Lynda Smith Hoggan is Professor Emerita of health and human sexuality at Mt. San Antonio College in Southern California and an amateur martini taster. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Westwind UCLA Journal of the Arts, Story Circle Network international women’s journal, the anthology Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis, and more. Her book Our Song: a Memoir of Love and Race was published in 2022 and earned a silver medal for memoir from The BookFest. She blogs at www.lyndasmithhoggan.com.
CWC Mt. Diablo April 2026 General Meeting Featuring Lynda Smith Hoggan – From the Bedroom to the Page: Writing About Sex
Attendees will be shown:
- Reasons to (and not to) include sexual scenes in writing
- Ways sexual scenes can promote theme, enhance character development, create mood/emotion, etc.
- Not surprising: language is everything!
- Curated readings
- Writing exercise (optional)
