Ventura County satellite meetings for writers


IWOSC’s monthly drop-in satellite sessions are free and open to all Los Angeles writers — both members and non-members. (Out-of-town guests are welcome too.) You’ll find them all under the Upcoming Events menu.


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Ventura County Satellite Group

Kathleen Kaiser, leader of this Ventura-based group for writers in California

Host: Kathleen Kaiser

Hosted by: Kathleen Kaiser

IWOSC’s Ventura County satellite for LA area writers is a partnership with WPN — the Writers & Publisher Network, a national literary nonprofit based in Ojai, CA.


Upcoming Meetings

We’re taking a break for the summer and will resume with a September meeting.

To learn about each month’s meeting and speaker, any fees, and to register for those meetings, visit
iwoscwpn.com.

The Zoom meetings are free to both IWOSC members and WPN -members.

Location

IWOSC/WPN Ventura County satellite meets via zoom for 2021.
Starting in 2022, four times a year we’ll meet at the Goebel Center in Thousand Oaks.


Some of our past speakers and meetings for writers

  • Monday, May 6, 2019
    Travel Writing for Fun and Profit: Award-winning journalist Jerry Dunn, author of 11 books, talks about travel writing, story structure, and more.
  • Wednesday, July 18, 2018
    Publishing and Writing Law with Ivan Hoffman, B.A., J.D.
  • Wednesday, June 20, 2018:
    Patricia Fry, on her journey from decades of writing nonfiction to suddenly becoming a hit cat mysteries writer.
  • Wednesday, April 18, 2018:
    Speaker: Connie Hood, author of Islands of Deception.
    Topic: How Ventura author Connie Hood became an Amazon bestseller
  • Monday, February 26, 2018:
    Are you writing what 21st Century readers crave?
    Shelly Lowenkopf and Toni Lopopolo