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Grotto's Annual New Books Party at Green Apple
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Members Only: Poetry Group
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Members Only: Poetry Group
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Members Only: Poetry Group
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Winter Classes Virtual Open House
7:00-8:00pm PT
Winter Write-Ins: March 13th with Laurie Ann Doyle
7:00-8:00pm PT
Winter Write-Ins: March 6th with Laurie Ann Doyle
7:00-8:00pm PT
Winter Write-Ins: February 12th with Maw Shein Win
7:00-8:00pm PT
Winter Write-Ins: February 5th with Maw Shein Win
6:30-9:00pm PT
Members Only: Table Reading
6:30-9:00pm PT
Members Only: Table Reading
6:30-9:00pm PT
Members Only: Table Reading
6:30-9:00pm PT
Members Only: Table Reading
6:30-8:30pm PT
DIY Author Events with Elizabeth Forsyth
6:00-8:30pm PT
Introduction to Memoir and Personal Narrative with Kristen Cosby
6:00-8:30pm PT
Introduction to Creative Writing with Kristen Cosby
6:00-8:00pm PT
Begin Where It Burns – Starting Your Book with Jenny Bitner
6:00-8:00pm PT
Autofiction: Combining Memoir and Fiction with Jenny Bitner
6:00-8:00pm PT
Fiction Workshop with Doug Henderson
6:00-8:00pm PT
Pushing the Boundaries: Experiments in Form with Jenny Bitner
6:00-8:00pm PT
Writing Microfiction with Britta Stromeyer
6:00-7:30pm PT
Grotto Nights @ SFPL: Stories at Play
6:00-7:30pm PT
Grotto Nights at SFPL: Rooted and Written
6:00-7:00pm PT
Spring 2025 Write-Ins: Jenny Bitner
6:00-7:00pm PT
Spring 2025 Write-Ins: Kristen Cosby
5:30-7:30pm PT
MFA Programs: Get Admitted! with Lyzette Wanzer
5:30-7:30pm PT
Strategic Submissions: Get Published! with Lyzette Wanzer
5:30-7:30pm PT
How to Write a Winning Nonfiction Book Proposal with Lyzette Wanzer
5:00pm PT
Members Only: Book Club: Colored Television
5:00pm PT
Members Only: Book Club: Stay True
5:00-7:30pm PT
Get the Grant! with Lyzette Wanzer
5:00-7:00pm PT
Reading + Meeting: Nov. 21st, 2025
5:00-7:00pm PT
Reading + Meeting: Sept. 19th, 2025
5:00-7:00pm PT
Reading + Meeting: August 15th, 2025
5:00-7:00pm PT
Reading + Meeting: July 18th, 2025
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Reading + Meeting: June 20th
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Reading + Meeting: May 16th, 2025
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Reading + Meeting
4:30pm PT
Members Only: Book Club: "The Known World"
4:00-5:30pm PT
True Crit with Deborah Claymon and Marisa Catalina Casey
3:30-5:00pm PT
Imagery Intensive with Lindsey Crittenden
3:00-5:30pm PT
Memoir: A Course in Craft with Lindsey Crittenden
3:00-4:00pm PT
Spring 2025 Write-Ins: Britta Stromeyer
2:00-4:00pm PT
Summer Writing Workshop for Teens with Kristen Cosby
2:00-3:30pm PT
Make a Zine with Jessica Martinez
2:00-3:00pm PT
Spring 2025 Write-Ins: Elise Liu
1:00-3:00pm PT
Write a Fabulous Beginning with Lisa Lerner
12:30pm PT
Members Only: Journalism Group (hybrid)
12:00pm PT
Members Only: Wet Ink Tutorial
12:00pm
Members Only: Lunch with Anna Ghosh
12:00-1:30pm PT
Poetry in the Flesh: Image, Rhythm, and Embodied Voice with Sabina Khan-Ibarra
12:00-1:30pm PT
Unlock the Poet Within: Transforming Tradition with Sabina Khan-Ibarra
12:00-1:00pm PT
Words and Stories Series at Salesforce Park: Prose
12:00-1:00pm PT
Words and Stories Series at Salesforce Park: Prose
12:00-1:00pm PT
Spring 2025 Write-Ins: Lisa Lerner
12:00-1:00pm PT
Spring 2025 Write-Ins: Lisa Lerner
12:00-1:00pm PT
Spring 2025 Write-Ins: Lyzette Wanzer
12:00-1:00pm PT
Spring 2025 Write-Ins: Xandra Castleton
12:00-1:00pm PT
Winter Write-Ins: February 24th with Lisa Lerner
12:00-1:00pm PT
Members Only: Lunch with Jonah Straus from Straus Literary Agency
11:00am-12:00pm PT
Spring 2025 Write-Ins: Lyzette Wanzer
11:00am-12:00pm PT
Spring 2025 Write-Ins: Jenny Bitner
11:00am-12:00pm PT
Spring 2025 Write-Ins: Doug Henderson
11:00am-12:00pm PT
Winter Write-Ins: March 27th with Sabina Khan-Ibarra
11:00am-12:00pm PT
Winter Write-Ins: March 22nd with Xandra Castleton
10:00-11:00am PT
Spring 2025 Write-Ins: Kristen Cosby
10:00-11:00am PT
Winter Write-Ins: February 22nd with Doug Henderson
Member Spotlight
Chino Lee Chung
Chino Lee Chung is a queer Chinese Mexican personal essay writer, grassroots activist, and is currently working on a collection of essays that integrate his social activism with his intersectional identities. He is a recipient of the 2024-2025 San Jose State Steinbeck Fellowship and holds an MFA from the California College of Arts. His work appears in Gender Queer: voices from beyond the sexual binary, Our Family Coalition Newsletter, and is an Assistant Fiction Editor at 14 Hills Literary Magazine.
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"You're going to the bookstore, aren't you?" with Lewis Buzbee
Lewis Buzbee, Doug Henderson and T. K. Rex discuss the craft of books, and why we still love bookstores, even after (especially after) working at them.
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