You Can Be a Winning Writer: The 4 Cs Approach of Successful Authors Craft, Commitment, Community, and Confidence

About Joan Gelfand

Joan Gelfand The author of three acclaimed volumes of poetry an award-winning chapbook of short fiction and a forthcoming novel set in a Silicon Valley startup Joan is the recipient of numerous writing awards commendations nominations and honors. Her reviews stories and poetry have appeared in national and international literary journals and magazines including Rattle Prairie Schooner Kalliope The Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry the Toronto Review Marsh Hawk Review Levure Litteraire and Chicken Soup for the Soul. For over ten years Joan has lectured on the 4 Cs System and has coached writers to great success. An MFA from Mills College in Oakland CA Joan is a past President of the Womens National Book Association and the founder of the WNBA National Writing Contest. Editor of the newly published anthology of winning contest writers Joan is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a juror for the Northern California Book Awards. She blogs regularly for the Huffington Post on books travel and movies. The Ferlinghetti School of Poetics a poetry film based on Joans poem was featured at the 4th Annual Video Poetry Festival in Athens Greece and won Certificate of Merit in a juried art show at the International Association for the Study of Dreams. She lives in San Francisco with her husband Adam Hertz and two beatnik kitties Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Rosemary Daniell is the founder and leader of Zona Rosa a series of writing workshops attended by thousands of of women and some men with events in Atlanta Savannah and other cities as well as in Europe as described in People and Southern Living. She is also the award-winning author of nine books of poetry and prose including Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives and The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself: Writing and Living the Zona Rosa Way and is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in writing one in poetry another in fiction. Rosemarys work has been featured in many magazines and papers including Harpers Bazaar New York Woman Travel & Leisure The New York Times Book Review Newsday The Chicago Tribune The Philadelphia Inquirer and Mother Jones; she has also been a guest on many national radio and television shows such as The Merve Griffin Show Donahue The Diane Rehm Show Larry King Live and CNNs Portrait of America. Early in her career she instigated and led writing workshops in women's prisons in Georgia and Wyoming served as program director for Georgia's Poetry in the Schools program and worked for a dozen years in Poetry in the Schools programs in Georgia South Carolina and Wyoming. In 2008 she received a Governors Award in the Humanities for her impact on the state of Georgia. She is profiled in the book Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975.