Greetings from the Mendocino Coast! The movie business is nothing new to this beautifully rugged shoreline, with more than two dozen movies having been filmed in and around Mendocino. So this year you're invited to study and rub elbows with some of Hollywood's most successful filmmakers. Besides giving individual presentations, they'll get together Saturday night to discuss how writers and actors approach dialogue. The panel will include
  • veteran actor James Whitmore
  • writer Sy Gomberg (20th Century Fox, MGM, Columbia, Paramount, Warner Bros., and Universal Studios, plus all major television networks)
  • writer/producer Jerry Juhl (Fraggle Rock; the Muppet Movies)
  • actress/author Marsha Hunt (The Way We Wore, about Hollywood fashion)

Marlis Manley Broadhead
marlis@okway.okstate.edu
405-744-5115
Also on hand will be screenwriter Joyce Maynard (To Die For; Where Love Goes), a relative newcomer to film making.

In addition, we're bringing to campus the usual wide variety of gifted professionals involved in all genres and aspects of writing and publishing.

On Thursday, we're offering limited-enrollment classes in poetry, fiction, and screenplays, followed by evening registration at a wine and cheese kick-off party with featured readers. On Friday and Saturday, there will be morning workshops, afternoon lectures, one-on-one sessions, book signings, and evening readings. Meals are included.

Now.....isn't that a pretty picture?

Marlis Manley Broadhead founded the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference in 1990 while working as an instructor at the College of the Redwoods. She continues to serve as the MCWC program director. She has published a dozen short stories and over 80 poems. She has also authored many non-fiction articles as a freelance writer and as a fulltime writer/editor for the Special Interest Publications of the Meredith Corporation, publishers of Better Homes and Gardens. Marlis now teaches in the College of Business Administration at Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK), and is also active as a consulting writer/editor for clients such as Amoco and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.