Lit Crawl Sebastopol 2025

The Insurgent Writers meet at the Sebastopol Senior Center, where they began over a dozen years ago, as a breakaway group, determined to write whatever they wanted to. Our members include published and unpublished authors who take their craft seriously enough to bring fresh material to each weekly meeting and offer constructive and encouraging commentary on each other’s work. Our event will consist of our readers delivering their chosen pieces in round-robin fashion, with about three circuits around the group and a few minutes at the end for questions from the audience.

Our North Bay writing critique group has met twice monthly for 21 years, beginning at the old SebArts building and then Iota Press in Sebastopol (we've been "Iota Writers" ever since) and more recently via Zoom. We'll be celebrating our years of mutually inspired dedication to the craft and our many publications with readings at Lit Crawl. The founding members met each other in Guy Biederman's Lowfat Fiction workshops, writing from seeds, and occasionally we still challenge one another with seeds that blossom into flashes or longer stories. Two-thirds of our group collaborates to produce the Sonoma County based, online hybrid literary journal and chapbook publication, Wordrunner eChapbooks (https://echapbook.com), which in April celebrates its 15th anniversary. We publish fiction, CNF and poetry by authors from all around the world as well as locally. Our featured speaker will be Dan Coshnear, fiction and CNF editor for our journal and a mentor to many in the North Bay literary community.