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Abby Wasserman
Literary Arts
Creative Writing Circle
KAREN BENKE
Will continue Mondays in October
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
$15, $12 OHCA members.
Creative free-writing is an excellent way to generate new material. A prompt is given and a time limit set. This is not a workshop-style class with critiques, but a safe place for new writers through published authors to play with words, sentences, or structure and rearrange them later at home or at your desk.
Karen Benke led a popular free-write group at Borders Books & Music in San Rafael for many years. A published poet (SISTER, Conflu:X Press, 2004), she leads writing workshops privately and with the California Poets in the Schools program. A student of yoga and Intuition Medicine, she is the recipient of several grants from the Marin Arts Council and has helped thousands of school-aged children, and even a few adults, put what most needed to be said on to the page. She lives with her family in Mill Valley and can be reached at www.karenbenke.com.
Thursday Writing Groups
ABBY WASSERMAN
Thursdays, 10 a.m. to noon OR 2 to 4 p.m.
September 11, 18, and 25 (sessions continue throughout year).
8-session fee: $160, $144 members.
Single sessions $22 by appointment only.
A supportive and challenging environment to deepen writers’ abilities to take risks. Join us to write close to the bone and from the heart. For all kinds of prose writers (journal, essay, memoir, fiction). We give a public reading each May.
Wednesday Evening Writing Group
ABBY WASSERMAN
Wednesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
September 10 and 24 (sessions continue throughout year).
6 session fee: $120, $108 members.
Single sessions $22 by appointment only.
For writers working on long term projects such as memoirs and novels.
Abby Wasserman is a writer and artist in the San Francisco Bay Area and former editor-in-chief of the Oakland Museum of California's quarterly magazine. Now freelance, she facilitates writing groups, exhibits her art, works on editorial projects and is at work on several books.
Her publications include The Spirit of Oakland, a multicultural history of Oakland, California, Portfolio, essays on 11 Native American artists, and Praise, Vilification & Sexual Innuendo, or How to Be a Critic: The Selected Writings of John L. Wasserman. Abby has also written a series of Children's Books.