2016 |
Saturday, July 30
10 am -4 pm
Malaga Cove Library Community Room
(2400 Via Campesina, PVE) |
Summer Writing Seminar. Speakers: Mathieu Cailler, Beth Whittenbury, Christopher Lynch, Vicky Kall and Sean Kenney,
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the program. Seminar is limited to 50 attendees and the deadline to attend is July15. Flyer has reservation information. |
Friday,
June 24
11:30 am |
Final 2015-2016 session. Casual, no-host lunch at the Fu Yan Low Chinese Restaurant (26-F Peninsula Center, Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 -- Indian Peak Road). We will have use of the restaurant's quiet group area so feel free to bring and read what you are working on. |
Friday,
May 27
10 am - Club business
11 am - Speaker
Malaga Cove Library Community Room
(2400 Via Campesina, PVE) |
Our speaker will be Dr. Owen Hall who will speak on his experiences publishing books. |
Saturday
April 30
1:30 - 4:00 pm
Peninsula Center Library
Community Room
(701 Silver Spur Road, PVE) |
Poetry and Music in the Gallery. Poetry! Music! Refreshments! Come hear some local poets read their own works. (In memory of Elayne Sidley)
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the program. |
2015 |
Friday,
November 20
10 am - Noon
Malaga Cove Library Community Room
(2400 Via Campesina, PVE) |
November is now designated as NATIONAL WRITING MONTH so please plan to attend the Surfwriters' meeting this month.
No speaker is schedule – rather we'll use the time to network and discuss what we are presently writing or intending to write. And if you'd like, you can read aloud any of your work for Surfwriters' comments. (Refreshments will be available.) |
Friday,
October 23
10 am - Noon
Malaga Cove Library Community Room
(2400 Via Campesina, PVE) |
Surfwriters member, Jean Alden, will be performing in and directing the play, Washington Loves by Miro Gavran – an internationally known Croatian Playwright. The performance will be from 11 am - noon. Prior to that, focus will be on Surfwriters recent writings with readings and comments by members. |
Friday,
September 25
10 am - Club business
11 am - Speaker
Malaga Cove Library Community Room
(2400 Via Campesina, PVE) |
Our September speaker will be author, journalist and speaker Fred Fuld III speaking about his latest book Write a Book in 30 Days, Publish in 30 Minutes.
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the program. |
Friday,
May 22
10 am - Club business
11 am - Speaker
Malaga Cove Library Community Room
(2400 Via Campesina, PVE) |
Our speaker will be Elizabeth Letts. For more information visit http://www.elizabethletts.com/. |
Saturday
April 11
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Peninsula Center Library
Community Room
(701 Silver Spur Road, PVE) |
Poetry and Music in the Gallery. Poetry! Music! Refreshments! Come hear some local poets read their own works.
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the program. |
2014 |
Friday, November 21
10 am - Club business
11 am - Speaker
|
Surfwriter's November speaker is Mathieu Cailler. His talk is entitled The Short Story – From Conception to Publication. |
Saturday,
May 10
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Peninsula Center Library
Community Room
(701 Silver Spur Road, PVE) |
Poetry and Music Live. Poetry! Music! Refreshments!
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the program. |
Friday,
March 28
11 am - Noon
Malaga Cove Library Community Room
(2400 Via Campesina, PVE) |
Surfwriters' March speaker is Nina Weinstein. Nina will talk about publishing your books!
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the program. |
Friday,
February 28
10 am - Noon
Malaga Cove Library Community Room, (2400 Via Campesina, PVE) |
Surfwriter's February speaker is Ray Madeline. Ray will talk about "Pushing Books to A Whole New Level"
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the program. |
2013 |
Friday
November 22
11 am - Noon
Malaga Cove Library Community Room, (2400 Via Campesina, PVE) |
Surfwriters November speaker is Jeri Westerson. Jeri will speak about The Writing Life - why an agent, how to get one, indie publishing, etc. She is the author of 11 books including Shadow of the Alchemist; nominated for the RT Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Historical Mystery; Named one of the Best of 2013 by Suspense Magazine. |
Friday, Sept. 27
11 am - Noon
Malaga Cove Library
Community Room (2400
Via Campesina, PVE) |
Surfwriters September program is pleased to have Ellen November as our guest speaker.
