Organizations

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)

Tim Flood of the California Writers Club will demonstrate the power and usefulness of Scrivener, a computer application designed to support writers of all kinds (e.g., fiction, nonfiction, film, stage) from idea to publishable work. Tim will show a video illustrating Scrivener’s rich feature-set and also show how he uses the tool as he writes his novel.

Join your writing peers as they lead workshops on the techniques of writing.

REGISTER FOR EVENT HERE: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrd-qhqT0toQ6ik0zDW4L1xFrYr0JPFw  

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) 

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)

Editing Memoir and Personal Stories

Darlene Frank 

Discover what you can do on your own before you give your manuscript to an editor, and what to expect as the two of you work together. Whether you’re writing a book-length memoir, an essay, or a story, this session will help you refine your work. Read more about Darlene at http://www.darlenefrankwriting.com/
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: John Byrne Barry 
Topic:      Settings That Work

We'd love to see you at our monthly meeting on the third Saturday of each month (except July and December) from 10am 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 and pay in advance

Go to MeetUp.com to RSVP: http://cwc-peninsula.org/event-tickets/ and click on “SEE ALL” to find the next CWC SF Peninsula event”

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

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)

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

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) 

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

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/

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

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.