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February 2023

Mon 6
Featured Featured January 11 @ 12:00 am - June 7 @ 2:00 pm

Six Month Short Story Intensive

Zoom

with Margaret Malone This class is for experienced writers who are dedicated to starting the first draft of a story collection over the course of six months. Participants should have experience writing stories and familiarity with the elements of literary short fiction including scene, character, conflict, place, and revision. We will study individual stories by […]

$1100
Mon 6
Featured Featured January 14 @ 10:00 am - February 18 @ 12:00 pm

Mastering the Short Story

Zoom

with Radhika Sharma In this intensive workshop, students will write and revise their short stories focusing on craft elements such as characters, voice, subtext, and story structure. At the end of the six weeks, students will have created a dossier of up to 20 pages of new work and received detailed feedback from the instructor. […]

$285
Mon 6
Featured Featured January 20 @ 12:00 pm - June 2 @ 2:00 pm

Six Month Screenwriting Intensive

Zoom

with James Napoli The art and craft of writing for the screen is a skill that all authors would do well to have in their creative arsenals. On one level, prose fiction, memoir, non-fiction, all these forms have been, and will continue to be, sought out by the film industry as foundations for works in […]

$1100
Mon 6
Featured Featured January 25 @ 5:00 pm - March 1 @ 7:00 pm

Experiments in Creativity

Zoom

with Coleman Stevenson If you allow them to, ideas for art and writing can come from absolutely anywhere. This creative generation class will put that theory to the test, through a series of experiments in creative problem-solving, spontaneous and chance-based play, and other exploratory prompts that challenge you to work outside your normal modes and […]

$300
Mon 6
Featured Featured January 26 @ 5:30 pm - April 13 @ 7:30 pm

Writing the Autofiction Novella: 12-week intensive

Zoom

with Frances Badalamenti Autofiction is a unique genre (or non-genre) that combines the autobiographical with the fictional. In this course, we will take a close look at the craft of autofiction. We will read novel excerpts, short stories and novellas. We will also look at craft essays on the form. The goal over the twelve […]

$595
Thu 16
Featured Featured February 16 - February 19

San Francisco Writers Conference

Hyatt Regency San Francisco

This will be the 19th Celebration of Craft, Commerce and Community for all writers. Attendees will join with 100+ presenters and fellow writers from across the country and around the world at this year’s event. The SFWC events are consistently rated among the top writers’ conferences anywhere. Our goal is to help writers become published authors as […]

Thu 23
Featured Featured February 23 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

On the Rooftop: A Novel with author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Mechanics' Institute (3rd Floor, Classroom A)

San Francisco's Fillmore the "Harlem of the West" is the setting for this compelling story about family and community and a mother's aspirations for her musical daughters amid threatening relationships and gentrification.   Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, born and raised in New Orleans, studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her most […]

Sat 25
Featured Featured February 25 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Writing the Heroine’s Journey

Mechanics' Institute


with Kate Farrell, Storyteller, Author, Librarian Tired of the hero’s journey? Explore the exceptional and unique challenges of the heroine’s journey as depicted in ancient, feminine myths and fairy tales. Learn how to use the heroine’s quest in your journaling or creative writing for any genre: fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and more!

Sun 26
Featured Featured February 26 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

SF in SF with Annalee Newitz and Naseem Jamnia

American Bookbinders Museum

Join us on Sunday, January 29th for SF in SF’s first event of the new year, when authors Annalee Newitz and Naseem Jamnia return to the American Bookbinders Museum for an evening of reading and conversation with Bay Area writer, editor, and raconteur Terry Bisson. ANNALEE NEWITZ writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the author of Four Lost Cities: A Secret […]

March 2023

Sat 4
Featured Featured March 4 @ 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

How to Sell More Books Using Metadata

Zoom

Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo, and Google Play all run on algorithms, but each of them is different. Each provides their own tools to authors to help them become more visible to the right readers. But how is an author or small press to know what works best where? And how do you even […]

$20
Wed 8
Featured Featured March 8 - March 11

AWP Conference and Bookfair

Seattle Convention Center 750 Pike Street, Seattle, WA

The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. It includes thousands of attendees, hundreds of events and bookfair exhibitors, and four days of essential literary conversation and celebration. The AWP Conference & Bookfair has always been a place of connection, reunion, and joy, […]

April 2023

Sat 29
Featured Featured April 29 @ 8:00 am - 1:00 pm

Save the Date – Register for Virtual Pitch-O-Rama 2023

Zoom

After our amazing session last year, we are happy to announce that we will be hosting the next Pitch-O-Rama as a virtual event on April 29th, 2023, where writers will be given the opportunity to pitch their works to agents and editors for publication. Everyone is welcome to participate! Register below to pitch your book […]

$95
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