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May 2023

Advanced Prose Workshop

This is a supportive, yet challenging environment for writers of short stories, novels, creative nonfiction, or memoir. Join us and you’ll be rolling up your sleeves and getting to work from the first class, revising pieces you have already started to write as well as writing new scenes, bringing your narrative to life. Take this class if you have already found the project you want to work on and need the structure of a workshop to see you through drafting, editing, and development. ...
06 May - 17 Jun
10:30 am - 1:30 pm
Harvey Milk Recreational Arts Center
50 Scott Street, San Francisco

May 2023 Drop-In Creative Writing Workshop #3

Join us in-person for a drop-in workshop on poetry, fiction or memoir.  Get expert feedback on something you’ve been struggling with, a prompt for generating new work and valuable critique in a warm, friendly environment. Suitable for writers working on  poetry, fiction and memoir.   ...
27 May
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Harvey Milk Recreational Arts Center
50 Scott Street, San Francisco
June 2023

Experimental Writing – with Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem

Are you a poet always on the brink of a narrative essay, or a fiction writer who craves genre-breaking inspiration? Do you write creative nonfiction but feel there’s something lackluster in your approach? Or are you new to writing and looking for an entry point? Let’s face it, these past few years have been anything but commonplace – and we need fresh writing to reflect what’s transpired in our society, and within each of us. ...
01 Jun - 06 Jul
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Online

Dispatches from Quarantine Presents: Kristina Wong in Conversation with Rebecca Solnit

In this discussion hosted by Pulizer Prize finalist in drama and Doris Duke Award winner, Kristina Wong with bestselling author Rebecca Solnit, we will hear insights on how Covid-19 reshaped storytelling as we know it. Join us in person at the CounterPulse Theatre in San Francisco. This project is presented by the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute with support from the California Arts Council. It started as a blog, and then became a reading series. ...
12 Jun
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
CounterPulse Theatre
80 Turk Street, San Francisco 94102

Visceral Fictions

In this experimental writing workshop, we will try to transcend our reading and writing preferences to be apprenticed by visceral, avant-garde literature—aesthetic achievements centered around objective life, subjective reality, and ecstatic confessions! Most of the works that affect us deeply are the ones that might have wearied us or even greatly disturbed us. But in time, upon further reflection, we find them rather informative—or even illuminating! ...
14 Jun - 19 Jul
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Online
August 2023

Experimental Writing – with Cassandra Rockwood Ghanem

Are you a poet always on the brink of a narrative essay, or a fiction writer who craves genre-breaking inspiration? Do you write creative nonfiction but feel there’s something lackluster in your approach? Or are you new to writing and looking for an entry point? Let’s face it, these past few years have been anything but commonplace – and we need fresh writing to reflect what’s transpired in our society, and within each of us. ...
01 Aug - 24 Aug
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Online

Body Memoir-Healing with Poetry

In this 4-week workshop, Body Memoir-Healing with Poetry, we stand as flowers watered by healing words.  Our bodies are a memoir to ourselves.  We will write poems to our hearts, minds, bodies, and emotions. The most important person in this course is you.  You will use words to create poetry that celebrates you.   ...
05 Aug - 26 Aug
10:30 am - 1:30 pm
Online
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