Writing Ourselves Whole Schedules and Events! Upcoming Workshops -- Fall workshops begin early October Weekend-day Intensives Upcoming Events and Readings Erotic Reading Circle

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Workshop Information Unless otherwise noted, the cost for 8-week workshops is $250. .

Fall 2008 Declaring Our Erotic: October 7- December 2, 2008. Open to folks of all sexualities and all genders! Raw Silk: Women Write Desire: October 8 - December 3, 2008. Open to all women. Meets Wednesday am. Write Whole-Survivors Write: October 6 - December 1, 2008. Open to all women survivors of sexual trauma. Join us!

Day-long Writing Intensives Treat yourself to a day of good writing, good food, and good community! We gather in the morning for coffee and some home-baked breakfast, and then write through the rest of the morning. After a break for a light lunch, we keep on diving deep into our work through the afternoon! At the end of the day, we have some conversation about revising and editing our work, and we close by four. As for all the other writing groups, we will be using the Amherst Writers and Artists workshop method. You'll leave with: a rich body of new creative writing; feedback from your peers about what's already strong in your new writing; and some thoughts about revising your new work. The fee for these retreats is $100. Please let me know if you'd like more information or would like to add your name to the waiting list for one of the following intensives: Write Whole - Survivors write (open to all women survivors of sexual trauma) Queering Survival ( a writing workshop for queer survivors of sexual trauma, all genders!) Declaring Our Erotic (a deliberately-diverse erotic writing workshop open to all!) Raw Silk: Women write desire (a sexuality/sensuality writing workshop open to all women) Writing Ourselves Whole (a general topic writing workshop for all women) Join us! [toc]

Upcoming Special Events September 12-15 at The Power of Words -- Liberating Yourself and the World Through the Spoken, Written & Sung Word: Jen will present a transformative writing workshop and reconnect with amazing writers, storytellers, activists and TLA practitioners at this annual conference at Goddard College. Want to learn more about this conference? Check out www.goddard.edu/powerofwords! September 18 (evening) and September 20 (all day!): Writing with TouchStone Writers! I get to spend an evening and a day with Leslie Freeman-Dykesen and the TouchStone writers when I'm back east this September, and I can't wait. Visit www.touchstonewriters.com for more information about Leslie's workshops, and watch this space for more info! September 27: Perverts Put Out, the Pre-Folsom Edition! Join us for the pre-Folsom Fair edition of PPO, San Francisco's premier salon of dirty talk and smutty performance. Performers will include Meliza Bañales, Greta Christina, Jen Cross, Thomas Roche, horehound stillpoint, Steven Schwartz, and Cherry Terror, emceed by Carol Queen and Simon Sheppard. A splendid (if disreputable) time is guaranteed for all. At CounterPulse (1310 Mission St), 7:30 pm, $10-15 sliding scale. October 11: Good Vibes Litcrawl at Litquake! I'll be reading in Carol Queen's always hot gathering of deviant (my word :) erotic writers at Good Vibes on Valencia. Come on down for a taste of the variety of sex writing that the city has to offer! October 18, 2008 - join us at Artists Against Rape, an extraordinary annual benefit for San Francisco Women Against Rape. This year's theme is "Shedding the Skin of Shame, Bearing Our Bodies' Truths." SFWAR is going to need volunteers to help put this gorgeous event together, so please visit their website for more info! www.sfwar.org October 30, 2008 - Fall's Fresh Dirt: Filthy new erotica! When:8:00 SHARP Cost: $10-50: sliding scale, NOTAFLOF Where: Center for Sex and Culture, 1519 Mission Street (between 11th and South Van Ness), San Francisco, CA 94103 Join Carol Queen and Jen Cross as they present these gorgeous and sullying new works from the Declaring Our Erotic workshops, sexy writing that will sully your mind and dishevel your imagination.

Monthly Erotic Reading Circle at CSC: Special announcement: On August 16, join us for a special birthday celebration of the Erotic Reading Circle! We'll have hot readings & good treats, a chance for you to see the quality and diversity of writers that the ERC's been pulling in since its reincarnation nearly two years ago! Join us at the Center for Sex and Culture at 8pm on Saturday, August 16! Now back to our regularly scheduled webpage: Join Carol Queen and Jen Cross and your fierce, fabulous community of erotic writers the fourth Wednesday of every month, as we gather to share our creative erotic endeavors! Bring whatever you're working on, or whatever you'd like to be working on. Non-judgmental listening guaranteed, all orientations and levels of writing experience welcome. $5-up sliding scale suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds (donations support the Center for Sex and Culture). Come on over to the Center for Sex & Culture, 1519 Mission, Suite 1, San Francisco. FMI: www.centerforsexandculture.org) Upcoming Reading Circle Dates: August 27, 2008 September 24, 2008 October 22, 2008 November 26, 2008 December 24, 2008 Mark your calendars & join us! [toc]