Women Writers of Color in our own Voices has been a passion project from the beginning, and I'm grateful to Annenberg and the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Beach = Culture for trusting me to actualize this work and for opening up the Marion Davies Guest House for so many writers to write, commune, and to contemplate their work. Most had never been to the ACBH, didn't even realize this stunning spot is a public park, and were overwhelmed with the generosity of time and space to write.
A novel was finished, poems were rewritten/edited, projects and collaborations have found some light to become something good, one writer, a recognized spoken word poet, read her fiction for the first time in public, another read for the first time outside her East LA community, and the evolution of women writers continues.
Many guests attended all three events and traveled from places as faraway as Pasadena, East LA, South Central, Thousand Oaks, and other parts of the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys. From the feedback received, the Santa Monica, Westside, guests were thrilled to have the programs on their turf. I am grateful for your support, positivity, and engagement.
If I can include hand-outs via the blog, they will be added; otherwise, I'll talk to Naomi about a different way to distribute.
In the meantime, you may follow Women Who Submit on FB, twitter, and Instagram. Their website is https://womenwhosubmitlit.wordpress.com
Women's National Book Association-LA Chapter has a website, www.wnba-books.org/la/ and are on FB.
PEN USA www.penusa.org also has a FB page.
If you'd like to contact Natalie Desai-Obando at Do Good PR and current WNBA-LA Chapter President,
go to http://dogoodprgroup.com
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| Photos and collage by Sally Lew |
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