Dying to Talk: Stories of Death & Care Writers Grotto members read and talk about death, dying, grief, and loss. Moderated by Preeti Vangani. June 25 • 6–8 pm 1663 Mission Street, Suite 602, San Francisco

Tomorrow evening in Oakland, Ca. Don't miss this reading and discussion about the "Trials, Tribulations and Breakthroughs" of writing the novel.

💥 How wonderful to be surrounded by authors & books at the Bay Area Book Fest last weekend! I caught up w/Vicki DeArmon, publisher @sibyllinepress.bsky.social, which will be publishing my novel in April, & Celeste Chan, fellow member @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social. Great way to start the summer! 😎

"Portia Elan’s "Homebound" is a hymn to found families--the kin we choose rather than inherit--& it’s fitting that it reads that way, assembled from allegiances." ~The Guardian Come hear @portiaelan.bsky.social & 4 other amazing authors read at Babylon this Sat, 6/13 @ 5:30! www.babylonsalon.com.

This Wednesday! Join us!

Join us Friday, June 19, 5–7 PM, for a free Writers Grotto Literary Salon with LGBTQIA+ authors in celebration of Pride Month. Readings, conversation, snacks, drinks, and community at 1663 Mission St. #602, SF.

Join us for a FREE lunchtime reading in the beautiful Wetlands Garden of the TJPA Salesforce Park! Anoop Judge & Pia Chatterjee will read from their work, come by! Words & Stories Reading Series June 10 • 1:00–1:30 PM Wetlands Garden at TJPA’s Salesforce Park #sanfranciscoevents #literaryevents

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Words & Stories in the Wetlands Garden at TJPA’s Salesforce Park with Vanessa Hua and Swetha Amit. Words & Stories is back next Wednesday from 1:00–1:30pm. Bring your lunch and come listen! #sanfranciscoevents #literaryevents #freeevents #sanfrancisco

It's here!! NO MAN'S DAUGHTER by @jlombardi.bsky.social is out today!! GET IT GET IT GET IT 🌈💙🪐📚 darkmattermagazine.shop/products/no-...

Jamaican writer Diana McCaulay has won the 2026 RSL Ondaatje Prize for A House for Miss Pauline, published by Dialogue Books. 👇

Tomorrow, June 4! 7pm! Join me and Ilana DeBare at Clio's Books for an author talk, Alive/Not Alive! www.eventbrite.com/e/live-not-a...

Your writing deserves a room of its own. Affordable desk leases are available at the Writers Grotto, with light, quiet, community, and room to work. Inquire with Julia Scheeres: [email protected]

Dive into the world of flash fiction, where every word matters and every sentence packs a punch. Saturday, June 6th, from 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity #flashfiction #writingcraft #writingclass

Writing a novel can be filled with trials, tribulations, and breakthroughs. Hear what four writers have to share about their journey-- June 10 in Oakland, California.

Writing a novel can be filled with trials, tribulations and breakthroughs. See what four writers have to share about their journey--June 10 in Oakland, California.

Join us for a FREE lunchtime reading in the beautiful Wetlands Garden of TJPA’s Salesforce Park! Swetha Amit and Vanessa Hua will be reading from their work—come by! Words & Stories Reading Series June 3 • 1:00–1:30pm Wetlands Garden, TJPA’s Salesforce Park #sanfranciscoevents #literaryevents

Thanks to Elizabeth Forsyth, Kamala Tully, J.K. Fowler, JD Beltran, Dimple Abichandani, and everyone who attended Tuesday's Grotto Night at SFPL! "MONEY, please! Fundraising and the Art of the Ask" sparked a great conversation about grants, philanthropy, and funding literary nonprofits.

In this 4-week generative workshop, you'll turn personal memory into story: memoir, poetry or creative nonfiction. Fridays, June 5th - June 26th, from 11:30am - 1:30pm. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #memoir #poetry #writingcraft #writingclass #writing #writingcommunity

Now with a new start date! In this collaborative writing workshop, you will get feedback, support and advice for finishing your longer project. Wednesdays, June 10th - July 19th 6-8pm PT. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity #writingclass #writingcraft

Out of Fury Into Grace: Stories of Reckoning & Renewal brings together 6 writers for an evening of powerful storytelling at Telegraph Hill Books. Sat June 6 | 6:30–8:30pm | 1501 Grant Ave, SF Mini-eats & drinks 🥂 #SFLit #BayAreaEvents #Storytelling #WomenWriters #LiteraryEvents

I’ll be there!!

I'm thrilled to receive this endorsement from the wildly imaginative Claire Oshetsky! Open the Floodgates is about the River who is granted personhood and goes to court to argue for her right to exist. What could go wrong? Available for pre-order! Pub date: Sept. 15!

This piece is going to be in a gallery show!! I will be out of town for the opening but you should still go see it!

Tonight, for my book club, we'll be talking with Adriana Ramirez, author of The Violence: My Colombian War. You can register here (it's free!): us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Words & Stories is every Wednesday in the Wetlands Garden at TJPA’s Salesforce Park. 🌿 This week: Nate Olivarez-Giles + Terry Tierney, sunshine, and poems/stories in the open air. Come out next Wednesday, 1:00–1:30 PM. Free!

