Mt. Diablo Branch
CWC Board Members
William Stong
President
President:
William Stong
Vice-President:
Elisabeth Tuck
Treasurer:
Joanne Brown
Secretary:
Barbara Bentley
Board Members:
Catherine Accardi
Ann Damaschino
Jody Denison
Danard Emanuelson
Al Garrotto
David George
Peter Hjersman
Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff
Don Maker
Aline Soules
Elisabeth Tuck
Fran Wojnar
Advisory Board Members:
Nannette Rundle Carroll
Al Garrotto
Betty Iverson
Lee Paulson
Jack Russ
Committee Chairs
Barnes & Noble Fundraiser:
Camille Minichino
Branch Historian:
Fran Wojnar
Central Board
Representative:
David George
Central Board
Alternate Rep:
Jack Russ
Event Logistics:
Danard Emanuelson
Membership:
Jody Denison
Newsletter:
Catherine
Accardi
Programs:
Elisabeth Tuck
Publicity:
Ann Damaschino
Young Writers
Contest Chair:
Elizabeth Koehler-
Pentacoff
Workshops Chair:
Don Maker
Website Chair (Online Branch Chair):
Aline Soules
For information contact info@mtdiablowriters.org
The California Writers Club ~ Mount Diablo Branch
“One Hundred Years of Excellence in Writing”
Presents
Malena Watrous
September 11, 2010
Malena Watrous grew up in the Sunset, spent her high school years in Eugene,OR with her family then attended Barnard College in NYC majoring in English. After graduation, and a year of several types of jobs including restaurant critic for Time Out New York, she was placed by the Japan Exchange and Teaching program in Shika-Machi, a small, coastal, nuclear power plant town. Her debut novel, If You Follow Me, set in Shika, won the Michener-Copernicus Award, and a prize in the Pirate’s Alley/Faulkner contest. Malena won a Glimmer Train Fiction Open prize in 2001. (Malena Watrous' website).
After two years in rural Japan, Malena attended the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop on a Truman Capote Fellowship where she received her MFA and taught. In 2002, she received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, followed by a Jones Lectureship. She now teaches in Stanford's Online Writer’s Workshop.
Her nonfiction has appeared in Allure, Salon.com, The Believer, GlimmerTrain, The Kyoto Journal, Conde Nast Traveler, and The Massachusetts Review. Her short stories have been published in such literary journals as StoryQuarterly, TriQuarterly, and The Alaska Quarterly Review. She writes book reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle and The New York Times.
Date & Time: Saturday, September 11, 2010, with sign-in at 11:30 a.m.
Location: Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant at 611 Gregory Lane, Pleasant Hill (near the corner of Gregory Lane and Pleasant Hill Road). Parking is available both in front and behind the restaurant. The restaurant’s phone number is (925) 933-9091.
Cost: $20 for CWC members; $25 for guests
Menu: Zio Fraedo’s sumptuous buffet.
Reservations: Reservations are required and must be received no later than noon on Wednesday, September 8. To make a reservation, contact Jean Georgakopoulos, via e-mail at, jeaniegpops@comcast.net, or by phone at (925) 934-5677. Expect confirmation only if you e-mail your reservation.
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