Opens up in print edition of Aquila review- journal of Texas A&M university.

We're delighted to announce our nominations for Best Microfiction 2026. Congratulations Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social , Jen Eve Thorn, Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social & Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social (links to each in thread)

Thank you so much for this nomination! @delgeo14.bsky.social 🙏

Thank you @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social

New flash titled The Photograph up in @soflopojo.bsky.social thank you editors 🙏 www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/flash-39-nov...

This 3-session workshop prepares you to write a 6-minute true story for a final stage performance. Tuesdays, Nov. 4th -18th, 6-7:30pm. Final performance Nov. 21st at 5pm. Location: 1663 Mission Street, Ste. 602, San Francisco. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity

Glad to have a poem in Fevers of the mind feversofthemind.com/2025/10/27/b...

This three-session workshop prepares you to write & perform a 6-minute true story. Tuesdays, Nov. 4th -18th, 6-7:30pm. Final performance Nov. 21st at 5pm. Location: 1663 Mission Street, Ste. 602, San Francisco. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity

Have a flash up in @brightflash1500.bsky.social titles The Squirrel brightflash1000.com/2025/10/03/t...

My interview with @tdorabji.bsky.social on her book Call her freedom up in @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/f...

This class will give you the tools you need to have that difficult conversation you've been avoiding, whether it's in a professional or personal setting. Wednesday, Oct. 15th from 6-7:30pm PT. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity

"One of the benefits of getting older is the perspective it brings. I have many things I want to express, hopefully in a way that touches or changes others in some way." Terrific interview b/w @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social & @swethaamit.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/interview-wi...

My interview with @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social up in @bendinggenres.bsky.social thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/interview-wi...

Thank you, @bendinggenres.bsky.social and @swethaamit.bsky.social! It was fun being interviewed. Click the link to see a funny photo of my face--which was called "impish." bendinggenres.com/interview-wi...

SAVE THE DATE: It’s October in the Bay Area and that means it’s @litquake.org season!!! My amazing AAPI writers collective 17 Syllables is back this year to do a reading and collaborative poem on Between Borders & Belonging—come join us at Red Poppy Art House on Sat, Oct. 25, 5-6pm. See you there!

Congratulations to Grotto member @vanessahua.bsky.social!

Take some time for your writing this fall with our Write-In series. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity #writein

Thanks, I Hate It: The Art of Writing a Bad Review is a crash course in how to write a well-justified bad review of a movie, television show, or book you hated for all right reasons. Wednesday, Oct. 15, 6 PM - 8 PM PDT. Via Zoom. www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-... #writing #writingcommunity

Read "The Flight" written by @swethaamit.bsky.social and illustrated by Brett J Barr. "What was once soft human flesh was now covered in brown and white feathers." tinyurl.com/3y9bny3f

Big thanks to Brandy Collins, Nate Olivarez-Giles, Lauren Markham, and Janine Kovak for an outstanding discussion at last night’s Grotto Nights at the SF Public Library! Stay tuned for more installments, moderated by Janine! #WritersGrotto #GrottoNights #SanFranciscoPublicLibrary #FutureOfJournalism

Humbling to have a story out in the ninth anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute along with big authors and writers I admire. Thank you so much @brettpribble.bsky.social 🙏 link to my story titled The Flight ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...

Thank you for this nomination @soflopojo.bsky.social and editors! You can read my story shooting star here www.southfloridapoetryjournal.

September's Grotto Night at the San Francisco Main Library on September 30, 6:00 pm: Unchecked: The Future of Journalism in a Factless World. Join Brandy Collins, Lauren Markham, Nate Olivarez-Giles, moderated by Janine Kovac.

September's Reading & Meeting features Yeva Johnson, Brandy Collins, Audrey Ferber and Nate Olivarez-Giles reading from their works in progress. Emcee Christl Rikka-Perkins will lead a Q&A about their work and writing process.

I'm thrilled that my novel/short story collection, In This Ravishing World, has won the 2025 PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award! Immensely grateful! It's a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and won the W.S. Porter Prize and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature!

A new flash inspired from pickleball titled The curse up in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social maudlinhouse.net/the-curse/

My interview with Maw Shein win on @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/t...

Glad to be in The retro summer isdue of Boudin Mcneese review www.mcneese.edu/thereview/th...

A new Fladh up @mrbullbull.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/flas...

A new short story up in August issue of The write launch thewritelaunch.com/2025/08/lost...

My interview with Ben Davies up in Masters review mastersreview.com/a-conversati...

Read "The Teacup" written by @swethaamit.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social. "The dusty cup sat on the kitchen shelf, covered with cobwebs, in my childhood home in Santa Cruz, which was up for sale." tinyurl.com/55hpkyt4

"her silent tears falling into the aromatic steamy cardamom tea cup as she complained the tea had turned cold, salty, and bitter" Love how this piece from @swethaamit.bsky.social uses a specific object to weave its narrative; so much truth in this: ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

Glad to have a story up in the August issue of Ghost Parachute. ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

My interview with Bonnie Tsui up in @oysterriverpages.bsky.social www.oysterriverpages.com/soundings/20...

Glad for this nomination! Thank you Raw lit mag . You can read the story Dressed as a donut here is issue 7 and page 20 rawlit.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/...

Story close to my heart up in @wildroofjournal.bsky.social thank you @aaronlelito.bsky.social wildroofjournal.com/issue-30-gal...

Heat dome reminder to leave a bowl of water outside to keep cool the creatures that live alongside you.

Glad to havev3 micros in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social 🙏

Delighted to have a story in issue 4 of @theargylelitmag.bsky.social thank you @davidestringel.bsky.social @happilander.bsky.social 🙏 www.theargylelitmag.com/fiction-2/th...

A piece I wrote in @ninaschuyler.bsky.social class - It’s raining cupcakes up in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social maudlinhouse.net/17760-2/

Glad to have a story out in issue 45 of @bendinggenres.bsky.social thanks so much @rgvaughan.bsky.social for giving this a home. bendinggenres.com/mountain-lio...

Looking forward to celebrating this evening with @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social on Mon Jan 9th 7 pm at @ Green Apple Books on the park!

Featured in Ginosko lit mag. Thank you Ben Davies. open.substack.com/pub/ginoskol...

A wonderful evening of words and community at our latest Reading & Meeting event! Huge thanks to Carli Cutchin, Lenore Weiss, Sarita Sarvate, and Jennifer Christgau Aquino for sharing your work and hearts with us. #WritersGrotto #ReadingEvent #LitCommunity #AuthorLife #SFEvents #BookLovers #LiveLit

My new flash Battling the fog that began in @smokelong.bsky.social workshop up in @everscribemag.bsky.social everscribemag.com/issue-8

Join me and some wonderful writers from @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social at Litcrawl Sebastopol on Sat, May 17th 2025 at 3:30 pm at Third pig bar reading about words of resistance.

Deadline approaching!