Left Margin LIT: A Creative Writing Center in Berkeley

LMLer Marianne Lonsdale's new novel, WHEN THE ROAD CURVES is OUT in the world! Come to her book event at Clio's on Saturday, June 20th, 4pm. Click the link to get your tix.

When the Road Curves AIDS, women, and the power of friendship.

Check out painter Irene Nelson's work at East Bay Open Studios this weekend! Saturday and Sunday, 11-5.

Our mantra. (Why not join our writers' workspace in Berkeley to sustain your writing project?) All the info is on our website.

Hey writers of the East (almost wrote Easy there) Bay and beyond--OUR SUMMER CLASSES ARE OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT. Why not learn about applying to writing residencies from Faith Adiele? Or how to turn your memories into memoir with Monica Wesolowska? Or how to take risks in your nonfiction writing with Shze-Hui Tjoa? There's a mix of in person and online classes here, something for everyone.

Left Margin LIT: Creative Writing Center and Writers' Workspace in Berkeley Left Margin LIT is a creative writing center offering classes, camaraderie, and mentorship to East Bay writers of all backgrounds and experience levels. We also offer online classes and programs.

Thank you to , , and for hosting this “How to Find (& Create) Your Writing Community” event yesterday. Also thanks to panel members Jesus Sierra, , , .cahll, Janis, and LML’s .

We live in such a vibrant literary community here in the Bay Area.

will be at the festival’s books fair today. Stop by booth #63 and learn more about our community and upcoming classes.

Join us at the this weekend! Many of our instructors are hosting panels on writing and writing communities. And come find us outside on Sunday, where we’ll be exhibiting on the corner of Harold Way and Allston Way. It’ll be fun.

It’s time to register for a summer writing class. Work with , , , , , or .

Click the link in our bio to check out your options.

Our summer classes are open for enrollment. Write with Monica Wesolowska, Shze-Hui Tjoa, Cintia Santana, or Tyler Mills. Or learn about writing residencies from Faith Adiele. Click the link to learn more.

Left Margin LIT: Creative Writing Center and Writers' Workspace in Berkeley Left Margin LIT is a creative writing center offering classes, camaraderie, and mentorship to East Bay writers of all backgrounds and experience levels. We also offer online classes and programs.

Thursday night was 🔥 ! We hosted poets (author of NOCTURAMA), (author of THESE SPACESHIPS WEREN’T BUILT FOR US) and (FIFTY MOTHERS). If you weren’t there, you should’ve been. The event was a perfect encore.

We dig this one by Oakland poet Amanda Nadelberg.

“The Formal Beginnings of Packing,” a Poem by Amanda Nadelberg At some point I stopped stopping to write, life a mark of living not clicking. I wore verbs around my neck swam to think in lengths and stretch the small of my back. Don’t picture me pausing to tak…