2024 Meetings/Speakers
april 2024
April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, close to a dozen people, including one who is 100 and another who is 101, read aloud from their own original verse.
march 2024
diana giovinazzo
“As an Italian girl from Central New York, there was always a stack of books by my side,” states guest speaker, Diana Giovinazzo. “It wasn’t always about reading other people’s stories, I had to tell them. My first book was a compelling tale of a family making a journey along the Oregon Trail for Mrs. Dickinson’s second-grade class project. Since then, my world has revolved around books. I am a self-proclaimed history nerd with an insatiable wanderlust. However, it wasn’t until I tried to study my own family’s genealogy that I found a passion for historical fiction. Specifically, Italian and American Italian history.”
Her topic will be Writing Historical Fiction with Strong Women Characters.
Diana Giovinazzo is the critically claimed author of The Woman in Red and Antoinette’s Sister. She is the co-creator of the weekly literary podcast Wine, Women and Words, featuring interviews with authors over a glass of wine. Diana lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband and small menagerie.
Her topic will be Writing Historical Fiction with Strong Women Characters.
Diana Giovinazzo is the critically claimed author of The Woman in Red and Antoinette’s Sister. She is the co-creator of the weekly literary podcast Wine, Women and Words, featuring interviews with authors over a glass of wine. Diana lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband and small menagerie.
february 2024
NICOLA HARRISON
WRITE YOUR STORY SCENE BY SCENE
Nicola Harrison is the author of three historical fiction novels, Montauk, The Show Girl and Hotel Laguna. Born and raised in England, she moved with her family to Southern California when she was 14. She is a graduate of UCLA and received her MFA from Stony Brook University. Prior to writing novels she worked as a fashion journalist in New York City, where she lived for 17 years. Now she resides in Manhattan Beach, California, with her husband and her two sons.