READERS & WRITERS CALENDAR: FROM MARCH 29, 2015

March 2015 Articles

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Readers

March 29, 2015 (San Diego's East County) - March 29 (Sunday, 2:30 pm) — Ridley Pearson is known to many readers as the award-winning author of multiple adventure series for (young-ish) readers, including The Kingdom Keepers, Steel Trapp, and with Dave Barry, Peter and the Starcatchers. Ridley is also a best-selling crime novelist of more than two dozen titles. The adventure of the Kingdom Keepers, a group of young people responsible for battling magical villains in Disneyland afterhours, continues in The Return, as they discover defeating the Overtakers is not their only challenge. The Red Room, a Risk Agent novel, is Ridley’s most recent adult suspense novel.

With the defeat of the Overtakers behind them, the five teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers should be celebrating. By all accounts they saved Disneyland from certain destruction. Why then did their mentor leave one last puzzle for them to decipher? The Keepers must solve a puzzle of the past, or be crushed under an evil that makes the Overtakers seem like gentle souls.

The Kingdom Keepers' senior year in high school is almost over. For more than three years, things have been quiet. Their battles are long behind them, they agree, the threat to the Disney realm silenced albeit at great cost. But inside the catacombs of the Aztec temple where Finn Whitman faced down his nemesis, the monstrous Chernabog, a new threat brews.Deception and betrayal rock the Kingdom Keepers as the merciless group of Disney villains known as the Overtakers stage an unexpected comeback. But a discovery by the Keepers provides them with one hope of victory-a lost icon. It was believed to be gone forever. The Keepers have one last chance to preserve the heart of the Kingdom-Disneyland-from a terrifying destruction decades in the making.

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

March 29 (Sunday, 7:00 pm) — Noir at the Bar San Diego has another stellar line-up scheduled for March! Join fellow mystery lovers at the La Jolla Brewing Company to mingle with talented authors and drink some great beer! Featuring Jo Perry (Dead is Better), Thomas Perry (A String of Beads), Maria Alexander (Mr. Wicker), Naomi Hirahara (Grave on Grand Avenue), and Jim Ruland (Forest of Fortune)!

Mysterious Galaxy, 5943 Balboa Ave, Suite 100, San Diego. For additional information, go to http://www.mystgalaxy.com/ or call (858) 268-4747.

March 31 (Tuesday, 7:00 pm) — “Jewish Poets - Jewish Voices” will continue in the Astor Judaica Library in La Jolla. Featured poets will be educators from their local Jewish Day and Congregational Schools and Early Childhood Centers.

The featured poets will read their works during the first hour. This will be followed by a half hour of open mic during which members of the audience are invited to read individual poems. Bring your poetry to read to sing, or just listen and enjoy. There will be a sign-up sheet in the library as people enter.

Following the readings, there will be an opportunity to socialize over light refreshments. These programs of poetry readings are open to the public at no charge. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP.

Samuel and Rebecca Astor Judaica Library (upstairs) at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla; (858) 362-1150; http://www.sdcjc.org/.

April 1 (Wednesday, 4:30 pm) — UCSD's New Writing Series is excited to announce an upcoming reading from Sister Spit. The reading will take place in the Visual Arts Presentation Lab (SME 149) at UC San Diego.

This event is FREE and open to the public! For more information and directions: http://literature.ucsd.edu/news-events/new-writing-series/nws-winter2015.html or contact Kim Schreiber: kaschrei@ucsd.edu.

April 1 (Wednesday, 12:30 pm) — Adventures by the Book is pleased to present a Love of Art SDSU Osher Lunch Edventure featuring New York Times bestselling author Robin Oliveira at Café Caberet, 3739 Adams Ave., La Jolla 92116. The event is ticketed and is open to all SDSU Osher members. Membership is open to everyone over the age of 50.

About the Event: Have you ever wondered about the passionate love affairs that inspired some of the world’s greatest artists? Well, wonder no more, because award-winning author Robin Oliveira will join us to share one such story, the alleged love affair between Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, as fictionalized in her novel, I Always Loved You. And what re-creation of Belle Epoque Paris would be complete without a trip to a local French cafe with her to enjoy a light lunch while discussing her exciting book.

About the Author: Robin Oliveira holds a B.A. in Russian and studied at the Pushkin Language Institute in Moscow. She received an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is also a nurse, specializing in critical care. She is the New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Mary Sutter. Her new novel, I Always Loved You, fictionalizes the alleged love affair between the great artists Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt.

For more information regarding the event, please contact Susan McBeth at (619) 300-2532 or at susan@adventuresbythebook.com.

