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Marjorie Bicknell Johnson

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Marjorie Bicknell Johnson

A California native and a graduate of San Jose State University, Marjorie Bicknell Johnson taught mathematics for twenty-five years in Santa Clara. She helped found The Fibonacci Quarterly Journal (1963), served on its editorial board for 46 years, and published ninety mathematical papers (as Marjorie Bicknell-Johnson—check out Google). Also a pilot, she was named 1996 Pilot of the Year by Santa Clara Valley Ninety-nines. She and her husband Frank flew small airplanes out of Palo Alto Airport for twenty years and crisscrossed the US multiple times.

Marjorie dreamed about writing fiction and joined Edie Matthews’ creative writing class in 2002 and California Writers Club shortly thereafter. Marjorie’s 2007 novel, Bird Watcher, traces an airplane stolen from Palo Alto Airport. The fast paced novel, available on Amazon, will surprise you with its plot twists and humor.

Marjorie also loves to travel. She and Frank have visited Mayan ruins in Guatemala and Mexico and attended archaeological symposiums there. Her second novel (2011), Jaguar Princess: The Last Maya Shaman, is the story of a modern-day Maya princess who grows up at a ruin in rural Yucatán. Chanla Pesh receives a college scholarship to study archaeology, but the gods will punish her if she refuses their call to be a shaman. She defeats a looter and uses her talents as a shaman to trace stolen artifacts.

Marjorie’s third novel, Lost Jade of the Maya, will appear on Amazon late in 2015. Where the ancient Maya found jade has been a mystery for 500 years. When Chanla Pesh searches for jade in Guatemala, she angers the gods of the underworld and attracts the attention of greedy thugs. But you knew she wouldn’t have an easy time.

newsletter@southbaywriters.com • mbicknelljohnson.com

CWC Leadership Positions
2006-2011	Membership Chair

Awards
2013	Jack London Award

Carolyn Donnell

Carolyn Donnell (also writing under C.S. Donnell) moved to the Bay Area in late 1998 from Houston to go to work for IBM. Big mistake. But maybe I wouldn’t have started writing again if I still had a job. Who knows? I did begin writing around 2003 and joined South Bay Branch of the California Writers club shortly thereafter. I also learned how to paint (See paintings and photos at Fine Art America.)

I played viola with various Bay Area groups both here and back in Houston for many years. I wrote a poem about it. Silenced won a prize and is published in the Carry The Light 2013 Anthology.

Short stories and poems have been published in the following:

San Mateo County Fair Literary Arts Division Carry the Light 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
CWC Literary Review 2014 issue
West Winds Centennial Published by California Writers Club (CWC) *
Who Are Our Friends? 2009 Published by South Bay Writers Club *
Sand Hill Review 2007
Celtic Women Winter 2007
SBW’s WritersTalk

carolyndonnell.wordpress.com
fineartamerica.com/profiles/carolyn-donnell.html

CWC Leadership Positions
2016-2017	Member-at-Large
2012-2015	Yahoo Group Administrator
2013-2015	Facebook Page Administrator

Awards

2016	2016 South Bay Writers Club Writers Talk Critics Choice - Poetry
2015	San Francisco Writers Conference, 1st Fiction
2015	San Mateo County Fair Literary Arts Division, 1st Short Story
2014, 2015	San Mateo County Fair Literary Arts Division, Exhibitor of the Year Award and first place in Short story, Novel Start, and Childrens' Story Start
2013	San Mateo County Fair Literary Arts Division, 2nd sci-fi/fantasy, 3rd short story fiction, 2nd poetry
2012	South Bay Writers Club WritersTalk Challenge, winner in poetry
2012	San Mateo County Fair Literary Arts Division, 1st short story fiction and HM sci-fi/fantasy
2010	Frontiers in Writing, Amarillo, Texas, Honorable Mention in short story
2009	Winner, CWC South Bay Branch WritersTalk – essay
2008	Frontiers in Writing, Amarillo, Texas, Honorable Mention memoir
2007	24-hour online short story contest, Honorable Mention
2007	Frontiers in Writing, Amarillo, Texas, 1st and 3rd place short story
2007	South Bay Writers Club WritersTalk challenge, 1st place memoir/short story
2006	SouthWest Writers, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2nd place short story/western

Bill Baldwin

Born in Virginia of Pennsylvanian parents, William Albert Baldwin (“Bill”) had lived in Japan and Germany by the time he was twenty. Trained as a mathematician and physicist, he has been writing since he was fourteen.

