Come to CWC-Mt. Diablo’s First Open-Mic Night! Sign up to read or listen. October 18, 6:00 pm on Zoom. Click here for details and link to register.

Monday, November 9, 2020 4:00 - 5:00 PM | ZOOM ​ Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation Distinguished Speaker Series Presents ​ Jess Walter: The Cold Millions ​ Don’t miss this special opportunity to hear award-winning author Jess Walter discuss his new novel, The Cold Millions. Described as the most anticipated book of the season, The Cold Millions is "an intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America that eerily echoes our own time (Boston Globe).” Jess Walter’s novel Beautiful Ruins was a #1 New York Times bestseller and spent more than a year on the bestseller list. He is the author of six novels, a book of short stories and one nonfiction book. Walter won the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and was a finalist for the former National Book Award. His work has been translated into 32 languages, and his fiction has been selected three times for Best American Short Stories as well as the Pushcart Prize and Best American Nonrequired Reading. This is a special, paid admission event. Book purchase* is required to attend. Visit Orinda Books online HERE or call 925-254-7606 to purchase The Cold Millions and you will be added to the guest list to receive the program Zoom link in early November. *The Cold Millions release date is October 27th. ​ For program questions call 925-283-6513 ext. 102.

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Huzzahs to five of our own! Fran Cain, Robert Poirier, Marian Lonsdale, Jill Hedgecock, and Suzy Orpin.

The results of the Public Safety Writers Association 2020 writing contest were announced July 12, 2020. George Cramer placed in several categories: Flash Fiction Non-Published First Place Joe Flash Fiction Non-Published Third Place Welcome Home Short Story Non-Published Honorable Mention Hard Time Fiction Book Non-Published Fourth Place A Tale of Robbers and Cops In the weeks to come, George will post his flash-fiction stories, “Joe” and “Coming Home” to his webpage, followed, in three parts, by the short story. “Hard Time” was the inspiration for a chapter in A Tale of Robbers and Cops. Visit my webpage at: https://gdcramer.com/