April 1 (Wednesday, 7:30 pm) —Warwick's is hosting former SeaWorld orca trainer John Hargrove to present his first-hand account of the lives of captive killer whales, Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, Seaworld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish. John has 14 years’ experience as a killer whale trainer spanning both SeaWorld of California and SeaWorld of Texas where he was promoted to the highest ranking Senior Trainer. He resigned his position with SeaWorld in August 2012. This event is free and open to the public. Reserved Seating is available. Only books purchased from Warwick's will be signed. Please call the Warwick's Book Department at 858-454-0347 for more information.

Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks, Hargrove decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programs were both detrimental to the whales and ultimately unsafe for trainers. After leaving SeaWorld, Hargrove became one of the stars of the controversial documentary Blackfish. The outcry over the treatment of SeaWorld's orca has now expanded beyond the outlines sketched by the award-winning documentary, with Hargrove contributing his expertise to an advocacy movement that is convincing both federal and state governments to act. In Beneath the Surface, Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, including his favorite whales Takara and her mother Kasatka, two of the most dominant orcas in SeaWorld. And he includes vibrant descriptions of the lives of orcas in the wild, contrasting their freedom in the ocean with their lives in SeaWorld. Hargrove's journey is one that humanity has just begun to take – toward the realization that the relationship between the human and animal worlds must be radically rethought.

April 7 (Tuesday, 7:30 pm) — Warwick's is hosting author Margaret Dilloway with a launch event to present her brilliant story of estranged sisters reunited, Sisters of Heart and Snow. She teaches creative writing classes at San Diego Writers Ink and to high school students at her alma mater. You can learn more about her by visiting her “American Housewife” blog at http://www.margaretdilloway.com. This event is free and open to the public. Reserved Seating is available. Only books purchased from Warwick's will be signed. Please call the Warwick's Book Dept. (858) 454-0347 for details.

Margaret Dilloway is the award-winning author of How to Be an American Housewife returns with a poignant story of estranged sisters, forced together by family tragedy, who soon learn that sisterhood knows no limits.

Rachel and Drew Snow may be sisters, but their lives have followed completely different paths. Married to a wonderful man and is a mother to two strong-minded teens, Rachel hasn't returned to her childhood home since being kicked out by her strict father after an act of careless teenage rebellion. Drew, her younger sister, followed her passion for music but takes side jobs to make ends meet and longs for the stability that has always eluded her. Both sisters recall how close they were, but the distance between them seems more than they can bridge. When their deferential Japanese mother, Haruki, is diagnosed with dementia and gives Rachel power of attorney, Rachel's domineering father, Killian becomes enraged.

In a rare moment of lucidity, Haruki asks Rachel for a book in her sewing room, and Rachel enlists her sister's help in the search. The book – which tells the tale of real-life female samurai Tomoe Gozen, an epic saga of love, loss, and conflict during twelfth-century Japan – reveals truths about Drew and Rachel's relationship that resonate across the centuries, connecting them in ways that turn their differences into assets.

April 8 (Wednesday, 7:30 pm) — Warwick's is hosting author Judy Reeves to present her book, Wild Women Wild Voices. Judy Reeves, the author of A Writer’s Book of Days, has edited anthologies including the Brown Bag Anthology. She is a member of Second Story Writers and cofounder of the nonprofit The Writing Center. This event is free and open to the public. Only books purchased from Warwick's will be signed. Please call the Warwick's Book Dept. (858) 454-0347 for details.

Unlike other books exploring the concept of the wild woman, Wild Women, Wild Voices goes on to offer practical ways to reclaim and use the wildness and one’s own “wild” voice. It offers assignments such as daily journaling or writing with prompts and topics related to the subject of the book; suggested activities to further experience the “wild women within” and give her freedom; and quizzes, references, and inspiring quotations to reinforce the ideas and concepts.

April 9 (Thursday, 7:00 pm) — Warwick’s, Words A!ive, and U-T Talks are pleased to present An Evening with Diane Keaton, Oscar winning actress to discuss and sign her latest book, Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty. At the Sherwood Auditorium Museum of Contemporary Arts San Diego: La Jolla, 700 Prospect Street, La Jolla. This is a ticketed event $17.28 - One admission & one copy of the book. Check-in and doors open at 6:15.

