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We are the San Francisco Peninsula branch of the California Writers Club. Meet authors, agents, editors and publishers. Acquire writing techniques to hone your craft. Learn how to market your work in this brave new world of publishing. Polish your public reading skills at a monthly Open Mic, sponsored by our branch. Make use of a variety of mentoring and educational workshops. The Club also offers the chance to network with one's peers, priceless for those engaged in the solitary task of writing. We facilitate the exchange of ideas between authors and provide inspiration through the camaraderie of fellow writers.
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Autofiction and the Examined Life
Sequoia Yacht Club, 441 Seaport Ct, Redwood City, CA, USCalifornia Writers Club - SF Peninsula Presents...
Scott Hutchins
Autofiction and the Examined LifeIn this talk, novelist and teacher Scott Hutchins will ask us to consider the following question: Is our everyday humdrum life actually fertile soil for great art? Autofiction—the most significant reconfiguration of the relationship between reader, writer, and text of the past 20 years—offers compelling, sometimes counterintuitive answers.
Hutchins will introduce foundational concepts of autofiction, dispelling a few of the common objections, and will discuss some of its major practitioners, including Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux and international bestseller Karl Ove Knausgaard. At the end of the presentation, we will have strategies for reconsidering the possibilities of our stories and ourselves.
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Scott Hutchins’s novel A Working Theory of Love was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, as well as a San Francisco Chronicle and Salon Best Book of the year. A Working Theory of Love has been translated into nine languages. Hutchins’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Story Quarterly, Catamaran, Five Chapters, the Arkansas International, the New York Times, San Francisco magazine and Esquire, and has been set to improvisational jazz. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Hutchins teaches Creative Writing and English at Stanford University.Meeting Location: Sequoia Yacht Club, 441 Seaport Court, Redwood City, CA. Meeting fee: $15 non-members/ $10 members. Your first meeting is free. To register, go to https://www.cwc-sfpeninsula.org/upcoming-meetings
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Your Story Unleashed: A Creative Catalyst Writing Session
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CWC SF/Peninsula’s Zoom Speaker series provides access to high-quality experts who bring informative writing and publishing topics to club members and the wider writing community. Welcome!
To register for the Zoom session and to pay the $10 entry fee, go to https://www.cwc-sfpeninsula.org/feb26zoomspeakerseries
Your Story Unleashed: A Creative Catalyst Writing Session
What makes you fall in love with a story and how can you create that same magnetism on the page? In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore the craft of effective short-form writing—fiction, memoir, or essay—with a focus on drawing readers in and keeping them engaged. Author, coach, and teacher Audrey Kalman will share practical strategies for recognizing compelling openings and characters, sharpening voice, and generating story ideas with emotional resonance. Participants will write during the session using guided prompts designed to spark the imagination and open creative pathways, leaving with new material and renewed momentum for their writing. Perfect for writers in any genre–even poetry!–beginning a new project or returning after a pause.
Learn About Our Speaker
**Audrey Kalman **is the author of the short fiction collection Tiny Shoes Dancing and three novels, and her short work has appeared in numerous print and online literary journals. She co-created the Birth Your Truest Story online writers’ community, where she teaches classes and leads workshops both virtually and in person including an upcoming six-week series on short-form writing. Drawing on the gentle, supportive approach she developed through decades of experience as a birth doula, she now works with writers as an editor and coach. She lives in Petaluma, California, where she is perpetually at work on another novel.
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Past events
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