He has written poetry, novellas, stories and plays. He has created Unitarian worship services and Pagan ritual dramas.

Bill contributes to several monthly newsletters, and his work appears from time to time in Loving More magazine. His writing reflects his interest in relationships, sexuality, science, and human rights. He tries to present sexual, cultural and religious themes in a way that is non-sensational, non-threatening and compassionate.

He has been prominent for several years in the California Writers Club. He is also a Wiccan priest. He facilitates a monthly discussion group on polyamory, a local Amnesty International group, and something approximating a Pagan congregation.

Bill lives with his wife and daughter in Sunnyvale, California. In addition to writing, he enjoys music (classical, jazz, Broadway, rock) and dancing (Folk, English, Contra). He is currently at work on a novel.

Bill won Third Prize in the 2000 Sacramento CWC Short Story Contest for his story, “Love’s Children”.
Bill has been awarded the Jack London Award, “for outstanding service to the California Writers Club” for 2002.
“Love’s Children” also appeared in the July-August issue of Loving More.

Tatyana Grinenko

Tatyana Grinenko has lived in the Bay Area since the year 2000, having moved to the Silicon Valley from Russia. She manages B2B digital marketing campaigns as her primary career, and through the South Bay Writers Club has been able to further ignite her pursuit of writing fantasy fiction. The club has been a source of motivation to keep pushing through and writing, and a great way to stay connected to fellow writers.

Tatyana joined the South Bay Writers Club in February 2017, and a few months later became further involved in the club by taking on the role of Web Editor and by joining the Board of Directors. To this day she keeps the site updated for new events and information, posts on the club’s Twitter and Goodreads accounts, and manages the club’s Constant Contact email list, reminding members and guests about upcoming meetings and important club updates.

Trenton Myers

I joined South Bay Writers in December of 2016 and I would say it has been the best decision of my literary career. Having graduated from University of Santa Cruz, California with a Film Production degree, I found an underlying passion for storytelling. In my sophomore year at school a small idea ignited and has since bellowed into an epic fantasy series that encompasses my morals, environmental advocacy, and creativity. Having started writing my first book over a year ago in lonesome, I was in a social rut and needed a community to learn and collaborate with. Lo and behold a family friend invited me to be a guest one general meeting and I immediately fell in love with SBW. From writing, to editing, to publishing advice, I discovered such an influential community to learn from and share my passion of storytelling with.

Not but a few months after joining, I decided to help the Board of Directors as the intermediate Secretary. Assisting with Board Meeting minutes and Presidential needs, I felt impassioned to donate back to the club that reinvigorated my ardor. In the recent elections, I have now taken on the role of Treasurer wherein I plan to implement my organization and sales experience to help expand our club’s influence. I hope to have my first novel published within the next year and am exited to share my journey with like minded storytellers.

Betty Auchard

Betty Auchard was born and raised in Iowa, married young, and eventually moved with her family to California in 1956 where her husband, Denny, would become a professor at San Jose State University. Betty eventually became a public school art teacher. When her husband of forty-nine years died of cancer, she started writing notes on scraps of paper about the strange, new experience of being a widow. After six years, the notes had become stories that turned into her first award-winning memoir, Dancing in My Nightgown: the Rhythms of Widowhood, published when she was seventy-five. Her next memoir, The Home for the Friendless: Finding Hope, Love, and Family, is about growing up in an unconventional family during the Depression and WWII. It was published when she was eighty and earned two more awards. Betty is the reader for her two audio books. Her third memoir, Living with Twelve Men: a Mother in Training, will be published early in 2016, after she turns eighty-five. It tells her story of being a nineteen-year-old bride moving with her husband to live in a boy’s dormitory on a church college campus in Nebraska. Betty’s stories are poignant, thought provoking, and always infused with an upbeat tone and lots of humor. Since 2001, she has been recognized as a lively speaker who gives book talks to any group that asks. She lives and works in the Bay Area of California, has four children, eight grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren.

bettyauchard.com • btauchard@aol.com

Awards
2010	Mathews-Baldwin Award

Hi-Dong Chai

A native of Seoul, Korea, Hi-Dong Chai was educated in the United States. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. After working nineteen years for IBM, he accepted a professor of electrical engineering position at San Jose State University and taught there for fifteen years.

