Welcome to The Writers’ Place! This Meet-Up is for aspiring authors who would love to take writing and creativity classes in a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Skip the bridges and tunnels. Join Creativity/Writing Coach, Barbara Millman Cole and Freelance Editor and YA author, Karen Morison-Knox, for classes on writing, editing, and creativity. Transform into the writer you want to be. Barbara and Karen, both award-winning authors, will help you discover the joy of writing and the secrets to writing …

We are writers  seriously dedicated to the process and content of our writing. Some of us work professionally as writers (I'm a developmental editor) and also have different creative genres of writing that we are working on (novels, scripts, essays, memoirs, travel writing, and more). Others work in different professions but have writing projects they are deeply committed to. We also consider the publishing industry and marketing. As your organizer, I have many years in the publishing industry ( …

SF-CAPS:  Consultants, Coaches, Authors & Public Speakers As a service based professional, you are in an endless game to create more clients, charge as much as possible for your services and create extraordinary results with your clients. Join us to learn advanced techniques about how the top service professionals achieve waiting lists of clients, charge more then their peers and create unexpected results. Whether you're an expert or new to the world of consulting, coaching, authoring, and or sp …

A group for Derusha book and author events taking place in the United States. Join to learn about official opportunities to meet the authors of some of your favorite books - and to organize your own book discussions and events!

Are you looking for a book club, social club, group of friends, sisterhood, and support system? Ladies that will laugh, cry, and grow with you? Sista's Book / Social Club is all of the above and more! We are opening up membership to this dynamic organization's  Bay Area Chapter. This organization is not a fly-by-night group;  We are black women who share the common goal of uplifting one another. Whether you are young, old, a mom, a wife or single you will have a blast with the support of your si …

Want to learn the art, the craft, and the business of professional writing? This is your group! Want to sip tea and discuss 19th Century literature -- this is not your group. We are all about the art, the craft, and the business of being a professional writer. If your goal is to get published, or continue being published, THIS is the group for you. We work hard, laugh hard, and are hugely passionate about being published authors, screenwriters, poets, and playwrights. Join us!

Writing workshops in exotic locales with award-winning instructor Clive Matson, author of "Let The Crazy Child Write!" Open to writers at all levels - all you need is a wish to tap into the power of the creative unconscious in drafting and developing stories, poems, plays, and essays.

Founded by Tara Russell of Three Month Visa Coaching and Consulting and run in partnership with Laurie Koski of Pink Shoe Tours, this is a great Meetup for seasoned globetrotters and armchair travelers alike! Our Travel Book Club discussions and Travel Lectures Series events feature books and speakers to inspire you if you are currently dreaming of "hitting the road" as well as provide necessary resources for planning and realizing that trip of a lifetime. Our focus is building a community of tr …

SF in SF - Science Fiction, San Francisco A Perfect Fit! www.sfinsf.org We host monthly author events and films at the Variety Screening Room at 582 Market Street @2nd & Montgomery, SF 94104. Since 2005 we've been featuring authors and films that focus on the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and related literary genres.  Previous guests include Cory Doctorow, Rudy Rucker, Patrick Rothfuss, Gail Carriger, Lev Grossman, Steven Gould, Robert J. Sawyer, Kage Baker, Mary Robinette Kowal, Carol Emshw …

If the thought of Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior fascinates you and you've been pondering Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji for some time, then this is the book club for you!  Slice of Mooncake is based in San Francisco and will focus on literature primarily by Asian American authors, but will also embrace stories centered on Asian culture, history, and icons. Selection of readings will be suggested by both the Organizer and members, and include current fiction, nonfiction, classics …

Want to build a jewish community, eat good food, and get cultured too? Join the Jewish Young Adult Book Group! Each month we read a new book by a jewish author, meet to have a meal, make new friends, and discuss! Possible authors/titles include: Gertrude Stein, Michael Chabon, Saul Bellow, Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History, All Together Different: Yiddish Socialists, Garment Workers, and the Labor Roots of Multiculturalis​m.

For many years, I have led a popular Adult ADHD group in Palo Alto. Through that, I've learned that many people in surrounding areas also need such a group. Throughout 13 years of nationally advocating for greater Adult ADHD awareness and treatment standards, I've gained a broad and detailed body of knowledge about ADHD challenges and treatment strategies. As the author of a bestselling book on Adult ADHD (Is It You. Me, or Adult A.D.D.?) and international speaker on the topic who has no third-p …

Calling all Magical Writers for this fun and loving place to tap into your authentic voice! This is a place for anyone interested in following your intuition and creative play with words and storytelling. I started this group because I am a Shamanic Healer in San Francisco and I have found joy in bringing healing through writing and storytelling. Are you looking to create stories with dreams, meditations, stream of consciousness, intuition, imagery and magical possibilities? This is the place!

