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Saturday, May 9, 2026 at 10:30 am – Lita Kurth – Writing Memoir in Flashes

by Web Editor | Apr 15, 2026 | Event, Speaker

May Meeting Preview: Lita Kurth By Shari Clare The South Bay Writers club welcomes Lita Kurth as our May speaker. Lita is a creative writing instructor at De Anza College and the co-founder of the long-running spoken word venue Flash Fiction Forum, where writers read...

Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 10:30 am – Peggy Townsend – Creating memorable main characters and their sidekicks

by Web Editor | Mar 25, 2026 | Event, Speaker

April Meeting Preview: Peggy Townsend By Shari Clare The South Bay Writers club welcomes Peggy Townsend as our April speaker. An award-winning journalist and novelist, Peggy will talk to us about how she creates memorable main characters and their sidekicks, a topic...

Saturday, March14, 2026 at 10:30 am -Round Table Panel on Publishing

by Web Editor | Feb 18, 2026 | Event, Speaker

March Meeting Preview: Round Table Panel on Publishing By Shari Clare Our March meeting will focus on the publication process, including the main types of publication methods used by authors today. To help us understand some of the more common options, a panel of...

Saturday, February 14, 2026 at 10:30 am – Kathleen Founds – Holding on and Letting Go: A Timeline for Writing Your Novel

by Web Editor | Jan 28, 2026 | Event, Speaker

February Meeting Preview: Graphic novelist Kathleen Founds By Shari Clare Our February speaker will be Kathleen Founds, who will talk about making decisions regarding when to continue or when to pause a work in progress, in her presentation titled “Holding on...

Nov 08, 2025 – D.M. Rowell – Native American Traditions: Influence on Novel Writing

by Web Editor | Oct 22, 2025 | Event, Speaker

To celebrate Native American Heritage Month, we welcome Donna (D. M.) Rowell as our November speaker. She will share storytelling traditions she learned from her grandfather and describe how she has applied them to her crime fiction novels. Donna comes from a long...

Oct 11th Geri Spieler – What Reporters Do That Novelists Need to Know

by Web Editor | Sep 17, 2025 | Event, Speaker

For our October meeting, we will welcome Geri Spieler, a journalist, novelist, and long-time California Writers Club member. During her presentation, Geri will share her expertise on how to do effective research, which is a surprisingly important skill for fiction...
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  • Summary of Panel Discussion on Publishing
  • Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 10:30 am – Peggy Townsend – Creating memorable main characters and their sidekicks
  • Saturday, March14, 2026 at 10:30 am -Round Table Panel on Publishing
  • Recap of Jan 24, 2026 – Jordan Rosenfeld
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