Kate Schatz, author of Rad Women Worldwide and Rad American Women A-Z, is the second recipient of the Bookshop Santa Cruz Writer Residency at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods. As part of the residency, Schatz will spend two weeks at the Wellstone Center in the Santa Cruz Mountains this fall, with room and evening meals provided. Schatz will have the opportunity to participate in yoga sessions and open mic nights at the center, and will receive a consultation with Bookshop Santa Cruz buyers about her current project--a novel set in San Francisco in the late 1960s--in relation to the publishing marketplace.
The Bookshop Santa Cruz Writer Residency was created last year in honor of Bookshop Santa Cruz's 50th anniversary, with author Thad Nodine (Touch and Go) as the inaugural selection. The residency was open to any author working on a work of fiction, with an emphasis on fiction set in California, and will be offered annually through 2020. Authors Sarah Ringer and Steve Kettmann founded the Wellstone Center in 2012.