If you love to write and are looking to meet other writers to share your work with, bounce ideas off of or just get to know, you're in the right place. This is a critique/motivational group to help get the words and ideas flowing. We hope to see you soon! Happy Writing!

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Who is this group for? This group is for the serious minded committed photographer looking to advance their skill and understanding about photography. The Statement One of the best ways to become a better photographer is to work along side, mentor with, or learn from a professional photographer who is able to identify your personal strengths. "Photographers Working Together" is a club designed to help you grow, become more creative, and develop into the photographer you want to become.   O …

Need a reason to get off your butt and write? Come join our group! Look for upcoming workshop nights, critique nights, and just plain getting down to business nights! Be inspired! Your first assignment is to write a short biography of yourself, as though you were living in 2150 and writing a report on the famous novelist that was you! Include fictitious events as well as real events, and bring it to your first East Bay Fiction Writers' Meet-Up so we can learn more about you! (If you have questio …

  Children’s Book Writers Group: This group is for authors and people that dream of being authors.  It is a place to meet and discuss everything related to becoming a children’s book author.  We will meet to critique each others writing so that we can get published.  We will meet to learn about publishing, self publishing, E-book publishing, what publishers to run from, what to negotiate in a publishers contract,  market your book so that people will buy it.  We will discuss what is important to …

NorCalPhotogs is a group of both Professional Photographers (photographers for hire, or sell their work) full time and part time, and aspiring amateurs wishing to become professionals. We also network with models, make-up artists, stylist and other photographic relayed vendors/crafts. If you are serious about growing your business and your photographic skills then this might be the group for you. NorCalPhotogs will meet once or twice a month depending on interest, and we have Photo Safaris and w …

This group will meet, periodically, to discuss effective techniques and tools to compete in a competitive job market. Members will have acces to monthly workshops about resume writing, interviewing techniques, and creative job search techniques. This group will benefit from networking and meeting many industry leaders, who will conduct these workshops. This is a safe and fun environment interact with other job seekers. After attending the career development workshops, you may join us for drinks …

We are long-standing group of bridge players who meet a couple of Wednesdays a month in different players homes. This is a social group - we enjoy playing bridge together but discourage players from offering unsolicited critiques of other people's plays...thus, our name. Players wanting to join should know how to play the game but need not be expert...all levels are welcome. This is a drop-in group. You need not attend every game, though an RSVP is requested. The location ranges from the East Ba …

… The facilitator will lead introductions and then the group will write for an hour. There will then be 15-30 minutes of social time to get to know each other and possibly discuss personal writing successes such as getting published or overcoming writing resistance in some small way. No critiquing, exercises, lectures, ego, competition or feeling guilty. Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. Gloria Steinem

Become a Successful Suspense Novelist! It was a dark and stormy night, and I decided it was the perfect setting for starting a writer's Meetup group. Writing what? Thriller and suspense, of course! We meet to help each other write better, market better, and sell better--all the way up to best seller. NOTE: This isn't a critique group though you are encouraged to join one. We won't be reading each other's writing. We will instead be teaching and learning from each other skills and techniques to i …

The South Bay Branch of the California Writers club welcomes all writers, published or yet to be published. We are dedicated to the support of all types of writer, and all genres. We are an open, friendly group that is here to support you. The California Writers Club is one of the oldest writers' organizations in continuous operation in the nation. Our members are poets, journalists, essayists, technical writers, and creators of genre and literary fiction, as well as editors, booksellers, and ot …

How is your writing spontaneity? Have you been struggling to carve out the time to sit down and commit to your creativity? Do you thrive on a group setting, inspired by a room full of ideas? Sometimes even the best and most dedicated writers need motivation. it doesn't matter if it's your vocation or your hobby. The aim of this group is to provide inspiration, sharpen our skills, learn new tools, share our experiences and just to have some fun! Each meeting will consist of various writin …

Are you a writer looking for a writing 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 mtgs and when we meet, we focus on one piece at a time with each person providing feedback. Friendly, casual atmosphere. Our group is pretty small and that has been great, but conflicting work schedules prevent us all from contributing pieces/at …