We are excited to announce the addition of three new MCWC Board Members, Miah Jeffra, Emily Lloyd-Jones and Ploi Pirapokin! Please join us in welcoming these former faculty back to MCWC.
MIAH JEFFRA - BOARD MEMBER
Miah Jeffra is author of four books, most recently The Violence Almanac (finalist for several awards, including the Grace Paley and St. Lawrence Book Prizes) and the forthcoming novel American Gospel. Work can be seen in StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, Barrelhouse, DIAGRAM, jubilat and many others. Miah is co-founder of Whiting Award-winning queer and trans literary collaborative, Foglifter Press, and teaches writing and decolonial studies at Santa Clara University and Sonoma State University.
EMILY LLOYD-JONES - BOARD MEMBER
Emily Lloyd-Jones grew up on a vineyard in rural Oregon, where she played in evergreen forests and learned to fear sheep. She has a BA in English from Western Oregon University and a MA in publishing from Rosemont College. She resides in Northern California, where she enjoys wandering in redwood forests. Her young adult novels include Illusive, Deceptive, The Hearts We Sold, The Bone Houses, and The Drowned Woods. Her middle grade books include Unseen Magic and the forthcoming Unspoken Magic.
PLOI PIRAPOKIN - BOARD MEMBER
Ploi Pirapokin sits on the board for Khōréō magazine, WP Now, and the Ragdale Foundation. Her work is featured in Tor.com, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, Gulf Stream Magazine, The Offing and more. She has received grants and fellowships from the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Creative Capacity Fund, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi, Kundiman and others. A graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop, she also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She currently teaches at the Writers Program at UCLA Extension, WritingWorkshops.com, and the University of Hong Kong. Born in Thailand and raised in Hong Kong, she uses speculative fiction to explore postcolonial poetics, and imperialism in Asia.
SUPPORT MCWC THIS GIVING SEASON
This Giving Tuesday, please consider supporting MCWC and our Building the Future of MCWC Fundraising Drive to make our 2024 conference a reality.
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With book bans, the rise of AI, and the prevalence of propaganda and disinformation, it is harder than ever to tell our stories, and storytellers are more important than ever. Your donation will enable us to continue in our work of building a community that offers expertise, opportunity, and friendship to writers at all levels. Every gift is appreciated, no matter how small.*
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Your gift will help:
Fund scholarships for both conference registration and housing stipends to make our conference accessible to a more diverse population.
Improve the caliber of the writing we nurture by funding the very best teachers.
Support publication of Noyo Review, our own literary journal that publishes voices from the annual Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference.
Please send your check to:
Friends of MCWC
PO Box 2087
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
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* Mendocino Coast Writers Conference is a 501(c)3 registered non-profit organization.
SUBMIT TO NOYO REVIEW
Calling all writers living in Mendocino, Lake and Humboldt Counties as well as participants of the 2023 Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference: submit to Noyo Review! We will be taking submissions up through December 1, 2023. You can find details below:
Please submit only one piece of prose or up to five (5) poems.
All poems should be submitted in a single document.
Fiction and creative nonfiction may be up to 5,000 words.
Please include a third-person bio of up to 150 words
Send your submission as a Word or PDF file to noyoreview@gmail.com with the genre + title of your work in the subject line (e.g. "Poetry + "Poem Title(s)").
Simultaneous submissions are accepted.
Please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.
We look forward to reading your work!