Diane Keaton is the New York Times bestselling author of Then Again, which was named one of the ten best books of the year by Janet Maslin of The New York Times, People, and Vogue. She has starred in some of the most memorable movies of the past forty years, including the Godfather trilogy, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Reds, Baby Boom, The First Wives Club, and Something's Gotta Give. Her many awards include the Golden Globe and the Academy Award. Keaton lives with her daughter and son in Los Angeles. In this book, she shares the wisdom she's accumulated through the years as a mother, daughter, actress, artist, and international style icon.

May 2 (Saturday, 7 pm) — Internationally renowned poet Jerome Rothenberg will read from his new book Barbaric Vast & Wild: An Assemblage of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present at D.G.Wills Books, 7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, 858-456-1800, http://www.dgwillsbooks.com.

Barbaric Vast & Wild is a continuation and a possible culmination of the project that began with Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred in 1968 and led to the first four volumes of Poems for the Millennium in the 1990s and 2000s. In this new and equally groundbreaking volume, Rothenberg and John Bloomberg-Rissman have assembled a wide-ranging gathering of poems and related language works, whose outside/outsider and subterranean/subversive positions challenge some of the boundaries to where poetry has been or may be practiced, as well as the form and substance of the poetry itself.

Barbaric Vast & Wild brings together on a global and historical scale - from the paleolithic caves to the immediate present - works from the hieratic and sacred to the mundane and the radically transgressive and politically subversive. The range here is enormous: Egyptian pyramid texts, biblical prophecies, pre-Socratic poet-philosophers, Buddhist wanderers and "divine madmen," along with poems and related language works from dialects and "nation languages," thieves' cants and other argots or vernaculars, working class and lumpen poetries, popular and newspaper poetry, sermons and rants, glossolalia and glossographia, slogans, graffiti, and the "art of the insane" (Art Brut) that marked the early turning of avant-garde artists and poets to the idea of an "outside" poetry and art.

Jerome Rothenberg, UCSD Professor Emeritus, has served as Chair of the Visual Arts Department and as director of the Literature Department's creative writing program. An internationally renowned poet, performance artist, critic and scholar, his work reverberates well beyond conventional and somewhat arbitrary categories. His books, booklets and pamphlets of poetry have been translated into French, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, German, Polish, Swedish and Portuguese. In addition, he has assembled, edited, and annotated many enormously germinal anthologies of experimental and traditional poetry and performance, beginning with Technicians of the Sacred in 1968, and has been a leading voice in the approach to creative work and mind that he named "ethnopoetics." He has also acted as editor and co-editor of several notably influential magazines including Some/Thing, Alcheringa, and New Wilderness Letter, and has appeared as a performance poet and artist at many of the most distinguished venues in North and South America and Europe. Rothenberg's poetic work, Poland/1931, has been staged by the Living Theater in New York, and several of his soundplays have been produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Germany.

May 5 (Tuesday, 7:00 pm) — May Authors at the Astor – Even in Darkness: a novel by Barbara Stark-Nemon.

Author Barbara Stark-Nemon will speak about her new book in the Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center (JCC) 4126 Executive Drive in La Jolla.

Spanning a century and three continents, this book tells the story of the dutiful daughter of a prosperous German-Jewish family who hardly anticipates the often-harrowing life she faces as an adult – a sage of family, a lover, two world wars, a concentration camp and the unconventional life she builds in post-war Germany. As the world changes around her, she makes boundary-crossing choices in order to protect the people she loves –and to save herself. Book purchase and signing follow the program.

Price: $10.00; JCC Member Price - $8.00.

Attendees are encouraged to RSVP. For more information and to RSVP, please contact Susan Hagler at (858) 362-1150 or susanh@lfjcc.org or go to http://www.sdcjc.org/ajl/lectureseries.aspx.

May 9 (Saturday, 7:00 pm) — Berkeley poet David Shaddock will read from his new book Vernal Pool; and San Diego poet Steve Kowit will read from his new book Cherish: New and Selected Poems at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, 858-456-1800, www.dgwillsbooks.com.

David Shaddock’s poems have appeared in such journals as Tikkun and Mother Jones. His other books include In This Place Where Something’s Missing Lives, with an afterword by Rabbi Arthur Waskow; and Dreams Are Another Set of Muscles, with an introduction by Denise Levertov. His play In A Company of Seekers was performed at the 2012 Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. He holds a PhD in psychoanalytic research from Middlesex University, London, and is also the author of two nonfiction books on relationships and couples therapy. He maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Oakland and lives with his family in Berkeley.

Steve Kowit is the Poet Laureate of San Diego. His many books include Crossing Borders; Lurid Confessions; The Dumbbell Nebula; In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet’s Portable Workshop; The First Noble Truth; and The Maverick Poets.

