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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)

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) 

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)

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.

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) 

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.

Twitter for Writers.

Join us for a peer led discussion of our writing craft and tools for creation. Your questions and discussion are encouraged.

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/

South Bay writer's monthly meeting.

Dinner and cost to attend: $30 for members, $35 for guests.

https://southbaywriters.com

More information here: https://www.sfwriters.org/2020-conference/

More information here: https://www.sfwriters.org/2020-conference/

More information here: https://www.sfwriters.org/2020-conference/

More information here: https://www.sfwriters.org/2020-conference/

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/