Writers Helping Writers
Hosted by San Mateo Public Library
2nd Thursday of most months (check back for updates)
Produced by the San Francisco Peninsula branch of the California Writers Club
Playing with Poetry
At the October 2024 Writers Helping Writers, poet Kate Adams had us take a close look at line breaks and the lines themselves. She displayed lines, and used them to build a quatrain and had us start from our own lines, doing blank verse.
What type of verse will she have us play with in March? Find out, receive poetic energy, and come play with poetry.
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Kate Adams is a Bay Area writer living in Mountain View, California. Her work has appeared in Centennial Review, Zzyzzyva, and the Sand Hill Review. Her poetry and fiction has won awards from the Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation. Learn more about her and read her poetry at Mad Manor Press.
Kate is currently serving as poetry editor for Fault Zone, the California Writers Club San Francisco Peninsula branch anthology, which has won national awards.
Upcoming presenters
April 10 - TBD
Presentations are on the second Thursday of the month, from 6:30 - 8:00pm.
Kate Adams
About Writers Helping Writers at
San Mateo Public Library
The San Francisco Peninsula branch of CWC hosts a Writers Helping Writers program at the San Mateo Public Library on the second Thursday of the month from 6:30 to 8 pm. This event is managed by CWC member David Strom and co-sponsored by Tuula Laine, a librarian at the library and a member of the San Francisco Peninsula CWC.
Each month, CWC SF Peninsula branch members share learned techniques and experiences in their craft. From scoping out your memoir to finding inspiration for a poem to plotting your novel to learning the ins and outs of blogging—we teach what we’ve learned. This is an opportunity for all writers to meet and share their experiences.
Our purpose? To pass on what we’ve discovered to help other writers.
Anyone can attend, free of charge.
Watch this space for announcements of the month’s topic. Meetings are in-person only.