AI Stands for Authentic Instinct: A Discussion for Writers

Schedule

Sun Jan 18 2026 at 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Gilman Brewing Company | Berkeley, CA

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Join Deborah Pardes as she discusses how human dialogue soars above bits and bytes. With breakout discussions and dialogue prompts.
About this Event

About the Discussion

Deborah Pardes spent the last 6 years listening to 110,000 conversations and engaging in over 30,000 of them. She’s passionate about working with writers to capture the trust and imaginations of their readers, by leveraging human conversations to support the uniqueness of their work. The talk will include some breakout sessions for participants to experiment with dialogue between each other with some prompts to collaborate and more deeply explore this concept.


Program

2:00 p.m. Club Announcements
2:30 p.m. Special Programming
3:00 p.m. Featured Speaker: Deborah Pardes
5:00 p.m. Author Support Group more info here.


About the California Writer's Club

THE CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB was started by a group of community-minded writing professionals in the early 1900s. They met informally until 1909, when the Club was founded, with Austin Lewis as its first president. The Berkeley Branch is the founding branch of the statewide Club, which now has 19 branches and around 2000 members throughout California. We are the third oldest writers’ club in the country, celebrating over a century serving Bay Area writers.

The CWC is a nonprofit professional organization open to writers in every genre and at every level of experience, from novice to published. Our mission is to educate writers of all abilities in the craft and business of writing. Our purpose is to promote fellowship and to provide practical information that supports all members in achieving their publishing goals.

Our writer’s motto, “Sail on!” is from Joaquin Miller’s poem, .

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Gilman Brewing Company, 912 Gilman Street, Berkeley, United States

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