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CONCLUSION 
As a conclusion I can write, world writers of the gold rush.For example: 
Tommy Orange is an American novelist and writer from Oakland, California who 
lives in the Sierra foothills. Born and raised in Oakland, Orange is a citizen of the 
Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations of Oklahoma. He is a recent graduate from the MFA 
program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where 
he now teaches writing, and a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and 2016 Writing by Writers 
Fellow. His first book, There , was one of the finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize 
and received the 2019 American Book Award. There There also received 
nominations for various other recognitions, including the Andrew Carnegie Medal 
for Excellence in Fiction, the Audie Award for Multi-voiced Performance, and two 
from Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Fiction and Best Debut Goodreads. 
Orange received the John Leonard Prize in 2018, awarded for an author’s first book 
in any genre. In 2019, he received the PEN/Hemingway Award, which is dedicated 
to first-time authors of full-length fiction books.He is currently working on a sequel 
to his first novel. Saturday Night Speaker. Among his many short stories that were 
published in anthologies and print magazines, Hall’s short story, “Raising Mary: 
Frankenstein,” was nominated for 2016 horror story of the year for the 19th Annual 
Editors and Preditors Readers Poll. Additionally, three of his short stories were on 
the Horror Writers Association Reading list for the 2017 Bram Stoker Awards. 
A former Director of Education for NYC schools and the Sylvan Learning Center, 
the award-winning educator earned a BFA from Long Island University. Hall 
currently lives bi-coastal in New York and Los Angeles. 
SANDS HALL is the author of the memoir, Reclaiming My Decade Lost in 
Scientology (Counterpoint), finalist for the Northern California Book Award, and 
a Publishers Weekly Best Book in Religion and Spirituality. She is also the author 
of the novel, Catching Heaven (Ballantine), a Random House Reader's Circle 
selection and Willa Award finalist for best Contemporary Fiction; and a book of 
essays and exercises, Tools of the Writer's Craft. 

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Her stories and essays have appeared in such journals as New England Review, Iowa 
Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She brings her extensive theatre 
experience as playwright, actor, and director, as well as her work as a 
singer/songwriter and performer, to her teaching. Professor Emeritus at Franklin & 
Marshall College, she teaches annually for the Community of Writers and for the 
Iowa Summer Writing Festival, among others.She lives in the foothills of the Sierra 
Nevada in California.Founding Gold Rush Writers Conference Director, Antoinette 
May, organized the first conference in 2004, in the quaint little Gold Rush town of 
Mokelumne Hill.She was inspired by the release of her first novel, Pilate’s Wife, 
which became an international success story. As an experienced author, biographer, 
travel writer, columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and local newspapers, and 
a newspaper editor, she wanted to share her joys of writing and publishing with the 
community and help stimulate recognition for the historic town of Mokelumne Hill 
and her favorite local restaurant and inn, the Hotel Leger.The intimate conference 
has retained its unique flavor of being a friendly writing community, with many of 
the participants returning every year to delight in the course offerings that rival much 
larger conferences at a fraction of the price. The boutique feel of the conference 
offers writers a chance to network, learn more about the writing craft and marketing, 
and greet writer friends from across California and other states. Antoinette May 
invites writers of all levels to experience a conference that is truly one-of-a-kind, a 
writer’s gathering like no other. Antoinette May reads Tarot cards, chases ghosts, 
and collects myths. Her fascination with the unknown led her to write Adventures 
of a Psychic which spent 42 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. 
Antoinette’s love of legend inspired her debut novel, Pilate’s Wife, which has been 
translated into 19 languages and The Sacred Well, the San Francisco Book Festival’s 
top place winner in 2011. A former newspaper editor, Antoinette has for years 
written weekly columns for the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate. Her articles 
have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Self and Country Living magazines. Founding 
Director of the 501(c)3 publishing company in the Mother Lode region, Manzanita 
Writers Press, Monika has been affiliated with the Gold Rush Writers Conference 

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since its inception and has attended and taught at several of the conferences over the 
years.She is honored to be co-director this year and thanks the Manzanita Writers 
Press Board for their commitment to the project’s ongoing success. MWP facilitates 
local writer support groups, including Voices of Wisdom free writing classes for 
seniors (Zoom and live), and Manzanita Night Writers, weekly manuscript review 
meetings (Zoom and live). Tommy Orange Tommy Orange is an American novelist 
and writer from Oakland, California who lives in the Sierra foothills. Born and raised 
in Oakland, Orange is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations of Oklahoma. 
He is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian 
Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he now teaches writing, and a 2014 
MacDowell Fellow and 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. His first book, There 
There, was one of the finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 
American Book Award. There There also received nominations for various other 
recognitions, including the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the 
Audie Award for Multi-voiced Performance, and two from Goodreads Choice 
Awards: Best Fiction and Best Debut Goodreads. Orange received the John Leonard 
Prize in 2018, awarded for an author’s first book in any genre. In 2019, he received 
the PEN/Hemingway Award, which is dedicated to first-time authors of full-length 
fiction books. Tommy Orange is an American novelist and writer from Oakland, 
California who lives in the Sierra foothills. Born and raised in Oakland, Orange is a 
citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations of Oklahoma. He is a recent graduate 
from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New 
Mexico, where he now teaches writing, and a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and 2016 
Writing by Writers Fellow. His first book, There There, was one of the finalists for 
the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 American Book Award. There There 
also received nominations for various other recognitions, including the Andrew 
Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Audie Award for Multi-voiced 
Performance, and two from Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Fiction and Best Debut 
Goodreads. Orange received the John Leonard Prize in 2018, awarded for an 
author’s first book in any genre. In 2019, he received the PEN/Hemingway Award, 

