2025 LITERARY LUNCHEON
The Literary Luncheon is AAUW Laguna Beach’s biggest annual fundraiser. This special event gives us a wonderful opportunity to get together with friends, colleagues, and branch members to listen to outstanding women authors while raising funds for scholarships and worthy projects that are administered by our branch’s nonprofit arm, the 501(c)(3) AAUW Laguna Beach Foundation.
The 2025 event will be held at the Dana Point Yacht Club on September 28th and will feature these 3 talented authors:
Kristina McMorris: A movie-buff who writes with an eye to scene and dialogue! Kristina McMorris was a child actress and a movie-buff before she began writing novels. 
As a result, her understanding of scene and dialogue shines in her fiction. The author of eight historical fiction novels, Kristina also has written short stories, novellas, and a collaborative picture book. She splits her time between San Diego and Portland, Oregon, so AAUW is happy to have her as a speaker during one of her trips to Southern California.
https://www.kristinamcmorris.com/home
Amy Meyerson: A best-selling author who brings mystery and suspense home. Can a suspense mystery have a happy ending? 
Amy Meyerson says yes! In her novels, Myerson combines mystery with family life, women’s issues, and love. In The Love Scribe, she adds fantasy and science fiction. Amy Meyerson teaches in the U.S.C. writing program and will bring her expertise to us in September at the Literary Luncheon.
https://www.amymeyerson.com/
Victoria Patterson: A writer who digs deeply into the darker side of human experience. Victoria Patterson’s work has been described 
as “deeply empathetic and emotionally wrenching.” In her novels and short story collections, she explores issues of loneliness, anxiety, misogyny, love and connection. Patterson, who was raised in Newport Beach and now teaches at Antioch University, is a true local who brings a sense of place to her writing.
https://www.victoriapatterson.com
The event raises funds to support:
- Scholarships for middle school girls to attend AAUW Tech Trek summer STEM camps.
- Scholarships for college-bound girls graduating from Laguna Beach, and Estancia high schools.
- Scholarships for women at Saddleback College, the Laguna College of Art + Design (LCAD), Orange Coast College (OCC), and UC Irvine.
2024 LITERARY LUNCHEON