He was recognized as a leading authority of magnetic actuator design. He is the author/coauthor of 40 technical papers. He is the inventor/co-inventor 52 inventions that were either published in the IBM Invention Disclosure bulletin or filed for U.S. patents. He is also the author of a book, Electromechanical Motion Devices, Prentice Hall, 1998.

Since retiring in 2002, as one who had lived through the four political systems and the two wars, he decided to direct his time and efforts to share his life stories. My Truest Hope was published in the 2012 August issue of the Guideposts magazine. Other articles appeared in Writers Talk, Monthly Newsletter of the South Bay Writers Club. Also Blossoms and Bayonets coauthored with Jana McBurney-Lin was self-published in 2012; Jana has turned the life of his family under Japan during World War II into a historical novel. In January, 2013, he self-published a short love story, Cindy and a Korean Boy. In November, 2013, he self-published Shattered by the Wars, the story of his family during WWII under Japan and during the Korean War. Christine Anderson Publishing will publish Shattered by the Wars in the coming months.

hidongchai.com • hidong36@att.net

Robert (Bob) A. Garfinkle

Robert (Bob) A. Garfinkle is an internationally recognized independent scholar on the history of astronomy and is a highly regarded amateur astronomer. He has been a professional writer for over 35 years. In addition to his three astronomy books, Bob has published book reviews, articles, and short stories. He is the author of the international best-selling book Star-Hopping: Your Visa to Viewing the Universe (CUP, 1994, 1997), a co-author of Advanced Skywatching (The Nature Company; Time-Life Books, 1997), and a contributing author to the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (2007).

From February 1996 through July 1999, Bob created the monthly “SkyChart” and “SkyTalk” pages for Mercury, the bimonthly magazine of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. His astronomical writings have also appeared in national and international astronomy magazines and journals. He is the Book Review Editor for The Journal of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers. Bob also serves as the Historian for the Lunar Section of the British Astronomical Association. In the early 1980s, he was a contributing editor for Business Software magazine. Mr. Garfinkle is an elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of London.

Bob has also won awards for his short stories. “When Are You Going to Cry” won first place in the Las Positas College fiction contest and second place in “Writers Talk Challenge 2005.” The story was published in The Sand Hill Press (Stanford University, 2006). His “Up and Over” was the cover story for the December 1992 issue of Seedling Short Story International.

From 1981 to 2002, Mr. Bob worked as a full-time Senior Technical Writer. Since 2002, he continues to write as a full-time freelance author. Bob holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in History (1975) and English Literature (1994) from California State University, Hayward.

CWC Leadership Positions
2010-2013	President, California Writers Club
2009-2010	Founding President, Fremont Area Writers (FAW)
2007-2009	Founder, Fremont Area Writers
2009-2015	FAW Membership Chairman & Historian
2003-2007	Central Board Rep for SBW
2004-2008	East of Eden Conference Committee member

Awards
2014	Ina Coolbrith Award
2009	Jack London Award (Fremont Area Writers)

R.L. King

R. L. King is an award-winning author and game freelancer for Catalyst Game Labs, publisher of the popular roleplaying game Shadowrun. She has contributed fiction and game material to numerous sourcebooks, as well as one full-length adventure, “On the Run,” included as part of the 2012 Origins-Award-winning “Runners’ Toolkit.”

Her first novel in the Shadowrun universe, Borrowed Time, was published in Spring 2015.

