CWC Mt. Diablo April 2026 General Meeting Featuring Lynda Smith Hoggan – From the Bedroom to the Page: Writing About Sex
Saturday, April 11, 2026, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., with optional events until 1:30 p.m.
Coffee/tea and pastries included!
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Cost is $15.00 for Members, $20.00 for guests. Registration deadline is One Week before the meeting. Register before April 4th at 12:00 p.m. or pay the late fee of $20.00. Walk-ins pay $20.00.
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Cancellation Policy
Schedule
9:30 – 10:00 Sign-in table opens
10:00 – 11:00 Writing Activity or Member Interviews: TBD
11:00 – 12:00 Feature Presentation
12:00 – Meeting ends—optional activities until 1:30
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)
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Location: Pleasant Hill Senior Center
233 Gregory Lane
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
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Meeting Policy for Guests under Age 13
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Cancellation Policy
We accept cancellations up to 72 hours in advance of the meeting. If you paid with PayPal, you will receive a refund. If you cancel after the deadline, no refund is given. In that case, if you choose to pay at the door, we will bill you for the payment.
