Word Pirates is an professional writing group in the Bay Area. We get together on the second and third Tuesday of every month to practice the art of creative writing. Our goals are to:

a. produce new work
b. publish said work
c. practice reading aloud and critiquing each other
d. socialize and have fun

Word Pirates was founded by Joy Lanzendorfer and Marcia Simmons. Our inaugural meeting was Thursday, April 6, 2006.

Founders:

Marcia Simmons is a freelance writer and online media consultant. She was an author services manager for Federated Media as well as managing editor at the North Bay Business Journal, a New York Times publication in Santa Rosa, and a contributor and editor for Project Censored’s annual book of the top censored stories.

Joy Lanzendorfer is freelance writer living in Petaluma. Her work has appeared in Entrepreneur, Salon, Writer’s Digest, The Writer, Bay Nature, San Francisco Chronicle, Bitch, Bust, Paste, Scholastic Instructor, and many others. She completed her MA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and is working on a novel.