Ellen's presentation will be about using social media in our professional and every day lives ~
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the program. |
Friday, May 24
10 am - Noon
Malaga Cove Library
Community Room (2400
Via Campesina, PVE) |
Surfwriters May program is pleased to have Regina O'Melveny as our guest speaker. Writer, Teacher and Assemblage Artist. She will read selections from her work ~
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the program. |
Friday, Jan. 25
10 am - Noon
Malaga Cove Library
Community Room (2400
Via Campesina, PVE) |
Surfwriters January program is Learning about screenwriting. Guest Speaker is Jeff Hoppenstand ~ Screenwriter Musician, Actor ~ and more!
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the program. |
2012 |
Saturday
August 11
10 am - 3 pm
Cost: $50 w/lunch
Malaga Cove Library
Community Room (2400
Via Campesina, PVE) |
A Surfwriters Writing Seminar (Co-Sponsored by the Palos Verdes Library District)
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the event and to make a reservation. |
Sunday
May 20 @ 2 pm
Palos Verdes Art Center
550 Deep Valley Drive,
Ste. 261
Rolling Hills Estates 90274
(former Broders Location) |
The Writing Game - An Anthology of Prose and Poetry --Surfwriters is celebrating more than 50 years of writing.
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the program. |
Saturday
April 28
1:00 - 3:00 pm
Malaga Cove Library Community Room, (2400 Via Campesina, PVE) |
Poetry and Music in the Gallery. Poetry! Music! Refreshments!
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the program. |
Friday
February 24
11 am - Noon
Malaga Cove Library Community Room, (2400 Via Campesina, PVE) |
Surfwriters February program is Everything You Always Wanted to Know About PHOTOGRAPHY— But Didn’t Know Whom to Ask . Catherine Balcom, Photographer, published and shown in varied venues.
Please click HERE for a flyer describing the program. |
2011 |
Friday
November 18
10 am - Noon
Malaga Cove Library Community Room, (2400 Via Campesina, PVE) |
Surfwriters November speaker is Craig MacDonald. MacDonald will speak on the Joy of Writing. He has interviewed the likes of John Updike, George Plimpton and John Jakes and will share great tips he's received from these best-selling wordsmiths. MacDonald is a Pulitzer Prize nominee who has written 17 books on the West, as well as, numerous magazine articles, newspaper stories and serials. In addition, he will autograph his lastest work, OLD WEST CHRISTMAS-TALES WITH A TWIST, which took 40 years to write.
Please click HERE for a copy of the minutes. |
Friday
October 28
10 am - Noon
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Malaga Cove Plaza Library, 2400 Via Campesina, PVE. Go to the second floor, the library meeting room. If you come a few minutes early, be aware that the library opens at 10 a.m. Parking behind the library on the upper level.
The program for this month will include an introduction to Writers' Market by Elayne Sidley and small-group readings from members' works-in-progress, so bring something you're working on to share with a few. If you can manage to bring 4 or 5 copies, that would be useful.
Please click HERE for a copy of the minutes. |
Saturday
October 22 |
Event Announcement: Works in Progress. Please click HERE for a flyer describing the event. |
Friday
May 27 |
New York Times best seller Ivan G. Goldman to speak at the Art Center. Please click HERE for a flyer describing the event. |
Saturday
April 23 |
Poetry and Music in the Gallery. Please click HERE for a flyer describing the event. |
Friday
March 25 |
Come and hear Judy R. Cook, author of If This Land Could Talk Homesteading on the Northern Plains. Please click HERE for a flyer describing the event and location. |
Friday
February 25 |
Surfwriter meeting. Please click HERE for a copy of the minutes. |
Friday
January 28 |
Bill Sharpsteen, Freelance Photographer, Documentary Producer and Writer. Please click HERE for a flyer describing the event and location. Click HERE fot a copy of the minutes of the minutes of the meeting. |
