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7:00pm PT
Members Only: Poetry Group
7:00pm PT
The Art/Craft/Work of Translation, moderated by Giovanna Lomanto
7:00-8:30pm PT
Members Only: Poetry Group
7:00-8:30pm PT
Members Only: Poetry Group
7:00-8:30pm PT
Members Only: Poetry Group
7:00-8:30pm PT
Members Only: Poetry Group
7:00-8:00pm PT
Fall Write-In with Britta Stromeyer
7:00-8:00pm PT
Fall Write-In with Shirley Huey
7:00-8:00pm PT
Fall Write-In with Doug Henderson
7:00-8:00pm PT
Fall Write-In with Shirley Huey
7:00-8:00pm PT
Fall Write-In with Shirley Huey
6:30-9:00pm PT
Members Only: Table Reading
6:00-8:00pm PT
Writing Microfiction with Britta Stromeyer
6:00-8:00pm PT
Creating Compelling Characters with Anoop Judge
6:00-8:00pm PT
New Fabulism: Stories Beyond the Ordinary with Jenny Bitner
6:00-8:00pm PT
Members Only: BIPOC Members Meeting
6:00-7:30pm PT
Grotto Nights at SFPL: Writing About Marriage: What's Love Got To Do With It?
6:00-7:30pm PT
Writing Children’s Books with Lisa Lerner, Britta Stromeyer, and Stephanie Wildman, moderated by Matthew Felix
6:00-7:30pm PT
Grotto Nights at SFPL: When Bad People Do Good Things: Writing the Antagonist
6:00-7:00pm PT
Fall Classes Virtual Open House
5:30-7:30pm PT
How to Write a Winning Nonfiction Book Proposal with Lyzette Wanzer
5:00pm PT
Words to Save the Worlds at Lit Crawl: Celebrating 30 Years of The Writers Grotto
5:00-7:30pm PT
Get the Grant! with Lyzette Wanzer
5:00-7:00pm PT
Reading + Meeting: September 20th, 2024
5:00-7:00pm PT
Reading + Meeting: November 15th, 2024
5:00-7:00pm PT
Reading + Meeting: August 16th, 2024
5:00-7:00pm PT
Reading + Meeting: June 21st, 2024
5:00-7:00pm PT
Reading + Meeting
5:00-6:15pm PT
Writing Your Personal Essay with Kate Busatto
4:30pm PT
Members Only: Book Club: A Gentleman in Moscow
4:30pm
Members Only: Book Club - "A Council of Dolls" by Mona Susan Power
4:30-6:30pm PT
Polishing Your Short Story with Kate Busatto
4:00-6:00pm PT
Short Story Workshop with Kate Busatto
4:00-6:00pm PT
A Novice's Guide to Digital Safety for Writers with Brandy Collins
4:00-6:00pm PT
A Novice's Guide to Digital Safety for Writers with Brandy Collins
3:30-4:30pm PT
The Art of Freelancing: Lit Crawl Tailgate
3:00-5:00pm PT
Online Event: Words of Color featuring 2024 Rooted & Written Fellows
3:00-4:30 p.m. PT
Members Only: Essay/Memoir Workshop Group
1:00pm PT
Online Event: Rooted & Written: Keynote Conversation featuring Eirinie Carson and Danny Thiemann
1:00pm
Members Only: Short Fiction Group
1:00-2:30pm PT
Plan Your Novel in 6 Weeks with Lisa Lerner
1:00-2:00pm PT
Craft & Career: Character as Function of World with Khan Wong
12:30-1:30pm PT
Fall Write-In with Kate Busatto
12:00-1:30pm PT
First Pages and Query Letter Feedback with Lisa Lerner
12:00-1:00pm PT
Fall Write-In with Jenny Qi
12:00-1:00pm PT
Fall Write-In with Jenny Qi
12:00-1:00pm PT
Fall Write-In with Nate Olivarez-Giles
12:00-1:00pm PT
Fall Write-In with Sabina Khan-Ibarra
12:00-1:00pm PT
Members Only: Lunch with Jonah Straus from Straus Literary Agency
12:00 - 3:00pm PT
Trancewriting: Using Hypnosis to Write with Jenny Bitner - In Person
10:00am-1:00pm PT
A Writer's Inventory: Build Your Own Memoir Prompts with Susan Ito
10:00am-12:00pm
Members Only: Remote Coworking Session
10:00am-12:00pm
Members Only: Remote Coworking Session
10:00am-12:00pm
Members Only: Remote Coworking Session
10:00am-12:00pm
Members Only: Remote Coworking Session
10:00am-12:00pm
Members Only: Virtual Coworking
10:00am-12:00pm
Members Only: Virtual Coworking
10:00am-12:00pm
Members Only: Virtual Coworking
10:00am-12:00pm
Members Only: Virtual Coworking
10:00am PT
Online Event: Rooted & Written: Keynote Conversation with Susan Ito and Dominic Lim
10:00am - 12:00pm PT
Writing a Sex Scene: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly with Jenny Bitner
10:00-1:00pm PT
Trancewriting: Using Hypnosis to Write with Jenny Bitner - Online
10:00-11:00am PT
Fall Write-In with Xandra Castleton
10:00-11:00am PT
Fall Write-In with Xandra Castleton
8:00-9:00am PT
Let's NaNoWriMo! with Lisa Lerner
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.
Featured Work
Percussing the Thinking Jar
A collection of dreamlike poetry, accompanied by ink drawings, reflecting on the experiences of living in an aging body. With her latest collection, Maw Shein Win deftly braids together the pleasures, pains, and anxieties of living in an aging body, revealing how a mind can log thoughts and observations. Win employs new poetic forms to invite her readers into realms that are both deeply personal and universal, rendered with dreamlike imagery and surprising humor. Reflecting on our strange times and the atmospheric undercurrents of chaos and disintegration, Percussing the Thinking Jar is a hypnotic book and invites the reader into conversation with their own vulnerability and resilience. Throughout the book, sumi ink drawings by artist Mark Dutcher echo the rhythms of Win’s poetry.
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