Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing is the only writing program in the San Francisco Bay Area offering you a progressive, step-by-step series of workshops and classes so that you can gain the tools, experience, confidence, and competence to take on any writing project.

Ripe Fruit’s effective and innovative curriculum is designed and taught by master teacher, writer, and imagination activist, Leslie Kirk Campbell, who is passionately committed to the development of writers in every genre and at all levels. She has provided encouragement, stimulation, and training to over 8000 professional and aspiring writers since 1991.