Join us on Wednesday, December 4th for a gathering of writers!

Studio Channel Islands—a longtime community leader in supporting and growing the visual arts in Southern California—is in the process of strengthening its ties to the local literary arts. The organization is now home to the Ventura County Poetry Festival and Camarillo’s only recurring open reading, and we are looking to establish more opportunities for writers working in other genres, such as fiction and non-fiction.

This meeting will give all local writers an opportunity to connect, and we will be holding space for a discussion to get a sense of what sorts of events might be useful for our wider writing community. If you have ideas for workshops, generative and/or feedback groups, readings, publications or anything else writing-related, we want to hear about them! And if you are an educator or expert in your field and would like to help establish and run a part of a burgeoning literary program, please come by and let us know how we can assist with providing the resources you might need.

Whatever your interest in writing, Studio Channel Islands is aiming to accommodate your needs, and we hope this meeting will give us an idea of how we can contribute to our writing community in whatever ways we can.

If you know of any other local writers who might be interested in this event, please invite them along. We’re looking forward to seeing and hearing from you!

At the beginning of this event, there will be a short reading in response to the recent fires. If you would like to read a poem or short piece of prose as part of this, please bring it along. No advanced sign-ups are necessary.