The California Writers Club (CWC) was founded in 1909. The original members included Ina Coolbrith the first poet laureate for California, Jack London, George Sterling, John Muir, and Joaquin Miller. Today, we are a 501c3 nonprofit educational corporation with 21 branches in California and over 2000 members.
 
Our mission is to provide education and support for writers in our communities. Our motto is “Writers Helping Writers.” Writers helping writers is more than a slogan. It is the culture a writer encounters when she/he attends a branch meeting.
 
CWC supports all genres, writing styles and related professions such as editing, publishing, photographic journalism and agents. Our branches conduct monthly meetings with professional speakers talking about craft, editing, publishing, and social media. We offer social meetings like salons and open mic events, and plays. We offer seminars, workshops, and conferences. In addition, many of the branches conduct writing contests and publish anthologies and collections of member poetry, memoir, nonfiction, and fiction. 
 
In our ranks, we have new writers, established authors, and best-selling authors. We have poets, memoirists, nonfiction writers, essayists, technical writers, and journalists. Our writers have published in every genre. We welcome individuals who may not be writers, but who support writers or provide a service to writers. For example, agents, editors, book designers, publishers, and media specialists.

As president, I am committed to meeting and exceeding the needs of our members. My goal is to help our members write and publish more articles, poems, stories, novels, books, plays, and screenplays than ever before. 

Ready to join or want to learn more? Go to our Membership [NOTE need a link] page to learn about becoming a member and then find a local branch near you where you can attend a meeting.