CWC SF Peninsula

About CWC

Writers helping writers: That's what we do. We do it through workshops, lectures, and helping you build a network with fellow writers. SF/Peninsula Writers, a branch of the California Writers Club, is structured so that writers can encourage, champion, and cheer on their fellow writers. It’s a place to find people to join your critique group, or go in search of a group to join. On the third Saturday of each month, it's a place to go for a light continental breakfast and some coffee or tea and … Read More...

Membership

Browse our Member Lists and learn all about a writer's life. Click on their website links for in depth information about them. Plus you can pick up a few books by clicking on book images. Many of our members are featured in our branch anthology series The Fault Zone and also the Carry the Light anthologies both published by the Sand Hill Review Press. Current members: to add your own member listing, please send a short bio with fewer than 100 words and a resizable .jpeg image to webmaster@sfpeninsulawriters.com … Read More....

	February 2020
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					1 DEADLINE: Submit tor Bay Area Generations DEADLINE: Submit tor Bay Area Generations February 1, 2020 SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO OUR NEXT CWC/Bay Area Generations Peninsula Literary Salon (for FEBRUARY 20 Show) Bay Area Generations is an ongoing reading series that pairs readers of different generations (at least 10 years apart) to bring diverse voices and perspectives to the community. We had a blast at our first Peninsula salon in November. The next "CWC SF Peninsula-powered" reading on the Peninsula will be held Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 7 p.m. at Penelope's Coffee & Tea in Foster City... but first we need submissions! It's not limited to CWC members, so invite your writer--or non-writer!--friends to submit with you. Send to: Submissions@BayAreaGenerations.com. See submission guidelines (https://bayareagenerations.com/how-to-submit/guidelines) and make sure to note Feb 20, 2020 Peninsula Show on your entry. See more details •	2
3 CWC Presents Women's Journeys: A Readers Theater Event CWC Presents Women's Journeys: A Readers Theater Event February 3, 2020 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Dragon Productions Theatre Company, 2120 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA Women's Journeys: A Readers Theater Event San Francisco Peninsula Writers take the stage with an ensemble cast of characters and stories to kick off the shortest month of the year! Take a journey with us as we leap from page to stage. Stories for everyone... funny, sad, edgy, touching, and even some over the top. Featuring Sue Barizon, Thomas Crockett, Sam Kauffman, Audrey Kalman, Lisa Meltzer Penn, Korie Pelka, and Lisa Rosenberg. TICKETS: At https://dragonproductions.net/buy-tickets (look for Mondays at the Dragon) or at the door. See more details •	4 Shut Up & Write - @shutupwrite Shut Up & Write - @shutupwrite February 4, 2020 9:30 am - 11:30 am Penelope's Coffee and Tea, 3 Plaza View Ln, Foster City, CA 94404, USA This is a supportive group for writers of all kinds. Whether you write for professional, personal, or other reasons, come prepared to work. Note that this is not a sharing or critique group, but you are welcome to discuss your work during our check-in time. Go to Meetup.com to RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/ShutUpandWriteSiliconValley (scroll down and look for CWC SF Peninsula) See more details •	5	6 Shut Up & Write @shutupwrite Shut Up & Write @shutupwrite February 6, 2020 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm San Mateo Public Library, 55 W 3rd Ave, San Mateo, CA 94402, USA This is a supportive group for writers of all kinds. Whether you write for professional, personal, or other reasons, come prepared to work. Note that this is not a sharing or critique group, but you are welcome to discuss your work during our check-in time. Go to Meetup.com to RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/ShutUpandWriteSiliconValley (scroll down and look for CWC SF Peninsula) See more details •	7	8	9
10	11 Shut Up & Write - @shutupwrite Shut Up & Write - @shutupwrite February 11, 2020 9:30 am - 11:30 am Penelope's Coffee and Tea, 3 Plaza View Ln, Foster City, CA 94404, USA This is a supportive group for writers of all kinds. Whether you write for professional, personal, or other reasons, come prepared to work. Note that this is not a sharing or critique group, but you are welcome to discuss your work during our check-in time. Go to Meetup.com to RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/ShutUpandWriteSiliconValley (scroll down and look for CWC SF Peninsula) See more details •	12 Writers Helping Writers: San Mateo Main Library Writers Helping Writers: San Mateo Main Library February 12, 2020 7:00 pm - 8:45 pm San Mateo Public Library, 55 W 3rd Ave, San Mateo, CA 94402, USA BUILDING AN AUTHOR BRAND JORDAN STEVEN SHER The journey for writers can take many different paths, and Jordan will be sharing his. He has found that a multipronged approach is required in promoting his work. He will give an overview of how he has begun to strengthen his author’s brand, including a presentation to illustrate one example of how he is shaping his brand. Jordan published “Our Neighbors, Their Voices: Trues Stories of Immigrant Exodus” in May 2019, now sold on Amazon. He is currently working on a second book about a Bosnian Muslim family’s harrowing journey through the ethnic cleansing campaign perpetrated by the Serbian government during the war in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Writers Helping Writers meets the second Wednesday of the month. Join your writing peers as they lead workshops on the techniques of writing. Free event. See more details •	13 Shut Up & Write @shutupwrite Shut Up & Write @shutupwrite February 13, 2020 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm San Mateo Public Library, 55 W 3rd Ave, San Mateo, CA 94402, USA This is a supportive group for writers of all kinds. Whether you write for professional, personal, or other reasons, come prepared to work. Note that this is not a sharing or critique group, but you are welcome to discuss your work during our check-in time. Go to Meetup.com to RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/ShutUpandWriteSiliconValley (scroll down and look for CWC SF Peninsula) See more details •	14	15 CWC SF Peninsula Monthly Meeting CWC SF Peninsula Monthly Meeting February 15, 2020 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Sequoia