Our challenge for the meeting was to write in a genre, style or theme outside our comfort zone. So, I chose to write a poem (actually not a poem, but a lyric I stole from Johnny Cash). It’s ca...
By Shasta SovereignNovember 2023 In this highly anticipated competition, we extended a warm invitation to all 17 esteemed high schools in the Northeast corner of California. The response was overwhelm...
I first met Rolland Phillips when he was 19 -yrs old in San Diego when my wife and I were just returning from a 4-year sailing expedition in 1994 with our two children. Rolland was in the Navy, and wa...
I started this morning intending to write one of my gloom-and-doom stories about the sad condition of the state of California, with its out-of-control taxes, homeless epidemic, crime, and mass illegal...
Author: Mary Where do I begin? When you first came into my life, I was 15 years old and you made me feel so cool and accepted. All I truly ever wanted in life was to feel accepted. At first, we would ...
WHEN YA GO WITH THE FLOW AND WING IT FROM TIME TO TIME, THE MOST AMAZING THINGS START TO MANIFEST THEMSELVES. JAY MARTIN *Disclaimer: All information is solely the opinion of the writer and not meant ...
A Siskiyou News Fun Fact On this Columbus Day AKA Indigenous Peoples’ Day Of 2023 Sent In By Felice Pace of Klamath, CA Apple Dictionary had this to say : Sequoya | səˈkwoiə |&nbs...
“A Voyage to Lunar Science Station Alpha,” Occasionally the Siskiyou Writers’ Club members engage in a fun and challenging exercise which we refer to as a “Chain Story.” The rules are simple: One per...
The Siskiyou Writer’s Club had a great meeting last Thursday, an outdoor barbeque at the Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens. The club selected Mike Grifantini’s story, Butterfly — A Love St...