Creative Writing Classes in San Francisco, CA

In-Person and Hybrid Options (IN-PERSON or on ZOOM)

Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing is the only writing program that offers a progressive, step-by-step series of creative writing classes in the San Francisco – Bay Area. Our intensive writing workshops follow a path of growth custom-designed for beginning and emerging writers.  Students graduate with confidence and competence to take on any writing project.

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Ripe Fruit’s effective and innovative curriculum has provided encouragement, stimulation, and training to over 8000 professional and aspiring writers since 1991. Leslie Kirk Campbell, founder and director of Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing, has experience teaching poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, memoir and personal essay. She is an imagination activist, master writing teacher, writing coach, and award-winning author who is passionately committed to the development of writers in every genre and at all levels.

Course Descriptions       What Makes Ripefruit Unique

Find Your Writing Voice (Ripe Fruit 1, The Writing Faith)

Ripe Fruit Creative Writing first level classes teach you perception, imagination, compassion & commitment. Learn the six qualities it takes to be a great writer and put them into immediate practice in a safe and intimate environment. Excavate your wild mind and cultivate your own inimitable voice. Experience the encouragement and inspiration, the freedom and lucid structure you’ve been longing for. Deepen your writing faith.

For more info on foundational creative writing classes and workshops: Ripe Fruit 1, The Writing Faith

Memoir Writing & Personal Essay Writing (Soulfood One-Day, Soulfood Class)

A dynamic process of creative expression and self-integration for new and experienced writers. Discover where memory and imagination intersect. Learn how to re-enter your life and locate the stories that must be told. You will create a portfolio of autobiographical writings that move the heart, engage the intelligence, and have a lasting impact on you, the author, and your audience. This is your chance to write straight from the heart.

For more info on memoir writing classes and workshops.  Soulfood One-Day, Soulfood Class

Fiction Writing (Ripe Fruit lll Fiction Writing)

You want to write that stop-them-in-their-tracks short story? Let me tell you a secret. It’s not the content that counts. It’s HOW YOU TELL IT. By starting from the ground up, you will learn to tell a great story; a story that engages your reader sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, page by page so that, in the end, they are changed by it.

For more info on fiction writing classes. Ripe Fruit lll Fiction Writing

THE GREENHOUSE OF THE IMAGINATION is located in a beautiful Edwardian setting in safe, quiet NOE VALLEY, San Francisco with convenient parking and public transportation.