Yacht Club, 441 Seaport Ct, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA Speaker: Alica Ostriker - New York Poet Laureate Topic: What I never intended to write This workshop is an introduction to the art and fun of Flashwriting. Working from prompts, participants will create several pieces in three minutes each. You will be surprised at the power and beauty of what you write "without thinking." Everyone will share what they have written, I will read a few of my own short poems that I wrote "without thinking," and we will discuss the process. Alicia Ostriker has twice received the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, and has been twice nominated for the National Book Award, among other honors. As a critic she is the author of Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women's Poetry in America, and other books on poetry and on the Bible. Her most recent collections of poems are Waiting for the Light and The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019. Her work has been translated into many languages including Hebrew and Arabic. She is currently the New York State Poet Laureate. We'd love to see you at our monthly meeting on the third Saturday of each month (except July and December) from 10 am to noon followed by a peer-led ThinkTank. Our meetings give you the opportunity to share your writing experience and hear the exploits of your fellow writers. We provide a delicious buffet of snacks to help us socialize and extend our writing networks. You can offer your books for sale to others. Each meeting includes a speaker featuring writers, editors, teachers, and publishers to talk with attendees about writing and publishing.Our branch monthly meeting open to the public. Industry speakers each month. Members organize craft round tables each month. Free to first-time visitors! $10 Members; $15 Non-Members; $5 Students with ID. To preregister go to MeetUp.com and click on “SEE ALL” to find the next CWC SF Peninsula event; to pay in advance go to: http://cwc-peninsula.org/event-tickets. See more details Think Tank Think Tank February 15, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Sequoia Yacht Club, 441 Seaport Ct, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA Twitter for Writers. Join us for a peer led discussion of our writing craft and tools for creation. Your questions and discussion are encouraged. See more details • •	16
17	18 Shut Up & Write - @shutupwrite Shut Up & Write - @shutupwrite February 18, 2020 9:30 am - 11:30 am Penelope's Coffee and Tea, 3 Plaza View Ln, Foster City, CA 94404, USA This is a supportive group for writers of all kinds. Whether you write for professional, personal, or other reasons, come prepared to work. Note that this is not a sharing or critique group, but you are welcome to discuss your work during our check-in time. Go to Meetup.com to RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/ShutUpandWriteSiliconValley (scroll down and look for CWC SF Peninsula) See more details •	19 Writers Helping Writers - San Carlos Library Writers Helping Writers - San Carlos Library February 19, 2020 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA 94070, USA Painless Book Promotion: A Potential Reality or an Oxymoron? Laurel Anne Hill Congratulations! You’ve finished writing your book (or soon will), and now pursue success at the next level: publication and/or book sales post-publication. Whether you self-publish or publish traditionally, you will need to promote yourself and your book in order to succeed in generating significant book sales. When should you start promoting yourself and/or your book, and how? Award-winning author, Laurel Anne Hill, will share her experiences. (This talk will also be beneficial to aspiring authors in all stages of their pursuit toward success.) Join your writing peers as they lead workshops on the techniques of writing. Free event. See more details •	20 Shut Up & Write @shutupwrite Shut Up & Write @shutupwrite February 20, 2020 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm San Mateo Public Library, 55 W 3rd Ave, San Mateo, CA 94402, USA This is a supportive group for writers of all kinds. Whether you write for professional, personal, or other reasons, come prepared to work. Note that this is not a sharing or critique group, but you are welcome to discuss your work during our check-in time. Go to Meetup.com to RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/ShutUpandWriteSiliconValley (scroll down and look for CWC SF Peninsula) See more details Bay Area Generations Literary Salon Bay Area Generations Literary Salon February 20, 2020 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Penelope's Coffee and Tea, 3 Plaza View Ln, Foster City, CA 94404, USA Bay Area Generations is an ongoing reading series that pairs readers of different generations (at least 10 years apart) to bring diverse voices and perspectives to the community. We had a blast at our first Peninsula salon in November. The next "CWC SF Peninsula-powered" reading on the Peninsula will be held in February. See more details • •	21	22	23
24	25 Shut Up & Write - @shutupwrite Shut Up & Write - @shutupwrite February 25, 2020 9:30 am - 11:30 am Penelope's Coffee and Tea, 3 Plaza View Ln, Foster City, CA 94404, USA This is a supportive group for writers of all kinds. Whether you write for professional, personal, or other reasons, come prepared to work. Note that this is not a sharing or critique group, but you are welcome to discuss your work during our check-in time. Go to Meetup.com to RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/ShutUpandWriteSiliconValley (scroll down and look for CWC SF Peninsula) See more details Open Mic Open Mic February 25, 2020 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm San Carlos Library, 610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA 94070, USA A monthly opportunity to read your work and hear the work of others. All are invited for this free event. Co-Hosted by Jeannine & Korie See more details • •	26	27 Shut Up & Write @shutupwrite Shut Up & Write @shutupwrite February 27, 2020 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm San Mateo Public Library, 55 W 3rd Ave, San Mateo, CA 94402, USA This is a supportive group for writers of all kinds. Whether you write for professional, personal, or other reasons, come prepared to work. Note that this is not a sharing or critique group, but you are welcome to discuss your work during our check-in time. Go to Meetup.com to RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/ShutUpandWriteSiliconValley (scroll down and look for CWC SF Peninsula) See more details •	28	29

