Mendocino Coast Writer's Conference
@mcwconf.bsky.social
mcwc.org
A vibrant, inclusive literary gathering in Mendocino, California with workshops in a wide range of genres, as well as seminars, open mic events, and one-on-one consultations. July 31 - August 2, 2025.
A vibrant, inclusive literary gathering in Mendocino, California with workshops in a wide range of genres, as well as seminars, open mic events, and one-on-one consultations. July 31 - August 2, 2025.
There’s always a place for you here in our workshop.
June 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
There’s always a place for you here in our workshop.
Katya Apekina, author of The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, named a Best Book of 2018 by Kirkus @buzzfeed.com LitHub+ & Mother Doll, named Vogue's Best Book of 2024, will lead us through meditation to find visual approaches to narrative techniques in writing.
June 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Katya Apekina, author of The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish, named a Best Book of 2018 by Kirkus @buzzfeed.com LitHub+ & Mother Doll, named Vogue's Best Book of 2024, will lead us through meditation to find visual approaches to narrative techniques in writing.
@bombmag.bsky.social's Sarah Gerard, author of @twodollarradio.bsky.social's Binary Star, Sunshine State, @harpercollins.bsky.social's True Love & Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable, will share research tips on how to build scaffolding in our stories.
June 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
@bombmag.bsky.social's Sarah Gerard, author of @twodollarradio.bsky.social's Binary Star, Sunshine State, @harpercollins.bsky.social's True Love & Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable, will share research tips on how to build scaffolding in our stories.
@kitvincentbooks.bsky.social author of queer Science Fiction and Fantasy, including US, ET CETERA and OF FEATHERS AND THORNS, is going to drop knowledge on effective world building--avoid info dumping, plot holes, and build engaging, inhabitable fantastical worlds.
June 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
@kitvincentbooks.bsky.social author of queer Science Fiction and Fantasy, including US, ET CETERA and OF FEATHERS AND THORNS, is going to drop knowledge on effective world building--avoid info dumping, plot holes, and build engaging, inhabitable fantastical worlds.
Born to be Public's @gregmania.bsky.social, whose tender, hilarious + authentic voice has been featured in @nytimes.com @thenewyorker.bsky.social @thetimes.com @mcsweeneys.net @vanityfair.com @huffpost.com, will offer generative exercises on how to layer levity, comedic storytelling in nonfiction.
June 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Born to be Public's @gregmania.bsky.social, whose tender, hilarious + authentic voice has been featured in @nytimes.com @thenewyorker.bsky.social @thetimes.com @mcsweeneys.net @vanityfair.com @huffpost.com, will offer generative exercises on how to layer levity, comedic storytelling in nonfiction.
National Book Award-nominee Kimberly King Parsons, the bestselling author of We Were the Universe, a Dakota Johnson Book Club pick ranked #2 on TIME Magazine's Best Books of 2024, will share this pep talk of reframing rejection as connections and how to effectively use this as fuel to write more.
June 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
National Book Award-nominee Kimberly King Parsons, the bestselling author of We Were the Universe, a Dakota Johnson Book Club pick ranked #2 on TIME Magazine's Best Books of 2024, will share this pep talk of reframing rejection as connections and how to effectively use this as fuel to write more.
How to Hang a Witch's Adriana Mather will talk about suspense, tension & plotplotplot. Cliff hangers? Through lines? Drawing out tension? Character development? Leave with exercises to draft and revise plot.
June 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
How to Hang a Witch's Adriana Mather will talk about suspense, tension & plotplotplot. Cliff hangers? Through lines? Drawing out tension? Character development? Leave with exercises to draft and revise plot.
James Bird, author of The Brave (NYPL, SLJ, Bookriot Best Book of 2020), The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls (NYPL, SLJ Best book of 2022), and No PLace Like Home, will share tips on how to tackle adult emotions, in Middle Grade books, while still fusing hope and adventure into each story.
June 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
James Bird, author of The Brave (NYPL, SLJ, Bookriot Best Book of 2020), The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls (NYPL, SLJ Best book of 2022), and No PLace Like Home, will share tips on how to tackle adult emotions, in Middle Grade books, while still fusing hope and adventure into each story.
