Writers Helping Writers: You Can Be a Winning Writer

Join us Wednesday, May 11 at 7 p.m. to learn how the ‘4’c’s’ - craft, commitment, community and confidence can facilitate your path to publishing success. Author of three poetry collections and an award-winning chapbook of short fiction, Joan Gelfand’s reviews, stories, essays and poetry have appeared in national and international literary journals and magazines including The San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, PANK! Poetry Flash, The “J,” Rattle, Prairie Schooner, The Toronto Review, Voice and Verse and Levure Litteraire. Winner of twenty writing awards, Joan has taught for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud and The Writing Salon. “You Can Be a Winning Writer,” Joan’s Amazon #1 best seller has inspired writers from coast to coast and in Mexico. “Extreme,” Joan’s debut novel, was published by Blue Light Press in July 2020. The fast-paced tale takes place in a Silicon Valley gaming startup and has received praise from Katie Hafner of the NYT, Ransom Stephens and Mary Mackey. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and a Juror for the Northern California Book Awards, Joan lives in San Francisco with her husband Adam Hertz and two beatnik cats – Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Learn more about Joan at www.joangelfand.com. Writers Helping Writers meets the second Wednesday of the month in partnership with the California Writers Club-SF Peninsula Branch. Please contact Cynthia McCarthy at cmccarthy@cityofsanmateo.org for the Zoom link.

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