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3	4	5	6	7	8 CWC High Desert Branch - Monthly Meeting CWC High Desert Branch - Monthly Meeting February 8, 2020 10:00 am - 12:00 pm 11537 Apple Valley Rd, Apple Valley, CA 92308, USA It's the monthly meeting of the High Desert Branch of the California Writers Club. The public is welcome and admission is free. Branch home page - https://www.hdcwc.com/ See more details •	9
10 CWC South Bay Writers CWC South Bay Writers February 10, 2020 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm China Stix, 2110 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95050, USA South Bay writer's monthly meeting. Dinner and cost to attend: $30 for members, $35 for guests. https://southbaywriters.com See more details •	11	12	13 San Francisco Writers Conference San Francisco Writers Conference February 13, 2020 Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA More information here: https://www.sfwriters.org/2020-conference/ See more details •	14 San Francisco Writers Conference San Francisco Writers Conference February 14, 2020 Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA More information here: https://www.sfwriters.org/2020-conference/ See more details •	15 San Francisco Writers Conference San Francisco Writers Conference February 15, 2020 Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA More information here: https://www.sfwriters.org/2020-conference/ See more details •	16 San Francisco Writers Conference San Francisco Writers Conference February 16, 2020 Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA More information here: https://www.sfwriters.org/2020-conference/ See more details CWC Berkeley Monthly Meeting CWC Berkeley Monthly Meeting February 16, 2020 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm 1204 Preservation Park Way, Oakland, CA 94612, USA Except for July, August, and December, we meet on the third Sunday of each month from 12:00 p.m. to 4p.m. at 1204 Preservation Park Way in Oakland (in the Robinson House Classrooms). Use street parking and enter from Preservation Park Way off of 12th Street. There is an ADA accessible entrance from Martin Luther King Drive parking lot. Our meetings always include a speaker program featuring writers, editors, teachers, publishers, and agents to speak about writing and publishing. We also highlight a club member each month… this could be YOU! These meetings are open to the public, and offer all writers the socializing, book sales, and writer support groups that we need to succeed—plus refreshments! There is a $10 charge for non-members, and it’s only $5 for members. Before each meeting, we host a Craft Group and a Marketing Support Group. Learn more about our craft and critique groups here. https://cwc-berkeley.org/ See more details • •
17	18	19	20	21	22 CWC Inland Empire Branch Monthly Meeting CWC Inland Empire Branch Monthly Meeting February 22, 2020 10:10 am - 12:00 pm 215 E C St, Ontario, CA 91764, USA The Inland Empire Branch of the California Writers Club meets… The fourth Saturday of every month (except December) from 10:10 a.m. to 12:00 noon at the Ovitt Family Community Library in Ontario. Our group meets for networking, announcements and updates from 10:10 to 11:00 am. From 11:00 until 12:00 noon we often host a guest speaker, an author who discusses the craft of writing, publishing, and promotion. Presentations are free to the public,. Ontario Library – Ovitt Family Community Library 215 E. C Street, Ontario, CA 91764 Telephone (909) 395-2004 DIRECTIONS: On I-10 (San Bernardino Freeway), go to Exit 51, N Euclid Ave (CA-83 S).Turn South on Euclid. Go about 1.5 miles. Turn left onto C Street. The Library is straight ahead – one block. Our meeting room is to the left when you come in the front entrance. Branch Home Page - http://iecwc.com See more details CWC Fremont Area Writers monthly meeting. CWC Fremont Area Writers monthly meeting. February 22, 2020 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm 42 Silicon Valley, 6600 Dumbarton Cir, Fremont, CA 94555, USA Are you a writer? Would a supportive community of other writers help you when you need ideas as to how to get over a problem with your work or just feel overwhelmed, blocked, or stressed from the solitary nature of the trade? You’re not alone. FAW is a mutual support group. We’re helping each other push projects through to completion. Fremont Area Writers is the Centennial Branch of the California Writers Club. The California Writers Club is one of the nation’s oldest professional clubs for writers, founded in 1909. We are a nonprofit education corporation with eighteen branches in California. Our organization is dedicated to educating writers of all levels and disciplines in the craft of writing and in the marketing of their work. Here at Fremont Area Writers we sponsor on-going projects to help our members advance their skills and learn how to complete, market, sell and promote our books and articles. By encouraging participation in California Writers Club events we encourage the development of contacts with other publishing industry professionals. During our meeting we always recognize members who have reached milestones in their work or won awards. In the fifteen minutes before each meeting and during the break between the Speaker, members mingle and catch up with each-other’s work. At each monthly meeting, after our membership business is complete, we host a variety of industry professionals who share information on topics ranging from “How to Create an Opening Paragraph” (so compelling that your reader won’t be able to put your book down) to “Understanding the Laws and Basic Contractual Concepts Authors Need to Know” Check under Upcoming and Past Events for past and future speakers and their topics. On the Fourth Monday evening of each month, (7PM) anyone can come to Suju’s Coffee on Thornton in Fremont to read from their own work and request suggestions from other authors as to how to fix problems or get past roadblocks. Once your book is published, you’ll want to become active in our Book Signings, where authors read from, sell and sign their books at local venues. Sound good? Then come! Be our guest at our next meeting on the fourth Saturday of the Month at 2PM (excepting July and December). There’s no charge. We hope to see you there, but even if you decide to go it alone, best wishes to you and your project from all of us. See more details • •	23
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February 2020

