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May 14 session canceled - New Worlds in Words Literary Salon

  • 14 May 2025
  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Buenaventura Art Center - 1591 Spinnaker Dr., #207, in the Ventura Harbor Village

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Unfortunately, the remaining session on May 14 has been canceled.


New Worlds in Words Literary Salon
with Gwendolyn Alley, MA

This interactive workshop series meets monthly in February, March, April and May on Wednesdays from 6-8p. Join us as books inspire us to new worlds of words with conversation, guest speakers, and writing prompts led by award winning wine writer and Ventura College adjunct English professor Gwendolyn Alley. Class size limited to 12 in-person with 10 on ZOOM. Please bring a notebook and a fast pen; you are welcome to bring a sketchbook to draw in reponse to the prompts. Check out our Facebook group: Read, Write, Sip: Literary Salon

Fees per salon:
$25 per person per salon

Join the discussion with Zoom:
$15 per person per salon


Schedule: ONE MORE SESSION LEFT!

  • May 14 - Unfortunately, this session has been canceled 
    Book: The Flower Wizard of California: Theodosia Burr Shepherd (2014)by Myrtle Shepherd Francis, and 
    Children's Book: Brave by Weshoyot Alvitre
    Read more about this session here


PAST SESSIONS BELOW

  • Feb 26 
    Book: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (2013) by Robin Wall Kimmerer
    Read more about this session here

  • March 12 - Unfortunately, this session has been canceled due to inclement weather and low enrollment
    Book: Whiskey Tender: A Memoir  (2024) by Deborah Taffa – invited
    Read more about this session here

  • April 9 - Registration is closed for this session
    Book: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012) by Cheryl Strayed 
    Read more about this session here

New Worlds Salon Presenter Gwendolyn Alley is an award winning wine writer, poet, artist, and adjunct professor of English at Ventura College. She has a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary background including BAs from UC Santa Cruz in Literature/Creative Writing and in Environmental Studies plus a graduate certificate in education from UCSC, a Masters degree in English with an emphasis in the teaching and practice of writing from the University of Nevada, Reno and a Masters in Depth Psychology with an emphasis in Community, Liberation, Indigenous, Ecopsychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Art/Life published three dozen of her broadsides, she completed two public spoken word commissions, and the City of Ventura awarded her two artists fellowships. As a wine writer, Gwendolyn focuses on wine and food pairings and specializes in sustainability; in 2022, she won the prestigious Jancis Robinson Wine Writing Contest with her essay about regenerative agriculture. Gwendolyn thrives in the outdoors, and her diverse experiences include parenting peregrine falcons, hooting for spotted owls, leading teenagers up 14,000’ peaks in Colorado, summiting Mt Kilimanjaro, backpacking 2800 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, and attending Burning Man. http://winepredator.com  http://artpredator.com