When not doing her best to make life difficult for her characters, King is a software technical writer for a large Silicon Valley database company. In her spare time (hah!) she enjoys hanging out with her very understanding spouse and her small herd of cats, watching way too much Doctor Who, and attending conventions when she can. She is an Active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Horror Writers’ Association, and the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers.

rlkingwriting.com • magespacepress.com • rat@dragonwriter.net

Chris Weilert

As a Santa Clara Valley native, Chris has spent years employed as a techie, a construction manager overseeing school building projects throughout the state and now half owner in a mortgage branch. Chris has always been always involved in creative pursuits. He is an accomplished musician, woodworker and now released his first book, “High School Playbook” into the world in late 2021. The book has received good reviews which fuels his passion to continue to write as much he possible can. “I have decades of material and ideas to build on and unleash into the world, I’m just getting started.” Chris joined CWC in 2018 and submitted numerous essays to the newsletter and one story was published in the 2020 CWC literary review. I believe I have created my own voice but of course I am influenced by others like Dave Barry, Hunter S Thompson, David Sedaris and Mark Twain.

Tom Mach

Tom published an award-winning trilogy: Sissy!, All Parts Together, and Angels at Sunset.

Sissy! won the J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award in 2003, and All Parts Together, the second book in the trilogy, became a Best Books Award Finalist in 2006. Both books were listed by the Kansas State Library as among the 150 best Kansas books ever written. The third book ,Angels at Sunset, was published in 2012 and became an International Book Award Finalist. In 2012, the State of Kansas issued a proclamation recognizing the 100th anniversary of the passage of the bill extending equal voting rights to women, officially calling it the Kansas Angels at Sunset Centennial in honor of his book, which deals with Jessica’s involvement with the women’s suffrage movement.

His first children’s book, The Invisible Twins, was published in 2015. It received five-star reviews on Amazon, with one elementary school teacher who said “I would highly recommend this book to any child that likes a good adventure.”

Tom also writes poetry, and his collection The Uni Verse won the Nelson Poetry Book Award. In addition, one of his poems was ranked ninth among 3,000 poems submitted to the Writer’s Digest Poetry Contest. His highly praised second poetry collection, The Museum Muse, was featured in the Fall 2015 edition of Lawrence Magazine. Two of the short stories that appear in his collection Stories to Enjoy were published in national magazines.

He is a past president of District Two the Kansas Authors Club (KAC) and past president of two branches of the California Writers Club (CWC). He was awarded the London Award from CWC as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from the KAC.

MemoriesAreForever.net • TomMach.com • tom.mach@yahoo.com

CWC Leadership Positions
1986-1987	President, South Bay Writers
1988-1989	President, CWC Peninsula

Awards
1988-1989	Jack London Award

Edie Matthews

Edie Matthews has worked in print, radio and TV newsrooms, as a tech writer in Silicon Valley and a standup comedian. In comedy clubs, she rubbed shoulders with Robin Williams, Ellen DeGenerese, Jay Leno, Rosie O’Donnell, etc.

While living in Los Angeles, she finagled a story in the LA Times (fifteen comedians living in an old Hollywood apartment building). With her comedy neighbors, she helped co-write several pilot scripts, met with producers, a production company and took a meeting with the vice president of TV development at Columbia Studios. But showbiz is finicky, and executives keen on the idea were replaced, promoted or entered rehab. She created and toured across the US and Canada in the comedy show, Mothers & Other Goddesses (especially for women and the men who love them).

Inspired by her experience raising four children, she penned the humor book, You’ve Been Around Children Too Long When … She co-directed four successful East of Eden Writing Conferences. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from SJSU and teaches English and Fiction at De Anza College. She’s currently working on a novel inspired by her odyssey in the World of Comedy.

CWC Leadership Positions
1999-2006, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008; Co-Director East of Eden Writing Conference	Vice President
1999-2010	Publicity Chair
2002, 2004, 2006, 2008	Co-Director East of Eden Writing Conference

Awards
Aug. 2012	Writer's Talk Challenge
2002	Jack London Award

Jana McBurney-Lin

Jana lived in Asia for fifteen years. She wrote for media in seven countries, including National Public Radio, Writer’s Digest, Hemispheres (United Airlines), Islands Magazine, Singapore Straits Times, Japan Times and dozens of others. She was an editor at ALC Publishing in Tokyo when she met her husband, a native of southern China. They moved to Singapore, frequently visiting his family in Fujian province, China. It was during a trip there that she conceived of her first novel, My Half of the Sky. Chairman Mao said, “Women hold up half the sky.” My Half of the Sky is the story of a contemporary young Chinese woman who is trying to be modern, trying to hold up her half of the sky, but the traditions of her village keep holding her back. Jana’s debut novel received numerous awards—from ABA Book of the Month to Forbes Book List. More importantly, the book garnered the attention of Korean-born CWC Member Dr. Hi-Dong Chai, who approached her about helping him write his story of growing up in Seoul, Korea during WWII under Japanese occupation. Blossoms and Bayonets is that story.

