Tomales Bay Writers Workshops

The Creative Writing Program announced that this year’s Tomales Bay Writers Workshops will be Oct. 27-31, and three fellowships are being offered.

The fellowships, from the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, cover the application fee, tuition, room and board. One fellowship each will be awarded for poetry, fiction and nonfiction-personal essay.

Organizers said author and naturalist Terry Tempest William is this year’s keynote speaker. Her books include the environmental classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place.

The application deadline for fellowships is May 1; the application deadline for the conference is Aug. 1, or earlier if the event fills.

More information.

Bus trip to Wiley show

The Nelson ARTfriends organization is planning a March 20 bus trip to the UC Berkeley Art Museum to take in What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect. Wiley is one of the five UC Davis art professors sometimes identified with “California funk,” characterized by bawdy irreverence, iconoclasm and self-deprecating humor.

The cost is $40 for members, $65 for nonmembers (or $55 for faculty and staff), and $20 for students, covering charter bus transportation to and from UC Davis, museum admission and a guided tour by Renny Pritikin, director of the Nelson Gallery. Reservations are due by March 15 to Katrina Wong,(530) 752-8500 or kliwong@ucdavis.edu.

The Wiley retrospective is scheduled to run from March 17 to July 18. More information: bampfa.berkeley.edu.