Frank Bette Writers - Jeanne Lupton

Jeanne Lupton

All levels of writing experience welcome.

All kinds of writing are welcome.

This is a group for ages 18 years and over.

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Frank Bette Writers
Instructor: Jeanne Lupton

Day & Time: Saturdays, 10 am – 12:30 pm

Dates: Saturdays, this is an ongoing writing group

Resumes August 27th

Fee: 4 Class Pass $60 (You choose the 4 classes to attend) All levels of writing experience welcome. All kinds of writing are welcome. This is a group for ages 18 years and over. Tea and snacks will be provided.

Class description: Participants will write together and read around loosely using Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones. Goldberg's ideas will guide to keep the pen moving, write for the entire time, and not stop to think or edit. You may surprise yourself and each other with humor and depths of emotions and feelings. You will write for about 30 minutes, and then share with the group, receiving positive feedback and support from them and from Jeanne Lupton. Whatever your writing projects or intentions, attending a regular group write, especially weekly, can support you in developing and maintaining a writing practice.

About the Instructor: Jeanne Lupton has written most of her life and published a collection of tanka, but then you danced (2007), and tanka and haiku chapbooks. She has also done solo performance work based on memoirs in 2009 and 2010, and led private, as well as writing groups at Women's Cancer Resource Center and Lakeview Library in Oakland. She hosts the Second Saturday Poetry and Prose Reading Series at Frank Bette Center for the Arts. More information on Jeanne Lupton, visit website:

Some favorite books on writing:
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
Advice to Writers, ed. John Winokur (fun)
The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron (creativity)
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
Becoming A Writer, Dorothea Brande (inspiring)
The Courage to Write, Ralph Keyes (encouraging)
Creative Journal Writing, Stephanie Dowrick
If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland (inspiring)
The Intuitive Writer, Gail Sher
One Continuous Mistake, Gail Sher (very insightful)
One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty
The Wounded Storyteller, Arthur W. Frank (writing about illness)
Writing Alone and With Others, Pat Schneider
Writing for Your Life, Deena Metzger (great meditations)
Writing from the Body, John Lee (grounding!)
Writing as a Way of Healing, Louise DeSalvo (healing)
Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg (my group writing guide)
Writing Without Teachers, Peter Elbow (writing as process)
Your Life as Story, Tristine Rainer (memoir)