy