A workshop designed to cultivate creativity and mindfulness in the process of recovery from grief, trauma, or addiction. We use writing exercises to uncover, discover, and discard old wounds as well as to create positive attitudes, present awareness, and future goals. We also play with fiction and poetry, and use visual arts as inspiration. Group leader has her masters in creative writing.

A weekly writer's group for people who want constructive feedback on works in progress as well as in class prompts to help get the creative juices flowing. Hosted and moderated by someone who has taken workshops with GREAT poets and teachers and who has published poetry in journals.

Established in 2003, LA Writers Group runs writers groups and creative writing workshops throughout Los Angeles: West Hollywood, Glassell Park (Glendale), LA South Bay (Hermosa Beach, El Segundo), West LA, and Santa Clarita. Visit our official website at http:/www.lawritersgroup.com. In this meetup group, we will host free monthly accountability meetings, free friendship events (not networking but meeting new friends) and ongoing Saturday morning writing workshops for a nominal fee.  Our 8-week …

This group is created specifically for Creative Writers, who know they have something beautiful, meaningful, or helpful to say, know (or may not know yet) that they are incredibly talented, can make the time for writing, yet somehow, something else seems to always get in the way. We all know how self-defeating procrastination can be, waiting for a better time ("when I have more hours, when I am less rushed, etc.") until the opportunity is lost, but also that procrastination is merely a habit. J …

Writing for work or play, what would you like to do? The goal of this group is to promote excellence and productivity through the skill and craft of writing. Free workshops to set your goals and action plan, then more action-oriented activities to prevent writer's block from setting it!

There is a seemingly endless supply of books on the writing craft, so instead of feeling guilty because I'm working or doing the laundry instead of reading an enlightening book on the craft, I thought I'd set up an actual monthly time and place to fulfill this need and have writers to talk to about the book! We will read everything from books on writing fiction to poetry to screenwriting. Whatever catches our fancy that month. I'd like to find organizers in several areas of the city, then we can …

(Formerly the Torrance Children's Book Writers) Whether you dream of becoming a published author, or whether you simply want to jumpstart your writing career, joining a writing group such as the Torrance Children's Book Writing Group will help you get started. Although our main focus is on writing for children, we welcome writers of all kinds, as well as those who love to read children's books (Middle Grade, Young Adult, Picture Books, etc). We will share tips, lessons, and learnings on …

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The Alameda Writers Group is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving writers of all stages of development and all genres. Our mission is to educate, inspire and support our members in their writing careers by offering resources, access to industry professionals, networking opportunities and creating signature events such as peer groups and guest lectures.

… If you are interested in having your work critiqued by smart, creative, and supportive writers like yourself, please email a 3 - 4 page sample of your fiction for us to review, along with a short paragraph about yourself. if we like your sample, we will invite you to come meet us. Thanks for your interest!

Welcome! This is writing/critique group dedicated strictly to novelists (sorry, other genres are great but our focus is on novels) serious about becoming professional writers. If you have a finished novel or a work in progress and you'd like to engage in constructive feedback in a non-threatening environment, then this is your group. We're open to all genres of fiction, but I personally would love to have more writer's of women's fiction join as this is my main focus. Whatever genre you …

Out of the Blue Poetry Series Presents Bring out Your Dead: Looking at the Rough Draft to Find the Revision (A 6 week Course, Class Limit 7) Time: Mondays, January 23 - February 27, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. Place: Culver City (private residence) Tuition: $120 for the course (check due Jan 23rd, first day of class) E-mail treshahaefner@yahoo.com to sign up Take Your Writing to the Next Level! Have you ever wondered what to do with the rough draft that wants to play rough? Do you want to learn the techniq …

… A person who loves and is passionate about writing, and wants to create the self-discipline for writing on a consistent basis, including the possibility of getting published, through mutual feedback and support. Come check it out. There is no commitment, contracts, etc.

Mission: Offer a system to our communities of writers, while developing disciplines through accountability, teaching and peer support. To provide a safe and nurturing atmosphere for writers to further their skills in writing and self-publishing, while cultivating associations with like-minded people.  Purpose: To make sure that every writer has the tools and support necessary for taking the craft of writing to completion and/or publication.   How: Attending bi-monthly meetup identifying and addr …

FOR MORE NEWS ABOUT THIS AND OTHER CREATIVELIFE WORKSHOPS, VISIT OUR WEBSITE. www.creativelife.com   THE ARTIST'S WAY WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Increase productivity. Improve confidence. Proven three month program inspires artists and others (creative people in all walks of life) to break through resistance, self-criticism, fears, perfectionism, jealousy, limiting beliefs and other creative blocks to connect to their intuition and the creative energies of the Universe. Practical tools and in-class ac …

This group is for people aiming to become screenwriters for television or movies. We have meetings twice a month, with half of the meetings devoted to feature (or short film) scripts and half devoted to television scripts. In general, the TV Writers' meetings take place at 5pm on the 2nd Sunday of the month, and the Film Writers' meetings at 5pm on the 4th Sunday of the month, but please check the calendar as this does sometimes vary! We meet primarily to provide feedback on a completed script w …