Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing

Specialties

Ripe Fruit Writing teaches creative writing one-​day workshops and on-​going classes throughout the year in memoir, short fiction, poetry, and creative non-​fiction.

Ripe Fruit Writing offers A PATH OF GROWTH for beginning and emerging writers.

Our innovative, progressive, step-​by-​step curriculum includes:

The Writing Faith one-​day workshop

Ripe Fruit 1: Art of Languaging (9-​week class)

Soulfood Memoir Writing (9-​week class or one-​day workshop)

Ripe Fruit 2: Art of Editing & Revision (9-​week class)

Ripe Fruit 3: Intro to Fiction (9-​week class)

Ripe Fruit 4: Multi-​Genre Critique (weekly or bi-​weekly on-​going class)

For more info about our sequential courses, go to the Ripe Fruit website.

Each class and workshop brings together 8 – 10 men and women to a cozy turn-​of-​the-​century Edwardian in safe DoloresHeights/​Noe Valley with convenient parking.

One-​on-​one consulting is also available: need a writing coach? an editor for your manuscript? help with the development of a writing ide

History

Established in 1991.

Ripe Fruit Writing is the oldest non-​institutional private writing program in the Bay Area. Courses are taught by master teacher Leslie Kirk Campbell, who has publishing credits in fiction, personal essay, poetry, and playwriting.

The writing program was founded by Leslie. She taught creative writing in at San Francisco State for two years and in the public schools as part of California Poets-​in-​the-​Schools for three years. She started teaching privately in 1991 in a 100-​year-​old Edwardian in Dolores Heights/​Noe Valley. Every few years more courses were added to the menu. New and emerging writers can now find a progressive curriculum starting with the source and essentials of creative writing and building on that foundation to steadily mature as writers.

Meet the Business Owner

Leslie C.

Business Owner

Leslie Kirk Campbell is a master teacher of creative writing with experience teaching and writing poetry, prose poetry, plays, personal essays, creative non-​fiction, memoir and fiction. She has led writing workshops privately and at universities nationwide for over 23 years. Leslie is the author of Journey Into Motherhood: Writing Your Way to Self-​Discovery (Riverhead). She holds a BA in Comparative Thought & Literature from Stanford University, an MA in English & Creative Writing (poetry) from SF State University, and an MFA from Bennington College (fiction). Leslie has published feature-​length personal essays in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, sfgate, Literary Mama and other publications. She was a finalist for the Iowa Review 2013 Short Fiction Award and received an Honorable Mention in the 2013 Raymond Carver Short Fiction Contest. Leslie is currently working on a collection of short fiction.