@pegpurcell.bsky.social will demystify the writer-editor relationship, what a writer needs to engage in all that editors can offer & worry less about "gatekeepers" & more on how to navigate publishing and presses. We welcome locals in the business, looking to make new literary besties.
June 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
@pegpurcell.bsky.social will demystify the writer-editor relationship, what a writer needs to engage in all that editors can offer & worry less about "gatekeepers" & more on how to navigate publishing and presses. We welcome locals in the business, looking to make new literary besties.
As part of our fundraising efforts this year, our board has been hosting online Zoom webinars across various writing topics such as how to apply to conferences, poetry of care, writing with gratitude, and this Saturday 5/10 at 10am - 12pm, we have nonfiction with Miah Jeffra. 📝
mcwc.org/seminars
mcwc.org/seminars
May 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
As part of our fundraising efforts this year, our board has been hosting online Zoom webinars across various writing topics such as how to apply to conferences, poetry of care, writing with gratitude, and this Saturday 5/10 at 10am - 12pm, we have nonfiction with Miah Jeffra. 📝
mcwc.org/seminars
mcwc.org/seminars
You don’t need to go to a writing conference to be a writer, but it sure is more fun and a lot less lonelier to go to one. Join us this 2025 summer 7/31-8/2 for workshops in a wide array of genres, afternoon craft talks & complementary readings from our acclaimed faculty.
mcwc.org/2025-general...
mcwc.org/2025-general...
April 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
You don’t need to go to a writing conference to be a writer, but it sure is more fun and a lot less lonelier to go to one. Join us this 2025 summer 7/31-8/2 for workshops in a wide array of genres, afternoon craft talks & complementary readings from our acclaimed faculty.
mcwc.org/2025-general...
mcwc.org/2025-general...
In Adriana Mather's Traditional Publishing Workshop, "we will learn all these first steps along with polishing your first pages so that your hook shines and your voice sings." Look no further for personalized professional tips and advice in a supportive and collaborative space.
April 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
In Adriana Mather's Traditional Publishing Workshop, "we will learn all these first steps along with polishing your first pages so that your hook shines and your voice sings." Look no further for personalized professional tips and advice in a supportive and collaborative space.
Much of #publishing has changed, which is why in Kit Vincent's Self-Publishing Crash Course, "In this workshop, you will learn the steps to self-publishing: from preparing your manuscript for various retailers to building your author platform and positioning your work in the marketplace."
April 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Much of #publishing has changed, which is why in Kit Vincent's Self-Publishing Crash Course, "In this workshop, you will learn the steps to self-publishing: from preparing your manuscript for various retailers to building your author platform and positioning your work in the marketplace."
In Rosiee Thor's Middle Grade/Young Adult Workshop, "we will dive into the elements of voice--the style choices and unique facets of your writing that make it yours." One of the few #youngadult #MGYA workshops offered in the country!
April 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
In Rosiee Thor's Middle Grade/Young Adult Workshop, "we will dive into the elements of voice--the style choices and unique facets of your writing that make it yours." One of the few #youngadult #MGYA workshops offered in the country!
In Sarah Gerard's Nonfiction Workshop, "we will practice finding unique forms for our expressions by focusing on the critical elements of material, shape, and voice. "
April 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
In Sarah Gerard's Nonfiction Workshop, "we will practice finding unique forms for our expressions by focusing on the critical elements of material, shape, and voice. "
In Greg Mania's Memoir Workshop, he'll "help you mine your reflection for the things you might not have noticed before or hadn't thought to consider in one way or another—all of the things that make up the fabric of your being, the things that should be radically honored both on and off the page."
April 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
In Greg Mania's Memoir Workshop, he'll "help you mine your reflection for the things you might not have noticed before or hadn't thought to consider in one way or another—all of the things that make up the fabric of your being, the things that should be radically honored both on and off the page."
In Tomas Moniz's Hybrid Genre Workshop, we'll "focus on two often overlooked elements of our writing process: setting development and revising the sentence." If your work is undefinable, truly a combination of multiple genres and you don't know where you might fit in--there is a place for you here.