What does it take to keep writing a novel? Jesus Francisco Sierra, June Martin, Dominic Lim, and Mia V. Moss join Lenore Weiss for a conversation on process, revision, setbacks, and breakthroughs. June 10 • 6–8 PM Local Economy, 6028 College Ave, Oakland luma.com/wep92bbv

I'm thrilled my short story, "The Velvet Chair," tied for first place in the Blue Mesa Review Spring Contest! Thank you! The judge wrote: “‘The Velvet Chair’ is a wonderful meditation on the mysterious impulse to create art in a consumerist society." bmr.unm.edu/the-velvet-c...

Starts at 7! Very close to 16th street BART

Four great writers from The Grotto speak about the Trials, Tribulations and Breakthroughs of novel writing. Wednesday, June 10, 6-8 p. See all details below,

Dive into the world of flash fiction, where every word matters and every sentence packs a punch. Saturday, June 6th, from 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM PST. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity #flashfiction #writingcraft #writingclass

Join us for a FREE lunchtime reading in the beautiful Wetlands Garden of TJPA’s Salesforce Park. May 27 • 1:00–1:30 PM Terry Tierney and Nate Olivarez-Giles will be reading from their work. Come by! #sanfranciscoevents #literaryevents

In this 4-week generative workshop, you'll turn personal memory into story: memoir, poetry or creative nonfiction. Fridays, June 5th - June 26th; from 11:30am - 1:30pm. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #memoir #memoirwriting #poetry #poetrywriting #writingcraft #writing

“forestcore maxxing” does indeed accurately describe The Wildcraft Drones and I’m here for it @stelliform.press diwatapunk.wordpress.com/2026/05/21/t...

Another gorgeous Wed for Words & Stories in the Wetlands Garden. 🌿 Thank you to Mary Ladd & Chino Lee Chung for sharing their work beneath the canopy at Salesforce Park, and to all who joined us. The series continues every Wed, 1:00–1:30 PM, in the Wetlands Garden at TJPA’s Salesforce Park.

This class is for writers who want to work on an ongoing project in a supportive space. This is your time to return to the page and see where your writing wants to go. Wednesdays, June 3rd - July 22nd 6-8pm PT. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity

A new flash up in Discretionary Love! Thank you editors. www.discretionarylove.com/one-more-cha...

📚 Free lunchtime reading in the Wetlands Garden at TJPA’s Salesforce Park! Join Mary Ladd and Chino Lee Chung for the Words & Stories Reading Series. May 20 • 1:00–1:30 PM #literaryevents #sanfrancisco

Join us for Rooted as Resistance, a reading by faculty and staff of Rooted and Written on Wednesday, May 20 from 7-8:30 pm Medicine for Nightmares, SF. Produced by @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social ,

Wharton hive!

Thanks to Janine Kovac and Lisa Rosenberg for a lovely Words & Stories reading in the Wetlands Garden! 🌿 Free readings continue every Wednesday, 1:00–1:30 pm, at TJPA's Salesforce Park.

Congratulations to @vanessahua.bsky.social whose latest novel COYOTELAND arrives today!! If you’re in the Bay Area, come to the launch tonight at @booksmith.bsky.social otherwise check out her tour schedule 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Happy pub day to @vanessahua.bsky.social and Coyoteland, which is a master class in character and escalation. It is also extremely funny, which is honestly the only way you can get me to read about Karens. Pick up a copy today!

Happy Pubday to faculty member @mononoke97 Vanessa Hua for COYOTELAND! Head to our Bookshop and pick up a copy! bookshop.org/shop/warrenw...

Come out for a FREE lunchtime reading in the beautiful Wetlands Garden of the TJPA Salesforce Park! The forecast says the sun will be out just for us ☀️. Lisa Rosenberg (poet/essayist) and @janine-kovac will be reading from their work, and it's sure to be a great time! Join us!

#Coyoteland is here! 🐺🐺🐺 Thank you to my amazing team @flatironbooks.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️ Pick up a copy at your favorite local independent bookstore or local library, or download an audiobook 📕 Let's celebrate starting tonight @booksmith.bsky.social with @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social 's Oscar Villalon 🎂✨✨

Happy Mother’s Day to all immigrant and diaspora mothers 🌸 If you’d like to read more on these themes, I wrote a memoir called The Translator’s Daughter bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Meet these great YA (Young Adult) indie authors at the YA Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #ya #writingcommunity #authorsky go.bsky.app/B4ugViY

I'm so happy to announce my first (and last) new and selected, with fifty years of work and twenty-two new poems! What a journey this has been. The book will be published in September and is ready for pre-order now.

It's pupping season: The coyote swimming to Alcatraz...that starred in Beef 2....and coming soon, in COYOTELAND! 🐺🐺🐺 RSVP for the launch at @booksmith.bsky.social on Tuesday, May 12 or at @orindabooks.bsky.social on Saturday, May 16. www.vanessahua.com/coyoteland

So excited to share this story from my collection with you! This was published with permission from @stelliform.press as a promotion for my debut solarpunk collection, The Wildcraft Drones, which probably wouldn’t exist without @torystephens.bsky.social & @grist.org 💚 The book comes out May 21!