SF Bay Area Writers: Please come join me at the May 10th Meeting of the Mount Diablo Branch of the California Writers Club. Writer’s Table starts at 11:15 am and goes until noon. The featured speaker, Allison Landa will follow from 1 to 2 pm and will speak on What Can We Learn About Writing from Reality TV? Gordon Ramsay. The Kardashians. And … you? As preposterous as it may sound (and it does!), we can learn about our craft by watching reality television. Join us to learn more!
Location: Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant
611 Gregory Lane
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
Click here to register:
https://cwcmtdiablo.org/meetings-and-workshops/

FEATURED SPEAKER: Allison Landa is a writer of memoir and fiction. Her book BEARDED LADY is an account of living with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, but it’s really about what makes you feel weird in the world. Her work has been featured in venues including Business Insider, Parents Magazine, GoodRx, The Guardian US, and The Washington Post. She has held artist residencies at MacDowell, Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow, WordSpace, Playa Summer Lake, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and The Julia and David White Artists’ Colony. Allison earned her MFA in creative writing from St. Mary’s College of California and writes, teaches, and coaches from her home in Berkeley, where she lives with her husband, son, and manic dog. Stalk her at allisonlanda.com.
Cost
Members: $30 Guests: $35
Includes buffet lunch.
Pay online or at the door. Note: Price increases after May7th.