Member Announcements

Judy Field‘s story, “The Foster Child” was published in the Summer 2019 issue of Shark Reef literary magazine. She has published three pieces in the San Francisco Garden Club’s Garden Gazette: a poem called, “Night Time in the Garden,” and articles called “Filoli Gardens,” and “Surprising Succulents.” Next July she will speak about her short story, “The Foster Child” at the Original Book Club.

James Hanna‘s story “The Good Pimp” appears in Fictional Cafe. His story “Do You Do Hits?” appears in Adelaide Magazine. His story “The Lottery” appears in Fleas on the Dog.

Congratulations!

Would you like to see your news published here? Send your submissions to newsletter@sfpeninsulawriters.com by the 23rd of the month with the subject line “CWC Newsletter Submissions.”

CWC SF Peninsula

Events

Alicia Ostriker

WHAT I NEVER INTENDED TO WRITE

Saturday, February 15 at 10 am

Sequoia Yacht Club, 441 Seaport Ct, Redwood City

CWC SF-Peninsula Branch Workshop

C. S. Lakin

10 Key Scenes to Frame Your Novel

Saturday, April 4, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM PST

Twin Pines Lodge

40 Twin Pines Lane

Belmont, CA 94002

Fault Zone: Strike Slip

The Eighth Anthology in our Fault Zone series

Available Now on Amazon

Shut Up & Write

Weekly Writing Group by CWC SF Peninsula

Tuesdays 9:30 am

Penelope’s Coffee and Tea 3 Plaza View Ln, Foster City, CA 94404

Shut Up & Write

Weekly Writing Group by CWC SF Peninsula

Thursday Evenings 6:30-8:30 pm

San Mateo Library 55 W 3rd Ave, San Mateo, CA 94402

Open Mic

Join us for an evening of readings of your work

4th Tuesday of the Month, at 7:00 p.m.

San Carlos Library

610 Elm St, San Carlos, CA 94070

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