Blood. Sweat. Tears. Publish!

Samina Ali, Maw Shein Win, Christine Hyung-Oak Lee and Michelle Marie Robles Wallace will read at August 15th's Reading & Meeting. The authors and emcee Audrey Ferber all have intimate experiences of memory loss, either their own or caring for someone with memory loss and will be reading poetry or memoir on the theme of memory.

The Writer’s Grotto in San Francisco, a 30-year-old writing community of 160+ members, stands in solidarity with other arts organizations across the country who have lost their National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funding. We condemn all efforts to silence free speech and expression within our vibrant and diverse society. We urge the government to restore all funding cuts and rescinded grants, and to strengthen the NEA and NEH, thereby providing essential support for art organizations and individual writers and artists now and into the future.