April 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
In Tomas Moniz's Hybrid Genre Workshop, we'll "focus on two often overlooked elements of our writing process: setting development and revising the sentence." If your work is undefinable, truly a combination of multiple genres and you don't know where you might fit in--there is a place for you here.
In our Speculative Fiction Workshop with Allison Saft, participants will be offered "a character-first approach to plotting and worldbuilding--one where story choices and speculative elements inform and are informed by the protagonist."
April 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
In our Speculative Fiction Workshop with Allison Saft, participants will be offered "a character-first approach to plotting and worldbuilding--one where story choices and speculative elements inform and are informed by the protagonist."
In our Novel Workshop with Katya Apekina, "we will go deep into the characters in your novel—understanding their pasts, their psychology, wants and desires, and worldview," letting them guide the plot.
April 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
In our Novel Workshop with Katya Apekina, "we will go deep into the characters in your novel—understanding their pasts, their psychology, wants and desires, and worldview," letting them guide the plot.
In our Short Fiction workshop with Kimberly King Parsons, "we'll focus on compression and precision as essential tools for amplifying a story's power," and take a look at beginnings.
April 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
In our Short Fiction workshop with Kimberly King Parsons, "we'll focus on compression and precision as essential tools for amplifying a story's power," and take a look at beginnings.
In our second Poetry Workshop (that's right! We have two!) with Linda Ravenswood, "participants will receive a poetry packet, special writing paper, and writing / design instruments," to write together and talk story.
April 24, 2025 at 5:22 AM
In our second Poetry Workshop (that's right! We have two!) with Linda Ravenswood, "participants will receive a poetry packet, special writing paper, and writing / design instruments," to write together and talk story.
In our first Poetry Workshop with Brynn Saito, "through writing exercises and conversation, we’ll explore the poem as “an instrument for embodied experience,” as Adrienne Rich characterized it.
April 24, 2025 at 5:20 AM
In our first Poetry Workshop with Brynn Saito, "through writing exercises and conversation, we’ll explore the poem as “an instrument for embodied experience,” as Adrienne Rich characterized it.
We're offering creative writing workshops in a wide variety of genres, restricted to 10 participants each. Outside of our juried Master Class, no writing sample is required to register. Our Master Class this year is taught by Byron F. Aspaas.
mcwc.org/morning-work...
mcwc.org/morning-work...
April 24, 2025 at 5:15 AM
We're offering creative writing workshops in a wide variety of genres, restricted to 10 participants each. Outside of our juried Master Class, no writing sample is required to register. Our Master Class this year is taught by Byron F. Aspaas.
mcwc.org/morning-work...
mcwc.org/morning-work...
#waswriting + now back on Bluesky with a new deadline 📝 Apply to attend our summer writing workshop by April 30th before our registration fee increases. mcwc.org/morning-work...
General Registration is still open until end of June or until all spots are filled, whichever comes first 🏃♀️
General Registration is still open until end of June or until all spots are filled, whichever comes first 🏃♀️
April 24, 2025 at 5:12 AM
#waswriting + now back on Bluesky with a new deadline 📝 Apply to attend our summer writing workshop by April 30th before our registration fee increases. mcwc.org/morning-work...
General Registration is still open until end of June or until all spots are filled, whichever comes first 🏃♀️
General Registration is still open until end of June or until all spots are filled, whichever comes first 🏃♀️
Join our next online seminar tomorrow, April 12th!
Register here: mcwc.org/online-semin...
MCWC is proud to offer online programming to supplement our summer conference. Every registration helps us continue creating meaningful, prestigious, and high-quality literary programming for our community.
Register here: mcwc.org/online-semin...
MCWC is proud to offer online programming to supplement our summer conference. Every registration helps us continue creating meaningful, prestigious, and high-quality literary programming for our community.
April 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Join our next online seminar tomorrow, April 12th!
Register here: mcwc.org/online-semin...
MCWC is proud to offer online programming to supplement our summer conference. Every registration helps us continue creating meaningful, prestigious, and high-quality literary programming for our community.
Register here: mcwc.org/online-semin...
MCWC is proud to offer online programming to supplement our summer conference. Every registration helps us continue creating meaningful, prestigious, and high-quality literary programming for our community.