Tuesday night creative writing workshop in Glendale - Glassell Park

Sanora's doing a rarely offered Tuesday night writers group / creative writing workshop! It starts next week - Oct 2nd.  Sign up by Friday and get early registration discount.   These workshops are open to all creative writers, any level, any genre.

About Sanora Bartels

Sanora has been running writers groups for nearly 8 years and in 2006 graduated with a Master of Professional Writing degree from University of Southern California. She has studied with various poetry mentors, including Cathy Colman (Borrowed Dress), Ron Koertge (Making Love to Roget’s Wife), and Holly Prado (from one to the next). At USC, she studied screenplay writing with Syd Field (Screenplay) and has since completed a full-length screenplay titled “Straying Home” which made it to the Semi Finals of NexTv’s 2010 Writing and Pitch Competition. Her poetry has been published in Wordwrights! magazine and New Millennium Writings. Her full-length poetry manuscript is titled The Order of Things. Sanora is a teacher of Vedic Meditation and has written several pieces on Vedic philosophy and has had over 20 articles published. You can find her meditation schedule on www.VedicMeditationTeacher.com. Sanora is a co-editor on the Meditation page of www.AllThingsHealing.com.

What will you get out of our groups?

• Get constructive, supportive critique on your current writing project in a safe environment from a qualified moderator and your fellow group members, regardless of the type or genre of the project
• Leave the group with a notebook filled with new stories and story ideas
• Reignite your passion for writing
• Connect with other writers in your area
• Create new stories; generate new ideas every week through improvisational creative writing exercises
• Elevate your writing
• Experiment with different voices, different genres

Burbank, Glendale, San Fernando Valley Writers: Writing Workshop Starts May 5th

Hey all you Burbank, Glendale, San Fernando Valley Writers!  Our longest-running writers group starts on Thursday May 5th!

This writers group a combination of writing workshop and critique group.  Our groups focus on getting words on the page and creating new stories / poetry and story ideas through creative writing exercises and also provide the opportunity to bring your current stories, chapters, poetry, memoir, or essay in for critique from your fellow group members and from a qualified moderator.  This writers group is run by Sanora Bartels, LAwritersgroup.com co-founder.

Meet Sanora

Attending a writing workshop with Sanora is a fantastic opportunity.  She only runs four groups per year.  Sanora is known for her supportive and exceptionally astute insights into writing, voice, stories, and prose.  She can jump from giving critique on poetry to fiction to screenplay to memoir with ease and often does in her groups, which attract and welcome writers of all genres and levels.   She is about far more than just story structure, she is about helping you elevate your writing in ways you didn't even know you were capable of accomplishing.  Her writing exercises have actually turned people into poets who never thought of themselves that way.   She will point out things you didn't even know you were doing, and give you solid direction and focus for your work in a way that leaves you excited about the possibilities of your stories.  If you don't live near her, she is worth the drive.

Sanora has been running writers groups for nearly 8 years and in 2006 graduated with a Master of Professional Writing degree from University of Southern California.  She has studied with various poetry mentors, including Cathy Colman (Borrowed Dress), Ron Koertge (Making Love to Roget’s Wife), and Holly Prado (from one to the next).  At USC, she studied screenplay writing with Syd Field (Screenplay) and has since completed a full-length screenplay titled “Straying Home” which made it to the Semi Finals of NexTv’s 2010 Writing and Pitch Competition.  Her poetry has been published in Wordwrights! magazine and New Millennium Writings. Her full-length poetry manuscript is titled The Order of Things. Sanora is a teacher of Vedic Meditation and has written several pieces on Vedic philosophy and has had over 20 articles published.  You can find her meditation schedule on www.VedicMeditationTeacher.com. Sanora is a co-editor on the Meditation page of www.AllThingsHealing.com.

LAwritersgroup.com Writers Groups

Creative Writing and Critique Workshop with Sanora Bartels

Meets on Thursday, May 5th for 8 Weeks

7:30pm - 10:00pm

This creative writing workshop is convenient and easy driving distance from to Glassell Park, Glendale, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley, and Hollywood, and parking is abundant.

Writers Group Schedule Update - March and April 2011

Here is a update of our creative writing workshops / writers group schedule:

• Miracle Mile / Koreatown writers group starts March 23, 2011, this Thursday! (Mid-City)
• Rancho Palos Verdes writers group also starts March 23, 2011, this Thursday! (South Bay)
• El Segundo April 2011 writers group is SOLD OUT (South Bay)
• Glassell Park / Glendale April 2011 group is now open to new members (San Fernando Valley, East Hollywood)
• Valencia / Saugus April 2011 writers group is now open to new members (Santa Clarita)

View our creative writing workshop schedule

Read about how we run our writing workshops

Photo by Keith Evans [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Wet LA Writers Group starts Thursday! Upcoming Writers Group Schedule

Reminder! Our first and only 2010 West LA Writers group starts on Thursday. This is a great group for TV and screenwriters as well as fiction writers and poets. Read about our West LA Moderator: http://ow.ly/2HOO9

View the schedule for all our Los Angeles Writers Groups starting soon in Miracle Mile/Koreatown, Glassell Park / Glendale, our Advanced Poetry Workshop, and our South Bay Writers Group!

Part 4 of 10: Ten Favorite Places to Write (in no particular order)

One of my all time favorite places is Eats (actual name is Los Feliz Coffee Shop) - it's located on Los Feliz Boulevard in what is considered to be Atwater Village.  Eats is tucked in next to a small nine-hole golf course.  There is a practice putting green just behind the parking lot for the restaurant so if you need to clear your head take along your putter and a few balls to practice your green game in between paragraphs.

No WiFi but lovely seating outside and plenty of indoor seating including the classic coffee shop counter.

3207 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90039

Map Here. 

Writers Group Starts April 1st - No Joke

Hey all you wonderful writing peeps, this is just a reminder that Sanora has a new writers group starting on Thursday, April 1st.

So if you live in Glendale, Los Feliz, anywhere on the Eastside of Hollywood or LA, or out the Alta Dena/Pasadena/La Canada way, this group is for you!

In fact, Sanora's groups are fabulous and creatively inspirational so even if you don't live in those areas, her group is truly worth the drive. It's a Thursday, man, so you can do the drive, because driving home is no problem traffic-wise after group and then you just have to make it through Friday and voila! the weekend is there, ready for you to channel all that creative inspiration you got from Sanora's group and finish up those stories or poems or essays or scenes you wrote on Thursday....