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which is dedicated to first-time authors of full-length fiction books. Sands Hall 
SANDS HALL is the author of the memoir, Reclaiming My Decade Lost in 
Scientology (Counterpoint), finalist for the Northern California Book Award, and 
a Publishers Weekly Best Book in Religion and Spirituality. She is also the author 
of the novel, Catching Heaven (Ballantine), a Random House Reader's Circle 
selection and Willa Award finalist for best Contemporary Fiction; and a book of 
essays and exercises, Tools of the Writer's Craft;. Her stories and essays have 
appeared in such journals as New England Review, Iowa Review, and Los Angeles 
Review of Books. She brings her extensive theatre experience as playwright, actor, 
and director, as well as her work as a singer/songwriter and performer, to her 
teaching. Professor Emeritus at Franklin & Marshall College, she teaches annually 
for the Community of Writers and for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, among 
others. She lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California. 
sandshall.com Antoinette May's first novel, Pilate's Wife, published by William 
Morrow, has been translated into 18 languages. The Sacred Well, her second for 
Morrow, was chosen best book of the year by the San Francisco Book Festival. 
Antoinette's non-fiction includes Adventures of a Psychic which spent 44 weeks on 
the New York Times best seller list and Witness to War which has been optioned for 
a television mini series. She was the recipient of La Pluma de Plata, an award 
conferred by the Mexican Government for the best travel article on their country. 
She 
writes 
weekly 
columns 
and 
her 
articles 
appear 
frequently 
in Cosmopolitan, Country 
Living, San 
Francisco and Sacramento magazines. 
Monika Rose, at home in the foothills of Calaveras County, founded Manzanita 
Writers Press, a nonprofit literary publisher in the Mother Lode. She is published in 
several anthologies and literary magazines. Her children's book, Bed Bumps, and a 
book of poems, River by the Glass, by GlenHill Publications, is available from 
Amazon as a print and eBook, as well as at the Manzanita online bookstore as are 
the other publications she has edited, including anthologies such as Out of the Fire, 
A Taste of Literary Elegance: Wine, Cheese & Chocolate, Wild Edges, and the 
ongoing Manzanita series of literary prose and poetry, which includes Voices of 

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Wisdom publications. With a Masters Degree in English, she teaches courses in 
writing and literature at Delta College as an Adjunct Associate Professor of English. 
Monika is currently writing a novel while editing other writers' books, readying them 
for publication. Contact her at www.manzapress.com or her website ~ you can also 
email her at Kevin Arnold is a transplanted Midwesterner who’s lived in Palo Alto, 
California, most of his life. His poems, praised for their accessibility, have been 
published in over fifty literary magazines and online journals. He has published a 
book of poems and a novel. The San Francisco/Peninsula California Writer’s Club 
recently named him Writer of the Year. His latest book Do Not Think Badly of 
Me has just been released. He served as President of Poetry Center San Jose for 
twelve years while he earned an MFA from San Jose State University. His 
novel, The Sureness of Horses, is available from Manzanita Press in hardback, 
softcover, and as an audiobook read by Sands Hall from Cherry Hill Publications. 
He published a number of articles on usrepresented.com, including a series called 
Kevin’s Favorite Poems. The national website YourDailyPoem.com has selected his 
poems eight times and is anthologizing his work in their ‘Best of Your Daily Poem’ 
collection, Poems to Lift You Up & Make You Smile, to be released this summer. 
A new anthology of Kevin’s poems is in the works—all efforts are being made to 
debut it at this year’s Gold Rush Writers. Kathy Boyd Fellure is author of four 
children's books, and her debut contemporary women's fiction novel released in 
January 2018. The Language of the Lake is the first book in the completed ~ On the 
Water's Edge Tahoe Trilogy. Her 4th novel, Across the Pond and her WIP, Harper 
House, are both set in England. Kathy is a member of CWC, ACFW, and is the 
founder of Amador Fiction Writers. She hosted, wrote & produced the TSPN TV 
Show 
~ 
Authors, 
Writers, 
Books 
& 
Beyond from 
2012- 
2015. 
Kathy has served as a judge for the NCPA book awards in 2017-18. She guest 
speaks, teaches at writer conferences, hosts an annual literary read, exhibits her 
photography, and is agented with Books & Such Literary Agency. Kathy Boyd 
Fellure currently lives in the foothill gold country of California with her family and 
three stand-up comedian rescue dogs. Lucy Sanna's historical novel, The Cherry 