Jana currently lives in the Santa Cruz mountains with her husband and one of their four children. (The others have flown the nest.) She’s a dedicated participant in the Bay Area writing community. She served five years as President of the Peninsula Branch, founded the Writers Camp for Kids, volunteers annually in local schools to teach creative writing, and happily works on the Southbay Members Anthology.

myhalfofthesky.com • jmcburneylin@msn.com

CWC Leadership Positions
2001-2005	President, Peninsula Branch
2001-2005	Vice President, Peninsula Branch

Awards
2005	Jack London Award
2008	Recognition in Letters, PEN Women
2007	National Best Book Awards (Finalist)
	ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award (Honorable Mention)
2007	Benjamin Franklin Award for Popular Fiction (Finalist)
2007	Eric Hoffer Book Award(Notable)
2007	Byline Magazine's Short Fiction Award Winner
2006	ABA Booksense August Pick of the Month

Luanne Oleas

Luanne Oleas was born in Steinbeck’s Salinas Valley, the setting for FLYING BLIND, A Cropduster’s story. Her previous novel, A PRIMROSE IN NOVEMBER, a family saga, is set in England and France. Her upcoming novel, WHEN ALICE PLAYED THE LOTTERY, takes place in the Silicon Valley where she currently lives with her husband and two cats.

Awards:

San Mateo County Fair Literary entries results:

1st place: FLYING BLIND for Publisher’s Choice Novel Chapter Contest division

See at: http://blog.luanneoleas.com/?p=393

1st place: BETWEEN CORDUROY AND TOURMALINE for the California Writers Club Writer of the Year Short Story division

2nd place: (same story) for Short Story, General Fiction, Senior division

See at: http://blog.luanneoleas.com/?p=405

luanneoleas.com • oleas@aol.com

Kelly Miller

A native Californian, Kelly Miller’s discovered her love for writing within the last couple of years. She loves animals and has a variety of pets at home. Her favorite pastimes include working out, singing, and playing the piano. She has written six complete novels based upon the beloved characters created by Jane Austen. Her first novel, published by Meryton Press, is Death Takes a Holiday at Pemberley, a romantic fantasy set in Regency England. Her second novel is due to be published in early 2020, Mr. Darcy’s Perfect Match.

kellyrei007@hotmail.com

Awards

Jack London Award | Matthews-Baldwin Award | Ina Coolbrith Award

Jack London Award

The Jack London Award is the only formal acknowledgement provided by the California Writers Club (CWC) to a CWC branch member “whose service at the branch level has been exemplary, meriting the award independent of writing accomplishments.” The honor is awarded every two years with a luncheon presentation during the July meeting of CWC’s Central Board. Each branch winner is selected by that branch’s board of directors.

Past Jack London Awards
Carolyn Donnell	2019
Sally Milnor	2017
Colin Seymour	2015
Marjorie Bicknell Johnson	2013
Dick Amyx	2011
Dave LaRoche	2009
Vicki Burlew	2007
Carolyn Downey	2005
Beth Proudfoot	2004
Carol Wood	2003
Bill Baldwin	2002
Edie Matthews	2001
Beverly Morgan	1999
Tina Glasner	1998
Susan Edwards	1997
Pat St. Lawrence	1995
Karen E. Hinger	1993
Tom Mach	1991
Madge Saksena	1989

JACK LONDON AWARD 2019: CAROLYN DONNELL

South Bay Writers Carolyn Donnell (right) receives the 2019 Jack London Award.

On Sunday, July 21, Carolyn Donnell received the 2019 Jack London Award for her years of service to South Bay Writers. Joyce Krieg, President of California Writers Club, presented the plaque to Carolyn at a luncheon attended by representatives of every branch of CWC.

