General Meeting
General Meetings (open to public; discount for members):
Meeting Details
Reservations Required:
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Meetings are open to the public but require advance reservation and possibly a nominal fee. If you want to check us out, this is the activity to start with. Meetings may feature a guest speaker who is active in the literary or publishing community. Meetings are a terrific networking opportunities with other members to provide additional exposure and further develop your writing career.
Critique Groups
(members ONLY)
Members of the CWC Tri-Valley Branch are encouraged to participate in critique groups to strengthen their writing and editing skills. Participation begins by joining the STEM critique group. Members work online and/or participate in face-to-face critiquing. With both formats, there is a commitment for reciprocity. Participants who submit materials commit to reading and critiquing the materials submitted by others.
High School Writing Contest
To support writing in schools, TVW sponsors an annual writing contest among local high schools. Members volunteer to judge hundreds of submissions in fiction, poetry, and essay forms. Winners are given cash prizes and read selections of their work at the awards ceremony.
Social Activities
Sit Down and Write on Zoom (members ONLY)
Do you find you aren’t getting to your writing because of too many distractions? Want to be around other writers and their awesome vibe? Then you are in luck. TVW offers Sit Down and Write on Zoom sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays each week. This is a come-when-you-can opportunity, so participants can attend any or all sessions as it fits with their schedule. The Sit Down and Write on Zoom is a benefit of being in this branch, whether you live locally or have moved to another state.
Pull Up a Chair and Write (open to public)
If you’d like an opportunity to write in a relaxed setting in the company of other writers, join us on Thursday afternoons from 1:00-3:00 p.m. We’ll meet at Inklings Coffee and Tea at 530 Main St., Pleasanton. We’ll meet in Inklings’ “Common Room.” If that room is reserved for an event during our writing time, we can work in the front room and/or outdoors. This is an informal, drop-in group; there is no obligation to sign up or come every week.
Author Support
(members ONLY)
Tri-Valley Writers’ Author Support Group is a member benefit and may be held either online or in-person. Each meeting a topic is chosen and members can ask questions, respond to questions, and chat about problems or successes.
For questions, contact author-support@trivalleywriters.org
Winterfest
Winterfest is an annual celebration of the arts in general, and the artistic members of Tri-Valley Writers in particular. The format varies each year. One thing that is consistent is the opportunities to share what we’ve written.