North Coast Redwoods Writers' Conference

05/15/2020

The planning committee of the North Coast Redwoods Writers' Conference has decided to follow current and projected quarantine recommendations and cancel our annual conference previously set for September 2020. We are sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause you.

We urge everyone to stay safe during these difficult times.

We hope you will pencil us in again for September 2021 and join us in Crescent City for our North Coast Redwoods Writers' Conference.

04/24/2020

The North Coast Redwoods Writers' Conference Steering Committee was in the middle of planning our 2020 conference when Covid-19 made meeting in person impossible. We are interested in still having the conference in September, but we decided having some input from those who have attended the conference before would be great. Please follow the link below and tell us your thoughts about NCRWC in Del Norte county.

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01/28/2020

Calling interested Writers and lovers of books. The North Coast Redwoods Writers' Conference steering committee will convene on Friday, January 31, at noon, in CR’s Library Conference Room to start planning our Writer's Conference for 2020. If you live in Del Norte County or surrounding areas, we would love your help!

03/23/2019

The North Coast Redwoods Writers’ Conference will take a hiatus in the fall of 2019.



Put on by a committee of volunteers, the steering committee is currently seeking community members
who are passionate about writing and interested in contributing to the planning process.
If you are interested in volunteering for the 2020 Writers' Conference,
please contact Ms. Kasey Hiner at [email protected]; thank you!

We are hopeful and look forward to continuing this local tradition next year.

09/27/2018

Thanks to all our presenters for a great conference! More than 50 people got to focus on writing because you came!

09/21/2018

Our conference starts tonight! 5:30 check-in. We start at 6pm sharp!

09/12/2018

Carolyne Wright was nominated for ten Pushcart Prizes before she won last year. Her poem: This Dream the World gains its title from a quote by William Stafford and it follows two sisters as they walk through the decades. Her poetry tells stories like memories, like dreams you can almost remember. She has learned multiple languages, using her skills and love of poetry to translate poems into English, so we can all hear the rhymes and rhythms of other countries. She is on the faculty of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts’ Whidbey Writers’ Workshop MFA program and she will be joining us next week at our conference! It is not too late to sign up to hear this poet tell us all a little part of how she does it all.

08/23/2018

Peter Brown Hoffmeister rock climbs and teaches high school and goes on outdoor adventures and writes novels and articles. And this September he is coming to Crescent City to present at our North Coast Redwoods Writers’ Conference! His presentations will concentrate on the right way to write for teenagers and the right way to fail, both of which he is an expert at. He takes the resilience he has learned in rock climbing and applies it to the writing process and the result is wonderful. Catch this NPR book review of his most recent publication.

This is KLCC. I’m Connie Bennett with a book review of “Too Shattered for Mending” by Peter Brown Hoffmeister. I hesitated to read it. A coming of age

07/17/2018

Thank you for your patience with our website. We have had a few difficulties. If you have not yet received an email with the brochure, or received one in the mail, Here is a link to their printable versions. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kPaEDHEZGfAP3dSbUl2dWakDQq_gMzEn

registration form is here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17-hZ-fb4yAksTHlMZ7UIlCujm74mmMDO

06/28/2018

Great news: Our Keynote speaker's book got a 5 star review from San Francisco Book Review! See all the details here:

Solo Hahn has a perfect life in Southern California. A nice house near the beach, terrific friends, and plenty of time to surf but his father falls into depression and tries to commit su***de. Solo’s parents decide to move to Oregon for a fresh start. The only good thing is a little stray kitten S...

06/25/2018

Rob Carney is 72.8% water.
Of course, he would point, so are you.

He is a poet and a writer and a professor of poetry and dystopian fiction. One student said “the class didn’t feel like learning but playing” and when they had finished, they wrote better. He wins awards like Washington State Book Award and the Utah Book Award for Poetry (twice) and the 2014 Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for Poetry. He has a book coming out at the end of July, and chances are that one will win prizes too. Best of all, he will be a presenter at the North Coast Redwoods Writers’ conference in September and YOU (all 72.8% water of you) can take a class from him! Check out his book here: https://www.blacklawrence.com/the-book-of-sharks/.

05/18/2018

Jennifer Brozek has one of the most complete Writer Websites I have ever seen. But we can expect nothing less from an avid gamer and former software engineer. She spends mornings working on writing projects and afternoons on editing. Her projects have included two Bram Stoker nominations, a Hugo nomination, a Scribe Award, and an Australian Shadows Award. She has edited anthologies for DAW, Baen Books, and Worldfire Press. Jennifer is also the creative director of Apocalypse Ink Productions and was the managing editor of Evil Girlfriend Media. She will be presenting at the North Coast Redwoods Writers’ Conference in September and will be discussing writing and how to create and present pitches to publishers. If you visit her website at http://www.jenniferbrozek.com/ make sure to check out the Tardis Free Little Library her husband made. So cool!