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A New Chapter for the MCWC

10/14/2016

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By Cameron Lund, MCWC Social Community Manager
October is the start of a new chapter for the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference! The beginning of the MCWC 2017 conference year brings new leadership, new ideas, and—very soon—new branding and a gorgeous new website.

Karen Lewis set the bar high as Executive Director for the past two years. Her work led to MCWC 2016, what many agree was our most successful conference to date. Karen first attended MCWC back in 1992, when she was a recently widowed mom of two pre-schoolers, writing poetry and essays to make sense of the world. “For a few days each summer, the literary world comes to our beautiful coast for a world-class writing conference,” she says. She will be stepping down and handing over her position to Shirin Yim Bridges, but will remain on the MCWC advisory board.
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PictureShirin Yim Bridges, our new Executive Director
Shirin’s first involvement with MCWC was as a member of faculty. Since 2012 she has also served as a member of the MCWC advisory board. Shirin has a strong vision for the future, including a commitment to bringing more cultural diversity to MCWC, and to ensuring that the conference offers exciting and relevant programming for aspiring writers.​

Shirin is the author of Ruby’s Wish, a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book and winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Award; The Umbrella Queen, which made TIME magazine’s Top 10 lists; and Mary Wrightly So Politely, which launched to starred reviews in Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Shelf Awareness. She is also the Head Goose of Goosebottom Books, an award-winning independent children’s book publisher.


Another change in leadership: Nona Smith, our President for the past three years is moving to the position of Vice President. Nona has served on the board for six years and has made many contributions. MCWC was the first writers’ conference she ever attended, which she says makes it dear to her heart. She is thankful for the support of the community and local donors, as well as the letters she receives from past attendees, but will continue to enjoy and develop these relationships as Vice President.                                                                      


PictureGinny Rorby, our new President
Stepping in as President is Ginny Rorby, one of MCWC’s longest-serving board members (21 years and counting). Ginny is also the author of five novels for Middle Grade and Young Adult readers: Dolphin Sky; Hurt Go Happy, which won the American Library Association’s Schneider Family Book Award; The Outside of a Horse, and Lost in a River of Grass, which won the 2013 Sunshine State Young Readers Award. Her most recent title, How to Speak Dolphin, will be released in paperback in March of 2017. 
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Ginny’s long legacy knowledge of MCWC will be the perfect partner to Shirin’s fresh ideas. She says, “We’re going to be the dynamic duo. Watch this space.”


Good Bye to a Dear Friend

Our long-term friend and donor Tom Freund, 89, of Mendocino, California passed away peacefully in the early hours of September 22 in his Walnut Creek apartment, one week before his 90th birthday. Tom created a long-standing MCWC scholarship for older women writers of limited financial means in honor of his wife, Carmen Etchenberry Freund. He was a dear and dedicated friend of MCWC, and often hosted MCWC faculty. He will be very sorely missed.
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Polymath, retired scientist and professor, Thomas Freund will be dearly missed by family and friends, who will remember him as a man of independent mind and unrelenting curiosity, a charming and challenging interlocutor, a Citroën connoisseur, a maker of oddly unique hors-d’oeuvres, and a long-time political progressive. He is survived by his devoted daughter Pam Freund-Striplen, his grandson Matthew Striplen, and his son-in-law Tony Striplen; and by his loving son Peter Freund, his grandson Arias Freund, and his daughter-in-law Linda Freund. 

A memorial is planned at Tom's Mendocino home for 1:00PM Sunday, November 13. RSVP to fortomfreund@gmail.com for directions. ​​
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Photograph of Shirin by In Her Image Photography

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RIP Tom Freund, you did a good and long life. How I dream about day when mankind could stop death disease eating our best people. It’s very heartbreaking to me that time is so heartless. It seems like only yesterday your father was in his early thirty and now he is almost seventy-year’s old grandpa. I’m not even talking about my aging. Before we have technologies to leave more, we can only do this through books. Living another life with help of magical paper mirror. Keep up guys!

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