May 11 (Monday, 7:00 pm) — Remembering Mama: Celebrating Jewish Mothers

A post-Mother’s Day celebration in the Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center (JCC) 4126 Executive Drive in La Jolla. Jewish stories of Jewish mothers come to life during this literary event featuring actors Walter Ritter, Veronica Murphy, and others.

Attendees are encouraged to RSVP. For more information and to RSVP, please contact Susan Hagler at (858) 362-1150 or susanh@lfjcc.org or go to http://www.sdcjc.org/ajl/lectureseries.aspx.

Price: $15, JCC Member Price: $12. For tickets, please contact the JCC Box Office (858) 362-1348 or visit the box office website http://tickets.lfjcc.org/default.asp?SearchText=mama&Go=Go.

May 12 (Tuesday, 7:00 pm) — May Jewish Poets – Jewish Poets - Jewish Voices will continue in the Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center (JCC) 4126 Executive Drive in La Jolla.

From Generation to Generation will feature the poetry of three community members. The poetry of Valerie Weiss will be read by her mother, the actress Bryna Weiss. Lawyer Suzi Finklestein will read the poetry of her daughter, Jaime Lynn Finklestein. Violinist Eileen Wingard will read her daughter Harriet Wingard’s poetry.

Following the readings, there will be an opportunity to socialize over light refreshments. These programs of poetry readings are open to the public at no charge.

Attendees are encouraged to RSVP. For more information and to RSVP, please contact Susan Hagler at (858) 362-1150 or susanh@lfjcc.org or go to http://www.sdcjc.org/ajl/lectureseries.aspx.

May 17 (Sunday, 9;30 am to 3:30 pm) — Registration for Books Are Better Shared (BABS) is Now Open!

Our second Books Are Better Shared (BABS) event will take place at the Norman P. Murray Community Center in Mission Viejo. Sharing the love of books and conversation is the goal again this year. For additional information go to http://booksarebettershared.com/.

Writers

Workshops, Classes, Seminars, Book Festivals, Contests and Authors Exhibits

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April 4 (Saturday, 2:30 to 5:30 pm) — Feature Writing and Personal Essay with Clayton Truscott. A practical workshop for writers at all levels, dedicated to the craft of writing feature articles, personal essays, and narrative nonfiction. We’ll move through the process of crafting stunning pieces that draw readers in from the first line and keep ‘em baited until the last.

Finally, we’ll be discussing the types of publications accepting submissions today, and covering a few simple ways to pitch your work to editors, and cherry-pick topic and angles.

Clayton Truscott is a South African travel, surf and fiction writer. He was the senior writer and editor at Essential Travel Magazine from 2009 to 2012. He currently works as a content director for a marketing agency in San Diego and continues to write articles for select clients. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Media, Culture & Communications. For more information, you can follow him on http://www.claytontruscott.com.

PLEASE NOTE: It is best to register at least a week before the start of a class to help our instructors prepare and ensure that a class does not get cancelled or rescheduled.

For More Information go to: http://www.sandiegowriters.org/0404-feature-writing-and-personal-essay-with-clayton-truscott/

April 12 (Sunday, 3:00 pm) — Annual SPJ Movie Day. It's almost time for our annual journalism movie get-together. We'll be watching a San Diego favorite: Anchorman. Where: Waypoint Public, 3794 30th St, San Diego.

April 13 (Monday) — Deadline to enter SPJ's New and Improved Contest. The 2015 SPJ San Diego-Area Journalism Competition and our SPJ Scholarship Competition is now accepting entries for work performed in calendar year 2014! Get your submissions in soon.

For more details, go to http://sdwriteway.org/writiers_lounge/contests_fextivals.htm.

April 14 (Monday, 7:00 pm) — An Upcoming Event You'll Want To Attend. Listen to a handful of authors read their chosen work from hundreds of submissions at the Year in Ink Volume 8 Release Party. There will be readings from the latest anthology and refreshments. The event will take place at the Cygnet Theatre in Old Town. There is a $5 suggested donation or bring a bottle of wine. It is sure to be an exciting evening! (Doors Open 6:30 pm).

For More Information go to: http://www.sandiegowriters.org/.

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BOOK OF THE WEEK: The Bible Naked by Sam Warren. Have you always meant to read the Bible but found it too boring? Well now you can. Sam has rewritten the whole thing from beginning (both beginnings) to the end leaving out all the boring stuff and emphasizing the parts the preachers don’t want you to know. In print and eBook at http://Amazon.com and http://www.SDLocalAuthorsBookstore.org

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