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What’s Coming Up…Summertime 2026
What’s coming up this summer in the CWC
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Interviews with featured members and guests
Get to know our keynote speakers and featured members in advance of our Sunday meetings, or just stop by to learn some writing and publishing tips.
Board Member Jasper Ezekiel and his Good, Clean Mania
Meet Our Late-Blooming Ekphrastic Poet, Bob Stephens.
Rocky Leplin Rhymes with Everything
Gerry McDermott is Happiest at High Altitudes
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The CWC-Berkeley Board 2026-2027
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What’s Coming Up…Summertime 2026
What’s coming up this summer in the CWC
Confidence & the Magnitude of Failure with Ross J. Farrar – May 17, 2026
In Sir Sidney Philips Defense of Poesy, he famously said, “Poetry is to teach and delight.” The first half of Ross’ lecture will be about his greatest hurtle of becoming a poet (hopefully there will be humor in delight). And…
AI vs the Author: Writers Grapple with How New Tools Shape Our Future 4/19/26
AI, Algorithms and Art: Our Tech-Savviest Authors Discuss our New Sci-Fi Reality As part of our spring series on the ubiquitous and insistent presence of artificial intelligence, The California Writers Club of Berkeley is thrilled to present a panel discussion…
“The Seduction of AI for Writing” with Larry Ebert – March 15, 2026
Perhaps the most transformative technology of our lifetime, Generative AI is becoming de rigueur in a rapidly-expanding set of human activities, with writing at the fore. AI can produce certain written content amazingly quickly and shockingly well. For it’s efficiency…
