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(April 14, 2023) Washington Post book critic Ron Charles took note of the first place winner of our Eighth Annual High School Writing Contest in his Book Club newsletter, reprinting Elane Kim’s “Aftermath.”

The new year is underway, and that means book clubs are launching their 2023 lineups. A comparison of reading lists for three Half Moon Bay book clubs reveals that each

The novelist and story writer, whose new book is “Sleepwalk,” wishes more authors would write about ‘anything other than themselves. I love writers … who use some aspects of their own experience to tell a far-out tale.’

By Justin Scacco | Special to The Union For more than a half century the Truckee-Tahoe area has hosted a gathering of renowned writers for workshops and other events aimed at propelling the careers of novelists, poets, screenwriters and others. Entering its 51st year in the area, Community of Writers Fiction Workshop returns Saturday to Olympic Valley with Festival Day. Several authors will give lectures, readings, and other discussions during a daylong event. The Community of Writers Fiction W...