California Writers Club is the largest and oldest professional writing club on the West Coast. By awarding the Jack London Award every two years, CWC recognizes the value of dedicated, outstanding, and in many case sustained, service to their mission to support members pursuing writing, publishing, and marketing goals.

Carolyn, retired from the tech world, has been a dedicated member of SBW since 2002. She is behind her camera at all South Bay Writers functions. She makes a photo collage for every issue of WritersTalk, and she also finds an extensive list of current contests for our writers every month. Carolyn is a regular contributor to WritersTalk with both her contest column and occasional recaps and articles on grammar. Every month, she helps to proofread WT. Behind the scenes, she collects the data to update the WritersTalk cumulative index. Yes, all back issues of WritersTalk from 2005 are on our website, southbaywriters.com, and Carolyn has helped with that for years.

Besides that, when the club needs something done, Carolyn can be depended upon to work on it. She has worked as a volunteer at our East of Eden Conferences and has helped set up and photograph workshop meetings.

JACK LONDON AWARD 2017: SALLY MILNOR

South Bay Writers Sally Milnor (left) receives the 2017 Jack London Award.

The Jack London Award is given every other year to outstanding members of the branches of the California Writers Club, the oldest and largest professional writing club on the West Coast. The club recognizes the value of dedicated, outstanding, and in many cases sustained, service as a mission to support members pursuing their writing, publishing, and marketing goals. This year’s awards were made on Sunday, July 23, as part of a CWC Central Board meeting at Holiday Inn & Suites Airport Hotel, 77 Hegenberger Road, Oakland. Sally A. Milnor is the 2017 Jack London Awardee from South Bay Writers. Sally, a retired lawyer who writes poetry, has been an Active Member of CWC for twelve years. She joined the SBW membership committee in 2005, greeting people at the door and taking money at the registration table. Sally has been SBW Membership Chair since 2011. She is such a friendly face welcoming new members that they comment upon her hospitality. Her service leads to the feeling of goodwill and willingness in new members to volunteer. She writes a column introducing new members and serves on the WritersTalk editorial board. She’s one of those quiet people who just makes a club better.

Matthews-Baldwin Awards

Named for two long-time driving forces of our club, Edie Matthews and Bill Baldwin, this annual award is given to a South Bay Writer in recognition of exemplary service to the branch.

Mattews-Baldwin Awards
Carolyn Donnell	2018
Frank Johnson and Jim Matthews	2016
Kimberly Malanczuk	2014
Richard Burns	2011
Betty Auchard	2010
Dick Amyx	2009
Cathy Bauer	2008

MATTHEWS-BALDWIN AWARD 2015:
DAVE LAROCHE

Former South Bay Writers President and Vice President Dave LaRoche received the 2015 Matthews-Baldwin Award.

The South Bay Writers board of directors selected branch Vice President Dave LaRoche as the 2015 Matthews-Baldwin Award recipient in recognition of exemplary service to the branch.

Dave’s dedication and service to South Bay Writers has been beyond exemplary. He has served in the following club positions:

President, July 2009-June 2012
Vice President, July 2012-June 2015
WritersTalk Editor, October 2006-June 2009
Founder and Chairman, NorCal Group, April 2009-March 2012
Representative, NorCal Group, April 2009-November 2014
Representative, California Writers Club Central Board, July 2009-June 2015
Founder and Editor, California Writers Club Literary Review, June 2012-present

Congratulations and thank you, Dave, for your outstanding leadership and service to South Bay Writers and the California Writers Club!

Ina Coolbrith Award

The Ina Coolbrith Award is named for poet laureate and California Writers Club co-founder Ina Coolbrith. The California Writers Club Central Board periodically awards this honor to a CWC member for exemplary service to the CWC and/or the Central Board.

Past Ina Coolbrith Awards
Kelly Harrison	2011

INA COOLBRITH AWARD 2012: DAVE LAROCHE

Former South Bay Writers President and Vice President Dave LaRoche received the 2012 Ina Coolbrith Award from former California Writers Club President Robert Garfinkle. Photo by Margie Yee Webb