Upcoming
Poetry Reading
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Mark Your Calendars!
POETRY FROM THE WRITING SALON: Writing Salon Students Share Their Work
Now in its 5th season!
Sunday, November 23
7:15-9PM
THE GREAT OVERLAND BOOK COMPANY
345 Judah St @ 9th Ave
San Francisco
Info: 415/664-0126
Parking can be tricky, so allow yourself extra time. As for public
transport, The N Judah stops at Judah & 9th, as do several other MUNI
bus routes. Come early and browse for books!
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Dear Writers & Aspiring Writers,
Once you have cast your vote (a top priority, yes?!), please don't forget that this week will be your last opportunity to sign up for a Fall Session Writing Salon class. Once these classes start (six of them, listed below), we won't offer any new classes until our Winter 2009 session (beginning in late January).
Thanks for your patronage and support during these unsettling economic times. We'll do our best to support you back, with high quality classes to nourish your creative, intellectual, emotional and spiritual lives.
All the Best,
Jane
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 Busting through Writer's Block
Starts Saturday, Nov. 8th in SF
"There are so many reasons that we may want to write but don't," says
instructor Elaine Beale. "It's hard to carve out the time. It's
challenging to make it a priority. It's difficult to overcome all those
inner voices that tell us we have nothing worthwhile to say. Or we may
not believe we have the necessary skill or talent to justify spending
our time writing. And sometimes it's simply too scary to face that
blank page alone."
Read More...
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 Get Your Foot in the Stage Door:
Write a 10-Minute Play!
Starts Saturday, Nov. 8th in SF
Ten-minute plays are a great way to get your foot in the stage door and
learn to write for the artistic collaborators who will take your
blueprint and bring it to life. How do you write for actors? What's a
director going to do to your script? Why is dialogue different from
prose? Let Erin Blackwell guide you through the specific demands of the
theatrical medium via the writer-friendly short play.
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 Memoir Writing:
Mine and Refine Your Memories
Starts Saturday, Nov. 8th in SF
Memoir is not reserved only for the rich and famous. In fact, beautiful
and haunting memoirs-books and essays-grow out of our ordinary lives,
carefully observed. Both the distant past and the not-so-long ago can
be mined, remembered and re-created skillfully in writing. This class
is a guide to the mining and refining process. Read More...
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 Starting Your Novel:
Get a Foothold on Your Project
Starts Sunday, Nov. 9th in Berkeley
& Monday, Nov. 10th in San Francisco
You want to write a novel, or you already are writing a novel, but maybe you
shy away from talking about it with your co-workers, neighbors or
brother-in-law (you know the way he rolls his eyes and calls you a
dreamer). So come to this workshop instead, where you'll meet other
people who are doing what you're doing, or want to do. "We'll talk
about your idea, how to make sure it has enough weight to carry a
novel," say Karen Bjorneby.
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 Breaking into Magazine Writing:
The Rules of the Game
Starts Tuesday, Nov. 11th in SF
"I've done stories on everything from home computers - back when only
three companies were making them - to a portrait of the Sherman House
(a landmark hotel that survived the 1906 earthquake) to a profile of
the Emmy Award-winning sound engineer who worked on Basic Instinct,"
says Cary Pepper. "But my favorite piece is probably the one I did
about a new reading program for kindergartners; the kids pulled me
right into the class and I learned more that one day than I ever
learned in kindergarten.
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