Welcome Bay Area Writer-Moms!

Thank you for joining our San Francisco Bay Area Writer-Moms Community! We are excited to launch regional chapters and this group/section is where we’ll be connecting about in-person events and sharing resources and ideas for writer-moms in the Bay Area.

We’re currently in the pilot period where joining a chapter is free. But in the next few months, chapter involvement will be a benefit for paid subscribers. In the meantime, though, we’re excited to start getting to know each other IRL.

What to expect from this community:

• Regular in-person meetups — basically meetups at a bar, restaurant, or coffeeshop to chat, commiserate, laugh about, and connect around parenting and writing.

• In-person writing meetups — opportunities to gather in person to get your butt in the seat and write surrounded by other writer-moms.

• Special workshops and panel discussions — we’ll be offering a variety of special workshops facilitated by local writers in our community.

• Resource-sharing and community-building — this will be a space to post events you’re going to, events you’re excited about, and questions you’re having.

How to join:

1. Subscribe to Write Like A Mother, if you haven’t already.

2. Subscribe to the chapter within your publication settings.

Click here to go to your Write Like a Mother account, and when you see this screen below, toggle “{Whatever Chapter You Want to Join}” from “off” (grey) to “on” (green).

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Joining this group will help bring the virtual offerings we have through Scribente Maternum to the real world. Can’t wait to be in community with you all!

If you have ideas or suggestions for what you’d like to see from this community, please share in the comments below or by emailing me at sarahwheelerphd@gmail.com.

Other benefits of being a paid subscriber to Scribente Maternum

All subscribers—paid and free alike—receive access to all Write Like a Mother biweekly newsletter posts as well as our monthly community discussion posts.

Paid subscribers receive additional benefits including:

• Virtual writing sessions

• Writing feedback group matchmaking

• Access to all our past event videos

• Exclusive discounts to all our events

By upgrading to a paid subscription, you are supporting the work that goes into this newsletter, planning Scribente Maternum retreats, and the ability to compensate for newsletter contributors. Thank you so much for believing in this work and our mission.

About Sarah: I’m an Oakland-based writer and educational psychologist, author of the Substack Momspreading, the Romper anti-parenting-advice parenting-advice column, The Good Enough Parent, and co-host of the

The Mother of it All

Podcast. I’ve been in the Bay since 2009 and still forget to dress in layers.