Our History and Mission
Since 1981, the privately funded Sitting Room, with its collection of several thousand donated volumes, unusual magazines, and small press books, has been "a place of solace and comfort in a brash and busy world." Check out our Events, Workshops, and Discussion Group pages. We have so much going on and continually update here. Events may cancel! You can also download and print a copy of our Fall Newsletter. We used to reside in downtown Cotati, but have moved to a location {MAP} near Sonoma State University.
The Sitting Room is open to all responsible members of the community who are genuinely interested in woman's issues and achievements. The cozy rooms offer a quiet place to browse, research, read, write, and converse--yes, here you can talk, and even eat, without any reprimand!
The Sitting Room also sponsors special events, such as readings and conversations with writers, along with on-going writers' workshops and book discussion groups. However, the individual reader is always welcome here no matter whatever is going on. A Writer's Room offers refuge for those seeking quiet from the meetings and talk. The Jane Flood Poetry Room provides hundreds of publications, including rare chap books and self-published works. (Here's a graphic layout of our space.)
It seems to work, the easy balance of congeniality, privacy, and trust unique to our The Sitting Room. You may wonder about our curiously loose organization.
How to Join? This and other information are now on our FAQs page.
The Sitting Room is open to all responsible members of the community who are genuinely interested in woman's issues and achievements. The cozy rooms offer a quiet place to browse, research, read, write, and converse--yes, here you can talk, and even eat, without any reprimand!
The Sitting Room also sponsors special events, such as readings and conversations with writers, along with on-going writers' workshops and book discussion groups. However, the individual reader is always welcome here no matter whatever is going on. A Writer's Room offers refuge for those seeking quiet from the meetings and talk. The Jane Flood Poetry Room provides hundreds of publications, including rare chap books and self-published works. (Here's a graphic layout of our space.)
It seems to work, the easy balance of congeniality, privacy, and trust unique to our The Sitting Room. You may wonder about our curiously loose organization.
How to Join? This and other information are now on our FAQs page.
