Teen Poet Laureate Position Open
Voices from a new age group are being given the opportunity to spread poetry across California. Applications are now open for the state’s first Teen Poet Laureate. California residents between…
Lee Herrick Writes Poetry and Spreads Joy
“One of the great things about poetry is that it is an act of exploration,” says retired Cal Poly creative writing professor Kevin Clark, a former San Luis Obispo County…
Writer’s Conference Offers Teen Program
A program priced at just $75 for teens interesting in writing is scheduled Friday, September 26 from 3 to 6 p.m. on the first day of the 2025 Central Coast…
Writers’ Conference Scholarships Available
Memorial scholarships honor Linna Thomas, Anna Unkovich, and Paul Alan Fahey. Thanks to generous sponsors, the Central Coast Writers’ Conference at Cuesta College is offering scholarships to help cover…
Remembering Linna Thomas
We lost Linna Thomas on May 31. For 52 years, she was the driving spirit behind Coalesce Book Store and Garden Chapel in Morro Bay, a fiercely independent, community-minded haven…
Poetry: Green Flash
Photo by Adel Emma The legendary green flash is real. After more than fifty years living on our coast and countless sunset viewings, I finally saw it as the last…
Golden Quill Writing Contest Opens
Cash prizes and publication await the winners of the 2025 Golden Quill writing contest, an annual competition sponsored by SLO NightWriters in three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Deadline to…
Poetry: My Temple of the Green Hills
Photo by Spencer DeMera When I’m searching for trust in the transience of everything, it comforts me to walk the green living hills in meditation, listen to the creek chanting…
Poetry: For Which It Stands
Photo by Darius Bashar I pledge allegiance to the person you believe yourself to be and to the one you see yourself becoming— that kaleidoscope of possibility. One world, many…