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Meeting March 2011 (25)

Created on: Monday, April 18, 2011
SLO NightWriters General Meeting on March 08, 2011 was held at:

PG&E’s Education Center
6588 Ontario Road
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405

The PG&E Center is a modern, spacious and comfortable facility. It affords us plenty of seats, arranged in amphitheater fashion, so as to give each attendee a clear view of the evening's presentation. As well, each seat has a hookup for an Internet connection. The room's sound system, and its projection system, are state-of-the-art.

Please remember that everyone is invited, members and prospective members alike, to attend our general meetings on the second Tuesday evening of each month from 7:00 - 9:00 pm.

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March's meeting featured two speakers:

Our first presenter was former SLO NightWriter Willma Willis Gore. At age 19 her first story was published in Westways Magazine. She has been prolific ever since. She’s credited with many more travel articles, poetry, profiles, photography and fiction published in more than 90 national and regional journals and in five anthologies, 19 children’s books, a humorous adult novel and three nonfiction titles. Her latest book is her memoir, Iron Grip. In 1945 her young lieutenant husband suffered the loss of both hands in an army camp accident. The story takes them through a marriage-long adventure with laughter and tears as they make her two hands serve as four until he masters the use of his hooks and becomes a model of amputee competence and breadwinner for their family of three sons.  Willma now lives in Sedona, Arizona actively leading writer workshops.

Next Liu Yu shared her life story Awakening the Sleeping Tiger: The True Story of a Professional Chinese Athlete. The memoir took 13 years to write.  Yu was silenced during the Chinese Cultural Revolution after she witnessed a venomous public trail of her mother’s co-worker and friend. Leaving her family at age 11 she trained to become an elite professional athlete. She lived the dream of most Chinese children, but it was also her nightmare as a prisoner for 10 years of rigorous martial arts training and coaching bickering. Yu ultimately broke from tradition seeking independence and ultimately her own voice. Liu Yu lives on the Central Coast with her husband and daughter and owns the Wushu Taichi Center in SLO.

 Below you'll find a set of photographs from that meeting. Click on a photo to see a larger version.

All photos are by SLO NightWriters President & Photographer, Dennis Eamon Young. Please check our BOARD MEMBERS page for information on how to reach Dennis to arrange for professional photography services.
  • Three of Willma Gore's books
  • A pleased audience
  • Anna Unkovich and Judythe Guarnera listen and take notes.
  • Griselda Rivera emphasizes her point.
  • Anne Schroeder mugs for the camera.
  • Author Liu Yu enjoys the company of friends.
  • Dawn Cerf and Liu Yu share the lectern.
  • Dawn Cerf tells us her part of the story.
  • An audience enraptured
  • Evy Cole speaks about her book signing.
  • Absorbed attention
  • Hospitality Irene Kooi Chadwick
  • Judy introduces Liu Yu.
  • Judy, "Fred," Salamacha
  • Liu Yu and Dawn Cerf remember.
  • Liu Yu answers a question.
  • Engaged with their audience
  • Serious thoughts abound.
  • Judythe passes out SLO NightWriters surveys.
  • Liu Yu is passionate about her topic.
  • Judythe delivers her Tolosa Press Report.
  • Willma Gore fields a question.
  • Willma speaks of her experiences as an author.
  • A three-speaker panel
  • Willy Bruijns asks a question.
 
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