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These critical first pages are a perfect bite-sized appetizer that sets the stage for your entire memoir or novel while leaving your readers hungry for more. Editor, content writer, and writing coach, Tracy J. Jones, offers you her tips, tricks, and tools to make the best first impression in your first five pages. By looking at the beginnings of popular memoirs, Tracy will provide a roadmap to crafting an introduction that excites and entices your readers not just to buy your book but keep reading until the very end. Topics include: • The different type of introductions • Grounding your reader • Creating tension • Being bold and doing it quickly • What’s your question, goal, or want? • Starting your character arc • Setting the tone and voice of your memoir • How to use a flashback as your hook • Demonstrating that the reader is in good hands Date | Sunday, February 13 from 10 a.m. to noon Location | Online via Zoom Register here! Members: $36 Non-members: $42 For more information, please visit sandiegowriters.org/nailing-your-first-five-pages-with-tracy-j-jones or call (619) 696-0363.

A variety of Vonnegut’s post-apocalyptic/pandemic novels in first person form our model for the first of two freestanding dives into Kurt Vonnegut’s writers process for his centennial year. Ahead of his time on that score. Exercises designed to make the end of the world as we know it something to write home about. Write Like Vonnegut I: “Armageddon in Retrospect” will be held online via Zoom on Sunday, February 13 from noon to 1:30 p.m. Register here! Members: $27 Non-members: $31.50 You will be emailed the Zoom link 24 hours before the start of class. If you sign up less than 24 hours before the start of the class, please email Kristen at programs@sandiegowriters.org for your link. For more information, please visit sandiegowriters.org/online-write-like-vonnegut-i-tim-west or call (619) 696-0363.

Don’t let the grammar fail fool ya! This class will give you at least 10 things —maybe 10.5!— that will help you write better and be more free, easy and happy in your work. Don’t believe me? Here’s a taste! Did you know that great writing is found at the intersection of passion (stuff you’re good at and enjoy doing) and purpose (the difference you want to make in the world)? When your passion and purpose line up, that’s when your writing really takes off! If this idea excites you, then make a date with How to Write Good. It will be gooder for you if you do. Date | Saturday, February 12 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Location | Online via Zoom Register here! Members: $36 Non-members: $42 You will be emailed the Zoom link 24 hours before the start of class. If you sign up less than 24 hours before the start of the class, please email Kristen at programs@sandiegowriters.org for your link. For more information, please visit .sandiegowriters.org/how-to-write-good-with-john-vorhaus or call (619) 696-0363.

Since the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan's coal exports have increased — and so has child labor. At a coal mine in Baghlan province, boys earn between $3 and $8 for a day's work.

There was a lot that happened in politics this year, from the consequential midterm elections to the Supreme Court's historic abortion ruling and record migration at the southern border.

The opioid epidemic continued to surge in 2022, killing record numbers of Americans, but help may be on the way in the form of more aid to communities and major reforms in opioid addiction treatment.

Russia will end 2022 in a weaker global standing than when the year began. Its struggles in Ukraine surprised the Kremlin, and the global punishments are starting to hamper the Russian economy.

Celebrate Valentine's Day in Barrio Logan during the Barrio Art Crawl on Saturday, February 12 from Noon to 8 p.m. on Logan Avenue. At Valentine's Day themed Barrio Art Crawl you will enjoy: • Self-Love Market at Luna Bloom Shop (2060 Logan Avenue) • Custom Airbrush Tees at Sew Loka (2113 Logan Avenue) • Valentine's Art Expo at Border X Brewing (2181 Logan Avenue) • Love & Lemonade Photo Booth & Custom Jewelry • Drinks & Treats in front of Simon Limon (2185 Logan Avenue) • Tarot Readings in front of Agev Co. (2195 Logan Avenue) • Art Terrarium & Live Music in front of Libelula Books (950 S. 26th St.) For more information, please visit walktheblocksd.com.

He is remembered as a staunch conservative who opposed modernizing reforms and as the first pope to step down since the 15th century.

Contemporary artist and educator Zoë Charlton and art historian and critic Aruna D’Souza will be in conversation discussing the social themes throughout Zoë’s artistic practice and her current projects as well as both speakers’ experiences engaging the ethics of institutions within specific communities and audiences. The Black Studies Project at UC San Diego has invited Andrea Chung to be their Artist in Residence. As part of the residency, Andrea has invited Zoë Charlton and Aruna D'Souza to participate in a discussion, co-sponsored by the Department of Visual Arts. Date | Friday, February 11 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Location | Online Register here! This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit bsp.ucsd.edu/events/Upcoming%20Events or email bsp@ucsd.edu.