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Storytelling: A Yearlong Intensive
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Write Gripping Stories and Create Unforgettable Characters with Maury Zeff
6:00-8:30pm PT
Playing with Point of View: A Generative Workshop with Rachel Howard
6:00-7:00pm PT
Fall Write-In: Wednesday, December 6th with Kate Busatto
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Private Event: The Writers Grotto Arts Happy Hour
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Members Only: Essay/Memoir Workshop Group
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Members Only: Essay/Memoir Workshop Group
3:00-4:30 p.m. PT
Members Only: Essay/Memoir Workshop Group
3:00-4:30 p.m. PT
Members Only: Essay/Memoir Workshop Group
3:00-4:30 p.m. PT
Members Only: Essay/Memoir Workshop Group
3:00-4:30 p.m. PT
Members Only: Essay/Memoir Workshop Group
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Jumpstart Your Writing for 2024 with Elizabeth Forsyth
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Craft & Career: Demystifying Writing Groups: Tips on Finding and Maintaining Your Writing Community with Audrey Ferber and Susan ito
12:30-1:30pm PT
Members Only: Brown Bag Lunch
12 - 1pm
Fall Write-Ins: Monday, December 11th with Lisa Lerner
10am - 2pm PT
Narrative Engine: The First Ten Pages with Rachel Howard
1 - 3pm PT
Create Queries That Get You Noticed with Rowena Leong Singer
Member Spotlight
Alex Park
Alex Park is a writer and researcher in Oakland. His writing about food and agriculture has appeared in The New Republic, Al Jazeera, Africa is a Country, Current Affairs and many other publications. He’s currently working on a book on the globalization of fast food. You can see all of his recent published work on his website, www.alexcpark.com
Featured Work
Sing, I by Ethel Rohan
Inside Half Moon Bay, a sparkling California coastal town, Ester Prynn is dulled and diminished by struggles with work, money, marriage, her senile father, a troubled teenage son, and old guilt she can’t quiet. When a masked gunman robs the convenience store where Ester works, he upends her fraught life and propels her toward passions buried, like singing; desires discovered, like a same-sex infatuation; and wrongs righted, like bringing the violent assailant to justice. But as the armed robber commits more crimes and continues to evade capture, the trauma from the holdup climbs, threatening Ester’s newfound delights and longings and forcing her to contend with her burning regrets and what-ifs. In the reckoning between Ester and these growing, molten upsets, she’s faced with enormous choices and must determine what and who can bring her to her best life. Preorders are 40% off on the publisher's website through December 15, 2023 (Code: SNOW23).
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