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Harvest (HarperCollins 2015), was named Book Club Book of the summer by the 
Wisconsin State Journal and the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association's 
Book Club Pick for July. For this and previous works, Lucy has been featured on 
national television and radio, including CBS, NBC, NPR, and FOX. Her books have 
been recognized by national press, including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco 
Examiner, 
Wisconsin 
Journal, 
San 
Jose 
Mercury-News, 
Playboy 
Magazine and Men's World Magazine. Lucy is a sought-after speaker and workshop 
leader at writers' conferences, including San Francisco's Litquake, the Wisconsin 
Book Fest, the Chicago Tribune's Book Fest, the Chicago Tribune's Printers Row, 
the University of Wisconsin's Writers Institute, the University of Wisconsin's Write-
by-the-Lake Retreat, and the Sterling North Book & Film Festival. Since 1999, Lucy 
has served on the Executive Planning Board for the National Kidney Foundation's 
annual San Francisco's Authors Luncheon, the premier authors' event of the San 
Francisco Bay Area. She has also served on the Board of the California Writers Club, 
San Francisco Peninsula Branch. She is currently working on her next WWII 
historical novel. Kathie Isaac-Luke is a poet, editor and freelance writer. 
Her poetry collection, Chrysalides, was published in 2010 by Dragonfly Press, and 
was selected as runner-up at the 2014 Los Angeles Book Festival. Her poetry appears 
in 
numerous 
journals 
and 
has 
been 
widely 
anthologized. 
She was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize for her short story, “The Collection.” 
Kathie was formerly a program coordinator for Poetry Center San Jose, where she 
edited the journal, caesura. She currently lives in Sonora, California, and has 
reviewed plays for The Union Democrat newspaper for 14 years. She is currently 
working on a new poetry chapbook. Scott Thomas Anderson is a California 
journalist whose work regularly appears in The San Francisco Chronicle and 
The Sacramento News & Review. A 2018 Fellow for The USC Annenberg Center 
for Health Journalism, he's written for a diverse range of publications, from The Irish 
Independent to Distiller's Magazine. For more than 15 years, Scott has primarily 
covered American crime, the drug world, environmental threats and the impacts of 
poverty. He's been awarded the California News Publishers Association's highest 

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honors for feature writing, governmental coverage, agricultural reporting and 
breaking news. Scott's been interviewed about homicide investigations nationally on 
the Travel Channel, and internationally on Ireland's Radio 1: Drivetime. In recent 
years, Scott has balanced his hard news focus with cultural reporting and travel 
journalism, filing pieces on his time spent in Mexico, Greece, Croatia, Spain, Italy, 
Ireland, Scotland and Southern France. In 2019, he produced his first documentary 
podcast series, "Drinkers with Writing Problems," which travels to cities around the 
world to study the link between drinking culture and creative legacies. That series is 
live on iTunes, Audible and Stitcher. Tom Weidlinger is a writer and filmmaker who 
has been writing, directing and producing documentaries for 35 years. His work 
deals with a wide range of subjects, from the emotional development of boys to 
humanitarian aid in the Congo. Social justice is a common theme. 
One film, created in collaboration with Native American author Joe Bruchac 
was Jim Thorpe, The World's Greatest Athlete, receiving over 6,000 television 
broadvcasts. His latest film, The Restless Hungarian, is his most personal project. 
It's based on his book of the same title, awarded a gold medal for biography from 
the 2020 Independent Publisher's Book Awards. Combining documentary material 
with recreated scenes from his own childhood, the filmmaker discovers how family 
tragedies, mental illness and suicide are manifestations of trauma passed on from 
one generation to the next. Weidlinger's quest makes meaning from his family's 
suffering, resulting in a healing work that breaks the cycle of intergenerational 
trauma. SHARON STRONG is a practicing psychologist and artist, mask-maker, 
and creator of towering sculptures for Burning Man as well as gallery exhibits in 
Northern California. She is the illustrator of two books-Serious Fun: Ingenious 
Improvisations on Money, Food, Waste, Water & Home, by Carolyn North, 
and Two Lines 13: Masks, edited by Zack Rogow-and in 2005 she self-
published Soul Unmasked: A Personal Journey into the Ancient Ritual of the Mask. 
She lives in Angels Camp, California, on twenty acres in a straw-bale house with 
her husband, filmmaker Tom Weidlinger, whom she met at age seventy. Their story 
inspired her to write Burning Woman. 

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