The Best Writing Group in Bay Area

16th Street Writers' Flat

We are a group of writers who write aside from our day jobs and share our work over dinner every Thursday night at 6pm.  We currently have a room available for rent.  We have a guest bedroom available for free, to out of town writers who'd... more

Artists & Writers Creative Group

This San Francisco group, a distinctive combination of salon and creative support group, welcomes committed writers and artists in all media who seek community and ongoing support for reaching creative goals. Led by Robert Ressler, a writer, artist a... more

California Writers Club, Berkeley Branch

The 101-year-old California Writers Club (CWC) hosts a number of programs and events throughout the state. The CWC, Berkeley Branch, is the founding branch.  It offers meetings, critique/Support groups, and special events in... more

California Writers Club, South Bay Writers

South Bay Writers is a branch of the California Writers Club, the nations oldest professional writers' club. Monthly dinner meetings are held at the Lookout Restaurant, 605 Macara Avenue, Sunnyvale. The branchs presents the East of Eden Writers Conf... more

Daily Flash: A Generative Writing Workshop!

Our group focuses on writing daily (Yes! Every Day!) by using specially created lessons, prompts and inspiring imagery. Sessions range from 2 to 4 weeks with weekends off. Every week you will have a new partner with whom you exchange writing. This is... more

East Bay Poetry with Kim Addonizio

Make space in your life for what really matters: passion, beauty, finding some way to articulate the whole terrible, amazing journey of life on earth. "We must insist while there is still time." — Jack Gilbert. Take your poetry to the next leve... more

Laguna Writers Workshops

This is a creative writing workshop taught in the Amherst Writers and Artists method created by Pat Schneider. The method combines free-writing techniques with supportive feedback and reflection, and focuses on developing authentic voice. Manuscripts... more

Lakeshore Writers Workshop

LAKESHORE WRITERS offers Creative Writing Workshops designed to motivate, inspire and support writers in all genres. Workshops and classes are offered throughout the year -- Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall -- in eight week sessions. Manuscript... more

Living Room SF

The Living Room cultivates Bay Area writers, literary community, and productive dialogue in San Francisco with a focus on economic equity since October 2021. Founded by Kevin Dublin, the Living Room believes in people and the power of education, art,... more

Marin Branch of the California Writers Club

The Marin Branch meets at Book Passage at 2 pm on the fourth Sunday of the month (unless a holiday), except August and January, when we meet at a different location. Monthly meetings feature a speaker, workshop or panel discussion with authors, agent... more

National Writers Union - Northern California

The purpose of the NWU - Northern California is to promote and protect the rights, interests, and economic advancement of members; to organize writers to improve professional working conditions through collective bargaining action; and to provide pro... more

Play Cafe

Play Cafe, Inc. is a nonprofit organization, based in Berkeley, whose mission is to support the creation and development of new works by San Francisco Bay Area playwrights and composers. Our programs include Scene Nights, Table Reads, Song Salons,... more

Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing

Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing is a unique creative writing program in the San Francisco Bay Area committed to the development of writers at all levels. With its effective and innovative curriculum and master teaching, Ripe Fruit has provided... more

SF/Peninsula Branch of the California Writers Club

The SF/Peninsula Branch of the California Writers Club is a networking, critiquing and marketing group for all kinds of writers (fiction, nonfiction, poetry etc.). It was established in 1964, as the second spin-off of the Berkeley writing group for... more

Temescal Writers

This workshop uses Pat Schneider's approach (the Amherst Writers & Artists method) to create a safe, supportive and healthy writing community for people of all ages, backgrounds, genre interests and skill levels. We meet and write together onc... more

The Girls Are Not Ornamental

This group is for emerging and established writers who focus on themes of femininity.  We meet once a week.  This is a new group with aspirations of becoming a monthly, home-based, reading series. more

The Writers Cafe

Rolling Stone Editor/Writer Starting Writing Group I’m looking for fiction writers interested in a weekly writing group that will meet at a café in Oakland. Need help getting your novel finished? Want a supportive group to hear yo... more

The Writers Grotto

The Writers Grotto is a working community for writers and other creators of contemporary narrative media. We also teach classes and hold special events. We began in 1994, when writers Po Bronson, Ethan Canin and Ethan Watters rented a six-room fla... more

The Writing Salon

The Writing Salon, founded in 1999, is a creative writing school for adults. We offer small classes to ensure intimacy and individual attention. Our talented teachers lead a wide selection of classes in fiction, poetry, memoir, screenwriting, and mor... more

The Writing Salon - Berkeley

The Writing Salon, founded in 1999, is a year-round school of creative writing for adults (beginners to advanced). We offer small classes of 6 to 13 students held in comfortable, cozy settings complete with fresh-brewed coffee, tea and snacks. We are... more

Walnut Creek Writers' Group

Are you a writer looking for a group to join in the East Bay? We are a small group of experienced writers in various stages of writing/revising books and/or short stories spanning various genres. We share our pieces a few days ahead of our biwkly... more

Word Garden East Women's Writing Group

A safe space in Walnut Creek for beginning and experienced writers of memoir, fiction, and poetry to develop your voice, at your own pace. Each group meeting consists of a series of two or three exercises to stimulate your senses, associations, memor... more

Writers Group in Oakland

Writing Ourselves Whole

Writing Ourselves Whole groups use transformative writing practice in community to restore individual trauma experience and reconnect those parts of ourselves we are trained to hide. Through writing together and offering one another deep generosit... more

Writing Ourselves Whole

At the intersection of trauma and desire -- writing workshops with facilitator Jen Cross.  Writing Ourselves Whole writing groups encourage risk-taking, the expression of joy, and the manifestation of artistic vision, which in turn support indi... more

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