Are you procrastinating, or feeling tired and frustrated in your work? Are the usual productivity techniques -- color-coding your folders, reorganizing your e-mail inbox, and so on -- not doing the trick for you? In this group, we take getting things done to a deeper level. This group's classes are about using mindfulness practices, like meditation and yoga, to find focus and motivation while you work -- without even leaving your desk. The classes are led by Chris Edgar, author of Inner Produc …

Join over 200 yogis every Tuesday night inside Grace Cathedral on the world renown labyrinth. Yoga is taught by author Darren Main and music is provided by Sam Jackson on the singing bowls, Christopher Love chanting, Timothy Das with native flutes and Kendra Faye playing harp. This gentle hatha yoga class is suitable for all ages, physical abilities and levels of practice, but people with medical concerns or injuries should consult their doctor. Learn more about this donation based class at www. …

The adult Asperger self help revolution is on! We meet to share experiences, support each other, find resources, interact in a safe environment, network with fellow Aspies, and take responsibility for our growth. One aim of this group is to connect people who are in the early stages of their AS realization journeys with those who have known they had AS for much of their lives. We have a lot to learn from each other about how to thrive in wider society as well as how to live in less conventional …

This is a group for anyone interested in building community while reading awesome books. We'll primarily be reading books with social justice themes, or books by authors who often get left out of mainstream book clubs. I started the group because I'm new to the Bay and want to meet other folks interested in building community through intentional dialogue. Beer, wine, or the beloved mimosa will always be an option at meet ups. Book club meetings will happen once a month, but once we get started, …

Habit Design™ is the largest research cooperative for sharing best practices in developing sustainable daily habits that last beyond 100 days. Our goal is to spawn local "habit labs" across the world; over 8,000 members have participated representing 500+ companies, universities, non-profits, and other organizations. We synthesize applied research across a wide range of habit designers including entrepreneurs, Wellness companies & professionals, non-profits, trainers, coaches, academics, and eve …

The focus of Empowered Women Entrepreneurs is to build a community for networking opportunities for women entrepreneurs, speakers, coaches, and trainers, and service professionals.  To create a community dedicated to building relations focused on connections, collaboration, celebration, support and business growth. If you are an individual that is open and willing to share your wisdom to empower, educate and mentor others, you are the ideal member for this group. Those who have joined the group …

I've been devouring some really interesting books recently and would love to talk with people about them. Hoping to create a group of people that meets regularly, engages in critical thought and opens up our exposure so that we get people from different viewpoints, or maybe even read contrasting authors at the same time.

Bienvenido! Tom Lewis & I specialize in teaching Argentine tango to beginners and to people who have never danced before. We are passionate about tango and both of us have other professions but tango is central to our lives. I am Camille Cusumano, author of Tango, an Argentine Love Story, a memoir of a "woman who loved, lost, got mad, and decided to dance." I quit my day job in 2005 and went to live in Buenos Aires, where I danced tango, wrote, lived. and loved like never before. I experienced t …

We are a group of writers who want to share our work, get feedback from others, and meet like-minded people. This group is created to foster and support writers of all level of experience - from novices to published superstars - in the San Francisco Bay Area. As frightening as it may be, the only way to improve your writing and gain confidence is to share your work. This biweekly group has been created to fill this need. Writers can upload their work to the site so everyone has a chance to read …

Amazon.Com Author Nelson Abaya ("WOW Resumes 2011 - 2012 Edition: Get Great Jobs, Extra Income And Happiness: Over 375 Job Titles!") will conduct FREE weekly seminars for all fields! Learn how to create phenomenal and results-oriented tools (a WOW Resume, a "Unique Story" Cover Letter and other innovative approaches) that have had incredible success rates! Who should attend: Job (Career)-Seekers, New Graduates, Career-Changers, the Under- (& Un-) Employed, and Opportunity/Extra Income Seeker …

New tools and technologies appear daily for ingesting, munging, storing, processing, analyzing, visualizing data. These things don't often fit cleanly into existing groups. Wherever possible, we invite the authors and creators to join us to share with us their work -- be it in the form of a presentation, workshop, or happy hour. Events are held throughout the SF Bay Area. This is the sister group of the Data SF Bay LinkedIn group.

This group is for independent publishers, authors, and agents on the West Coast who publish ebooks or want to learn more about ebooks and digital change. Get together with other publishing professionals to mix, mingle and discuss industry developments. Our first meetup will be held in conjunction with eBooks for Everyone Else San Francisco which will take place on Wednesday, November 2 at the Parc 55 Hotel in Union Square. For more information and the full conference program, visit PublishersLau …

The Writers Cafe, which started in the fall of 2010, has been going strong for over a year and a half now. I am currently hoping to add two members to the group. If you are interested, join up and send me an email. I'll contact you and give you an email address where you can send a writing sample -- either a chapter of your novel or a short story. Please don't be intimidated by this request. It's not a about judging whether you're "good enough," but rather, we have a great group of writers and I …

Congratulations : People over 55 who are ready to change themselves in order to create a more sustainable world! WELCOME!! Let’s create a community of Conscious Leaders, Responsible Elders, Creative Visionaries, Stellar Teachers and Caring Mentors. We are a generation of seekers, consciously aware of the importance of a sustainable lifestyle, staying vibrantly healthy and living with abundance. These are just a few of our deeply held values that guide our choices. We do not settle for mediocrity …

This is an attempt to see how many people in San Francisco are as big fantasy novel lovers as I am and if they want to get together once or twice a month to do a book club. Some of my favorite authors are Tolkien, Eddings, Goodkind, Jordan, Butcher, Ann Marston, and my personal fantasy writer god is Guy Gavriel Kay. So, join up if you're interested. I'd love to schedule a first book club meeting sometime in mid February. Ideas for places to meet? A restaurant, coffee shop?