Celebrate Mother's Day with a Mother-Daughter Workshop!

Join us for a Mother-Daughter Creative Writing Adventure!(grandmothers & grand-daughters, aunts and nieces, etc. welcome too!)

We have just the panacea for the hustle and bustle of a busy week!

Celebrate Mother's Day by spending an afternoon leaping into your imagination and swimming around in your creativity! Our adventure with pencil and paper for mothers and their daughters will lead both of you to little-explored places and give you the satisfaction that comes from creating something new.

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The Day’s Creative Indulgences: Where do writers get their ideas? Explore the art of found inspiration and hunting down the creative spark in unexpected places.

The Writer's Brew: Explore how to make your writing zing, snap and crackle!

Two Heads Are Better Than One: Mother and Daughter co-author a mini-masterpiece!

Mother - Daughter Workshop dates & times:

• Saturday, May 10th, 2014 (the day before Mother's Day!)  from 10:00am - 11:30am at 18 Reasons, 3674 18th Street in the Mission District

Cost: $100 per mother-daughter pair ($90 per pair if 2 sets register at the same time)

To register, click here!

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Creative Writers Unite!

We're offering a new community class called "The Word Party" in partnership with Berkeley-based tutoring center, Classroom Matters. Open to kids from any school, our focus will be on imagination and inspiration. We'll provide lots of innovative ways for kids to jump into writing and work with some tried and true methods for getting ideas down onto the page.

The class will be taught by "Take My Word For It!" Director, Sondra hall, who leads Classroom Matters' Summer Essay Writing course. For kids in 5th-8th grade.

Location: Classroom Matters, 2436 Sacramento Street, Berkeley

Dates & Times: four consecutive Wednesdays - 10/2, 10/9, 10/23 and 10/30 from 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Cost: $100, all materials included

Registration: Please contact frontdesk@classroommatters.com

Escape for Grown-ups!

Back by popular demand, our "Escape to the Page"creative writing classes for grown-ups are starting up again this fall in the East Bay & San Francisco.

Our aim is to enchant (or re-enchant) adults with the written word through an innovative series of fun and engaging writing activities. Look for classes at The Hub East Bay as well as the Makeshift Society in San Francisco.

This is a no-pressure, come as you are, writing excursion. (No previous creative writing experience required.)

In the East Bay

Location:The Hub East Bay, 2150 Allston Way, Suite 400 in Berkeley

Look for Spring 2014 dates soon!

In San Francisco

Location:The Makeshift Society, 235 Gough Street (between Fell and Oak) in Hayes Valley

Dates: New Fall 2013 dates!

September 30th - to register click here

October 21st - to register click here

Time: 6:30 – 9:00 pm

Cost: $40 per class (each class will feature different content)

Are You Our Type?

Come visit our booth at this year's Out & About Festival in Rockridge, on Sunday, Oct. 7th from 12 - 6. We'll be hosting a Type-In- vintage typewriters and creative writing prompts will be provided !

Our Current Program Sites

We are based in the Bay Area, so our after school classes are all taught in and around the East Bay, the South Bay and San Francisco. Most of our classes are for 2nd - 5th graders. Below is a list of schools where we currently teach:

East Bay:

Thornhill Elementary (grade 2-3)
Thornhill Elementary (grades 3-5)
Havens Elementary (grades 3-5)
Joaquin Miller Elementary (grades 3-5)
Chabot Elementary (grades 2-3)
Park Day School (grades 4-6)
Redwood Heights Elementary (grades 3-5)
Walt Disney Elementary - San Ramon (grades 4-5)
Crocker Highlands Elementary (grades 3-5)
Montclair Elementary (3 - 5)

San Francisco:

Commodore Sloat
Commodore Sloat Poetry Residency
Katherine Delmar Burke School
Grattan Elementary (grades 2- 5)
Sunset Elementary (grades 3-5)
West Portal Lutheran (grades 4-6)
Rooftop Elementary
18 Reasons

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Take My Word For It! is....

a blog about creative writing for kids.

WHO READS IT?

Teachers who work with kids and words.

Kids who love to swim around in their imaginations.

Teens who like the idea of becoming authors.

Students who take our classes and their parents who can't wait to read their young writer's latest work.

"Take My Word For It!" is a word incubator--we provide a safe andsupportive environment where young writers can explore their writer's voice.Our fabulously talented and enthusiastic team of instructors work with students throughout the San Francisco Bay area.

"Take My Word For It" was founded in 2005 as an after school creative writing program for kids, in elementary school through high school. Sondra Hall, who has been in love with the written word since she was 8 years old, is the organization's founder and director.