Capitol City Young Writers–Busy Writing at 8 AM on a Summer Day
August 4, 2010 by Linda Joy Myers
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It was like a taste of heaven seeing the 15 young writers the other day at the workshop in Sacramento, heads bent over their notebooks. They were writing on demand–creating stories from writing prompts that asked them to bridge the gap between memoir and fiction. Becky Levine and I drove up at 6 AM for [...]
Capitol City Young Writers Conference—Meeting Leaders in the Writing Community and Getting Inspired
July 22, 2010 by Linda Joy Myers
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I’m so inspired! A few days ago I spent a lot of time with young people who are interested in writing and their mentors. At the Capitol City Writers Conference in Marin just north of San Francisco, I joined Peter Beagle, Jane Friedman, David Corbett, and Seth Harwood among others. Verna Dreisbach, the founder of Capitol City Writers, has developed her nonprofit organization and this conference to support and inspire young writers
