I'm not trying to put on a freak parade---I'm trying to get to the bottom of our last, basic, desperate questions. ~Barry Hannah (from The Oxford American, Issue 41, fall 2001) San Diego Writers’ Sideshow holds creative writing workshops and seminars for beginning, intermediate and advanced writers in San Diego and North County. At least once a month there will be a free seminar on an element of craft. The Writers’ Sideshow Contest is an international, free monthly writing prompt/fiction con …

The San Diego Expressive Arts Meetup is a community of individuals who use the arts to nurture a vital life AND as a catalyst for change.  A sample of our offerings include Open Studio, Deep Play workshops, Movie Night, Swift Gallery Openings, Art Happy Hours, community artmaking events, and discussion panels.  Who should join: Personal change-seekers, wounded artists, cultural creatives, educators, visual artists, writers, poets, musicians, dancers, dramatists and filmmakers, activists...

Wake Up and Write! Join Certified Creativity Coach and Chief Excitement Officer, Elle Brooks, every Wednesday morning for one hour of writing to start your day off with a bang!   If you haven’t written with us before, give us a try!  You'll be surprised how easy it is to get hooked on this jolt of creative caffeine. Here’s how it works: Elle (our Chief Excitement Officer) provides a highly-caffeinated writing prompt and then you get to let go, writing any and all types of genre whether it’s fict …