Kepler’s has been thrilled to offer writing workshops to our community for many years. Please check back here for upcoming events.
Kepler’s has been thrilled to offer writing workshops to our community for many years. Please check back here for upcoming events.
Calling all teens! Have you always wanted to write a novel but can’t think of a good idea for a plot? Is starting the easy part, but you get stuck a few pages in? Join our Teen Novel Writing Camp this summer for a four-day fiction fitness boost!
Publishing a book can expand your influence and help more people benefit from your ideas. Book coach Elizabeth Dougherty talks through every stage of writing a non-fiction manuscript for professional experts who want to become authors.
We are excited to offer a four-part intensive course in personal essay writing with author Jane Ganahl. Please note the sessions will take place from 4:00 to 6:00 on four consecutive Wednesdays: July 29, August 5, August 12, and August 19.
Whether your goal as an author is to be published by a traditional publisher, a hybrid press, or as a self-published project, a strong, persuasive book proposal is the essential business plan you need to give your book the greatest chance to be a bestseller. The workshop will offer an up-to-the-minute look at the complexities of the current publishing industry, including digital and audio publishing, social and influencer media, AI as tool and threat, and much more.
Calling all aspiring writers for a creative writing workshop with novelist and experienced writing teacher, Matthew Clark Davison.
Writers! Join us for a panel about the craft of writing from three of the Bay Area’s top writing instructors. Authors Nina Schuyler, Jordan Rosenfeld, and Christine Walker will discuss craft and how to plan your next move as a writer.
In this two-hour fiction workshop, Simon will cover his six steps to maintaining a long-term writing process.
In this two-hour introductory class you’ll learn to identify pivotal moments and write about them in a way that resonates with readers.
In this workshop you’ll learn the smartest strategies to shepherd your project from “spark of an idea” to “magnum opus.”
In this flash fiction workshop, Grant Faulkner will discuss how a different type of creativity emerges within a hard compositional limit.
In this 90-minute course on memoir writing, bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims will help you identify and craft your life story's strongest material. Your admission includes one copy each of Real American and Lit Starts: Writing Memoir,
Master-Class: Memoir Writing with Tamim Ansary
In this hour and a half master class, Ansary will use his book Road Trips as a guide to writing memoir.
Tamim Ansary, author of acclaimed memoirs West of Kabul, East of New York (selected as San Francisco’s “One City One Book” in 2008), Road Trips, and other works of fiction and nonfiction. He ran the San Francisco Writers Workshop for 22 years, and has taught memoir writing in many venues from Puerto Vallerta’s Taheima Resort to UC Berkeley’s OLLI program.
© 2026 Kepler's Literary Foundation Menlo Park, California
