BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//California Writers Club, Mt Diablo Branch - ECPv6.16.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:California Writers Club, Mt Diablo Branch X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cwcmtdiablo.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for California Writers Club, Mt Diablo Branch REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260411T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260411T120000 DTSTAMP:20260315T201732Z CREATED:20260315T192035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260315T201732Z UID:69278-1775901600-1775908800@cwcmtdiablo.org SUMMARY:CWC Mt. Diablo April 2026 General Meeting Featuring Lynda Smith Hoggan DESCRIPTION:From the Bedroom to the Page: Writing About Sex\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\n9:30 – Sign-in table opens\n\n\n\n10:00 – Writing Activity or Member Interviews: TBD\n\n\n\n11:00 – Feature Presentation\n\n\n\n12:00 – Meeting Ends\n\n\n\n\nStay after the meeting until 1:30 for optional events. Meeting attendance is required to participate in optional activities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynda 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. \n\n\n\n\n\nCWC Mt. Diablo April 2026 General Meeting Featuring Lynda Smith Hoggan – From the Bedroom to the Page: Writing About Sex\n\n\nAttendees will be shown:\n\n\n\nReasons to (and not to) include sexual scenes in writing\n\n\n\nWays sexual scenes can promote theme\, enhance character development\, create mood/emotion\, etc.\n\n\n\nNot surprising: language is everything!\n\n\n\nCurated readings\n\n\n\nWriting exercise (optional)\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nCost\n\n\n\nMembers: $15.00 ($20.00 after April 4th)\n\n\n\nGuests: $20.00\n\n\n\nPay online when you register or cash/check at the door. Coffee/tea and pastries included.\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here to register URL:https://cwcmtdiablo.org/event/cwc-mt-diablo-april-2026-general-meeting-featuring-lynda-smith-hoggan/ LOCATION:Pleasant Hill Senior Center\, 233 Gregory Lane\, Pleasant Hill\, California\, 94523 CATEGORIES:Branch Meetings and Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cwcmtdiablo.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Lynda-Hoggan.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T163000 DTSTAMP:20260314T051308Z CREATED:20260314T051305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260314T051308Z UID:69269-1775833200-1775838600@cwcmtdiablo.org SUMMARY:Mt. Diablo Board Meeting on Zoom DESCRIPTION:All members are welcome to attend Board Meetings as non-participating guests (but don’t be surprised if we ask for your impressions and ideas). This is YOUR club. We hope you are interested in how we run it.If you’d like to attend\, contact President Barry Hampshire at president@cwcmtdiablo.org. He will send you the link to join on Zoom. URL:https://cwcmtdiablo.org/event/mt-diablo-board-meeting-on-zoom-2/ LOCATION:California CATEGORIES:Board Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cwcmtdiablo.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Zoom.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260325T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260325T133000 DTSTAMP:20260226T202116Z CREATED:20260226T202108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T202116Z UID:69181-1774440000-1774445400@cwcmtdiablo.org SUMMARY:Writers Connection DESCRIPTION:Writers Connection is a social place where like-minded people\, hapless authors\, and creative geniuses can come together and chat about the one thing they all have in common: the compulsion to write. It is open to any CWC member\, published or not\, interested in a freewheeling\, nonjudgmental\, welcoming\, and relaxed environment. Content will include a potpourri of any writing or associated topics: news items\, agents\, publishers\, bouquets & brickbats. Membership is open-ended\, limited only by space\, and people may come and go as they please. Short readings are welcome.  Please Register so we can have the venue prepare a large enough table for us – Food and Beverages are encouraged and are on your own dime! Delicious!! \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n Register: for Writers Connection\n \n \n Today's Date\n \n MM slash DD slash YYYY\n \n Name(Required)\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email(Required)\n \n *In-Person Venue\nThe Chicken Pie Shop\n1251 Arroyo Way\, Walnut Creek\nWebsiteDutch treat! We encourage everyone to support our hosting restaurant by ordering food and drink\, as you wish. Are you a member of Mt. Diablo?(Required)\n \n \n Yes\n \n \n \n No\n Any questions or comments?If you aren’t a member of Mt. Diablo\, please tell us where you heard about us.Questions or problems with the registration process?\nContact Marlene at webmaster@cwcmtdiablo.org.We do not share your personal data with anyone. 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