Photo by Alan Beymer – for Volume 4 of Voices of the Grove
Manzanita Writers Press
501(c)3 Nonprofit Literary Publisher
Mother Lode and Sierra region of California
CONTACT: manzanitawp@gmail.com
FREE writing classes and workshops for seniors 50+:
Classes meet at the Calaveras Senior Center in San Andreas
from 12:30-2:30 pm every TUESDAY – live and Zoom meetings –
956 Mountain Ranch Rd, San Andreas
Email lintoren@gmail.com for information. Zoom and live meetings for regional seniors.
“This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.”
Volume 4 – Voices of the Grove anthology should be released in December 2023. Watch for postings! Funded in part by a grant from California Humanities.
MANZANITA NIGHT WRITERS & WRITERS UNLIMITED Free Writer manuscript review and support sessions every 1st and 3rd Monday evening via ZOOM. From 6:30-9:00 p.m. Email Monika for an invitation – serving the Mother Lode/Sierra region and beyond: manzanitawp@gmail.com
Memoir sessions every 2nd Monday at 6:30 pm. Contact lintoren@gmail.com to sign up. We use the Manzanita Writers Press Ning (a private online writing space). The Zoom sessions are by invitation only.
Poetry sessions every 4th Monday at 6:30 pm. Contact manzanitawp@gmail.com or lintoren@gmail.com to sign up.
Gold Country Oral History Project:
We want your family, generational, community, and business/work stories about the good old days in Calaveras County from 1990s back to the 1850s. We are holding group conversations that are videotaped for the history books. Contact us for a time slot, and we’ll record your elders and family members talking about the past. Have artifacts, relics, and cherished heirlooms/photos ready to show and share, telling their story, too.
Contact Monika at manzanitawp@gmail.com
“This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.”
Literary Events and Happenings: Join us for author signings and talks, workshops, readings, and more.
Gold Rush Writers Conference is set for May 3 – 5, 2024, at the Historic Hotel Leger in Mokelumne Hill, CA. Join us for a wonderful boutique writers’ conference.
Contact Monika Rose, Co-Director, at manzanitawp@gmail.com or Kathy Boyd Fellure at goldrushwritersconference@gmail.com
Registration opens January 1 – headliners and featured authors: Karen Joy Fowler, award-winning novelist – Ace Antonio Hall (Nzondi), novelist – Sands Hall, memoir and fiction – Antoinette May, novelist and biographer – and many more!
Manzanita Writers Press released these three new books – perfect gifts, all of them!
Michele Rugo – Farmers Markets – Share the Joy! A children’s book that encourages young ones to grow their own vegetables and participate in the farmers market. 
Judy Creighton, our regional cheeselady and expert on all things cheese, has just received more copies of her new book, Cheese Loves Wine, with elegant and easy appetizers, pairing wine and cheese. 
ARCHIVED EVENT:
Poetry and Journaling at Big Trees State Park with California poets and the giant Sequoia! was a great event on July 15, 2023.
We held this fine event at Big Trees State Park in Calaveras County for a day of poetry and journaling on Saturday, July 15, from 9:00 am – 6 pm, with poets Dana Gioia, Lee Herrick, and Susan Kelly-Dewitt, Calaveras Poet Laureate Linda Toren, poet Conrad Levasseur, and poet Monika Rose, Director of Manzanita Writers Press, and regional poets.
“This project is made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.”
Manzanita Arts Emporium
Online Art Gallery
Online Book Store – Manzanita Authors
OUR ONLINE BOOKSTORE IS VIBRANT and thriving, so GO TO THE online BOOKSTORE where you will also find art to purchase! We are expanding the store.
Support your rural and California authors, please!
New authors and books are out this year!
Judy Creighton’s cheese pairing book – Cheese Loves Wine
Michele Rugo’s children’s book, Farmers Market: Share the Joy
Doug Alberts’ book of stories and poems, Love Simply
Coming in the next three months:
Stephen Finlay Archer’s Fortunes, Book 6 in the Series of the Irish Clans saga
Monika Rose’s children’s book, The Call: Moth Life
Don Urbanus’s new novel, A Nursery to Die For
Voices of the Grove: A Calaveras Anthology
manzanitawp@gmail.com and catch us on Facebook: @Manzanita Writers Press. Or Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
Manzanita Writers Press has been granted a generous California Humanities grant for a fantastic Gold Country oral history project through May 2024. This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.
- Oral interviews of the elders in our community filmed by partner CCTV with assistance from museum, senior center, and community members – teen filmmakers wanted for training
- FREE filming, editing, transcribing, and interview classes at CCTV – paid positions available after the training is complete
- FREE Voices of Wisdom free writing classes for seniors 55+
- FREE Technology and smartphone classes for seniors
- Publishing a community book of Voices of Wisdom and another book based on the Mi-wok stories.
- Many community and business partners are participating in this worthy project. The community is invited to contact us if you’d like to be a part of this! manzanitawp@gmail.com
More information has been posted in social media, newspapers, and senior centers. See the Calaveras Enterprise article in February 2023. Find out more at calhum.org
Assistance with funding for our videotaping and editing equipment has come from a Calaveras Community Foundation grant. Thank you so much!
Notice about our location:
Our MWP office of record is located at the Volunteer Center of Calaveras County, 325 Lewis Avenue, San Andreas, CA 95249. Contact us via email or phone.
Publisher meetings with authors are by appointment. Contact us at manzanitawp@gmail.com or phone: 209-728-6117 (message)
Mailing: PO Box 215, San Andreas, CA 95249
Contact the Director, Monika Rose: manzanitawp@gmail.com
Office: 209-728-6117 messages only
Find us on Facebook and Instagram!
Free Technology and smartphone classes were held for Seniors 50+ on Tech Tuesdays throughout the month of April and May occurred from 10-11:30 am at the Calaveras Senior Center in San Andreas (956 Mountain Ranch Road, San Andreas in Calaveras County). Classes and topics were Smartphone training, social media, settings on tech devices, apps, Google tools, YouTube and Spotify, safe surfing on the web, and more. An emphasis for May is social media, apps, and tech tools, as well as photos and videos, texting and uploading, and more. We hope to sponsor more. “This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.”
Young filmmakers were offered free film and video classes at the CCTV studio. “This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.”