Left Coast Theatre Company is the newest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender theater in San Francisco. We were founded in the spring of 2012 as an offshoot of GuyWriters very successful playwrights workshop program. The company aims to produce and bring to the stage entertaining, creative and original queer-themed works by local Bay Area playwrights, actors, and directors. In order to bring these talented individuals together, the company holds monthly writing workshops to help writers develo …

In this group we will come together to write true stories from our lives.  In our writing we will hold the intention of connecting the external events playing out in the stories we tell with our internal experience. Our aim is to unearth our interior selves and to realize we are not alone in our joys and our struggles. Each meeting will be structured with multiple timed writing sessions followed by a period to share what we have written and receive feedback if we wish. The group will take place …

Monthly workshops held around the Bay Area to help writers at all levels tap into the power of the creative unconscious in drafting and developing stories, poems, plays, and essays. Led by award-winning instructor Clive Matson.

In this group Robert Quintana Hopkins, author of "Glass Closet: Poems and Essays," teaches how writing can be used as a therapeutic tool to recover from pain and trauma and as a tool for personal growth. These highly experiential meetings include interactive writing exercises and opportunities to share as participants witness each other's healing and allow their own healing to be witnessed in a safe and supportive community. • All levels of writing experience welcomed. • Participation is encoura …

Calling all Magical Writers for this fun and loving place to tap into your authentic voice! This is a place for anyone interested in following your intuition and creative play with words and storytelling. I started this group because I am a Shamanic Healer in San Francisco and I have found joy in bringing healing through writing and storytelling. Are you looking to create stories with dreams, meditations, stream of consciousness, intuition, imagery and magical possibilities? This is the place!

Resume workshops are free and all are welcome. The purpose is to inspire and energize participants by introducing insights and expertise that expand possibilities to showcase strengths, talents, and capabilities within the resume format. Attendees will leave eager to apply new ideas and with greater confidence in taking next steps toward preparing a resume that engages reviewers and leads to more interviews. Although the leader is an expert in preparing resumes, cover letters, and related presen …

This workshop helps students in masters and doctoral programs who want to breeze through the thicket of style guidelines, formatting issues, and even pick up some useful computer tips. After your intellectual and creative accomplishments and your committee's counsel, your may still be required to undertake another level of preparation before you submit your document for final approval to publish. This group is led by an editor of more than 70 dissertations and her own masters thesis who is acute …

The Art Beat Writers' Society http://ArtBeatFoundation.org Mondays, 7-9:30 starting July 30th @The 25th Street Collective, 477 25th Street, Oakland, CA (Between Broadway and Telegraph) Taking Bart? 19th Street stop in Oakland. Walk up Broadway toward 25th. Set in a working arts warehouse right in the heart of the historic Oakland Arts District, the Art Beat Writers' Society is a weekly two and a half hour writing and performance workshop designed to generate new material, workshop pieces, focus …

Pleasanton Poetry League offers a supportive and guiding hand in opening doors to Creativity through Poetry. There will be Weekly Challenges and at times Awards will be given. Workshops and Publishing opportunities will also be available. This is a New Group with an Experienced Group Leader. The Best Award without a doubt, is the growth you see in yourself and in the eyes of those around you who take note of these changes. All those interested in Poetry through Writing, Reading, Listening and Re …

Confidence Builders towards Enlightenment: is a multi-disciplinary group that covers a range of diverse interest. The group meets and engages in a challenge each session. The concept of the winner takes all, is a perk. I believe to develop and build confidence the MIND must contiuously be challenged. The participants will brainstorm and develop critical thinking exercises, and we will also have light sessions where we share in our creativity. For the poet in us, we share poetry, creative writing …

The Writers Cafe, which started in the fall of 2010, has been going strong for over a year and a half now. I am currently hoping to add two members to the group. If you are interested, join up and send me an email. I'll contact you and give you an email address where you can send a writing sample -- either a chapter of your novel or a short story. Please don't be intimidated by this request. It's not a about judging whether you're "good enough," but rather, we have a great group of writers and I …

Monthly meetings, low cost workshops, networking, critique groups, a great opportunity to hear from industry professionals, marketing support - Come meet your new friends!

Welcome to The Writers’ Place! This Meet-Up is for aspiring authors who would love to take writing and creativity classes in a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Skip the bridges and tunnels. Join Creativity/Writing Coach, Barbara Millman Cole and Freelance Editor and YA author, Karen Morison-Knox, for classes on writing, editing, and creativity. Transform into the writer you want to be. Barbara and Karen, both award-winning authors, will help you discover the joy of writing and the secrets to writing …

I adore middle-schoolers: kids between the ages of 9 and 12. After years of mentoring middle and high teachers and writing non-fiction, I'm currently working on a contemporary fantasy series for middle-grade girls. What a challenge! The one thing I know for sure is that you cannot hand this special group of readers watered down young adult fiction or 'watered up' chapter books. Would you like to help me--and yourselves--craft the best middle school fiction we can?

The San Francisco Writers Community is a group of: -Writers -Editors -Publishers -Local book store owners/managers -Designers We are working together to help one another create and market our work in the new world of writing and publishing.

We are a small active and academically inclined homeschooling support group mainly having activities in Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill, Concord and the neighboring cities. Our activities are for children ages 7 and above and our homeschooling philosophies include, but are not limited to:Classical, Charlotte Mason, and Eclectic Methods. We hope to attract like-minded friends to support each other through events such as public speaking, craft/movie nights, mini science fairs, co-op classes, field t …

We will meet in the Berkeley Area every two weeks to critique scripts, generally 5-7 pages depending on attendees.

A group for: 1 Writting as startup 2 Entrepreneurs who plan to publish book

The purpose of this group is to help amateur to experienced songwriters and performers hone their craft with the aid of peer review and constructive critique. This is also a great opportunity to meet other artists and songwriters for co-writing projects and support. Hosted by Robin Yukiko, graduate of Berklee College of Music.

Taking two play-writing classes at the Berkeley Rep has given me an appreciation for the group dynamic that seems to go so well with writing plays. Hearing others read my words and being exposed to the ideas others have had has been a rewarding and enriching experience. This group will be a forum for folks to hone their craft, share ideas, and have their works read by sympathetic writers. If you have a finished piece, a work in progress, a concept for a play or are looking for an idea, join us a …

The Scriptwriters Salon is a place where twenty something to thirty something screenwriters/plawrights can critique and socialize. The rules are simple. Bring 10 pages of your feature screenplay, television script or play and be prepared to workshop the shit out of your baby. The goal of this meetup is to foster community and have fucking good time. See you there.

I took a wonderful play writing class at The Playwright's Foundation in San Francisco. It gave me an appreciation for the group dynamic that a class offers. Since I am not in the position to take a class at the moment I would love to have a meet up that offers what a class environment does. It is invaluable to the writing process to hear one's words read and being exposed to the ideas others has been a rewarding and enriching experience. I also love the idea of writing in a group setting. This s …