IF YOU ATTENDED THE FIRST BENLIT SALON that focused on literary characters, I hope you’ll return for the second. It’ll be upstairs at the First Street Café, 440 First St., on Monday, beginning at 7 in the evening. The theme is beginnings — the reader’s burden, the writer’s bane — so I hope to see […]
Nonprofit to launch series of literary ‘salons’
How does a writer create a character who will capture a reader’s attention? How does an idea blossom into a story? And once a manuscript is written, how does it get published? Those topics will be the subject of a series of Benicia Literary Arts “salons” starting this month, said Lois Requist, the city’s poet […]
Benicia Biz Beat: New quilt store, studio opens on First Street
Tapestry Court Quilts, a long-arm quilting studio that also sells fine fabrics and notions, is open at 252 First St. The new store will sell fabrics by Loralie and Island Batiks, novelty prints for children and other material.