Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
The Women’s National Book Association San Francisco Chapter is thrilled to present member writers who have authored highly successful historical (and prehistorical!) novels that readers and reviewers rave about. Learn what role research plays and how to make your scenes, settings, and characters realistic and compulsively readable. Epic Reads will be moderated by WNBA-SF President Brenda Knight. There will be Q&A followed by book signings; bring your notebooks and plenty of questions!
Learn the ancient art of rhetoric and verbally explore the issues that are shaping our world with SFDebate, a privately organized, bi-monthly event open to the Mechanics' Institute community.
Look Big is a lighthearted but legitimately helpful illustrated field guide for what to do in the face of 50 of our most feared—or frustrating—animals.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
The San Francisco History Center, Mechanics’ Institute, and California Historical Society invite you to an engaging book talk by Dr. Amy Lippert on her recent publication, Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
Do you have questions about how to depict firearms realistically in your stories? Come to this safe* hands-on show-and-tell with expert Jim Guigli.
Look. Smell. Taste. Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France could be made in California.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
Drawing from inspirations of Towards a Robotic Architecture (ORO Editions), this talk and presentation features Petr Novikov, Head of Research and Development at Asmbld, on the state-of-the-art technology that is being researched and developed to create buildings on the “Red Planet.”
On their first date, David described to Alexandra his plan to quit his job and travel around the world for a year. Without hesitation Alexandra blurted out “Wait for me.” A Year Off is the story of their journey and their romance.
Cult classic American science fiction film of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and scholar Miriam Pawel weaves a narrative history that spans four generations, from August Schuckman, the Prussian immigrant who crossed the Plains in 1852 and settled on a northern California ranch, to his great-grandson Jerry Brown, who reclaimed the family homestead one hundred forty years later and twice served as California governor.
If you are a new, long-time, or prospective member the Tour of the Institute will orient you to our building, include an overview of our history and mission, and outline our current services and the benefits of membership.
The Indie Publishers' Working Group was started by author and editor C J Verburg in response to the rapidly changing landscape of publishing and the diverse needs of Mechanics' Institute member writers. If you're working on a book project and you're curious about independent publishing, or publishing in general, you're welcome to attend.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
Come join ZYZZYVA for a celebration of the publication of their Fall Issue, which features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and more themed around the environment.
Join freelance correspondent turned author Brigitte Schulze Piliboisan for a rousing discussion of the adventures of a journalist in Eastern Europe and starting a publishing house.
Authors Eileen Truax (We Build the Wall) and Lauren Markham (The Faraway Brothers) in conversation on the issues surrounding immigration, with Ian Gordon, Managing Editor of Mother Jones.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
River of Stars is a vivid examination of home and belonging, and a moving portrayal of a woman determined to build her own future.
Jeevan Zutshi will talk about the South Asian community that has developed in Fremont, San Jose, Palo Alto, and other South Bay towns over the past 30 thirty years.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
The Indie Publishers' Working Group was started by author and editor C J Verburg in response to the rapidly changing landscape of publishing and the diverse needs of Mechanics' Institute member writers. If you're working on a book project and you're curious about independent publishing, or publishing in general, you're welcome to attend.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
The Indie Publishers' Working Group was started by author and editor C J Verburg in response to the rapidly changing landscape of publishing and the diverse needs of Mechanics' Institute member writers. If you're working on a book project and you're curious about independent publishing, or publishing in general, you're welcome to attend.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
Using the guidelines described in Writing Without Teachers, join this member-led "come as you are" writing group.
The Indie Publishers' Working Group was started by author and editor C J Verburg in response to the rapidly changing landscape of publishing and the diverse needs of Mechanics' Institute member writers. If you're working on a book project and you're curious about independent publishing, or publishing in general, you're welcome to attend.
